Reader Monique M. asked, “How do you determine if your significant other is your soulmate or karmic partner? How do you know if you are through with your karma with him or her? Do karmic partnerships always end up in disaster or are there happy endings?”

A karmic partner is one whose primary reason for being with you is to work out or resolve a karmic obligation or debt with you, whereas a soulmate is one whose destiny is intertwined with yours after a series of encounters with each other in several lifetimes.
All soulmates are karmic partners but not all karmic partners are soulmates.

In my seminar on “Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation,” I enumerate five essential characteristics of a soulmate encounter, or how to recognize your soulmate. If one of these five is missing, he or she is not your soulmate.

Karmic partnerships do not always end in disaster. There are many karmic relationships with happy endings. We meet our soulmate not only in a single lifetime. So the prospect of your ending up with your soulmate is rather unlikely. Soulmates develop over many lifetimes of incarnating together.

How do you know if you are done with your karmic obligation or debt with your partner?
You will have signs that your relationship or obligation is over. There will be more obstacles or conflicts you will encounter which cannot be resolved without separating from each other. Your feelings for the other may change or become cold. Or you may meet another person with whom you are most comfortable and compatible.

Another reader, Gina M., asked, “If you are unable to resolve your karmic lesson or mission with a person in this lifetime, does it mean you will encounter him or her again in your next life?”

Yes, both great love and great hatred bind you to the other in a future life. So if you don’t want to meet your present enemy in a future life, better release or forgive him now in this lifetime.

Reader Nap B. asked, “What happens when you become aware of who you were in your past life?”

Then you will begin to understand why you are in the present situation you are in. You will see why the people you are with now came back to be with you again. You will understand the karma you have to work out with them.
Previous life

For example, a woman who threw her husband out of their house because of his womanizing found out that during a previous life, she was a male and her husband a female. In that past life, they were married to each other and it was she, as the husband, who was doing the womanizing. She was given a taste of what she did to her spouse only in that lifetime. Because of this, her anger toward her husband disappeared, although she never reconciled with him in this lifetime.

Reader Napoleon V. asked. “How come I didn’t see clearly my past life when I had a regression with you?”

Not all who undergo a past life regression succeed in seeing their past life or lives. First, because not all can be regressed or be hypnotized. All I can do is to help you relax your body and mind so that your subconscious may be free to show you what you need to know at this time. It is your subconscious mind that determines what you will or will not see during a regression.

Another reason is that not all are visual. Some are better at feeling, hearing or smelling things rather than seeing. The more they try to see, the more difficult it becomes, because they are distracted into trying to see rather than just letting go.

If they just relax and not anticipate or question what they are experiencing, they have better chances of getting meaningful information, either by way of sight, sound, taste, touch or smell.

But even if a person does not see anything in a regression session, I find that most can and do experience meaningful insights upon analysis of what happened during the process.

If they go through the regression with no expectation and without analyzing or questioning what they see or sense, the more meaningful the experience becomes.

Abigail wrote, “You said in your book that there is no proof that humans can reincarnate as an animal. However, in the (mystic hill) Ciudad Verdadero (in Lukban, Quezon), someone noticed a dog telepathically communicating his feelings, that it felt a need to be loved. That dog must have been human in a past incarnation.”

Not necessarily. Dogs have consciousness or awareness also and can communicate their feelings to humans. There are known individuals who are sensitive to and understand the feelings of animals.

A popular TV show, “Dog Whisperer,” is about a person who can understand the language of dogs. That does not mean the dog was human once. But there is some evidence that a dog can reincarnate as a dog in the same family who were its masters in a previous lifetime.