Connecting with Archangels

Connecting with Archangels

by Alexandra Wenman, creator of Archangel Fire Oracle

Archangels are angels of a high rank who assist humanity with our evolution by helping us to access the divine through our higher wisdom and knowledge. They differ from other angels, who solely help us with practical day-to-day things. There are angels for everything, such as guardian angels, parking angels, sleep angels and even angels in charge of buildings and cities. The Archangels, along with the day-to-day, have more to do with Ascension and the attainment of enlightenment. They connect us straight to God and our divine nature.

I created the Archangel Fire Oracle to introduce you to 40 dynamic, loving Archangels and Divine Guides who are the keepers of the Ascension pathway. The oracle cards offer you a practical model for engaging the angelic kingdom to guide and support you in viewing your everyday issues from a higher perspective. They can open our eyes to our inner wisdom and uplift and empower you to align you with your highest goals.

The deck includes a balance of masculine, feminine, androgynous, mythological and multicultural angels in celebration of human fellowship and diversity. The transformational colour rays—depicted within the colour scheme and frame of each card—may also be seen to correspond with the rainbow colour spectrum of the human chakra system, along with many of the higher chakras or energy centres opening during our current cycle of rapid expansion. The opening of these energy centres within us correlates to the opening of the Gates of Heaven, so as you work with these colours to raise your vibration, activate your chakras and expand your consciousness, you are bridging Heaven and Earth within your being and body.

Each colour symbolizes the potent properties of divine Archangelic fire. Working with these holy flames allows you to take a big step forward along your journey back to wholeness. This is the ultimate activation of unconditional love to achieve the unified chakra—or field of oneness found within the complete diamond spectrum—and align to your own divinity.

Imagine the energy of the divine, God or Source—which is the infinite love that permeates all existence—as a beautiful diamond or crystal. If you could shine sunlight through that crystal it would fractal, scattering rainbows of multiple colours. These individual colours contain the unique qualities of the Archangels and represent the various aspects or facets of our direct relationship to the divine.

As the divine is eternal, so, too, there are an infinite number of angels—far too many to contain in one oracle deck. The Archangels and Guides I have chosen for this deck are the very beings who have helped me on my own journey of awakening. As I connected to each angel, they guided me to document the beautiful processes they gifted me with and to share them with others so they could assist with their awakening, too. And so, the Archangel Fire Oracle was born.

Essentially, the rainbow spectrum of the Archangels acts a kind of bridge or pathway towards enlightenment, reconnecting us to our own holiness and helping us to realize that we are not separate from God, we are God. The key to “enlightenment” is in the word “light”. The Archangels’ message is that by opening our hearts to deeper and vaster love, we are taking in more light and are then able to shed more light on who we are by accessing our innate wisdom.

Included in the guidebook for the oracle deck are practical visualization exercises gifted to you by each of the angels within the oracle. These Diamond Fire Alchemy exercises aim to initiate a powerful alchemical process within you. Symbolism and visualization add a primary element to the healing process as they help you to witness and partake in your own metamorphosis. As you blaze with the holy angelic fire of each Archangel, you begin to embody its gifts and qualities and shed all that is no longer serving you. Working with this deck, you may find that old habits begin to shift and your preferences and tastes for certain things may even change overnight.

You may become more attuned to your emotions and experience heightened sensitivity, as your “sensory awareness” increases. This is the first of our natural intuitive abilities that are re-awakening as part of the planetary Ascension—along with other psychic gifts, which are part of our normal human birthright to be able to access, such as clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing) and claircognizance (clear knowing).

It is sometimes through great trauma or hardship that we learn our biggest life lessons and, like Noah after the flood, this is why the rainbow is seen as a symbol of God’s promise to us—that no matter how difficult things get, God will always bring salvation. The eternal divine will always save us. The angels tell me that this essentially means “love” will always save us. I do not believe that God is a deity outside of ourselves. Rather, it is the true beingness of who we are at our deepest and highest level. It is the all-encompassing energy of love, which our entire universe is built on.

To acquaint you further with the Archangel Fire Oracle, here’s one Archangel card, Jophiel, along with her write-up from the guidebook.

JOPHIEL: “JOY”

The Archangel of joy, wisdom and beauty, Jophiel governs the yellow ray of illumination. Like the Irish lass in her card, she gives us the ability to add more gladness to our lives. She also helps us to learn and teach at the highest level, enabling us to find the answers to important questions, see the beauty in all things and think more positively.

Jophiel sets us on the right path to achieving spiritual enlightenment. She can help us to get organized and clear out our physical and emotional clutter, which can be a real help when you’re tackling spring-cleaning or trying to get to the bottom of any old, stuck emotions.

Visualize Jophiel’s bright yellow light pouring into you and your home like sunlight and ask her to illuminate anything you no longer need. Picture this light filling any areas of your life where you feel unhappy or dissatisfied. Ask Jophiel to send this light into any dark corners to cleanse the space around you, your home and your belongings.

Unhappy memories you haven’t been able to let go of and items you have ferried from home to home for years will likely seem less important. When you clear your physical clutter, it then becomes much easier to let go of any emotional clutter, so take unwanted items to charity shops so they can find a better home elsewhere. It’s also a good idea to get involved in local car boot sales and clothing swaps—after all, one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Jophiel can help to make this experience fun and uplifting, rather than it feeling like a chore. When there is more space, you will see beauty around and within you.

Afterwards, Jophiel will help you rid your mind of cluttered thoughts, so you are more focused, calm and, most of all, joyful. Allow her yellow light to fill your mind and feel yourself relax. With all the extra space you create, you’ll soon find that you’re sleeping better, feeling happier, have more energy and you’ll feel super-organized.

Getting rid of old, stuck energy alone helps you think more clearly, but when you ask Jophiel to help with this objective, it’s like a light gets switched on inside your brain and you suddenly have new clarity to be able to see all the good things in your life. This brings more time to get outside and play. It ushers in joy and becomes a reason to celebrate all the good things about yourself and your existence. Jophiel’s yellow ray shining in through your crown chakra is like opening the shutters in a dark room to light up your life.

Message: “Be joyful! Let go of your heavy physical and emotional burdens. Release your baggage. Allow new clarity and happiness to pour into your life. Then you can rise up out of the gloom and fly higher.”

HOW TO MEET JOPHIEL

• Call on Archangel Jophiel to wrap you in her yellow cloak of joy, like sunshine.
• Imagine this yellow light piercing any darkness in your life. Your own angel wings light up in yellow flame and you begin to spin, sweeping the energy clean throughout your aura and the surrounding space.
• As the light blazes with brilliant yellow fire, it scatters and dissolves away any worries or issues, healing and clearing your body, mind, heart and soul.
• All darkness now dissolves, leaving only pure beauty and light.
• Invite your inner child to come forward and ask them what they need in order to feel safe, supported and joyful.
• A simple walk in the park or the chance to stop work and play for while can be such a tonic and will help give your mind time to relax and unwind.
• Rinse yourself off in white light and ground yourself. Open your eyes.

DIAMOND FIRE ALCHEMY: SEEDS OF GLEE

• Close your eyes and call on Jophiel. Picture a sparkling golden-yellow fountain of light pouring in through your crown chakra. This is the light of jubilant illumination.
• Next, think of anything you would like more clarity on.
• Ask Jophiel for the answers and see if anything pops into your mind. You might not receive an immediate response, but an answer may arrive over the next few days.
• Next, ask Jophiel to lighten your load and help you to release any physical and emotional burdens from your life.
• Like a gentle breeze moving through tall grass, Jophiel’s energy wafts through your environment, scattering stuck energies.
• Similar to the seeds of a dandelion, they are broken up, transmuted and scattered to the winds with all the lightness of a child’s laughter.
• Then, like a champagne cork popping, any residual worries, cares and clutter are blasting up and out of your life, transforming into a fizzy rapture of light.
• Feel the excitement of a new, positive outlook now cascading down over you in a torrent of yellow-gold angelic bubbles.
• Allow yourself to be filled with frothy feelings of joy and bliss from head to toe.
• As this rush of unbridled excitement takes over, your wings fly open and flap away any residual negativity.
• Send out your intention for joy once again, like those dandelion seeds on the wind.
• Turning pure white, your wings close around you as a protective cocoon.
• Allow yourself to smile, imagining warm sunlight is shining down on your face.
• Send gratitude to Jophiel. Open your eyes when you feel ready.

BECOME THE ANGEL

Jophiel reminds us that deciding to feel happy is actually quite simple. If we change our perception, we can bring joy flooding into our lives. In every moment, we are free to choose our mood. If you find it a struggle or need help to lift your emotions, try putting on some uplifting music or phone a friend to ask for help inviting in positive feelings.

There’s a reason Jophiel’s name sounds like the word “jovial” or “joyful”. Invoke this angel whenever you need to bring a little more joy into your life. Let go of heaviness— whether mental or material—and imagine sunshine infiltrating each experience. Tell yourself you are happy, allow yourself to feel happy feelings and let it be so.