The Reincarnationist Q&A – Author Hope Tarr
Thank you to author Hope Tarr for answering this week’s Reincarnationist Q&A!
Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of more than a dozen historical and contemporary romance fiction novels. Look for “Tomorrow’s Destiny” in a Victorian Christmas anthology with her bestseller buddies, Jacquie D’Alessandro and Betina Krahn. Hope’s most recent book is: TWELVE NIGHTS, Harlequin Historical Blaze, Dec 2009 ISBN#: 978-0373795161
THE QUESTIONS:
What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a hold over from a past life?
Compassion, most definitely. I did a past life regression about five years ago and instead of being regressed to my most recent life, the practioner guided me to recall the life most pertinent to the lessons to be learned in my present one. I was “John” and I’d lived (and happily survived) the American Civil War, instead dying of “natural causes,” i.e., a cancer in my mid-sixties.
In this life as “Hope,” I’m a huge “feeler,” so much so that I have to take care to protect my emotional boundaries. That said, being able to walk in the shoes of others, to empathize rather than simply sympathize, has also proven to be a big asset in my writing life.
What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a previous incarnation?
According to my astrologer–he did my first natal chart in 2003 and annual followups since–in all my past lives, I’ve suffered from a polarity in my intimate/romantic relationships. Loving someone has been associated with my abandonment of path and purpose, shame and loss, betrayal…Well, you get the picture. Think of my soul as the Jennifer Anniston of the galaxy. Pretty and talented and successful though she is, when it comes to love, that girl can’t seem to catch a break.The good news is that my stars, so to speak, are aligned to afford me multiple opportunities to get “it” right this time around, to heal the rift within my soul, and to balance loving someone passionately and fully with loving and respecting myself.
And so I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that in this life I’ve been drawn to romance fiction, first as a reader and for the past decade as a writer of more than a dozen novels. Likewise, it’s no coincidence that I was born under the Sun sign of Libra (the eternal quest for balance–remember those scales) under Venus. I believe all of these circumstances are part of my soul’s mission to work out this whole love thing in a positive way so I can move on not to Rest in Peace but to tackle the next lesson.
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