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Plug In for Writers Part 1 Session 2

Guides and Guidance

With Guest Expert: Margo Mastromarchi,

Oracle of the Dove http://www.oracleofthedove.com

[email protected]

727-791-8983

Four Clairs

Clairvoyant: seeing

Claircognizant: knowing

Clairaudient: hearing

Clairsensient: smell and feeling

How do you recognize guidance? How does it come?

1. Intuition

2. Gut feeling—physical sensation

3. Emotion—positive or negative

4. Pull or magnetic attraction toward something or someone

5. Sudden or building urge or need

6. Sudden and surprising knowing or answer—e.g., wake with an answer in morning theta

7. Open your mouth and hear yourself say something that surprises you but feels right. e.g., The

evening I blurted, “I don’t want balance; I want ecstasy.” Until that moment, I didn’t know that!

8. Seeing wisdom on the page: deep soul writing or words that fly off an email or book

9. Hearing a voice in your head or ear—e.g., hearing “I am old; you are old” in the bear cave

10. Being told or seeing the same thing over and over. Anything that happens 3 times or more is

asking for your attention

11. Synchronicity

12. Things happen easily or effortlessly or things won’t happen, no matter how hard you try

13. Things or people come to you

14. Things or people leave you or disappear or are taken from you

15. Smell—something suddenly smells very good or very bad

16. Dreams—the playground of the soul

17. Numbers/numerology—notice same numbers recurring in multiple ways

18. Oracle cards

19. Prayer—feel, notice, become aware of something in prayer

20. Meditation—feel, notice, become aware of something in meditation, or experience the void


Who/What are our Guides? What forms do they take?

� Angels

� Animal Messengers (mythic,

real)

� Spirit Guides

� Goddesses and Gods

� Ascended Masters

� Saints

� Muses

� Daimon—Sophia is my teacher.

“The Awakened One” by Denis Gaston, which I purchased long

before any awareness of Sophia, evokes her presence for me

� Fairies

� Ancestors and loved ones who have passed (your heavenly team)

� Masters & Teachers of the Akashic Record

How can you increase access to your Guides and their Guidance?

� Build a deep and abiding relationship

� Don’t just show up in need. Show up every day. Include your Guides in your everyday life.

� Talk to them by name. Include them in your daily spiritual practices and prayers.

� Turn to them often. Make it clear that you rely on them.

� Create your spiritual organization in the sky and hold regular meetings. (a topic on the 6th loop

of Find Your Soul’s Purpose and a topic in Part 2 of Plug In for Writers)

� Keep something that reminds you of your Guides. Place a totem on your altar, a picture on the

wall, a coin in your pocket…something that speaks to you.

� If you’re not sure, ask your Guides to point you toward your totem or symbol.

� Constantly thank your Guides for their assistance. Stay in a state of joyful gratitude.

How to ask for help

1. Set your intention or sacred desire to access your Guides

2. Take deep cleansing breaths to relax your body

3. Say a prayer or blessing to connect with them and ask for their guidance

4. Ask for help out loud, with emotion and total conviction that they are on the job

5. Listen and watch for their response

6. Acknowledge the response, say thank you

7. Ask for clarification or confirmation if you are uncertain, ask them to please make it clear that

the guidance came from them. Then recognize and acknowledge the clarification, say thank you,

be grateful

8. Follow up, take the guidance you receive and put it to use

9. Report back to them on what happened, say thank you again, ask for further guidance

10. Maintain an ongoing relationship; be open to see/feel/hear/experience guidance


How to gather Guidance at night

� Ask your Guides and divine-team for assistance as you fall asleep

� Keep a notepad and open ballpoint next to the bed

� When you are awakened, jot down what you hear, say thank you

� When you wake in the morning, lie very still and wait for additional guidance to come or fuller

memory of your dreams

� When you get up, look at your night notes, say thank you, take them

into soul writing and begin to use what you receive, whether you

understand it fully or not

Information on Native American Spirit Guides from Charlotte/Agni Jaya Starfire

Charlotte was my first spiritual teacher in the early ‘90s. She introduced me to Native American and

Goddess traditions, animal messengers, the Medicine Wheel, and the chakras.

Charlotte apprenticed with Sun Bear and Oshanna—two famous Native

American teachers. Oshanna gave Charlotte her name, Starfire. Sun Bear gave

her a ceremonial pipe. Charlotte is also an initiate in the Sisterhood of the Violet

Flame, trained in the ancient traditional moon ceremony. (She conducted the

classic Moon Ceremony at Kashi Ashram at our retreat in 2015) Ma Jaya Sati

Bhagavati, founder of Kashi, gave Charlotte the spiritual name Agni Jaya (lord of

the fire and honored her an invitation to build a Ceremonial Medicine Wheel on

the Kashi grounds. Agni Jaya practices Kali Natha Yoga. Her day job is

international banking.

These are my notes from a conversation with Charlotte exclusively for Plug In.

My first experience was a conversation with Jesus at 11. I was in a 6-week class at a church and at the

end, told them I can’t join an organization that says “this is the only way.” When Jesus came I asked him

about not joining the church and he said, “You are here to help people understand that the second

coming is not me coming back, but each of you awakening to the Spirit within.”

My most comfortable and natural relationship with guides is through Native American symbology. The

Medicine Wheel book by Sun Bear has all the aspects of Native American spirituality: directions, stones,

crystals, Spirits, animals, plants, colors.

Eagle story: I lost expensive prescription purple sunglasses on a rafting trip. I visualized Eagle flying over

and finding them and bringing them back to me. Next day I called the park ranger’s office – nothing.

Following day I called again (because I knew Eagle found them). Ranger says there’s nothing in the lost

and found box, but let me go look at the log. When he came back on the phone, he said “That’s odd.

There is an entry in the log about purple glasses but it’s not signed. It said where to find them and I

found them and I’ll mail them to you tomorrow.”


I am in constant communication. I converse with my Guides all day every day. Eagle, White Buffalo

Woman, Sun Bear…. You can have this kind of relationship with a living person, too. My guru now is Ma

Jaya Sati Bhagavati, the founder of Kali Natha Yoga. I converse with her all the time spiritually and I

know that that communication is real because she’ll send an email out to the community a day later

with exactly what we “talked” about. (Note: Ma left the physical in 2012 and Agni Jaya continues to

receive guidance from her.)

Everything has a spiritual essence. Everything. It’s not the thing itself—rock, computer, feather, etc.—

but the infusion of love that you bring to it. That’s what awakens its potential.

We are all co-creators. It’s our role, our gift, and our responsibility. Open to the reality of the invisible

realm. The energies on the other side are so excited to communicate with us. But if we don’t seek them,

they have to remain invisible and silent.

How do you access your guides?

� Let your heart lead you

� Set your intention to connect; intention sets the vibration in motion

� Stay in that place of connection, stay in the vibration

� Be of service

� Be joyful

Agni Jaya (in the forefront) praying to the powers

and spirits of the directions at the Medicine

Wheel at Kashi Interspiritual Ashram, April 2017.

Notice the ray of light!

Agni Jaya said no one was aware of it at the time,

the beam only appeared in the photograph.


Resources

This is a lovely list, but the primary resource is YOU and your guides. Books, cards, and people are

delightful and informative, but in the end your relationship with your guides is a unique relationship of

reciprocal love. It springs from the heart and is sustained by the heart. No book can teach you how to

have that relationship. Ask yourself what opens the pathway to the heart for you. Follow that vibration

of love. Trust it. Then, keep those vibratory channels open.

Akashic Record

Marina Phillips, Crystal Spirit Connection [email protected]

Lauralyn Bunn www.akashicpathways.com [email protected]

How to Read the Akashic Records, Linda Howe (according to Lauralyn, best book on the Akashic Record)

Angels

Margo Mastromarchi Oracle of the Dove [email protected]

Angels 101 is a good, simple intro to angels, Doreen Virtue

Angels in My Hair, Lorna Byrne

Physics of Angels, Matthew Fox & Rupert Sheldrake

Animal Messengers

Medicine Cards, Jamie Sams

Animal Speak, Ted Andrews

Archetypes and Myths

The Hero Within, Persephone Rising, Carol Pearson

The Heroine's Journey, Maureen Murdoch

The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Pathways to Bliss, Joseph Campbell

The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell (series with Bill Moyers)

Astrology

Michael Lennox michaellennox.com

Astrology Hub

Astrology for the Soul, New Moon Astrology, Jan Spiller

The Inner Sky, Steven Forrest

Making the Gods Work for You, Caroline Casey

Daimon/Genius

The Soul’s Code, James Hillman (Acorn Theory)

Sitting by the Well, Marion Woodman CD set

Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk on the daimon/genius/muse

Marry Your Muse, Jan Phillips


Dreams

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung

Llewellyn’s Complete Dictionary of Dreams, Michael Lennox

Dream Moods Jungian dream interpretation site

Dream Animals, James Hillman

Dancing in the Flames, Marion Woodman

Anything by Robert Moss

Goddesses

Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards, Doreen Virtue

Persephone Rising, Carol Pearson

Artemis, Goddesses in Everywoman, and more, Jean Shinoda Bolen

She Who Dwells Within, Rabbi Lynn Gottleib (about Shekinah)

The New Book of Goddesses and Heroines, Patricia Monaghan

I Ching

I Ching: The Oracle of the Cosmic Way, Carol Anthony and Hanna Moog

Intuition

The Spiritual Power of Empathy, Cyndi Dale (quiz for your empathic style)

Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living, Sonia Choquette

Sidewalk Oracles, Robert Moss

Native American Guides

Dancing with the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook, Sun Bear


Black Elk Speaks, as told through John Neihardt

Spirit Drumming, Gabriel Horn

Nature

Song of Increase (wisdom of the bees), Jacqueline Freeman

Sacred Geometry of Nature, Francene Hart

Speaking with Nature, Sandra Ingerman

Numbers

The Life You Were Born to Live, Dan Millman

Numerology, the Power of Numbers by Ruth Drayer

Magdalene’s Lost Legacy, Margaret Starbird (on gematria)

Oracle cards

Archangel Oracle, Healing with the Angels, Messages from Your Angels, Archangel Michael, Life Purpose

Oracle Cards, Goddess Guidance Oracle Cards all by Doreen Virtue

Sacred Geometry Oracle Deck, Sacred Geometry Cards for the Visionary Path,

Francene Hart



The Book of Runes, Ralph Blume

Soul Cards, Deborah Koff-Chapin (no words)

Soul Collage® a deck of your own soul’s creation

Shamanism

Walking in Light, Speaking with Nature, Sandra Ingerman

The Shamanic Way of the Bee, Simon Buxton

Of Water and the Spirit, Malidoma Some

The Bowl of Light, The Reenchantment and more, Hank Wesselman

Spirit Guides

How to Meet and Work with Spirit Guides, Ted Andrews

Let Your Spirit Guides Speak, Debra Landwehr Engle

Spiritual Masters, Saints, Mystics

The Bowl of Light, Hank Wesselman on Hale Makua, the Big Kahuna shaman of Hawaii

Conversations in the Spirit, Sheila Hixon, fabulous transcripts of 1970-1980’s interviews on In

the Spirit on WBAI radio hosted by Lex Hixon.

Prayers of the Cosmos, Blessings of the Cosmos, Neil Douglas-Klotz

You are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh (beautiful intro to Buddhist principles), also Living Buddha, Living Christ

Meister Eckhart A Warrior for Our Times, Matthew Fox

The Interior Castle, Teresa of Avila, translation by Mirabai Starr

Dark Night of the Soul, John of the Cross, translation by Mirabai Starr

Entering the Castle, Caroline Myss (her take on Teresa of Avila’s The Interior Castle)

Hildegard of Bingen, Matthew Fox

Listen to Matthew on Hildegard on my showhttp://www.unity.fm/episode/TheSoulDirectedLife_061313

A Way to God, (on Thomas Merton), Matthew Fox

Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours, compiled by Kathleen Deignan

Spiritual Practice

The Gifts of Near-Death Experiences, Sheila Fabricant Linn, Dennis Linn

Practicing the Tao Te Ching, Solala Towler

Sufi Wisdom

The Way of Illumination, Hazrat Inayat Khan

In Search of the Hidden Treasure, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

The Sufi Book of Life, Neil Douglas-Klotz

Living Presence, The Knowing Heart by Kabir Helminski

Hafiz poetry by Daniel Ladinsky

Rumi translated by Coleman Barks, start with The Essential Rumi


Bring your Guides and Guidance to life—your home play

1. Get to know your Guides

� Who are your angels and guides and animal messengers?

� Who is your teacher, your daimon, your genius?

� How do your guides and teachers show up?

� What do each of your guides and teachers help you with?

� How do you recognize their guidance?

2. Bring your Guides into your daily work life

� Develop a blessing that invokes the presence and assistance of your teacher/angels/guides. Say it daily.

� Include your teacher and guides in your sacred work space

� Find or ask for a totem of their presence, place a symbol or photo where you write. Refer to it throughout

the day, especially when you need help or want a divine blessing.

� Give your questions and issues to your teacher/guides. Ask for assistance.

3. Become conscious of Guidance

� Ask for help and notice the response

� Notice how you perceive guidance: is it intuitive or physical or synchronicity

� Notice which clairs are strongest and most reliable

� Collect evidence of your assistance

4. Build the relationship

� Stay in communication with your Guides

� Say thank you every day for their presence in your life

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