Was a viewer who contacted us incarnated as Mata Hari in a previous life? Can you tell us about her soul’s twin flame?

Unfortunately, we, as a policy, do not answer such questions. There can be many misunderstandings and misinterpretations and misuse of such information. So this is not singling you out for a restriction for any personal reasons. It is simply what we do with respect to all such inquiries. So we do not play favorites and make exceptions in order to keep things uniform and fair. There are many reasons for this. Many people are not well-equipped to deal with such information. While they may at first find it interesting and even intriguing to hear they were a past figure of some importance, this can begin to work on the mind and create a kind of inner yearning to recapture some of the former glory, or some aspects of that persona to be acted on in the current life, or brought forward to benefit the current life. That may not be at all appropriate for the current outing as the life purpose might be quite different and the set of circumstances of the current life may not lend themselves at all to continuing along the lines expressed in a prior incarnation. Lives happen for many reasons and often a variety of incarnations will be mounted with quite differing objectives and with quite differing sets of characteristics and aspects of the soul being expressed, including various talents that might have applied to a previous outing and there is a desire to follow up and extend the experiencing along similar lines, but this is not always the case. So to give people the awareness they were a famous personage can begin to influence their life currently in subtle but meaningful ways and it may, in fact, inhibit them or intimidate them if they feel they are falling short in some respect and unable to match prior successes or activities. So it can introduce some pressure on the person or it may do the opposite, give false encouragement and then lead to disappointment. In any event, information can be a form of leading, which we are not allowed to do. Some people as well become preoccupied with a pedigree and this can appeal too greatly to the ego and get the person in trouble thinking they have a greater role to play than might be the case in the current lifetime because there was a quite different purpose intended and the same kinds of preparation were not done for the current life as was true in a prior incarnation as a well-known personage with particular talents and capabilities. The bottom line here is that you become different people, to some extent, with each incarnation. There can be similarities, mostly with respect to karmic challenges that come your way, but it is often against a backdrop of having a different purpose for the life in some respect, at least enough different that the two paths will not converge but rather diverge over time, so referencing a past incarnation is not useful guidance.