Indigo Intentions offers training in Reiki, Tarot, and Japanese Psychology to support, enhance, and deepen your journey into a Soul Centered Life. Each of these training experiences helps you integrate life experience, release outmoded patterns and beliefs, and fill your self-care toolbox with powerful, life-changing skills. These skills will transform and accelerate self-cultivation and free you to heal your own life and the lives of others.
As you consider which training path is right for you, bear in mind that for Reiki, Tarot, and Japanese Psychology, I remain committed to teaching each of these in its traditional form. For Reiki, I teach Traditional Usui Reiki; for Tarot I teach traditional Tarot; and for Japanese Psychology I teach Morita and Naikan Therapy. You will find, as I have, that traditions that are deeply rooted in authentic, highly cultivated, and time-tested practices, not only connects you with your ancestors who clairvoyantly accessed these practices, but also evokes the deepest resources of Soul that reside at the heart of your being.
I invite you to join me on an exciting path of self-discovery and growth that is your birth-rite. Your ancestors will be smiling along the way with you.
Parenting an Indigo or Crystal child is a special privilege in this time of turbulence and change. As a parent, you are contributing to etsablishing new patterns for parenting on the planet. You are partnering with your child in raising the resonance of the child/parent relationship to its highest possible level at this time.
The Indigo or Crystal child has come to the planet with its own “mission”. As an Indigo it is here to challenge exisiting forms and beliefs, and as a Crystal it is here to teach empowerment and love. You, as the parents, are the partners in this mission of teaching and healing. You can help your child to fulfill its mission by understanding what is required of you. As a parent to an Indigo, you can expect to be challenged at every turn, but having the skills to handle these challenges will create and easier relationship between you and your Indigo. As the parent of a Crystal, you will have to deal with a very strong will and frequent power struggles. Again, having the parenting skills to cope with these issues will facilitate the growth and unfolding of your child.
The Old Parenting Paradigm The Old Parenting paradigm just will not work for Indigos and Crystals. And this is to be expected. They are here to challenge this paradigm and to replace it with something better. So, the way you were brought up will not work for them. You cannot repeat your own parenting patterns – whether consciously or unconsciously. As a parent of a New Child, you have to become conscious of what motivates the particular parenting pattern that you have chosen.
The old paradigm was based largely on Power and Fear. The parent saw the child as a responsibilty that had to be undertaken, and the parental duty was to ensure that the child was provided for materially, educated and formed into an adult, just like all the other adults. The child was brought up to fear punishment and to see parents, teachers, and other adults as power figures. The child was taught to accept the norms of society by these power figures, even if these went against his or her natural inclinations. The parents and caregivers saw their role as control of the child. They were therefore entitled to punish the child, even with violence, if that control, usually exerted in the form of rules and prohibitions, was challenged or ignored. The point of the rules and regulations was to ensure that the child would “fit in” or conform to society. Old Style parents often say things like: “You will do it because I said so, and I’m your mother/father”, or “you will do it because that’s what everyone else does”.
The Old Style Parent is an Authoritarian, and demands compliance and respect on the basis of that authority vested in the child/parent relationship. In this belief system, the parent is seen to “own” the child and have the right to demand compliance. The parents believe themselves to know more and to be wiser, and therefore have the right to demand certain behaviour patterns and life choices from “their” child.
The New Parenting Paradigm The New Parenting Paradigm is based on Love and derives from the Heart Centre. In this new paradigm, every child is seen as a gift and a privilege. Parenting is viewed as a Heart experience, in which the adult is given the task of nurturing and assisting a newly arrived soul to the Planet. This task is a partnership, in which the parent and the child share the adventure of creating the conscious experience of growth and learning within the nurturing parameters of the relationship.
In this new Heart-based parenting model, the child is seen for what it is – a highly evolved and developed soul. This Indigo or Crystal soul has its own wisdom to impart to the adult world, and the parent’s role is often to assist that child to bring its message to the world. To do so requires that the child be loved and nurtured, and encourage to express to the full who and what they really are, and to be given the opportunities to develop their full potential in a loving environment.
In order to be this kind of parent or caregiver, qualities such as Love,Tolerance, Respect and Unconditional Acceptance need to be part of the basic parenting or caring skills. Also, the new parent needs to learn and understand the skills of Negotiation, Communication and Discipline.
LOVE This is THE most important parenting skill of all. And most people imagine that it “comes naturally”. But often, parents reproduce their own learned parenting paradigm without truly considering whether it comes from the heart or not. Effectively, you cannot love and respect your child if you do not love and respect yourself. And so many of us were brought up with messages of “not good enough”, that fostered low self esteem and difficulties with self-love and self-acceptance. Anyone who works with children will need to watch how their own unresolved self-acceptance issues may be projected onto the child. The child will then be seen as “naughty” or “unmanageable” or “out of control”, or any of a number of “not good enough” labels.
Also, a parent’s unresolved angers and hostilties are often reflected back to that parent in the child’s behaviour. Often an angry and temperamental child will be playing out the repressed feelings of the parent.
It is difficult to raise an Indigo or Crystal child unless you have worked through your issues and are able to love yourself, empower yourself and express your full potential.
Your Indigo or Crystal Child will be your primary teacher, if in fact you have not worked through these issues.
You WILL learn to empower yourself and to value yourself – as they teach you the skills. But it is far easier if you already have these skills, then parenting your child becomes a shared adventure of empowered growth.
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE This is often one of the most difficult things for a parent. Often parental pride demands that the child live up to certain expectations or fulfil certain roles. But Indigo and Crystal children have their own defined being and their own sense of who and what they are. This is very clear to them. And sometimes this sense of who they are can be in direct opposition to the parents desires and needs.
When this happens, it takes a very special parent to be able to say: “I accept you for what you are”, and “you do not need to be like me.”
An insecure parent may take the child’s very difference from him or herself as a threat, and demand that the child conform. But the new parent allows the child to unfold and be what it is, even encouraging aspects of the child’s being that may be foreign to their own way of thinking or being if that is where the child’s gifts lie.
The new parent also accepts that as the Indigo child grows into adolescence and adulthood, it may not choose to follow the “safe” and “responsible” career paths that the parent may wish. The Indigo may wish to be creative, or travel the world and see life, rather then go to college and follow a set life path.
New parents will need to understand that Indigos and Crystals see life as an ongoing creation, where they are free to “remake” themselves whenever they feel so inclined, as they follow their passions. They probably will have no interest in safe and secure, but rather in passionate and creative and fun.
This doesn’t have to mean they will not create abundance. Often Indigo adults create the same affluence level as their parents before they are thirty. But they do it in unsual and creative ways.
RESPECT This is closely related to unconditional acceptance. If the parent can accept who or what the child is, then on this acceptance there can be built a mutual respect for each other. This mutual respect is a necessary foundation on which the parent/child relationship will be built.
Many Old Style parents see children as inexperienced and fairly stupid until taught otherwise by experienced and wiser adults. New parents are aware that their child is an evolved being in a small body, and there is a mutual exchange of ideas and experiences in the relationship. The parent teaches the child/soul the survival skills it needs for life on the planet at this time. The Child teaches the parents new perspectives on life that derive from its closer connection with the Spirit world.
This mutual respect means that each of you will allow the other to be what they are, without the need for criticism and hostility if there are differences.
In fact, the new parent will see these differences as something to be celebrated as we begin to understand the immense diversity and possibility inherent in human life on the planet today.
TOLERANCE This topic relates to the above two as well. If there is unconditional acceptance, love and mutual respect in the home, then there is also going to be tolerance for the differences and different needs of each person in the family.
This tolerance can then be extended to the broader society outside the home. If you teach your child that you are ok with you, and you are ok with them, then they are more likely to transfer this pattern to their contact with different children and people they meet at school and in social situations.
This tolerance of others and accectance of others is part of the mission of the Indigo and Crystal children, and will help to create a world in which there is tolerance and acceptance of all.
The new parent will show their child that they can connect with people who are “different”, with respect. And that they can honor the differences and celebrate the diversity, rather than being threatened and fearful as so many old style parents were.
The effectiveness of the aspects mentioned above in the New Parenting Paradigm, often lies in the parent’s ability to share life skills with the child. This is most effectively done through the skills of Communication,Negotiation, and Discipline.
COMMUNICATION Communication with your child is one of the key ways in which you can show love and respect.
The act of communication is one of giving and receiving. The person who communicates is giving or sharing ideas, and the person who listens is receiving those ideas. Both processes are “active”, in that receiving or “listening” is also a skill.
As a parent, you should move beyond issuing orders and instructions which you expect the child to receive without question and obey.And above all you should never lose your temper and shout in the process of communicating with your child.
The use of anger and violence in a communication only teaches the child that to get your own way you have to make the most noise and be the most aggressive. Likewise, physical punsihment teaches the child that in order to get what you want (compliance), you have to be aggressive and violent. These patterns of communication will be internalised and may then be externalised when the child interacts with its peers. Crystal children, especially, are here to experience power, and if they learn from you that violence equals power, then they will play this out. And often against you.
Far better then, to teach your child to communicate effectively, but with respect. And the key here is for both parties to LISTEN to what the other has to say. And in the act of listening to really receive and understand what the other feels and needs.
Communicate with your child about all family matters that will affect him or her. Don’t just assume that because they are small they just need to fall in line with what you want. Children have emotional needs that should be taken into consideration when making decisions that will affect the entire family.
NEGOTIATION Negotiation is part of the Communication process. If you want your child to follow a certain path or do certain things, then you will have to explain to them why you need this behaviour from them. Indigos and Crystals are not interested in authoritarian commands, but they will listen if you talk calmly and negotiate for what you want. If what you want is not particularly atttractive to them, it is possible to negotiate a reward for having them do as you ask. In this case there is a “win/win” situation, where both parties get something that they want.
The skill here is not manipulation, although parents of smart Indigos will need to watch that the child does not become manipulative. Rather, it is reaching a place of mutual comfort, where both parties are in accord and happy with what needs to be done. For example, if clearing away toys is an issue, negotiate with the child that if the toys are cleared away every night for a week, then on the week-end some treat can happen. If not, no treat. Most children will work around a proposal like this, rather than having mother continually shouting about why the toys are not put away (well, because Indigo and Crystal children generally have other more important and imaginative things to do than put away toys).
DISCIPLINE Although this one was left for last, it is generally the most emotive topic in my discussions with parents. Whether or not to “give hidings” as punishment, or to enforce boundaries.
My own belief is no violence, ever. This just teaches the child that violence is a tool for getting what you want.
However, I also believe that the concept of “discipline” is poorly understood in our society. It is equated with rules and regulations and punishment. In effect, the word discipline shares the same root as “disciple”, and has to do with teaching and learning. And the most effective teacher is not the one who shouts and is violent, unless you are in the Army. In ordinary life, teaching is most effective when it comes from the heart and is imparted in a kind and considerate manner.
Children need to know where the boundaries are, and what is expected of them within the family context. This helps to ensure a sense of security that fosters calm behaviour. But this information can be transmitted in a loving and quiet way, using the skills of communication and negotiation.
The skills of communication and negotiation are very much a part of the skill of discipline.
Your role as a parent is to teach your child – through example and through words – what is required of them to become empowered and loving adults. You are the teacher, they are the disciples. And sometimes, they are the teachers and you, as parents, are the disciples. Let the relationship between you be as loving and nurturing as that between Christ and his disciples.
THE AGE OF HEALING, HARMONY AND SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS
I believe that Indigo is within all of us. We are now entering into a new age of consciousness, healing and harmony.
We have searched for satisfaction in the material realms. Only to be left feeling empty and frustrated.
We set our goals on achieving all this “outward success” without paying much attention to our inner needs and longings.
With hard work and determination, we achieved some of the goals we had set for ourselves. Some of the goals we did not manage to accomplish. We bought our dream car ,our dream home and got the promotion we were after. Only to discover that the job was terribly stressful, the thrill of driving the fast car, had worn off. No matter how much “stuff” we kept buying, we just could not keep up with the latest and fanciest gadget that the advances in technology brought our way. This left us feeling empty and frustrated.
We are seeing more and more people turning inwards to find healing, balance and the answers to life’s questions. It is time to live our lives as creative, empowered individual’s who are in tune with our divine nature. It is time for every one of us to take responsibility for caring for planet earth, for each another and to realize we are all part of the same whole!
This is the tremendous gift of the Indigo age!
Indigo children started to incarnate on the planet after World War 2.
This was the first wave of indigo children. They were the group of indigo souls who set the foundation for the global shift we are now experiencing.
Indigo’s incarnated among the “babyboomer” generation of the 50’s and were born to the “flower children” of the 60’s. The greatest arrival of Indigo’s on planet earth started in the 70’s and continued until the early 2000’s. At this point the Indigo Children were joined by the Crystal Children.
The Indigo generation is known as the ” Warrior ” generation. They will challenge all old and out-of-date systems that no longer nourish the soul and allow the spirit free expression.
The term “Indigo’ was first brought into awareness by a book written by Jan Tober and Lee Carol entitled “Indigo Children published in 1992. The adjective, “indigo” is used as this relates to the color found in the children’s aura’s. Indigo colored aura’s usually indicate an advanced soul and part of their soul purpose will be as a healer or teacher.
The Indigo generation is here to bring in the new age of peace. They will break down the old systems with their warrior spirit, their wisdom and their intuitive, creative ways.
It is our responsibility as adults, to care for and nurture these sensitive souls. As it is our responsibility to nurture our spirits and soul mission. It is important that we be good role models for the next generation and live our lives fully and abundantly!
This is a time for celebration and healing as we embrace all the gifts of The Indigo Age.
Reading through the meaning of each Tarot card, it is common to wonder where the Tarot interpretations originated from. While earlier Tarot decks may have been influenced by folklore or oral traditions of the time, newer Tarot decks, especially those created in the last century have meanings linked to psychology. Not too Freudian, thank goodness!
Popular psychology is present in many definitions but more specifically, Jungian psychology has highly influenced the Tarot meanings. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), was originally a student of Freud, but moved away from Freud’s psycho-analytical approach to develop a rich system of symbols entirely his own.
Jung’s fascination with mankind’s spiritual element combined with his interest in divination, dreams and astrology seems more connected to ancient Chaldean teachings than modern psychology. Jung’s personal experiences, like Freud before him, factor heavily in his system. Jung’s psychic abilities were documented and he had experienced such phenomena as ghost, visions, telepathy and precognitive dreams.
Jung believed that the “collective unconsciousness is the foundation of what the ancients called ‘the sympathy of all things'”. For Jung, the human psyche lived in three separate parts: the conscious, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. Archetypes, powerful universal figures and symbols live in the personal and collective unconscious, shaping our perceptions and experiences.
These archetypes also appear over and over again in myths, legends and stories. Joseph Campbell, a popular anthropologist and writer whose work explores universal archetypes has documented them and their place in every world culture.
These symbols occur again in the Major Arcana, in the pictures representing the Tarot cards. The Empress, symbolic for the fruitful mother while the Emperor is a stern, authoritarian father are just some of the archetypes present in the Major Arcana. Jungians believe that the universal and dream-like feelings of these images work on an unconscious level and allow greater knowledge to come to the conscious mind.
In a Tarot reading, these powerful archetypes work together to create a pattern or a message that allows the questioner to understand and sort out their difficulties. Like many other oracles, their powerful symbols can also demonstrate to the reader the feelings or ideas that are lurking just below the surface of their conscious mind. The symbolism of the Tarot can be a gentler way to bring the questioner in touch with feelings they may be refusing to acknowledge.
Studying the image and meaning of these archetypes can be therapeutic for the Tarot reader or questioner and help them understand all the powerful symbols present in their lives. For those who are unhappy with who they are, working with archetypes can help them to realize the strength of their current archetype and also how everyone is made up from multiple symbols. We all have the ability to be a Warrior, Magician or Mother- archetypes evolve as we do.
Before we can change the course of our lives, we must understand the traits we have that motivate us and that can cause us to interact with the world in a certain way. In order to create positive change, we need to acknowledge the path that we’ve been on and make a conscious decision to fulfill our potential. This process of discovery and commitment can be a winding road, but there are several tools available to help guide us in learning to live a full and productive life. Everything from psychological counseling to healing arts like massage therapy to visualizations can move us to a greater understanding of our life and our destiny. One of the most useful tools in the journey toward living a full live is a tarot reading.
For those who are not familiar with tarot cards, there are 78 cards in a deck that are divided into what are known as the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana. The Major Arcana is comprised of 22 cards, and includes cards like the Magician, the Emperor, the Star, the Chariot, Judgment, Strength, and Death. The Minor Arcana cards are divided into four suits: Wands, Cups, Pentacles, and Swords. Within the Minor Arcana, there are numbered cards, Queens, and Kings. Reading tarot cards involves divining the meaning of each card in the context in which it is dealt. Tarot spreads (the way cards are dealt) include the Celtic Cross, the Astrological spread, and the Horseshoe spread. Each tarot card has a meaning, a certain appearance, and a symbolized interpretation. It also has correspondences to a certain path, trump, Hebrew letter, and Zodiac element planet, as well as deities, animals, and plants.
For example, a card in the Major Arcana is the Lovers. The meaning of the card could be related to finding a soulmate, or to a current relationship. It can pertain to love, harmony, trust, optimism, or even a missed opportunity for love. Its meaning can be interpreted to relate to a pending decision about a relationship, a romantic temptation, or choices between two love interests. The Lovers card corresponds to the Hebrew Letter zain, to Gemini, to the gods Janis and Castor, to the magpie, and to orchids.
Some might think that a person reading tarot cards is a fortune teller, but it is more accurate to think of a tarot card reading as a peek into the way you perceive and interact with your internal and external world. A tarot reading can provide you with valuable insights into your past or your current situation. And, thanks to the Internet, it’s relatively easy to find someone who is gifted at reading tarot cards. You can also find online tarot sites that provide free tarot readings. While some sites leave you to interpret the spreads, the better sites read the cards for you. Tarot can be an eye-opening experience, and one that can help you more clearly see your current life and the paths that are open to you. It’s an invaluable tool that can help you live your life to the fullest.
What is the Tarot? The tarot is a deck of 78 cards, featuring illustrations that can be interpreted in various ways. The deck is divided into two sections, called the major and minor arcana. The major arcana features the 21 trump cards, and the minor arcana is divided into four suits (wands, pentacles, cups and swords) each with cards featuring the numbers 1-10, an ace and four court cards (the Page, Knight, Queen and King).
Origin of the Tarot The oldest known tarot cards originated in 15th century Italy. The tarot appears to have started life as a card game, and was at first restricted to the wealthy upper classes, although after the invention of the printing press, the cards became more widely available. Some writers have claimed (despite the apparent lack of evidence) that the imagery of the tarot cards suggests a more ancient origin, and have connected the tarot with such cultures and traditions as the ancient Egyptians and the mystical Hebrew Kabbalah.
Later Developments It was not until the 18th century that the cards became associated with the occult and mystical activities with which they are often linked today. This began in 1781, when the freemason Antoine Court de Gebelin made the claim in his work ‘Le Monde Primatif’ that tarot cards contained hidden meanings (which he associated with the ancient Egyptians) that could be used for divinatory purposes.
Since then other mystic and magical traditions, such as the order of the Golden Dawn, have claimed that the tarot has ancient roots, and that is has hidden wisdom to impart to those seeking enlightenment.
The tarot’s mass appeal increased with the publication of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot in 1910. Arthur Edwards Waite was a Golden Dawn member, and in this new deck, drawn by the artist Pamela Colman Smith, images with occult symbolism were included on the numeric cards, as well as the trump cards. This deck was very successful (and remains popular today), and since then, hundreds if not thousands of diverse new decks have been published, with many enthusiasts creating their own.
Uses of the Tarot The tarot has several distinct uses, including:
1. Games
This was its original use, and it is still used for gaming purposes in some European countries.
2. Psychology
Carl Jung was the first mainstream psychologist to attach meaning to the tarot cards, when he associated them with the fundamental archetypes that he believed to reside in the collective human unconscious. Several therapeutic techniques involving the tarot have developed from this insight.
3. Inspiration
Many artists and writers have produced works inspired by the tarot.
4. Divination
Fortune telling is perhaps the most common use associated with the tarot. The images on the cards may help the person seeking the reading to tap into their own subconscious knowledge. Others believe that the cards themselves hold some kind of inherent divinatory power, which may be read by a skilled person. For this reason, handling another person’s cards is generally frowned upon in occult circles, as their energy could become contaminated.
Doing a Reading There is no set method for performing a divinatory tarot reading. However there are several popular layouts or ‘spreads’, with perhaps the most well known being the Celtic cross. This is usually the first method taught to beginners, although it is by no means the most simple. Experienced tarot readers will often invent their own spreads, with their own means of interpretation.
Once the cards are selected by the person receiving the reading, the reader lays them out in a spread and analyses them, taking into account the positions relative to each other, the symbolism of the individual cards, and their position (upright or reversed).
Meaning of the Cards There is no generally agreed upon interpretation of the tarot cards. They all have imagery of varying degrees of complexity, and the wide range of decks available makes the situation even more difficult. Nevertheless there is a huge amount of writings available on the symbology of the tarot, and on the most basic level, the 22 major arcana cards are thought to represent the journey of the Fool from ignorance to enlightenment.
In addition, the minor arcana cards have their own symbolism. The numbers are most obviously associated with numerology, and the suits are linked to the four elements (Swords=Air; Cups=Water; Wands=Fire; Pentacles=Earth). The tarot has also been linked with other mystical and occult systems such as the I Ching, astrology, and the Kabbalah.
Choosing a Tarot Deck There is a huge range of tarot decks to choose from. Two classic decks are the symbolism-rich Rider-Waite deck, and Crowley’s Thoth deck, both of which remain very popular. The early Marseille deck (used by Gebelin to illustrate ‘Le Monde Primitif’) is another important deck, also. There are also many less conventional decks to choose from, and people with just about any special interest can find a deck to match.
Feminists, for example, might like the Motherpeace Tarot with its round cards and exclusively female imagery, whereas some of those interested in Paganism might enjoy the Witches deck or the DruidCraft tarot. Tarot decks can be found representing animals too, as well natural imagery, various sports, and other common activities. In fact, whatever your taste, there’s probably a tarot pack available to match, and most can be found online as well as from bookstores, new age shops etc.
Where to Start? If you’re interested in learning mote about the tarot, I recommend checking out some of the numerous excellent tarot-related sites on the net, as well as online and local book stores and new age stores. One thing’s for sure – there’s no shortage of information available!
Angels are messengers of love, they are such high frequency beings, very few people ever see or hear them. So they make their presence known in other ways.
Little white feathers are their symbols, so if an angel wants to draw your attention to the fact that it is there, it will leave a little white feather in an unexpected place.
Dee phoned me up to tell me this story. She had been to an angel workshop and everyone around her seemed to be getting messages and were feeling wrapped in angel wings and yet she felt nothing. Despite this, she knew the angels were there, so she asked the angels to come into her dreams that night. Still she received nothing. Feeling very cross, she thought it was most unfair that she was the only one that the angels would not respond to. At the time, she was studying the Course in Miracles, so she picked it up and opened it. There, in her page for the day, was a little white feather!
If you know someone who is skeptical about angels, do not waste time and energy in persuading them of something they are not ready to believe. Angels have far more effective ways of drawing their presence to their attention. A friend of mine, Ann, went for a walk with a skeptical friend. When Ann talked to her about angels, she laughed sarcastically. Ann quietly mentioned that their symbol was a little white feather, which they would produce to remind you they really are there.
They paused at the end of a path to lean against a gate to admire the view. Out of nowhere a small white feather dropped from a clear blue sky and landed gently in her friend’s upturned hand. Ann told me that her friend’s eyes shone with wonder as she looked at it.
A businessman called Robert phoned me one evening to tell me this intriguing story. He had been reading an angel book at his gym, when suddenly he felt pulled out of his body and taken into the Angelic Kingdom. He felt filled with joy and ecstasy and totally overwhelmed by the beauty and sense of love of the angelic presences. Then he returned to his body. Luckily his personal trainer was a very spiritual man who was able to help him come to terms with his extraordinary experience. As he left the gym, he bumped into an old friend he had not seen for many years. This man was a medium, who gasped when he saw him and said. ‘Oh, you’ve been with the angels. Your aura is full of feathers.’
Whatever the circumstance, angels have a perfect way of reminding you they are there, bringing comfort, hope and help. For many years Merity stayed for a week in the same bed and breakfast each summer. One year there was a great sadness over the house as the landlady’s fourteen-year-old son was ill. Merity had not seen him and did not realise how ill he was, until one of the landlady’s friends passed her on the stairs and whispered. ‘Not long to go, I’m afraid.’
For the first time Merity realized he was dying. She went to her room and lit a candle. Then she prayed for him and asked the angels to look after his spirit. Afterwards she went to the window and looked out. A beautiful cloud formed in the perfect shape of an angel. Even the feathers in the wings were defined. She said ‘thank you’ to the angels and the cloud dispersed. The boy died two days later and she knew that the angels were with him. Angels always come to help you when you pass over but it is lovely to have a clear reminder of their presence. Sometimes angels give you physical objects to remind you they are there helping you.
Nina Dickerson was living in Italy with her husband. He had been under considerable stress and was very ill. Most of the friends who had been her support system had moved away and she felt alone and quite desperate. The weather was sizzling hot and they both felt frazzled. Added to that they were in the process of moving country and were collecting boxes in which to pack their belongings. One morning as her husband picked up a box and put it into the car to take home, she closed her eyes and asked for a sign for both of them.
They drove home and hurried into the cool of the house. Later her husband went to fetch the box from the car. ‘Look’, he called to her. There in the bottom of the box were two little china angels with golden wings.’ She knew it was the sign she had asked for, she felt and they still sit on her window-sill as a reminder. Indeed from that time the tide of her life turned. She now holds angel classes herself and has helped many people to connect to the angels for help, healing and transformation.
Your Guardian Angel and other angels are always close to you, wanting to help, guide, inspire and heal you. Because you have free will they cannot step in to help unless you ask. So do make yourself calm and still and ask for help whenever you need it. It does not matter whether you ask for something big or small, as long as it is for your highest good and that of everyone involved, they will do what they can within spiritual law to bring it about. Acknowledge the angels when you see a little white feather. If you see a cluster of them or several in a line, take special notice. The angels are around you in force.
Angel Exercise Draw a feather on a piece of paper and write a wish in it. Ask the angels to bless it. Hold the paper feather and repeat your wish every night for a week. Then let it go and burn or bury the feather. If it is for the highest good the angels will bring your wish about.
Many babies and children are still open to the world of spirit. They see and talk to fairies and angels. Children are not fanciful. They are aware of dimensions we are not in touch with.
I heard a wonderful story about a four-year-old boy. His mother had a new baby and he kept asking to be alone with his baby sister. His parents were somewhat concerned but finally they agreed. They switched on the intercom and the little boy ran into the room and carefully closed the door.
This is what they heard him whisper to the baby. ‘Hey baby, talk to me about God and the angels. I’m beginning to forget.’
Your connection to spirit is made through the right brain, which is the intuitive, creative, receptive, imaginative part. This is still open in children. However, when they go to school, where the left brain is developed exclusively, the right brain often atrophies or shuts down completely and they stop communing with angels. The left brain is the linear, thinking, logical, analytical part.
The ideal is to encourage and honour right and left brain skills equally, so that people are in touch with the angelic world and at the same time inspired to bring forward technology and scientific ideas for the highest good.
Parents of children who are in touch with angels often try to make them normal by denying their reality.
Frankie saw and talked to angels as a child. Her Guardian Angel was her best friend. Her grandmother told her to stop imagining things and that there was no such thing as an angel. Frankie thought she must be bad and closed down her connection to her Guardian Angel.
After she died her grandmother came back to her in a dream and apologised to her. She told her she thought she was helping her by making her the same as her peers but now she realised how wrong she had been.
A friend of mine’s daughter, Josie, has always seen angels. She is now eight years old and fastens her huge gray eyes on you as she talks with you. Josie told me that she usually has four or five angels around her and she sees everyone’s Guardian Angel with them.
She told me that the angels often help her at school to remember her lessons and to find things. I wanted to know if she asked the angels to do things for her and she said, ‘Yes. If the car isn’t working, I say. ‘Please get the car going or I’ll be late for school’
‘Does it work?’ I persisted.
‘Always’.
At the end of a long conversation, she ended simply with. ‘Angels can do mostly anything.’
I felt really humbled talking to this wise child, who is still clearly open to Universal wisdom. She has a younger brother who has special needs and her mother felt she put upon Josie’s good nature by asking her to look after him too often. One day the little girl said to her, ‘Don’t worry about me looking after him Mum. I chose him to be my brother.’
Mother Mary, Queen of the Angels, has a special affinity with babies and children. She is the twin flame of Archangel Raphael, the Angel of Healing and Vision. When a mother gives birth, her aura is blue, the colour of Mary’s cloak, and this enfolds and protects her child. If, for any reason, the mother is ill, shocked, had a difficult delivery or the baby is taken away, it does not receive this healing, nurturing, protective blue energy into its aura. Even being born into the harsh conditions of bright lights can prevent the child from receiving the mother’s energy. Because the blue is missing from its aura, when that baby becomes an adult, it will still be looking for that special protection and nurturing.
The Queen of the Angels is approaching people now, waiting and willing to heal their inner child. Whenever she can, Mary will enfold your inner child in her blue cloak of protection and start a deep healing process.
I first became aware of this when I was giving one of my daughter’s healing. She was seriously ill as a baby and spent a month in hospital. As I was working with her, Mary, Queen of the Angels appeared beside me and told me that, because Lauren was in hospital for so long, she did not receive this blue light. Mary said she had come to put the missing energy into Lauren’s aura so that she could at last heal the trauma of her childhood illness and separation.
Since that day Mary often appears at workshops with her wonderful compassion and love to heal people’s babyhood and childhood. She glides amongst the participants touching them as necessary and pouring her beautiful blue light into their auras.
When you open your heart with compassion, your thoughts create the bridge which allow the angels to touch that person. You can direct Mother Mary and her angels of healing to enfold babies, children and the inner child of anyone who is hurting.
All bullies, cruel people, dictators as well as sad, lonely and frightened people, have a small hurting inner child. These people are all crying out to be loved and enfolded rather than criticised and judged. Compassion is the key, which allows you to send angels to help them. It also opens your heart so that the angels of love can heal your inner child. When humans and angels work together we can heal the world.
Exercise
1. Light a candle, play gentle music if you wish. 2. Sit quietly where you will be undisturbed. 3. Relax and breathe until you feel calm and centred. 4. Open your heart with compassion. 5. Invoke Mother Mary and the angels of love and healing. 6. Ask them to surround and enfold new born babies or children who need help. 7. Ask them to surround and enfold the inner child of someone who is hurting. 8. Visualise your own inner child and ask Mary to enfold him or her in her blue cloak, until your child feels at peace. 9. Thank the angels. 10. Open your eyes.
Most people believe in angels, but people have different ideas about them: they’re far away, they only come around to protect us, they existed more in the past, they’re a pretty decoration around the holidays, or that they’ll see them one day when they get to heaven.
So let me tell you about angels.
They are real and are around you every minute of the day, at least your guardian angels are. And yes, you have more than one. You may not know of their presence, but I can promise they are there. They will not interfere in your life except to protect you from harm if it’s not your time to go. However, they are waiting for you to ask for their help, and when you do, be ready.
Angels are made completely of love; they are messengers, guides, protectors, encouragers, supporters, gift-givers, miracle-workers, inspiring, calming agents and instructors who will gladly come instantaneously to your aid with just your thought. They have become my best buddies and I cannot imagine life without their daily guidance.
When you have an intention (thought), the universe immediately goes into action and begins to align with the vibration you sent out. This is the reason all thoughts create your life, so if you think fearful thoughts you create fearful (negative) situations, but if you think from a place of love you create wonderful (positive) experiences. That’s where the angels come in, when you create from love, for they are by your side to assist you every step of the way, if you only ask.
I am in communication with my angels, the archangels and ascended masters all day every day. We talk all day long and when I have a problem or challenge I immediately call for their guidance. Never have they let me down and they always respond in divine timing if I simply listen. Sometimes they make me laugh, sometimes they surprise me, sometimes amaze me, and always they come from love. Sometimes I just ask for them to stick around me all day because I enjoy knowing they’re nearby, or I acknowledge how much I appreciate and love them. That knowing creates a deep serenity.
I began hearing them years ago but didn’t know who or what it was. As I became aware of who was speaking to me, and that I wasn’t going crazy, it opened a whole new world for me. The beauty of it is that you can also work with your angels. Some people can hear them, some feel them, and others see them. I have been blessed with hearing, seeing and feeling them. But the key is to listen to their messages.
What is it like to work with angels?
I have called upon writing angels when I’ve been instructed to write an article or book, and amazing things come into my brain, sometimes words I’ve never used before. They have comforted me when something upsets me and have given me signs when I asked for them. It might be a feather strategically placed nearby or an appearance of a coin on the floor in front of me. (They apparently like to use those signs) I might notice that a candle flame is flickering but there is no wind or moving air. Lights may flicker, something may brush against you or you may suddenly feel warmth around you or see light from an unexplained source. You might suddenly hear a particular song on the radio that gives you insights or see certain numbers repeated over and over, perhaps the house number of the new house you haven’t seen yet but the universe is in the process of bringing to you. Here are some examples of angels at work.
1. My boyfriend and I had a disagreement of sorts. There was that period of silence that followed, and I was getting no where in breaking it. So I asked the angels to take over and finally let go of trying to fix it. Immediately as I gave up the control, they began working on him, talking to him and believe it or not, waking him up. He kept trying to go back to sleep but they kept after him until he got up; the rest you can probably guess.
2. My angels kept telling me to put my house up for sale some time ago. It was right before the holidays and not a good time to do this, at least that’s what I told them. But they persisted and I argued my “case” with them until one day I gave it up and put up the for sale sign. But guess what…months went by and no sale. Every time I’d ask them what was going on and why they told me to do this without results, they’d tell me to be patient. Yikes, that again. I finally relaxed and waited. It took a total of 6 months for the house to sell, but in the end the things that unfolded were amazing. My younger son was to buy the house, but he wasn’t ready and neither was I to let go of it. Neither of us knew this part of the story at that time. I grew a lot during the experience and it was an example of patience and trusting the process for my realtor, part of the reason for the experience. She was upset with the progress but I knew there was a bigger picture unfolding.
3. I’ve sent angels to help others when they’re having difficulties. Sometimes the person tells me they felt their presence, but even if they don’t I know they are there. How? Because the situation resolves in amazing ways that often surprises the other person. Or perhaps I asked for peace to envelop the person without their knowledge, and when we talked later they mention how an unbelievable feeling of peace surrounded them suddenly, about the same time I sent it via the angels. The angels want us to be happy and enjoy life, so they will do everything they can to help us, always in ways that will raise us up into higher levels, if we simply ask. They love to make us smile!
4. I might ask for insights or clarity and within a short period of time things come to me that I would have never thought of. That’s why I said earlier to be ready if you ask for their help. Sometimes they keep me awake during the night with so many thoughts and ideas. I’ve asked them why they do it then and they just smile and say “all is well.” And you know what? Even if I hardly receive any sleep I’m always fine!
5. One day I was driving my car and although I knew my gas was getting low it had slipped my busy mind and I had driven almost the entire way home before realizing I hadn’t stopped for gas. This wasn’t my usual pattern and as I set out a couple hours later for another destination, I noticed almost immediately that my low gas light had come on. Since my car was quite new and I had never let it get this low before, I wasn’t sure how much gas I had left. I will admit I felt a little panicky for a moment since I was nowhere near a gas station and kind of out in the country. But I caught my thoughts and shifted to asking for the angels help. I continued driving and suddenly noticed that the low gas light wasn’t on anymore and the needle had risen to a higher level than before. Now I’ve heard stories like this before but this was a first for me. I chuckled all the way to the gas station and continued to thank my angels for their help throughout the day. The gas gauge needle never went lower the rest of the trip to the gas station. There was no doubt in my mind that my angels had worked here.
Here’s an important key.
When the angels help you, or even as you call upon them for assistance, thank them immediately, even before the request has been granted. They want to feel your appreciation and they should receive it.
Help and guidance are a thought away
They await you now. Ask them to make their presence known to you, or ask for more awareness of spiritual insights. Ask them to bring you the desires of your heart as long as those desires come from a place of love. They will bring you what you desire, or something better! Do you need help with making a decision? Are you longing for a life partner? Would a different job work for you but you don’t know how to find it? Are you concerned about finances? Are peace and serenity something you would cherish at this time? Ask for your angels to bring it to you, for they are waiting for you to ask.
All of my work – wholeness coaching, energy work, speaking, writing – is a direct result of my communication with my angels. I wish this for you, and when you open to it you will be amazed how your life becomes extraordinary from that moment on.
The Earth is once again experiencing an acceleration in her energy field on her path of personal Ascension and Evolution. For us, as humans on Earth, this provides another opportunity to accelerate our own personal growth. Archangel Michael brings us this information about the opening of our HEARTSPACE and emerging into AUTHENTICITY to assist us at this time. We are preparing to enter into full ALIGNMENT with our new energy bodies and become HEART-CENTRED BEINGS.
The Path to Love :Switching Off the Mind/Ego Complex and Hearing the Heart Again In order to allow the emergence of your true essence and authentic nature as a being of love and creativity, you need to release what works against this realization. That part of you that believes in fear and scarcity and lack, and in abandonment and rejection and pain.
This part of you is the rational mind and its associated personality complex, the ego. Your rational mind needs to be busy, and will keep repeating to you the fear stories of all the other minds around you, on Television, Radio and in Newspapers. Until you switch it off – and start to listen to the broadcast of your HEART. Your heart will send you feelings of love, peace, serenity, compassion and acceptance. Now is then time to align with this message. Tell your mind that it was designed to assist your unfolding on earth, not to dominate it. Your mind is a fearful child – your heart is a wise and loving elder. Your heart speaks the truth of your soul. Far rather to follow the voice of your soul/heart, that speaks with Spirit and is guided in Love.
Emerging into Feeling and Authenticity When you make this switch, you will begin to FEEL more than THINK. You may imagine that this will be wonderful – and well it should be. But most of you have repressed your feelings since you were children. Your parents, teachers and the culture in general told you what to think and feel, and so you switched off your authentic feeling voice – your heart- and repressed and denied your true feelings. They somehow were not “right” or “accepted” by those around you.
As adults, many of you are subject to ADDICTIONS: to drugs,alcohol,nicotine, food, televison, work, sex or even religion. All ways of avoiding feelings and authenticity in favor of escapism and other people’s ready-made solutions to your life.
As you once again “switch on” your heart voice, you may have to face many painful feelings that have been repressed for many years. Many of you may feel lingering DEPRESSION and SADNESS as you struggle to understand why you feel this way. These are authentic feelings, so not reject them or judge yourself. Rather understand that your soul is asking you to recognise these very old feelings relating to inauthenticity – and to clear them.
The process of clearance is through FORGIVENESS and allowing the emergence of VULNERABILITY and TENDERNESS in your life. Forgiveness will happen as you emerge into COMPASSION, for you will understand how we have all been taught to switch off the heart and follow the mind as a survival technique. Those who taught us to do this thought they were doing the best thing to help us to be “real” and “rational”. So we will not need to hold onto angers and resentments about the past as we move into this new and empowered space of FREEDOM to be who we authentically are.
Vulnerability and Tenderness; Becoming “Real” We were brought up to believe that we need to be strong in order to survive and gain love and acceptance, and so we learn to repress any feelings that might represent “weakness” as we understand it. We are taught through movies and television soap operas that “love” involves heartbreak, rejection and abandonment, and as we experience these things, or imagine we do, we close our hearts and nurse our angers and hurts. But the true voice of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and ACCEPTANCE says that these things are mind-created illusions, and that we only have to enter into our authentic being to experience the supportive and all-embracing love that surrounds us.
But to enter this HEARTSPACE we must be willing to be VULNERABLE. To show others who we truly are and to TRUST that they will accept us. Even if this acceptance is not forthcoming, being authentic and acting in integrity will release immense power in your psyche. It will allow you to truly FEEL your reality and act from a place of power rather then victimhood.
Emerging from Vulnerability is TENDERNESS, a deep feeling of compassion and acceptance. An understanding of your own vulnerability and that of others, producing gentleness and kindness and caring, no matter what the circumstances. And in this tenderness will arise a true understanding of the experience of love at the centre of all things, and that every experience is a gift of love and can be lived as such, without anger or hurt.
Tenderness and Vulnerability provide the bridges from one heart to another and create a space for SHARING and GROWTH.
The Bridge to Global Compassion Once you have learned to master your own feelings through authenticity and acceptance, you will be asked to move to the next level. This is where you will experience the repressed feelings and sadness of the Planetary Collective Consciousness. Many Lightworkers and Crystal beings are today channelling the sadness of the collective through their bodies in order to assist the planet to release these emotions. And as each Lightworker enters into their own Heartspace and begins to act from authentic soul-motivated feelings, then humanity will once again REMEMBER how to love.
You will cease to live your lives as you do now, in a mad scramble for money, recognition and possessions. You will once again learn the value of human life, of people and animals, and plants – of the planet itself.
You will understand once again how valuable these things are because you will see once again how valuable you are.
When you cease to measure your worth through your achievements and what you consume or aquire, then you will understand that you are a vehicle for the loving, creative and sharing energies of your Soul and Spirit. You will once again begin to love, to dance, to sing – to truly be ALIVE.
Then you will fully enter into your inheritance as a Human Angel – Spirit in a Human Body.
