Albert Einstein, the great mathematician known for his theory of relativity, once said, "God does not throw dice with the universe." What he meant by this, is that there is such an incredible order to things that if we but can get the slightest glimpse of it, we will be in awe of it all for our entire life.
The universe is not a game of chance. Things happen for a reason, and everything is somehow either a cause or effect of something else.
You have incarnated into this life with past life karma (unfinished causes) that you are in this incarnation working on. However, you cannot do this completely alone. Sometimes you need help from outside yourself. The funny thing is, the universe knows this, and will always be there for you to avail yourself of its resources.
Think back on your life, and in the most important places in your memory you will find the words and the mind pictures of individuals who said something so meaningful to you that to this day you vividly remember it, word for word and meaning as deeply as the universe who put this individual in your life to say it to you intended.
In some instances, it may have been someone you knew for some time, but more often than not, these gems of wisdom, may have been nothing more than a sentence or two, or perhaps a phrase from someone you did not know before then or since.
Could it be that these individuals, so few in number that you probably could count them on one hand, have reincarnated with exactly the information you needed, to be in your life at the moment you would be most receptive? What is even more intriguing is that these souls may never know how meaningful they have been to you.
Yet it is for certain, that these blessed individuals whose few choice words have become so influential in your being, have karmic soul ties to you. Remember them well, for they are your guides.
In fact, if you think about the North and South Nodes in your chart, by sign, house position and aspects as well as degrees, you may realize how these individuals have played an important part in putting you on your karmic soul path.