Was I in direct contact with extraterrestrials in a previous lifetime?
The querent is Mercury. Extraterrestrials are the Moon.
The Moon is separating from an aspect with Mercury establishing the previous contact. The aspect is a sextile, also referred to as “imperfect love”. Congruent with the querent’s intuition.
The Sun, being the ruler of house 4, being close to Mercury from a previous sign, nicely describes the lingering influence that previous life still has on the querent.