8 Signs You Were A Psychic Medium In A Past Life
Updated 2025.05.13
Wondering if you’ve had a past life as a psychic?
Psychic mediums and other highly sensitive people are often old souls, and they evolved their gifts over a period of many lifetimes.
As you travel through your lifetimes, you accumulate wisdom, practice using your abilities, and compassion.
Previous lifetimes can bring with them memories, laden evidence of traumas, and an intense want, in this lifetime, to learn about metaphysics and philosophy.
Once you learn that philosophy, you may find yourself becoming an expert or teacher of it within several years, and this is just one of the signs that you've had a soul history doing psychic work.
There are other signs of a past life as a psychic, and they are -
8 Signs You Were A Psychic Medium In A Past Life
1. People often rely on you for advice
Natural sensitives are natural conduits and channels for guidance from All That Is. If people are always asking for your thoughts on things, chances are you're unknowingly conducting Universal Guidance and Truths to them, through you.
If you have been a channel for many lives, giving golden advice will be natural for you - it’s called the gift of knowing or the gift of wisdom. It is a form of Divine Revelation that comes naturally to some souls.
2. You've experienced lots of hardships in this life
Mediums and psychics often deal with resolving and releasing psychic or emotional trauma from their clients.
To deal with all the pain that will ultimately be released through them, many intuitives had to also experience and learn how to recover from much of their pain - because it helps you be a clearer channel and helps you better empathize with your clients.
Intense hardship is the mark of an advanced soul.
In Shamanism, experiencing your own traumas is called The Shaman’s Death. This is because during traumatic experiences a part of you that is no longer needed dies, and then you are reborn as a new person. Often those who practice Shamanism need to have experienced multiple Shamanic Deaths in order to continue walking the path - it’s considered a right of passage in this spiritual practice.
Only a seasoned soul can deal with and survive repeated trauma and still go on to mentor others. Mediums and psychics are often found in mentorship roles for others, and thus many have experienced more hardships than most.
It is impossible to mentor others in overcoming what you, yourself, have not already mastered.
3. You’ve had intense feelings about social judgment
Most past-life sensitives have intense fear and over-occupation with judgment from others because most of them lived other lives where they were hurt based on the judgment of others.
So when judgment is life or death, you will be more attuned to it.
If you feel you've experienced a past life where you were subject to adverse experiences for your beliefs, it is common to experience unexplainable neck pain and fear of fire. A past-life of adverse physical experiences for expressing your gifts can also result in throat chakra blocks.
In The Member Center’s Meditation Room, check out Past Life Meditation for Relationship Healing or this article about accessing your Akashic Records, which is where past life information is stored.
One way to release judgement is to practice not taking anything personally.
You can not take anything personally but continually reminding yourself that everyone is on their own journey and the reasons they act the way they do are entirely based on the thoughts and emotions they have, which are their responsibility.
You act the way you do based on your view of the world and your personal experiences that led you this far - not necessarily because of any specific one person or situation.
4. You've played a witch in costume and you enjoy witch movies
Witch means keen wisdom in old English lore.
When you dress up in costume for any holiday, your costume is often a symbol or hint of their 'alter ego' - either in this life or from past experiences lived.
If someone dresses up as a witch, they may have had past lives here, too.
Have you worn the Witch costume? Is “witchiness” one of your preferred vibes? Do you connect to this Witch Celebration music?
If so, chances are you've played this role before.
5. You have an elevated level of faith
Having an increased feeling of hope and optimism that things will work out somehow can be a sign you’ve had experience trusting the Universe and your Spirit Team in the past.
If you have an easier time with the emotion of faith and trust in All That Is, your soul may have a history in relying on the non-physical forces for support.
6. You've had an interest in Spirits for as long as you can remember
If you have an affinity towards the Spirit World and they for you, think about why. Even if it's fear-based attraction (scary shows or ghost stories), the calling is naturally there and you must consider why.
Do you have an interest in potions, herbal products, or any other type of mystical? This is also a sign you have a past life as an intuitive. People with past lives here also tend to have natural abilities related to earth wisdom.
7. You've hidden your gifts from others in the past
Hiding your abilities from those you love the most comes from a fear of judgment and isolation.
This fear is likely a deep-seated soul fear that comes from previous lifetimes lived with the people in your soul group, when they did, as younger souls, actually judge you.
But, you are in this life now to create new patterns - including your belief regarding who you are allowed to be and how you are allowed to exist.
Coming out of the closet as your authentic self is an opportunity for you to break free of your soul's karma. So consider starting to share with those that you love, and you may be surprised with what they eventually share with you.
8. You have relatives or friends who have had interactions with the paranormal
If people in your soul group are also intuitive, this is likely a soul group lesson that you and other souls born into this life with you are learning together.
When a family member, friend or relative introduces you to the metaphysical world at a young age, there's usually a reason for this - gifts could run in the family, potentially for lifetimes. It's possible, as an old soul, the path of the psychic and mystic is well-woven into your soul group. There are “old soul” groups that repeatedly incarnate together but they play out different roles.
Do 4 or more of these signs sound familiar to you?
If so, it's highly possible you were a psychic medium or mystic in previous lives. You may also have dreams or have psychics repeatedly tell you about what your past lives were, and if so, pay attention to these cues.
You may be destined to be one in this lifetime, and perhaps fill another role than in lives past. For example, you may transcend into speaking, writing, or publicly lecturing on these topics.
Or if in one life you were an herbalist, also known as a Hedge Witch, in this life, you may do a little more channeling.
Many mediums are old souls, meaning they've lived many lives before this one. There are a multitude of different levels of different souls on this earth - from younger souls to older souls - all interacting together.
So even if you're an old soul in the psychic arts, there are still many souls to teach and share your gifts with in this world, in the here and now.
To learn more about your mediumistic gifts, check out The Medium’s Toolkit!
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