I need some advice…I’m very new to spiritual guides and every time I ask how many i have/their names/their gender, I get different answers…so, how do I get clarity?

The last 3 days a grasshopper has been on the siding right outside my door. Leaves at night but is back in the am… then today at an event the lady behind me said a grasshopper landed on her hand.
My husband thinks I’m nuts but I swear it’s sg’s trying to tell me something… thoughts? Is there a meaning behind them?

Respectfully, what the hell? I swear to God. For years, I have only ever received horrible answers whenever trying to connect with my guides.

I’ve seen this one psychic medium about four times. She is legit! I know several relatives who have also seen her (she does not know we’re all related and has plenty of other clients). She definitely knew things that no one else would know and seemed to connect with some relatives who have passed on. I truly believe she’s the real deal. I remember one session I had with her over 10 years ago and I was recently dating a new guy. She made me feel like he was the one and that this was it for me. My grandmother (who had passed a few years prior) was telling her in the session that this was the one for me. Well, I married him and it was a horrific and incredibly abusive marriage. I had two kids with him and had to fight like HELL to get us out and be safe.

I started praying a lot after I separated from him and became very spiritual. I went to church and read self help books. It was probably the happiest I ever was. About a year after we divorced, I started to dabble in tarot and really liked it. But I admit I became a little obsessive. I started seeing this new man and felt like the cards were making it obvious that it was the right decision. Well, he was somehow even worse and also horribly abusive. I’ve basically given up on tarot and spirituality since then because I was so jaded, so bitter. I still am honestly.

Now recently I got myself some dowsing rods after seeing some people use them on TikTok. Before I use them, I do a grounding/protection meditation. I was practicing a little bit for the last few days and felt really good about how it was going. I would ask test questions I already knew the answers to and questions I wanted to know the answers to. I was receiving answers that made it seem like some REALLY great things were coming to me. And every question I already knew the answer to, the rods answered with 100% accuracy. But some things that they said over and over that would happen this weekend never happened. Then today I try really hard to do a longer meditation and keep my emotions very calm, I was getting way different answers than previously. I just feel so let down. Like all the things I thought were coming to me probably are not.

Why do my guides constantly steer me in the wrong direction? I truly believe I deserve better and that I deserve good things. I have manifested things in the past that I never thought possible. Why don’t they not only not want to help me, but seem to actively try to get me to put myself in harm’s way?

Hi! I'm a baby witch that has had a lot of messages in dreams before. This year I think I met my guide, and they are making a point to tell me things, but I cannot remember what they told me when I wake up! Has anyone had experiences like this or advice on ways that I can communicate back to figure out what was so important for them to tell me? I only sometimes randomly see them in my room as I'm sleeping and they always approach me to tell me a message, but that's all.

Alright yall for starters my husband thinks im totally crazy.

That being said. I have this "imaginary friend" whom ive had for so long I CANNOT remember my life without her. As a kid it was all pretty standard kid stuff with her, but. I had a horrific childhood.

Long story short, I used to pray (raised christian) every day, many times a day, for help that never came until one day I said fuck it, and quite literally prayed to anyone who could possibly be listening for help.

At which point its almost like she unlocked. And I just knew deep in my bones that I was gonna have to get myself out of my situation, but it was ok because she felt like armor.

To this day (im 30) if I feel any type of unsafe, its like shes immediately there with that armor and a barrier, not to make me invulnerable but to make me safe for long enough to get the hell out of wherever I am.

So my question is, is this wistful thinking, or is she actually SOMETHING?

I had an intense and amazing psychedelic trip for my birthday the other day. I was laying in a field looking up at the sky and i saw a wispy phoenix shaped by the clouds. As soon as i noticed it, sunlight very quickly came in through the trees and I felt this extreme radiant warmth as well as a random cloud of mist that seemingly came from nowhere brushed against my skin. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced….pure radiance is the only way I could describe it.

Out of curiosity I did some research on the Phoenix afterwards. I wasn’t aware of how many cultures through out history had depicted it which i found really fascinating. I read the true origin came from the idea that a bird carried the sun across the sky and that was what gave us our day…because it was a cloud I just thought of it as a random and beautiful experience but after I read that, I got this strange feeling that it wasn’t just an aesthetic but it was more. The way it all happened just felt so divine and perfect. It felt like I was either greeted or maybe the psychedelics allowed me to notice the spirit of the sun/phoenix. I want to chase that feeling it brought me and try to become as radiant as it is.

sooo wednesday before going to bed i talked to my spirit guides a little bit about the questions ive been having bout my spiritual path (im kind of an eclectic pagan witch). i talked about deity work/worship, how i dont do it yet and have been wondering if i should, about my curiosity with ancestral work/worship and how i wanted to have a more clear vision and comunication to my guides and those who accompany me. in the end, right before sleeping, i asked to see them in my dreams or for a sign of what i should be doing. i asked for guidance.

i did dream, but not with anything that i was able to interpret. i have also been forgetting my dreams much more easily now.

but then yesterday night, when i got home, there was a spider on my altar. i have to say, i usually have spiders in my house, i consider them roomates, but they are always those tiny domestic spiders that stay in corners and bother no one. the one i saw yesterday was another species. i couldnt identify it because i ran away when i got close and i lost it, but it was bigger, black and very fast, not like the ones that live here. also, i have cleaned and refreshed my altar this week and my house was recently treated for pests.

so.. what do yall think? is it a sign or just a spider?

ps: i will look for the spider today again to se if it is venomous or any danger to me and alsooo study about spiders as symbolism. would appreciate opinions tho.

I am trying to live a spiritual life and be clean. I won't go into detail but many esoteirc practitioners say your vehicle must be basically perfect and balanced before you communicate with them is this true?

Is there only hope for me who is going through hardships and would like to communicate with them or do I must be perfectly balanced?

Hello! For context, I just took my college entrance test last weekend. I'm a baby witch, and me and my mom love witchy things such as spells, tarot, etc etc. I also worship some greek deities such as Hekate, Aphrodite, and Athena but I'm not so consistent whatsoever.

For the days before I took that exam, I kept having these really vivid picture vision of an owl. It was in a branch, and the background has a deep vivid forest green in it. Along with that, another picture also kept showing up. It was my dead grandma wearing a red lipstick and her shirt. (Me and my grandma were very close before she died) Ironically, those are the same colors that my college has in their logo (red and green), and I've been worrying about that test before I took it.

Any clue about this? Thank you in advance! 🙏

I meditate daily. I’ve tried guided meditations, ambient meditations, being very present, trying to raise my vibration, grounding, I spend a lot of time outside in nature…I feel like I am doing all the things. I have been for a while. I watched so many YouTube videos and have tried so many tricks, but I get nothing. I don’t go in with expectations- just an open mind and a request to connect.
I’m not sure where to go from here. I believe in this stuff, but I am yet to have an experience that feels clear. I definitely feel calm and relaxed after mediation, but it is more or less “quiet”.
I’ve also tried free writing after meditation. It’s hard to know what is “spirit” as I feel like I am kind or regurgitating the language of all the videos I have seen, but when I ask specific questions, I do not get specific answers.
I find that I am sensitive and intuitive about some things and I have had just enough magick in a sense to believe this is truly real- but I have not been able to consciously connect to my guides.
Like I understand that they do influence me, but I really want a more conscious relationship.

I hope I’m ok posting this here - I am in awe of what has happened today.

I was meditating as normal and felt a huge shift within myself. I felt like I was detached from my body and floating through different parts of space and time. I asked who was guiding me and a guide revealed themselves and they were very abstract in appearance, they were just flashes of light in space and they gave me their name too.

Then another guide was revealed. An extraterrestrial guide with long pointy ears and 6 black eyes in rows of three at either side of his head and he wouldn’t tell me what he was there to show me. He wants me to ask him the questions. He isn’t giving anything away without me asking him.

I then was shown a female who exuded divine, sultry feminine energy and she said she was going to guide me through getting more in touch with feminine energy within me.

I suppose I’m in awe as I’ve never experienced anything of the sort during meditation and wondered if anyone else has had this experience with guides? I have never been so in contact with them and felt them so strongly. Please share your experiences!

Thank you🙏

TL;DR

Recently been contacted by my spirit guides who provided me with after death communication with my ancestors and someone I loved who passed years ago. I'm being asked to acknowledge a "bond" that requires commitment, truth, reciprocity, ongoing participation, mutual choosing that starts now and continues in the afterlife in a more grounded form instead of abstract. I have complete free will in choosing the bond or not. There is no coercion nor punishment. It is for growth, healing, belonging and wholeness of two souls. What do you think?

The long form version...

I'm looking help in me discerning a spiritual union bond that is being offered to me by someone I love but has passed away many years ago. Our earthly relationship itself is a long and complicated story. And the story the past few months involves my spirit guides revealing themselves to me (another long story) and my spirit guides facilitating after death communication with my ancestors and him in unfolding the truth of that relationship that basically tore down my understanding of the fairy tale i told myself. The bond apparently exists regardless of whether I accept it or not, is being cared for by him and in fact he has refused to reincarnate partly because of this (i had a evidentiary medium and a psychic reveal he had no plans of reincarnating but back then he didnt reveal why - this was before i met my guides). After the bond was revealed to me, my spirit guides said the bond is part of the reason why he refuses incarnation and when we "spoke" he tells me reincarnation is not the only path for what he seeks.

According to my guides the hardest part for him was actually waiting for me and pieces of my life to align as I spent years either surviving or caregiving for my parents. He himself when he died had to go through a long process of self introspection and removal of unhealthy attachment and self-delusion before recognizing the bond's existence and significance. These are the reason it took years. It's almost like this bond is alive and has it's own energy. This proposal to me is rather unbelievable who never even heard of spirit guides, much less believe I am contact with my ancestors and him.

The bond is described to me as non-possessive, calm, committed, covenantal, based on free will, needs mutual acknowledgment, reprocity, requires truth and continues after my death in a more grounded form rather than abstract. It is abstract right now because I am incarnate and that's why they say i have trouble with what this is because my understanding is naturally incomplete. They say it will provide belonging, healing, growth, emotional fulfillment, wholeness in two already formed souls and my ancestors says i should not easily throw it away as it is part of my history, life and legacy (i wanted to throw it away initially because i was really hurt by the painful revelations that they say was necessary to bring order and truth to my understanding that this bond requires). My guides say i am free to accept, accept later or not accept without repurcussions. I am also free to withdraw at any time. It does not preclude or exclude me in having other earthly partners. The only warning provided by my guides is that having this spiritual bond may make a future partner have some grief that there is a part of me they cannot fully understand due to the nature of the bond itself.

Has anyone had this experience or heard of similar experiences? Have i gone on the deep end? But honestly I have triage what each had said, spirit guides, ancestors and him and they all are quite consistent. And when i look at what is said and try to discern, theirs is much more calmer than what I am feeling or thinking. In fact it feels like it is my thinking that is making things less calm and more confused when the message in front of me is quite clear. But you know i also wonder are spirit playing tricks on me but i've had a couple of psychics actually describe me as very open right now and no bad energies, my light they say is very bright with hints of purple. He himself says, i'm holding on so tightly to what I know because I am so afraid to lose what we had, that I cannot even take the first step. That what is offered to me is grounded, calm and steadfast but I should take my time and let things unfold and not rush. What's funny is when i speak to him, the descriptions of the bond are more experiential and humble -though every conversation we have he will remind me of the bond. When forced to describe in earthly terms like spirtual union or spiritual marriage proposal, he says it's close but still insufficient and he is less concerned about what it is called but in how i will come to experience it. When I speak to my guides and my ancestors, the descriptions become significant and weighty requiring serious consideration but they don't steer the conversation to the bond unless I ask them to explain it further to me.

Ok i'm really curious of others who had similar experiences or thoughts... thank you for your time.

Recently I was watching @askthespiritguides on YT. During a dowsing rods session, the host Karen stated that peoples' spirit guides really are just aspects of their higher self (not referencing divine beings or entities here -- just talking about personal guides). When I first heard this, I thought, "No, that can't be right." I couldn't believe what she said, because I'd been full-on having a friendship with my spirit guide, "Alicia." Having gotten the idea from a book I read, I'd interviewed her. I'd found out that she was once this impressive person in a past life. I felt amazed that someone who was as distinguished as her would have been designated to be my guide.I even went to Amazon to get a book she wrote in her prior lifetime to demonstrate my esteem and respect for her achievements. In fact, I actually felt **insecure** that she might feel like mentoring me was way beneath her, because certainly I haven't done anything in the realm of her merit-worthy accomplishments she achieved in what (I thought) was her last life. There were even times when I was feeling really down about myself, and I pretty much offered her an "out", in that she could be off the hook with guiding me, because I felt I was such a letdown as a mentee in comparison to what she likely expected to get given her accomplishments.

So, when I initially heard that your spirit guide is merely an aspect of your higher self, I thought that there was no way this could be, and I immediately initiated a conversation with my guardian angel and Source to double check out this assertion with them. Well, lo and behold, I found out that the assertion was TRUE. Needless to say, my mind was blown 🤯. I asked them if they really meant to just suggest that we are all just sparks of the same divine consciousness and didn't really mean that to imply that Alicia was actually me. But they insisted that it was true that Alicia and I were the same person. So, then I asked, "Are you saying that it was really ME who lived that impressive lifetime that I'd thought belonged to her?" When they responded, "yes," you could have knocked me over w/ a feather.

After recognizing the depth of the self esteem issues I clearly still have and realizing that a couple other guides I have are also aspects of me, I was bewildered. On one level, it's affirming and confidence-building to find out my soul has amazing potential just based on the one past lifetime I knew of Alicia's. Yet, on another level, I almost felt like I learned Santa Claus's true identity. Up until this event, every time I convened conversations with my guidance team, I invoked my guardian angel, my spirit guide, and Source. Now, I'm feeling like I just realized I no longer have one of my best friends. Weirdly, at first I felt almost like I was betraying her by convening convos w/out her, even though I know that's not true. I asked my GA and Source if I should talk to them with her (ie pretending she's still involved...to make myself feel better) or just proceed in the new reality of knowing she and I are the same and it'd be inane to continue talking to her like she's a different being than me. They responded to just do whatever makes me feel most comfortable.

I am not sure which way I'd feel more comfortable right now. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever experienced a similar type of revelation, and if so, how have you dealt with it? If you're reading this and have not had any similar type experience, how do you think you might proceed if you found yourself in my shoes, in terms of gaining some personal esteem but having done so via the loss of what turns out to have been a make-believe friend? I asked my GA and Source why they just didn't tell me some of these things before. My GA admitted she appreciated me talking to Alicia because it had relieved some of the pressure I'd been putting on her prior to me connecting with Alicia. They both acknowledged that with my self esteem issues that I likely wouldn't have believed sooner in the truth I learned.

Either way, I'm just struggling now that all the guidance I thought I was getting from my guide before was really just coming from me. This hits me on so many different levels. Would love to hear any wisdom you might have from your own experiences.

I had a dream in which I saw a spirit in my dream then when I woke up I saw what I think might be my spirit guide but I’m not 100% sure. Could you tell me your experience so I can have some discernment?

A few days before this happened, I asked Spirit to show me a purple octopus if I was being guided. Then something happened that left me confused.
I was sitting on the beach crying after one of the hardest periods of my life. I’d recently been evicted, I was grieving the relationship with my son’s father, and I was overwhelmed with guilt because of how I’d spoken to him over the years. I missed him and my son so much and felt completely broken. Two women who were sitting nearby noticed I was crying and came over to check on me. They offered me some weed. I don’t ever smoke because every time I have in the past, it’s made me extremely anxious and filled my mind with dark, self-critical thoughts. I only said yes because they were trying to comfort me, and I didn’t want to be rude. Almost immediately, I started spiraling. My thoughts were telling me I was a bad person for smoking, that I’d made a terrible decision, and then I became physically dizzy. Looking back, I think I was dehydrated from crying and not taking care of myself, but in that moment I became paranoid and convinced they had laced the weed or that I was about to be kidnapped.
Then one of the women pulled out a small notebook and showed me an illustration of a purple jellyfish.
The second I saw it, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief because I remembered that I’d asked for a sign. My first thought was, “This must be the sign. These women are safe. I’m okay.”

As I calmed down and the effects of the weed started wearing off, I looked again and realized it wasn’t an octopus. It was a purple jellyfish 🫪.
That left me confused and freaking out. Part of me wondered if it was still a symbolic answer because it was another purple sea creature. Another part of me wondered if it meant it wasn’t a sign at all. Because I was already anxious, my mind even went as far as wondering if I’d somehow been deceived spiritually.
I’m curious how other people who believe in signs would interpret this.

If you had specifically asked for a purple octopus and instead encountered a purple jellyfish in such an emotionally intense moment, would you consider that a symbolic sign, just a coincidence, or would you say it wasn’t the sign because it wasn’t what you asked for?

I have discovered that one of my spirit guides is my soulmate from several past lives. His name is Lucien. He decided to be my spirit guide instead of being reborn into a new body. He feels like the deepest love I have ever felt. He has protected me and guided me for at least a couple decades. I want to connect with him deeper and more personally. Does anyone have suggestions?A certain meditation? Even a method for astral projection? Anything. I feel an intimate closeness with Lucien. In fact, I think I love him. I know it sounds outrageous and I'm sure it is controversial. I just feel really safe and loved when he is around and I'm really grateful to have him in my life.

Hi guys!

I'm rather new to connecting with deities and spirit guides, but yesterday while asking for my spirit guides to talk to me, I was met with an intense and chaotic energy, that kept popping up. It was exhausting me so much.

In particular, Knight of Cups was the card that kept popping out all the time. Along with Ace of Cups, Hermit and then Lovers and sometimes Devil.

Today, when I asked them questions, this is how they answered:

who are you - Justice

what will our relationship look like - Empress

what do they want from me - Knight of Cups

how can i make it happen - ace of wands

what may get in the way - Hermit

ultimate outcome of our relationship - Lovers

Additionally, sometimes while shuffling Devil popped out.

Please help!

They're chaotic and exhausting, but also seem fun and I would like to get to know them more!

I’m very new to asking spirit guides for help and signs, but I have been consistent in my ask and signs I choose. Today I asked my spirit guides if something specific will happen and asked to please show me a rainbow by bedtime if it would happen, and a lime green car if it would not happen. About 20 minutes after asking, I saw a perfect rainbow. Then, about 2 hours later I saw a lime green car. I’m so confused.

Long story short - I’ve never asked to see my guides. However many or little there are - I believe they exist and am quite happy to vocally communicate. I don’t know if it’s a little scary to me to actually see who they are?

Anyway - it’s been on my mind and I thought why not. Couldn’t sleep and I’ve been thinking about it and have been curious. I asked to see what they look like and to show me something of them. Eyes closed in the dead of night and the only thing that came through was vivid purple/lilac colours. In and out like a light shining between black. This hasn’t ever happened ever to me even when trying to sleep - I thought a light was shining in my window. Nothing pitch black.

Like an iridescent purple seeping in and out like light. I have no clue what this means or if it means anything at all. I didn’t see a face or body of any sort so maybe they don’t want to reveal themselves!

Any info would be great!

Fairly new still. But I’m still prossesing it all. Like time will show what it’s there and not there, and everywhere.

But I know I just got reborn into a watcher of time. (By a goodness) I have an intuitive instinct on this and have 3 guides with me on my body. Together with my mom so 4.

The one of them have shown some parts. And it’s really interesting. Like whoa, but again they can choose to be with us. And they picked that.

But now I have that getting to feel and get to knowing them, but it’s so fresh. It takes recycling and tonnage with energy. How do you keep it constant in an early age of your adventure when it’s not built up?

Will they be there if my feet don’t tingle?
I’m really safe on feeling and they are there, they all have nice vibes.

Also how to call one and one. I say my chant in it whole. Like a dual call and don’t know who is coming, but can part my 4 I have, and where on my body they are. I can bubble up really ok, but just my head if I’m walking outside without any stones, just my bell on my keychain.

I don’t know if I just am seeing things or what but I just got out of the shower and it was quite a lengthy one because i decided to sit and think about the thoughts I’ve been having, and during it I was sitting and held my hand out feeling the water fall on it and closed my eyes and asked to just be aware of what’s out there and if there is something out there at all sort of out of desperation and trying to have as much genuinity as I could and out loud I said “please”, I felt something internally like a shaking and could feel the ringing in my ears get high and higher in pitch and then after about 3 seconds I fully relaxed and opened my eyes and looked at myself and stood up, I looked around and in the corner of my eye I see something on the curtain of the shower, it looked like a drawn out figure of which a caveman would draw but it was very clearly a person, almost like a woman with strong cheek bones, there was a rectangle coming off her head to the left almost as if it was hair flowing, they were very very thin almost slender in the main body area, the arms were also thin and slender, below the waist in the thigh area was wider again and slimmed down towards the feet. It looked liked there could’ve been one or two more beside them but they weren’t appearing as clearly (as goofy or as stupid as it seems it was genuinely really weird and I wish I could’ve photographed it,) I’m open to any and all suggestions or comments and just wanted to talk about it

I don’t know if i’m in the right place but I have recently desired to connect with spirits or tap into a more powerful understanding of our world. I am not a medium nor have I experienced any personal connection to the paranormal (idk if that’s the right way to word it)

I really want to get started with some tarot cards! But other than that I am seeking general advice on maybe the best approach. How can I connect?

So I've been trying to have a discussion/communication with my spirit guide/s for some time now. But they have been frustratingly quiet. Recently though I had a reading done by someone I trust and she said they she felt my guide show up but they didn't say anything.....

What do you all recommend for getting your guides to talk or just communicate in some way? I've even asked for a simple sign months ago and nothing.

Hi ppl I am 19f I just had these intuitions callings from the early age , I had prophetic dreams , things I used to say turned out to be true , but i feel as the time went by i slowly started to disconnect from my self and as the result i had some mental troubles they all better now.

I keep myself from getting into spritual or religious practices because for some reason i end up in isolation but i keep circling back to these topics that when i decided to learn reiki and tarot they still dont quench my thirst i wanna know more

I wanna know more about my spiritual guides of they are happy being my guides , how are they guiding me ,how do I become more connected to them.