Here’s a quick introduction to some of the archangels. You can call on them in times of special need or invite one or two in each morning to help you through your day. There’s a short how-to at the end.

Raziel has a magical book that contains universal wisdom. His name means “the secrets of God” but he’s more than happy to share. He appears in rainbow colors. Call on him when you’d like to receive spiritual insight or if you need a creative idea.

Sandalphon carries our prayers to the eternally-loving Universe. He shines with turquoise light. He will help you enrich your inner world. He can also lead you to others who are similarly seeking enrichment.

Metatron’s colors are green and violet or sometimes dark pink. He can expand time. Call on him when you’re running late. He can also recharge your batteries when you need more oomph to accomplish your goals. He especially watches over young people.

Haniel is known for her feminine energy, psychic gifts, and intuition. Haniel’s color is light blue. Her name means “the grace of God.” Call on her when you’d like heightened intuition. She can also help with feminine issues.

Gabriel’s specialty is communication which is why you see her so often with a trumpet. Her name means “the strength of God.” She appears in a copper-colored light. Need a call to action? Call Archangel Gabriel.

Note: Angels aren’t male or female since they are spiritual, not human, entities. If you’re more comfortable seeing Gabriel as male or Sandalphon as female, go for it.

Raguel is who you want by your side if you find yourself in a challenging situation with someone else. He will soften the energy and bring about compromise and reconciliation. His color is light blue.

Michael is who you need when you want strength or want to make big changes. His color is dark blue. His name means “who is like God?”

Ariel is the lioness of God. She is associated with nature and animals, so if you have environmental concerns or a sick pet, she’s your go-to angel. She can also manifest the material needs of those who call on her. Her color is pale pink.

Azrael comes through with a creamy white light when you need comfort and someone to walk with you during a challenging time. His name means “Whom God helps.” See him with his arms outstretched to embrace you.

Chamuel’s name means “he who sees God” and there is nothing beyond his vision. Lost something? He knows where it is. Looking for a new friend, career, or better understanding of a situation? See his pale green color enveloping you as you call his name.

Jophiel’s color is dark pink and she can help you remember how beautiful life can be. Ask her for a positive outlook. Her name means “God is my beauty.”

Uriel’s name means “light of God” and his color is golden yellow. Do you need an epiphany? He brings great insight. He can also help you with emotional healing.

Here’s an example of how to work with multiple archangels. Let’s say your heart has been broken. You can say, “Azrael please bring me comfort, Michael give me the strength to go on, Jophiel to help me remember that life can be sweet and beautiful, and Chamuel to help me find someone much better who will love me as I am.”

“Your aura is green,” my guru told me when I was twelve.

Is it a surprise that I had a guru when I was that young? Or does it sound like me?

Emerald green is the color of healing. You don’t need to have a green aura to harness its power. Call on Archangel Raphael.

Raphael is the doctor of the angelic world. He can heal your body of any illness, disease, or condition, so that you can do the things you want to do in life.

You can also call on him when someone you know needs healing from anything from a slight cold to a major illness. You can even ask for healing from something you don’t know about.

Envision his light around you and say, “Archangel Raphael, be with me now. Surround me with your beautiful green light. Heal me of all physical challenges, whether I am aware of them or not, so that I am fully whole and experiencing vibrant health.”

Raphael is also the match-making archangel. He watches over those who need a soulmate. You might be looking for a close friend, a love interest , or a business partner. Raphael can help you make the perfect connection.

Michael, Haniel, Gabriel, Uriel, Raguel—so many archangels to choose from.

In addition to working with your angels, your personal guardians, we can also tap into the power of the archangels.

These beings of light are not limited by time and space. Their healing energy is never exhausted. All we have to do is request their presence and poof! They’re with us.

I can feel it when they appear. Maybe you can, too. Try it.

Sit quietly and ask Archangel Michael to join you (“Archangel Michael, be with me now”) and then pay attention to your body. Did your ears pop? Did you get chills or goosebumps? Did you feel like someone else was in the room with you? Did you sense one of his colors, which are dark blue and gold?

Even if you don’t sense anything, he’s with you.

Archangel Michael is strong and protective. He helps us to feel safe and secure. His name means he who is like God. He carries a sword to create fairness and maintain justice.

Call on Archangel Michael if you:

• need an extra dose of courage or strength
• feel you, a loved one, or something valuable to you could use protection
• want to activate the parts of your mind that are about structure and logic
• would benefit from an energetic cord cutting*

Although these archangels come from Christian religious traditions, you don’t have to identify as a Christian to call on them.

I’ll be covering other archangels in the next few newsletters so you’ll know who does what. But this week, give Archangel Michael a whirl.

* cord cutting helps to recover energy that has been lost and to re-establish healthy energetic boundaries

Is there a place you’re drawn to? Somewhere you feel you belong? Have you been there or is its call to you a mystery?

New England is that place for me. I have no idea why I feel so connected to it. I mean, I assume I lived there in a past life or two, but, well, let me give you some examples of what I’m talking about.

I once went to Framingham, Massachusetts, for some training. I instantly knew my way around. This was astounding because I can get lost going around the block.

I visited a friend in New Haven, Connecticut, and felt my soul had been torn out of me when I left. I sobbed for days.

As a college freshman, I wrote a poem that ended:
Take me home
I’ve never been there
Boston.

Just as there are people we are immediately drawn to, individuals who we meet for the first time and instantly know, there are places we feel inordinately attached to.

In some of our lifetimes, we choose to reconnect with people in our soul group. In others, we have new lessons to learn. And so it is with places. For all the times I could have gone to Boston, none of them panned out. The closest I’ve gotten is the airport as I made my way to New Hampshire. Just landing I got teary. Maybe in my next life I’ll be ready to go back. We’ll see what my soul has to say about that.

If you’ve had a similar experience, I’d love to hear about it.

And you might want to try a past-life regression or a look into the Akashic records*. These can be illuminating experiences that help us to better see what we came here to do this time around.

*The Akashic records are the collection all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent to ever have occurred in the past, present, or future. Like past-life regression, they can be opened for viewing through meditation alone or with the help of an experienced guide.

For 2023, I resolved to bring more humor to this newsletter. Why am I so serious all the time?

Then I started reading a book recommended to me by a client. The book is The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté. I was barely twenty pages in when I read this:

“Someone without the marks of trauma would be an outlier in our society.” And “Where do we fit on the broad and surprisingly inclusive trauma spectrum?”

My energy clearing practice has brought many people to me. One day, I expressed to a friend my surprise at how each of them had survived some form of trauma.

“They’re drawn to you,” was his response. I figured maybe he was right. I have been given the gift of being able to help others heal and Spirit leads the right people to me. But now I see that we have all experienced trauma.

As Gabor Maté writes, it is a spectrum. Mr. Maté himself was born in Hungary during the Nazi occupation and was separated from his mother as an infant. That’s one end of the spectrum. But the other end is no walk in the park. It’s still trauma.

There are wounds that do not mend on their own. They either remain raw or they become covered with a thick layer of (emotional) scar tissue. Either way, unresolved trauma constricts us physically and psychologically, usually in ways we don’t even realize.

Fortunately, through energy healing, trauma can be cleared without our having to work through it. It can be released so that we are no longer stuck in the past, limiting who we can become. We are no longer fragmented. We can grow to our full potential. We are allowed to flourish.

When I do an energy clearing and I encounter the psychic shock of trauma, I tell the person I’m working with to go to their happy place while I clear. It’s so much easier than traditional talk therapy. There’s no need to relive whatever happened. It may not be released in a single session, but with each clearing, there is a feeling of lightness and peace. Whatever hurtful and overwhelming events you have survived can be cleared. Perhaps this is the year to give yourself that gift.

However you celebrate the Yule season,
I hope it is bringing you happiness.

This is a time of darkness, a time to be quiet and to pause (while instead we’re bringing the bustle). It is a time to remember that most people are good (even when family is driving us bananas). It is a time to reflect (even when we feel we don’t have a second to spare).

I will be carving out a few moments to celebrate having all of you in my life. I have learned so much this past year from you, mostly about compassion and what it means to be fully human (even after we’ve passed on).

Thank you for joining me on this past journey around the sun, whether you’ve had a private session with me, attended one of my Facebook Lives, or read this newsletter from time to time.

Your presence has touched me and enriched me spiritually. It has been a genuine honor to get to know you better. 

With heart-felt love,

I feel like I’ve tried to cram ten pounds of Christmas into a five-pound Santa sack.

The days are almost at their shortest and there is more darkness than there is light in the sky.

This is meant to be a time of going within, a time of introspection.

And what do we do instead? Shop! Wrap! Decorate! Bake!

If you’re like me, you do all of those things at break-neck speed, promising yourself you’ll sleep in January and asking yourself if you can fit in just one more show, party, or get-together.

Today the Fool came up as my card of the day. And I knew what it was trying to tell me:

Let got of the fear of relinquishing control. Stop trying to live a normal life.

If we can relinquish control, our normal life gives way to one of curiosity. We start to experience a deep connection to the Divine.

Connection to the Divine takes many forms. It can also be called finding our true selves. And our purpose. Re can rediscover the Divine that has been within us all along and express it to the world.

The hard part is that what is called our waking life has a vested interest in keeping us rooted in normalcy. The world would prefer us to be sedated by busyness. Conform, it whispers. And conforming at the holidays means Shop! Wrap! Decorate! Bake!

With the solstice, we are encouraged to have faith. To believe that there is something more. We have to release all that we know and all that we’ve relied on. We must find our innocence, the purity, and the childlike wonder within. It’s there. It always has been. We either forgot or listened to someone who told us it was gone.

So, step into the unknown, into the darkness. Spend time in self-reflection. You’ll emerge once again with your inner light glowing and lighting your path, the path to your most powerful self.

This first card indicates that there’s something you’re not seeing. And this one says there’s a man in your life you’re having difficulty with. Now, with this third card, make sure you’re putting your attention on the right areas…

This was my first tarot reading, over twenty years ago. I had paid for it in our Unitarian church’s annual auction. It told me absolutely nothing. What wasn’t I seeing? Who specifically was the man I was having trouble with? Where should I be putting my attention?

We come to the cards with expectations. We’re looking for answers. We want confirmation of what we suspect is true. Or light shed on what is eluding us. Or information about a goal we have in mind whether it’s financial, romantic, or spiritual.

And those expectations of ours are so narrow. Sometimes it’s difficult to even see beyond yes or no. Should I take this job? Is he having an affair? Am I living at my highest vibration?

With narrow expectations come narrow answers.

The universe is vast. It’s multifaceted in ways we can never truly comprehend. It’s an interconnected web of energy beyond our understanding. It isn’t possible to know how any of it works.

Instead, we can imagine it as a limitless array of glittering jewels. Among the limitless possibilities, the right one will light up for us when we need it. And, and this is the most wonderous part, when it needs us.

Our dream desires us as much as we desire our dream. Our wish wants us to come true. Our vision longs to celebrate us.

This morning in our Live, I will be leading a guided meditation to help you further realize this truth. Join us and feel the desire your dream has for you. Come see your path light up for you.

If you miss the Live, don’t worry. You can watch the recording.
And if you’re not a member of the Morning Glory Tarot Facebook group, you can join before our Live.