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What
is a Soul Sign?
By
Rosemary Altea
Rosemary Altea, whose work as a spiritual medium and healer has been
featured on Oprah and Larry King Live! and in People and Vanity Fair,
now uses her intimacy with the human soul as the touchstone for a powerful
new way of looking at relationships.
Some things are part of our spiritual destiny and we just can't
change them: certain instinctive attitudes and impulsive actions, the
inability sometimes to act when we know we should, the way we sometimes
allow ourselves to be drawn into situations against our better judgment,
and, the biggest thing, our reactions – the urge to fight, to shout,
to protect, to hide, to dictate, to shrink back, to control, to run.
These urges come naturally to us, they are generated by the energy that
flows through us and propels us forward. It is energy that dictates
our behavior, and no matter how hard we try to control or change it
– and there will be times when we can – there will be those
times that it will just take us with it and we will not be able to be
anything other than who we are.
You may be aware that all beings are made of pure energy, but until
now the effects of that energy have never been defined, never been quite
understood. We have never really associated a specific type of energy
with the way that we think and behave, with what we can and cannot change.
No one has explored how the unique kind of energy that has powered us
since birth makes us tick.
When your soul was first conceived, that initial spark, that crucial
moment of creation came from a particular and special source of energy.
While the spark is individual to each of us, the type of energy comes
from one of five sources: Fire, Earth, Air, Water, or Sulphur. These
are the elemental energy groups, the energy sources from which all earthbound
souls are created. As your soul was born, it was surrounded by and infused
with energy that was present from the beginning of time, without which
there would be no creation, no new beginnings. That energy determines
what your soul looks like and how it works.
Fire, Earth, Air, Water, or Sulphur – the energy group you belong
to gives you your power, your personality, and your character traits.
It also provides clues about what kinds of friends and lovers you are
bound to be attracted to – and how these relationships might work
out over time.
Fire, Earth, Air, Water, or Sulphur. You are one of these five. I am
one of these five. As we go along together, you will see for yourself
which one you are, and what that means.
A person born under the influence of Fire is someone who is instinctively
driven by passion, by emotion, sometimes to the point where they will
not be able to stop those intense moments of uncontrollable passion
and heat no matter how hard they try. To expect them to behave differently
would be like trying to stem the flow of an erupting volcano. Impossible.
A person born under the influence of Earth is someone who is instinctively
driven by a need to plan and to strategize and who will not, indeed
cannot, be anything other than solid and immovable once they have made
a decision on a course of action. Expecting them to behave differently
would be like expecting a mountain to crumble to dust in front of your
eyes. It won't happen.
A person born under the influence of Air is someone who is instinctively
driven by a more passive and calming energy flow and will not be able
to, nor would they want to, sustain authority over others, as they are
generally far too easygoing. To expect someone with a soul sign in the
Air group to be different would be the same as expecting the wind to
obey your commands – a beyond-rare occurrence.
A person born under the influence of Water is someone who is instinctively
driven by a need to evaluate and to compromise, who will be for the
most part unable to do anything other than flow with the tide. To try
to force them to behave differently would be like standing in the middle
of a river and attempting to change its course. It won't work.
There is one more energy group, one other force of nature that drives
some of us. This force is unlike the other four. The energy of Sulphur
is dark and unwelcoming; a person born under the influence of Sulphur
is someone who is instinctively driven by evil, a person who will be
both unwilling and also unable to be anything other than dark. To desire
love or compassion from such a person, born a dark soul, would be like
expecting the most foul-smelling and putrid medicine to taste as sweet
as nectar. Never.
So we can see that there are some things we simply cannot change, no
matter how hard we try. There are some things we absolutely cannot help.
Reprinted
from: Soul Signs: An Elemental Guide to Your Spiritual Destiny
by Rosemary Altea© 2004 Rosemary Altea. Permission granted by Rodale,
Inc., Emmaus, PA 18098. Copyright© 2004 Rosemary Altea
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