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Angelic Lightwork: An Exercise for Personal Spiritual Protection and Distance Healing, by Alana Fairchild

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Angels are gentle yet powerful divine beings. They are aligned with a higher spiritual intelligence that has unlimited ways to resolve any problem we may face. They are also somewhat rebellious! This can appeal to our sacred rebel nature that recognises when a system isn't working and needs to change in order to become more fair, loving, and healthy. Or when we want to challenge a particular belief that we—or society—have held, such as challenging the idea that you cannot earn an income through doing work that you love, or that you have to suffer and struggle in order to be worthy of love.

One of my favourite stories of Archangel Gabriel (with whom you'll connect in the healing practices I share below) notes this rebellious streak. It is said that the Creator was so despairing of humans behaving badly that Gabriel was instructed to throw hot rocks at them, giving them a fierce wake-up call. Gabriel, in his compassion, worried about the negative impact of those rocks, so he threw them so slowly that they cooled before they hit the earth, and did not cause harm. I also like this story because it shows that although the angels always follow higher will, they understand humans and they truly want to help us heal our hearts and become our best selves (whilst having compassion when we forget our higher nature and end up doing our worst!).

Angels are easily found in cultures and religious traditions around the world, from ancient to modern traditions, from East to West. You could be a Christian, or a Hindu, a Muslim, or a New Age practitioner, or devotee of Wicca, or none of the above, and believe in angels. Billions of humans, from radically diverse backgrounds, can feel united through their common belief in angels. Isn't this beautiful?

At times when conflict seems to be on the rise and we have a greater need for spiritual light to help us find our way through uncertain times, angels can support so many hearts, because so many hearts are open to them. The problem many face in receiving spiritual blessings, grace, help, and healing is that they are not open to it. The readiness with which so many people accept the presence of angels makes working with angelic energy one of the easiest and most effective methods of light work.

The term "lightwork" covers a wide range of spiritual healing practices based on the intention to channel divine light. Divine light is always loving, healing, and wise. It holds higher spiritual intelligence. That intelligence helps us recognise solutions, rather than fixating on problems, and can shift our physical, emotional, and mental state so that we live our lives in a more constructive and joyful way. Divine light helps us clear the confusion and clutter, and come back to the home-truths of who we are—precious humans born to live a unique life and express our true essence.

Because angels are beings of divine light, calling upon them through lightwork practices such as the exercises below improves our lives and the lives for all beings. You may wonder how that is possible, but increasing light on our Earth helps all beings. The sun may feel like it is shining just for you, on that perfect summer day, yet it is shining and benefitting all beings who can detect its rays of light. It is safe for you to invoke divine light through the angelic lightwork processes below. These are universal exercises channelled for human benefit.

Angelic Lightwork Practice for Personal Spiritual Protection and Angelic Lightwork Distance Healing Process for Individuals and Communities

About the Exercise:
You might wonder why we need spiritual protection. A wonderful Hindu saint, Ramakrishna, put it succinctly in this way: you may know that a tiger is a divine being, but I wouldn't recommend try to hug him on that account!

Spiritual protection helps us recognise that every being—even those who may not have the best intentions towards us—has their own legitimate life purpose to live. With spiritual protection we can "live and let live" because we know we are safe. We don't need to attempt to control others and we increase not only our sense of inner security, but also peace in our hearts, our lives, our relationships, and our planet. Did you ever think that protecting your energy field would have quite so much bang for your proverbial buck?

In the exercise below, we call upon divine light through the four major archangels recognised in many of the world's religious and spiritual traditions. All we need to do this is to call upon the angelic names with a pure heart.

You may worry that your heart is not so pure, especially if you just had a huge argument with someone, for example. So perhaps you can take comfort from a beautiful Buddhist teaching (that can also found in mystical Islam, too). That teaching is beneath our hurts and confusion, which arise as part of human existence, the true nature of a human is pure goodness, and the inner truth of the heart is always divine love.

The exercise below is in two parts. You can do part one, and then add part two if you wish. The first part is for preparing and protecting your energy field, and gaining divine energy for self healing and spiritual protection. The second part is for expanding that healing to benefit other individuals or even other communities. Other communities could be your family, or a group that you work with, or a particular group of humans that you feel compassion for and want to help. It could even be shared with our entire planet, including animals and Mother Nature, so that your healing intention embraces our planet and all her creatures.

Preparation:
Have you turned off mobile devices? Have you set up your sacred space? That may be as simple as playing some calming music and lighting a candle or some incense.

Sacred space can be supported by outer actions, such as building an altar, but it is an inner state that we can summon and generate around us with our intention and awareness. You don't need to worry if you do not have many spiritual tools available. A small leaf, or crystal, or an oracle card placed before you as you sit comfortably, might be enough for you to feel a connection to the sacred in that moment.

Have this article nearby for instructions. If you wish to record this process for your own personal use only, you can do so. Remember to leave plenty of space in between speaking, and to speak slowly. Otherwise you can read each step and practice it, working through the process.

The Process:
Sit or stand comfortably, as you prefer.

Place both hands over your heart and take your time to notice your breath. As the breath flows in, and out, you can allow your awareness to settle, like a white feather, drifting gently downwards through the air until it lands softly upon smooth, ancient rock. This is your awareness resting at the spiritual bedrock of your being.

When you are ready, say, "I call upon Archangel Uriel, Guardian of the Element of Earth. I open to receive your gifts of stability, strength, and prosperity."

You can feel, imagine, intend, visualize, or pretend to feel a grounded, stable sense of downward energy flow. It exists within you, and all around you. Your awareness travels downwards and inwards, from your head to your heart, and then to your belly, and then to your feet. Imagine you can sense the steadiness of earth energy beneath you, anchoring you and supporting you.

This energy rises up from beneath you, and gently envelops you in an energy "cloak" of healing golden light. Relax and breathe with it, sensing it hold you. This feels good and you can relax with it.

When you are ready, say, "I call upon Archangel Gabriel, Guardian of the Element of Water. I open to receive your gifts of cleansing, comfort, and creativity."

You can feel, imagine, intend, visualize, or pretend to sense a vast, still lake. It is has a mirrorlike surface. You may see passing clouds and the blue sky reflected in the lake's pristine surface.

Sense the clarity and peace. It exists within you, and all around you. Let your awareness settle deep in your belly now as you relax. You can imagine that your awareness rests on a vast lake of silver mirrorlike energy in your belly.

This energy radiates outwards and upwards from your belly, and gently envelops you in an energy "cloak" of healing silver light. It layers naturally over the top of the gold light. Relax and breathe with it, allowing it to support you. This feels good and you can relax with it.

When you are ready, say, "I call upon Archangel Michael, Guardian of the Element of Fire. I open to receive your gifts of light, protection, and motivation."

You can feel, imagine, intend, visualize, or pretend to sense a warm glowing fire. This is spiritual fire. It is light and warmth that cannot cause harm. The spiritual fire is vibrant and nourishing of life, helping seeds to ripen and mature into fulness. Your awareness can be captivated by the dancing flames, lured within to the light, where it can rest.

Sense the radiance and vitality of this spiritual fire. It exists within you, and all around you. Let your awareness settle deep in the center of your being as you relax into the psychic warmth.

This energy radiates outwards from your center, and gently envelops you in an energy "cloak" of healing gold light, layering naturally over the top of the gold and silver layers beneath it. Relax and breathe with it, sensing how it protects you. This feels good and you can relax with it.

When you are ready say, "I call upon Archangel Raphael, Guardian of the Element of Air. I open to receive your gifts of movement, freedom, and healing."

You can feel, imagine, intend, visualize, or pretend to sense a pleasant breeze flowing through your space and slowly breathing more life into your being. Take a slow deep inhalation. Sense the life energies of the breath. Exhale as you imagine, intend, feel, or sense that the spiritual energy of Raphael purifies the air and awakens invisible yet potent divine grace with each inhalation, releasing old energies on each exhalation.

Sense the vastness and generosity of this sacred atmosphere, protecting you and giving you life. It exists within you, and all around you. Let your awareness rest effortlessly in the air all around you for a moment or two.

This energy gently envelops you in an energy "cloak" of healing gold light, layering naturally over the other three layers. Relax and breathe with these layers of healing and protection. Sense them support and hold and protect and vitalize you. This feels good and you can relax with it.

You can now say whatever words you wish to express to the angels. Are there issues that you need help with? Are there things for which you are grateful? Express these matters as you wish now.

When you have shared your feelings with the angels, you can complete your personal process with the following prayer said aloud:

"Angels, thank you for watching over me. I ask for your ongoing presence and assistance in my life for my highest good in all ways. Please bless and protect me and my life journey so that I may fulfill my higher purpose and awaken my soul to divine love. For the spiritual benefit of all beings, so be it."

You can complete your process now by placing your hands in prayer and then bowing your head. Then ground yourself with some gentle movements and rehydrate.

Or, if you wish to move on to part two and offer healing for others, simply continue on.

Angelic Lightwork Distance Healing Process for Individuals and Communities
After having completed the above process, you are ready to share healing for others if you so choose.

Place your hands on your heart and say, "I now choose to offer healing on behalf of … " and express the names of individuals and/or communities that you are intending to offer healing.

Please note that you if you have not gained permission to send healing, and even if you have done so, you must offer healing with a pure heart. To ensure this, please now say, "If for any reason, this healing is not accepted, or honoring of freewill and the highest good, then please redirect to where it can do the most good."

You will now let go of your mental attachment as to who or how the healing shall be received and focus on a symbol for the healing. You may wish to imagine a sacred vessel—like a golden bowl or crystal vase—hovering effortlessly between your hands. That sacred vessel is the receiving dish for the healing.

You can now focus on your heart and imagine, feel, intend, visualize, and/or pretend that the beautiful energies of the angels are flowing abundantly into that sacred vessel, providing all that is needed. Do not give your own energies away. Instead, allow for angelic energy to flow through you, and like a fountain, that which overflows pours into the sacred vessel.

To enhance the flow of energy, you can chant or whisper or sing the name of the angel with whom you resonate with the most. You may like to choose one name, or chant all four archangels' names in any order you wish (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Uriel). You can focus on the energy that you are feeling gently flowing into the sacred vessel.

You can intuitively sense how much energy is needed and when to complete that process. When it is time to complete the process, gently close your palms together in prayer at your heart. In doing so, you have released the sacred vessel and healing energies to where it can do the most good.

You can seal the practice with this prayer: "For the spiritual benefit of all beings, may angelic presence awaken in all willing hearts. So be it."

Ground and prepare yourself for returning to daily life with some gentle movements and drinking some clean filtered water to rehydrate you after your energy work.

What Next?
Every practice of lightwork helps bring benefit to humanity and our beautiful earth. I thank you for your pure heart and your loving desire to be of service. May you be supported in your spiritual work and gracefully awaken to the divine beauty of your true nature. So be it!

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

What book or books do you recommend for those of us who want to learn more about how to do an accurate tarot reading? I was giving readings to family a few weeks ago and I felt bad because I couldn't say much as I was relying on the tiny book that came with the deck. I would like to give better readings for others. Thanks for any guidance in this matter.

Mary Lynn

Susyn:

As a reader and teacher of the Tarot for over 20 years, I understand your frustration. There are many books on interpreting the Tarot, so you'll want to pick one that offers expanded interpretations. I have written a comprehensive book on the subject that you may find helpful. It's entitled Tarot Prediction and Divination, and it will be available for purchase in January.

It's essential to have a basic understanding of the cards, but for the most accurate readings, you have to learn how to coax the cards to speak to you. When you are able to use your intuition in this way, a single Tarot card can have any number of meanings depending on the question posed, the cards surrounding it, and the circumstances underlying the reading.

There are a number of Tarot books on the market that can help you learn to interpret the cards with skill. Along with Tarot Prediction and Divination, there are books that focus on expanded meanings, spiritual readings, symbolic interpretations or general guidelines for reading the Tarot. To determine if a book will be valuable to you, it's best to review the table of contents and page through it, reading a little bit here and there.

One of the trickiest things is figuring out how the cards you are looking at speak to the question being asked. This is one of the first things I address in my book. I then go on to explain the three ways Tarot can be used: for predictions, therapy, and spiritual growth. I also explore how to use the Tarot's visual cues to awaken your psychic gifts and unveil the hidden messages in the cards.

Beginning readers will find everything they need to get started with predictive readings, while experienced readers can use this guide to expand their abilities, refresh their thinking, and take their interpretive skills to the next level. From your letter, it seems you have been reading the cards for a while. As with any practice, the more you work with the Tarot, the easier it will be to get the results you desire.

My book includes 15 original layouts, 45 sample readings, and a series of helpful correspondence charts. It also includes special sections on how to choose the ideal Signifcator, which card combinations to watch for during a reading, predicting timing, and what each card means in relation to the topics of health, career, romance, relationships and spiritual matters.

Since it's a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the Tarot, I recommend you give Tarot Predictions and Divination a try. It's available in January, 2011, at Llewellyns.com, Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com and many local book stores.

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Mata:

You're asking this question at just the right time, for a great new book is about to hit the market by our very own Susyn Blair-Hunt. It's called Tarot Prediction and Divination and I believe it will become available any day now.

Another book that is great for beginners is Tarot Made Easy by Nancy Garen. What makes this book unique is how she divides each card's meanings into different categories.

If you are doing a reading on a love relationship, you have only to go to that card's page and look under that category to see a specific and easy to understand interpretation. She breaks each card down into many different categories, so regardless of the nature of your question, you're sure to find a relevant answer.

Since this is a great deal of information, memorizing these meanings is probably not practical. To do readings without a book, you'll have to have at least a general idea of each card's meaning. From there, you can use reason and intuition to ferret out what it may mean in light of the question being asked and its position in the spread you're using. You can get this general idea of the meaning of each card by studying classic interpretations or by reflecting on the images in the cards and journaling to develop your own interpretations.

There are people who give great tarot readings who do little to no memorizing at all. These folks are essentially doing a straight psychic reading with the cards as springboards or starting points. They kickstart their own inner voice/ intuition by looking at the pictures on the cards and allowing messages to begin to channel through them.

Though the cards seem to take on different meanings with every reading with this approach, that doesn't make it inferior to a classic reading method. In fact, I have seen psychics give amazing tarot readings without really using the cards at all. One of the best psychics I've ever had a reading from worked this way. She laid the cards out, glanced at them once, and then launched into the reading without ever looking at the cards again. My sense was that she was clairaudiently hearing the information she was relaying, not getting it from the cards.

Of course, to do this, you must develop your psychic senses to the point where you don't really need a divination tool anyway. Since it's preferable not to be dependent on tools, it seems to me that the time it would take to memorize meanings for the cards might be better spent on general psychic development. While you're working on this, you could use the cards and the book I recommend above to supplement what you get intuitively.

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.