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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
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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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
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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
Medicine Cards, Jamie Sams
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
Medicine Cards, Jamie Sams
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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
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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