15 Wishing on an Angel for Insight and Intuition

Your angels can guide you on your spiritual path, helping you trust your intuition. The process of talking to your angels regularly helps you trust yourself and your feelings—this alone will help you in many areas of your life.

How many times have you kicked yourself for ignoring your instincts because it wasn’t convenient? We often put off resolving a problem or relationship regardless of the inner voice that’s saying Don’t do it: Walk away: Do it … because this involves risk. But once ignored, the same situation or problem simply reappears, perhaps in another guise, until you do follow your intuition.

In this way, trusting yourself completely can be a challenge. It can also be difficult on a day-to-day basis, particularly if you sense things that others don’t always experience. You might think, “Is what I’m getting here just my imagination? Or is it real?” The answer is that visualization opens up intuition. That is, you need your sensitivity and imagination to become receptive to intuitive flashes and messages from your angels, but the messages themselves are “real.” Think about it this way. If you were to visualize making a bowl from clay, you would use your imagination to visualize its shape and form, to make it by hand, and to decorate it beautifully. When the bowl is fired (with your positive intentions), it is ready to use. Your angels now have a bowl, a place, to leave messages for you. You needed to make the bowl with your imagination and intention in order to collect the messages.

With practice, you will come to recognize the transition point from imagination into new territory. During an angel meditation, for example, you begin by using your imagination to become receptive—grounding yourself by seeing roots growing from your feet, and placing yourself in a protective bubble. But when you call upon your angels and sense their presence, this is not something you have willed into being. Angels are all about feeling, not willpower and determination. That is why trying too hard to see your angels can often mean that you won’t; but by being relaxed and receptive, and trusting your intuition, you create a pathway for your angels to visit.

Intuition meditation: Third–Eye Chakra

* To ask your angels to boost trust and intuition, first ground and protect yourself and do the opening-up ritual (see pages 9–10).

* Now visualize an indigo pathway. Indigo is the color of intuition and the third-eye chakra (see the illustration above). The pathway begins at your third eye, between your eyebrows, and extends out into the sky. See your angels walking along this path towards you. Let the color become more vibrant as your angels come closer. They are bringing you beautiful indigo light. Thank your angels in advance of your meeting.

* When you are ready, let your angels wrap their wings around you. They are also purple, and you feel this color vibrate at your third eye. Your angels are telling you that they trust you, and now it is time to trust yourself. Your intuition is real.

* Stay with this loving vibration as long as you like.

* When you are ready to finish, thank your angels once more and close down your chakras (see page 11).

WHAT COLORS DID YOU SENSE?

Sensing lots of indigo—in this meditation and others—shows that the angels are helping you cleanse old energies and lift your vibration. Your intuition is expanding and becoming stronger. Did you find it difficult to “see” indigo? If you sensed other colors, turn to page 39 to find out their associations. These are the issues you might consider working on in order to trust your intuition more deeply.

Angels to call upon:

• Archangel Raziel, angel of intuition

• Archangel Barachiel, angel of insight, imagination, and psychic development