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Deck: Hanson-Roberts
Question: How do my past lives influence my current life and life purpose?
Spread:
Cards 1-5 represent an older past life, Cards 7-11 represent a more recent past life, and Cards 6, 12 and 13 represent your
current lifetime.
Cards 1 and 7 represent who you were in each of these lives, Cards 2 and 8 what you did or accomplished in these lives, Cards 3 and 9 what was your life's purpose, Cards 4 and 10 whether/how that purpose was achieved, Cards 5 and 11 represent what you brought forward from those experiences to the next lifetime, and Cards 6 and 12 are the way in which Cards 5 and 11 are manifested in your current life. Card 13 is your current life's purpose, related to these past lives.
READING
Running all through this reading are issues about material abundance and working on developing different aspects of the Self.
Both the previous lifetimes are male-oriented, and one of your tasks in this lifetime appears to be a rounding out of the persona to include female creativity and fertility. I am relatively certain that these lifetimes took place in England, in a time period corresponding to the 14th-17th centuries.
First Past Life
Card 1: Seven of Pentacles.
In the first life, you begin life as a laborer, working to provide for your family. Your youth was spent in hard work, concerned primarily with meeting your daily needs. You were good at your work, and given progressively greater responsibilities, eventually rising to overseer or someone who ran the estate for the owner.
Card 2: King of Cups. As an adult, you were able to achieve enough prosperity that another facet of yourself could be expressed, a more emotional, loving, creative side. This also stems from a love of family, and being a provider and father, but in a less material way.
Card 3: Knight of Swords, reversed.
The purpose of this life was to stabilize a personality that in the past had been emotionally immature, destructive, and which acted without thinking to the detriment of those around him. The soul was intended to learn the virtues of hard work, stability, love, maturity, and long-term relationships.
Card 4: The Chariot. The purpose was very well achieved, and the soul reached a state of completion and integration, where the Sword-like attributes were harnessed and combined with the pentacles and cups to create an integrated, balanced personality that could successfully meet the challenges of daily life in the world. All of these cards and personality aspects are very male-oriented, there are very few female energies in the picture yet.
Card 5: Ten of Cups. What was carried forward from this lifetime was a sense of achievement and completion, harmony, and worldly success.
Recent Past Life
Card 7: Ten of Pentacles, reversed.
Continuing the theme of material abundance, the soul was next born into a family that was well-established, successful, and with many generations of ancestors and progeny. Having proven his ability to achieve in a recent lifetime, this time the soul was born into a situation where struggle to obtain material necessities was not important. He carried forward a sense of dissatisfaction however, to ensure that he would move beyond this ideal worldly situation and find a higher meaning in life. He was probably born a third or fourth son into landed gentry, for whom there was little chance of inheriting the lands and responsibilities of the family. This required him to find a new path in life and a sense of purpose on his own.
Card 8: The Hierophant. As a result of this feeling that there must be something more, he turned to organized religion (probably Catholicism) and made a career out of that. Using the innate abilities he inherited from his success in reaching the Chariot, he rose quickly in the hierarchy and mastered the rituals and trappings of religious life. He may have reached the position of bishop or abbot.
Card 9: Ace of Pentacles.
The Soul's goal in this life was to forge a self-directed sense of purpose, that was not driven by events that were largely out of his control (as in the first life, where he had little choice of life activities). This was to teach the soul to take responsibility for his own life and make appropriate choices with nothing but his own inner sense to guide him.
Card 10: Five of Cups. Although he achieved material and external success in his chosen life path, he did not find the sense of purpose in the Church that he expected. The Catholic church at that time was rife with political maneuvering, material gain, and ambition, and he ended his life with a spiritual malaise that was disturbing and unfulfilling. He was unable to see the spiritual truths that were hidden and buried under the layers of rich trappings and worldly manipulation that permeated the church, even though they were there if he had had the strength and personal integrity to look.
Card 11: King of Rods, reversed.
He brings forward from this life an unfulfilled sense of purpose, a feeling that he made the wrong choices. The King of Rods is reversed, showing the person he could have become had he been able to feel confident about the results of his actions in life. Instead, there is a sense of doubt and insecurity, and a tendency to fall back on material resources rather than spiritual pursuits.
Current Life
Card 6: The Moon, reversed.
Arising out of the first life was a perfectly balanced masculine set of attributes, a personality to which little could be added from that side of the equation. The lifetime after that was also male, and less successful. A choice was made to add to the soul's makeup a more spiritual feminine energy, and to give her some challenges to overcome so as to give the soul a reason to begin to explore its more spiritual aspects.
Card 12: Three of Pentacles, reversed.
Arising out of the spiritual disappointment of the second life was a tendency to fall back on what the soul has succeeded with in the past – material labor and hard work. You have a gift for creating things with your hands and take pride in your skills in this area. Yet the situation was set up so that this alone would not be satisfying to you. The three of pentacles in this deck is constructed in the context of a church, and brings the soul back to issues of spirituality even as it is working on its projects. The upheavals going on in the Moon and your subconscious ensures that these issues will require some attention and cannot be ignored. You may feel most satisfied with your work when you can apply it in the context of spirituality, and bring your feminine creative energies into the picture.
Card 13: Queen of Pentacles.
Here is the theme of material abundance again, yet this time it is tempered with fertility, creativity, and feminine attributes. The purpose of this life appears to be to reach a harmony within yourself between your successful masculine drives toward material accomplishments and your innate spirituality, expressed through your subconscious. If you can channel all of these energies into a creative, productive whole, you will have accomplished the goals of this lifetime.
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