This article began simply by receiving several requests to share how I ask the angels for help. When I wrote it, someone suggested it would be helpful to know more about how I came to connect with angels. The story is in two parts. My strategy for asking the angels is in Part 2.
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Link to part 2: How to ask Angels for help
Part 1.
My introduction to the concept of life beyond life
I heard about angels at church when my mother took us to church on Sunday's. My connection or understanding didn't go beyond that. Shortly after my mother's death when I was seven, I woke one night from a nightmare calling out to her as I cried. I looked towards the bedroom door and saw her come in, dressed in her pink nightie, yawning and stumbling towards me. In disbelief, I rubbed my eyes and stopped the tears so I could see better. I knew she was dead. How was it possible I was seeing her? Just as I was questioning, I felt her sit beside me. I felt her hand touch me.
She looked normal as she reached for me with only one difference. Instead of a body of flesh, she was made up of tiny particles of translucent, colored light, some shaped like paisley, in different sizes and colors. All vibrating to make up her image. I could almost see right through her. We didn't speak. Taking comfort in her presence and touch, I went back to sleep.
Our neighbor, her friend, explained to me that it was her spirit I had seen, that our spirit never dies, only transforms. This idea that she was still near me even though I couldn't physically see or interact with her brought me a sense of peace and yet opened up a world of questions that I wasn't able to formulate.
My search for answers to unasked questions
As I matured my interest in the existence of life beyond life grew. I wanted to understand how it was that I saw her and felt her so clearly. In my teens and then early 20’s it seemed natural for me to step into and learn about astrology, Wicca, Theosophy, Spiritualism, Santeria, Buddhism, Judaism, Yogi's and Guru's.
I wouldn't say I was looking for a group to which I could belong. I was curious about life and death and understanding why there were such hardships in life and why we are here. I felt powerless in my own life as I searched for something to help me understand and hopefully lead to a feeling that I had some control in my life. Although each philosophy held a piece of truth of the continuity of life, I still felt powerless.
Introduced to angels
For a short time I was part of an informal meditation group. Just three of us would get together sort of regularly to meditate. One woman, Mimi, was an editor at a major publishing house, and she had spearheaded the publication of a book and deck of cards on angels. Mimi would bring her angels to the meditations who we'd access through her angel cards. Mimi's angels would offer us some pretty amazing insights to the questions we would ask and meditate upon. In spite of their shared wisdom, I wasn't totally convinced of their actual existence. After our group disbanded, I tried to continue the expansion I felt with our group by meditating. During one meditation I had an experience that shook me. I saw and felt two giant tetrahedrons, joining around me. One from the top and one inverted from the bottom. I had no idea what was happening, I felt a big presence near me. Multiple actually. It was unnerving. I stopped the thing that was happening in that moment and popped out of the meditation. I had no one to talk to about this experience so I stopped meditating, I stopped asking, I stopped praying.
Not long after this experience, walking home from a local restaurant in my Queens neighborhood, I had a rare view of the sky. Near the elevated subway, the buildings were not very tall allowing for a nice sky view. I looked up and saw what appeared to be skywriting, only it wasn't dissipating. It held its form. It was a triangle with an inverted bottom, an equals sign, and a 6-point star all lined up like a mathematical formula. Looking around me to see if anyone else could see this I realized no one was around. I was by myself. Unnerving, this confirmed for me, I wasn’t ready to go into this spiritual experience by myself.
Gifted a deck of Angel Tarot
Decades later my sister gave me a deck of Angel Tarot cards (Raleigh Valentine's Angel Tarot). I had used tarot since my teen years, but stopped when the anxiety became overwhelming. The deck I learned with and used most of the time, often presented gloomy warnings of heartache, or the dire predictions of an unfortunate turn of events to come. These messages made me feel doomed, and turned up my already present anxiety. I really did not want to be warned of more problems about to unfold. My brain already was hypervigilant to danger. I wanted to know how to steer clear of these things and find some control. How to change my life. These angel cards were different, they still held the same meanings but they would offer support, they held out a new way of looking at things, a way to change your thinking from ill-fated problems to seeing options for solutions. I loved their solution oriented perspective.
Angel Tarot with positive images
These angel cards have on them images of mermaids and merdudes, dragons, unicorns, fairies and angels. These images have a translucent quality to them (much like how my mother appeared to me when I was seven years old). What I have now come to know is that angels don't have faces, or bodies. Angels are light, color and patterns of geometric shapes and carry a unique vibration and sound that translates to music. They may appear to us in human form because we are comfortable with that image.
When I began to read with these angel cards, I consciously asked the angels to work with me because, why not? If they were real then, with them being so close to Source, it's a good thing to have them near. Soon I began to feel a presence when I’d begin a session. When I asked for evidence or a calling card to let me know they were with me, I would feel a sensation in my body or around me, or in meditation I'd see a particular configuration of shapes or colors. I'd take it as confirmation that they were present. Gradually, feeling more comfortable and aware of these sensations or visualizations, I would ask, “Who is working with me?”.
Archangel Metatron
Now, working with these tarot cards revved up with angels, having returned to meditation, that tetrahedron experience returned. While meditating one day, I felt a huge presence, and saw a giant tetrahedron descending around me, and an inverted tetrahedron rising from beneath me. They locked together, and where each tetrahedron touched geometric shapes were formed. These shapes expanded, colors shot out all around and they began to spin in opposite directions so rapidly I saw only a brilliant ball of light completely envelope me. This time I wasn't afraid. I felt safe.
I learned that those interlocking pyramids are the Merkaba and the presence I felt was Archangel Metatron. I was able to then understand the message in the clouds all those years ago. The message was that they were trying to establish the Merkaba. There are lots of thoughts on what exactly Metatron and the Merkaba are. For me it was the solid connection between spirit and earth bringing protection and the ability to expand my spirit self into my physical existence. I was now confident that angels were working with me. And I met more as I went along.
More of my favorite angel introductions
Two of my favorite experiences are meeting Archangel Chamuel and Archangel Orion, which occurred around the same time period.
Archangel Chamuel
Many readers, psychics and mediums can tell you that clients come to you with similar questions seemingly grouped together. Sometimes, the answers you get for your clients are answers for you as well.
Personally, things were good, but I wanted to offer more to those in my life. I wanted to open up more. Give more, receive more. And I asked for that in my meditations. I noticed that my chest would tingle. This tingling sensation would radiate from the center of my chest through my rib cage over my shoulders rising up my neck to my chin - before and during both meditation and the reading sessions. I'd see a very light, translucent pink glow around my clients whether we were in person or meeting with Zoom. I was uncharacteristically attracted to the color pink, buying clothes and home goods which were pink.
After just a couple of these experiences, I asked who was working with me. At first I saw a vertical, oblong pink-tinted light shaped like a body. I heard a faint whisper say “Sam” I asked again, listening more closely, “Sammy, Sammy, Samuel”. As I listened to the whisper, that oblong light took on a silver and gold sparkle. “Ah! The Archangel Chamuel??” Then I felt a huge rush of energy and that light completely enveloped me and a sensation of being lifted up slightly.
A client was asking if she should focus on making money to leave her husband or focus on repairing their relationship? The Archangel Chamuel showed up with the unequivocal answer - love! Healing her heart would bring love and abundance into her life. Putting down her defenses to allow herself to be loved, and allow herself to give love. Love, abundance, joy, would lead to a healed relationship and financial abundance.
I was searching for information on Chamuel to share with her and I came across a FB post. In this post the author wrote of the association of the color pink, the silver and gold flecks in the pink energy. They explained that Chamuel is the angel who helps us discover unconditional love, peace, resolve conflicts with others, forgive people who have hurt or offended us, heal, find and nurture romantic love, to help others in turmoil and find our way to be of service to others.
I now understood why so many clients clustered together were asking about matters of the heart. My last client's question on whether she should focus on healing or money was answered. It made sense now, the sensations radiating from my chest and the intense attraction I had to the color pink. Archangel Chamuel was already working with us.
I copied and printed that FB post and read it before I went to sleep. As I dreamed, a tall figure who I knew was Archangel Chamuel, kneeled in front of me, took my hands and started to show me past relationships which were excruciatingly painful for me. I winced and resisted. As I turned away I was assured it would be alright. I followed the guidance and surrendered. In a surreal fast forward, rewind almost real-time visual, those most painful relationships were replayed in front of me. Although at first I was bracing myself to re-live the pain, I was remarkably surprised and delighted that it actually felt good! I didn't experience it as though it was happening, I was above it.
We went through my entire adult life in an instant. I was so relieved of that pain I eagerly asked if we could do my childhood next!! They assured me it would be done but not right now. When I awoke that morning, remembering this experience was liberating, it seemed the more I remembered it, the better I felt.
The Archangel Orion
I noticed sparkles in the corners of my eyes. Occurring several times over a few days, I went for an eye exam. All clear. In my meditation the color I was seeing was a deep blue. From the depths of this blue little sparkles of light began to move forward. It was actually very beautiful, like a starry night. I asked who was working with me. I watched a finger dipped in sparkles of light write in a beautiful script: Orion. When I finished the meditation I googled “Orion” which gave information on the constellation. So I tried angel Orion. Appearing in the search results was an Oracle card by Kyle Gray and the description Archangel Orion -”The Archangel of Oneness. Others may call him the Galactic Archangel or the Archangel of Manifestation, because he was named after the three brightest stars (also known as Orion's belt) in the
universe.”
Archangel Orion is a big picture guy. We are always asking for something we want, and he helps us get there. But not by way of minute details. I wanted more money, so I was asking for more clients. I heard the question “why do you want more clients?” “More money” I thought. “Why do you want more money?” I answered, “More money means I can pay my bills and not worry.” Then I heard, “why do you want to pay bills and not worry?” My answer was “so I don't have to constantly focus on making money to pay bills and have the energy free to focus on helping others.” Ah, the big picture! I want to help others. So I started asking to be of service in a way that serves my joy and my financial well-being.
And that is exactly what I got. Many things shifted from that point. The type of questions my clients asked changed, aligning more with the service I offered. More readers came, along with psychologists, social workers and healers. A client paid me more than I asked for, saying I needed to raise my prices. More clients on the path of spiritual development arrived, the financial well-being was building, I was finding real joy in the helping of those who came to me and experiencing financial growth..
Both of these angels Chamuel and Orion helped me feel I had some control. Their partnership with me, their healing and guidance supports me as I let go of those old fears and insecurities, wounds and pain. They opened up the way for me to see and understand that what I want is within my reach. I've still got a ways to go but I feel good knowing they support me.
What angels are
I was open to the angels revealing themselves to me and I asked to know them. Ask for what you want, and be open to receiving. That desire for understanding which was first stimulated when I saw my mother after her death was starting to come together.
In part, what I have learned from them is that they are aspects of the Source of all creation or God. Just like us. Our consciousness, our eternal souls are aspects of Source. We are, just like angels, although we are at different levels of conscious evolution. Kyle Gray, the “Angel Whisperer”, the first writer I came across who sees angels much like I do, describes them like this (I paraphrase): “ if God was a heart then angels are the heartbeat of God”.
The angels, being at an expanded level of understanding, want to work with us in our progression to understanding who we truly are. In the spirit realm just like us here, those who are more advanced help others learn. The spirit realm reaches out to us to help us embody who we truly are. We just have to be open.
They want to be our partner in creating and growing. They will not push themselves up on us. They will not sway you from your goals. They will not tell you what to do. They will nudge, remind, heal, inspire, inform, guide and support you wherever you are and no matter what your goal. We have chosen to come here to have a multitude of experiences that help us understand fully, every aspect of Source. Angels are ready to help us in this.
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. We are not physical beings having an occasional spiritual experience. We are not our bodies, we are not our personalities, nor are we our careers or relationships. Those are simply expressions of who we are. Angels help us to know who we truly are.
Each of us, our spirit selves are, in our lives, focusing on understanding Source from different perspectives and components at the same time. The common denominator is ultimately we all learn to honor the Source or God, within each of us and every living thing.
The angels describe to me the lessons we are to learn from our challenging experiences (both personal and worldwide) like this:
We are to learn to transcend, not overcome. To transcend is to lean into and gain a full understanding and find the way to go beyond. To overcome is to find a way to control.
We are to learn to understand, not judge.
We are to learn to be compassionate not unsympathetic.
We are to learn to collaborate not dominate.
It is through the learning of how to transcend these challenging lesssons that we learn and we expand. Expansion is to know who we are as spiritual beings and bring into our lives, the essence of the Source of all creation into this physical world.
We are creators. Our spritual essence is that of the creator. We have the ability to create with the energy of our physical bodies the desire of our souls.
The angels are here ready to assist us in this not so easy journey we've undertaken. They are not able to interfere in our lives without our permission (with the exception of preventing us from leaving before our time). We have to ask for and allow them to help us. They have to honor our free will. There is nothing we ask for that is too big or too small for them. We only have to ask and allow.
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