All About Spirit Guides: What Is A Spirit Guide?
Updated 2025.01.14
A Spirit Guide is a non-physical being, who is chosen for each living person before their birth when they are still in Spirit form.
Spirit Guides can appear in any form. The idea of Spirit Guides is ancient history, while they are called by many different names across cultures and time periods.
Spirit Guides get matched with people before birth and they are matched to people whose life paths align, goals are similar and challenges are the same, thus, they want to advise.
Additionally, they often communicate with the Spirit Guides of other individuals in your life to arrange meetings, circumstances, soul mates and life teachers for you.
How many Spirit Guides do I have?
You have at least 1 Spirit Guide that is around and with you always. Along with that, there's 7-10 more on your immediate wisdom council consisting of ancestor-like guides, angel-like guides, past-life-like guides and so on.
They're around to assist you with the development of your soul, ensure that you learn lessons for your soul growth that you need, and that you experience your life to the fullest potential.
Spirit Guides never negatively judge you or make decisions for you. They simply guide and provide suggestions for you, as you move through the places they understand well.
How your Spirit Guides communicate with you:
Most of the time, Spirit Guides are responsible for sending you intuitive guidance, which can come in as a nagging to-do, a gut feeling, a vision, an intuitive chill or a crystal clear thought.
Additionally, Spirit Guides can line up a series of events or experiences that may be unlikely to occur together by chance, but when experienced in a meaningful way - are synchronicities.
These synchronicities can be a sign to you to alert you to something coming, a nudge you in a specific direction, or advise you on a question or concern you were curious about and wondered the answer to.
Spirit Guides can also make their appearance known by sending you symbolic signs such as meaningful flowers, objects or animals, showing you specific number patterns, putting a song on the radio for a specific message, putting thought in your mind, or communicating with you through dreams.
Identifying your Spirit Guide:
Spirit Guides can appear in all forms, but generally, they appear in the form of a human or animal though many of us have plant and crystal Spirit Guides, as well.
Your Spirit Guides will appear or make themselves known to you in the way which you will receive them the most readily. Because they don't have bodies, they can change, morph or colorize themselves into any form they want to get their messages across.
If you see your Spirit Guides, pay attention to the symbolism as it is a clue as to what they are helping you with, their role in your life.
If you can feel them, take a minute to what exact feeling you sense when you notice other signs they might be around such as a ton of repeating number symbols or synchronicities all in a row. Some Spirit Guides will have a specific feeling they give you when they’re present - this is their “calling card” or “energy signature” or “essence.”
Spirit Guides, in whatever manner they appear, will select an appearance or sensation most comfortable for you to interpret and accept.
Shifting form is a spiritual luxury - as even after your deceased loved ones cross over, they will sometimes adjust their appearance to suit themselves better - making slight changes in height, body weight, and age.
We'd all make ourselves a little more ideal, with the snap of a finger, if we could, right?
To recap
You have at least 1 main Spirit Guide who has been with you since before our birth and is with you every day.
Your Spirit Guides often work together as a team and with you to manifest your soul’s journey.
There are Spirit Guides who watch over family groups (Family Guides) or relationships (Relationship Guides)
You have between 3-7 Spirit Guides who are working with you on their path; all your Spirit Guides have different roles in shaping your path.
One of my favorite parts about Spirit Guides is knowing that I am never alone. Even if it feels like it’s “just me,” it’s not. Likewise, you are never doing it all alone either, and no challenge is ever faced without the support of an abundance of non-physical helpers.
Keep this in mind next time you feel like you’re in a bind - call on your Spirit Guides!
Start practicing calling on your Spirit Guides now so that it’s second nature when you need it.
Internally ask:
Dear Spirit Guides, thank you for the help you have given me through the years and in this moment now.
Please send me support and assistance to get through this and any situation in the highest state of joy possible. I am open to receiving a sign of this support now.
Spirit Guides carry wisdom, insight and guidance about your life and the journey of your soul. They can also send you various harmonizing energetic frequencies to help balance your energy field or shift your mindset.
Moreover, your Spirit Guides want to be accepted into your life, to work more freely with you on the progress of your soul, and your spiritual journey. They will do what they can to safely get in touch, clueing you into their name, appearance, and likeness, usually through your whole life.
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