Ask Ask a Spirit – Week of July 28th

I’m a day early with this, but I’m on a roll this morning…

Going in Circles writes:

I would like to be able to communicate with my guiding spirits, how do I do that? can you guide me? and can I request to have new guiding spirits instead of the ones now because I feel that they are not doing their job? how do I do that too? I feel that I need lots of guidance in this life, that my life is going in circles and today I asked God to replace my guides with better ones that can guide me and help me be a better person and to be successful in this life. I felt that I had the wrong guides all these years. can you help please?? thanks and may the Divine Light be with you.

Okay, this response is totally not going to win me any popularity points, but “The Peanut Gallery” had quite a few things to say after reading this one. I’m going to try to respond to the questions in the order they appear above, but I may go off in another direction once I get started. That being said, this is an example of a response that is probably not what you want to hear, but rather what you need to hear.

As for the question about how do you communicate with your guiding spirits, honey, you just did – loud and clear! If it weren’t for the fact that they’re on a higher energy plane, they would probably be extremely pissed off right about now.

As for asking whether you can request new guiding spirits because you think the ones you have aren’t doing their job – things don’t work like some giant office temporary agency in the sky, you know. You can’t hire and fire spirit guides at will. Besides, is it at all possible that it’s not a matter of them not doing their job, but one of you not doing yours??? It is a two-way street, you know. Just speaking from my own past personal experiences, most, if not all, of the screwups in my life could in all likelihood have been avoided for the most part if I had listened to and heeded the advice of my guides, instead of ignoring them and doing whatever it was I damn well pleased. (Like that time I ignored them and stayed at the job from hell, and ended up in the hospital not once, but twice, and then ended up getting fired anyway.)

So, today you asked God for new and “better” guides. It’s a really good thing that guides take all this stuff pretty much in stride and aren’t easily offended. Otherwise, you might find yourself with a huge red target painted on your back in indelible ethereal ink for that next lightning bolt to strike. Nice way to thank them for watching over you all these years and keeping you out of the really nasty stuff. You say you want guides who will guide you to be a better person and to be successful in this life, but you’re showing (at least in this e-mail) a complete and total lack of gratitude and appreciation for the guides who’ve been helping you all along. If you haven’t listened to them, what good do you think not listening to different guides will do?

As for you feeling that you’ve had the wrong guides all these years – do you really think God made a mistake when he gave them to you??? If so, all I can say is “Wow!” I’m sorry, but I cannot help you with this, other than to suggest you take a good long look at your own part in things and how that is what may be what’s keeping you going around in circles, and not your guides. A little humility, gratitude and appreciation of their wisdom might be a good place to start.

Ask Ask a Spirit – Week of July 21

My apologies for the delay in getting this off the ground on a regular basis. I’ve been sidelined with a muscle spasm and pinched nerve in my neck. So, things haven’t been exactly “normal” around here.

Birdwatcher writes:

I heard there was symbolic meaning to seeing a cardinal; possibly from someone on the other side. Do you know anything about this? Thank you.

While I haven’t been able to find any information related to cardinals bearing messages from the other side specifically, I have found some interesting info on the symbolism of the cardinal. The following are some bullet points, as well as a few links to other sites with more info:

• The cardinal symbolizes the need to integrate both our feminine and masculine energies, such as intuition and perserverance, into our lives.
• Pay attention to your eating habits? Are you eating foods that are hazardous to your health? Are you eating a healthy diet?
• The cardinal is a symbol of heightened intuition, creativity and awareness.

Links with additional info:

Animal Symbolism of the Cardinal

Symbolic Meaning of Cardinals

Animal Guides, Totems and Spirit Helpers

Stories in Stone: The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolism

Ask Your Guides Oracle Cards

Ask Your Guides Oracle Card Samples

I’ve been working with Sonia Choquette’s Ask Your Guides Oracle Cards lately.

I wrote a little bit about these cards a while ago, before I had become really familiar with them. Now that I’ve been working with them on a semi-regular basis, I have to say that I really like them. They are right up there with my other favorite, Doreen Virtue’s Archangel Oracle Cards, which I wrote about here.

Visually, I really like these cards. The artwork is very simple, yet at the same time very meaningful. As you can see from the sample above, they’re also colorful, which is something I’m totally drawn to. There are messages on the cards from your Joy Guides, Higher Self, Warrior Guides, Divine Healers, Divine Teachers, Holy Spirit and more. I’ve found them to be very “dead-on” in terms of receiving the precise Divine guidance you need at any given time. Sometimes, it may not be the answer to the question you were asking, but it’s definitely what you need to hear, when you need to hear it. (The Priorities card and I are old friends at this point. I get the message, really I do!)

Sonia Choquette has also written several books, a few of which I’ve read and found very helpful, including Ask Your Guides, The Psychic Pathway, and Trust Your Vibes at Work. She also has a regular weekly radio program on Hay House Radio.

“Ask Ask a Spirit” – Week of June 30th

Adopted writes:

Thank you for reading this question. I was adopted as a baby and when I got older I found my birth family.I found out my father and grandmother died and I never met my grandmother even as a baby and only a few times my father as a baby. My question is since they have hardly any memories of me will they even think of me on the other side or can you be reunited in death with someone you never knew? Can I recieve messages from them?

Absolutely on all counts! Just because they were not able to be with you in this life, doesn’t mean they weren’t/aren’t spiritually connected to you in a very big way. It’s entirely possible that not only do they think of you on the other side, but that they’re watching over you constantly. Often, we have family members connected to us and watching over us that we’ve never met on this side because they died long before we were even a thought – great-grandparents, great-great-great uncles, etc. Just as they are spiritually connected to us, so too, are those loved ones that are separated from us due to various life circumstances, such as adoption.

Realize, too, that just because they may not have a lot of memories of time spent with you, doesn’t mean that the memories they did share were not special and important to them, or that they didn’t carry those memories with them throughout their lives. For example, I have a friend who passed quite a while ago. In the grand scheme of things, we didn’t spend a lot of time together on earth. If you added up all the days we spent together, it probably wouldn’t have even added up to six months, if that much. At the time of his death, we had been out of touch for close to five years. But now, twenty years later, I still have the memories of the time we shared, and I am constantly getting messages from him on a very regular basis.

Also, while they did not see you, they may have spent time wondering how things turned out for you, and/or wishing things could have been different between you. Sometimes, they watch over us in spirit to make up for the way they weren’t able to be there for us in life.

So it’s more than possible on all counts!

Well, This Was Interesting!

I’ve never had this happen before!

I was on my way home from work, and I stopped in the local grocery store to pick up some vodka sauce to go with my pasta.  However, when I looked on the shelves, there was no vodka sauce to be seen. There was fire-roasted tomato and garlic, marinara, Newman’s Own “Sockarooni”, and a host of others, but no vodka sauce.

So, I picked up a jar of fire-roasted tomato and garlic to check and see how many Weight Watchers POINTS it was. As I was standing there, reading the nutritional information on the label, a jar of sauce fell off the shelf and landed at my feet. It was weird, because I wasn’t standing near it at the time. Fortunately, it didn’t break. So, I picked it up and was about to put it back on the shelf, when I saw it – the jar of Newman’s Own Vodka Sauce that had been behind the jar that fell off the shelf.

I’ve never had an object fall off a shelf like that before. I’ve never had help like that finding pasta sauce, either! It was pretty cool!