Seeking Closer Connection with Spirit Animals and Guides

[ArcaneHuman]

I have been fortunate enough in this lifetime to get some really clear and good guidance  from guides, not super regularly but often enough. However, my guides seldom to never make their identity clearly known. It always just feels like a message from on high. Of course... i would imagine that all guidance emanates from source which is apparently impersonal but on a different plane i'm sure that these guides do have unique personalities. So i am curious how to go about forming closer relationships with my guides. I would like to have a close connection for instance to a power animal. I have journeyed in the past and such. I feel hesitant to journey a bit because i've probably gone overboard with risky stuff in the past.... like... not quite respecting the power of the sea so to speak. I'm guessing i can also stalk such an aim... of becoming closer to my guides. But yeah... if i need to journey i will but i also would like some advice on how to properly do so. I usually just put on a shamanic drum track and i have some palo santo to burn before hand. thanks for reading.

[silenceseeker]

Hi,

I hate to come back with a response of..." you would need to take a class here for us to show you how to properly journey" but that is the case. There are reasons for that beyond it being 'proprietary' information. The biggest reason concerns what you brought up yourself above about going overboard with risky stuff in the past. We move at. what many people would think, a slow pace here but there are good reasons for it. Being self-healed is the primary reason we don't jump in to deep journeying right away in classes here, because we try to get you self-healed to where you are detached enough and have eliminated your emotional 'hooks' to the point that you aren't susceptible or an easy target for certain energies out there. 

The other way we help prepare people for journeying 'systematically' through classes here is by training students to become aware of and learn how to control different aspects of their energy like their awareness, perception and dreaming energy. If you better understand how these energies work within you and you develop control over your intent and will, now you've got some skills and better control over your journeying and also a lot more personal power in that you can move better to wherever and whenever you want.

Regarding guides and power animals, the makers differ from most other traditions (if not all that are teaching publicly) in that we do not teach how to work with power animals or guides. Students are welcome to use them if they want but we focus on teaching how to work with energy directly, which sounds a little bit what might be happening in  your  "message from on high."  Basically, makers work with energy directly from 'source.'

Sorry I can't provide you with journeying instructions but these are the reasons.

Lorrie

[Vargtid]

On 11/14/2021 at 4:36 PM, ArcaneHuman said:

I have been fortunate enough in this lifetime to get some really clear and good guidance  from guides, not super regularly but often enough. However, my guides seldom to never make their identity clearly known. It always just feels like a message from on high. Of course... i would imagine that all guidance emanates from source which is apparently impersonal but on a different plane i'm sure that these guides do have unique personalities. So i am curious how to go about forming closer relationships with my guides. I would like to have a close connection for instance to a power animal. I have journeyed in the past and such. I feel hesitant to journey a bit because i've probably gone overboard with risky stuff in the past.... like... not quite respecting the power of the sea so to speak. I'm guessing i can also stalk such an aim... of becoming closer to my guides. But yeah... if i need to journey i will but i also would like some advice on how to properly do so. I usually just put on a shamanic drum track and i have some palo santo to burn before hand. thanks for reading.

ArcaneHuman,

My spirit animal is the wolf, which is within my name here.  I never focused on it or tried to found it.  It came to me.  I feel that reading too many books might focus your mind on finding something too specific, when in reality it will come to you.  I replied to one of your posts earlier, and will say again, it's about it coming to you, not about you searching for it.... I know that sounds incredibly ... yeah

Start small.  Go ahead and pick something.  Read something.  Work from there.  There is no need for "patience".  You can never ask an initiative to practice patience.  No offense.

It may have taken me over 10 years for the wolf to speak to me.  I say start small.  The life of a Shaman is a life-long learning process, and I'm still learning.  I started off as Wiccan and still have a 500-some page grimoire to discover my path which I still keep and treasure.  Knowing the path from the beginning is part of the process, but it's the progression of finding where that path goes that in the end matters.

Again, if that means anything

-Varg

[ArcaneHuman]

On 11/18/2021 at 9:07 AM, silenceseeker said:

Being self-healed is the primary reason we don't jump in to deep journeying right away in classes here,

Thank you. This post is from a long time ago but i appreciate your response. I'm just seeing your response now. It's very helpful. Put's things into perpsective.