As it kept learning, it wanted to experience the different sexes that resided within it. So it split off into male and female. This is how twin flames first began. They are a part of the same soul self, but they needed to experience it in different forms.

Our souls are androgynous. We first began life as one soul. We wanted to experience life from outside ourselves, so we split into two. Somewhere along the way, however, we lost our way. We forgot what we came here to experience as we got caught up in the ego self. We wanted to experience the energy of the lower chakra systems, but on entering the lower planes, we got trapped in these lower energies.

We are now on an upward trend, on our way back home again. We are only now beginning to discover other aspects of ourselves. This is why so many are searching for their ‘other half’. They feel they have lost something, yet they do not know what it is. Some people go from one partner to another, continually searching, not even knowing fully what they are looking for. Hence they search endlessly sometimes, for that aspect of themselves that they lost long, long ago. Each is searching, and the sexual attractions are but one way they seek their self-fulfilment. Through pure sexual union, souls can experience their true God-self. This is why they are continually searching. Sexual fulfilment can bring a soul closer to their God-source than any other means, while in the physical body.

Soul mates are those souls that, when we meet them, we feel we have known them all our lives. Sometimes a soul mate can be a brother or a sister, or even a parent. It is not unusual for soul mates to incarnate together, or plan to meet up in a lifetime, such as when two people meet and feel they have known each other before. We all have many soul mates that we have known in past lives. We often choose to incarnate with a soul mate, or even two, as they support us and bring in that aspect of ourselves that we have forgotten. A union with a soul mate can be a testing time also. They can come to teach us a lesson we needed to learn in this lifetime. We may not recognise it, but we often are being shown aspects of ourselves in a soul mate, that are reflected back to us to help us take the next step forward.

Twin souls are part of a multi-soul group, and we often find we have twin souls, or kindred spirits among those we meet. As like attracts like, this is not a rare occurrence. There are many from the same soul groups who remain in spirit, or in the non-physical realm, while part of the soul group incarnates. Very rarely do all of the parts of a soul group incarnate at the same time. These often act as our guides in spirit, or our guardian angels. They share much with us and are of like vibration. They assist us in many steps of our life on earth. Those that do share our life are so in tune with us, that they often share our very thoughts.

Twin flames are so much alike, they can be repelled by each other. If they were to meet, they would find the intensity unbearable for any length of time. So they often chose to experience separate aspects of the same soul essence at the one given time.

In a moment of mental torment, wanting to understand who I was, and how I related to someone whom I felt I might be connected to, on a soul level, I unintentionally called my Higher Self, Astara, in my desperate need to understand what was happening:

It is I Astara. You have called and I have come. I come to bring you reassurance. There is much happening upon your world, and emotions and balancing of its polarities, are most important at this time. You all have a twin flame. This flame reflects the other side of you that you are not experiencing at the present time. So dear one, you are right in that what you feel will often be the polarity of what your twin flame is feeling. The two melded together make the whole. You cannot have one without the other and have completeness. So if you can imagine it is like a form that has many facets. Every time one facet is polished, another facet of the whole is shown as being shadowed, or darkened. The purpose of this is to begin to polish all the hidden little facets that do not often see the light. As each facet is polished, more and more of this diamond of light, that is your complete soul, will emerge. When the focus is on only one facet - that is, one partner of the twin flame finding joy, it is not enough for the other partner. ALL facets must be eventually brought into the light and polished. Do you see? It is with joy that each part is brought out. More and more of the parts making the whole are being exposed. This is part of the game board of life.

You have found a part of you in your twin flame, but that part will bring up some degree of the 'unpolished' facets within yourself. Accept this and be joyful. It is not that you are falling down into sadness, but that these deep hidden parts of yourself are coming out into the light. Once they are polished and brightened, the whole will be made more glorious. Every part of every soul is being exposed to the recent influx of energies that are entering upon your earth. This is part of the plan of the Great Ones - that each soul be given this opportunity for growth to its full potential. Many will find they are facing these sides of themselves - but it is not a detriment. It is a good thing, because as each part emerges into the light, it is enlarged, encompassing the ALL of it - and eventually it will be completely whole. The nature of Creator never stops. He/She/It is ongoing and ever enlarging and expanding as growth takes place. Eventually the WHOLE will be so much richer for having been through total exposure and become a most glorious LIGHT. Be of good cheer my dear ones, for the time of this growth is NOW. I wish you Adieu. I am Astara.

I believe this wholeness comes from our total acceptance of, and being, who we really are. Until we are completely at peace and accepting of ourselves, we will never be able to handle the other part of our twin flame. To be prepared to face and re-unite again with that part of us that split from us in the very beginning of our formation as spirit, we have to be complete and totally compatible within ourselves. So many feel that they need their divine complement to become whole. But in truth, all that they need is already there within them. I have seen those who have felt they could not handle life until they were with their twin flame, or twin soul. They have been prepared to forsake life and limb for what they believed they needed to fulfil their life. But I am being assured time and again that all that we really need is within our very own souls. We are multi-dimensional souls. We are whole within ourselves. We may be experiencing many lifetimes at the same time, either on this planet, or in other star systems. We come from various soul groups consisting of many souls of the same vibration as ourselves. We have chosen to be here to experience all the varying forms of life, and each aspect of ourselves has chosen a different experience. There is no right and wrong. There is no good and bad. We are each, every aspect of the other, with one aspect being more predominant. We have chosen to experience the different feelings and are polishing up the different aspects of our total soul. Each lifetime we may choose a different aspect to polish up.

Emotions

Our earth here is one place we experience emotions. When we reach the higher planes, we don’t have the same emotional pull as we do on this plane. Our emotions are what we are here to experience and overcome. Sometimes our emotions become too much for us, as we rise and fall, over and over again in an effort to control that which seems to overwhelm us.

Our emotions tend to lead us astray at times. So we are being told that we have to walk through them, facing them daily, for this is the path of duality we are on at the moment. Once we have mastered our emotions, realising that even those feelings we feel towards our twin flame can be mastered, we will find elation and joy unbounding as we rise forward, on our path upward to the higher vibration our planet is leading us towards.

Here, again, is what Astara had to say on emotions:

You are finding often of late that your emotions are rising to the surface. This is not a thing to be judged. Rather it is a thing to rejoice, for as these emotions are accepted, forgiven and released, they create a vortex in the heaviness which has held your world in darker density for many thousands of years. As each individual accepts and forgives himself, accepting his emotions and his pain, he passes through this density and into the Light of higher vibrations.

These things are happening for a purpose. You may not have acknowledged yet, what your deeper Self already knows. That is, that you chose this particular time, this particular lifestyle, and this particular circumstance, especially for the learning and the valuable experience you would gain from this lesson. You cannot always see things as they are. We see from a perspective that is pure light. We see what you could not possibly imagine. From where we are, you all look like beautiful ever-changing lights, the beauty of which you could not even imagine!

You call on us for help, and we come. We honour you so much, and hold you in so much respect for it is YOU who have chosen this experience. It is YOU who have chosen to come to this earthly plane, this heavy density, for the chosen experience of integrating your emotions from many past lifetimes, into this current lifetime, in order to lift all the density around this planet into the Light. This was your choice freely given and we are here to assist you at any time you request our assistance. We love you and honour you. You have chosen the harder path, and because of it, your glory will be all the greater. You have given much to come to this density, and you will be honoured so much more, for having been here.

Cherish your moments. Cherish your feelings and your emotions, for they are just a passing phase as you walk through them into the new dimensions. Allow each feeling and emotion to exist to co-exist with the lighter feelings you also feel. This is why you have chosen a duality existence.

Love each and every though, emotion and feeling you have. By accepting and allowing these emotions within yourself, you are honouring and accepting them in others. This, my children, is how you are creating Heaven on Earth. I leave you with great Love and Blessings. I AM Astara.

We often find it so hard to cope with our emotions. We cannot put them aside, yet we have a hard time so often because they actually affect us physically, as well as emotionally. If we allow our emotions to become too much for us, we become sick. The only way we can really get through these emotional periods of our lives is to accept them, let them play themselves out, and let the emotions pass through us. If we block these emotions, or refuse to face them, we cause ourselves only harm. By allowing them to flow through us we transmute the emotion and release it, thereby allowing ourselves freedom from any blocked emotion.

We are all one, and it is in understanding the interconnectedness of our human and soul forms, that we will begin to see this. No man is an island. No man was meant to live alone. It is through interaction with others and sharing of our lives that we learn.

The twin soul or twin flame that split off from itself long ago is now re-uniting. All soul families are now coming together again. With the help of the Internet, connections are being made with like-minded souls in ways that would once have been impossible. All things are now possible. Our souls’ experiences can now be unlimited. We just have to allow all things to come to pass without resistance. As we move deeper into Spirit, we will find everything moving in synchronicity around us. As we allow all things to pass through us, without judgement, we will complete the path we originally chose when we first birthed as a flame of light from Creator.

As this age ends and a new age dawns, we will find that more and more souls are re-uniting with another aspect of themselves. As the earth ascends, so do these souls. They are on their journey back again to share all their myriad experiences with the Creator Source.

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