Connecting and Collaborating with Spirit Guides
There are many different Spirit Guides and ways we can connect and work with them to thrive during our human lives and through our experiences. Different Spirit Guides have different purposes and can help us with different tasks and goals. Spirit Guides ultimately want to help us, but sometimes that also means not interfering in our lives or enabling us to depend on them too much, as ultimately, we are here to grow and evolve as Soul’s into our own version of mastery. We need to be able to go through our experiences to gain wisdom and become more aligned with universal Divine wisdom. To be able to gain our own strength and wings to soar.
Who are Spirit Guides and how can they help us?
Let’s explore some common Spirit Guides and their roles in our lives…
Your personal Spirit Guides: These are a group of wise Souls who have been tasked to support you on your journey. Some of your personal Spirit Guides have been teachers of yours in past lives, and some have not. Some might have gained wisdom in the areas you are trying to evolve in during this incarnation, and they are here to help you follow that path and reach levels of wisdom they have mastered. Most of your personal Spirit Guides have been with you for multiple lives, but we do evolve beyond needing particular guides and their support, so they move on, as we do. Your personal Spirit Guides are here to keep you aligned with your Soul Contracts and “do the work you came to Earth to do.” However, you have free will and are also allowed to go off track to varying degrees, depending on your Soul mission. When we “go off track” we can also learn a lot from these experiences and can more deeply understand why staying on track with our Soul’s purpose is so important. It’s not a bad thing to go off track, it may mean we evolve more quickly or slowly, depending on the situation. There is no pressure, whatever we don’t learn in this lifetime, we will learn in another. Not all wounds will be healed and not all Karma will be cleared in this lifetime. It’s okay to go at whatever pace you need, and your personal Spirit Guides help you navigate this. Your personal Spirit Guides support you, and sometimes intervene on your behalf, without you having to ask.
Angels: Everyone alive has at least one, and sometimes more guardian angels. This guardian angel is assigned to you specifically, to watch over you and make sure you are safe. We also have Archangels and other angels we can call upon when we need support. Different Archangels and angels have different areas of expertise that we might need support with. For example, Archangel Raphael is an angel of healing and can support us when we need emotional or physical healing. He is a great angel to call upon if you yourself are a healer. He can help you hone your medicine. Archangel Michael is a great resource to call upon when you need protection from negative or lower people, or energies. Archangel Michael can also help you feel confident in speaking up for yourself and sharing your wisdom. Different Archangels and angels serve different purposes in our lives. One major difference between our Angel guides and our personal Spirit Guides is that our angel guides will not intervene in our lives without us asking them directly, unless we are in serious danger. This is because Angels respect our free will and ability to choose for ourselves. This is an act of great love, not coming from a place of uncaring. They are more detached from outcomes, compared to our Spirit Guides, who are there to keep us aligned with our Soul Contacts and what wisdom and lessons we agreed to grow through. So, when you want the support of Angels, you must ask for it and let them know how you’d like them to help you, and believing they will if it is for your highest and greatest good. Another difference from our Spirit Guides is that Angels have never been humans on Earth, they have always been in the higher, heavenly realms, and always will be. So they can’t quite relate to the experience of being in a human body the way your personal Spirit Guides can.
Ascended Masters: These are groups of Souls who have lived human lives and have become enlightened and no longer need to return to Earth to evolve. They have mastered their human experience and have now ascended to dimensions beyond the Earthly realm. Ascended Masters are not assigned to any one person but are here to guide anyone who wants to collaborate with them and learn what they have to teach. For example, Jesus Christ and Buddha are both examples of Ascended Masters. They can teach you about unconditional love and how to learn from your suffering to grow beyond it. Hekate is an Ascended Master who can teach you how to own your innate magic and use it as medicine in your life and others. Different Masters have gained wisdom in different areas to be able to support individuals and humanity as a whole. There are many different Ascended Masters, and they will only work with you when you have reached a vibrational level to hear them and receive their wisdom to appropriately apply it in your life. They have a lot to offer you.
Ancestors: Your Ancestors from this life and past lives are also Spirit Guides for you. In their Spirit form they can help guide and support you during your life now. They have incredible wisdom to share! Your ancestors have been through great challenges, like droughts, storms, and scarcity of resources. They have overcome great obstacles and can help you do the same. They have been resilient and can help remind you of the strength you also possess to overcome. Some of our Ancestors have been wildly successful and they can help us reach our own levels of success. Some have been ruthless in ways we need to learn to be, and they can help us embody this wisdom as well. When connecting to your Ancestors as Spirit Guides, always do so with the intention of connecting to your healed and loving ancestors, as we all have ancestors who were not so kind and loving and may have done terrible things in their human lives and are still in a soul process of taking accountability for their actions. We always want to make sure the energy we are connecting with is going to benefit us.
Animal Guides: Different animals carry different energies that can be helpful and powerful for us to connect with in order to embody within ourselves. Animals can also bring messages from spirit that have personal meaning for us. We can invoke different animals for different purposes to be medicine within our own lives. For example, I like to imagine 4 large black panthers, walking in front of me, behind me, and at each side of me as protectors. These Black Jaguars watch over me and scare away anything that would want to harm me. You can invoke Eagle medicine when you want to see the bigger picture and have more confidence in doing something on your own. Or Owl Medicine when you find yourself in darkness and want to see your way out. You can call upon Horse medicine when you want to traverse new areas of your life, and travel to new lands. You can call upon Bunny medicine when you want to increase fertility in your body or with creative projects. Hummingbird medicine can help you connect with Divine Realms. Snake medicine can help you shed what is no longer serving you and bringing you joy. Any animal can be a Spirit Guide to support you and your journey. When you have a problem with anything, do some research on what animal guide can help you through, and call upon that animal to be with you until you no longer need them.
Your Oversoul: Your Oversoul is the part of your Soul that never left the higher, Heavenly realms. A part of you is always there and acts as a bridge to your current human incarnation. Your Soul is infinite and can be in multiple places at once and even in different times or bodies. Your Oversoul is what connects all parts of you. It can guide you “from above” and help you find your way in your current incarnation. Your Oversoul sees much more what is going on than your human brain can possibly comprehend. Your Oversoul carries all the wisdom and experiences from all the lives you have lived, human and non-human, Earthly and on other planets. In this way, your Oversoul is a library of sorts, that can utilize all this great personal wisdom you have gained to help you through anything in your current human life. Helping you to access past versions of yourself to apply in this lifetime. You can speak directly to your Oversoul and ask it to help guide and align you to your greatest expression. Your Oversoul is always working on your behalf and you can help yourself by connecting more intentionally with this aspect of your being.
That was quite an in-depth exploration of Spirit Guides and the roles they play in your life. Even Mother Earth can be a Spirit Guide, as she has been a home to you in many lives. Some Spirit Guides we will work with for many years, while others may come in to help us master something specific in a certain season of our lives. I hope this has given you some clarity on how to collaborate with different Spirit Guides and how they can support you in your life now. I hope this has helped calm your Nervous System to know we have a team of loving beings surrounding and guiding us! We are never entirely on our own. We have so many allies through this journey!
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Sarah Seraphina is a Spiritual Activator and Liberation Guide. She is the owner of Nurtured Essence, a healing space, aimed at helping women overcome their past patterns and fears, so they may thrive and live with more power, purpose, ease, and joy. She specializes in working with dreamers, healers, recovering empaths and “Damsels in Distress”, highly-sensitive women, light workers, shadow workers, and women with a sacred mission.
