Soul Contracts

Once we’ve agreed to be each others’ players in a life drama, we form soul contracts, or agreements, with our soul-mates.The Group (a group of teachers that does not incarnate, channeled by Steve Rother of the Lightworkerorganization (www.lightworker.com) identifies the following types of contracts:

• Primary parental contract. This obviously includes mother and father agreements, with one or other predominating as primary. This person may be a positive or negative influence depending on your specific growth needs. The non-primary parent may not have any influence in your lifetime except as a sperm donor.

• Siblings and birth order. Of all the mirrors in your life, siblings are probably the most relentless because they don’t let you get away with much. Birth order is vital. Being the first may boost leadership and self-reliance traits, while being youngest may result in expectations of being babied in life.

• Friends and enemies. We all need friends and allies to get us through life, but we may also need others to challenge us by betrayal in business, romance, etc. Ironically, to fill the latter role, you turn to the soul who loves you the most, often imploring that soul because doing you harm in such soul contracts is very painful to them.

• Energy role model. In this soul contract, usually with someone where there’s a substantial age difference, your paths cross at the perfect time for the older one to give the younger an energetic blueprint to model themselves on. This shows the awakening soul what its incarnation will look like as it grows. It may be as brief as passing on the street, or standing in the same line at the supermarket. If a young child stares intently at you for what seems a long time, there may be a contract there by which you let them make contact with you. Both of you will benefit from it. (When this happens to me, I telepathically tell the child he or she is safe and loved down here on the Earth plane.

• Transition contract. This is one of the most important soul contracts you can make. The individual will be the one to release you when you are dying. Sometimes, if the relationship is very close, this person will actually be able to say the words: “It’s okay to leave. You can let go if you like. We will all be fine.” Or it may be a nurse in the hospital who gives you permission to leave.

• Greeter. This is the person who agrees to greet you in spirit when you transition home. Sometimes it’s a mate who has passed over ahead of you, but most of the time more like an aunt or uncle, or possibly a high school friend. Or maybe even your faithful, old dog.

• Catcher. This person looks you in the eye immediately after birth and welcomes you to Earth. It may be a delivery room or natal ward nurse, or a family member other than your mother.

• Bump Contracts. This person agrees to interact with you in your life at a critical time in order to check that you are on the path you planned, and if you’re off course, they will remind you of your original soul intention and direction. These soul contracts are intended to have such intensity that you cannot ignore them, such as an irresistible romantic encounter that “bumps” you into some kind of new awareness.

• Karmic contracts. Karma, as we know it, has now been released to enable you to evolve more rapidly, but a contract involving karma may be the fastest and most effective means to facilitate growth.

• Minor contracts. Because you’re also a bit player in other people’s dramas, sometimes you agree to a contract to help another member of your soul family. So, many of your contracts have more to do with the other people involved than with you, such as simply “holding the space” as the other person goes through growth or being their Transition Contract person.

"Soul Contracts" is excerpted from "Death Without Fear" by Tony Stubbs