Who Was Your Soulmate in a Past Life?

By: Elisabeth Henderson
Estimated Completion Time
5 min
Who Was Your Soulmate in a Past Life?
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About This Quiz

What is a soulmate, and does everybody have one? Is it possible to have more than one? The ancient Greeks had a belief that each soul was cleft in two and separated upon entering life. Throughout life, each person feels the absence of that missing half of the soul, until they find the person who matches their soul, and the two come together.

In this version of soulmate, each person has one and only one matching half to find to make them whole. Many people dispute this idea, though, arguing that it’s damaging for relationships to have the success of the relationship depend on whether a person is the “right one.” Also, many people have experienced intense connections with multiple people that go beyond the norm. Soulmate connections are often, but not always, experienced as immediate and shockingly clear.

People describe meeting someone and feeling they have always known them. They say that with their soulmate, they can communicate without words and experience intuitions about each other even when far apart. They feel that this person can read what is happening in their heart in a way that feels deeply intimate and vulnerable. Soulmate relationships always call both people to trust and engage in a more profound way than ever before. This deep engagement with a matching soul calls both parties to become the best versions of themselves.

Would you know your soulmate at first sight? Scroll through this quiz and find out what they looked like in past life — it could help you identify them in the present! 

Paint
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In what circumstance do you feel the most creative energy?
Alone in my room
In a social gathering of powerful people
When confronting injustice
When faced with a practical dilemma

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Smiling woman
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How do you communicate about the deepest parts of your self?
Through words
Through clothing
Through actions
Through creating tangible objects

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Beautiful wooded house
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Where would your ideal dwelling with a lover be located?
In a cottage in the woods, by a river
In a well-adorned palace
In a simple hacienda
In a very functional house in the middle of the city

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Ramses II - Pharoh
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What historical reality would you most like to go back in time to witness?
The great conversations in literary salons
The rise and fall of pharaohs
The great Native American civilizations
The rise of the industrial revolution

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WRITER
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What profession most lines up with what your soul wants to do?
Writer
Ruler
Priest
Inventor

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Take care of sick couple
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How would you expect your soulmate to interact with you if you became very ill?
To write me a long, beautiful letter
To come visit me all dressed up
To bring me medicine and food
To come up with a way to make me more comfortable

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just upload
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How do you most want people to view you?
As a brilliant mind
As divine
As just
As inventive

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Couple back of truck
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If you were going to go on an adventure with your soulmate, how would you want to travel?
By car
On the backs of elephants
By sailboat
By train

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Newlyweds
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Where do you feel it in your body when you have an intense connection with somebody?
At the front my head
In my abdomen
In my chest
In my mind

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Love letter
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How would you communicate to someone that you believed they were your soulmate?
I would write a novel about them under a different name.
I would send a message through a courier.
I would tell them in private.
I would make them something to make their life easier.

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Couple cuddle
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How can you tell when you have a connection with someone that is beyond normal relationships?
We can communicate in pure silence.
We experience the same feelings.
We desire the same things.
We come up with the same ideas.

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Hold hands
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What is the point of connection with another person that you associate with soul connection?
The eyes
The hands
The feet
The mind

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Check out on street
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At what time of day do you imagine encountering your soul mate?
Evening
Afternoon
Morning
Night

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Friends graduate college
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What kind of education would you imagine your soulmate to have?
Privately taught
Taught in the royal courts
Advanced degrees
Self-taught

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Happy young couple
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When you and your soul mate come together, what kind of energy would you make?
A buzz beneath the surface
An effusive, bubbling-over energy
A steadily building pulse
An all-out sprint

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Couple painting together
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How do you prefer to spend time with someone whom you connect with on a soul level?
In silence, walking
In fervent conversation
Doing some action for the good of others
Creating together

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cuddle
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How do you imagine that meeting your soul’s match would affect you as a person?
I would have the motivation to seek the deepest truths.
I would have the confidence to do what I need to in life.
I would have a partner with whom to do what is right.
I would have another mind to bounce ideas off of.

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Wedding
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What is a major indicator that you have met your soulmate?
When we can communicate without speech
When we can understand simply by looking in each other’s eyes
When we come up with the same plan of action
When we share a common plan for the future

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Couple make mural
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Which of the following would you most want to create with your soulmate?
A work of art
A perfectly functioning civilization
A reconciliation between people who have hurt each other
A new way of channeling energy

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Piano
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What instrument would play the sound of your soul connection?
Piano
Lute
Tambourine
Guitar

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Friends bonfire
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When you enter into a new social situation, what is your main concern?
What do these people really think?
Do these people know who I am?
Who is vulnerable in this situation?
What is wrong with this picture?

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Getting a tattoo
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If you were to get a tattoo to commemorate your soulmate in a past life, what would it be?
A river
An eye
A blood drop
A light bulb

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Shake hands
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Which sense do you value the most when you are encountering a person for the first time?
Smell
Sight
Hearing
Vision

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Desert
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What landscape would you have to cross to meet your soulmate?
A wooded countryside
A vast desert
An ocean
An urban center

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Woman at home
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In what strata of society does your soul feel most comfortable?
Middle class
Ruling class
Outside society
Working class

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Female friends dinner party
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How would you celebrate meeting the person who matched your soul?
A candlelit conversation
A giant party with everyone I know
A dinner party with a few friends
Create something to symbolize our connection

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Couple paint mural
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What do you imagine would be the first sign that you had met your soulmate?
They understand the deep meaning in my words.
They see who I am beneath my disguise.
They care as deeply as I do for those who are hurting.
They share my vision for creating.

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Couple hug night
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What do you fear your soulmate would expose about you?
My insecurity
My unglamorous side
My own capacity to hurt others
My lack of empathy

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Couple cuddle at beach
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Where would you want to go to huddle up with your soulmate?
Deep underground
To an ornate veranda
To a solitary beach
To a cozy cottage in the woods

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Couple looking out
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What good would you and your soulmate bring to the world once brought together?
Beautiful writing
A peaceful kingdom
A more just world
Practical creations

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