If your partner, lover, friend, co-worker, or classmate is in contact with the Angels, you can do this Exercise together. If not, sit quietly and imagine the other person with you. You may want to pre-record this Exercise. It is wise to begin with the 'Grounding' Meditation and move on to the steps below.
1. Close your eyes, and focus on your breathing. Feel your Guardian Angel with you, sitting behind you. Be aware of its particular energy or vibration.
2. Sense the Guardian Angel of the other person. Visualize it sitting behind the other person, whether or not that person is physically present.
3. When you have a feel for the other Angel, invoke the presence of the Connecting Angel for the relationship. Often this energy will come in as a large sphere that surrounds you and the other person and both your Angels. Or you may feel it as another being sitting between the two of you, linking you both.
4. Tune into the Connecting Angel and let your awareness of its presence grow. In what way is its energy different from that of your Guardian? What is it like? As you explore this new presence know that it is with you because of the bond that connects you to the other person. It carries the energy of all that is most loving and harmonious between you.
5. Open now to the Connecting Angel, receive its energy and listen to its words. Ask it any questions, express any concerns or needs that you may have. Be open to receive its counsel and wisdom - in words, pictures, colors, or feelings or any other way that it may come to you.
6. If you are doing this with another person present, share your experiences of meeting the Connecting Angel with each other. This will help make your connection more solid.
7. If you are doing this Exercise alone, visualize the other and know that the Connecting Angel will touch that person gently through his or her Guardian. Know, too, that your reaching out has already begun to make a difference. 8. When you are finished, thank the Connecting Angel, thank the two Guardian Angels, and thank your friend as well. Once again, become aware of your breathing. When you are ready, open your eyes.
Feel free to contact the Connecting Angel when you are in a joyful place in a relationship, to express your pleasure and gratitude. If the relationship gets rocky, remember to reconnect. You can also use this tuning when you are away from family or friends and wish to connect with them on an energetic level. At work and in joint projects, if others have also learned to talk with their Angels, this Exercise can greatly enhance the work and help things go more smoothly, efficiently, and creatively.
Even in the best of relationships, things sometimes go awry. It is not always possible to mend a hurt or wrong in the moment, and little incidents can fester or grow out of proportion when they are not dealt with. For those times when you cannot make it right with the other person, the following Exercise will prepare the way to patch up differences and restore harmony.
For this visualization, you will need two candles and a quiet, secluded environment. Be sure to have your notebook and pen handy, in the event that you want to write down what you receive.
1. Light two candles. One candle represents you, the other represents the other person in the relationship that you wish to heal. As you light the candles, say: "I invoke my angel to assist in this healing. I invoke the Angel of (the person's name) to assist in this healing. I invoke the presence of our Connecting Angel."
2. When both candles are lit, say: "I hold this moment, this healing, and this relationship in the Light." Breathe in, and as you exhale, visualize the healing ceremony also taking place in your heart.
3. Visualize the other person. See him or her as he or she really is, good, bad, funny, sad - every way you know that person to be.
4. When you have run through the many facets of the other person, ask for an impression of that person's Angel. Close your eyes and allow the impression to build.
5. Invite the Angel to share with you and your Angel what needs to be done to heal the relationship. Listen to the Angel's response and feel it, too. You may receive impressions of light, color, or images as well as hearing words. Be open to the impressions you receive and do not reject any as being silly or foolish.
6. When the impressions fade, thank the other person's Angel. Then open yourself to responses from your own Angel. Ask: "What needs to be done to heal the relationship?" Again, make yourself open to receive whatever comes, without judgement.
7. When you have received a message from your own Angel, ask the Connecting Angel if there is anything else you need to know.
8. Thank the Angels and imagine a beautiful gift, one that contains the impressions and suggestions you have just received. Picture yourself handing this gift to the other person. Observe the other person's response.
Because we are all connected, any change in your heart will have an effect on your friend, lover, husband, wife, or co-worker. After you do this visualization, you may even find that the other person takes the initiative in making amends.
One of the ways to identify your Angel's voice is by the way you feel when you hear it. Feelings of love, of greater self-importance, of inner peace, of being deeply cared for and recognized, are signs of angelic connection.
You may also have a physical reaction; chills, goose bumps, tingling at the back of the neck, unusually heightened clarity of vision, tears, which flow when the emotional heart suddenly opens, and a sweet or fragrant aroma that cannot be established. All these are indications of angelic vibrations.
Many of us are using computers these days, in homes as well as offices. You can use your computer to dialogue with your Angel. Often, transmissions come through in a gush of words. This method eliminates any difficulty that you may experience when you are writing longhand.
If you use a computer to dialogue with your Angel, make the surroundings suitably respectful. Clear your desk of all the normal clutter and paraphernalia, place a lighted candle, a crystal, or a fresh flower on it, and boot up. Use a new disk and keep it just for your Angel's messages.
Prior to conversing through your computer, do the following:
1. Sit quietly for a few moments, close your eyes, and feel the presence of your Angel. Breathe in all its love. Greet your Angel from your heart, and receive its greeting in return.
2. Let a question form into words in your mind. Place it in your heart. When you can feel the words in your heart, open your eyes, and type your question.
3. As in any conversation, you will have things to say in response to what your Angel just said. Beam these words into your heart as you type them.
4. Continue until you have come to the end of your conversation with your Angel. Then thank your Angel.
Dreams are a doorway into the unconscious, and they are also a doorway into the subtle realms. They are rather like long letters from your unconscious, often written in a strange and mysterious language. Dreams are also another portal through which you can get to know your Angels and enjoy your ongoing relationship. Connecting to the Angels in this way is natural and easy; it happens whether we are aware of it or not.
The dream state is a particular advantageous access point for our celestial companions, because while we sleep, the unconscious mind is wide open. Gone are the resistances and blocks that the conscious mind - the ego - puts up to keep the Angels at bay. The fluid, spontaneous quality of dreams more closely approximates the way that Angels function than the highly organized, regimented state that we humans exist in during our waking hours.
Our Angels often come to us in our dreams but we do not always remember them, or if we do, we may not always recognize them. In the dream they may be intimate friends, yet when we awake we know we have never seen them before. Or they may show up as wise, powerful, or significant figures, not necessarily with wings, or other stereotypical signs of their identity, such as harps and halos.
Sometimes, we awaken with a sense of well-being, a feeling that all is well, that we are blessed to be alive. We may not even remember dreaming but the good mood permeates our normal morning routine, like sunshine suddenly illuminating a dull, grey sky. When that occurs, there is a good chance that one of our Angels made a guest appearance while we slept.
We have all grown up believing that there is a separation between humans and Angels, if we grew up believing in Angels at all. But that separation is only a state of mind - our mind, not that of the Angels. In our dreams, it is possible to both change our mind and to surmount the mental barriers that we have erected, so we can be with our Angels quite naturally.
If you take your Angel dreams seriously, you may wish to practice dream recall. Remembering your dreams is the first step - and it is a challenge. Dreams are elusive. A positive mental attitude is essential. All you need to do to start is to believe in your dreams. What we believe in, we value. What we value, we bring energy to, and what we bring energy to begins to increase.
If you have spent your life unconvinced of the value of remembering dreams, do not expect to wake up tomorrow morning with one on your pillow. It takes time to inaugurate a new belief. But you can reprogram your conscious, waking mind to allow dream recall to come through. The good thing is, every night you can sleep on it! Dreams come true and when they do, they are manifestations of our deepest heart's wish. They connect us with our passion.
A passion to connect with your Angels is the motivation that will enable you to meet them in your dreams. Next comes diligence. You have to be willing to stay with the process and overcome deeply ingrained resistance. If you wake in the middle of the night with a dream, recapture it as you lie in bed, without moving. Replay the dream - you can begin with whatever part you remember and allow it to expand. Then write it down and date it just before you go back to sleep.
Upon waking with a dream, follow the same procedure. Changing your physical position can blow it away during the replay part, so lie quietly and recall all that you can of the dream. Then write it down in as much detail as you can remember. Date your dreams. You may even want to give each one a title that summarizes it. This will help you recall it or find it later.
There is a built-in resistance in doing this, which needs to be consciously overcome. Resistance also comes in the form of dismissing certain dreams because they do not make sense or because you do not remember all the details. But as you increasingly begin to value your dreams, you will find that this resistance fades.
Here are a few ways to help you utilize the sleep state and stimulate dream recall.
Dream Affirmations: These establish a positive, accepting state of mind. When repeated over and over - especially when expressed with a great deal of conviction - affirmations flow into the unconscious mind, aligning it with the conscious one. Affirmations have greater power when they are accompanied by a visualization. So you may want to picture, or imagine, the experience of your affirmation while you are starting it. If you do not usually remember your dreams, try this one:
Affirmation 1: "I will dream. I will remember my dream. I will wake up and write down my dream."
As you say the words, picture yourself sleeping and having a dream. Then see yourself waking up, reaching for your dream journal or Angel notebook, and writing it down. If your dream recall is good, omit the first affirmation, and move on to:
Affirmation 2: "I am open to you, my Angel. I invite you to meet me in my dreams."
It is always best when you create your own affirmations to invoke your Angel by name if you know it. Choose your own words, using the two examples above as guides. Again, the more you connect to your feelings in this, the more power you give to your affirmations. It helps to visualize a beam of pink or golden light streaming out of your heart and connecting to your Angel's heart as you do this affirmation. Or you may feel drawn to picture a beautiful place or environment where you can meet your Angel. Repeat your affirmation as you imagine the scene.
Once you have established contact with your Angel in your dreams you can begin to work with it on specific issues, asking questions as you drift off into sleep. This works the same way as writing to your Angel, and in fact, you may wish to write the questions down on a piece of paper and place it under your pillow. Even if you do that, it is also a good idea to vocalize the affirmation:
Affirmation 3: "Dear Angel, in my dream tonight I would like clarification on .........," or, Please give me some clarity on ......," or, "Please help me to understand ...... "
Use your intention as a point of focus to seed the dream state. Just as you are drifting off to sleep, imagine having a dream in which your Angel comes to you. Simply make up a dream exactly the way you would like to have it. The dream you recall in the morning will contain some element or trace of that seed. Affirm that this is so, even though you may have to play detective to find the clue.
The key to identifying them in our dreams, our Angels tell us, is feeling the tone of the dream. The emotions or sense that you have of the dream atmosphere, a quality or event that is unusual, exotic, or other-wordly, can signify the presence of the Angels.
Even after you have established dream contact, it can take a few days or even weeks of asking the same question before you fully receive or understand the answer. And it may not come through the Angels making a direct appearance. The dream itself may be your Angel's reply. Or, the answer may come in a single word, image, or a song that you wake up remembering. The reply can also be the gift of a dream in which you find yourself flying, without effort and without wings. And sometimes, the answer comes not in a dream but in an event, happening, or moment of sudden insight. It may come to you in a casual phone call from a friend, or a sentence you read in the morning newspaper, or a snatch of conversation overheard in the street. 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 in time they will come in this way, too. Faith endears you to your unseen advocates, as well as creating the space for miracles, which is where they flock and flourish. Miracles do not have to be earth-changing. Miracles can be tiny happenings in your daily life that make you feel good or that make you laugh or even cry from happiness.
Jacob dreamt about a ladder going up to heaven, with Angels climbing up and down. But since times have changed, while you are drifting into sleep you might want to visualize a golden elevator in which you and your Angel are traveling up into the dream world. Doing this will support you in dream recall, working with your affirmations, and seeding your dreams.
If you choose to record this exercise, place your tape player right beside your bed, so you can reach out with your eyes closed to turn it off at the end of the exercise.
1. Close your eyes and feel yourself drifting into sleep. Your breathing is slow and easy.
2. Let your neck relax. Let your shoulders relax. Feel your entire back relaxing. From head to toe, feel your whole body releasing tension.
3. Now, visualize a long, long hallway in your mind. The walls and floors are made of glowing light. See the light, and see yourself slowly walking down the luminous hallway, with your Angel right beside you.
4. At the end of the hallway you see a shimmering portal. This is the doorway to the Angelic Elevator. As you and your Angel get closer, the door slowly opens.
5. Hand in hand, with one of its wings wrapped around your back, your Angel and you step into this elevator. When you do, your body is bathed in the purest, warmest light you can imagine. It soothes your body and flows deeply into every part of you, into every cell.
6. You watch your Angel reach out with the tip of its wing to push one of the glowing buttons on the panel by the door.
7. The elevator door slowly closes. Bathed in light, you and your Angel are slowly rising up into your dreams.
8. If you are working with affirmation, repeat it now, slowly, several times over.
9. If you would like to ask your Angel a specific question, or seed a particular dream, now is the time to do it.
10. Notice your breathing again. Feel yourself drifting into sleep. Together with your Angel, you are moving up, up, up into the world of dreams.
The best way to know more about your guardian angel is to begin a series of activities that will reveal to you the spiritual qualities that your angel possesses. It is not important to get the name of the angel, or to see the angel, but it is VERY IMPORTANT to learn how to work cooperative with your angel. My suggestions are:
1. Start a notebook listing all the little incidents that occur when you feel there has been some help given to you, and acknowledge them. The angel loves this and will interact when you do this.
2. Spend time each day planning how you can deepen your faith in God, and do that which you plan.
3. Make a list of all the painful incidents in your life, or people who have caused you pain, or who you caused pain towards, and turn them over to your angel in a prayer of forgiveness for all concerned. This brings the angel very close.
4. Make a decision about how you can become of greater service to God by helping others, and ask your angel each morning to lead you into those activities.
5. Rise each morning and express gratitude to the angel for all the unseen help given both in sleep and awaken times, and especially for the multitude of actions taken by the angel to prevent harm and protect you that you are unaware of but which happens all the time.
When you begin doing these things, your angel will become more active in your life and will lead you to an understanding of the "personality" of that angel who accompanies you throughout eternity..
Supplies
Rawhide string or leather
54 small beads
5 large beads
1 token of the goddess
1 pentacle or miraculous medal (or both)
Tie a knot between each bead, but make sure there is enough room so each bead can turn. You could use smaller beads between each bead if you don't want to use knots.
Don't worry if you don't want to be artsy-craftsy. I've designed this based in the standard rosary, so you can purchase a regular rosary at any inspirational store and adjust it for your needs by removing the cross and replacing it with a pentacle or a miraculous medal. However if you are a Christian and the cross is a divine symbol to you, by all means keep it where it is.
The angelic rosary is your first line of defense against unwanted chaos. Why do i use the word "unwanted?" Sometimes a little chaos in our lives is good. It shakes us up; it gets us thinking and hopefully moving.
To say the rosary:
Begin by making a banishing pentagram on the pentacle or medal and saying the Angelic Alignment
I align myself with universal harmony.
I align myself with the Goddess.
I am in alignment with the God.
I am in alignment with my guardian angel.
So Mote it Be.
On the first bead, recite the Invocation of the Nine Choirs
Brilliant Seraphim I call to thee
Circle round, bring love to me.
Mighty Cheribum guard my gate
Remove from me sorrow and hate.
Thrones stand firm, stable be
Keep me steady on land or sea
I call Dominions, leadership true
May i be fair in all I do.
Circles of protection, Powers form
Help me weather any storm
Miraculous Virtues hover bear
Element energies i summon here.
Principalities bring global reform
Bless the world and each babe born.
Glorious Archangels show me the way
To bring peace and harmony every day.
Guardian angel, Goddess delight
Gift me with your guiding light.
Say the Prayer of Gabriel on the second bead
Hail Lady, full of grace, the God is with you.
Blessed is the fruit of your womb, the Consort and Son.
Holy Goddess, Mother of Earth,
Work your mysteries for your children,
Now and in the hour of our need.
So Mote it Be.
Say the prayer of the God on the third bead
As the rod is to the God
So the chalice is to the Goddess
And together they are one.
Say the Star Goddess Litany on the next bead
Hear the words of the Star Goddess; she in the dust of whose feet are the hosts of heaven and whose body encircles the universe. I who am the beauty of the green earth, and the white Moon among the stars, and the mystery of the waters, and the desire of the heart of man, call unto thy soul. Arise and come unto me. For I am the soul of nature, who gives life to the universe. From me all things proceed, and unto me all things must return; and before my face, Beloved of Gods and of men, let thine innermost divine self be enfolded in the rapture of the infinite. Let my worship be within the heart that rejoiceth; for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. And therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you. And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not unless thou knowest the mystery; that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee. For behold, I have been with thee from the beginning; and I am that which is attained at the end of desire.
The First Mystery
You are now at the point of the first mystery of the angels--Universal love. Meditate on becoming one with the universal energies, opening your heart to divine love. Touch the Goddess medal to your forehead, then turn the next ten beads, reciting Gabriel's Prayer as you turn each bead. Don't forget to meditate on the mystery. See the beads glow as you become one with this sacred concept.
The Second Mystery
This is the gift of magick in our lives and the ability to change our circumstances through free will--the mystery of freedom. Begin with the Prayer of the God on the large bead, then continue with Gabriel's Prayer, turning each bead as you say each prayer. Don't forget to meditate on the mystery. See the beads glow as you become one with this sacred concept.
The Third Mystery
The third mystery is the mystery of your oath. This is the knowledge of and ability to work within the cycles of the universe in service to both the planet and our brothers and sisters. Begin with the Prayer of the God on the large bead, then continue with Gabriel's Prayer turning the successive beads as you say each prayer. Don't forget to meditate on the mystery. See the beads glow as you become one with this sacred concept.
The Fourth Mystery
The knowledge of reincarnation and karma, birth and death, joy and sorrow teaches us that every action we perform has an equal reaction and how to live with the cycles of the seasons. (Note from ely: say the god prayer and gabriel's prayer as before) (fingers getting tired ;)
The Fifth Mystery
This is the Gift of wisdom and power to the hidden children of the Goddess. This mystery teaches us to be humble in our will and use our gifts for the good of all, harming none. (god's prayer on big bead, Gabriel's prayer as before)
We are now back to the goddess medal and at the conclusion of our meditation sequence. End with the Statement of Divinity
A great sign appears in the heavens.
It is the Goddess clothed within the sun, the moon under her feet.
And on her head a crown of twelve stars.
The God stands behind her in his glory
With his hands resting upon her shoulders
And together they are one.
So Mote it Be.
Finish by making the sign of the equal armed cross.
"Angels: Companions in Magick", pages 259-263
Do this exercise before seeing your friends and clients. Do it regularly in order to create a relationship.
Go centered and calm in the way that works best for you.
Begin to imagine yourself in a healing situation. You are with your client or friend who needs your healing help. Imagine that there is an angel overlighting the situation with a warm and helpful energy. This angel knows perfectly how the healing can take place. This angel's energy envelops your companion and you. Imagine yourself covered by this angel's light.
Then in your own words, aloud or telepathically, ask for this healing angel to come to you. feel it coming into your presence. Gratefully acknowledge its presence. Ask for it to stay with you and be with you whenever you are in a healing situation. Thank it.
Stay quiet, contemplating its presence and the implications for future situations. Notice what passes through your mind and what you feel. When you are ready to end this exercise, communicate to the angel that it can either stay with you or go, whichever it wants, but ask that it be with you when you need it. Again express gratitude.
Gently come out of the exercise.
When you are in the healing situation, before you do anything with your friend and client, take a little while to be quiet. If you are embarrassed by this you could say something to your friend like 'Do you mind if I stop and focus for a while to think about what we have here? I just want to focus my mind properly.'
Bring yourself to center.
Recognize that your energy body extends to connect with and include the body of your client. Envisage that over you and surrounding both of you is the aura of a healing angel.
Invite this angel to be with you and thank it for its presence. Stay quiet a while longer and allow the connection to be fully absorbed by you. Let the angel's aura into you. Notice what images, instincts or thoughts you have. Know that the healing work you are about to do is inevitably moving towards a healthy fulfillment.
Then, when you are ready, move instinctively into the kind of therapy that you do.
If at any point you become uncertain about what is happening or what you should do next, go back to your inner calm. Center. Connect again with the overlighting angel. Begin again.
When the session is over give thanks.
Working with Angels, Fairies and Nature Spirits by William Bloom PhD.
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