Understanding Your Soul Plan and 5 Decisions Your Soul Makes Before Each Incarnation
- Brainz Magazine
- May 14, 2025
- 6 min read
Written by Meli Guidance, Past Life Psychic
Meli Guidance is a past-life psychic, certified Akashic Records reader, and channeling coach. She helps old souls reconnect with their past lives and spirit guides to unlock their highest potential. In addition to channelling soul guides, she offers online courses and coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to develop their psychic abilities.
Before you took your first breath in this lifetime, your soul had already mapped out a detailed plan, a soul plan for your journey on Earth. This plan wasn’t made randomly. It was created with deep love, intention, and guidance from your primary soul guide, in a sacred space between lifetimes called the astral plane.
Your soul plan (or life plan) acts as a blueprint for your incarnation. It includes who you’ll be, where you’ll live, the people you’ll meet, the wounds you’ll heal, and the gifts you’ll share. It’s a sacred contract, an agreement your soul made with the Universe to learn, grow, evolve, and remember that love is at the center of everything.
And here’s something many spiritually curious people don’t realize at first: if you’re drawn to topics like soul planning, reincarnation, and spirit guides, it’s very likely that you’re an old soul. This means your soul has incarnated many, many times, gathering wisdom, compassion, and a deeper sense of purpose with each lifetime.
But there’s something more important to remember: you still have free will. Your soul plan isn’t a rigid script. It’s a living, evolving map one that you can explore in different ways. You even have the power to make new choices or ask to shift elements of your life plan if something no longer aligns or if you’re ready for a different kind of growth. Your Spirit Guides and the Universe honor your sovereignty and are always willing to adjust the path to support your soul’s highest good.
Even if you don’t consciously remember it (because of reincarnation amnesia), this plan is always alive within you. It subtly guides your experiences, challenges, longings, and inner knowing. And when you align with your soul plan, life begins to feel more meaningful, connected, and true to who you are.
So what exactly does your soul choose before each incarnation?
5 key decisions your soul makes when creating your life plan
1. Your soul types
Before incarnating, your soul chooses a unique blend of energetic archetypes, often referred to as your soul types. These determine your natural personality traits and the kinds of experiences that will feel most aligned with who you truly are.
According to renowned psychic Ainslie MacLeod, there are 10 soul types, and we each embody a mix of six to nine of them, though one or two are usually dominant. Understanding your unique combination can help you make sense of your reactions, passions, and the roles you naturally take on in life.
Here are the 10 soul types:
The Helper: Humble, service-oriented, and hardworking
The Caregiver: Empathic, nurturing, and loving
The Educator: Natural teacher, mentor, and guide
The Thinker: Analytical, curious, and intellectually driven
The Creator: Artistic, sensitive, and imaginative
The Performer: Expressive, charismatic, and communicative
The Hunter: Bold, active, and courageous
The Leader: Confident, decisive, and inspiring
The Spiritualist: Introspective, compassionate, and focused on inner growth
The Transformer: Visionary, intense, and driven to create lasting change
These soul types don’t limit you; they offer a window into your soul’s natural design. You may find yourself resonating strongly with one or two, but notice that others subtly influence how you think, feel, and show up in the world.
By getting to know your dominant soul types through channeling or the Akashic Records, you begin to understand why you’re drawn to certain environments, relationships, or vocations and why some things feel deeply fulfilling while others don’t. It’s like learning the language of your soul.
2. Your life missions (yes, plural)
Many people think we have one singular “purpose” in life. But in reality, our soul chooses multiple missions, themes and lessons it wants to explore in this incarnation.
Some missions may be collective (like a mission of change to raise the consciousness of humanity), while others are deeply personal (like a mission of self-love to learn to love yourself, or a mission of self-healing to break ancestral patterns or heal past-life trauma).
These missions evolve with you. They are woven through your passions, your struggles, and your recurring life themes. You’re likely already living some of them even if you don’t fully realize it yet.
3. Your innate talents and deep desires
Your soul doesn’t drop you into this life empty-handed. You come with a toolkit of gifts, talents, sensitivities, and passions that are perfectly matched to your life missions.
You may feel naturally drawn to art, healing, music, writing, entrepreneurship, caring for others, or understanding spiritual truths. Those things aren’t random. They are soul codes. They were placed in you to be used, explored, and expressed.
The same goes for your desires, the dreams that whisper to you. They often reflect what your soul came here to experience and create. Listening to them is one way to realign with your soul plan.
4. Fears to heal and challenges to overcome
Yes, your soul also chooses certain fears and obstacles, not as punishment but as powerful catalysts for growth.
Whether it’s fear of abandonment, of failure, of self-expression, of intimacy, of not being enough, these challenges are opportunities for you to rise, transform, and remember your power.
Your soul knew that by facing and healing these fears, you would unlock deeper wisdom and compassion not just for yourself, but for others too.
5. Karma to balance and relationships to experience
Our relationships are rarely accidental. Many of the people we encounter, especially those who impact us deeply, are part of our soul contracts.
Your soul chose key souls to walk with you in this life: family members, friends, soulmates (yes, plural!), even those who challenge you. Some of these connections are here to bring joy, others to help you heal or complete unfinished stories from past lives.
Karmic relationships are part of this, too. Through them, your soul has a chance to forgive, to find closure, or to rebalance old dynamics in a new, more conscious way.
Why understanding your soul plan changes everything
When you begin to understand your soul’s plan, you stop seeing your life as random or chaotic. You start to trust the process even in the difficult moments. You realize that every challenge has a purpose, and every longing is a breadcrumb from your soul.
Knowing your plan helps you:
Gain clarity on your purpose and path
Make aligned decisions with more ease
Heal old patterns with compassion
Reconnect with your natural gifts
Deepen your relationship with your soul guides and higher self
You stop fighting who you are and start living who you are.
Want to discover your soul plan?
If this resonates with you and you feel a deep inner pull to know your soul plan more clearly, I offer Life Plan Akashic Readings.
In this session, we journey into your Akashic Records to explore:
Your soul age
Your soul types
Your life missions
Your talents
It’s a deeply affirming experience that can shift your perspective, your choices, and the way you walk through the world.
You didn’t come here empty-handed. You came with a sacred map.
Let’s find it together.
Would rather connect with your soul guides directly to uncover your life plan?
Your spirit guides are already walking beside you, nudging you with signs, insights, and synchronicities to help you stay aligned with the plan you lovingly co-created before you were born. They want to support you in remembering who you are, why you’re here, and what your soul came to experience in this lifetime.
And the good news? You absolutely can connect with them, because we’re all psychic!
If you’re ready to deepen this connection and get clear on your life purpose, karma, and soul gifts, here’s how I can support you:
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Meli Guidance, Past Life Psychic
Meli Guidance is a past life psychic, certified Akashic Records reader, and channeling coach who helps old souls reconnect with their past lives, spirit guides, and life missions. Through channeled guidance, she supports clients in overcoming fears, blockages, and limiting beliefs, guiding them toward authenticity, joy, and harmony. Meli teaches courses on connecting with spirit guides, reading the Akashic Records, and becoming psychic. She also offers private coaching, akashic readings, energy healings, and tarot readings, each designed to deepen her clients' spiritual journey and foster inner growth.
