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WHAT DO SPIRIT GUIDES MEAN?

Question: "Regarding spirit guides, is it possible to have more than one? I have been told that I have two and have been given their names (both guides are female). However, another master psychic told me that I have only one, and that my guide is male. Both master psychics have been accurate about other events in my life, but now I am confused about the identity of my spirit guide. Do we get a few in our lifetime? Do our spirit guides work on a 'shift rotation'? How can I find out the truth about my own spirit guide (s)?"

"Psychic Advice":
We are never alone - we always have spirit guides with us, whether we are consciously aware of them or not. The job of our spirit guides is to help us navigate this lifetime by assisting us to accomplish our intended purpose on Earth. Our spirit guides also serve as teachers for us, helping us to learn the lessons that we came to learn. They also orchestrate some of our encounters with other people so that we can carry out sacred contracts with our soul groups and soul mates, and so that we can fulfill karmic agreements and release karmic bonds.

When we choose to incarnate on Earth, we set intentions for what we want to learn and achieve in that lifetime. Essentially, once we plan the chosen curriculum for our life, teachers are selected for us who will serve as our spirit guides to help us achieve those goals. Our spirit guides will review our life plan with us to make sure that it fulfills all intended requirements.

When we are born, we pass through a veil from the dimension of spirit into the third dimension of form. As we increase our density to become human, most spirits lose consciousness at some point in their formative years and therefore have a tendency to forget who they really are, and what the purpose and plan for their life is.

The great challenge comes with the gift of Free Will. While we have certain elements in life that may be predetermined in the form of destiny, karma, purpose, and sacred contracts, we have the Free Will to choose when, what, how, and even "if" we carry out these agreements. The problem is that having the power of Free Will without conscious awareness is like driving blind.

Our spirit guides hold the roadmap to guide us on our journey, but they can encounter difficulty communicating with us in our current density. Spirit guides, and spirits in general, vibrate at a much faster frequency - their vibration is so high that most humans find it difficult to perceive them at this time. In order to learn to talk to your spirit guides, you must raise your vibration through meditation and intention. Otherwise, they must attempt to lower their vibration, which is very difficult for them to do adequately enough to resonate at the frequency of our density.

Because of the Law of Free Will, our spirit guides cannot intervene nor interfere in our choices. They can only try to influence us through various signs and symbols, as well as through our dreams, visions and intuition. Our guides work together with the guides of others to orchestrate "chance encounters" and other synchronicities, but we still have the ultimate Free Will choice as to whether we will act on these experiences or not.

We have choice moment to moment to moment as to whether we will act on our highest good or not. Our guides gently speak to us when we are faced with temptation, but we choose whether we resist or succumb to that temptation, and we must then live with the consequences of our choices. Our spirit guides speak more loudly and urgently through our intuition if we are in danger, because part of their task is to help us safely navigate this life path, but again, we have the choice as to whether we heed these warnings and messages, or not, and again, we must live with the consequences of those choices.

Our spirit guides are with us every moment of our life, and are there to guide us in every decision, at every fork in the road, so that we may choose the path that is for our highest and best good, that will help us to fulfill our life's intention and agreements. This does not always mean that they guide us to the easiest or gentlest path (unless we ask for that), but they will always guide us to the path that will help us to learn, grow and evolve in the way that we originally intended for this lifetime.

Our spirit guides are with us even before we are born. They help us choose the parents that will give us the life experiences that we will need for this lifetime - sometimes these family assignments are to satisfy karmic bonds. Our spirit guides are with us to protect us as much as possible during the helplessness of our infancy. When you see babies looking into the corner of the room, or smiling into space, it is because they are still able to perceive their spirit guides. Unless a baby is encouraged to consciously maintain this connection, it will begin to fade into unconsciousness around the age of 12-18 months.

Many children who have "imaginary friends" are actually communicating with their spirit guides - they can hear them and/or see them, until they are taught that they cannot. The irony is that communicating with our spirit guides is an innate ability that we are all born with, but in our present society, most people "grow out of it" because they are trained and indoctrinated to lower their vibration and disconnect from their natural intuitive abilities.

You can learn to talk to your spirit guides, but you must quiet your mind and raise your vibration in order to do so. Meditation, chanting, yoga, visualization, toning, and accessing altered states are all ways that you can connect with your spirit guides. You can also use divination tools, such as Tarot cards or message cards to allow your spirit guides to communicate with you. A pendulum is an excellent tool for connecting with your spirit guides, because it allows you to ask all kinds of questions and receive answers from your spirit guides immediately in a way that you can clearly see and feel.

The key thing is your intention. Because spirit guides cannot interfere, you must ask for their help. Ask your spirit guides to communicate with you, then trust whatever comes to you, and pay attention to all the signs and synchronicities in your life.

One way to learn to talk to your spirit guides is to work with automatic writing. You can do this with pen and paper, or at the computer. Close your eyes, quiet your mind, surround yourself in a bubble of white light for protection, and ask "those who serve the highest and best good of all" to communicate with you. You can write a question down, then close your eyes and allow whatever answer comes. Keep trusting, no matter what happens. The more you do this exercise, the stronger and better your ability to communicate will be.

You can learn to talk to your spirit guides in meditation. Breathe deeply and relax, clearing your mind. Close your eyes and ask a question, then wait for the answer. You might see an image, a symbol, or hear a word or a message. If you want to know what do spirit guides mean when they give you a particular message or symbol, simply close your eyes and ask for clarification. Be patient - you will improve with practice. Just remember that your spirit guides want to communicate with you so they can guide you and help you - all you have to do is co-operate, be willing to listen and trust.

Do not be so concerned with names of your spirit guides. Most spirit guides do not feel the need to identify themselves - they feel that this is simply an exercise of the ego, and they do not wish to be bogged down in the density of ego identity. Most people have more than one spirit guide, and the number can vary from person to person, and at different times in a person's life. If someone has a life path where they work with lots of other people, they are likely to have many spirit guides to help them accomplish their mission. But more is not necessarily better.

As we grow and evolve through our lifetime, our spirit guides can come and go. There can be a "changing of the guard" at times when we have undergone tremendous transformation - essentially, as we graduate to a new level, we get new teachers. It can feel that we are very alone during those times, almost as if we've been abandoned by the Universe, but it just requires patience and a period of adjustment on our behalf as well as on that of our new spirit guides. Some spirit guides work with many people at once, so they may not always be present with us.

When a psychic perceives your spirit guides, they often perceive only those guides who choose to be identified. Different psychics will also have different perspectives, and some may be able to attune to different frequencies than others. Do not get so caught up in needing to identify your spirit guides that you forget to actually connect with them - this kind of doubt can lead you to throw the baby out with the bathwater, in that the cloudiness you perceive in identifying your guides stops you from being able to communicate with them. The best thing is to simply trust that your spirit guides are always with you, and that they always have your highest good and best intentions to consider. If you just trust that they have the roadmap to your success and fulfillment, they can help you steer your life in the best direction at all times. 

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