Some Signs are Faster than Others…
One of my favorite places to connect with my Spirit Guide Team is in the bathtub. I like the water scalding hot with a ton of Epsom salts, and if I’m feeling really fancy, I might throw some herbs or fresh flowers in there for good measure. A lit tapered ritual candle is also essential. Once the tub is full, I play a recording of ocean waves crashing for white noise and to help quiet my (always wanting to be busy) mind.
It’s a pretty vulnerable position to be in, but I find that the water is calming as well as conductive. It was in the shower that I had the first (of many) undeniable connections with Spirit. It’s the place I return again and again to call in my Team for connection, guidance, and reassurance. This is a place that I feel the most open and receptive – there are no distractions and I can just focus on my breath and the messages they share. Sometimes the advice they impart is for long-term knowledge, to be tucked away for a later date, or to be worked on in bite sized pieces for days, weeks, months, years. And sometimes, like recently, their requests communicated via my mind’s eye manifested into the material world less than 24 hours later.
Before I tell you what happened, I have a little bit of a confession, which is that I do not really have a proper altar for my Guides. I have a lovely altar created for my Grandmother Mary, which has a prominent place in our kitchen, but I haven’t created an altar for the Team. Altars for Spirit and Ancestors are common in many cultures and religions and have been created in homes and communities for thousands of years.
During my Saturday meditation / connection session, there was a request from my Guides to work on my altar as a way to deepen and strengthen my practice. I asked if there were any requests and I was shown a tiger, a sun, candles, white roses, and some small crystals: orange calcite, black tourmaline, and of course, rose quartz. I emerged from my bath with a clear image on what I needed to gather.
Leslie at Ceremonial was hosting one of her famous sidewalk sales the next day, so I headed out, intending on picking up a few crystals from the shop and seeing if there was anything else calling my name. There is a lovely new shop next door, High Noon, so I stopped in to take a look around. I greeted the shop keeper and my eye immediately found a stack of prints on a low shelf There, front and center, was a print of a tiger under an orange moon. I got chills through my entire body. These chills are a physical confirmation that I’m receiving a message, and this was undeniable! I knew that this image was to be the focal point for my altar, and happily paid for the print, excited to bring her home.
I only had to look around my house to find everything else I needed. A raw rose quartz stone a dear friend gave me. A bouquet of white roses I dried a while back on a whim. The black tourmaline and orange calcite from Ceremonial. The shadowbox frame that had been sitting in the storage room of the basement for at least a couple of years. Separately, they were all beautiful, but together they created a spiritual home within a home.
