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The highlight of this week will be the Sun’s entry into Gemini on Tuesday. As the sign most famous for communication, exchanges of ideas, and reconnecting with others, we’ll enjoy four weeks of heightened interactions and the chance to surf the educational highway for new information. Monday’s Aquarius Moon will kick off the change, encouraging our innovative and inventive sides to emerge. With a shift to Pisces on Tuesday, the Moon will awaken our spiritual side, adding an air of intuition to the mix for a few days. The Moon dances into Aries on Thursday and casts a dramatic flair into the atmosphere, but as excited and happy as we are, we will want to avoid making statements we can’t back up or promises we can’t keep! Things settle down considerably over the weekend, as the Taurus Moon brings us back to earth and Saturn moves into Aries to ground our movements as well as our thoughts. That’s not a bad thing though, as a bit of reality mixed in with all the excitement will keep us from moving to soon, or in the wrong direction.

7 Steps to Working with a Deity, Guide, or Mystical Being, by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Before we get started on the path of initiation to working with powerful deities and guides, we'd like to bring awareness to unity consciousness. We are all one, which means that even if we are calling for help from a god or goddess, that does not mean that they are better than us or that we have to sacrifice anything for assistance. When you work with your guides, they are parts of you that are manifested. Your guides represent specific energies from within you that you may want to connect with to fuel and empower your manifestations and desires. In The Mandarin Tree: Manifest Joy, Luck, and Magic with Two Asian American Mystics, we share how you can pathwork and connect with sacred guides from our lineage like the Dragon, Tiger, Phoenix, Money Frog, Kuan Yin, Golden Ancestors, and Laughing Buddha as a modern witch or mystic. Each archetype, deity, guide, and mystical being in our book represents a certain energy and magic with which we can work. With each guide, we share seven powerful ways to initiate and deepen connection with whom you are invoking into your space and life. Yes, you can just tap in and call upon a guide and ask for help, but to really embody their energies and magic, these seven practices are what we have found to work best.

Before you even start working with a guide, make sure you have a meeting with them first and ask if they want to work with you. How we like to do so is by either tapping into the Akashic Records, or simply going into a meditative state and bringing the image of your desired guide up in your mind. Then ask your potential guide if they want to work with you. You can also use tarot cards to ask if this is the right time to work with the guide and if they want to work with you. Use whatever divination tool you are comfortable with to receive a yes or a no. If it is a no, then pick someone else and circle back with this guide later.

The first step of initiating deep connection and magic with your chosen guide is to create an altar. An altar is a sacred space you create that is the physical representation of your magic. It is the central space where you engage in your practices, and every time you do magic here, you amplify the energies even more. It is also the space where your guides can reside and where you can receive clear messages and guidance. Create an altar filled with representations of your intention and symbols of your guide. These can be anything you desire to put on the altar; there is no right or wrong way. Make sure you keep your altar clean and do some kind of honoring or dedication ritual daily, like lighting a candle or giving water.

Meeting your guides is step two of the process. Even though you are asking for help and support, you actually want to get into your highest frequency and most vibrant state to meet your guides. When you raise your energy as best you can, it's easier for them to bring in the guidance that will meet you at that energy. This keeps you in an empowered state and brings in clearer energy when you're receiving your guides. One way to get into a higher vibration is to imagine yourself breathing golden light in and out. And you may say your favorite words to yourself like love, or joy, or peace. Feel the vibration of the word running through your body. Just like you'd get dressed up before brunch to meet your best friend, take this time to get yourself prepared and ready to meet with your guide. Find your most relaxed state and also your most positive state. Then, get crystal clear in your imagination which guide you are connecting with and what your purpose is in connecting. You may have a question or an intention. Write this down and have it in front of you. Ask that your guide take you to your highest energetic match timeline. Feel amazing and then allow their presence to fill the space. You may feel warm or a cooling sensations. Each person is different. Take time to get to know your own unique sensations when meeting your guides.

The third step of our process in creating a deep connection with our guides is ritual. After you have set up your altar and have meditated to attune yourself with your guide, then you are ready to activate your intention through ritual. Through ritual, you bring focus to your intentions and bring what is intangible into reality. Ushering what cannot be seen–your intention–into the physical world. In The Mandarin Tree, we have created specific rituals for each of the guides that you will be introduced to. It is very easy to create your own rituals; the most important parts are how you are feeling and your intentions. Make sure you complete some kind of cleansing and invoking of your guides first, then take a series of actions to manifest what you are asking for, and finally, close the ritual with gratitude. You can include candles, crystals, statues, and even planetary powers like new moon energy or magic from the days of the week.

The fourth step of working with your guides and deities is to create commandments. These can be used the first time when you are working with your guide, and you can continue to use them as part of a daily or weekly ritual. Think of commandments like a prayer where we are asking for and receiving the blessings from our guide. This is a strong way to turn on and activate the energy. Instead of hoping, wishing, or coming from lack and begging for our blessings to arrive, we approach it in a different way. We come from the expansion of already having what we are asking for and commanding it, reclaiming our magic, and bringing what we desire into our life. We have specific commandments inside of our book; however, you are always welcome to craft and create your own. Think of what you want to command into your life and create a short paragraph of what you will release, what you want, how it will feel to have it, how you will be ready for it, and anything else you want to commit to.

Mantras are our fifth step of connection. They provide a way to quickly and easily raise your frequency and to connect with your guides constantly. By using your mantras daily, you can easily access the portal of energy from the unique guide with whom you choose to connect. Mantras are short phrases that remind you of what the energy feels like when you are connected to the energy and the wisdom of your guides. A powerful way to craft your mantra is to use the phrase, "I am magic." Start your mantras with "I am" and end them with positive words that will help you to receive success on your magical path.

The sixth step to connecting with your guides and deities is crafting ascension prompts. Ascension prompts are introspective questions that move you forward. These are the keys that turn on a kind of energy inside of your energy force field. Each one is specifically created to turn on a frequency in your body to magnetize and attract more magic in your universe. Below are some examples of ascension prompts to tune into your guides.

How does it feel to already receive this?

What special feelings, images, and/or messages are you receiving from your guides?

Are there specific signs that you'd like to see? For example, you could ask to see a bunny rabbit jump in front of you for confirmation of a question. Something rare and obvious.

The last step to be fully immersed in working with your guide is to receive a channeled message from them. There are beautiful channeled messages from each guide inside of the book that you can easily tap into to charge yourself with the essence of each guide and energy. Or you can channel messages yourself. Below is an example of how you can access your own channeled messages from your guides.

Have a few sheets of blank pages in front of you. Write the name of the guide or deity who you are working with at the top of the page and the question or questions you are seeking insight on. Connect to the energy of who you are invoking and then simply allow yourself to write freely. Write whatever comes to your mind even if it doesn't make logical sense. Just let all of the words pour onto your paper. See what arrives and you can analyze the meaning and structure of the words or images after you are done channeling. When you are finished give thanks to your guide.

Channeled messages come from a higher frequency and give you the opportunity to see your life from a higher perspective. They often bring ease and fresh solutions into your world more quickly to reduce stress and create more peace in your life.

Connecting with your guides and deities is a beautiful practice that can greatly enhance the joy and prosperity in your life. In The Mandarin Tree, we have shared practical applications and the exact techniques and practices for you to take action on with each of the energies mentioned above to activate more joy, luck, and magic in your life. We hope you develop a deeper understanding and connection to working with different archetypal frequencies and receiving the support that you desire for massive success and abundance.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2024. All rights reserved.

My son's father passed last year due to cancer. A few days after his death, he came into my dream. I was so happy to see him that I gave him a big hug. I do not remember him talking. He stayed there with me for few seconds and then walked away and disappeared. He was carrying something with him but I don't remember what. My son had the exact same dream. He was socializing with his father and then all of sudden, he left. My son awoke crying. I would like to dream of him again; can you help?

~Lucia

Susyn:

It is not uncommon for someone who has passed to make contact with their loved ones for a few days afterward. Typically, the living can see, feel and hear them either in their dreams or in an awake state. This usually continues until the time of the memorial service.

After that, there is typically a six to eight-week period of limbo wherein the living can't seem to feel their presence or connect with them. This seems to be a transition period when both the living and the person who has passed are adjusting to the shock of the changes that have occurred.

After that, the spirit's presence may again be sensed. You mention that your son's father came to both you and your son a few days after his passing, and now you would like to connect with him again. If the six to eight week period has passed, there are some things you can do to attract more experiences with him.

You don't mention your son's age, but if he is old enough, you may want to include him in these rituals. Typically, the younger a child is, the more in tune they will be with the spirit world. If your son is old enough to process, remember and describe his dreams, the two of you may benefit from trying to connect with his father together.

Start by setting up a special place like an altar where you can meditate and connect with your sonís father. You can place a picture of him and some of his personal possessions or objects that he liked in this space. Place two white candles on the altar. If you wish, you can also put some incense on it.

Pick a special time each day to sit at the altar. During this time, you can meditate on your departed loved one and then sit quietly and wait for messages from him. During this time, you can also ask him to come to you in your dreams or present any questions you may have for him.

It may take three or four sittings before you begin to sense his presence. Remember that the more you practice this ritual, the clearer his messages will become.

You can also try to program your dreams. To do this, make a request each night before you go to bed, asking that you be open enough to connect with your sonís father in your dreams. Your son can do the same.

Keep in mind as you perform these rituals that spirits can come to us in a variety of ways. You may experience certain smells that are connected with him that seem to come out of nowhere or turn on the radio or television and hear or see one of his favorite songs or shows. These are signs that he is near and sending you a message that he is okay.

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Mata:

I'm so sorry for your loss. I do want to reassure you that regular contact with a departed loved one is not only possible, it's fairly common. I know of a number of people who regularly enjoy dream visits with someone they love who has left this world. Others sense the presence of their loved one around them and carry on telepathic conversations with them. Still others have mastered the art of astral projection and regularly travel beyond the physical to interact with the departed.

I enjoy regular dream visits with my own deceased father, but I do need to note that I can't always control when this happens. It's a bit like calling someone on the phone; sometimes they are available to talk, and sometimes they aren't. There are things you can do that will help you to have many more visits with your departed husband, however.

The main thing is to spend a lot of time in an altered state of consciousness. Unfortunately, given the demands of daily life, for many people this is simply impractical. As a newly single mother of a young son, finding time for this may be your greatest challenge.

I think the most powerful thing you could do is begin to attempt to master astral projection, for even if you don't get out of your body, if you are able to get into the deep trance state essential to this practice, you will be in the ideal state for interacting with your son's father.

Basically, you want your body to be soundly asleep but your mind to be awake. This is not as easy as it may sound. The easiest way to get into this state is to essentially overindulge in sleep. One trick is to set your alarm for a couple of hours before you actually have to get up and allow yourself to hit the snooze button over and over again.

Most people find it is best if they have already had a full night's sleep before they begin this snooze and wake cycle; some find that it is easier for them to keep falling back into dreams if they are still somewhat tired. You'll have to experiment to find what works best for you.

It is also powerful to pray with all of your heart for the dream visits you desire, and to work with the law of attraction to manifest them. You could also sleep with something of your husband's such as his shirt. (If it still smells of him, all the better.) Every time you awaken, think of him and hold that object close as you drift back off to sleep.

If you make the time for this practice, I am confident that you will soon be having all sorts of interaction with your son's father.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.