The Quest for a Soulmate

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Mexican author Laura Esquivel, who wrote Like Water for Chocolate (which was made into a movie), also wrote a story called The Law of Love. Here is a summary from a website:

The Law of Love mixes science fiction and magic realism with a sprinkling of New Age philosophy as it tells the story of Azucena, an astroanalyst in twenty-third-century Mexico City. Throughout the novel Azucena tries to help others as well as herself to remember and cope with their past lives. Along the way, she struggles to escape villains who threaten world peace and to reunite with her "twin soul'' Rodrigo. Her multimedia story, interspersed with color illustrations by Spanish artist Miguelano Prado and poetry and accompanied by a CD that contains arias by Puccini and Mexican danzones, ultimately asserts the unifying power of love.

I don't remember enjoying the prose, but I was very impacted by the message--you have to have many "practice" relationships before you are ready for your other half.

(confusing terminology abounds--I think of soulmates, plural, people you've been close to and who have been with you life after life--my mother and I could be soulmates; and I learned twin flame from a channel who said there is only one, typically of the opposing gender. Your soul splits apart to have a greater variety of experience, and ultimately, like the creator, it will come back together to experience itself more fully--but before the parts have worked through their issues, it may only see it's own faults reflected back when it looks at its twin...not fun...).