Tom Jacobs is a highly intuitive astrologer and the author of several remarkable books. The Soul’s Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel is his most recent publication (just out in May).

“With a foreword by Steven Forrest (in which he calls the book “cutting edge”), this work explains my unique brand of evolutionary astrology. How I approach it is informed in important ways by what I have learned from Ascended Masters and spirits of the deceased about the multi-life journey of the soul. Why souls pick the lives they do, what is karma and how to change it, what is the relationship of the soul to its many lives…all this and more is explored and then applied to birth charts and life stories to bring them alive…”

For more about this book and others, click here.

For information about Tom, his astrology work, and how to schedule readings with him, please visit his website here. You may also listen to Tom’s astute podcast “Unraveling Karma” here.

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your most marked characteristic that you believe could be a hold over from a past life?

I know my passion for research and sharing what I learn is a hold over from my soul’s other lives. Until I found karmic/evolutionary astrology I craved understanding why people did and chose what they did, and I’m sure in my many other lives I’m searching around for a tool that can help me figure that out!

What is your principle defect that you believe may be inherited from a previous incarnation?

We all come in to any life with specific and general fears based in deeply painful experiences in our other lives. I do not consider that we come in with defects but that we are in each life challenged to overcome extremes of fear in order to become empowered and live what our souls come here to do. I am definitely hampered in some ways at some times by fear as are others, and I do what I can to accept the challenge to overcome it and heal.

Which of your favorite heroes do you think you could have been and why?

Wow, that’s personal! I am aware of two of my soul’s other lives in real-life data terms, but I don’t share that info. Though I admit to identifying sometimes with alternately the most compassionate and the least compassionate of leaders.

What three people from history would you like to have over to dinner for a discussion about reincarnation?

Gosh. That is tough. For starters, the people in relatively early Christianity who wrote reincarnation out of the doctrine. I’m sure I could find three in that group to have over for a good old fashioned pancake dinner.

What do you think happens when we die?

I’ve been shown the process and lead through two of my soul’s lives’ previous deaths so I can see how they lead to my present life. You can read about this in my new book The Soul’s Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel.

When you come back next time, who (or what!) would you like to be?

Someone with a little more willingness to flow with the soul’s bigger plan. Someone more willing to trust the perfection in how things are unfolding. It is who I’m stretching and growing into now – I vote for me to keep it up into next lives!

Tom Jacob’s Links:
Tom’s site: http://tdjacobs.com
His podcast “Unraveling Karma” in iTunes, here.
Follow Tom on Facebook here.

Imagine yourself in pre-earthquake San Francisco, riding a cable car, observing the people as they go about their lives…

Inside of Vindija Cave in Croatia, where three fragments of Neandertal bone were excavated. They were later sequenced, providing a first draft of the Neandertal genome. (Photo c/o Johannes Krause, MPI-EVA)

Whether we believe that Neanderthals had religion, believed in the afterlife, and buried their dead, one thing is quite clear to science – most of us have some Neanderthal in our genes:

Neanderthals are our ancestors, study finds

(Harvard University)

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff

In a stunning scientific feat, an international research team has deciphered the genome of long-extinct Neanderthals, revealing that they are our ancestors.

Modern humans likely interbred with Neanderthals, the scientists conclude in a paper published today — and 30,000 years after they disappeared, leaving behind bones and tools, traces of them can also be found in many of us, in our DNA.

Researchers extracted and sequenced genetic material from a pill-sized amount of crushed bones found in a cave in Croatia. Then, a Harvard geneticist led efforts to compare the ancient DNA with present-day human genomes. Not only did the team find strong support for the controversial mating theory, but they also produced a catalog of genetic mutations that set humans apart, yielding potential clues about why we succeeded while Neanderthals died off…

For the complete article, please click here.