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What are pet soul agreements (or soul contracts)? Do all animals share a soul contract with humans? What about soul agreements between pets in your family? If you have been curious about how soul agreements work, this is definitely the episode for you!
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🌟 The 8 main pet soul contract archetypes
🌟 Clues for each type of pet soul contract to find your type
🌟 How pet soul agreements work and how you know you have one
🌟 Mechanics of soul agreements between pets in your family
🌟 If wild animals also have soul contracts
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Shannon Cutts (00:00):
Welcome back to Let's Talk to Animals, the
podcast all species can enjoytogether, and if you are
watching the video version hereover on YouTube, you're seeing
one of my four interspeciesfamily members, Miss Petal,
making her avian contributionhere and there as we proceed
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throughout today's episode,which is this super fun topic
that I absolutely love of soulcontracts or soul agreements
between humans and their animalcompanions.
Of course, if you are a repeatlistener here at let's Talk to
Animals, you have probably heardme tell the story more than
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once about how I went to goresearch the word pet, what does
the word pet mean?
And I dug back in the archivesas I'm kind of a wordy geek and
I tend to do this and Idiscovered that essentially the
modern word pet derived from aroot word that meant the
possession of little consequence, and I was like that's not how
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I describe my pets.
I don't vibe with that.
So, being an animalcommunicator, I decided I was
going to ask the animals whatdoes the word pet mean?
Why do we use this word todescribe you?
And they said oh, that's easy.
We're your partners, empathicfriends and teachers.
So it makes perfect sense thatwe would have soul agreements
with our animal companions.
It also makes perfect sensefrom a purely logistical point
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of view.
The truth is there are millionsupon millions of humans living
right now on this planet andthere are millions upon millions
of animals.
And if it was all left up tochance, how likely would it be
that two souls who wanted andintended to meet here on the 3D
earth plane could easily findone another, or find one another
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at all?
So we have soul agreements.
Now this can be a little bit ofa controversial topic.
I will acknowledge that noteveryone in my field, the field
of interspecies communication,believes that all animals that
are living with humans have asoul agreement with that human,
and not all communicatorsbelieve that soul contracts
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exist.
So there are many differentschools of thought, theories,
hypotheses out there.
I like to keep an open mind,recognize I'm always learning.
The animals are my teachers, soI don't really take my guidance
from other humans.
I'm always interested in whatmy colleagues have to share and
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others have to share, and Ialways like to run anything I
may learn by the animals that Italk with and see what they have
to say on the subject.
For me the buck kind of stopswith them, and so that's the
perspective that you're gettinghere on.
Let's Talk to Animals.
And because the pets have toldme that they are our partners,
empathic friends and teachers,and because we have a little
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overcrowding problem here onearth, it would make sense on
every level and the petsreinforce this that we find one
another on purpose and whenwe're still at the soul level we
even rehearse the ways in whichwe will recognize one another
once we're in our bodies.
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And that is my foundationaldefinition of a soul contract or
a soul agreement.
And I use those words prettyinterchangeably.
I prefer the word soulagreement because it just sounds
gentler and I like that.
But these two words to mearen't in conflict.
And so when we're looking at asoul agreement on its simplest
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level, it's an agreement to meet, it's saying, yes, I want to
spend some time with you or Iagree to spend some time with
you, when we are both embodied.
And in the last episode where wewere tackling the very tough,
very emotional, very dense topicof why animals that are so
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beautiful and such perfect soulswould choose whatever,
willingly take on the request tospend time with human animals
that might harm them.
We look to this soul agreementfor further insight, to this
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soul agreement for furtherinsight, because an animal might
not want to spend time with aparticular human but they might
be willing to on behalf of thathuman soul's potential for
evolution.
And here again we come to theearth plane, the 3D plane.
We have free will, so there'snever any guarantee which is
another reason I like the wordsoul agreement better than soul
contract because we might gethere and change our mind and
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that is part of free will and wemight, as one of my colleagues
shares end up in the wrongmailbox for a while.
That too is part of thelearning and growth process that
is unique to this 3D earthembodied plane.
But we may also find that ananimal agrees, for the purposes
of the potential for a humansoul's evolution, to undergo a
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period of discomfort in theircompany, hoping that the outcome
will be for the highest andbest good of all.
That is a true high service,that is a true perfected heart
agreeing to that kind ofsituation and that awes me and
fills me with humility andwonder and gratitude and
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recognition that our species andmyself included, we have a long
way to go to evolve to thatlevel.
What a beautiful gift.
But in this episode I'm going towalk you through the major
categories of soul agreements.
I've separated them out intoeight loose categories.
As I survey my field, I findthat most of us seem to be in
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agreement.
Those of us who affirm thatsoul contracts or soul
agreements are a thing, webelieve in them or we have
experienced them.
For me, when I use the wordbelief, I'm really talking about
I've had personal experiencethat my doubting left brain mind
cannot overcome in anyeffective way.
So it's been codified into aform of truth for me.
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So, those of us in the fieldwho affirm that soul agreements
are a thing, that they happen,that they're mutual and that
they have purpose and meaningfor both participants, you'll
find these general categoriesare pretty standard.
They may not have the same names.
You may find that othercommunicators call these soul
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agreements by different names.
I find that other communicatorscall these soul agreements by
different names, and that'sabsolutely fine.
But it's more the flavor or thevibe of the relationship itself
that I want you to focus on.
That's my intention foroffering this episode today is
to give you a flavor and maybehelp you start to do a little
detective work with your ownanimal or animals in
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interspecies species family, andmaybe start to notice, get
curious, wonder about all thesebasic tenets of animal
communication at least the way Iteach it.
Try on some of these differentsoul agreements for size and see
which one seems to fit best.
And of course this is somethingthat I always cover.
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If we have time in an animalcommunication session or if it's
a priority of yours, wedefinitely cover it.
So if you're curious and youwanna know what your animal has
to say about the soul agreementthat you share with them, well,
I'd love to work with you.
You can find me over atanimalloveanguagescom.
Backslash connect and we canfind out from your animal's
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point of view why they havechosen to keep company with you,
what your spiritual lesson orwork together is and the nature
of your soul agreement.
Love those kinds of sessions.
They are so fun for me too.
Kinds of sessions.
They are so fun for me too.
So number one, the first type ofsoul agreement that I see
frequently and again, all ofthis information is sourced from
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the animals.
This is not me up in my headthinking about it.
It's all arising from thedifferent sessions that I've
done over the years and thecommon themes that have emerged
along the way.
So the very first one is what Icall the parent-child or the
child-parent, and this meansthis type of soul agreement
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typically is pretty easy to spot.
When you hear the pet parenttalking about their pet as if
they're a child.
They're using a lot of babytalk.
They are referring to their sonor daughter.
It's a very interesting onebecause here there is a
recognition of caregiving in onedirection or the other and it
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flows both ways.
For instance, with aparent-child soul agreement, I
had a session with a man and histwo dogs last week and he flat
out referred to them as his sonand daughter.
That's an easy one to spot.
I said you have the soulagreement of parent-child and he
said yes, I do and that's theone I want and I loved that.
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I thought that was really cooland this is a man who has a lot
to give and he is an excellentdog dad.
He's fabulous.
So I was very pleased thateveryone in that family was very
pleased with this dynamic.
I have another client whose dogrecently passed into spirit and
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in this particular case the dogwas the parent and she was the
child.
And you can see this a lot withemotional support animals, with
service animals, especiallyservice animals for emotional
type disorders, evenneurological disorders, mystery
disorders that tend to bechronic in nature.
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You can also see this inanimals that work as therapy
dogs, especially with children.
In fact, the dachshund that wehad before this one volunteered
as a reading dog for kids.
The kids that won't read fortheir parent because they're
embarrassed or they have troubleforming the words or dyslexia
or something else going on,they'll read for the dog.
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So the animal is standing infor the parent in this case, and
helping the child practicetheir reading.
So we can have parent-child orwe can have child-parent and it
can be a very all-consuming soulagreement.
Another type of soul contractthat's also family-based is
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siblings.
Siblings is very interesting,especially depending on the
nature of the bond, or lackthereof, that we may have as
parents with our own humansiblings.
In some cases the animal isperhaps a stand-in for the
sibling that they never had, andin other cases the animal is
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the upgraded version of thesibling they wish they'd had.
And in many cases the siblingis simply like a wing man or a
wing woman, somebody that youhave a healthy bond with, you
have fun with, you share thingswith.
Sometimes it can be likepartners in crime together,
where we're going on adventuresand maybe even getting into a
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little trouble together.
There can be some disagreementsand things to work out.
So this is typical siblingbehavior.
It's a very equal and overallbalanced relationship.
So you'll see maybe somejockeying for position, maybe a
little competitiveness manyanimals who partner with their
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people in sports that take a lotfor both the human and their
animal to participate in youwill see more of this sibling
relationship.
Yes, isn't that right, my love?
The third soul agreement that Isee quite often is partners.
Now, partners doesn't alwaysmean romantic, although that is
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definitely present and of coursethis is a G-rated channel.
And so when I say romantic, weare again talking about the
flavor and the essence of thatdeep soul connection.
We are very bonded, we areequals and there is a deeper
level of commitment often thanthe pet parent has typically
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experienced with other humananimals in their life to date.
So in a way, with other humananimals in their life to date.
So in a way it can be like thepartner they wish they had,
again similar to siblings, orthe upgrade to the partner they
do have.
Sometimes, if there is anotherpartner, a human partner, in the
mix, you will see some resourceguarding by the pet of their
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favorite human, their partner.
And I should stop here andmention that you can have more
than one type, because you maybe listening to this going.
Well, I think I'm all of them.
So we're not looking for youronly one and all the others
don't apply.
We're looking for the strongestessence or flavor, the one that
you hear it, that is us.
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So it's not that there aren'telements of these other soul
agreements also present, forinstance, my petal and I.
She's very protective of me andshe's very jealous when my
other pets or other humans oranyone really gets in between me
and her.
Anyone else in the house canleave, she doesn't get bothered
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by it.
If I make even a step towardsthe door, she utters a
particular kind of shriek thatbasically means where the heck
do you think you're going?
And the other interesting thingabout partners is that there's
a lot of leeway there, because,of course, to keep a partnership
healthy, to keep a partnershipperiod, we have to really grow
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our tolerance, we have to reallygrow our patience and we have
to really grow our perspectiveand really become willing to
take a walk in the other being'sshoes or paws, or wings in our
case, and try on theirperspective for size.
Sometimes a partnership can bea little uncomfortable because
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there's mirroring going on andit's not optional to take a look
at it.
If we don't look at themirroring that's going on
between ourselves and ourpartner of any species, we're
going to get stuck in that placeuntil we do so.
Perhaps the mirroring is ahealth issue.
I have this with my tortoise,malti.
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She had early life metabolicbone disease that arose because
of some really bad choices Imade in her veterinary care when
she had a respiratory infectionand it just snowballed from
there and before I knew it shewas at death's door and it has
really affected her and herspine, specifically in what we
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would call the mid to low back.
So the lumbar region slept herwith scoliosis and density where
it shouldn't be.
Well, guess who was justdiagnosed with three not one,
not two, but three herniateddiscs and mild scoliosis in her
lumbar spine?
That would be me.
And so sometimes you see this,this mirroring, and what does it
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mean?
I have my theories that wouldtake us off on a tangent and so
I won't go into it here.
But there has been mirroringand I have become more and more
willing to look at that as theyears have passed and it's an
interesting journey, a very,very interesting journey.
There's also with partners.
There tends to be more of atrust there, or there should be.
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I don't love the word should,but that's what we're aiming
towards.
So you do you, I do me, andwhat we're trusting in is that
we desire to be together withone another and we desire each
other's company more than thecompany of someone else who
might replace us or replace them.
And so there is a bit moreautonomy.
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That you see with these typesof soul agreements, where it
really does represent anequality of adulthood.
Now coworkers or boss andemployee.
I did a session two weeks agofor a beautiful little parrotlet
who had passed into spirit, andwhen I started talking about
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their soul agreement together, Isaid I can tell that you are
not parent and child and youdon't feel like partners.
I think you're more likecolleagues, like co-conspirators
or even boss and employee.
And she said I was so hopingyou weren't going to say parent
and child, because we're nothinglike that she's the boss.
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Turns out, this pet parent is aprofessor who teaches mostly on
Zoom, as so much of educationis conducted these days, and
that her parrotlet had the habitof sitting on top right in the
middle of her head during herZoom lectures, to the point
where all of her students calledthis bird her boss.
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So not only did we nail thatone, but she was very clear
about what type of soulagreement she and her bird
shared together, and that isvery cool when that happens.
Now the next type of soulagreement category is the
friends and friends.
It's a little bit of a loosersoul contract.
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Friendship it persists, andthere's different categories of
friendship.
But when we look at friendshipin this context, we look at
friendship with daily contact,but friendship that is tolerant
of minor issues, because youbuild up that trust over time.
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A friend is someone that youtrust.
A friend is someone that youcan rely on.
A friend is someone who isthere for you and vice versa.
A friend is someone who willlisten to you with empathy and
compassion.
A friend is someone who will dofavors for you and cut you a
little slack when you're havinga bad day, and a friend is also
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someone who has their own limitsin their own life and that can
be very interesting Often whenwe find there's an animal who is
really incarnated to be withanother animal in your family,
or even an animal that livesdown the street from you and
that's their partnership soulcontract or their parent-child
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soul contract or their siblingssoul contract.
But they also have a soulcontract with you and it's one
of equality in friendship.
So often when I have petsessions and an animal points
out that they're very bondedwith a specific other animal in
the family and here I'm thinkingof a dog who passed and kept
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turning my attention to a horsein the pet parent's family who
was still embodied, and thesetwo were so bonded, they were
partners and this dog would evendo occasional soul walk-ins,
just brief soul check-insthrough this horse's body.
And the pet parent told me youknow I can see him staring at me
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out through my horse's eyes,and she had three horses.
She had two other dogs.
It was this one particularhorse that he highlighted and he
even told me the horse's name.
And when I told her this shesaid you're exactly right.
And I instinctively, when I'mreally missing this dog, I go
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out and I place my hands on myhorse near his heart area, and
sometimes I would swear I see mydog's eyes mirrored in my
horse's eyes, and of course I'mwithholding names to protect
privacy here, but I have neverforgotten this experience.
So it's also so intriguing, andwe'd be here for four hours if
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we were talking about all thenuances of an interspecies
family, with the different soulcontracts that can be in place,
and so it can be something thatyou consider, because these same
basic archetypes generallytranslate very well to soul
agreements between two non-humananimals, two non-human animals.
In your family Maybe there's anon-human animal you haven't
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even added to your family yetwho has a very strong soul
agreement with an animal thatis't even added to your family
yet, who has a very strong soulagreement with an animal that is
currently in your family.
Sometimes when I see animalswhere a pet parent was going to
adopt one animal and came homewith two or even three, that
represents a very strongexisting soul agreement with
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those other animals.
This happens a lot with cats,and I've had a few dogs recently
tell me I want to bring mysister back with me when I'm
working with pet parents to calltheir pet back through pet
reincarnation and the joyfulreunion.
It's always interesting to askwell, are you coming back by
yourself?
Are you coming back withsomeone?
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Is there someone else in thepet parent's family that you're
coming back to be with as well,to explore those deeper nuances
of the soul agreements that ouranimals can have with one
another, as well as with us?
Now this next category, thearchetype I call frenemies.
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So this is I know we'resupposed to be together.
I feel it in my gut, or therewere very clear signs.
But when we actually get aboutthe discipline of sharing time
together day in and day out,there are moments of have we met
?
Like what the heck?
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And here the best way todescribe a frenemy type of soul
agreement is have you ever had aconversation with someone?
And you know that you have alot in common and you know that
you're interested in the samebasic types of things and you
know that you share a particularpassion or heart for something
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or someone in particular, andyet when you go to talk with
them it just isn't flowing andyou really don't know why.
And you know they're a goodperson and you know that they
have a great heart and you knowthat you really just have a lot
of synchronicities, but theenergy doesn't feel seamless.
These are growing relationships.
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You could almost consider thema subset of the teacher-student
soul agreement that we haven'ttalked about yet.
But the relationship itself isthe teacher and you are both the
students in this soul agreementarchetype.
So when you have a frenemy soulagreement, you know you've got
your work cut out for you.
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You're being asked to try on adifferent perspective than what
comes natural to you.
You're being asked to flow withan energetic vibration that
doesn't feel as natural to you.
Maybe you are a sedentaryperson and you have a lot of
allergies and you don't reallylike to be outdoors.
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And then you find out that yournew dog or cat or horse, who
seems so placid and calm, isjust a bundle of energy and
needs to be outdoors and runningaround all the time.
And nothing in you is preparedfor that and you've got to make
a lot of adjustments.
And nothing in you is preparedfor that and you've got to make
a lot of adjustments.
Or maybe you were hoping for areally active companion animal
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and the one you choose this isthe key, because it's not the
one you get, it's the one thatyou choose Turns out to not have
much interest in the kinds ofthings that maybe you even
really enjoyed with your lastpet.
So these are invitations to tryon a different way of life for
size.
There can be a lot of modelingin these soul agreements as well
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as mirroring, and when I saymodeling I mean one party one of
the two of you is at oneextreme and the other party the
other one of you is at the otherextreme and the invitation here
typically is to try to meet inthe middle and make some
adjustments.
And when there are extremes ofbehavior that leads to imbalance
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over time health and quality oflife and relationships and work
and all kinds of areas of lifeand so there's often the
invitation to moderate withmirroring.
It's more of when you dosomething, I do it too.
Or for me and my tortoise multi, as I described, there's a
mirroring where we're comingdown with similar health issues
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and then there's an invitationto unpack the wisdom in that.
So there can be all kinds ofnuances and this is definitely a
great topic to explore in ananimal communication session,
especially if you find that thisis happening and you're like I
can't really ignore it, but Ialso can't put my finger on why
or what's going on here, and sothis is something we can dive
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into in a session with youranimal if you are curious and
you want to learn more aboutthis.
But frenemies are almost asubtype of teacher-student or
student-teacher, where therelationship, the bond itself is
teaching you both.
It just flows that our seventhsoul agreement type is in fact
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teacher, student or studentteacher.
And many times what we'll seehere is maybe a pet parent who's
never had the particularspecies of animal before and
they're learning.
This might be a first-time dogowner who comes to me and they
don't know dog behavior, so theyactually don't even know what's
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normal, what's healthy, what'snot.
There's a huge learning curve.
These can be animals who areworking actively in service
alongside humans.
So when I shared that, ourprevious docs in JP Morgan was a
teacher, essentially a readingteacher and definitely a mentor
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and a coach for kids, forstudents, and he was serving in
that role.
And of course, in order for himto serve in that role, my mom
had to learn a whole bunch ofnew stuff and protocols and take
him through training classesand get him certified.
So there was quite a bit oflearning.
Quite a bit of teaching goingon for them both and quite a lot
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of learning.
These roles can also flip-flop.
Sometimes you'll see the studentteacher, and that's where the
human is learning so much fromtheir animal.
And the best example I canthink of from my recent past
caseload is the pet parent whocame to me who turned out to be
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so very anxious but she thoughtit was her cat who was very
anxious.
And when I tuned in with hercat, who actually turned out to
be super chill and really calm,he told me that he was mirroring
, trying to teach his person howto regulate her vibration, how
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to change her state.
And you'll see, sometimes inthe case of cats, you'll see a
cat who will come and sit ontheir person Isn't that right,
petal?
Or a bird, right?
Who will come and sit on.
You know exactly what I'mtalking about.
So we have the animal who isattempting to teach their person
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how to live a calmer life.
We can have the reverse, wherewe have a naturally calm human
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who adopts a pet who is moreanxious, and so that pet is then
benefiting from the human'stoolkit.
For instance and I'll use ourcurrent dachshund, flash Gordon,
as an example, and Flash hasbeen through quite a bit in his
young life.
He's now nine, but he had quitea bit of trauma even during his
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birthing process and certainlyin the first two years of his
life, and I have a pretty robusttoolkit of anti-anxiety helps.
And so I've been doing a lot ofwork with him.
I've been doing energy work,I've been doing tapping, eft
tapping.
We've used aromatherapy withhim.
He's getting body work.
There's all kinds of stuff thatI can offer to him to help him
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achieve and maintain calm.
So those are just some generalexamples that you can use to
kind of take a look at your soulagreement and say I wonder if
that fits.
And then, finally, this one isthe most intriguing to me in the
sense of I feel like I'mlearning exponentially about
this type of soul contract atthe moment.
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This is what the animals seemto really be overemphasizing,
even in my learning journey as acommunicator and as a pet
reincarnation expert, and thatis the soul agreement of
soulmates.
And I have had two animalsoulmates and I share much more
brass tacks details about eachone of them.
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In other episodes Last seasonon the podcast you can find
stories about Petal, who is mysoul bird Pearl reincarnated,
and you could find stories in atwo-parter actually, about my
box turtle, bruce, who did asoul walk-in, a surprise,
totally unexpected soul walk-into come back into the body of my
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three-year-old box turtle, io.
So I've had two very dramaticexperiences of animal soulmates
and typically what I find hereis that the soulmate-soul
agreement is so powerful and thebond is so deep that typically
this is not the first time thatyou and your pet have been
together.
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When we're dealing with asoulmate-soul agreement, which
typically they're going to leavefirst For most animals, they're
going to leave first For Bruce.
Of course box turtles can liveanywhere from 50 to 100 years
depending on their health andenvironment and quality of life,
et cetera, et cetera.
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And the husbandry I neverreally knew because Bruce was a
feral rescue to me.
I never really knew how old hewas and I found out he passed in
a communication earlier thisyear and so actually he could
have outlived me.
But in most cases our animalswill pass first because
typically their lifespans arenot as potentially long as ours,
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and so when an animal does passand you have a soulmate soul
agreement, the grief iscatastrophic.
I had a pet parent this pastweek who told me that she went
to the ER when her soul dogpassed.
She thought she was having aheart attack, and heartbreak
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syndrome is very, very real.
If you're not familiar, you canlook it up and research it.
But when my soul bird, pearl,passed, even though he told me
that very same day exactly whathis plans were to reincarnate
and gave me the clues to lookfor to find him again, I didn't
want to live and I didn't workvery much for the first half of
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that year and considering thatI'm a professional communicator
and teacher, that was a toughyear.
Professional communicator andteacher, that was a tough year.
So this can be verycatastrophic when we lose our
soulmate.
And at the deepest level andagain, with soulmates there can
be nuances depending on how manytimes we've been together and
the nature of our life togetherin this particular incarnation
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and just all the differentmoving parts that comprise a
life in progress.
At the very deepest level youfind the twin flame soulmate and
this is a new discovery for meand it arose when my Pearl
passed about two years ago and Iasked him because this is the
fourth time as Petal, this isthe fourth time he's come back
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to me in this lifetime alone.
And again, I share that storyin a different episode.
But I asked him is a twin flamesoul agreement possible?
And his response was somethingalong the lines of duh.
So then I asked the animalcollective.
I said can you confirm thattwin flames and by this I mean
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the same energy and two separatebodies, even for pet
reincarnation?
I am already on the fringes ofmy field and we're really
pushing it here, but what theyshowed me was what looked like a
comet streaking towards earth,this bright ball of life with a
little light tail streakingtowards earth.
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And just before this light ballenters earth's atmosphere, a
little tiny baby comet cuts offfrom the main ball of light,
forms into a mini version, andwhen they enter earth's
atmosphere they enter into twodifferent bodies.
So the answer that I got wasyes, twin flame, soulmate soul
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agreements are real.
This is why they feel so deepand so intense.
This is why it is almostunlivable when they pass out of
their bodies, when we don't havethat physical contact, even
though with our head brain wecan logically say well, they're
not their body.
It's so catastrophic.
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What I call the grief firestormis so epic.
There's so much that can besaid about that that it would
fill up a whole other episode,so I won't let myself go there.
But twin flame, soulmates, soulagreements, are profoundly
transformative and when you haveone, it's because you're being
invited to step forward, becauseyour soul already wants to
evolve, you're being beckonedforward into a true life
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upheaval, life-changing,awakening, a soul awakening and
transformation.
And it's not to be wished for.
It's like oh, that's soromantic.
Twin flames, the concept of amuse, a life made.
It's unthinkable for one to bewithout the other.
It's not to be wished forlightly.
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It can be very intense, allconsuming.
In the case of my Pearl and I,we worked together, we wrote a
book together, we ran a blogtogether.
He introduced me to animalcommunication.
He has transformed my entirelife and there is no area of my
life where he did not have animpact.
He helped me identifyrelationships that weren't
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working for me my longtimepartner that weren't working for
me my longtime partner.
He just didn't have anyfeelings for birds, for Pearl,
and guess who I chose.
So there are so manytransformations and often we are
confronted with choices withthis type of a very intense,
very deep, oftenmulti-incarnation,
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multi-lifetime, twin flame, soulagreement, soul contract.
So those are the eight basicarchetypal categories that I
wanted to share with you in thisepisode.
I would love to hear did I missany of the ones that you're
familiar with?
Or perhaps you're familiar withthem, but they have a different
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name?
In your world, are youundecided between two or more
different soul contracts?
Which one seems or feels to bethe strongest, or the one that
just caught your attention?
Maybe you weren't even thinkingthat was your soul contract or
your soul agreement with yourpet, but when I started talking
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about it you were like, hmm,ding, ding, ding.
Maybe you have no idea, maybeyou have questions that haven't
been answered and you want me todo another episode to unpack
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Let me know, post a comment,ask your questions.
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Welcome back to Let's Talk to Animals, the
podcast all species can enjoytogether, and if you are
watching the video version hereover on YouTube, you're seeing
one of my four interspeciesfamily members, Miss Petal,
making her avian contributionhere and there as we proceed
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throughout today's episode,which is this super fun topic
that I absolutely love of soulcontracts or soul agreements
between humans and their animalcompanions.
Of course, if you are a repeatlistener here at let's Talk to
Animals, you have probably heardme tell the story more than
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once about how I went to goresearch the word pet, what does
the word pet mean?
And I dug back in the archivesas I'm kind of a wordy geek and
I tend to do this and Idiscovered that essentially the
modern word pet derived from aroot word that meant the
possession of little consequence, and I was like that's not how
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I describe my pets.
I don't vibe with that.
So, being an animalcommunicator, I decided I was
going to ask the animals whatdoes the word pet mean?
Why do we use this word todescribe you?
And they said oh, that's easy.
We're your partners, empathicfriends and teachers.
So it makes perfect sense thatwe would have soul agreements
with our animal companions.
It also makes perfect sensefrom a purely logistical point
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of view.
The truth is there are millionsupon millions of humans living
right now on this planet andthere are millions upon millions
of animals.
And if it was all left up tochance, how likely would it be
that two souls who wanted andintended to meet here on the 3D
earth plane could easily findone another, or find one another
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at all?
So we have soul agreements.
Now this can be a little bit ofa controversial topic.
I will acknowledge that noteveryone in my field, the field
of interspecies communication,believes that all animals that
are living with humans have asoul agreement with that human,
and not all communicatorsbelieve that soul contracts
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exist.
So there are many differentschools of thought, theories,
hypotheses out there.
I like to keep an open mind,recognize I'm always learning.
The animals are my teachers, soI don't really take my guidance
from other humans.
I'm always interested in whatmy colleagues have to share and
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others have to share, and Ialways like to run anything I
may learn by the animals that Italk with and see what they have
to say on the subject.
For me the buck kind of stopswith them, and so that's the
perspective that you're gettinghere on.
Let's Talk to Animals.
And because the pets have toldme that they are our partners,
empathic friends and teachers,and because we have a little
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overcrowding problem here onearth, it would make sense on
every level and the petsreinforce this that we find one
another on purpose and whenwe're still at the soul level we
even rehearse the ways in whichwe will recognize one another
once we're in our bodies.
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And that is my foundationaldefinition of a soul contract or
a soul agreement.
And I use those words prettyinterchangeably.
I prefer the word soulagreement because it just sounds
gentler and I like that.
But these two words to mearen't in conflict.
And so when we're looking at asoul agreement on its simplest
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level, it's an agreement to meet, it's saying, yes, I want to
spend some time with you or Iagree to spend some time with
you, when we are both embodied.
And in the last episode where wewere tackling the very tough,
very emotional, very dense topicof why animals that are so
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beautiful and such perfect soulswould choose whatever,
willingly take on the request tospend time with human animals
that might harm them.
We look to this soul agreementfor further insight, to this
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soul agreement for furtherinsight, because an animal might
not want to spend time with aparticular human but they might
be willing to on behalf of thathuman soul's potential for
evolution.
And here again we come to theearth plane, the 3D plane.
We have free will, so there'snever any guarantee which is
another reason I like the wordsoul agreement better than soul
contract because we might gethere and change our mind and
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that is part of free will and wemight, as one of my colleagues
shares end up in the wrongmailbox for a while.
That too is part of thelearning and growth process that
is unique to this 3D earthembodied plane.
But we may also find that ananimal agrees, for the purposes
of the potential for a humansoul's evolution, to undergo a
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period of discomfort in theircompany, hoping that the outcome
will be for the highest andbest good of all.
That is a true high service,that is a true perfected heart
agreeing to that kind ofsituation and that awes me and
fills me with humility andwonder and gratitude and
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recognition that our species andmyself included, we have a long
way to go to evolve to thatlevel.
What a beautiful gift.
But in this episode I'm going towalk you through the major
categories of soul agreements.
I've separated them out intoeight loose categories.
As I survey my field, I findthat most of us seem to be in
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agreement.
Those of us who affirm thatsoul contracts or soul
agreements are a thing, webelieve in them or we have
experienced them.
For me, when I use the wordbelief, I'm really talking about
I've had personal experiencethat my doubting left brain mind
cannot overcome in anyeffective way.
So it's been codified into aform of truth for me.
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So, those of us in the fieldwho affirm that soul agreements
are a thing, that they happen,that they're mutual and that
they have purpose and meaningfor both participants, you'll
find these general categoriesare pretty standard.
They may not have the same names.
You may find that othercommunicators call these soul
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agreements by different names.
I find that other communicatorscall these soul agreements by
different names, and that'sabsolutely fine.
But it's more the flavor or thevibe of the relationship itself
that I want you to focus on.
That's my intention foroffering this episode today is
to give you a flavor and maybehelp you start to do a little
detective work with your ownanimal or animals in
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interspecies species family, andmaybe start to notice, get
curious, wonder about all thesebasic tenets of animal
communication at least the way Iteach it.
Try on some of these differentsoul agreements for size and see
which one seems to fit best.
And of course this is somethingthat I always cover.
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If we have time in an animalcommunication session or if it's
a priority of yours, wedefinitely cover it.
So if you're curious and youwanna know what your animal has
to say about the soul agreementthat you share with them, well,
I'd love to work with you.
You can find me over atanimalloveanguagescom.
Backslash connect and we canfind out from your animal's
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point of view why they havechosen to keep company with you,
what your spiritual lesson orwork together is and the nature
of your soul agreement.
Love those kinds of sessions.
They are so fun for me too.
Kinds of sessions.
They are so fun for me too.
So number one, the first type ofsoul agreement that I see
frequently and again, all ofthis information is sourced from
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the animals.
This is not me up in my headthinking about it.
It's all arising from thedifferent sessions that I've
done over the years and thecommon themes that have emerged
along the way.
So the very first one is what Icall the parent-child or the
child-parent, and this meansthis type of soul agreement
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typically is pretty easy to spot.
When you hear the pet parenttalking about their pet as if
they're a child.
They're using a lot of babytalk.
They are referring to their sonor daughter.
It's a very interesting onebecause here there is a
recognition of caregiving in onedirection or the other and it
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flows both ways.
For instance, with aparent-child soul agreement, I
had a session with a man and histwo dogs last week and he flat
out referred to them as his sonand daughter.
That's an easy one to spot.
I said you have the soulagreement of parent-child and he
said yes, I do and that's theone I want and I loved that.
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I thought that was really cooland this is a man who has a lot
to give and he is an excellentdog dad.
He's fabulous.
So I was very pleased thateveryone in that family was very
pleased with this dynamic.
I have another client whose dogrecently passed into spirit and
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in this particular case the dogwas the parent and she was the
child.
And you can see this a lot withemotional support animals, with
service animals, especiallyservice animals for emotional
type disorders, evenneurological disorders, mystery
disorders that tend to bechronic in nature.
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You can also see this inanimals that work as therapy
dogs, especially with children.
In fact, the dachshund that wehad before this one volunteered
as a reading dog for kids.
The kids that won't read fortheir parent because they're
embarrassed or they have troubleforming the words or dyslexia
or something else going on,they'll read for the dog.
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So the animal is standing infor the parent in this case, and
helping the child practicetheir reading.
So we can have parent-child orwe can have child-parent and it
can be a very all-consuming soulagreement.
Another type of soul contractthat's also family-based is
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siblings.
Siblings is very interesting,especially depending on the
nature of the bond, or lackthereof, that we may have as
parents with our own humansiblings.
In some cases the animal isperhaps a stand-in for the
sibling that they never had, andin other cases the animal is
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the upgraded version of thesibling they wish they'd had.
And in many cases the siblingis simply like a wing man or a
wing woman, somebody that youhave a healthy bond with, you
have fun with, you share thingswith.
Sometimes it can be likepartners in crime together,
where we're going on adventuresand maybe even getting into a
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little trouble together.
There can be some disagreementsand things to work out.
So this is typical siblingbehavior.
It's a very equal and overallbalanced relationship.
So you'll see maybe somejockeying for position, maybe a
little competitiveness manyanimals who partner with their
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people in sports that take a lotfor both the human and their
animal to participate in youwill see more of this sibling
relationship.
Yes, isn't that right, my love?
The third soul agreement that Isee quite often is partners.
Now, partners doesn't alwaysmean romantic, although that is
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definitely present and of coursethis is a G-rated channel.
And so when I say romantic, weare again talking about the
flavor and the essence of thatdeep soul connection.
We are very bonded, we areequals and there is a deeper
level of commitment often thanthe pet parent has typically
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experienced with other humananimals in their life to date.
So in a way, with other humananimals in their life to date.
So in a way it can be like thepartner they wish they had,
again similar to siblings, orthe upgrade to the partner they
do have.
Sometimes, if there is anotherpartner, a human partner, in the
mix, you will see some resourceguarding by the pet of their
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favorite human, their partner.
And I should stop here andmention that you can have more
than one type, because you maybe listening to this going.
Well, I think I'm all of them.
So we're not looking for youronly one and all the others
don't apply.
We're looking for the strongestessence or flavor, the one that
you hear it, that is us.
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So it's not that there aren'telements of these other soul
agreements also present, forinstance, my petal and I.
She's very protective of me andshe's very jealous when my
other pets or other humans oranyone really gets in between me
and her.
Anyone else in the house canleave, she doesn't get bothered
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by it.
If I make even a step towardsthe door, she utters a
particular kind of shriek thatbasically means where the heck
do you think you're going?
And the other interesting thingabout partners is that there's
a lot of leeway there, because,of course, to keep a partnership
healthy, to keep a partnershipperiod, we have to really grow
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our tolerance, we have to reallygrow our patience and we have
to really grow our perspectiveand really become willing to
take a walk in the other being'sshoes or paws, or wings in our
case, and try on theirperspective for size.
Sometimes a partnership can bea little uncomfortable because
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there's mirroring going on andit's not optional to take a look
at it.
If we don't look at themirroring that's going on
between ourselves and ourpartner of any species, we're
going to get stuck in that placeuntil we do so.
Perhaps the mirroring is ahealth issue.
I have this with my tortoise,malti.
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She had early life metabolicbone disease that arose because
of some really bad choices Imade in her veterinary care when
she had a respiratory infectionand it just snowballed from
there and before I knew it shewas at death's door and it has
really affected her and herspine, specifically in what we
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would call the mid to low back.
So the lumbar region slept herwith scoliosis and density where
it shouldn't be.
Well, guess who was justdiagnosed with three not one,
not two, but three herniateddiscs and mild scoliosis in her
lumbar spine?
That would be me.
And so sometimes you see this,this mirroring, and what does it
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mean?
I have my theories that wouldtake us off on a tangent and so
I won't go into it here.
But there has been mirroringand I have become more and more
willing to look at that as theyears have passed and it's an
interesting journey, a very,very interesting journey.
There's also with partners.
There tends to be more of atrust there, or there should be.
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I don't love the word should,but that's what we're aiming
towards.
So you do you, I do me, andwhat we're trusting in is that
we desire to be together withone another and we desire each
other's company more than thecompany of someone else who
might replace us or replace them.
And so there is a bit moreautonomy.
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That you see with these typesof soul agreements, where it
really does represent anequality of adulthood.
Now coworkers or boss andemployee.
I did a session two weeks agofor a beautiful little parrotlet
who had passed into spirit, andwhen I started talking about
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their soul agreement together, Isaid I can tell that you are
not parent and child and youdon't feel like partners.
I think you're more likecolleagues, like co-conspirators
or even boss and employee.
And she said I was so hopingyou weren't going to say parent
and child, because we're nothinglike that she's the boss.
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Turns out, this pet parent is aprofessor who teaches mostly on
Zoom, as so much of educationis conducted these days, and
that her parrotlet had the habitof sitting on top right in the
middle of her head during herZoom lectures, to the point
where all of her students calledthis bird her boss.
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So not only did we nail thatone, but she was very clear
about what type of soulagreement she and her bird
shared together, and that isvery cool when that happens.
Now the next type of soulagreement category is the
friends and friends.
It's a little bit of a loosersoul contract.
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Friendship it persists, andthere's different categories of
friendship.
But when we look at friendshipin this context, we look at
friendship with daily contact,but friendship that is tolerant
of minor issues, because youbuild up that trust over time.
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A friend is someone that youtrust.
A friend is someone that youcan rely on.
A friend is someone who isthere for you and vice versa.
A friend is someone who willlisten to you with empathy and
compassion.
A friend is someone who will dofavors for you and cut you a
little slack when you're havinga bad day, and a friend is also
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someone who has their own limitsin their own life and that can
be very interesting Often whenwe find there's an animal who is
really incarnated to be withanother animal in your family,
or even an animal that livesdown the street from you and
that's their partnership soulcontract or their parent-child
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soul contract or their siblingssoul contract.
But they also have a soulcontract with you and it's one
of equality in friendship.
So often when I have petsessions and an animal points
out that they're very bondedwith a specific other animal in
the family and here I'm thinkingof a dog who passed and kept
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turning my attention to a horsein the pet parent's family who
was still embodied, and thesetwo were so bonded, they were
partners and this dog would evendo occasional soul walk-ins,
just brief soul check-insthrough this horse's body.
And the pet parent told me youknow I can see him staring at me
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out through my horse's eyes,and she had three horses.
She had two other dogs.
It was this one particularhorse that he highlighted and he
even told me the horse's name.
And when I told her this shesaid you're exactly right.
And I instinctively, when I'mreally missing this dog, I go
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out and I place my hands on myhorse near his heart area, and
sometimes I would swear I see mydog's eyes mirrored in my
horse's eyes, and of course I'mwithholding names to protect
privacy here, but I have neverforgotten this experience.
So it's also so intriguing, andwe'd be here for four hours if
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we were talking about all thenuances of an interspecies
family, with the different soulcontracts that can be in place,
and so it can be something thatyou consider, because these same
basic archetypes generallytranslate very well to soul
agreements between two non-humananimals, two non-human animals.
In your family Maybe there's anon-human animal you haven't
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even added to your family yetwho has a very strong soul
agreement with an animal thatis't even added to your family
yet, who has a very strong soulagreement with an animal that is
currently in your family.
Sometimes when I see animalswhere a pet parent was going to
adopt one animal and came homewith two or even three, that
represents a very strongexisting soul agreement with
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those other animals.
This happens a lot with cats,and I've had a few dogs recently
tell me I want to bring mysister back with me when I'm
working with pet parents to calltheir pet back through pet
reincarnation and the joyfulreunion.
It's always interesting to askwell, are you coming back by
yourself?
Are you coming back withsomeone?
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Is there someone else in thepet parent's family that you're
coming back to be with as well,to explore those deeper nuances
of the soul agreements that ouranimals can have with one
another, as well as with us?
Now this next category, thearchetype I call frenemies.
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So this is I know we'resupposed to be together.
I feel it in my gut, or therewere very clear signs.
But when we actually get aboutthe discipline of sharing time
together day in and day out,there are moments of have we met
?
Like what the heck?
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And here the best way todescribe a frenemy type of soul
agreement is have you ever had aconversation with someone?
And you know that you have alot in common and you know that
you're interested in the samebasic types of things and you
know that you share a particularpassion or heart for something
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or someone in particular, andyet when you go to talk with
them it just isn't flowing andyou really don't know why.
And you know they're a goodperson and you know that they
have a great heart and you knowthat you really just have a lot
of synchronicities, but theenergy doesn't feel seamless.
These are growing relationships.
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You could almost consider thema subset of the teacher-student
soul agreement that we haven'ttalked about yet.
But the relationship itself isthe teacher and you are both the
students in this soul agreementarchetype.
So when you have a frenemy soulagreement, you know you've got
your work cut out for you.
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You're being asked to try on adifferent perspective than what
comes natural to you.
You're being asked to flow withan energetic vibration that
doesn't feel as natural to you.
Maybe you are a sedentaryperson and you have a lot of
allergies and you don't reallylike to be outdoors.
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And then you find out that yournew dog or cat or horse, who
seems so placid and calm, isjust a bundle of energy and
needs to be outdoors and runningaround all the time.
And nothing in you is preparedfor that and you've got to make
a lot of adjustments.
And nothing in you is preparedfor that and you've got to make
a lot of adjustments.
Or maybe you were hoping for areally active companion animal
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and the one you choose this isthe key, because it's not the
one you get, it's the one thatyou choose Turns out to not have
much interest in the kinds ofthings that maybe you even
really enjoyed with your lastpet.
So these are invitations to tryon a different way of life for
size.
There can be a lot of modelingin these soul agreements as well
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as mirroring, and when I saymodeling I mean one party one of
the two of you is at oneextreme and the other party the
other one of you is at the otherextreme and the invitation here
typically is to try to meet inthe middle and make some
adjustments.
And when there are extremes ofbehavior that leads to imbalance
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over time health and quality oflife and relationships and work
and all kinds of areas of lifeand so there's often the
invitation to moderate withmirroring.
It's more of when you dosomething, I do it too.
Or for me and my tortoise multi, as I described, there's a
mirroring where we're comingdown with similar health issues
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and then there's an invitationto unpack the wisdom in that.
So there can be all kinds ofnuances and this is definitely a
great topic to explore in ananimal communication session,
especially if you find that thisis happening and you're like I
can't really ignore it, but Ialso can't put my finger on why
or what's going on here, and sothis is something we can dive
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into in a session with youranimal if you are curious and
you want to learn more aboutthis.
But frenemies are almost asubtype of teacher-student or
student-teacher, where therelationship, the bond itself is
teaching you both.
It just flows that our seventhsoul agreement type is in fact
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teacher, student or studentteacher.
And many times what we'll seehere is maybe a pet parent who's
never had the particularspecies of animal before and
they're learning.
This might be a first-time dogowner who comes to me and they
don't know dog behavior, so theyactually don't even know what's
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normal, what's healthy, what'snot.
There's a huge learning curve.
These can be animals who areworking actively in service
alongside humans.
So when I shared that, ourprevious docs in JP Morgan was a
teacher, essentially a readingteacher and definitely a mentor
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and a coach for kids, forstudents, and he was serving in
that role.
And of course, in order for himto serve in that role, my mom
had to learn a whole bunch ofnew stuff and protocols and take
him through training classesand get him certified.
So there was quite a bit oflearning.
Quite a bit of teaching goingon for them both and quite a lot
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of learning.
These roles can also flip-flop.
Sometimes you'll see the studentteacher, and that's where the
human is learning so much fromtheir animal.
And the best example I canthink of from my recent past
caseload is the pet parent whocame to me who turned out to be
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so very anxious but she thoughtit was her cat who was very
anxious.
And when I tuned in with hercat, who actually turned out to
be super chill and really calm,he told me that he was mirroring
, trying to teach his person howto regulate her vibration, how
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to change her state.
And you'll see, sometimes inthe case of cats, you'll see a
cat who will come and sit ontheir person Isn't that right,
petal?
Or a bird, right?
Who will come and sit on.
You know exactly what I'mtalking about.
So we have the animal who isattempting to teach their person
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how to live a calmer life.
We can have the reverse, wherewe have a naturally calm human
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who adopts a pet who is moreanxious, and so that pet is then
benefiting from the human'stoolkit.
For instance and I'll use ourcurrent dachshund, flash Gordon,
as an example, and Flash hasbeen through quite a bit in his
young life.
He's now nine, but he had quitea bit of trauma even during his
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birthing process and certainlyin the first two years of his
life, and I have a pretty robusttoolkit of anti-anxiety helps.
And so I've been doing a lot ofwork with him.
I've been doing energy work,I've been doing tapping, eft
tapping.
We've used aromatherapy withhim.
He's getting body work.
There's all kinds of stuff thatI can offer to him to help him
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achieve and maintain calm.
So those are just some generalexamples that you can use to
kind of take a look at your soulagreement and say I wonder if
that fits.
And then, finally, this one isthe most intriguing to me in the
sense of I feel like I'mlearning exponentially about
this type of soul contract atthe moment.
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This is what the animals seemto really be overemphasizing,
even in my learning journey as acommunicator and as a pet
reincarnation expert, and thatis the soul agreement of
soulmates.
And I have had two animalsoulmates and I share much more
brass tacks details about eachone of them.
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In other episodes Last seasonon the podcast you can find
stories about Petal, who is mysoul bird Pearl reincarnated,
and you could find stories in atwo-parter actually, about my
box turtle, bruce, who did asoul walk-in, a surprise,
totally unexpected soul walk-into come back into the body of my
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three-year-old box turtle, io.
So I've had two very dramaticexperiences of animal soulmates
and typically what I find hereis that the soulmate-soul
agreement is so powerful and thebond is so deep that typically
this is not the first time thatyou and your pet have been
together.
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When we're dealing with asoulmate-soul agreement, which
typically they're going to leavefirst For most animals, they're
going to leave first For Bruce.
Of course box turtles can liveanywhere from 50 to 100 years
depending on their health andenvironment and quality of life,
et cetera, et cetera.
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And the husbandry I neverreally knew because Bruce was a
feral rescue to me.
I never really knew how old hewas and I found out he passed in
a communication earlier thisyear and so actually he could
have outlived me.
But in most cases our animalswill pass first because
typically their lifespans arenot as potentially long as ours,
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and so when an animal does passand you have a soulmate soul
agreement, the grief iscatastrophic.
I had a pet parent this pastweek who told me that she went
to the ER when her soul dogpassed.
She thought she was having aheart attack, and heartbreak
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syndrome is very, very real.
If you're not familiar, you canlook it up and research it.
But when my soul bird, pearl,passed, even though he told me
that very same day exactly whathis plans were to reincarnate
and gave me the clues to lookfor to find him again, I didn't
want to live and I didn't workvery much for the first half of
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that year and considering thatI'm a professional communicator
and teacher, that was a toughyear.
Professional communicator andteacher, that was a tough year.
So this can be verycatastrophic when we lose our
soulmate.
And at the deepest level andagain, with soulmates there can
be nuances depending on how manytimes we've been together and
the nature of our life togetherin this particular incarnation
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and just all the differentmoving parts that comprise a
life in progress.
At the very deepest level youfind the twin flame soulmate and
this is a new discovery for meand it arose when my Pearl
passed about two years ago and Iasked him because this is the
fourth time as Petal, this isthe fourth time he's come back
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to me in this lifetime alone.
And again, I share that storyin a different episode.
But I asked him is a twin flamesoul agreement possible?
And his response was somethingalong the lines of duh.
So then I asked the animalcollective.
I said can you confirm thattwin flames and by this I mean
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the same energy and two separatebodies, even for pet
reincarnation?
I am already on the fringes ofmy field and we're really
pushing it here, but what theyshowed me was what looked like a
comet streaking towards earth,this bright ball of life with a
little light tail streakingtowards earth.
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And just before this light ballenters earth's atmosphere, a
little tiny baby comet cuts offfrom the main ball of light,
forms into a mini version, andwhen they enter earth's
atmosphere they enter into twodifferent bodies.
So the answer that I got wasyes, twin flame, soulmate soul
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agreements are real.
This is why they feel so deepand so intense.
This is why it is almostunlivable when they pass out of
their bodies, when we don't havethat physical contact, even
though with our head brain wecan logically say well, they're
not their body.
It's so catastrophic.
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What I call the grief firestormis so epic.
There's so much that can besaid about that that it would
fill up a whole other episode,so I won't let myself go there.
But twin flame, soulmates, soulagreements, are profoundly
transformative and when you haveone, it's because you're being
invited to step forward, becauseyour soul already wants to
evolve, you're being beckonedforward into a true life
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upheaval, life-changing,awakening, a soul awakening and
transformation.
And it's not to be wished for.
It's like oh, that's soromantic.
Twin flames, the concept of amuse, a life made.
It's unthinkable for one to bewithout the other.
It's not to be wished forlightly.
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It can be very intense, allconsuming.
In the case of my Pearl and I,we worked together, we wrote a
book together, we ran a blogtogether.
He introduced me to animalcommunication.
He has transformed my entirelife and there is no area of my
life where he did not have animpact.
He helped me identifyrelationships that weren't
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working for me my longtimepartner that weren't working for
me my longtime partner.
He just didn't have anyfeelings for birds, for Pearl,
and guess who I chose.
So there are so manytransformations and often we are
confronted with choices withthis type of a very intense,
very deep, oftenmulti-incarnation,
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multi-lifetime, twin flame, soulagreement, soul contract.
So those are the eight basicarchetypal categories that I
wanted to share with you in thisepisode.
I would love to hear did I missany of the ones that you're
familiar with?
Or perhaps you're familiar withthem, but they have a different
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name?
In your world, are youundecided between two or more
different soul contracts?
Which one seems or feels to bethe strongest, or the one that
just caught your attention?
Maybe you weren't even thinkingthat was your soul contract or
your soul agreement with yourpet, but when I started talking
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about it you were like, hmm,ding, ding, ding.
Maybe you have no idea, maybeyou have questions that haven't
been answered and you want me todo another episode to unpack
this further, because there'slots more to share.
Let me know, post a comment,ask your questions.
I definitely, definitely shapethese episodes based on what
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listeners like you and what mypet parent clients and my animal
communication students areinterested in learning about.
So let me know and I can craftan episode for you.
Thank you so much for taking thetime, sharing your time to
listen to this podcast episode.
If you've enjoyed it, please doleave us a five-star review.
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It makes my day and it helpsour little podcast hold its own
in the greater podcastosphere,which is so jam-packed these
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It helps other pet parents whoare interested in what we talk
about here to find us, and itwarms my heart to know you're
out there.
You love animals, like I do,and you're interested in animal
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communication.
So to you, dear treasuredlistener, I send all my love,
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Okay, all my love.
Bye for now.
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