What are Karmic Relationships?
- Dec 8, 2025
- 5 min read
A former lawyer turned mystic, Jessica Falcon is an International Soul Embodiment Guide & Relationship Expert. She guides you to embody your power, reclaim your sovereignty, and experience true freedom. Tune into her Soul Sovereignty & Sexuality Podcast.
Understand what karmic relationships are so you can pull your power back and create freedom in all of your relationships. Karmic relationships force you to look at your shadow. The ultimate purpose is to bring you into deeper union with yourself. Experiencing one is a gift from the soul, but it can also feel chaotic, disturbing, or downright scary.
Before we dive deeper into what karmic relationships are, let's define karma. Unfortunately, many people in the West view karma as a form of punishment. You have likely heard the phrase, "You will pay for it in the next lifetime." I believe this is because the Judeo-Christian belief in rewards or punishment by a supreme god has tainted our perspective of karma.
Karma is an energetic imprint. To understand it, we have to see the body as energy, the energy of your soul. Even though your body dies, your soul does not. It is eternal, and it passes through various lifetimes, bringing with it energetic imprints, or karmas. Time is not linear, which means that when you heal karma in this lifetime, you heal it in past or future timelines as well (they are all happening simultaneously). The soul is multi-dimensional and not bound by time or space.
The energetic imprint can be in the form of a deeply embedded thought, belief, emotion, choice, or action. When karma exists between two people in a karmic relationship, it means energetic cords were formed between them in another lifetime. Karmic cords are very similar to, and are formed by, codependent dynamics in relationships.
Codependency includes:
Silencing your truth to make somebody happy
Feeling you have to give somebody what they want and cannot say no
Believing you "need" the other person (financially, emotionally, or mentally) or cannot live without them
Letting the other person decide your worth or value
Patterns of trying to prove your worth or how good you are
Seeking permission or validation from others
Codependent patterns are internal. That means they are patterns within you that you have a responsibility to heal. They will follow you from relationship to relationship until you do so. Visually, I like to imagine cords coming from your core, or solar plexus, that seek to obtain something from outside of you. They seek to hook into the person with whom you are in a relationship.
In a karmic relationship, the codependent patterns are still internal. The difference is that they also existed between you and the other person in a previous lifetime. The cords that come out of you are already hooked into them. They agreed to this (consciously or unconsciously).
For example, if you felt the only way you could experience money, status, or authority was through a particular person, you leaked your life force energy and power to them. They, on some level, agreed to this and took your energy. They fed off of it. It gave them something they wanted or needed, a sense of power over you, for example, or a sense of worth.
When you meet in this lifetime, that energetic dynamic will play itself out until you:
Become aware of and identify the pattern within yourself
Pull your power back from the other person
Begin to source your needs internally instead of externally
Karmic relationship cords are created when we source power, love, belonging, safety, worth, permission, or value externally, from another person, rather than internally, from our own soul.
Your soul is whole and complete unto itself. It is the frequency of divine love. Since your soul is an individuated aspect of the divine, it is light. It is an abundance. It cannot lack. Yet, because we chose to incarnate in physical form, we took on physical, mental, and emotional bodies. These can create thought forms or beliefs that take us away from our own divine nature. This occurs when we look outward and identify ourselves through the external world rather than developing our own internal identity and letting this radiate out.
Anytime you hide or reject a part of yourself because another person does not like it, for example, you are giving them power over you. When this happens repeatedly in a relationship, the cords (that outsource your power, worth, or love) become stronger and stronger between two people. That is why it can feel so hard to break them once you enter into a relationship with each other in this lifetime. The cords can run deep in your energetic system. It might feel as if you cannot live without them because your life force energy is literally feeding off of them.
When karmic relationships show up in your life, they come as an opportunity:
To come back into wholeness
To reclaim your sovereignty
To learn how to source love internally, not externally
To embody more of your soul's truth
To come into sacred inner union
The (often difficult) truth is that a karmic relationship is not union. It is two people who merge into each other, and one or both people lose themselves. True union, visually, looks like the vesica pisces. Two whole, complete selves choose consciously to come together and create a third, the union. Neither loses themselves. Both people source internally, which means they are sovereign. This is the only way to experience true freedom in your relationships.
It all starts by you freeing yourself. This is something I help my clients do in a 1:1 Divine Activation Portal to Embody your Sacred, Sovereign Power. The good thing is that you do not have to wait for the other person to agree or change their behavior. You can free yourself of your own karma, regardless of their capacity or incapacity to do so. It is, of course, helpful if you can both navigate the relationship and its dynamics consciously, but it is not necessary. You are the one in power. You decide for yourself.
In addition to the 1:1 Divine Activation Portal, I also offer a monthly Temple of Divine Feminine Power that covers topics such as how to speak your truth, how to embody your boundaries, and sacred union that support you to end codependent or karmic relationships and fully embody your sovereignty.
Jessica Falcon, Soul Embodiment Guide & Relationship Expert
A former lawyer turned mystic, Jessica Falcon is an International Soul Embodiment Guide & Relationship Expert. She guides you to embody your power, reclaim your sovereignty, and experience true freedom.
Jessica spent years researching religious history, ancient civilizations, and mythology to get to the root of unequal power dynamics in relationships. She has identified the core beliefs and wounds that must be confronted to experience shared power and freedom in relationships.
She leads retreats, workshops, and online portals of transformation to help you embody your divinity, activate your sexual life force energy, and revolutionize your relationships. Tune into her Soul Sovereignty & Sexuality Podcast on all major platforms.
