What Is A Soul Contract?
Updated 2025.05.14
Before our births, each one of us exists in spirit form.
During this time, your Spirit selects a plan for your next life that will assure you achieve the most soul growth as possible and have the most fun and wonder for your time on Earth.
To do this, you create a life that will include joys and achievements, all specially designed for your soul to develop.
The ultimate goal of all souls is to have full capacity to experience, give and receive unconditional love of the universe. All souls on Earth have a contract geared towards that and are here for specific purposes, which will help them achieve fulfillment.
The purpose of the Soul Contract
The life plan you develop to grow and evolve as a soul incarnated on this Earth to move closer to unconditional love and joy, is called a soul contract.
You can step into the mystery of unfolding and stand in the wonder of your path - it is possible to change and shift as your soul contract unfolds.
While the soul contract is the 'deal' you make with yourself to follow the path you all set forth, you want to think of it like a river, and there are many channels and pathways you can take.
You cannot see your full contract on Earth but you can get a peak of what is on it when visiting the Akashic Records, where this information is held.
Helpers on the way to your destiny
Thankfully, you always create your soul contract with helpers - Spirit Guides, Angels, Ascended Masters and Ancestors who assist you in following your charted contract.
To make sure this soul contract of your own and Spirit's design is followed, you choose and are assigned Spirit Guides to lovingly support this path.
These wayfinders or pathfinders are in charge of sending you signs to make sure you are on the right path and are with you as you learn the lessons you came here to achieve.
They do this because we don’t remember the contract when we are born for valid reasons.
If you were to remember your entire contract, you would certainly not learn most of the lessons, as you may try to avoid aspects of your contract to spare yourself various temporary pains necessary for your growth.
With the endings in life that cause pain, remember there are always new growths, blooms and happy things on the other side. Even aspects of our soul chart that cause suffering are opportunities to open to greater forms of love and joy.
Can you break a Soul Contract?
You typically cannot avoid your destiny, but you can change how it manifests.
To break the contract would only mean you were no longer following the path that you decided upon. Your Spirit Guides will try to keep you in the direction of your path, usually through signs. Signs can manifest in the body, in your dreams, or even in your energy field.
Even if you were to stray from your contract, they will send you animal or human guides to help lure you back to the way of your truth.
Many times, we pick up on these signs and re-align with our purpose on this Earth naturally.
What happens if someone breaks a Soul Contract with you?
While it may look like this has happened, it still may be part of the Divine Plan.
Usually, these decisions are guided by a person's inner Spirit, their Guides, or Guidance System. Souls make contracts that involve other souls, to assist each of you in learning lessons. Typically, this is decided when both of you are in Spirit, together before you come in.
Sometimes this deviation is decided by the Great Spirit before we head into this Earth, so it's hard to place final blame on anyone for what happened.
Did they really break the contract, or was this evolution of the relationship initially part of the deal?
Since each situation is different, you can pray, meditate, or ask your Spirit Guides about what happened. You could also ask a spiritual advisor for what they see in the energy.
If a soul contract has come to a close, it’s typically because the karma is complete and when that is the case, the relationship is also complete - the lessons it needed to teach you have run their course.
So to end, about Soul Contracts:
They help us return to a place of unconditional love and joy
We all receive helpers along the way, to assist us in fulfilling the contract, usually Spiritual Helpers like Spirit Guides, but also members of our soul group, too
Sometimes, our contract will part ways with others intentionally, and these break-points may be pre-setup by you and the other souls
Most importantly, your soul contract, while much of it pre-ordained can be shaped by you while on Earth. You can shape your soul path by guiding your emotions or thoughts towards what feels good - which helps you stay aligned to your highest outcome.
Soul contracts are agreements you set up pre-birth that guide your life and you can shift how this all happens to some extent.
One way to shape your soul contract right now is to place your feet flat on the floor, roll your shoulders back and down, inhale and exhale.
What next step is in my highest and greatest good for me to take now?
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