Maria Shaw (Michigan) is a professional astrologer, intuitive, and author.
She is the host of the bi-monthly radio show, Affairs of the Heart,on
Citadel's WIOG 102.5FM in Michigan and has appeared on such shows as VH-1 All
Access: Serial Daters, TV Guide Channel, and the FOX reality show, Mr.
Personality. A regular contributor to various New Age publications, Ms. Shaw
currently writes monthly astrology columns for Soap Opera Digest and Tiger
Beat magazines and is the sex and love columnist for Complete Woman . She is
the author of two recently published teen books, Maria Shaw's Star Gazer and
Maria Shaw's Book of Love. Her next book , Soul Mates and Hot Dates will be
released in August 2005.Maria has helped thousands of people through her Past
Lives and Present Loves workshops at women's expos and other venues across
the country. She lives with her family near Detroit.
Have you ever met someone for the first time and felt an instant attraction?
I'm not talking about sexual chemistry here, but rather, a deep, soul
stirring, magentic pull. As a relationship astrologer, almost everyone I
counsel asks me the same question: "Have I met my soul mate yet?"
Well, if you have to ask...probably not! You'll know immediately when you do.
It's as if you've known him or her all of your life or more likely knew them
in a prior lifetime. However, I do want to clear up a common misconception
about soul mates. They are not neccessarily your lover, husband, wife,
boyfriend or object of desire. A soul mate can be your best friend, a
teacher, a family member and for you pet lovers, yes, even your precious
pooch or cat Fluffy can be considered a soul mate. In my latest book Soul
Mates and Hot Dates, How to Tell Who's Who, I discuss the different
connections between people and there are many.
Most of our past life ties are with family members. I believe we choose our
parents. They are the very first relationships we encounter in our current
lifetime and we use this relationship as a basis for all future ones. Many
people have karma with their families and reincarnate again and again to work
out issues created over several lifetimes. Most souls reincarnate with
promises to meet up with other souls for specific reasons. The majority of
time the reasons are as follows:
o To pay back a debt
o To receive a debt
o To learn a lesson
o To right a wrong
o Because of an early death in a former lifetime
o For the soul's growth
o To complete or finish something
o To help other soul on their path
o Out of love
In many of the couples past life regression work I perform, I have found that
spouses often have made the same vow, over several lifetimes to come back
together. They reincarnate and get married time and time again, lifetime
after lifetime. Ever hear of the term "eternal love"? This is
probably as close as it gets.
Some mothers carry twins but one baby lives and the other dies before it
makes it through the birth canal. The parents wonder what they've done wrong
for their baby to deserve such a sad fate. Probably nothing. Perhaps, the
babies' souls agreed eons ago that one twin would stay on the earthplane and
the other go back to the spirit world. Perhaps the living child's soul was
scared and did not want to make his transformation alone and needed the extra
support from the selfless soul to get through the process. They may have made
pact to spend time together in the mother's womb until it was time to be
born. This is a very special soul connection involving great karma.
I believe we all have soul friends too. These are our very closest and
dearest friends that seem closer to us than our own blood family. You and
your soul friend will go through everything together: marriages, divorces,
secerts, jobs losses, the highs and lows of life. Your soul friend will
always be there for you.
There are also soul groups. These are people who come together for a specific
reason to fulfill a goal to make the world a better place or right a wrong.
They are on a mission but must do it as a team. My client Barbara was let go
from her long term job at a hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Her serverance
package was generous and she didn't feel bad about losing the position. In
her heart, she felt there was something she was meant to do and was hoping
the universe would help her find it sooner rather than later.
Being directed by her intuition, she sold her home and moved to a little
Georgia town. There she started working at a free health clinic as a
volunteer to fill time. But in a matter of months, she was running the clinic
and making plans to expand it. Soon, other volunteers started showing up to
offer Barbara help. They wanted to give her support. Her dream of expansion
became theirs. Barbara's team was made up of about seven people, doctors and
nurses, who all felt like family. They worked hard and soon were granted
federal funding and built this clinic into a full fledged medical facility
offering the latest in medical science and care. Patients came from all over
and many were well served.
Soon after the facility was off the ground, federal health experts came in
and fired everyone, replacing Barbara and her dedicated team with new staff.
Barbara came to me upset and desperate to understand why such a thing could
have happened when she had worked so hard to build this clinic from the
ground up. As I led her back into a past life meditation, we discovered that
Barbara had lived in the Civil War and was a nurse in a Confederate hospital
in a little Georgia town. She recognized the doctor and other caregivers in
that lifetime to be the staff that helped her build up the current medical
facility. While in her meditative state, her mind searched for answers and
she saw visions of the Yankees charging into the Confederate hospital,
setting it on fire! It burned down and all of the injured soliders and
hospital staff perished in the fire too.
It's obvious, isn't it? Barbara and her team died some 140 years ago and were
not able to escape or save their patients and the hospital. So in their
current lifetimes, this group of souls all subconscioulsy agreed to meet up
again and rebuild their hosptial. Once they did exactly that, thier souls'
mission was complete and they were fired. Their vow, karma, promise, whatever
you want to call it,was finished, so they parted ways.
Soul Mates and Hot Dates explains these types of connections as well as love
and relationship ties. I have a special compatibility section in the book
featuring 144 combinations of the zodiac signs that will tell you how well
each connection will work (or not!). Also included are a numerology formula
to predict how old of a soul you are and what your current lifetime mission
is. There's also a chapter titled "Is Your Marriage Blessed or
Cursed?" By using your wedding date as a guide, couples can determine
what their spiritual lesson is.
There are also some fun chapters on how to dump anyone and how to attract
anyone based on thier zodiac sign. But I think the "meat" of the
book is really about spiritual connections with those that make an impact in
our lives. I often preach how important it is to cherish even the bad, horrid
relationships that have ended, for those are the ones that offer us the most
spiritual growth. We learn so much through challenges. Yes, we love the good
times but we grow through the bad. So please look at all of your
relationships, past and present, and be thankful. There is something to learn
from everyone, something to love...a purpose that we come together and a past
life promise your soul needs to fulfill.
RECOMMENDED TITLES BY THIS AND OTHER AUTHORS:
BOOK OF LOVE:
Palm reading, love numbers, astrological compatibility and simple love magic, targetted at teens.
HEART AND SOUL:
Who's hot and who's not, with 144 sun sign combinations.
TAROT KIT FOR TEENS:
This unique kit was designed just for teens. Maria Shaw, psychic and astrologer, shares her secrets with you.
FINDING YOUR SOUL MATE:
These methods are tried and proves by the author and the many thousands of successfully paired soul mates who have followed his methods.
SOUL MATES:
Popular metaphysical author Webster explores every aspect of the soul mate phenomenon in his newest release.
SOUL MATE ASTROLOGY:
How to find and keep your ideal mate through the wisdom of the stars.
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