
Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation

So the cutting edge here—as ever, hard to attain—is individuality, joy, playful spontaneity, creativity, and a perfect freedom from the slightest need to appear successful, elevated, or elite.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
there is the tribe of his or her natural soulmates—artists of life who are truly experimentalists, affirmative of exploration and risk, celebratory of life, and slow to judge others.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
enormous joy in such self-expression.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
As he or she evolves, such a person will increasingly experience a desire to express himself or herself creatively
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
with that eleventh house south node pattern, the person is vulnerable to internalizing collective beliefs about what will give joy—the new car, meditating in Sedona, losing weight . . . whatever their cultural susceptibilities and socialized values dictate.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
For this person, it has become imperative from an evolutionary point of view to do as he or she pleases
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
What we can count on, regardless of context, is that in this present lifetime, this individual has a soul-intent to claim more freedom from outside influences, whether those influences emanate from the tribe or from the corporation.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
These currents carried the person away from authenticity, away from the actual soul-intentions, and away from natural values. He or she lost individuality in the context of the will of the group.
Steven Forrest • Yesterday's Sky: Astrology and Reincarnation
Somehow, in a prior life, such a person was swept along by broad historical, social or cultural currents