Anna Sayce

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  • 8 Signs Your Predominant Spiritual Relationship Is with Your Angels ( & Not Your Guides)

    8 Signs Your Predominant Spiritual Relationship Is with Your Angels ( & Not Your Guides)

    In this article, I’m going to cover a situation that I’ve seen from time to time for my reading clients when I used to do Spirit Guide readings.

    Usually when I was doing a Spirit Guide reading for someone, their primary Spirit Guide would step forward as the ‘spokesguide’ and main source of guidance for the client. Their Guardian Angels would also be there, but more in the background. Their role would be that of the silent protector.

    However, every now and again, I would encounter someone whose situation was different, and who had a closer relationship with their Guardian Angels than they actually did with their Spirit Guides. This is the case for maybe 5% of people.

    In this article, I’m going to go into what this looks like and some signs that this may be the case for you.

    But before I go any further, I just want to clearly describe and define the two types of spirit that are referred to in this article:

    Spirit Guides — Most people have between 4 and 7 guides. There’s usually one primary guide that has been with us our entire lives. The rest show up at various points during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood. Spirit Guides are there to give us guidance (as their name suggests.) Their role is to keep us on track with our soul’s purpose for this lifetime. They have distinct personalities, energies and appearances. You may even have known them in past lives, and they are human souls who have usually incarnated on Earth before.

    Guardian Angels — Most people have 2 or 3 Guardian Angels. The role of your angels is to protect and guard you, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

    If it is not your time to cross over to the other side, for example, in a life-threatening situation your angels will intervene to keep you safe, or intervene to keep you away from the situation in the first place (this is more common). Guardian angels also influence us with their high-vibrational energies so that we can have more access to energies like love, truth, peace, and peace, when we get bogged down with heavy earthly energies.

    Guardian angels are not human souls, and have not ever walked the earth. If you are lucky enough to see an angel clairvoyantly, they often have handsome or beautiful faces, but in a bland, generically good-looking sort of way. They may also look tall, powerful or imposing. They often do not have names or a gender – many appear to be androgynous.

    So, as mentioned, most people have a closer relationship with their guides, simply because that is the role of our guides — to work closely with us in terms of guidance.

    OK, now let’s look at the sign you are in the less common situation of having your primary relationship with your angels, and not your guides.

    1. You don’t feel a strong connection with your guides nor do you have a conscious relationship with them. You don’t know who they are.

    If you are aware of who your angels are, and have a conscious relationship with them, but you don’t have the same familiarity with your guides, this is a big sign that your primary spiritual relationship is with your angels.

    This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have a relationship with your guides — it just means you’re more in tune in with the angelic beings around you right now.

    2. You’re strongly clairsentient and often feel high-vibrational energies from your angels, such as peace and love

    The role of Angels is to embody and hold positive energies that we can draw on and use here on Earth. Angels bring these beautiful, high-vibrational energies to us, and so if you’re sensitive to the angelic realm and in touch with your angels, you will be feeling these energies from them, through your clairsentience. You may just have random waves of positive emotion come through you, especially at unexpected times, such as during stress or difficulties.

    3. You have had dreams with angels in them

    Another big sign that you have a strong relationship with your angels is if you dream of them a lot. Dreaming is an easy way for Spirit to communicate with you, because when you’re asleep and in the astral planes (which is like a halfway house between heaven and earth), Spirit can reach you much more easily.

    Dreams involving angels can be such beautiful experiences. For example, you may have a dream where you’re blessed with a kind and loving stranger’s actions towards you, and you wake up feeling the warm energies that came from this person. That’s the kind of dream you might have when the angels are involved in your trips to the astral planes!

    Let’s have another look at a sign that you have a closer relationship with your angels:

    4. You’ve trained as an angel intuitive or have consciously called on the angels regularly in the past

    There are some intuitive development programs out there that focus exclusively on connecting you with your angels. If you have gone through one of these programs, you may have a closer connection with your angels simply because you have done the work to establish a relationship.

    Even if you have just been calling on the angels and nothing more, this is also a sign that your primary relationship may be with them. This is because calling on your angels draws them closer to you and allows them to help you, especially when you make specific requests of them.

    5. You’ve had a lot of grief or hardship in your life and you know that the angels have drawn near to you at these times

    Angels draw closer to us at difficult times. The reason for this is because their role (as mentioned) is to bring high-vibrational energies to us earth-dwellers, and we are most in need of these energies when we are suffering. So if you have felt the presence of your angels during hard times, this is also a sign that your relationship with them may have supplanted the one you have with your guides.

    6. You see a lot of ‘angel lights’

    Angel lights are coloured lights that you may see in your peripheral vision. They are often gold, white, pink or blue, and they are flashes of light that you see, but which disappear if you look at them directly. They are often accompanied by a rather lovely feeling. I call these ‘angel lights’ because they are signs that your angels are nearby.

    7. You’re a high-vibrational person

    If the spirit world is like a ladder with different rungs on it, angels are actually a bit higher on the ladder of the spiritual energies than our guides are. Guides are at maybe level 5 and angels are at a level 6. So if you are high-vibrational in terms of your own energy, you may be connecting more with the higher level energies such as angels.

    We all have our own spiritual ‘set point’ — aka a level that we connect with easily. I find it easiest to connect with guides, others such as mediums can connect easily with deceased loved ones (who are a bit lower down on that ladder than our guides are.)

    8. You belong to the Mission Realmer soul group

    The Mission Realmer group is a group of angelic starseeds (also known as the Andromedans). You can find out if you belong to this group by getting an Akashic Record reading. Many of my Mission Realmer clients have had a closer relationship with their angels than with their guides, and so if you belong to this group, this is another sign that you have a closer relationship with your angels than you do with your guides.

    If you would like to connect more with your angels, check out the articles below, as these give actual techniques to allow you to enlist their help.

    If you’re interested in strengthening the relationship you have with your guides and angels, here are some further resources:

    Further Reading on the Angels:

  • Who Are Your Spirit Guides & Guardian Angels?

    Who Are Your Spirit Guides & Guardian Angels?

    Recently I received a question from a reader who wrote:

    Hi Anna,

    “Is it true that everyone always has Spirit Guides? I recently had a reading with someone who channelled my deceased friend but could not find any guides or angels.”

    ~ Jenny

    Hi Jenny,

    Yes, in my experience everyone has guides and angels around them.

    When an intuitive tunes into you, they may pick up on any one of a variety of different beings around you, including:

    Note that some intuitives are naturally going to pick up on a certain type of being more than the others. For example, some are natural born mediums while others are very attuned to the angelic realm.

    Here’s a summary of some of these types of being:

    Spirit Guides

    Spirit Guides are helpful beings that hold a spiritual, expanded perspective of our lives. Even before we incarnate, we will choose the right guides to help us on our path for this lifetime.

    Our Spirit Guides know our soul’s characteristics, path, and life challenges. They know what we are here to learn in this lifetime, and their job is to help us to stay on track with paths which align with our soul and life lessons. Accordingly, they give us advice, comfort, and protection in the form of warnings.

    They help us to stay on track by communicating with us intuitively, through clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and claircognizance. You may feel tingling on your body when you’re impulsed by your guides, or you might just receive information that pops into your brain seemingly from nowhere.

    Most people have between four and seven guides around them. If the person is very young, there may only be one or two present, and the others will show up at later points in the person’s life. By maturity, a person usually has all their guides in place.

    Sometimes, if a person has a large number of guides, such as six or more, one of the guides may be a temporary guide — one that comes in for a specific purpose, and then leaves again later on. For example, if you need to do a lot of public speaking in your new job, and you’re finding it challenging, you may have a guide who specializes in communication and confidence show up, helping you through that issue. If you’re struggling with something at the moment, you can even request that Spirit send you extra help. This may come in the form of a temporary guide or it could come in another form.

    Spirit Guides tend to function as a team, but each one also has an individual role to fulfill. Much like the people around us in the physical, Spirit Guides bring us beneficial energies, even if we’re not entirely conscious of what those energies are. So, for example, if you have a life lesson of moderation (like me), it is likely one of your guides will be helping you with balance. If you’re a very serious person, you will probably have a guide with playful and lighthearted energy.  Some guides specialize in relationships and others are more at home with practical day-to-day matters, for instance.

    Spirit Guides may have defined genders and usually they have names, too. They come across as male, female or balanced in their energies (androgynous).

    They also show up with defined appearances that a clairvoyant can pick up on. Obviously, Spirit Guides do not have a physical aspect but they take an appearance which we resonate with, and which also makes a statement about who they are.

    Spirit Guides can also be in the form of animals — I usually find that most clients have at least one animal energy around them.

    Spirit Guides are fairly high vibrational, so folks who resonate with these energies (those who have a lot of energy running through the upper chakras) will find it easier to connect with the guides.

    Guardian Angels

    Everyone has at least two Guardian Angels around them, and some people have more than two.

    The role of angels is to protect us physically, emotionally and spiritually. They also comfort and influence us with their loving energies.

    They mostly protect us by putting thoughts into our minds. For example, if there’s going to be an accident at an intersection you’re approaching, but it’s not your role to be involved in that accident, your Guardian Angel will give you a really strong urge to stop off for food or gas, so that you avoid it. Or if you’re thinking of getting involved with someone who would not be good for you, your Guardian Angel will influence you to stay away from that person.

    In really dire situations, Angels can also manifest in physical form to give assistance (although this is less common, I have heard some amazing stories about such cases.)

    Angels do not tend to have names or genders (they are gender neutral) in the same way as Spirit Guides, and they often appear to be hovering in the background, more concerned with their role as spiritual protector than they are with being channeled.

    Angels are of an even higher vibration than the guides, and some people are naturally good at picking up a signal on the ‘angel channel’. You can become more attuned to the angels by calling on them often.

    Deceased Loved Ones

    The next category of being that psychics commonly pick up on is the deceased.

    If you should lose a beloved friend or family member, then know that this person is likely to spend time around you even after their death and can be picked up on in much the same way as an intuitive picks up on a Spirit Guide.

    Deceased loved ones don’t guide us in exactly the same way as our guides do, but they become our non-physical ‘champions’ from the other side — looking out for us and providing insights and help along the way.

    Whether or not an intuitive picks up on a deceased loved one depends on how easy it is for the deceased person to communicate, and it also depends on the skill of the medium.

    Connecting with the dead is like building a bridge — both sides need to be able to build their end of the bridge and meet in the middle.

    Deceased loved ones resonate at a lower vibration than the angels and guides — it’s almost as if they are closer to the human aspect than the other non-physical beings I’ve talked about in this article. Some people are naturally good at picking up on spirit at this level — and those people tend to be the ones who are rather in tune with their emotional side.

    I recently had a reading with an intuitive who only picked up on my deceased cat and my maternal great-grandmother, Ida Sayce, whose surname I adopted when I decided to change my name.  This psychic was very attuned with those who have passed. As for me, I’m naturally more in attunement with the angels and guides and communicating with the dead is not something that comes most naturally to me, although I can do it if I need to.

    For someone with a natural attunement like that to one type of being, they sometimes need to consciously learn how to tune into the other types.

    Want to Learn More?

    For those who are interested in learning to tune into a person’s Spirit Guides, angels, ancestors, and other types of beings, you can learn how to do this in my Intuitive Reading Program.

    This course teaches you how to tune in and create a portrait of all the different beings around your client — this is a beautiful reading which reminds people that they are not alone on their path through life.

    The program also teaches you to channel these beings for other life questions, along with instruction on doing career, relationship and decision readings for clients.

  • Angels Defined & How They Can Help You

    Angels Defined & How They Can Help You

    Over the years, I’ve benefited greatly from the relationship I have with my angels and I want to pass on what I’ve learned about the angelic realm over time so that you too can raise your vibration with the help of the angels. In this article, I’m going to share some practical exercises you can use to call on your angels.

    Are You Calling on the Angels?

    A lot of people are open to the idea of communicating with their guides and see the benefits of doing this. But not as many people bother calling on the angels. I had one client this week who calls on his guides but finds angels too ‘new-age’ for him.

    It’s funny that my client thought that working with angels was too ‘new-age’, because angels are anything but ‘new-age’! If anything, they are ‘old-age’! They are featured in the Bible, in ancient/primitive literature and art of all kinds. They have been around helping humanity, literally since time began.

    But don’t think that because they’re featured in the Bible, they’re about religion. Angels assist all beings, without discrimination, whether you’re a Muslim, Jew, Christian or spiritual.

    What Are Angels Exactly?

    Angels are beings who are on a path of evolution that is entirely different from the human path of evolution. There are many different types of angel as there are types of human soul. Just to give you an idea of the variety — we all have Guardian Angels who protect us and guide us, angels that bring peace to sacred sites, there are angels of marriage who assist couples, there are Earth angels who protect natural landscapes and there are angels of healing.

    Angels specialize in embodying energies like love, peace, compassion and healing. They then bring these special energies to those of us incarnated on Earth so that we may access them when our vibration is very low, in times of sorrow, grief and pain.

    The angels also help us to dispel more minor negativity in our mind and spirit. They heal us, they protect us, they eliminate our fears and give us guidance (in much the same way as guides do.)

    Is There Much of a Difference Between Guides and Angels?

    Yes, there is.

    Guides are on the same path of evolution as human souls — most of them have experienced an Earthly incarnation before. Our guides are here to nudge us gently onto the paths that bring us the most learning and freedom, and they are spiritual helpers. By contrast, angels don’t guide. Your Guardian Angels (you often have two or three of these around you) fulfil many roles — they protect you, help to keep you safe, help you to heal and make you feel loved and cared for.

    How Exactly Can Angels Help?

    Angels can help you to:

    Feel good, feel protected, feel loved, feel comforted, remember who you are on the soul level, create positive life circumstances, heal yourself, heal others, take the paths which align with your highest path and purpose and raise your vibration so that you can contribute more of your positive energies to this funny old place which is Planet Earth. However, there is one condition to working with the angels:

    They will only help you if you’re perfect and good, all the time.

    Nah, I’m joking. The condition is that you must ask the angels to come into your life and help you. You have to do this because the angels will not make themselves known and heard by you, until you request it. It’s the rule of free will.

    In 2006 I first read one of Doreen Virtue’s books about the angelic realm and in it she reminds the reader that angels must be called on. So, I did this and was amazed at what happened. First of all, I met an angel in my dream spontaneously. I dreamed that I was waiting in line to buy a ticket at the local coach station. There was a woman right in front of me, with her back to me. In the dream, she turned around and looked me in the eye and said ‘you go in front of me’ and smiled. Looking into her eyes, it was clear that she was an angel. A wave of emotion swept me and I felt very nurtured and loved. The eyes of the angel were kind and gentle but also the kind of gaze that burns when you look at it. I woke up deeply moved from my dream and that feeling lasted for hours.

    Shortly after that, I began to see angel lights around me and around others. Angel lights look like orbs of coloured lights. You often see them moving or in the corner of your eye. Some people believe that angel lights are figments of our imagination. I don’t believe this because I never saw angel lights before in my life before I asked the angels to come into my life. I believe in angels, as I believe in all manifestations of Spirit. At really low times in my life I’ve seen my bedroom full of sparkling, coloured lights, dancing around, after having called on the Archangels. At times like those I’ve cried in gratitude at the playfulness and love of the angels.

    How Can I Work with My Guardian Angels Straight Away?

    You don’t need to be psychic to do this (although psychic ability helps). Just call on your angels. Ask them to come into your life. Ask them to come into your dreams. Ask them to help you clear any resistance to manifesting your desires. Ask them to heal any issues from the past. Ask them to watch over your loved ones. Ask them to protect you. (Below I list some exercises to connect with your angels.) Ask, ask, ask.

    How Will I Know Angels Are Around Me?

    If you’re clairsentient, you’ll be naturally gifted in communicating with the angelic realm because angels communicate with us very much through our emotional body and clairsentients are usually very sensitive, emotionally. You know you’re in the presence of an angel when a feeling of unearthly love sweeps you, or when you feel deeply cared for or moved for no reason.

    Exercises to Connect With the Angels

    This exercise allows you to enhance the lives of others by sending loving gifts to them and it requires your visual imagination:

    Close your eyes and imagine your Guardian Angel in front of you (you can imagine your angel however you like). Imagine a beautiful box in front of you and feel the love, gratitude, appreciation, strength, peace which you desire to pass on to your recipient. Place that energy into the box and tie it up with a beautiful bow. Give it to the angel with instructions to pass it on to your desired person. This is especially effective if you need to forgive someone or want someone to forgive you.

    This may sound like a silly exercise, but it works. An older member of our family was nursing her terminally ill daughter this year and throughout all those times I sent love and strength on a daily basis (or when I remembered). She felt it because she kept telling me that her spirits would lift for no reason and she would feel comforted and loved, in spite of what was happening. In the end, I told her what I was doing and she said she felt the presence of the angels around her at those times.

    Meet Your Angels in a Dream

    If you’ve never experienced the presence of an angel and don’t know what it feels like, ask the angels to come to you in a dream. If you’re feeling very discouraged or depressed, before you go to sleep, ask the angels to heal and uplift you in the night. Again, I’ve had great results from doing this. I even dreamed of being in a place which looked like a hospital (but didn’t feel like one, thankfully), surrounded by angelic beings. After that dream, I woken up refreshed, renewed and feeling good, despite going to bed feeling downcast.

    Give Your Cares to an Angel

    If you’re in pain or grief and you need some serious healing, imagine putting all your cares in a big sack or bag and hand it to an angel, then watch the angel take your cares to the light of God, where the negativity is transmuted to love and returned to you in the same bag. Feel the love energy you get in return from the angel.

    ‘White Light’ Your Possessions and Ask for Angelic Protection

    Call on Archangel Michael if you’re in fear and in need of some protection. When I’m on the London underground or walking in the street, I imagine a bubble of angelic protection around me. I also imagine Archangel Michael putting a white light around my handbag to protect it. You can also ask the angels to protect your home when you’re gone by white lighting it.

    Further Reading: