It may seem like a mystery to you now, but before you came into this embodied life you preplanned what you wanted to do and be and achieve this time around.  In fact, you worked long and hard to map things out. Does that mean that everything is predestined and can be seen laid out before you?  Nope.  We are not meat puppets…well actors are, but that another discussion for another day…and our higher selves or teachers or Akashic masters are not pulling our strings.  We have free will and so can make choices, take chances, make mistakes, go in completely new and uncharted ways in each moment.  That’s why all the preplanning!

We know that to experience this lifetime fully we need to compartmentalize our knowledge of how the universe actually works and how often we’ve done this and who we truly are when we’re home in the Akashics. And that’s part of the body’s job.  It helps us forget so we can focus on this now…and this one..and now this one…  And because of that forgetting, we forgot the master plan for what we want to do this time around.  So the preplanning we do is not like a bullet list of todo items or a power point presentation of the best case scenarios for living our life (although death by power point could be one of the scenarios we have preplanned, ironically.)  It is a complex, infinitely detailed plan that has contingency plans for its contingency plans to cover every scenario we might dream up or bump into so that the important bits, the achieving our dreams, learning our personal lessons, doing our service work, meeting our partner, having our kids….all of these things happen (hopefully) regardless of the choices we make on how we get there.

So is it helpful to look at your soul book?  Yes, absolutely.  Because you can refresh your memory on why you’re here and what you actually wanted to do.  You can confirm what you have always know in the back of your mind, in your gut, with  your intuition, in those persistent dreams, that you should be doing this thing which seems perfect and yet completely alternative and illogical and joyfully right.  It can also point out where your stuck, why you tend to stick there, and what you can do to get unstuck.  It can point you to the best of many options, give you hope for something you want to see happen in the future, and help you see that you are unique and perfect and just the way you ought to be right now.  And that’s something we need to be reminded of every once in a while…or every day….how about right now…