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The week kicks off with a diligent Virgo Moon on Monday, urging us forward to get our lives in order through Tuesday. Decision-making, list clearing, and organization of our current projects will be the highlights of this 48-hour phase. The rest of the work week (Wednesday through Friday) flows smoothly under a balancing Libra Moon, with the highlight being Venus’ move into Taurus, one of the two signs it rules. Venus in Taurus will bring out our tendencies for luxury and beauty for the next few weeks, and we could find ourselves strolling through estate sales or online perusing auction sites in search of that perfect lamp, purse, or painting. With the Moon spending the weekend in Scorpio, this is a great time for us to go inward, touching base with our spiritual sides or simply regrouping and socializing as the Gemini Sun promotes conversation, investigation, and fun interactions with the special people in our lives.

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.

I seem to be very sensitive to those I care deeply about. My question is, every time something major or even just upsetting happens in my life, I get jolted awake by my phone ringing in the middle of the night. When I go to answer the phone, there is no one on the other end. My caller ID display also doesn't even register the call, but the ring is so real and sounds so identical to my real phone that it wakes me up. The other night a close male friend of mine and I worked out some serious issues that left me feeling peaceful but also very drained. Around 1:00 a.m., I woke up to the phone ringing, and assumed it was him, but no one was there when I picked up, and no number registered. I then lay in bed thinking and praying for my friend. I often know and feel what he's feeling when we are apart, and I am learning to either turn this off when it gets to be too much for me, or send some loving energy back to him if I feel he needs it. This is just one instance of many. What really baffles me is how I can actually hear the phone ring if it's not really ringing. What is this? Or who is it? And is this truly connected to upsetting experiences in my life?

Noelle

Dreamchaser:

You're actually dealing with two separate things here, so I'm going to break them down. The first is the phone ringing. As I have said many times here, spirits are REALLY great at manipulating the telephone. You hear your phone ringing because it really IS ringing.

When you get down or troubled, every being/ entity around you wants to help, but they can't until you ask for that help. Once we ask, they are like little worker bees scurrying around DOING for us. You said you were laying in bed thinking and praying for your friend and your phone rang. I think that is an amazing example. That is Spirit's representative saying, "We hear you and we are on it." I think that is FABULOUS!

Often people can find LOGICAL explanations for events like the phone ringing, the TV turning on or off by itself, the radio turning on or off, lights flashing, etc. In my opinion, it is very hard to see a logical explanation for continued phone activity with no call displaying on the Caller I.D. and no voice on the other end. Spirit wants to give us signs and that is what is happening here. We can try to find logical reasons for it, or we can just accept it for what it is.

The other thing that you are dealing with is the energy transference that you described that is happening with your friend. We CAN feel someone else's emotions when we are emotionally tied to them (or even when we are not - but that is another column).

You are doing really well in seeing that you can protect yourself from this sometimes draining energy, or turn it around and send LOVE back. That is a VERY important lesson. When we have people who are tapping into our energy in any way, we need to learn how to protect our energy. We can choose to wrap ourselves up tight and not allow anyone to access our energy. We can also choose to go into a bubble so our energy can get out, but no one else's energy can get in to access ours.

Finally, we can be an open channel that just is free-flowing LOVE. I am glad that you see the difference, and are learning how to gauge your energy levels. Your situation with your friend did NOT make the phone ring. It was not him and it had very little to do with him. You were in bed praying for him and sending him LOVE. Your spirit workers simply wanted you to know that they heard you and they were carrying out your requests.

You can ask them to chill with the late night phone calls! They have no concept of human time.

I wish you more wonderful signs from Spirit!

*****

Astrea:

Most of us try to be sensitive to those we love. I can easily accept why you think your caring nature can run deeper than other people's. When you love someone, it's always true and deep, and the level of understanding you feel with those people does seem "MORE" to you in some ways than what other signs allow themselves to feel and communicate.

The phone is probably just ringing in your head, because you don't have to hear the telephone actually ringing to get the message. This is a SIGNAL for you to pay more attention to something that you've either just experienced or just chosen. Somewhere in your past, an elderly aunt or grandmother told you a story (or more than one!), and at the end, she said, "And then I heard a little bell go off in my head, and that's when I knew..."

Your subconscious registered this phenomenon as a small child or young adult, and now, whenever you are facing a difficult problem, situation, or event, YOU hear "that little bell go off in your head." This alerts you to something that is actually going on that can affect you - something you need to pay more attention to.

Everyone gets these "messages" differently. I usually get hit on the head literally, because I'm too stubborn to recognize something as subtle as your telephone sound! I know other people who see a certain item when they are supposed to be paying more attention, such as a color or a feather, or the wind blowing around them in a certain way. To others, these messages come in dreams or visions. Those people are VISUAL, where you are more AUDIAL in the way you receive your messages. "Hearing" the telephone ring alerts you to something you should be examining more closely.

Your Guides have given you a form of communication that seems REAL and CONCRETE whenever you need their help and guidance. It even works for you when you don't know you need to ASK for it. The telephone ringing reminds you that you are never alone, that you are being watched over from Spirit, and that there is always a place where you can get information and understanding about any situation you might find yourself in.

You're lucky! The phone ringing (whether in actuality or in your head) is something to clearly alert you to the fact that you may not have seen every angle of a certain situation. It gives you the opportunity go back and view all sides of a problem. Expect this to happen and use this "alert from Spirit" wisely!

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.