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Balance is the theme at the start of this week, as the Moon saunters through Libra Monday and Tuesday. The remainder of the week unfolds under a Scorpio Moon, and this one could bring out our intense side, which isn’t always a bad thing. Focus, drive, and progress will be a theme Wednesday through Friday, and we’re likely to get twice as much accomplished as we had planned! The Moon waxes full in Sagittarius on Saturday, which could bring surprising people into our midst. This full Moon could have us crossing paths with exes, people we went to grade school with, or even people we don’t know who we’ve shared past lives with. If someone pops into your head out of the blue, do a search on social media to see if you can find them. (Assuming you WANT to find them.) If an ex shows up asking for a second chance, your answer should be no, but do relish in the ego trip of knowing they’ve never forgotten you! Finally, if you’re still flying solo, this is a great weekend to venture out to the social scenes or check out dating sites. Swipe left? Swipe right? Take a chance, as anything is possible under this lovely Sagittarius full Moon!

7 Ways to Connect with Archangels, by Richard Webster

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Archangels are God's most important messengers. Archangel Gabriel, for instance, was sent to tell the Virgin Mary that she would give birth to Jesus Christ. The word "archangel" means "chief-angel," as the prefix arch means "chief," "principal," or "most important."

In the Bible, Michael is the only angel identified as an archangel (Jude 9). He is also called, "one of the chief princes" (Daniel 10:13), denoting his importance. Archangels are important angels who are actively involved in ensuring the wellbeing of every form of life on earth. Each archangel has a specific role to play in this.

Archangels protect, guide, and assist humanity in many different ways. Because they're so close to humanity, they're willing to help you in any way they can, and will respond immediately to your call. You can ask them to help others, as well.

Archangels are tireless, and can appear in more than one place at a time. You can call on any of the archangels for help and support whenever necessary, and be confident that they will instantly come to your aid.

Here are seven ways to help you connect with archangels.

Instant Help

If you need help urgently, all you need do is call out to an archangel. Archangel Michael, God's warrior archangel, is the best angel to call when the situation is desperate or urgent. I've called upon him on three occasions, and he responded instantly every time.

How to Invoke the Four Great Archangels
The word "invoke" means, "to call upon," and is usually done when someone needs help or inspiration. All you need do is to recognize that the angels are present, and are willing to help you. Whenever possible, I face east, and start by invoking Raphael, who looks after that direction. Sit down quietly, close your eyes, and take three slow, deep breaths. Say to yourself, "Relax, relax deeply" each time you exhale. Once you feel yourself starting to relax, focus on different parts of your body, telling them to relax. I usually start with my feet, and gradually work my way up to the top of my head.

When you feel totally relaxed, visualize archangel Raphael standing in front of you. I usually picture him as a good-looking young man holding a fish in one hand, and a staff in the other. This is how he is usually depicted by artists. You may "see" him as a swirling ball of energy, or in any other shape or form that you choose.

Once you become aware that archangel Raphael is standing in front of you, visualize archangel Michael standing on your right side, followed by archangel Gabriel standing behind you, and archangel Uriel standing on your left-hand side.

You are now totally surrounded and protected by the four great archangels, Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel, and are probably feeling full of confidence and vitality. Finally, visualize a stream of pure divine light coming down from the heavens, entering your body through your head and revitalizing every cell of your body. There is so much of this divine light that it overflows and completely surrounds you in a tunnel of light.

It's now time to speak to the archangels, and make any requests you have. Once you've finished, thank each archangel in turn. Wait until the moment seems right before saying, "Thank you," once more, and then open your eyes.

Chakra Method
Sound connects our everyday world to the spiritual world. The most spiritual sound is aaah, which is contained in the words aum and Amen. It's also found in the names of most deities, and is a sacred mantra in many Eastern traditions. It's a sound of creation. It's produced involuntarily in times of high emotion, such as anger, grief, and exultation. You can use "aaah" to connect with any of the archangels. Sit down quietly somewhere where you won't be disturbed, and think of the archangel you want to connect with. Close your eyes, and take a slow, deep breath. Say "Aaah" as you exhale. Continue doing this until you feel a vibration in your heart chakra, in the middle of your chest. This happens because "aaah" is a sound of compassion, feeling, and love, all of which relate to the heart chakra.

Once your feel your heart chakra vibrating, take three more slow, deep breaths. As you exhale, continue saying, "aaah," but visualize your breath leaving your body through your heart chakra, filling the area you're in with divine love. As you continue doing this, visualize the archangel you wish to connect with standing about six feet in front of you. When you have a sense of "knowing" that your archangel is there, forget about your breathing, and start talking to your chosen angel.

Guidance Invocation
This is a useful invocation if you're wanting to communicate with an archangel for guidance of any sort. If you want protection, release from fear, or to learn the truth about something, you'd ask to speak with archangel Michael. If you're seeking healing, abundance, or protection while traveling, you'd communicate with archangel Raphael. If you're seeking clarity and purity of mind, you'd speak with archangel Gabriel, and if you wanted peace of mind and spiritual growth, you'd choose to talk with archangel Uriel.

You start the invocation by walking for at least fifteen minutes, preferably outdoors. While you're walking, think about all the things for which you're grateful. You might, for instance, be grateful for sunlight, green grass, automobiles, birds, warm smiles, and a kiss from your partner. Think of as many blessings as you can while you're walking.

When you return home, sit down in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and think about each of the things for which you're grateful. Visualize them as clearly as possible in your mind. Once you've done that, think about your need to communicate with an archangel. You might need help in resolving a problem, or you may have made a decision and want an archangel's approval before you proceed.

Take three slow, deep breaths, before exhaling slowly. Ask the archangel you've chosen to join you. You might say something along the lines of: "Blessed archangel...Thank you for all the blessings in my life. I am grateful to you for your guidance, love, and help. Please come to me now, as I need your help again."

Pause for thirty seconds. If you've felt your archangel's presence, you can continue with your request. If you felt nothing, repeat your request again, and a third time, if necessary. If you've still felt nothing, visualize all the things for which you're grateful once more, and then ask the archangel to join you. This time, explain your problem or concern, after making the request.

You don't need to feel concerned if you fail to receive a response, as you've explained your concern, and the answer will come to you when you least expect it, possibly when you wake up on the morning after you've performed this ritual.

Finish the ritual by thanking the archangel for their help and support.

Crystal Ritual
This is a useful ritual that you can perform anywhere you happen to be. All you need is an attractive crystal or gemstone. It can be any color you wish. However, you might want to hold a crystal that relates to a particular archangel. For Raphael, you might choose a yellow crystal, and you'd probably choose red for Michael, blue for Gabriel, and green for Uriel. You may prefer to use celestite, selenite, angelite, and seraphinite, as they're frequently used to encourage angelic contact.

Sit down comfortably, close your eyes, and gently fondle your crystal. Take several slow, deep breaths, and then ask the archangel you wish to communicate with to come to you. Often, this is all you need to do. You might notice a difference in the energies of the crystal, or become aware that the archangel is with you. If the archangel does not come immediately, continue caressing the crystal for a few more minutes, and then ask again.

Walking with an Archangel
My favorite way of making angelic contact is to walk with an angel. I enjoy walking, and miss my daily walk when it's not possible to do it. I almost always ask an angel to walk with me. This is usually my guardian angel, but I call on other angels, including archangels, whenever I need their help. I start walking in my usual way, and after about five minutes, I'll invite an angel to walk with me. After a minute or two, I'll become aware that the angel I want to communicate with is walking beside me. I don't see or hear this angel, but experience a strong sense of his or her presence. Once I realize that the angel is with me, I'll start a conversation. I usually do this silently, but if I know I'm completely on my own, I prefer to speak out loud. The angel's answers appear as thoughts in my mind. After we've discussed everything I need to know, I thank the angel, and finish the walk on my own. I prefer to use this method while walking in the countryside, but have found that I can do it anywhere, even in a busy shopping mall.

Writing to an Archangel
Writing a letter to a particular archangel is a highly effective way of making contact. The act of thinking about what you're going to say, and then writing it, concentrates your energies, and you may find that the archangel will respond while you're still writing the letter. You can write a letter asking for the help you need to resolve a problem involving you, or someone close to you. You can also write to establish a connection.

Write the letter as if you're writing to a close friend. Include information about your family, relationships, work, hopes, and dreams. Doing this helps you clarify what is going on in your life, and you'll find that the act of writing them down will help resolve many of your concerns.

Finish the letter by thanking the archangel and expressing your love. Sign the letter, seal it in an envelope, and write the archangel's name on the front.

The final stage is to "mail" your letter to the archangel. Sit in front of a lit candle with the envelope in your cupped hands. Think about the archangel and your request. Say anything else you wish to add, and then burn the envelope in the candle flame. Watch the smoke carry your message to the heavenly realms. Once the envelope and its contents have been burned, thank the archangel again, and carry on with your day confident that you'll hear back from the archangel when the time is right.

Naturally, you need to be careful whenever you're working with candles. I place my candles on metal trays, and have a jug of water close by, just in case of an accident. I've never had to use the water, but feel happier knowing that it's there.

Experiment with the different methods, and see which ones work best for you. Once you've made an initial connection, you'll find you'll be able to call on that particular archangel whenever you wish, and the bond between you will get stronger each time you make contact.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

I put an ad on an internet dating site, to which I received a lot of responses. I liked one man's name, so we emailed a bit. I was enamored with him from the start. When he sent me his picture, I got flushed, had goosebumps, and started crying uncontrollably. I felt a profound love for him even though we haven't met. I felt like I had lost him and I was so sad. I'm not sure what to do with this. He thinks I am special also. He is in the middle of reconciling with his ex, but now I am causing him to re-think that relationship. I don't want to cause him stress, but I don't want to let him go. I think I have loved him intensely in a past life. I am 50 and for the first time in my life, I feel lonely and sad. It is as if these feelings were opened up just by seeing his picture. Is this possible? If we were soul mates, would he feel the same thing? He says he has an inexplicable attraction to me and is confused about this because we haven't met. I mistrust online connections, but I want to trust this man and I want to love him.

Betty

Susyn:

I advise you to proceed with extreme caution here, for there are all sorts of different reasons this man's picture may be triggering a strong emotional response in you. When we encounter someone we have known before in a past life, the reactions you describe are common. The intense sense of familiarity we experience can bring about a dramatic psychic shift. All our thoughts, energy and focus then turn to this one person, and the more we wonder about the possibilities, the more we get caught up in our heads and forget about what's really happening in the here and now.

The danger in connecting via the internet is the tendency to assign certain characteristics to people that they simply do not possess. I have had many clients meet someone online or find themselves fascinated with a public figure they have only seen on television or in movies. The feelings they experience are very real and all-consuming. However, if they encounter the person in real life, they may discover the object of their affections is either completely unattainable or not who they professed themselves to be.

Though this may seem to discourage your hopes of loving this man, there are a few things you can do to determine this connection's true potential. While you can remain open and see where all of this leads, you will want to proceed with caution.

When soul mates are destined to come together, it's rare for the other person to remain on the fence or involved in another relationship. At this point in time, your man is obviously not finished with his ex. If the two of you are destined to be together, the feelings you have will still be there once he has completed his karma with his current relationship. Ask him not to contact you until after he is clear of this situation completely. If the connection is as you describe, he will honor this request, and it won't take long for him to finish it so that you can move forward together.

Next, you must agree to meet in person. Being with him a few times in real life will usually tell you everything you need to know. Either your connection will grow stronger, or it will quickly fall apart.

You have already invested your heart and soul in this man without even meeting him. This alone can put the relationship in jeopardy, as you are prone to forgetting yourself and putting all your focus on him. Energetically and romantically, this can smother the spark instead of fanning the flames. I encourage you to step back from these dramatic waves of emotion and allow Spirit to reveal the true purpose of this connection.

*****

Oceania:

I suspect you've been carrying deeply buried sadness all your life, and something about this man's internet persona has triggered that sadness. While this is a gift, please don't assume that the feelings are related to HIM. He is merely the key that opened a long-locked door within you. Your feelings are likely related to a profound loss that took place during your early life, like a death, divorce, new sibling who seemed to replace you or a cold and emotionally distant parent.

When someone triggers our old business, we often feel as if we've known them in a former life or for most of THIS one. We have this profound feeling of inexplicable familiarity because the person has stirred up dormant feelings from our early childhood. We may experience a sense of resonance, bittersweet longing, and an intense desire to connect with them.

If we could look at this man objectively for a moment, he seems unsettled. I might even use the word flakey, as he's in the middle of reconciling with his ex AND dabbling on a dating site! When people go fishing online while in a relationship, it's usually because they're seeking a distraction from their real life or because they unrealistically believe there's a Prince or Princess Charming out there with whom things will more easily fall into place.

While its important to choose a partner who is stable and compatible with our goals and values, a relationship mostly works or doesn't because of what we put into it, not because of whom we've chosen. I've always liked Laura Schlessinger's relationship-success formula: Choose wisely; treat kindly.

You said you don't want to cause this man stress, which sounds loving. You said you don't want to let him go, which sounds immature, self-centered and possessive. These conflicting positions show that both your adult and child selves are involved. The child in you yearns to heal the past and mistakenly thinks you need HIM in order to do so. The adult in you recognizes that love is about wishing for someone's happiness, with or without you.

It's good to move to the phone and an in-person meeting in a timely manner after making an internet connection; otherwise, you can't be sure that what you're feeling is based on reality. When the only contact is email, chat or texting, it is easy to fill in the gaps with our own idealization and fantasy. You say you want to love and trust this man. I suspect you want to love and trust SOMEONE, but no one - this gentleman included - deserves your love and trust until they earn it over time in real life.

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.