First of all, thanks for all the comments, conversation, on my Twin Flame/Soul Mate/Spirit Guide posts. I am loving researching these topics and your thoughts are part of it. I am still catching up with the comments actually. Uranus going direct has made everything speed up.
This blog post is going to wind and wander…
Now I want to share my own experience of Spirit Guidance or Angel Guidance (not saying they are the same, but for my purposes here):
I do not believe I have these experiences or “people” in my life. I do not doubt that others DO. But it’s nothing that I FEEL in my life. And as a Cancer Sun, Mercury, Mars, I am what I feel. Feeling is knowing. I also have an earthy chart = experience/perception. An idea (air) is not enough for me. But again, I don’t doubt other people’s experiences. Life is not one size fits all. But for me? My spiritual life (at least how I understand it NOW) departs from the stories I hear about Guides and Guidance.
And I won’t even address the topic of God at this time. We’ll save that for another day 😉
When I speak to a client and I tell them to trust or listen to their Guides or to trust themselves, it is not a contradiction. But that my spiritual experience, my LIFE IN THIS BODY experience, is other. And I am determined to find out, figure out, how mine works because the descriptions/definitions/experiences out there do not reflect my own. And I think for myself and all 😉 As do you, I hope.
Something else I am pondering: whether one’s spirit guides are actually pieces of the self (i.e you) that have split off from you (for whatever reason) in this lifetime or from past lifetimes.
I was finishing a reading for someone this morning and WHOA I am truly tuning in to my Pisces North Node which is a LEAP OF FAITH (we are in Sagittarius Season after all) for me because I am so earthly, earthbound and NEED TO BE but in partnership with Pisces (NN in the 6th!). So little by little, my research (Saturn in Scorpio transiting my 3rd) is expanding my consciousness.
You may think: is this a contradiction? Saturn is limits, not expansion! True. But Scorpio goes underneath the underneath. Yes, I am still the same practical girl you remember BUT Uranus direct in my 8th House is one of the most personal Uranus transits you can have. Shining a light on secret knowledge, my own and that of the masses. I feel I can TOUCH it. Touch this new knowledge.
But back to a previous thought: that “guides” may be pieces of our souls that didn’t incarnate with us into this lifetime. And that SOMEDAY we shall be united i.e. all our parts of self/soul fragments united, with the soul of the one God which is actually a combination of ALL the souls. Or maybe this is the daily experience for some of you. Or maybe it’s my soul journey now.
Despite my belief in *not* having spirit or angel guides (for me) I do have animal protection and maybe you would call that guidance. I’m not sure what it was. It was not advice or wisdom but during a terrible terrible transit (Saturn in Virgo opposing Uranus in Pisces) suddenly I had visions of animals that I knew surrounding me, to comfort me, protecting me, including a white dog I had known and this image only arises in extreme times.
Sometimes I try to go back there to that place but it’s not the same. I was working with animals at the time so very tuned in to their frequency. I have also taken care of many animals who have since passed on, cats and dogs. And in these visions I am human, I am me, not four-legged. Perhaps that is next though!
Next time let’s discuss how to find your Spirit Guides in the natal chart! Remind me. You know I’ll forget to blog on this…
xo sending love xo
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11 thoughts on “Do You Trust Your Guides? (Part Two: My Story)”
As a mere mortal I realized I do have a spirit guide decoder ring. It comes in the form of an astrologer and tarot readers. A flip of the cards give insight. Add astrology and you get more depth of knowledge than one can imagine. I still wish I could immediately “understand” what the owls, wasps, beetles and birds are trying to say but what I do know is I’m in a better and much calmer place to actually listen.
The spirit guide discussion has been interesting and enlightening 🙂
LOL I had missed this comment earlier. “spirit guide decoder ring” :)– This stuff fascinates me too and it’s interesting to me who gets what kinds of messages ya know? Some people get signs and symbols all the time: numbers, animals, plant life…..
Your white dog that shows up in extreme times sounds like my son’s white wolf. He was having a reocurring dream about a man choking him and a white wolf was growling and nipping at the man to make him stop. This dream happened while he was struggling to find balance in his world. He’s in a better place now and MUCH more balanced so he hasn’t had this dream in awhile.
Someone once told my daughter she has 7 beings around her, guardian angels & spirit guides. 7 is her lucky number and she uses this as them speaking to her. She was looking at colleges and the one she chose, and is graduating from next week, had lots of signs. In the course catalog her major was in Chapter 7. She chose her apartment due to the address adding up to 7.
Whatever or whomever they are or have been to me is irreletvant (stunning from this Virgo lol). What we feel or get from them is what’s most important. I don’t know who sends me the bugs and birds I get often yet I’m VERY grateful. I just wish I had a decoder ring for their languages and messages.
LOVED your thought of sitting next to a nun on the plane, she could be like Sally Field flying you up to heaven.
Truly inspired thought 🙂
Forgot to mention what a georgous pack of quadraped babies!!! Doggie faces always warm my heart 🙂
I don’t know if I would call them Spirit Guides but I do connect with animals. I can almost “feel” their thoughts. I have had many instances though when I felt I was in danger and out of the blue someone will come out of their house with a dog to walk, or a policeman drives by or I get help from strangers. This was mostly the case when I lived in the city and walked alone at night. But now too once in a while if I feel just a little vulnerable somewhere, there is always someone that comes out of the blue to make me feel more safe. I don’t know if that is a coincidence or not.
“Something else I am pondering: whether one’s spirit guides are actually pieces of the self (i.e you) that have split off from you (for whatever reason) in this lifetime or from past lifetimes”
That is simply inspired thought. Opens a gate. Wonderful post.
Thanks stephen. I remember having somewhat similar thoughts as a young person. For example, that it was better to sit next to a nun while flying on a plane (i did have this thought back then) because they had a larger god piece (i.e. due to living a life of devotion) that it was safer to be near them on a plane (which could crash)
i love this, and i’m with you…i don’t feel any guidance/guides myself either. never have. but i’ve (ever since childhood) had an affinity for dolphins and on a very, very traumatic and awful day last winter, when my life in that moment seemed to be falling apart, i called out to a dear friend who is very intuitive. she offered to try to tune-in and give me some help. she later reported seeing a pod of dolphins surrounding me and sending me support/love. i was so moved that for my birthday a month later i got my first tattoo… a dolphin on my shoulder. i wonder if sometimes other humans are our guides/guidance/angels… they can bridge a gap for us, maybe.
You know what? As soon as I finished this post, immediately I began to feel the presence of my mother. I do think she is hovering at times or…. something. Need to ponder further. But still distinguishing this from “guides” as it’s usually used… or guardian angels, etc.
Hmm you mean humans on this plane as our guides instead of “spirit guides”?
INTERESTING!
yeah, humans on this plane who have that kind of “link” to that realm…spirit guides/angels….may serve as guides for those of us who may not be able to access that realm as easily. (let me say, tho, that i *do* feel like we’ve all got the same stuff… just some have a more direct line, so to speak.) that’s cool that you felt your mom. i get a lot of spirit/deceased contact thru my dreams, but not so much in waking time. on a side note, i went to a workshop once many years ago about finding your spirit/animal guides…. the upshot was that everyone in the class had these beautiful, extravagant visions and images of their guides… angels, winged creatures, lions, horses, etc. etc. when it came to me i was like “i got nothing”. LOL!
I don’t mind it, by the way. Some of us are firmly planted on this earth and we have an earth purpose. My point in writing these blogs, partly, is so that people don’t feel badly because they don’t have angel visions or whatever…. Many types of beings walk the earth!