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Jupiter heads for Gemini on Monday, expanding our options even further as we look toward our futures with renewed enthusiasm. New information, expanded conversations, and possible new partnerships are all hallmarks of Jupiter as it dances through this sign. The Moon will hang out in Sagittarius on Monday and Tuesday, filling the air with a dose of fun and light-heartedness. The main astrological event of the week is Wednesday’s full Moon in Sagittarius, which can often have us running into people from our past or encountering others who could have a major influence on our lives in the near future. Our most productive days of the week will be on Thursday and Friday as the Moon travels through industrious Capricorn, encouraging us to complete projects and restore order to our finances and homes. We can expect the unexpected under this weekend’s Aquarius Moon, as this sign promotes sudden changes in direction, surprise opportunities, and new options for how we’d like to spend our days.

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 husband is an alcoholic who has been going through rehab and detox for the past two months. We separated in November because of his alcohol abuse. The goal was for him to work on his sobriety, and once he was sober for 30 days, he could go home. He's had a number of relapses, however, and that goal has now been made 60 days of sobriety. I have tried my best to be supportive throughout the years that his alcoholism has affected my life and our daughter's life. With this most recent period of treatment however, I just feel so angry and frustrated that it's overwhelming. We're heading out right now to a group session at his treatment facility, but it's so hard to focus all our attention on him yet again, for that is where our focus has been for so long. While I love my husband, I feel I need to help my daughter and myself to release all of this anger, frustration and other emotional baggage so we can move on - with or without him. Where do we start?

Dreamchaser:

Living with an alcoholic or drug addict is incredibly difficult. We all need some consistency and stability at home. You and your daughter have had next to none of that.

I completely understand that you feel the attention has been put on him because he has the sickness and needs the treatment. You and your daughter, however, are the innocent victims of his disease. It is okay to be angry. It is okay to be upset. It is okay to be hurt. You and your daughter should allow yourselves the right to fully feel those emotions. By fully feeling them, you own them, and then you decide what to do with them from that point on.

I know you said you are going to group sessions to help him. Have you and your daughter been to Al-Anon or Alateen by any chance? Al-Anon/ Alateen is a group formed of families and loved ones of alcoholics and addicts. In that place, the attention would be SOLELY focused on you and your daughter - NOT on your husband. You could have people who have shared many of your struggles helping you and guiding you. I suggest you call them. The number in the United States is 1-800-425-2666. If you would prefer, please go to their website at www.al-anon.alateen.org. You can find international listings there as well.

While this may not make you feel better, I really do believe your husband is trying to do his best right now. He never believed you would leave him. While you have been threatening for years, you never did. When you actually DID leave him, he realized he was about to lose the only people who really love him no matter what. That scared him, and now he is serious about getting treatment and becoming a better person for you two.

I feel you need to wait until he has completed the latest round of treatment and see how his behavior is at that point before you decide if you want to divorce him or not. I really believe that you should not subject your daughter to any more of his drinking or his behavior while he is drinking, however. If he does not stay sober this time, you should continue on with the divorce proceedings.

Your daughter should be your primary concern at this point. There are a great number of books available that were written by children who grew up in homes with an alcoholic or drug-addicted parent. At this point, she still has a chance of repairing some of the damage he has caused and going on to live a healthy, productive life. She cannot, however, continue to be subjected to his sickness if he chooses to start drinking again.

Listen to your daughter. She has said all of this to you herself.

I wish you and your family a very happy ending.

*****

Astrea:

I applaud your efforts to stand by your husband and keep your family together, but we all reach our limit eventually. While Cancers are the most tolerant Sign, I feel you've reached the end of your rope.

It's time for you to save yourself and your daughter before it's too late. Your husband may quit drinking someday, and then you may be able to be friends. Right now you have to SURVIVE, as does your daughter.  This bouncing in and out of rehab with him isn't helping you OR your daughter. It's time for the two of you to move on. If he is strong enough to overcome his illness, then he will. If not, you've done your best.

You have a tendency to take the blame for others' actions. INTELLECTUALLY you know none of this if your fault, but you still seem to have a lot of guilt about your husband's drinking. Because of his family and even his DNA, he is predisposed to chemical dependency.

He's going to have to find his own way out of this. Nothing you or your daughter can do will force him to change. He has to WANT it more than anything else in the world. Maybe if you and your daughter leave him, it will give him the strength to want to change - maybe not. Your daughter has her whole life ahead of her, and so do you. It's time you enjoyed better lives.

Your daughter is at a very impressionable age. She could SO EASILY become her dad if you don't get her out of this situation. You are at an age when you can ENJOY your life instead of babysitting someone who has continual relapses. Addiction is a horrible thing, and Air Signs are the most likely to hold on to an addiction for life.

I know you feel sorry for your husband, but enough is enough.  You've been the best wife you could possibly be in this situation, but you have a right to some happiness too.

He has to find his strength within to conquer this addiction. You can still love and care about him, but the time will come when you'll have to do what's best for you and your daughter. Let Spirit guide you in to the future.

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.