Soul contracts are agreements we make with other souls before incarnation. The purpose of such agreements is to learn from a specific experience, which can be either positive or negative.
A soul contract may include working through life lessons, being an influence in each other’s life, offering help and support, or being a catalyst for change and growth. We can have soul contracts with people, but also places, plants, animals, pets, and so on.
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 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.
Let’s think of an example. Let’s say your partner was meant to teach you a lesson of self-love. Instead, you chose to cling to them as the only source of love. They had to love you.
The tension will gradually become stronger. Maybe your relationship will start showing cracks and get progressively more difficult. Or you will find someone else who you think loves you “more”. You can even go through multiple relationships, while all the time wondering why no one loves you the way you want them to.
You may even start asking psychics and readers: “who is written for me? who am I meant to be with?” Answers may vary, but in the end, they will still lead to the same underlying lesson.
The teachers may change, but the lesson remains. Sooner or later, in this lifetime or next, you will need to face all the blocks within you than prevented you from loving yourself. In a true, balanced, deeply empowered way.
It will not be easy.
But it will never be about a list of soulmates or a list of soul contracts. Of course you have soul contracts with all the important people in your life. Of course people are the most important thing in the universe. Every human being carries the whole cosmos within them. But so do you.
And the whole cosmos will keep shifting and moving until you see your own power in the great mystery of life. Until you have completed your lessons.
Recognizing Karmic Soul Contracts
How can we identify a that 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 go for it. Let’s say you meet someone and become romantically involved with them. The pull is so strong, you simply cannot help but leave everything behind in order to be with them.
The ego often interprets this as “we are meant to be together,” or “they are 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 you have cleared your karma, mutual attraction gradually fades. People usually separate, but in some cases continue the relationship. This continues relationship would feel like 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.
How Can the Akashic Records Help?
Like any pattern recognition system, an Akashic Record reading can help identify major life lessons and blocks that you are working on. This will include soul contracts, since the reason we we enter every soul contract is to learn a lesson. The Akashic Records can also help clear and shift stuck energy in a relationship.
If you have read this far, you may have already identified some of the soul contracts that you have with your friends and loved ones. Remember, it is not about who you are “meant to” be with. It’s about what you are meant to learn.
From another perspective, we can say that people in your life show you some part of yourself that you otherwise would have never seen. In the same way, you are a mirror to them, and they have their own lessons to learn, on their path.
Sometimes people or places help us awaken parts of ourselves that would otherwise have never come “online”. That is also part of a soul contract. Ultimately, all soul contracts boil down to you coming into your power. To you beginning to work on your own piece of the puzzle, your own piece of the Universe to purify and upgrade. This is your Great Work.
Having an Akashic Record reading can bring clarity on existing soul contracts that you have, as well as help identify soul contracts in relationships that seem puzzling.
Can I Break A Soul Contract?
Soul contracts are never about punishment. In the context of the Akashic Records, we talk about karma and karmic contracts, we don’t mean it in a negative way. Karma is simply a systemic law of balance. Karma is how the universe works.
Can we break a soul contract? In most cases, no. 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. Once you understand the lesson, you can release the negative karma associated with it.
An Akashic Record reading reminds us that we made a soul-level choices 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 joy and light. This also uplifts our soul contracts and turns into them our magical allies, not enemies.
