posted August 24, 2012 03:09 AM            

Teasel, I tend to believe your access to past lives, during formal sessions, gets easier (and better) over time, as you get used to the process. I've also read this on the site of some practitioners. I would also think your level of comfort with and confidence in the practitioner would be relevant, of course.

I recently came across this article that seemed to find a link between Saturn transits to the moon's nodes and recalling past lives, albeit among a small sample of cases.
http://laurendelsack.wordpress.com/category/reincarnation-research/saturn- transit-to-the-north-node/

Here is an LL link with lots of node info:

North Node transits to Planets and Points:
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum24/HTML/203916.html

In that info, it states regarding Neptune and Node contacts: "The intuition is stronger, more reliable and often right on target. These connections also show a time when inspiration acts as a catalyst to profound artistic accomplishments. This is a spiritual combination, and may coincide with the transcendence to a higher spiritual level through meditation, dream work or other altered states of consciousness."

Relating to the South Node and recalling the past, just last week I had a dream about a girlfriend I had 20 years ago (!), whom I haven't thought of in ages. It prompted me to spend the next two days thinking about her, looking her up online, and purging a lot of emotions that really caught me by surprise. Looking at what was going on for me astrologically, what I noticed was

--Transiting South Node exactly conj. Natal Saturn. (Indeed, I felt remorse over the ways I felt I was inadequate in the relationship);
--Tr. Mercury exactly conj. N. South Node (Moon was also possibly conj. that Mercury at the time) ...And funny--I found out she is now a journalist--ha!;
--Tr. Mars conj. Tr. Saturn.
(In addition, Tr. Venus exactly opposite Tr. Pluto, which is currently conj. my Venus.)

posted August 24, 2012 03:33 AM            

Well, looking at the slower planets that would account for a long stretch, it looks like they were all involved. As one transit died out, another would kick in.

This began when I was 28, so I don't know if Saturn Return had anything to do with it. I had started meditating just a few months prior. It looks like T. Neptune conj. my NN might have kicked off that draw towards meditating.

When the recall started, Tr. NN was conj. my 8th house Moon. Tr. Pluto was conj. Tr. Chiron, and both were applying by 2-3 degrees to conj. my 12th house Sun. Perhaps relevant or not, Tr. Uranus trine N. Uranus.

I would get in the habit of regularly getting into a semi-conscious state, and "pressing" on some emotion I seemed to be carrying at the time, and seeing what came up. ...Several different lifetimes came up, over time, to be contemplated and healed. Lots and lots of tears were shed. (I can today still focus my attention on some feeling, and get to a past-life root at will, after having started the habit back then.)

A year later, and Pluto was still rolling back and forth over my Sun. Also perhaps relevant, Tr. Chiron was now conj. N. Mercury. ...Could this relate to the healing of a particular lifetime I was dealing with at that time, when I was regretting the impact the persona of that lifetime made with his words?

posted August 24, 2012 04:28 AM            

It looks like T. North Node was right between my Sun and my Jupiter/Ascendant at that time, which are four degrees apart. (Separating by 2 deg. from Sun, applying by 2 deg. to Jupiter/Asc.)

posted August 25, 2012 09:55 PM            

Just look at this Sedgewick quote:

"the Galactic Center surges like a Roman candle of infrared energy. Emanations of infrared energy (IFR) blast down upon us and perform two primary functions on our awareness.

"First, IFR opens up the subconscious mind. This opening asks us to release and forget emotional trauma. Of course, this also means relinquishing your greatest emotional grievances. Perhaps this contributes largely to the popular metaphysical model of cellular reprogramming. Second, IFR blasts open the root chakra in the energy system. This chakra releases the old, regenerates our energy, and lifts us off our duffs with renewed inspiration and a sense of real progress."

AND

"The Galactic Center acts like a satellite dish, directing divinely inspired information straight to the potentially receptive gray matter of our brains. If you believe in God, this might be the voice you hear. Regardless, within this connection you have the ability to pull down wild information which you would otherwise have no way of knowing."

http://www.zanestein.com/galactic_center.htm

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...So, Chiron conjuncting the GC could very well have had a lot to do with all that I was continuing to tap into (and heal!) at that time.

...And of course EVERYONE was experiencing that same influence then (in year 2000) ...At this moment, it seems curious to me that I haven't seen any research on this aspect, considering this amazing description of the GC. It seems like it might have been such a significant influence!

The GC looks like a very significant point to consider, when looking for aspects that might allow esoteric/ past life knowledge to come through.

Paul O. Hewit in this article calls the GC "the Sun of our Sun."
http://www.horary.com/hhcrl/galact.html