Soul contracts are agreements we make in the spirit world. When I was learning to read the Akashic Records, I was taught that before we incarnate, we make soul contracts with important people in our lives. I still hold this to be basically true, but I have also come to recognize soul contracts with places, substances and spirit beings.
What is a Soul Contract?
A soul contract usually means an agreement to learn a lesson. A soul contract may include working through karma, being an influence in each other’s life, offering help and support, or being a catalyst for change.
You may have a soul contract with a city that always called you. You may have soul contracts with food items or substances, such as alcohol.
There can be various reasons for entering into a soul contract — to repay a karmic debt, to learn what it feels like to be on the receptive side of negative actions, or to learn to receive. Generally speaking, we make soul contracts in order to experience, evolve and learn.
I believe that the broad brushstrokes of our lives are defined before incarnation. It is like setting a stage. The major players and decorations are set out. Now it is up to us to enter, respond and make choices.
Understanding Karmic Soul Contracts
Many people believe that the most important part of our soul contract is meeting specific people. This may be true if there is karma between you and that person. However, in my experience, most commonly we contract to work on lessons.
If we don’t learn a particular lesson with one person, it will come to us in another form — through another situation or another person. In other words, lessons are more important than specific individuals.
For example, you borrow money from someone, and do not pay back. Because you don’t want to, and would rather spend this money on something nice for yourself. And it’s not like they are starving anyway, why should you care.
There is no karmic law that I am aware of that says you will be forced to pay that amount of money to that specific person no matter what. Not at all. You may never see them again. However, you have most likely created a karmic debt.
You now have more than what you have been assigned, and the other person has less. They need to receive their due, no matter which source it comes from. You, on the other hand, now owe the Universe. What you owe will be taken from you. Again, it doesn’t much matter in what way this karma will work — maybe your car breaks down, or you get selected for a tax audit, or a tree falls on your roof.
Now let’s imagine that in this lifetime you already have too much going on. Your guides and higher self decide to postpone the repayment of your karmic debt until the next lifetime. Perhaps that debt was significant enough and set a lot of events in motion, events that affected many people. You may need a whole lifetime to understand how important it is to pay back what you owe.
Karmic soul contracts are then made for your next lifetime in order to rectify your mistakes, pay back debts, learn, and be able to ascend to a higher level.
Recognizing Karmic Soul Contracts
How can we identify a karmic soul contract?
One of the signs of a karmic soul contract is a strong pull, a sense of not having a choice but to follow through. Let’s say you meet someone and become romantically involved with them. The pull is so strong, you simply cannot help but leave everything and be with them.
The ego often interprets this as “we are meant to be together,” or “they are is the one.”
But other signs indicate that there is old karma that needs to be worked through:
- you have unequal social status,
- you need to help and support the other over a longer period of time,
- there is a health issue that binds you together,
- you have a common business that makes it difficult to leave,
- there is a persistent lesson that comes up in your interactions
When the lesson is learned and karma is cleared, mutual attraction gradually fades. People usually separate, but in some cases continue together, starting from a clean slate.
Most often, the enormous sense of relief that we experience when having worked through karma makes us want to run away and start a new life. Very few stay with their karmic teachers after the debt is paid.
In some cases, karma is tied to painful memories and ancestral wounding that our souls are trying to heal. This is the case with more advanced souls, who connect very broadly, and work on patterns of a wider collective of souls.
If this is the case, a karmic relationship will bring up many unhealed and unprocessed patterns and emotions that go beyond your individual story. In this situation, you may need soul-level healing and deep Akashic Records work.
Twin Flame Soul Contracts
Twin flame soul contracts are different from any karmic bond. In the emotional turmoil and confusion of a karmic relationship, we may go online, read a bunch of twin flame articles and decide, this it it! I found my twin flame!
On the surface of things, it looks pretty similar. Emotional turmoil. Lots of lessons to learn, wounds to heal and karma to repair.
But a twin flame connection is above and beyond karma. It is a call to transcend the repetitive patterns and finally become free. A twin flame soul contract is rooted in unconditional Divine love. Its purpose is to reconnect you to your true essence, to the song of your soul.
Many people in a twin flame connection have reported that their astrological compatibility reports basically said “run for the hills!” Their ancestral karma was impossible to transmute, their religions and interests did not match. The reason for such an unlikely connection is to witness the Love and Union behind all these differences. But that is also what makes twin flame soul contracts so difficult to navigate.
Twin flame love leads to places higher than karma, deeper than ancestral wounds. It is the love that returns us to Divine source.
This being said, we are not fully connected to Divine source if we are disempowered, codependent and willing to put up with abuse. Unconditional love is just a fantasy without power. The Divine has both, and when we are complete, so do we.
Usually, learning this balance of love and power is the main theme of most twin flame soul contracts.
The Importance of a Soul Contract Reading
The Akashic Records are a perfect place to look for systemic misalignments, for code corruptions at the soul level and for deeper patterns at play. Any unhealed pattern is like a corrupted code, a broken record stuck on the same phrase.
Your life does not move forward. The same situation repeats over and over again until you learn to make different choices.
This can be complicated by the fact that you are connected to the energies of your ancestors and soul group without knowing it.
For example, you may come from a family who systematically abused their workers, or illegally evicted people from their own land our of pure greed. Your soul wanted to rectify and heal those energies, but this resulted in overwhelm and a deep sense of unworthiness. You always feel you can’t own anything, that somehow owning property or having a lot of money is a curse.
There are millions of different ways such energies can play out in our lives, especially for advanced souls. In those cases, a soul contract reading in the Akashic Records is crucial to begin untangling these knots.
What to expect in a reading
A soul contract reading will identify the main issues that are related to your problem and suggest some potential future paths for healing. This can booked as an Akashic Record Reading or a Soul Relationship Reading.
It is important to understand that a soul contract reading is not a reading where you come in with a bunch of names and say, “what are my soul contracts with these people?” Or better still, “what soul contracts do I have?” These are not relevant questions, and will not give you relevant answers.
In a soul contract reading, we begin with identifying an issue, a problem, something that you are struggling with. It can be a specific relationship, for example, a very charged relationship with your father. Or it can be a pattern where you struggle to identify a lesson. For example, you get fired with no explanation after less than a year in your job. Or someone keeps smashing into your car.
Please note that these situations may or may not be rooted in past lives or soul contracts. There may be ancestral karma involved, or a particular vow. In any case, the Akashic Records will provide a deeper perspective that is not available when simply trying to analyze with the thinking mind.
Can I Break A Soul Contract?
Soul contracts are never about punishment. Karma is simply a systemic law of balance. It’s how the universe works.
Can we break a soul contract? In most cases, a soul contract is an agreement that is a part of our path. We can’t break it simply because we don’t like the experience.
However, the more spiritual awareness we bring into what we are going through, the more we are able to clear what caused the issue in the first place. In other words, awareness helps us work through our karma and lessons faster. This is why Akashic Record readings are so powerful, when approached with the right intention.
It is important to understand that we made a soul-level choice to experience certain events. It is our present reaction to those events that causes us the greatest pain and turmoil. Most importantly, this pain propels us to seek a solution. This solution will lead us to our healing and spiritual ascension.
Once we start seeing our souls as powerful co-creators of our experience, we also start taking our power back. Then we are beginning to transmute pain into light.
