Published 12/11/2024 by Joanne Jones

How Many Lives Have I Had? How to Work It Out

The fascination with past lives is common in those studying spirituality, reincarnation, or metaphysics.

Many people suspect that souls hold memories and knowledge of past lives, and there are several ways to probe this thought and find an answer to the question, "How many lives have I had?"

Some of the most popular methods people use are meditation, regression therapy or hypnosis to re-experience lives they had lived in the past, uncover memories, and find out why their present life is repeating itself or revealing itself.

From a numerological standpoint, past lives can be estimated based on your birthdate and life path number. This method can help you understand your soul path and what happened to you during your previous lifetimes, thereby helping you understand why you came into this world and your purpose.

Numerology and Your Life Path Number

Numerology provides a spiritual roadmap of your Life Path Number, guiding you towards your true strengths, greatest challenges, and the unique path your soul has chosen to follow. Worked out from the numbers of your birthdate, this figure provides insights into your personal development, relationships, and career moves.

For example, if your Life Path is 1, then you are a leader, motivated to start and build, whereas a Life Path 6 can represent a responsible, loving person who values balance and serving others.

The practice of numerology can be an eye-opening experience to find out your Life Path Number because it will show you what you do exceptionally well and what you struggle with the most, and things you didn't realise will start to make sense.

If you follow your Life Path Number and apply its guidance, you can find clarity about what you're meant to do, decisions that align with who you are, and challenges in life that you know will be easier to overcome and point you in the right direction.

Read our guide on Numerology Life Path Calculator.

How to Calculate How Many Past Lives You Have Had Using Life Path Number

If you are intrigued about the type of person you are and want to find out, "How many lives have I had?" you will first need to learn how to calculate your life path number.

Numerologists commonly believe that your Life Path Number is the most important numerology number, which is based on your birthdate and can provide hints as to how many times your soul lived and been through the cycle of reincarnation.

Follow this instruction to learn how to configure your Life Path Number and make sense of it about your current life and previous lives.

Step 1: Calculate Your Birth Date

Start by writing your birth date and simplifying it to one digit. For instance, if you were born on the 23rd, add together 2 + 3 to get 5. If your birthday is already an individual digit, such as 5, you can skip this step.

Step 2: Calculate Your Birth Month

Write your birth month and whittle it down to a single digit. For example, if you were born in November (11th month), add 1 + 1 to reach the answer of 2. If you were born in a single-digit month (January to September), use that single digit only.

Step 3: Calculate Your Birth Year

Take the digits of your birth year and add them together until you reach a single digit. For instance, if you were born in 1994, add 1 + 9 + 9 + 4 to get 23, then 2 + 3 to reach 5.

Step 4: Calculate Your Life Path Number

Blend the outcomes of Steps 1, 2, and 3. Add these three numbers together and reduce them to a single number. For instance, if you already have a 5 from Step 1, a number 2 from Step 2, and a number 5 from Step 3, add 5 + 2 + 5 to reach the number 12. Then, make the two-digit number 12 smaller by adding 1 + 2 = 3. That last number is the all-important Life Path Number.

Your Life Path Number will not only describe who you are and what your life goal is, but it can also indicate the kind of life experiences you have been through in previous lives, shed light on any unfinished business that needs to be resolved, and guide you towards current life lessons that need to be accomplished for you to move forward in the current lifetime.

Lower Life Path numbers indicate a younger soul, and higher or master numbers (11, 22, 33) indicate an older soul with more life experiences. This way of viewing your Life Path Number can allow you to identify life insights, common patterns, lessons, or unresolved karmic relationships from past lives and get a handle on the bigger picture of your soul's energetic trajectory.

Understanding Master Codes

Master Codes are numbers like 11, 22, and 33. They possess a high vibrational frequency and are regarded as symbols of higher spiritual purpose and duty. Master Codes are not reduced to single digits because they hold supreme, amplified energy and significance. Each code represents a distinct character or trait:

11 is the "Spiritual Messenger" with many associations with intuition, wisdom, and spiritual awakening.

22 is the "Master Builder" and is correlated with turning large dreams into reality and building structures and big ideas for others.

33 is the "Master Teacher" characterised by compassion, altruism, and a need to help and lift others to a high level.

A Master Code as your Life Path or Destiny Number means you're here for bigger, change-making reasons, most likely personal hardships and personal development.

Master Codes can empower you to accept the higher meaning and life insights or lessons from these numbers and live with more awareness, discipline, and commitment to your spiritual path and to others.

The 13 Lives Theory

The 13 Lives Theory is a spiritual theory held by people with a strong belief in reincarnation. It states that the soul passes through 13 incarnations to acquire knowledge, mature and change.

According to this theory, every life contains lessons and obstacles, all to prepare the soul for wisdom, growth, and enlightenment. These 13 lives are believed to range from the darkest reaches of life to the lightest, enabling the soul to explore the full range of human moods and conditions.

Others think that we take back lessons, unresolved conflicts, or "karma" from past lives as we move forward and that these shape our present life direction. By identifying and confronting these repeated patterns, we are said to remove karma or pay the karmic debt, bringing us one step closer to spiritual enlightenment at the end of the 13 life cycles.

It's a theory that advises you to ask for your self-observation because past life events can provide a glimpse into recurring problems and opportunities for self-improvement during this life's development cycle.

How to Calculate Karmic Debt Number

Numbers like the Karmic Debt Number help to determine what kind of karmic lessons or unresolved issues from past lives might impact this life. You'll need your Life Path or Destiny Number to determine your Karmic Debt Number.

First, calculate your life path number. Then, look back on the calculations. You have a Karmic Debt Number if you arrived at 13, 14, 16, or 19 before reducing to a single digit. Each Karmic Debt Number represents a specific challenge:

• 13: Issues with discipline and hard work
• 14: Learning balance, self-control, and moderation
• 16: Ego and humility, letting go of pride
• 19: Independence and overcoming selfish ways

Knowing your Karmic Debt Number can give you valuable insights into where you need to evolve, motivating you to make conscious choices to break repetitive patterns and restore harmony to the cycle.

Medium Readings

Thousands of people call up daily for a medium reading, which can help them uncover their previous lifetimes, reveal karmic debts, understand memories from a past life, and discover their true-life purpose and why they have been reincarnated into this life.

A medium reading will give deep and intuitive insights about your past lives, uncovering the secret layers of your soul's journey through time.

In channelling your spiritual energy, a medium will access old memories, feelings, and karmic debts that might be haunting your present. Such lessons can help illuminate issues or residual feelings you have had that may not have been healed or resolved in previous lives so you know more clearly what your soul seeks to cure or accomplish.

In the medium reading, you can also determine your life's purpose and why you are reincarnated in this lifetime.

If you are a curious person who wants to find out where your life is heading, is eager to learn the history of your experiences in past lives, or wants answers to questions like, "How many lives have I had?" or "What was I in a past life?" an online medium reading with a live psychic reader over the phone or an online chat with an expert medium on Live Messenger can reveal all the hidden details of your familiar memories, repetitive dreams, behaviour patterns and reincarnation cycles.

For anyone who needs guidance in these fields, Trusted Psychics provides experienced readers with 24/7 support so that you have the help you need at any time. Their products are designed to offer individual attention, enabling clients to make informed choices and better know their spiritual lives.

FAQs

What Is the Meaning of Past Lives?

Past lives involve the notion that our souls go through several lives, bringing unique experiences and lessons to aid spiritual development.

The concept of reincarnation tells us that each lifetime enables the soul to experiment with everything from companionship and gifts to difficulties and lessons in karmic terms.

The purpose of past lives is to promote a continual process of discovery, growth and awakening. The soul grows through life, passing limitations by taking lessons from each life to the next. This rebirth-learned progression is a means of letting the soul awaken to greater awareness, to be more aware, empathetic and in harmony with divine truth over time.

How Do Past Lives Affect Us?

Past lives leave an impression on the present, altering our character, tastes, fears, and relationships.

Strong characteristics or unusually intense emotions could be echoes of experiences from other lives. For instance, an unexplained phobia or a deep attraction to a place or culture might be a reaction to a past life experience or memory.

Unpaid karmic debts or lessons learned from previous lives can appear as repeating themes or issues in this life that we must face in a new way. This knowledge can give us a way of being more aware of these forces, a path to unhealing the old wounds, ending repetitive loops and living our lives purposefully and to their true potential.

Is Past-Life Regression a Real Thing?

Past life regression is an age-old therapeutic technique that explores memories of past lives through hypnosis or relaxation.

During a regression session, a professional practitioner encourages a complete feeling of relaxation where they can glimpse memories, feelings, or scenes of previous lives. Although some people say they get profound and life-changing insights from these visits, the objection is that past life regression invokes imagination or subconscious memories, not past lives.

Past life regression is a valid way to revisit a previous alternative life and a tool to retrieve symbolic memories, and most people find it valuable for discovering themselves. It allows the believer to access the source of a past problem or anxiety and brings healing and illumination to all current aspects of life.

Learn more and book a reading with the experts at Trusted Psychics. You will understand why the study of numbers and their effect on human affairs is enjoying a renaissance.

Trusted Psychics offers numerology readings for individuals with specific insights into their life direction, character, and future. These interpretations can provide insights into many areas of life, such as job options, relationships, and growth.

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