Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Hey Shannon, are married couples usually soul mates or mirror souls?

The majority of married couples are just regular relationships.  Maybe 60-75%.  The vast majority of the rest will either be companion souls or mirror souls.  Only a very tiny sliver will be twin flames.  Partly because it's so rare for them to be allowed to experience each other during a lifetime, and partly because as twin flames, they are already married at the soul level.  Legal marriage therefore generally isn't very meaningful or important to many of them, so many of them don't get married legally or formally.

Even if it's just regular relationships, I assume the two souls involved must have known about it and agreed to do it before birth, since it's such an important thing? Is marriage and death pre-planned? In the book Many lives, Many Masters, patients doing past life regression can recognize regular people from their life in their past lives. So I think people in our close circle are part of the same soul group that has incarnated many times together, playing different roles.

Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups, as they say.  In some cases, a soul will know at the soul level before birth, and in others they will not.  It depends on the specifics of the chosen major and minor life lessons, goals and challenges.  Sometimes, not knowing is the only way to really learn the lessons chosen.  

Marriage and death can be pre-planned, but is not always.  In fact I would presume, based on what I have been able to determine, that it either is only rarely pre-determined, or such information is only rarely known to the soul until the life in question ends.

The concept of soul groups is correct, but that doesn't mean you necessarily know everything that's going to happen in a given life, even at the soul level.