SpiraledWings has requested a past-life reading specifically to explore past associations with a group of people known to her in this lifetime. She also asked about two specific past eras. Greyfox found that everyone about whom she was asking is part of a soul group who have incarnated together more than once.
In late Ming Dynasty China, at the time of the Manchu conquest, the subject was a young boy, son of the court astrologer. The one who was the boy’s father in that life is part of the soul group, incarnated in this life as GR. Everyone else in that soul group was a member of the Emperor’s court. All were males that time; none were royals. HR was a major functionary, and the rest were minor.
In 1644, when Beijing fell to rebel armies allied with the Manchu, Emperor Chongzhen committed suicide. The court astrologer (boy’s father, now GR) and the one now incarnated as SR, killed themselves after the emperor’s suicide. The boy who was the subject was expected to–but ran and hid. Even as he did, he suffered feelings of guilt for his “cowardice”. He was found and slaughtered.
Images above are artifacts from the late Ming Dynasty: a wooden rest for a calligrapher’s brush, detail from a silk scroll painted by Chen Hongshou, and an acupuncture chart in figurine form.
Images below are contemporary Mediaeval depictions of the First Crusade.
In the First Crusade, the subject was the youngest son of a minor noble. His personality was puppyish, much like a combination of the traits of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves — Bertie’s sunny disposition and likeability, with Jeeves’s sense of duty, but not his brains, though. The man wasn’t stupid, but of low-average intelligence.
He went on Crusade out of a sense of duty, not from any strong convictions. He had no special skills or motivation, was simply Medieval cannon fodder. Ironically, several of his companions (including two soulmates, GR and TC in this life) died in saving him This ate at him. He was enlightened, disillusioned, and disgusted by the slaughter and rapine.
Back home, he drank heavily, spoke against the church AND GOD. When he died (young, from a fever which he would have survived had alcohol not so damaged his immune system) the local priest (HR in this life) wanted to put him in unhallowed ground. The subject’s sister (SR in the current life) told the priest, “Let me put it to you this way, father–either he goes in hallowed ground, OR YOU DO.”
