Childhood wisdom? Not your first round, friend

Childhood is often seen as a blank slate, a beginning untouched by time. But what if it’s more of a continuation—a return, rather than a start? Some children arrive with eyes that seem too knowing, with fears too specific, talents too developed for their years. Past life astrology suggests these aren’t accidents of biology or chance, but traces—impressions left behind by previous journeys of the soul.

The South Node in an astrological chart represents where the soul has been. It holds the emotional memory of lives already lived, the patterns most familiar. When a child displays a spontaneous musical talent or an unshakable fear of water without cause, these may be echoes from that place—residual energies brought into the present. These impressions can appear as ease, or as obstacles. A gift may be a continuation. A struggle, a lesson unfinished.

The North Node points toward what the soul has yet to explore. It’s the tension line between comfort and growth, between what is known and what calls. A child may resist this path, clinging unconsciously to what once was. Others may lean into it with strange confidence, as if remembering the promise made long ago.

Seeing childhood through this frame allows for deeper compassion. A stubborn child may not simply be willful, but wrestling with old limitations. A precocious one might be navigating memories they cannot explain. Their lives are not merely beginning—they are unfolding.

This view doesn’t claim to explain everything, but it softens our judgments. It invites wonder. If we meet children as beings shaped not only by the present, but by mysteries of before, we may hold their stories with more care. Each child, then, is both a seed and an echo—growing forward, carrying the quiet pulse of what once was.