Who Are Your Guides and How Can They Help With Your Life Plan?

Are you doing what you're meant to be doing?

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Before my guides began speaking with me directly, I thought that they were all-knowing ethereal beings who were moving me toward some pre-determined path. While I’ve always been someone who believes that there are many roads to the same place, I was constantly wondering if I was doing what I was meant to be doing. In meditation and through automatic writing, I was always asking my guides if I was in alignment.

But what I learned when they came in to talk to me—in an evolving process that has allowed me to speak to them the way I talk to my friends and family—was that the only alignment I needed to be in was with what I wanted for myself.

Here’s what I’ve learned, and what our guides really want us to know:

When you’re preparing to come into the earth realm, you do spend time crafting a life plan. You work with others on your soul team to plot out markers, which are meant to nudge you along the path that you, as your pre-earthly self, had wanted for this lifetime. These markers are like boulders in a river—everything else in your life flows around them, but this doesn’t mean that they’re stagnant. They can be moved by the water, and sometimes the water even washes them away or erodes them completely.

Or you might think of it as being akin to yourself in regular life you vs. yourself while traveling When you plan a trip, you might make half a dozen big plans; things that feel like must-do items. But when you get to your destination, maybe you find the perfect spot on the beach, you meet some new people, you go to a restaurant out of convenience that has something you suddenly want to eat every day you’re there. The plans you made before your trip don’t have to stay in place just because the person you were before leaving home wanted to do them.

So what it comes down to is this: your guides do have the broad strokes of your life plan, but they aren’t there to hold you to it. Rather, they’re there to help you to live the life that the current version of you wants to live. And this is because your guides are your friends and family members—your soulmates.

Your best friend (I hope) wouldn’t call you on said trip and say, “Hey, you made all these plans before you left, so you have to go do all of them.” It’s more likely that they would say, “Have fun, and let me know if there’s anything you need from my end.”

The members of your soul team—also known as your guides—are helping you not only because they’re benevolent souls, but because they are your loved ones in the Light and they have known you throughout your past lives. And, in fact, while they are guiding you by placing people, opportunities, and things on your path, the term guide can be misleading. I think it conjures the idea that there is a hierarchy, when the truth is that the members of your soul team are working alongside you to help you to have the experience you want to have.

One of the most important messages our guides want to send to those of us on earth is that they’re here to help us to have anything we want while we’re here. All we need to do is get in touch with them to let them know what we want now that we’re this version of ourselves, who were surrounded by these people, with these circumstances, and these life experiences.

Every single one of us has a soul team, and every soul team wants to hear directly from their earthly counterparts. The easiest, most accessible way to do this is by writing to them. Begin your letter or journal entry with, Dear Soul Team, and your words will reach them. This isn’t solely an esoteric principle, or a hope carried upon a word spell (though I’m all about a word spell), but actually a technological process wherein you’re using those words to log into a thought frequency expander that can pick up on the message you’re sending. I love knowing about the logistics of how our messages are received in the Light and beyond because it makes it feel so much more certain to me. But if it isn’t your thing, that’s totally fine—you can use this practice in any way that resonates with you.

With the understanding that you aren’t beholden to any particular life plan, what do you, as the fabulous Mary Oliver asked, want to do with your one wild and precious life? Because even with the knowledge that we have many lifetimes—and we’ll be talking more about past lives as we roll into the end of this year—this is your singular lifetime as this person. And what your guides want more than anything is to let you know that they love you, and that they want to know who you are now and how they can help you to live the life of your choosing.

While you can communicate with your guides directly, my guides would also be more than happy to pass along your messages if you want to leave a question, a request, or a few kind words in the comment box below.