The reincarnation of the actress Carole Lombard

 A real life case of reincarnation, with a personal twist for me

Carole Lombard

Lots of people think that if you are famous in this life, than you were famous in the past, even down to the same skills. It's more likely a person who really was a famous person in a past life, more than likely doesn't know they were that person. Nor do they follow on from what they did. Though they might be using certain traits or talents that the famous person has without doing the same thing. A good example that I came across was of the reincarnation of the actress Carole Lombard. This person again doesn't know again that they were that Carole. When I first wrote this article, I decided it wasn't a good idea to reveal that person's real name. But due to recent events I have decided what the hell!  She is called Carolyn Leary. As you can see she has the same initials! She does have a middle name, but she doesn't use it. But I don't think she has done any real acting as such. But has made videos! Instead Carolyn has developed the charity side of the actress and developed a greater understanding of the role of women. One curious odd thing did strike me as odd. In one of Lombard's movies (Lady By Choice) she adopts a woman as her mother. The mother's fictional name was Patricia Patterson. When I first encountered Carolyn at the Shop Community Project on the Manor in Sheffield, her close friend and colleague was actually called Patricia Patterson. 

Patricia Patterson (May Robson)
May Robson also died in 1942

Now I can't say if Patricia was the same actress in a past life as that of the film. Or if the name was chosen by the soul to make a strong connection with Carolyn in this life.  But you never know! I should mention that I did not do a test on Carolyn to determine who she was and even if I had at the time, I would not have recognised Carole Lombard. Instead I was given the name of who she was, when I asked about her. Only they didn't tell me the actress name. It was her real name, which was Jane Peters. And that she was a famous actress. So I had to find out who she was from the name given. There was no internet back then, so I went to the Central Library in Sheffield and looked for a book on film stars in the reference section. None of the listed in the index the real names of them. So I had to search through one that gave the real names.  And yes they name I was given was there and it was Carole Lombard's real name. I was really surprised the initials were the same! However there was little I could do with the information. I wasn't convinced to that she was Carole Lombard. She didn't really look like her from the pictures in the book. It was sometime later that I was convinced it was her. Carole Lombard films are not often shown on UK TV, so when I saw one advertised on Channel Four I watched it. It was Twentieth Century being shown. The way she acted didn't make me think she was anything like that, even anything like a modern woman would act. But then it all changed. John Barrymore's character threatens to leave her. And Carole goes into an emotional scene where she begs him to stay. The hairs on the back of my head stuck up! It was done in the same way Carolyn had spoken to me ages ago, just like the movie. What happened was that at the time I was working on a community newspaper at the time which was based in the Shop, called Manor Mercury. But circumstances got so bad I decided to quit, I was in her office at the time telling her, there was one witness to the event one Carol Jenkinson. But Carolyn broke down in the same way and begged me not to leave. I should point out that she was not connected to the Manor Mercury at all. So my leaving it would have made no difference to her job at all. I was shocked by her reaction and I didn't say anything, but I didn't quit at least for a while. It was like Carolyn had reverted back to the actress role. If I wasn't convinced by that I was a few years later when I saw the other movie with Patterson in it, I was absolutely convinced. 

Carolyn Leary or Carole Lombard

But this reincarnation turned out to be more extraordinary for me, as you will see.

I first got to know Carolyn in the 1980s, when she worked on the Manor in Sheffield. She was a very left wing feminist and many people even thought she was a lesbian! (a rumour that was associated with Lombard by the way). Keeping her middle name quiet too, "Margaret" because of Mrs Thatcher! On the other hand she was very friendly towards me. I developed feelings for her, but I was very shy back then and simply never said anything. Though overtime most people around me knew that I was in love with her. If she knew she never said anything to me. In fact at times she would ignore me or brush me off. Then at certain times she would say things such as "I like being with you". One day I even got to do her birth chart. This revealed Mars in Pisces in the 7th house, the house of marriage. Mars is a masculine planet, so would indicate a male presence in the house of relationships. This was not good news for me as I am not a male in Pisces guy. She was anti-marriage and said at times, that it was just a way to control women. Or that she did not want to become the possession of a man! She was always going on about sexism too. So I expected her to disagree with me and say that's rubbish. But when I told her she had a beaming smile on her face that to me she knew who I was talking about. I put this down to being a social worker, as that fits in with the sign and also she worked in the same department in Sheffield with them. 

One day she she said to me "we really get on well together". But this actually filled me with anger, though I did not show it. What was going through my head was that we never talk to each other. What happens is that she would say things to me and I would clam up. And the same when I said something to her! I felt like hitting her, it was then I realised that this relationship could never work. It was after all a platonic relationship and we never even kissed. I was based for a while in the same building as her, the Shop as it was called. One day she left for a meeting as I was chatting with some of the women in the project. After she had gone they started to slag her off in a very nasty way. They told me in 1979 she had got drunk at the department Christmas party and slept with someone and got pregnant. She then broke down in tears to them and explained she would get an abortion, because it interfered with her career. There was even more nastiness thrown at her. I was shock to say the least, but I quickly worked out that I could not continue at this place with those people. 

So I quit. She could have contacted anytime, but she never did. I never even got a Xmas card or birthday card from her the entire time I was with her, even throughout the 1980s. Though she did send them out to other people I knew. I saw one in the office of another place and she had made an handmade card to them! So by 1991 she quit Manor for a better paid job, something she said to me she would never do. So I was disgusted with her for that too! The community organised a leaving party for her, but I just couldn't go. It was too painful for me. Something I do regret not doing. The result of what went down at the party must have been dramatic as I was ghosted by many people after that.  One thing I did pick up on from people is that she said a lot of times at the party " Is Graham coming". Nobody said anything to me after that about her. But several women in Matrec, where I was by that time, they would be a sudden change of subject, suddenly started to talk about babies while I was around, in the coffee bar area. At the time I put it down to the wife of another worker at Matrec who was having a child. But it wasn't. A few years later the conversation started again and this time some of the women mentioned a social worker having a baby. Then one woman I knew well (MW)

MW

walked in and said "I hear Carolyn Leary is having another baby!"  I was shocked. It was clear that the first time was about her. But nobody bothered to tell me. I then realised that I had no future at Matrec if that's how they were going to treat me! Even at that point MW never directed a question to me, but from her glaring face I knew it was for my benefit. Then came the clincher. They had no idea who the father was. MW even started going on about getting it out of a bottle. I suspected that they were speculating that I was the father. Anyway I did leave Matrec in 1998. 

I now have an idea of what was happening. Carolyn was seeing a man for a long time before 1991 and so didn't want a relationship with me. This man was a Pisces and a doctor in Sheffield (APR). But here's the reason he was a secret. He was a married man with two children of his own. I was able to check this information. She obviously didn't want people to know. She obviously knew about me being in love with her, but knew if she told me about APR, that I would walk out of the project or as I was involved in community newspaper, tell everyone about it! She had kept secrets before from me. She never told me she was going to China for example. Anyway she did have at least two sons and a daughter with this guy, who took their mothers' surname, not the father. She wasn't living with him at the time of the birth of these kids. But moves in with him around 2003. Later they move to a housing co-op, a kind of commune with friends of her from a Socialist choir, where she lives now. But he left shortly afterwards and moved to Leeds, to a similar style project. The relationship over. Mars in the 7th house often indicates fights with the partner and Carolyn had hit ARP, even giving him a black eye once. Curiously enough the Shop project was really for women, but when some of them found out about my astrological knowledge they wanted the chart doing. Many of them were battered wives and yes lots of them had mars in the 7th house! I should point out that the shop was the only place we could have operated the newspaper, but it was far from ideal. At times I wasn't allowed in! Or I had to go around the back, to the room we had set up as a print room. We never had exclusive use of the room either! Me and another chap from the Mercury did some painting in the other rooms of the shop. My friend thought we should get some money for the work, which was worth some expenses money at least. So he asked Carolyn. She bit his head off, saying it's a charity project and you want to take money out of it! 

I have not seen her since she left in 1991, but she hasn't changed much, just a lot older.  

Even if she wanted a relationship with me. She has no intention of contacting me, I don't think. I am certainly not going to contact her. I am nobodies' second choice and I certainly don't want to move into the middle class socialist clique she currently lives in. 

The anger issue was also present in Lombard. The first time she met Clark Gable she punched him and knocked him to the ground! By the way both of Lombard's husbands, William Powell and Clark, were still alive when the people in the story are around. So none of them are the reincarnation of anyone. It's interesting that Lombard kept her relationship secret with Clark, in the same way, as Clark was still married. Just like Leary did. Lombard couldn't have children, and Leary has reversed this in this life, being involved and working with children in a positive way as well as having her own. 

To many people Carolyn is a really good person, standing up for what she believes in. I doubt few people would have a bad word for her.

But not in my case! Carolyn destroyed my relationship with Matrec, never correcting them on the father of the children and turning my close female friends against me. 

She had the option to tell me along time ago that she was seeing somebody. She didn't have to say who. But she could have let me down easy. She didn't. 

I believe that Carolyn is actually my anti-soulmate. The exact reverse of a soulmate. only wrong for me of course! 

I have also established that I wasn't any of the people in Carole Lombard's life. As I was a railway worker called Albert, who lived in England a died in 1940 in an airaid. He did have a family too. The only time he would have seen her is if he went to the pictures. 

There are some more curious connections between Carolyn and Carole. In the 1931 film Man of The World she plays Mary Kendall. Carolyn's father's mother's maiden name was Kendall!  

But Vigil in The Night has even more insights.

She plays a nurse, called Anne. Matthew Bowley is chairman of the board, a wealthy businessman at the hospital. Lombard, while in the gallery observing surgery on Bowley by Robert Prescott, a highly respected doctor at the hospital, she notices that Prescott left a swab inside the patient, and mentions it. She is reprimanded by her supervisor, Matron East, for her unprofessional behaviour, but Prescott checks and discovers she is right. Later, Anne and Matron East are in a bus accident; Dr. Prescott is the nearest physician, and he is impressed by her conduct. They become further acquainted. Meanwhile Anne is promoted. However, Bowley becomes attracted to her and offers her a position as his personal nurse, incurring the jealousy of his wife, who threatens to cause a public scandal if Anne is not dismissed. Matron East has no choice, but at least allows Anne to resign instead. 

As you will have spotted the link with a married man is there again. But Carolyn has also written a piece on Florence Nightingale, the very first real nurse! 

There might be loads more clues to this case in her movies, but I have only seen a few of them. 

I suppose that only Carolyn herself, would see connections, that I can't possibly know about her.