Dark Archetypes or Life Themes from Past Lives

Dark or Shadow Attribute – using the power of romantic attraction for private agendas. It may be that in another life or lives, you found yourself in situations where you needed to use romantic attraction for survival or well-being purposes. This may result in karmic re-attraction of this type of situation in your present life. Akashic Energy doesn’t judge, it just says ‘yes’! It takes a lot of energy to be a charmer and romancer. Wouldn’t it be so much more pleasant to feel whole, and to not have to put on an act? Learning to be you without the extra effort will help you to overcome this past life pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – a tendency to rely on luck rather than putting the work in. You may have even been a professional gambler or con artist in a previous life. This could indicate powerful intuition when finding yourself in difficult situations. Following your intuition is great – but compromising your own self-growth by using it to avoid hard work won’t help you to grow on the spiritual path. What can you do to get more grounded and make sure you do the step-by-step work? You have a major gift here, which in the Aquarian Age many of us need. Being highly intuitive is a gift worth sharing!

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Somehow you have experienced a past life where you felt the need to undermine others to survive, or you created a cycle of self-destructive behavior which may be continuing to this day, due to the Law of Attraction in action. Karma keeps re-cycling until we change, it’s like a bookmark in our Akashic Records. No judgement here – but it may be time to contemplate how to break this pattern. You will free up a lot of energy when you learn how to stop sabotaging your own efforts and act from your center through self-empowerment.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – From the Shadow perspective, you may have had a lifetime, or even a series of lifetimes, where you couldn’t survive on your own without followers, servers, or simply people to cover your back. This may mean you have a subconscious pattern of needing to help others, even people please, so that you feel safe. When in times of pure survival, of course this is only natural. If you feel that this need to ‘rescue’ others is limiting to you in some way or even limiting the growth of others around you, then it may be time to change. Learning to lead through service is the positive frame to this shadow attribute.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Perhaps you have experienced a past life or lives where you needed to use the beauty and attraction of the body to feel safe in this world. For women especially, during the last few thousand years of being repeatedly incarnated into a patriarchal society, we had to learn consciousness patterns that served our survival – in a system we could not change. If you are still in this type of situation and feel that you are only valuable to others because of your sensual nature or physical beauty, then it may be time to consider finding ways to be more independent for your own wellbeing. Western women at least now have couverture (a legal body) again. Do your best to align with this sense of safety – changing this pattern may involve changing some of those people around you.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Perhaps you lived in a time where you had plenty, and associated this level of plenty with being powerful, a leader of some kind, or simply the way it had always been for you and your family or tribe. It’s likely you lived one or more lives where you had access to all kinds of Earthly pleasures and indulged in them with few limits. This would also have meant that others suffered or had to give up in order for you to indulge. If you find yourself overly attached to the pleasures of life – there is no judgment from the Akashic Records, but a gentle nudge towards a more balanced approach would be better for your health this time around, and mean also that the world’s abundance can be shared with everyone.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – You may have lived a life when focusing on your ills, stresses or difficulties ensured that other people helped you out, and you got your survival needs met. It’s a lot of work however to always be pointing our energy towards encouraging pity or support from others! Of course, there are victims of crime and abuse in the world. This dark or shadow attribute is not about that. It’s about an energetic posture from a past life where you might have let down personal boundaries so that others could take care of you. In the present time, consider healthy ways to ask for help, and begin that work of boundary setting so that you can balance give and take in your energy field.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Tricksters have learned to manipulate others, even human consciousness, through a basic need to survive and exert power over. In this new Aquarian Age, people with Trickster patterns from past lives can choose to be free enough to let those old patterns go – and move forward into different and more positive ways of showcasing your gifts. Consider how clever a trickster needs to be, and how useful it would be to reframe those gifts, skills and abilities into tools to help us all evolve. We need innovators like you.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Nobody wants to be an orphan, but sometimes we are born into lives where we either become orphans, or we feel orphan-like because our parents don’t connect with us or meet our emotional needs, making us feel unseen. Feeling abandoned can cause all sorts of shadow behaviors and prevent us from maturing into a full adult – because the hurt child aspect holds us back. We may end up being a part of families that are not a match for us as a result. Learning our own true independence in life will help us to mature, discover who we are, and then reconnect in healthy ways with people who resonate with us.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Living a past life where thievery is involved almost always comes from a situation of lack. Lack of food, lack of money, lack of safety, good living conditions, whatever it may have been. This pattern still running in the subconscious mind can cause us to feel that we are ‘owed’ things, that we should steal other people’s ideas or even property, in an attempt to be as powerful and safe as we perceive those others to be. As individuated incarnated Souls we are the most powerful, and the most unique, because nobody else has traveled the journey that we have. Working on issues of lack and learning to create your own resources will help you to overcome this past life pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – This pattern, both present and past life, often shows itself in the leaders of human culture. We genuinely want world change, and do that by setting up systems, laws, political followings, even religions and cults – to ‘purify’ all of those around us. Yet the last place someone with this pattern may have looked in past lives is at their own behavior. Freeing human culture from destructive impulses is a massively evolutionary act and takes great vision. Yet, if we can’t free ourselves and ignore our own demons, then we won’t shift or evolve as part of the process. This past-live pattern may put you into present life situations where you get to face your own shortcomings in a very personal way. Time to take that leap to change yourself! Powerful leaders who can walk the fine line of self-accountability are very much needed in this world.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Hoarding of any kind in a past life will have happened due to fear of lack, grief, loss and even deep emotional trauma. Most people who hoard have lost something or someone precious to them and they can’t face the loss consciously, so it shows up in their subconscious behaviors. This Dark Life Theme may indicate a past life or lives where you didn’t get your emotional needs met or lost a Loved One in a way that you were never able to recover from in that lifetime. Deep grief and loss can be scary, but just because we couldn’t face processing that grief then, doesn’t mean we need to avoid going through the emotional cleansing now. Life’s riches are to be shared, and releasing this past life pattern will help you to move forward into a future that is richer in experiences and life enjoyment.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – The most common definition of Martyr is someone who died for a cause. The Shadow or Dark Archetype of the Martyr is all about a deep shadow of addiction. Feeling sorry for oneself due to unprocessed emotions, or a block to actionable change can morph and transmute into a subconscious addiction to self-pity. It’s the antithesis to service or helping a cause but can be a dark hole we can all fall into occasionally. If you picked this Dark Archetype theme, you may have experienced a past life where there just wasn’t an opportunity to break out of a dark, dangerous or blocked life where you couldn’t grow and were abandoned in some way, either by yourself or others. Transmuting self-pity slowly and surely into some form of service for others is the way to go here.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – most karmic patterns are created essentially because we are trying to survive, to manage our life force or chi. Vampires are part of our mythology, and as such are portrayed as literally ‘draining the life’ out of us via the blood. With this Dark Archetype, you may have had a past life where; in order to survive, you depleted others through psychic or energetic trickery. It could even be that you were very co-dependent and maybe complained about your hardships a lot. Whichever of these situations you were in – it was ‘draining’ for other people to be around you! Learning to be your own Sovereign Soul and getting into the habit of drawing your life force or chi from your Higher Self and Soul is the way to break this pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Shape Shifting can be a positive spiritual practice, in some forms of Shamanism, for example. In this case, you may have experienced a past life where; to stay safe, you projected the most useful image of yourself to others at any given time. While this might seem disingenuous, individual survival is a priority for all of us, so it’s completely understandable that in certain dangerous situations you would not want to show yourself completely for fear of death. If this behavior became a habit through more than one lifetime, it’s possible that you created a block to your own Soul’s truth. This block is called Light Power Imaging and can be cleared through Akashic Records work. The action to take in present life is to contemplate where you are safely able to show others your true self and take it from there.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Lots of us have been servants in other lives! Not many get to be the leaders, kings, queens and the like, because there are less available positions like that. The Dark or Shadow Archetype of a servant from a past life can cause us to make excuses for not moving forward in present life. Of course, service can be an amazing area for growth, but the Dark Archetype is about avoiding growth by feeling that we are not good enough to grow into greater positions. Those positions could be more responsible roles, better paid jobs, allowing intimate relationships into our lives, deepening relationships or making a big life shift that we secretly desire. The main excuse is that we don’t have the money to do it. Starting to heal this pattern through small shifts, and making savings to do one small thing that we would love to do will help us let go of the servant mentality.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – The Destroyer is a Dark Archetype related to our collective human past – that of having a leader, chieftain or more senior ranking person who literally ‘lords’ it over others by using power to demonstrate the big ‘I am’. It’s entirely possible that many of us have been dark leaders in past lives – if we didn’t learn the dark aspect of leadership, then we would never have got the opportunity to lead from the light – by knowing the difference. With this dark or shadow attribute, you may have lived a life where a position of power gave you an intoxicating feeling. It might have gone as far as a life where you destroyed others, or their dreams and potentials, because of your actions and behaviors. We desperately need new and powerful leaders in the Aquarian Age – those who can lead from an intention of service and growth for all, so considering how you can lead from this point forward is the first step to healing this karmic pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Addictions in our human world can take many forms. We can become addicted to substances, behaviors, habits and even lifestyles. The basis of becoming an addict related to our past lives is about trying to survive when speaking the truth isn’t an option. Having to lie in order to survive is understandable, keeping up the habit through trauma-inducing experiences is also relatable. The habit or strategy becomes an addiction when we give our authority away to the habit, making it stronger than our Sovereign Soul’s authority and our strength of spirit. An addictive pattern is only that – a pattern – but it’s one that compromises our integrity and honesty in life. Today we understand the nature of addiction far more deeply than we ever have and also understand that addiction can be a genetically influenced issue, too (this is called Genetic Karma from the perspective of the Akashic Records). Asking for help, reaching out and being honest is the first step to breaking a harmful addiction.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – It’s entirely possible that many of us have had to beg for food, lodgings and even a living in past lives. The opportunity to have a job and a regular income is a very recent concept. For many thousands of years, we have had to make our living from hunting, and then living off the land in tribes, groups and then cultures and countries. Only during recent ages did we change the mechanics of human society and progress rapidly into our modern world where more people can ‘make a living’. So, it’s highly likely that the majority of us experienced past lives where we begged for food, for alms, for a bowl of rice, whatever it may have been. And this is perfectly OK. Where this past life experience and pattern may be leaking through into present life is as an over-dependence on others. Expecting others to support us without putting effort in ourselves to create abundance is what this karmic pattern is all about. Independence is essential for growth to break this particular pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – This dark archetype is based in fear – the fear of not being enough. This is a fear that many people experience in daily life because of their upbringing, lack of self-esteem, or even trauma in some area. From the perspective of a dark archetype, the past-life pattern of the Dilettante relates to putting up a pretense of some kind, either for survival purposes, or through feeling inadequate and having a desire to impress. Pretending to have access to deep knowledge is a slippery path, because at some point your truth may be discovered. Perhaps you had a past life where you felt disempowered, or your education was lacking, or you lacked the finances to be able to be seen as ‘elevated’ enough. Pretending to know more than you do could have got you out of some sticky situations! To start healing this pattern in present life, perhaps go through a course of study or program that boosts your confidence, so that you can practice speaking from what you truly know.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – What could possibly be ‘dark’ or a dark archetype where a wounded child is concerned? Well, initially, of course a wounded child is simply that – an innocent that got hurt or traumatized in some way. This dark life archetype is about having a past life (or a series of past lives) where the Soul experienced dysfunctional relationships during childhood that were wounding. The Soul was not able to heal its’ childhood wounds for whatever reason (early death; a life where there was no time for introspection since matters of survival took over; other choices made by the Soul). A karmic pattern of resistance to healing begins to set in, and difficulty arises in seeking or acceptance forgiveness for past ills. The child in other lives begins a cycle of blaming others rather than moving through acceptance, release and self-forgiveness. Relationships don’t mature or are dysfunctional. Working on growing self-awareness is the way forward to clear this particular karmic pattern.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – “Bullies are always cowards”, or so we often hear. The truth behind bullying is that it comes about because of cyclical generations of abuse. People who bully most commonly have parents or carers who believe that physical and verbal abuse are a natural part of the requirement for parenting, or they are immature wounded children who have become adults and not tended to their own wounds, in this life or past lives. In a past life, you may have been subject to repeated verbal or physical abuse. This sets up a pattern of fearing vulnerability, and not feeling safe at home. The assumption then is – the entire world is an unsafe place, and must be controlled, when necessary, through repetition of the same types of behaviors. Sometimes this archetype comes from a number of past lives the Soul has lived, or from Genetic Karma – handed down through DNA patterning in the family line. The way out of this cycle is to research the cause of the beginning of the abuse, whether from a past life or your family line. Waking up to and identifying this cycle starts to rob it of its’ powers.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – The old saying “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is completely wrong. Gossip can poison people’s lives, and in our modern times, social media has shown us how destructive this act can be on people’s reputations, livelihoods and even personal wellbeing. There is deep betrayal involved in gossip, where a person may show one face to the victim of gossip to use them as the supply, and another face to those that they tell the person’s secrets to, or worse, a twisted version of the truth. So where does this dark archetype come from? You may have had a past life or lives where power and survival was invested in the passing on of private or secret information. Courts and palaces were incredibly dangerous places to live, where daggers, both real and verbal, were commonly deployed to take out people who threatened each other. To break free from this karmic pattern, start practicing non-commenting when people try to gossip with you. As you grow in confidence, also try to make a kind comment about the person when other people gossip.

Dark or Shadow Attribute – Many of us were slaves in past lives. Not everybody got to be a leader, king, queen or person treated as a god! We were there mopping the floor, making the meals and generally doing everything that was needed and requested by those exerting power over us. Some slaves may have been treated well, but in order to survive their roles, the vast majority had to do many things that were beyond the pale and dehumanizing. Sometimes, it may have been easier to give over personal willpower to the higher-up person or group so that you could live that life with less daily distress. This karmic pattern, if repeated, may turn into a subconscious fear of making your own choices, since in a past life or lives you didn’t have any to begin with and had to live a pretty disassociated existence. to begin to break this karmic pattern start small with independent acts that give you a sense of safety and that exercise your personal rights, such as saving a small nest egg.