Beginning to Contact Your Angels

The following suggestions may help you in making initial contact with your angels.

What if I don't feel a connection?

Angels vibrate at a very high level and it may take a while to attune yourself to this high vibration. Be patient! The most common blocks to getting angelic guidance are:

	Diet—(meat, caffeine, shellfish, most junk food, prepackaged foods that contain chemical additives and preservatives and chocolate are all low vibration foods that can block divine guidance)
	Drugs—(even over the counter products) and alcohol can cloud clarity.
	Drama—Whether the chaos is yours or originates from others in your life, it can make you distracted and agitated which adds to the difficulty of connecting with angels. Ask your angels to clear away all negativity and fear and fill you with the energies of peace and love.
	Disorganization—Angels are attracted to clean, organized, quiet atmospheres. Provide a welcoming atmosphere to appeal to angels.
	Negative People—Make changes where you can in your own life and try to avoid negative people. If you can't because of your circumstances, it may take you longer to connect but keep trying, eventually you'll be able to tune into the higher vibrations.
	Inexperience—If you haven’t done a lot of spiritual work or find it hard to relax and quiet your mind, be patient and realistic with your expectations. Try to increase your awareness of angels by heightening your all your senses and meditating regularly only a few minutes at a time.
	Unrealistic Expectations—If you're expecting a talking hologram to appear and talk to you for an extended amount of time, it's not going to happen. Especially at first, the contact may be brief and more of a feeling than visual or audio. If you are lonely, you need human contact! Get out and join clubs or groups with interests like yours. Life is meant to be lived—get out there!

It can take days, weeks even months to receive an answer you fully understand. And sometimes, the answer comes through an event or moment of sudden insight. It may come to you unexpectedly during a casual phone call from a friend, something you read in a book, newspaper or magazine, from a conversation between strangers you inadvertently overheard. The main thing is to be aware and open.

Patience will allow you to persevere, even if you do not get results right away. Patience will help you build faith in your Angels, trusting that at the right time they will come through. Faith endears you to your unseen supporters, as well as creating the space for miracles, which is where they gather and thrive. Miracles do not have to be earth shattering. Miracles can be tiny happenings in your daily life that make you feel good or that make you laugh or even cry from happiness.

The Power of Asking

Angels, and this includes our own and others' guardian angels, can do nothing for us unless we ask. If you need help, just ask! That's why God sent angels to be with you for life. Your angels are just waiting to be asked for help. Don't worry about asking for too much. There is no sense of linear time in the spiritual realm. Have you ever been driving somewhere and all of a sudden had an urge to make a turn you didn't plan on and then later found out there was a bad traffic jam you avoided by listening to that urge and turning off the road? That's your guardian angels assisting you. Don't forget to thank them when you notice the correlation.

Working with Others' Guardian Angels

You can also ask others' guardian angels for help or assistance. If someone, say your boss or a coworker, is making life more difficult than you think is fair, ask their guardian angel to have them be nicer to you or leave you alone altogether. If you are having problems with a loved one, plead your case to their guardian angel and ask for their help to bring peace into the situation. Others' guardian angels are willing to help as long as our requests are positive and won't hurt the one they are to protect. If it's a big issue, write a letter to the person's guardian angels asking for help. It may sound bizarre but works.

One day I was at the beach with a close friend and her son who was very sick with cancer at the time. Her son was so weak he barely had the strength to walk but wanted to go to the beach that day. He looked longingly at the swings and said, "I'd like to go on the swings Mom." My friend looked up the hill at the swings and saw a group of sulky young teens there. She tried to convince her son that it wasn't a good idea. But I said, "Wait, let me ask their guardian angels to tell them to leave that area." You see, earlier that day I had told her about asking other's guardian angels for assistance. I had learned this from Doreen Virtue at her ATP course and found the results amazing. Of course, she gave me a skeptical look when I told her. Who could blame her? So I asked the teens' guardian angels to have them leave that area so Chris could go on the swings for a few minutes. She was amazed when less than 30 seconds later they all got up and walked to a different part of the park. And she was even more amazed when, while we were walking up the hill, two more teens came into the park and started walking toward the swings. I asked their guardian angels to have them leave too. Both boys, at the same time, got a confused look on their face and turned around and walked out of the park (without even saying anything to each other!). My friend never again doubted the power of guardian angels after that event.

Of course, I must add this won't always work. It needs to be for the highest good for the ones the angels guard. 

Meditation to Meet Your Guardian Angels

Before trying this meditation, it's helpful to be familiar with the chakras and assure they are cleared and balanced. Go to the webpage on Chakras for more information. Here's the meditation to balance and clear the chakras.

The following prayer should be spoken, mentally or aloud before making contact with your angels. You should change it so it’s one you feel comfortable saying.

God/dess, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Archangel Michael and the angels

(and/or QuanYin, Mother Mary, Mohammed, Moses, St. Germain, Father Wind, Mother Earth, a specific Goddess, Saint or Master. Substitute your preference for a devotional figure)

I ask your protection and help in giving me detailed information from my guardian angels that will help me attain my highest purpose and joy. Please protect me from all fear and negativity and assure that who I intend comes through as a clear channel for the light.

Thank you so much for your love and assistance.

Amen

Sit in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Place both feet on the ground and begin to mentally prepare for you meditation. Begin by grounding and centering yourself. Close your eyes and imagining roots growing from your feet into Mother Earth. Then follow this simple breathing exercise to relax your physical body: breathe in through your nose, hold it for 7 seconds, and release it very slowly through your mouth. Repeat 3 times then unconsciously continue breathing this way throughout the meditation. Tell your Ego-self (or lower self) to stand aside. Mentally tell the Ego-self it is silenced now and know it is so.

Ask the Holy Spirit to surround you in a beam of white protective light. The Holy Spirit immediately responds and beams down a ray of protective white light.

Now imagine yourself in a beautiful place, it can be a forest, a meadow, a beach, wherever you will feel comfortable. Find a comfortable spot in this beautiful place to rest and relax.

Now, in your mind's eye, look around you, and notice a path. It is a beautiful path filled with love. This path is very long; it seems to go on and on—you can’t see the end of it. Keep your focus on this path.

Mentally ask for your Guardian Angel to come forth. Express your interest in wanting to meet him/her. See an illuminated ball of light in the distance.

It may be white or may be a color. Notice the color you see. See it slowly coming closer and closer becoming aware that the light is getting larger as it comes closer to you.

Your Angel may decide to make itself known in another form. Just let this happen. Note what the light looks like as it come closer

Now your angel is directly in front of you. There may be more than one as your other angels, guides, relatives and pets may want to connect with you.

Greet your angel. You may get impressions, emotions, and tingly feelings. Its not uncommon for Angels to talk to you in your own voice, so don’t discount your inner voice as your imagination. Feelings of love, encouragement and warmth are most common markers of Angelic contact.

Thank your Angel for all the times that they have helped you, comforted you and protected you.

Mentally invite the intervention, guidance and assistance of your Angel in your life from this point onwards.

Ask your angel the name they wish to be called. Angels’ true names are unpronounceable by us. They will either make up a name or let you choose one. If you don’t get one right away, don't worry. You may get a color or a musical note, every contact is different. Just know that whatever you receive is correct for you.

Ask your angel to communicate any messages to you. Absorb any communication such as thoughts, visions, knowingness and feelings, love and emotions.

Ask your angel any questions you have, one at a time. Note the answers. Don’t doubt the information or emotions you are given, just let your angel communicate to you in their own way.

Now say the following prayer to your guardian angel:

Angel of God, my guardian dear
To whom God’s love commits me here
Ever this day, be at my side
To light and guide,
To rule and guard,
Thank you!

Now ask the Creator to bless you and your Angel. See the both of you showered by the Light and Love from the Divine  

Thank your Angel for meeting you in this meditation. Let your angel know you look forward to contacting them again soon   

Know they are always by your side.

Focus on grounding and centering yourself by picturing the roots from your feet into Mother Earth.

Pause a moment and open your eyes.

Did you get a name? If not, don't worry, sometimes just feeling your angel's energy is enough in the beginning.

Angel Names

Like humans, each angel (or any entity created by God/dess) has it's own unique energy and purpose. God/dess assigned your dear guides, protectors and messengers for specific life purposes and for good reason. Know that the true names of angels and spirits are usually unintelligible and may be a high pitched tone or vibration that humans can't discern using their current senses. Words as we know them on earth do not exist in most other realms as information is relayed telepathically without the human need to process it. The angel names, especially those that end with "el" were actually given to these beings by humans. The name resonates to the angel or ascended master's essence. The "el" angel names have Judeo origins that this ancient group of people assigned and that angels still come through with today. The same with many deities. The names your angels, fairies and guides give to you or a psychic will have a special significance for you even if their name in the spiritual realm is unintelligible to our 3D existence. 

Each name has a specific meaning and can represent symbols, angels, saints, avatars, geniuses, etc. If you are given a regular name such as Therese or Brigid, look it up in a baby name book for the meaning. Chances are it contains a special message for you. You may read about St. Therese and find that the work she did on earth has very special meaning to you and her talents match your own--the fact that you always received red roses would be a validation she's been trying to get your attention. Or that the Goddess Brigid (also known as St. Brigid) represents something very deep in you. Her name means strength, thinking about past circumstances in your life, did you often need the strength offered by this powerful divinity? St. Brigid is the patron saint of Ireland and Brigid was also the Goddess of fire and poetry. See how looking deeper at the names and meanings of your guides and angels can bring clarity to your life's purpose?

One thing I'd like to address here are the names received of your guides and angels. The most surprising (and I must admit, disappointing) thing I've found in giving angel readings is that people sometimes don't understand the names given by their guides and angels. Many people are disappointed if they don't get what they consider a glamorous name such as Morningstar, Singing Wolf or only want a familiar angel like Archangel Michael or a Goddess like Cerridwen to be their guardian. While these are deities that are very much involved with guiding humans and often come through in readings, there are literally billions of angels and spiritual guides out there. Most of them are not documented in any book written here on earth. Many are unique just to you.

Many people have archangels with them because these special angels have the power to be able to intervene in every earth incarnation simultaneously. Cassiel is often with people that are working through blocks and breaking unhealthy patterns in their lives. She is the very powerful angel of solitude and tears and is easy to connect with.   

Consider the comparison of hearing your angel's name to learning your totem animal. Everyone doesn't have the wolf, bear and eagle as totems. Some have less glamorous but just as powerful totems like the ant, the turkey or the mouse. The armadillo could be with you if you need assistance in setting healthy boundaries. If you and your friends went to a psychic and the only names given were well-known angels, the only totems given were the more popular animals then shouldn't you be somewhat skeptical? You should, although the psychic may not be fake but after years of looking at disappointed faces, may just want to please their clients and tell them what they want to hear.

If your earth's purpose includes impacting a lot of people, you probably have a guardian angel from one of the higher level hierarchies. This doesn't make them superior than others' angels, just that their origin is at a higher level vibration and they are closer to the God/dess Light. I find the higher level angels and aeons can have really long, strange, or hard to pronounce names. Most guardian spirits of the angelic realm have names that end with "el" or "ah." 

When dealing with these very high vibration spirits it can take a while to get the name correctly and the spelling can be a little off (you may get two spellings in a reading). You can look up your angel's name on the internet by putting it into a search engine such as www.google.com and there are some great angel dictionaries out there (Angels A to Z by Matthew Bunsen and A Dictionary of Angels by Gustav Davidson. Keep in mind that there are billions of angels and yours may not be documented.

If you find the name difficult to say, shorten it. Take my word for it, they won't mind. The angels and guides that are with you love, guide and protect you unconditionally, are assigned to you for a specific reason and, since they don't have egos, won't get their feelings hurt if you want to change their name. It truly doesn't matter what you call them just so long as you call on them often. If you want to let them know you've acknowledged them by the name they've given in a reading but would rather call them another name. Just let them know the name you will call them going forward. Believe me, they will answer the call to the name you've given them.

I offer angel readings for guidance and personal development. You can read more about them here: angel readings.

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  * The art used for the Archangel links are works by Peter Fich Christiansen who, as you can see, creates beautiful spiritual works of art along with his wife Birgitte who is also an accomplished spiritual artist. Their website is http://www.birgittefich.dk/index.php?pid=86