I ascribe to the Edgar Cayce definition of karma: it is soul memory. In previous incarnations we interact with other souls and these are imprinted on our soul. When we meet that same soul again we are inclined to try to repeat that way of interacting with them. Soul mates can be lovers, but more accurately, a soul mate is someone who helps you meet yourself. What is the purpose of reincarnation and karma? It is to help us align ourselves with God so that we may reunite with the original source, The One.

The following is a list of soul mates I've met in my life that I am aware of the previous relationship(s) I've had with them. What makes karmic relationships awkward for some people to process is that lovers in one lifetime may become parent and child, or siblings, or best friends, in another incarnation.

Karma has a very strong pull on us, but we have the free will which allows us to, at any moment, be more than our karma. When we transcend karma through "grace" we negate our karmic debt.

1. My sister. We've been together many times before, usually as siblings or parent-child.
2. My first boyfriend/husband was my son in a previous incarnation.
3. My second significant other I thought of him as "the sister of my soul". A romantic relationship failed miserably between us. We got along spendidly as friends and people often thought when the first met us that we were brother and sister.
4. Jean-Marie is someone I corresponded with for about a year. I know that in a previous life we were romantically involved. I had strong, passionate feelings for her and if we had been of the opposite sex I think we would have been a couple again.
5. Pibb is someone I met on the first day of naturopathic medical school. Our karmic connection is I have a strong impression we lived in a monastery together. I shared my impression with her and she thought it rang with some truth. She's a devout Christian and will occassionally go on retreats at religious facilities.Her karmic tendency is very apparent!
6. D.E. is someone I corresponded with for about two years. I knew were were lovers before. He and I had a strange psychic connection. I knew all along we were never going to meet in person. I think the reason we were in each others lives is to heal and forgive what happened in the past.
7. Carol is a woman I briefly worked with. Before I even met her I dreamt of meeting her. In the dream it was explained to me that she is "the mother of my soul". I never shared with her my dream, yet it really didn't matter. I think at some level we just knew.
8. One of my fellow Shrones is someone with whom I'm aware of a karmic relationship. I sense we've been sisters and lovers before. Being friends in this life has allowed for us to be mutually healing and therapeutic to one another.
9. J.E. is someone I don't rightly know how he and I were karmically related. All I know is that I thought of him as "The One". At times I swore I could see his aura radiating. He did not believe in anything spiritual at all. This made for some interesting conversations. I think the purpose of us meeting in this lifetime, at least for me, was to awake my sense of Divine Love. It is through him that I became aware of a deeper sense of my soul and my connection with the Divine.
10. Pooky is "the husband of my soul". Upon us meeting in person the thought flashed in my mind, "It's like seeing an old friend again after so many years!" I think Pooky and I may also have been siblings and parent-child in the past at some point.
11. Pooky's mother, my MIL. There was a time where I kept thinking of her as "Mary" and in my mind I'd say to her, "Mary, it's going to be all right." I consulted a psychic about this. She told me of what had happened between us. A fairly interesting story, which I won't share here, but she did confirm we'd been sisters.
12. My Little Sister. I think she may have been my daughter in a previous life. I think of her as "Melissa" and have to make sure I call her by her given name. We're both Virgos.
13. There's two of my classmates that I don't know very well, but I sense a karmic soul memory with them. There is a gal whom I always want to call "Ida". I even told her about my suspicion about I probably knew her as Ida before, and she believes in reincarnation, too, so she thought it was pretty interesting. We haven't yet made any connection about how we were specifically related. A second person is another classmate. I have a memory of jealousy toward her, as my sister, and that she paired up with a man with whom I had a crush on. I haven't yet talked to her to find out if she believes in past lives. I don't feel actively jealous of her now.