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Dear Angels,
"What's the balance between giving your power away when asking for guidance from your Angels and empowering yourself by making decisions without seeking guidance?"  Bill, Irvine, CA

Dear Bill,
Interesting question. Before I answer, I choose to take issue with "giving your power away."  What many don't understand is that the way we receive power is by asking for guidance.  I have chosen to ask the Angels for guidance,  because over the years, I've learned that the Angels are an energy of a higher consciousness who offer insight to us all for the asking.  They are always loving, understanding, and never judgmental. 

Asking for guidance or help, is not something many of us do easily.  Our pioneer spirit has trained us to do everything ourselves.  When we make decisions without asking for guidance, we are depending on our undependable ego to steer us.  The conceit of the ego is the part that often gets us in trouble by encouraging us to be self-consumed.

Making decisions without asking for guidance is perfectly acceptable. It is what we are taught. What I've found is, if I don't want to feel remorse afterward, asking and listening to guidance is the most empowering thing I can do.  Angel answers empower me and you.  Not me over you.  We are held in equal respect.

Dear Angels,
"Am I heading in the right direction with what I am choosing to do?  Am I missing anything or need to be guided a little differently?"  Sandra, Hillsboro, FL

Dear Sandra,
What I see I is recently,  you have been slammed pretty hard. In your spiritually optimistic way, you have put a lot of time in for not enough money with the hope that you will be justly rewarded.  That doesn't appear to have happened. Instead were unfairly treated and perhaps ousted.

You are feeling like you've been through this before. What's happened is this incident has triggered a long-ago buried pain and activated your little kid within. She is feeling how it is to be emotionally beaten up, again.  The good news is that your optimistic self will pull you together.

Perhaps it is time for you to form your picture of what you want to have happen and hold that clearly.  Then ask, listen, and be patient.   It is difficult to remember that there is no time because we live in a time and space reality. 

Your Angels show me that you are an advanced spiritual thinker, with a worldly determination to succeed by taking action. What's coming up is your passion,  usually exuding from you, has gone to sleep. She's hiding out licking her wounds. When she is ready, she will re-emerge and you'll be on your way once again.

Dear Angels,
"Where did I go wrong with my two sons and husband?"  Casey, Imperial Beach,CA

Dear Casey,
My first question to the Angels is always the same.  Who are you? What they show me is you are a spiritual woman of joy.  You have a natural ebullience that bubbles out of you and makes you a magnet for others.  Right now you need a project, maybe a job. You are looking for something to "hang your hat on."  You're feeling introspective and sad, reliving what you think of as your failed past, when what is really happening is you are having the opportunity to experience what you are so dynamic and successful in helping others overcome.  Very funny Life, we're not laughing!

When I ask your Angels about what your sons see in you that holds them back from a close relationship with you, your Angels show me that what you learned early on as an exceptionally lovely woman, is either you take control or someone else will. Casey, you are smart and extremely capable.  You take control  because if you don't, someone else will.

The challenge is that men (and women) need to feel secure within themselves so they can maintain their own sense of control. What's happened is in your sons' minds, you've gone too far. You have gone against the culture. Now your sons see you as talking a good game but not able to help yourself.

It seems as if you have always had a bigger than life picture of yourself.   Instilled in you is, " I am not going down, no matter what.  If I live a God-centered life,  all will be fine."  You are simply standing up for your principles while we are all being given the opportunity for more than a little fine-tuning. Your sons right now seem to feel, "If you're so smart, how come you're not more successful?"

Casey, it's time to lighten up on yourself.  Children and life partners  are all here to show us what we do well, and what could use work.  Your sons will return.  If you find yourself telling them "the
right way" to do something, back off.  Or come to my Al Anon meeting with me, where week after week, we hear our thoughts being said by another, usually female, participant, who thought she knew best what her grown "children" needed.  It's always all about us.

As for your husband, he sees your inner fire dwindling with hard times, but he still looks on you as a traditional-thinking woman of tremendous spiritual power.  It looks as if he felt like he was  not able to maintain his  power in your presence and moved on.

Dear Angels,
"How many of my angels are watching over me today?"  Lisa, Seattle, WA

Hi Lisa,
This is not a question I can answer. The Angels share that the ego loves to know this stuff so that it can compare itself to others.  Be assured that in spite of what is going on in your life now, which is considerable,  you are still backed up by the higher consciousness of your Angels. In other words, no matter what catastrophe appears, you always have the support of your Angels. One or one hundred makes no difference. In a body we want to quantify.

Although you didn't ask about your personal life, what's coming up is you have done your best to remain unattached and just watch. The challenge for you in this relationship, or at work, was to move on, but perhaps fear held you back.  The relationship or the job is done. If you allow yourself to look at this situation differently, you'll see that it is for your highest good to move on, even if it doesn't appear so today.

Dear Angels,
"What is your understanding of 2012?  I have read a lot of different viewpoints.  Who knows what is real, but my insides tell me that something is going to happen.  When, how, what...I don't know. I hear from the scientists to start preparing and storing food and living essentials.  I hear from the metaphysical side that all of that is unnecessary.  They say that we all need to just prepare spiritually and the rest will be okay.  I am asking globally what is it that you are hearing from the angel side as to how we can best prepare for what is coming?"   Heidi, Miami, FL.

Dear Heidi,
Your Angels like this question because they know many have it on your mind
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The answer is twofold. Obviously this answer will not be the same as you would hear from your clergyman. 

The first pragmatic part is that it is always wise in your earthbound world of physical energy to prepare an alternative plan. The Boy Scout slogan of "Be Prepared!" fits here.  It is  common sense, considering the abundance of earth transformations that seem to occur unexpectedly.  Humans are not the only ones adjusting.  The Earth is doing so as well.

The second part is about honing your spiritual life into an instrument of support in your everyday life. That means to look at what works and what doesn't in your life.  Perhaps the preparation for this supposed happening is to fine tune ourselves; for each of us to clear our thoughts, one at a time, of the judgment of separation.  To begin to see us all as one.  Our Quantum Physicists teach that we are all part of a  single organism of interconnected energy fields.

What can we do to prepare for what might be?  Thoughts have been shown to affect physical reality.  Even inanimate objects. What we think of as reality is not stable.  It is mutable.  We live in a constantly evolving universe and every thought counts.

After you put aside some food and water, then work on you. Work on your personal forgiveness. Forgiving  the unforgivable.  Forgiving yourself.  Practice saying inwardly, "I love you" equally to yourself  and the bum on the street, remembering that in a far off life, you too were a being of low consciousness.

This behavior will gradually remove the old blocks  and fill you with Light.  In a light-filled existence, it doesn't matter what catastrophe happens or doesn't.  You exist in the Light and show others the way without saying a word. 

Dear Angels,
"Is punishment or penance ever a useful part of learning in adulthood?"  Katherine, Va. Beach, VA

Dear Katherine,
This is not a religious blog, so I will not speak from any biased point of view. Instead I am asking the Angels, as I always do, what they have to say.

The Angels point out that there are many people of low consciousness living in a body.
In this place, where we have all been in long-ago lifetimes, people act in ways that harm or even torture others. In earlier times, when there were not so many people on earth, the deviants could be banished to wander off and survive or not, on their own.

Today, many are crowded into a small space.  There is more need to interact peacefully. Punishment, in the form of imprisoning major offenders to agreed-upon crimes, is necessary to protect the rest of us.  The Angels say that the offense is not a sin, but rather an opportunity to learn.  Imprisonment doesn't change the offender as many studies have shown.  In fact he usually rescinds, perhaps because his level of consciousness has not changed.

Penance is a church-imposed form of redemption in self-admittance of having sinned. Sin is not a word in the vocabulary of the Angels.  We act. We make mistakes. Some of them beyond imagination.  With religion in or out of the picture, asking for forgiveness and learning to forgive ourselves and others for the unforgivable, is the answer to peace of mind.  True forgiveness also bumps your consciousness up a level, even though there are no levels with the God Source.

Dear Angels,
"A guy I used to be in love with has very intentionally come back to me.  And thank goodness. I've come to my senses and realize he is a phenomenal man and just perfect for me!  He lives in a different city than me, so that would have to be worked out.

Do you get any words from the angels on him, on us?!?"  Elizabeth, San Francisco, CA

Dear Elizabeth,
Although you are a sweetheart of a woman and very loving and giving, something before put you off and you didn't move forward in this relationship.  Perhaps you felt that either he or you were unable to proceed completely.   Your guy, Jerry, sees you as a spiritually wise woman, and a wonderful communicator.   Perhaps in the past you hid behind your spirituality.  Now he sees you with your old determination back, in a better balance of your head and body, and more centered, grounded and whole. Not to mention sexy. 

There is something within Jerry, however, that is holding back. He's afraid that he will lose his heart to you and then lose himself.  He is torn and somewhat afraid to move forward.Maybe he is afraid for you to see how he sees himself inside, and that your differences will pull you apart again.

For right now, he is definitely hot on your path and sees you as an extraordinarily independent, competent and over all, delicious woman.

You're on your own, Elizabeth.  The Angels aren't sharing anything else today.

Dear Angels,
"What do the angels see as the best way to release this extra weight that I've taken on?  I eat well, exercise regularly and do my best to stay in a place of acceptance and appreciation of where I am, but feel that obviously some aspect of myself is holding on to this excess that does not feel like the real me!  My wife is actually having the same experience!  What's up?"  Ted, Laguna Niguel, CA

Dear Ted,
What I see about you, Ted, is you are doing everything possible to let go of anything that doesn't work for you in your life. Your marriage seems solid and unusually happy. What's come up  is something interesting.

It looks as if either your wife is afraid to move forward in her life and that is affecting you, or you are afraid to do the same for yourself.  Can it be that you are both holding on to what you know today and afraid to take the next step?  Can you be concerned that if you voice what you are really thinking, you may say it in a hurtful way that would create dissonance in your marriage? Or that you may have trouble balancing your financial act if you create change for yourself?  Or don't?

One thing about this changing energy, is that we are all being given the opportunity to see our own  self-limiting beliefs.  As we accept rather than ignore our old ideas about ourselves, we stop resisting.  Once we acknowledge we have a problem without pretending the elephant is not blocking the TV, it will move on its own.  It's the pulling that creates the impasse. 

Remembering that we are physical beings in a physical world.  Your body is holding on while your mind does its best to maintain the happy picture status quo.

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Dear Angels,
"My body seems to be continually going through changes (discomfort, aches, pains, etc.) as I am clearing my way physically to catch up with my spiritual energy  during this time of awakening.  Can the angels tell me if I will be complete with his process any time soon?  I'm sure others are having the same experience and would like to know if we are 'almost there!"  Sharen, Encinitas,CA

Dear Sharen,
I can't wait to hear what your Angels are going to say about this one.  They are mincing no words when they say that your fire has fizzled. You are out of energy. The good news is you are definitely transforming.  Spiritually transforming is an in depth job.  It takes time to clean your body's emotional, physiological and mental energy of the weight of the 3rd dimension. This requires us  to be still, to be patient, and to sit quietly to assimilate the higher vibration of energy that is filling us. You don't put high octane gas in an 50 year old VW Bug. 

The challenge is you are chafing at the bit to get started.  You are a loving woman who wants to use her knowledge to help others, but you need to muster the drive and the willingness. You have the willingness down, but the drive can barely get out of bed.

Your Angels are clear when they say you have the heart already within you to be the woman you choose.  The words to share your truth will come out when they are supported by your inner strength. In the meantime, do your best to be patient, to enjoy this time of stillness, and to balance as best you can.

Your joking  Angels are laughing as they pat you on the back with, "It's just a case of  'the shifts'."

Dear Angels,
"I work with someone who's always so negative. I try not to feed into him, but his mood swings effect me.  I've tried ignoring him, but it makes him even madder.  Is there anything I can do to maintain an even tone?"  Deb, Santa Fe, NM

Hi Deb,
I see that you take your job seriously and put a lot of effort into your work.  Your Angels are telling me that your annoying office-mate is not so happy with himself.   He seems to feel like he's not getting anywhere generally and it's easier to dump his stuff on your empathetic ear then deal with  his own life. He's feeling miserable from his personal life to his office life and he sees you as compassionate and lovely with the ability to soothe his wounded soul.

By dumping his anger at your desk, he doesn't have to take responsibility for himself. Notice if you have set yourself up as the office psychologist by trying to help others solve their problems. 

Your Angels indicate this is an  opportunity to explain to him truthfully, that you are not in a position to listen to him now. You have plenty on your own plate and listening to him, only makes you feel worse. Being honest from a place of firm compassion, should help things out.