What is the difference between Angel Guides & Spirit Guides?
June 4th, 2010
How to detect angelic presence and distinguish between angels and spirit guides.
Guardian Angels are assigned to us at birth and remain with us throughout our lifetime. An angel guide on the other hand is one that we can call upon for extra assistance. All of us can call upon many angels, in addition to our Guardian Angel, to help us in any situation. Their role is to steer us in the right direction, to reassure and to guide us once we request their help. They are not here to interfere in our life lessons but to help make our life’s journey an easier path to tread.
Guides, on the other hand, are our closest friends in the spirit world. They are there to help us and are available to us as soon as we ask for help or guidance. They give inspiration and pass messages through our intuition. We have one main Spirit Guide throughout our life in addition to others who come and go as the need arises, according to what lessons we have to learn. A Spirit Guide may try to steer us on the right path if we ask their advice, although we have freewill and are left to make the final choice.
A Spirit Guide is one who has previously lived in the physical realm, gaining knowledge and wisdom throughout many lifetimes, whereas an angel has never lived life as a human; they vibrate at a different frequency, offering a loving presence to help protect and guide us. The only time an angel is allowed to intervene without being first asked is when a life threatening event occurs. If it is not our time to pass over, angelic intervention can save our lives.
Whenever angels wish to make their presence known, there is an overwhelming feeling of warmth and love, a sense of security and reassurance. I shall be discussing this in further detail in a couple of weeks time, on 22 June and would love it if you could join me.
My next Psychic TV topic is Angel Guides, Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels, making sense of them all, which will be broadcast live on 22nd June at 7pm UK time to my Psychic Circle members. If you are not already a member you can become a Psychic Circle member here
I want to know your angel experiences please use the comments section here to let me know.
Until then, may your angels be with you.
With love
Heidi x
Hello Heidi, I love this article and am grateful to my Angels and Guides being in my life.
A few weeks ago on a very foggy day I asked the Angels for protection as I was heading west into the city on a two lane highway to drop my dogs off at daycare and then on to work. When suddenly I saw a moose running across the highway in front of traffic heading east only at that moment there was no traffic on that side. The Moose ran towards the median separating the highways and was heading towards my side of the highway in front of my truck. As sudden as the moose appeared he veered up onto his hind legs and stopped on this median as I and another vehicle behind me in the right lane sped by. We both made it safely past the moose and lived to tell about it at work that morning. To me, I sensed an Angel stood in its path and stopped the moose from crossing the road in front of us that morning. The other miracle was traffic at that time was sparse also unusual, as this is a major highway going into the city.
I had the most amazing experience a few years back.I had just hopped into bed one night and no sooner had my head hit the pillow when I started to float out of my body.Not completely,just my top half.It was like the top half of my astral body floated up so that I was sitting upright in my bed.There in front of me was an angel and two cherubs.On instruction from the angel,the cherubs took turns to give me rose petals.They felt completely real.It was so beautiful.I reached out to touch the angels hand.It felt as solid and real as if I was holding my husbands hand.But it was at this point that ,I suppose my logical brain kicked in and put an end to the experience.I treasure the memory and consider myself blessed to have received such a gift from heaven.
Hi Heidi, just sending you my angel experience.
I had my first training session to run – I was really nervous and arrived early. I was greeted by a lady called Joy. She showed me the room that I was to be training in and helped me put out equipment. She had a very quiet gentle demeanour. After about ten minutes, another person came in to tell me that the room had been moved downstairs for wheelchair access. Joy helped me carry everything downstairs and set it up again. Just before I was due to start, we stood together in an empty room. She put both her hands on my shoulders, looked into my eyes and said. ‘Don’t worry. Everything is going to be fine. You will be wonderful’. It was such an odd and yet lovely, reassuring thing to do. The session went without a hitch. When I looked for her to say ‘thank you’, she was nowhere to be found. I also realised that during the time she had been there, none of her would-be colleagues had acknowledged her. No-one had spoken to her or even looked at her even when we were the only two people in the room. It as if she was invisible to them.
I like to think she was an angel looking after me.
Warm regards,
Julia
Hi Heidi, about a month ago I hit rock bottom and was in a bad state – terrible insomnia, feeling totally blank with the usual background thought I’ve had since A’s death: ‘what’s the point’. I could hardly move and I knew I was in such a bad way because I wasn’t willing to be fully embodied (‘if I’m only half alive, maybe he is only half dead’) and that I had to choose to live or things would only get worse. So I cried and cried and just asked for help. That night in while I was sleeping I semi-woke to and could feel healing energy vibrating around my body, particularly around my throat chakra. It felt like ‘something’ was helping me.
When I woke the next day I noticed the absence of the feeling of not wanting to be here. Since then, very tentatively, I am allowing myself to return to the land of the living, and to feel ‘not unhappy’, to stop looking back, like Orpheus at Eurydice, to accept that I am here and I must live. I have noticed I feel more whole and willing to allow myself to be happy again. I don’t know whether an angel or guide came to my rescue Heidi, but I certainly know that it is since that healing presence that I turned a corner.
Love
Dany
x
Heidi, You asked about angels and all I can say is what has been my experience. I don’t get wonderful feeling of warmth and comfort in fact I get the opposite, my whole life is changing, I hope for the better because believe me this last few months have been very tough, anyway the way the angels get in touch with me is weird, I just find myself doing things putting angel pictures up and I had never even thought of it before and finding things related to angels and fairies everywhere. There are times that I think I’m mad but I work on the theory that everyone is a little mad so thats ok, if my madness is angels so be it. The angels seem to direct me to go to places and to meet people and I’m doing things and going places that before I would not have been seen dead in. I’ve done an angel course and angel meditation
every week now and none of this is my doing they just won’t let me go. With love and light JO
Namaste Heidi,
I’ve had a few life saving experinces over the years and now I’m aware why I am here and what my purpose is with my spiritual path and helping people. This is just one of my experiences.
Some years back I was working as a consultant for a weightloss company, and it was my turn to buy milk for our coffee break. Now to get to this coffee shop I had to cross over a four car lane crossing without traffic lights, instead there was a garden divider in the middle with a huge tree, and small shrubs to seperate them into two divided lanes. On the corner of this pedestrian crossing was a small car yard, where the owner if outside would always have a quick chat to you as you walked by, which he did that morning to me. After our quick chat I proceeded to the corner which was always busy and waited for the cars to stop so I could cross. I had just passed the second car when out of nowhere a third car decided it would try overtaking the two cars that had stopped for me…now remember this crossing was only wide enough for two cars which would have made this car go up onto the road divider..somehow? I walked past the first car, and was just passing the second car when out of nowhere I feel this incredible warmth pressing against my stomach, which held me back back from taking the next step. I did’nt see the third car, I only felt the breeze as it passed by me and heard the screech of the tyres breaking to a holt just past me. Unsure what just happened and somewhat dazed, I proceed to the middle of the divider and looked over at the driver of the third car who had his head in his hands and was looking back at me shaking his head side to side. The two other cars were still at the crossing motionless, and just looking over at me and probably thinking the same thing I was…How did that woman walk away from that! Shaken and still alittle dazed with what just happened, I continued across the second crossing and over to the coffee shop, buying the milk and heading back to work all the while the senario was going over and over in my mind. I was asking myself what just happened? Did I really feel that hand touch me? And why was I saved? Little did I know the car yard owner had witnessed it all as he rushed over to me. Oh my goodness he said, have you a guardian angel watching over you this morning!! I just witnessed the whole crossing incident, how did you walk away from that? I said, I don’t now as I’m still in shock that I did walk away from it. To this day I can still remember how that loving hand felt with it’s intense warmth and love. That day divine love and intervention stepped in and saved my life, and I truly do feel very blessed and loved.
Keep Shining,
Julee.
Hello Heidi,
My angel experience happened when I was 17 yrs old. I was stricken with a mystery illness that left me home bound feeling like I had a bad flu for months in my senior year. I was in and out of the hospital emergency room over and over. The doctors in charge of me had told my mother that I was just saying I was sick for attention at first..They never even tested me for anything; they never so much as did an ex-ray. When I started running a fever and getting weaker and weaker they still refused to admit me saying it’s probably just a bad virus.
Around the 15th time of being driven to the E.R. just to be re-hydrated and then sent home I had prayed that night. I prayed to anyone who would listen that this mystery illness would show its self; I couldn’t take one more day of being home sick like this. The very next day it showed it’s self alright. I nearly bled to death while home alone.
I was finally rushed to the hospital by my best friend. We waited in the emergency room for hours to see a doctor. They had done some tests then left us alone in the room with the lights off so I could try to rest. My friend was holding my hand; we were both crying wondering why we had to wait so long, and why no one would take this seriously before it was too late.
A kind looking doctor came in, he smiled and said “Heather, you have something called Crohn’s disease. It’s going to be a long hard road for you but you just hang in there. It’s really going to be hard sometimes because there will be a lot of debate on which disease you have. Some will believe you have Ulcerative Colitis, but we know it’s Crohn’s disease. You are going to end up having a lot of surgeries. You hang in there, you are a strong person and you will be ok. I am going to follow your case every step of the way.” I asked him about the disease, I had never even heard of this. (Crohn’s disease was not a well known disease in 1991.)
He put his hand on my forehead then told me I would be ok. My friend shook his hand, and we thanked him. He left the room. My friend and I talked for about ten minutes about how nice he was and that the minute he came in the room both of us had stopped crying. My friend said, “I feel much better knowing you will have a doctor like that. Finally you have one that will take you seriously, he seems very kind too.”
Ten minutes later another doctor came in and said, “We are going to admit you for more tests, we still don’t know what is causing all these symptoms and why you are bleeding so much. The tests were not clear.” My friend and I both looked at each other and said, “We already saw the doctor he said you guys think I have something called “Crohn’s disease”. I don’t understand why you are saying you don’t know why I am so sick!”
He said,” I am the only doctor here tonight, that is why it took me so long to get to you. We also just got your tests back.. just now. My friend said, “No doctor, we just had a doctor come in not even ten minutes ago.. He said she had Crohn’s disease. The doctor looked more than concerned. He said would you mind if I wheel you out to where the pictures of the doctors who work here are on the wall I want you to point out which one you saw.
He wheeled my hospital bed to a wall of photos. It was of all the doctors who work at the hospital. My friend and I both looked over the wall several times. We both said, ” I don’t see his picture here, are you sure that every doctor is represented here? Maybe he is new and not yet up on the wall?” The doctor said, “This is every doctor that works here. We have to have our picture up here before we start work to make sure we are known here by the security staff.” We told him the “mystery doctor” was very distinctly Asian looking,there is not one Asian doctor in those photos.
The doctor said, “I am going to check with other patients and the security at the door to see if they saw someone fitting his description. No one had seen this man but us. Security came in and talked to us, we could hear them asking other patients if they had seen a doctor fitting our description. Not even the people in the room directly across from my door had even seen him come or go in my room. They only saw the doctor who had wheeled me out and heard us talking about the kindly doctor.
At this point both my friend and I had our hair standing on end. I was wheeled back to the E.R. room and finally my mother showed up. (She had been trying to get out of work to come to the hospital to be with me.) We told her about the doctor that didn’t exist. She said “Ohh thank God. It had to be your guardian angel. I was praying so hard for your guardian angel to watch over you until I could get here to be with you.” The doctor and the security staff told us later that no other patient saw this man. Because of him mentioning Crohn’s disease (something none of us had even heard of) they started testing FOR that. It turned out after years of dispute.. I did indeed have Corhn’s disease, it has been a long painful road with 19 surgeries and counting.. But none of us ever forgot the night in the E.R. when the kindly doctor that no one but us ever saw had old me to hang in there.
We still all believe without a doubt that we met my Guardian Angel in person on that night!
Best wishes,
Heather
Dear Heidi,
I have had many experiences with the Angels, mostly Archangel Michael and Raphael. I’m usually asking them for a healing, as I have chronic back and leg pain, which comes at anytime and anywhere. One particular episode was when my husband and I were waiting for an interview for our passports. Out of the “blue” I began to feel the pain in my lower back. I thought if I went outside and walked around in the sun I might get some relief…..didn’t happen!!! The pain began to raidate to my upper back. Within a minute or two, I had to make a decision….go home and take pain medication and go to bed with the heating pad or go to the ER!!! The interview was important at that time because we had re-scheduled a couple of times before. I then realized there was another choice…..ask Archangel Raphael and Archangel Michael for an “EMERGENCY” healing, which is what I did!!! Within less than 5 minutes my back pain disappeared as suddenly as it began…and with no time to spare. As soon as I realized the pain was gone, we were called in for the interview.
The beloved Angels have never let me down.
I hope someone may benefit from my story. All we have to do is ASK the Angels for help, whether it is for a healing, information or guidance. They will be available as soon as we ask. It’s a great comfort to know that the Angels are there for us.
Thank you for your wonderful psychic development institution
Blessings & Love
Rose Barker
Dear Heidi your articles are interesting please tell me a technique to see angels with love
Hello Heidi;
I had one Angel, JACO he is very beautiful and came to me thru Michael when I was around 2 he has been with me since sorry that electronic interference that always happens around me keeps me spending more time trying to keep pc typing.
Anyway I have a new Angel well more accurately 3 they are more stoic than JACO they always wear white tunics and they speak so fast its very hard to make out what they are saying to me well only the one speaks the others just stand on either side of him. Then there is the one in flight overhead. He is a deep blue with full spread of feathers the most amazing almost indigo but not blue he also has dark hair with a tuff of feathers on his head. I since he is guarding the others???? I still don’t know what they are saying but I have lost my voice for a week now I feel it is connected in some way. The speech is so high pitched and fast I just can’t make it out. What do you make of this?????
I wish equipment and I got along better LOL What do you make of the change. Jaco has always been close but I haven’t seen him except in the symbol of a yellow butterfly he gave me to let me know he was here.
My first experience of Arch angels was when I felt so desperate at losing a close and beloved friend. I had been weeping whilst standing in my lounge facing a wall staring at a picture. I had suffered with chronic Asthma ever since I was 22 years old and was extremely ill at times. I felt so low and then something wonderful happened. I could feel something huge rise up above me from behind. The wing span at least 8feet across. I asked who it was and the reply was “I am the Arch Angel Raphael, go and look me up”so I did. He represents healing. From that day on I have never had another Asthma attack. I was so ill I had to buy my own nebulizer.I think it he is wonderful and now I know when he is around me, it is a fluttering of his wings.I am so blessed.
Hello.I had a wonderful experience with angels, back in 2007. I had my first angel card reading with a friend who is very much in tune with the other side, so much so he gets psychic attacks all the time which leaves him crippled sometimes.But this day he showed me how to mediate and ground myself, as he did my angel reading he said he saw a strong white light apear from my head!It was so powerful it knocked him back. It was amazing! I wish I had seen it myself. Then I had a fantastic connection with the angels like I could see them in a heaven realm, I felt safe warm and very much drawn to it, I wanted to be there with them. I said this and Royston said they are saying that you stay where you are for now concentrate on the here and now. I was so excited,royston had to bring me back to ground myself. But I do believe that the angels are here for all of us they are like our heaven police, watching over us. I have also had a little angel called Tyrol who visited me everyday, he hasn’t been around me for a while lately, maybe because of the situation that i’m in. But I have seen two angels when i had other card readings with another person. I’ve been blessed to see Archangel Michael, who is in a beautiful bright blue cloak and he is the divine truth,and the other angel was Raphael he directs life for you,he was in a firey colour cloak. Amazing. I always feel blessed and safe when i think of them and also i get numbers in my head, which I refer to my angel number book that is very exciting, as well.It gives me direction, and where i should be driving myself to my goals in life.I highly recommend angel readings and angel numbers in everyones life. I also tell you i had an operation when i was 19 and I know I was watching the surgeons trying to save me I was floating above my body in a bright white light. I remember when i came round I started to cry because I wondered why I had come back. I think thats why I have to concentrate on my spiritual powers.
I was deep in meditation when an angel came to me in the vision. I can’t explain in words the impact of feelings surrounding and flowing through me. It was so intense.
This picture appeared in my mind of a time when I was six years old. I was in the dark in this shed behind my new home where my Dad and new step family lived. I saw a sceen unfold and I KNEW she had been there with me that day. Up to then I had not remembered this day in my life. It all came back to me in a flash. My new step brother and sister had made it their mission in life to torment me. I won’t go into details of other incidents, but so that you understand where I was at this time in my life I will tell of this one game they loved to play. They were both older than me and mean. I had never known mean people before this. Anyway this game involved my new step brother chasing me around and around the outside of the house with a belt swinging it at me making me run until I couldn’t breath. Where were the parents you ask well they were at work. We rode the bus home from school and were alone until our parents got home. This day you would think would have stuck in my mind forever, but it didn’t. The next memory I have is of me living with my grandparents. I had even forgotten about the game and shed. In my mediation it all came back to me and here was this angel showing me and I felt her tell me I was there with you. I felt this love so painful it hurt almost. I know her now I call her Izabeth. You may think me mad, but I have had so many experiences as a child and up to now as I look back I know I have been guided down this path. Each experience giving me more and more confirmation of the world of spirit. It practically walked up and took me by the hand and lead me towards it. I didn’t grow up in a world that would have allowed spiritual thinking because believe me my grandmother was constantly finding excuses for my feelings and visions. What was so weird to me is that I didn’t remember any of this happening the angel or anything I saw in my vision until she showed me during this mediation and then it was as if someone had turned on the light it all came back to me clear as a bell including her standing over me in the shed taking my hand and lifting me up into her arms.
Your memories remind me of a ‘flashback’ I experienced just recently. I spoke with a male cousin I had not seen or spoken to in 30 years+-. After getting off the phone I had this flashback memory of his mother, my aunt, beating him until all I could see was the childs’ wide open, red, screaming mouth. She wished him dead because he was so “ugly”. The memory reduced me to tears which still flow at the memory. At the time he was only five or six and I was a year older. I left their house in terror. His mother died when he was seven. I heard adult aunts say it was a good thing because she would have killed the boy had she lived.
Hi. I have been training to become psychic and I already know how to read aura’s. Today I tried to contact my spirit guide and it was a beautiful experience. I entered the spirit world and asked for her. and she came! She had blonde wavy hair and she was surrounded by brilliant light. She told me that her name was Meggie and that I was her spirit child. I suspect that she could be my guardian angel because she’s never been on earth and she encased me with her love. I asked her about the 2012 epedemic and she told me not to worry because she would always be with me,then she left and the door that I used to acess her closed and I awoke from my meditative state feeling enlightened and happy.