Three Ways to Meet Your Guardian Angel

We are all born with a guardian angel, whether we know it or not. In the precious hours before your birth, your guardian angel appears, watching you come safely into the world. Whatever happens throughout your life, your guardian angel never leaves you, and will always try to protect you and keep you on your life path. You may meet other angels along the way, who help and guide you—just like friends you meet who may stay with you for months, years, or most of a lifetime—but your guardian angel is with you always.

To meet your guardian angel, you can explore any of the three meditations shown on the following pages. You might like to try 1 to begin with, or try 2 and 3 in succession—you can blend 2 and 3 together by asking your guardian angel to take you to the crystal cave after you’ve flown around the galaxy!

Why Meditation?

Meditation and ritual create a pathway to the angelic realms. They allow your “feeling” energy to make a link, as if growing a fiber-optic cable between you. When you are connected with your angels, you can communicate through all your senses, and receive love, healing, protection, and more. A meditation is time spent with your angels, and it can last a minute or an hour; as time has no meaning for angels, one minute might feel like an hour, or vice versa. However long you spend with your angels, one of these rituals and meditations will be perfect for you.

Your guardian angel may give you their name. This may be a name you have heard before—one of the archangels, such as Michael, Gabriel, or Raphael. If you don’t receive a name, you can give your guardian angel a name based on how they look or feel, a descriptive name such as Blue Angel or White Angel, or simply call them My Angel or Guardian Angel. Many people don’t get a name for their guardian angel, but if you do, it’s usually the first name that you sense or hear when you connect. You can ask for confirmation of this name over the next few weeks—for example, if you sense that your guardian angel’s name is Joseph, you might see this name in a prominent way in your everyday life—it could be a new person you meet, or a name on a billboard or letter. But don’t strive to find a name. It’s fine for your guardian angel just to be your guardian angel.

If you are given the name of your angel, quietly address them. And whenever you ask your angel for help, begin by calling their name: “Angel Joseph, please help me …”

Your guardian angel will always offer you love, protection, and healing, but you can also call on other angels you feel drawn to (see Meet Your Guardian Angel, Tip 3). Your guardian angel won’t be offended—in fact, he or she will help you connect with other helper angels. You might also like to call upon Archangel Barachiel, the chief of the guardian angels, to help you connect with your guardian angel for the first time. Another angel who can help you meet your guardian angel is Archangel Metatron, who is known as the guardian of all guardian angels (see the Angel Directory, page 136.)

Preparing To Meet Your Guardian Angel

To meet your angel, all you have to do is be open and ready to receive. This means emptying your mind and letting go of distractions. Just like decluttering your home, you’ll need to declutter your thoughts to make space for your angels to “come home” to you and find a connection with them through your heart. Try not to judge yourself or have expectations; be open to whatever you receive.

Read through the three meditations first, then choose one that appeals. You might find it helpful to record yourself reading the meditation first, then play it back when you are ready to try it. You can play gentle music to set the scene, too, as it creates a soothing vibration.

MEET YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL 1: THE MAGIC GARDEN

* Sit or lie down comfortably and close your eyes. If you have a favorite stone or crystal, hold it in the palm of your hand. Now ground and protect yourself (see pages 9–10)—feel roots growing from the soles of your feet deep into the earth, then see yourself in a bubble that encloses the whole of your body.

* Follow this process with your breath (see page 10). Focus on your breathing, and on the feeling of angelic light filling your body. If your thoughts and worries begin to intervene, become a witness—step back and see them drift away in front of you. Breathe them out.

* Really feel the angelic light in your whole body. Now ask your guardian angel to come close to you. See yourself in your mind’s eye, being ready to meet someone.

* Visualize yourself sitting on a bench in a garden. This is a magical garden, full of flowers. You might smell grass or the fragrance of a particular bloom, or sense sunshine on your arms or face. You are feeling deeply relaxed and safe.

* Pay attention to everything you feel and “see”—a tingling sensation on a particular part of your body, such as your cheek, or along one arm, or your hair being touched. You may actually perceive an angelic form. You might see flowers of different colors. There might be the sensation of deep calm and love. Some people feel tearful in angelic presence without “seeing” an angel’s form or angel wings; they just know that angels are with them. Others get an initial, a color, a whisper.

Did your angel show you a color or give you a name? Quietly address them by speaking their name; this strengthens your connection.

* When you sense the energy of your guardian angel pull back, thank them and see yourself sitting on your garden bench again, alone. Hold the feeling you had of your angel’s presence. What was it like?

* Switch your focus back to your gentle breathing, and open your eyes. You have now connected with your guardian angel.

* Close down (see page 11).

Did You Meet Someone Else?

Did you meet someone else on the bench? You might have sensed someone you knew who is now in spirit, or met your spirit guide for the first time. Like your guardian angel, your spirit guide is there to help keep you on your life path. Spirit guides have lived as humans on earth, whereas angels generally have never been human and exist only in the heavenly realms. Many people are aware that they have both spirit guides and angels around them.

If you didn’t meet angels or guides this time, all you need to do is keep practicing this meditation and become used to being open and relaxed; the more comfortable you are with yourself, and the more focused and calm, the more likely you are to be receptive to your angels. Trust that as long as you remain open to them, they will be with you, and when you are ready, they will communicate.

Angels can make themselves known to you whether you meditate to meet them or not. As you will see in this book, you can sense your angel’s presence through signs they leave for us, through other earthly people, music, scent, crystals, and more.

MEET YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL 2: THE COSMIC WISDOM JOURNEY

* Sit or lie down comfortably and close your eyes. If you have a favorite stone or crystal, hold it in the palm of your hand or place it on your heart chakra. Now do the grounding exercise only (see pages 9–10). We use the protective bubble as part of this meditation.

* Begin to pay attention to your breathing. Take some slow, deep breaths, then visualize white light coming toward you. Breathe the light deeply into your abdomen and feel it expand. Let it move up into your heart and see the light expanding there. Do this three or four times, exhaling anything other than light—tiredness, negativity, old thoughts. See the light illuminating your throat and head, right up to your crown. You’re feeling light, as though you might float off the floor or chair.

* Now see the light inside you radiate, making a bubble of light that encloses you. You’re completely in this bubble, and you can see out perfectly; you are drifting in your bubble into a white room. Imagine the feeling of peace in this pure space. Call upon your guardian angel, asking him to join you, saying: “My guardian angel, please come and stand behind me.”

* Now feel the power of your angel very close to you. You might feel a tingling around your shoulders as your angel envelops you with his wings and gently lifts you higher. You are completely safe and loved. Your angel will now reach for your hand and take you flying. Trust your angel to guide you as you float together over the clouds, up to the heavens, and into the galaxy. There are stars everywhere.

* Now you can ask your guardian angel questions. Do you want to know his or her name? Or, you might ask who you are in the universe and what you need to do in this lifetime. What do your dreams mean? You may just ask your guardian angel about healing or helping you find wisdom. You could also ask about a person and their well-being.

* When you are ready, your angel will return you to the white room—you are still in your light bubble. Thank your angel as you sense them stepping back. Let yourself and your bubble land, and see yourself lying or sitting down, stretching out into your physical body. Begin to feel the weight of your body on the floor or chair. You might start to move your body slightly.

* Close down (see page 11).

MEET YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL 3: THE CRYSTAL CAVE

* Follow the meditation as for 2 and lay down with a favorite crystal. This time place it on your heart chakra. Ground yourself (see pages 9–10), then open up by breathing in white light. Put yourself in a bubble of white light, and go to the white room. As before, call upon your guardian angel, asking him to stand behind you.

* Feel the power and protection as your angel envelops you with his wings and gently lifts you up. See a door open in the white room.

* Your guardian angel floats you through this door. Inside is a crystal cave and before you is a bed made of sparkling crystals. There is light everywhere, glistening from the natural crystals that cover the cave. Lie down on the crystal bed and feel it vibrate with pure energy. Feel the crystal in your hand, and merge with its energy. Become one with the crystal. Melt into the crystal bed. Your guardian angel is standing by you. Absorb all the sensations and vibrations—really feel the energy and colors coming to you in this beautiful place.

* Now you can ask your guardian angel questions, and talk or listen.

* Other angels may visit. You may find yourself calling upon angels of healing, or angels of peace. You don’t need to name them—it is enough just to say: “Healing angels, please come closer.” Thank your guardian angel and these other angels.

* Your guardian angel will know when to take you back to the white room. You will remember the colors from your experience in the cave, and other messages. Don’t be concerned that you’ll forget. Let your guardian angel take care of this for you.

* See yourself lying or sitting back down in your body as your guardian angel helps you and steps back. Feel his energy ebb, and begin to feel heavier in your body as you come back to the floor or chair.

What Colors Did You See?

The colors you see can relate to areas to work on. If you saw lots of pink in the crystal cave, for example, your focus is on love and relationships. First read Tip 8 about colors and angel meanings, then try the specific meditation for your color, as listed below:

Red: Security and change, Tip 9

Orange: Sexuality and self-expression, Tip 10

Yellow: Strength, energy and joy, Tip 11

Green: Healing, Tip 12

Pink: Love and relationships:, Tip 13

Blue: Speaking your truth, Tip 14

Purple: Insight and intuition, Tip 15

White: Spiritual development, Tip 16