About two years ago, a psychic told me I was a nun in a past life.

She told me my soul was still holding on to the religious vows I made in that lifetime and that it was time for me to release them in this one.

She encouraged me to write my own - new vows to guide my life, support my work, and create the self I am becoming now.

So I did.

And I remembered this a couple days ago when some friends and I started chatting about reincarnation and past lives. So I went to dig them up.

This is what I wrote:

I will be faithful to the path my heart has set before me.

I will follow where my truth-quest leads.

I will name, honor, and trust the truth and goodness of my body, desire, and inner knowing.

I will live my life worshipping the god that is my deepest self, the life force around me, and the mystery beyond me.

I will remember who I am and who we are together: goodness, love, and divinity.

I choose myself first and always.

These vows seemed heretical and dangerous when I wrote them two years ago, so I hid them away.

But now they feel real and lived into.

So I guess they did their job.