Calling All Angels
“I need a sign to let me know you’re here
’Cause my TV set just keeps it all from being clear”
Calling All Angels . . .
How do you talk to an angel?
I have a confession to make: I don’t know much about angels.
I am willing to believe they exist. No, not because the Bible tells me so (although it does, and that’s true whether you are talking about the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) or the New Testament.
I believe because people whom I know and respect not only believe in angels, but have examples of how those angels have helped them out in the world.
I’m not talking about your dead grandmother (or mine), because mortals can’t become angels. Angels are angels; people who die can become spirit guides, but they don’t get wings (or, if some biblical descriptions are to be believed, a whole passel of eyeballs).
My friend Andrew Barker is an expert on working with archangels.
Andrew says that you talk to an angel the same way you’d talk to anyone you know and get along with. Turns out you don’t have to try to channel the King James Version of the Bible with it’s thees and thous; in fact, you can use slang or even (gasp!) swear words when asking them for help.
I just spent something like three hours listening to his appearances on various podcasts discussing the angels, and Andrew is very clear about the fact that not only don’t you need special language to talk to angels, you don’t have to have any religious faith at all.
It turns out that angels don’t care whether you believe in God, or whether you are part of any organized religion. (As an aside: this makes sense to me, since I have never been Catholic, and am currently Jewish, yet St. Anthony has always been happy to help me find lost things, and St. Joseph helped me sell two houses quickly and with ease.)
Andrew also explained on those podcasts that archangels are the highest tier and highest vibrational energy when it comes to angels. Regular angels are lower than archangels, and guardian angels are a bit lower than regular angels . . . it allows them to be more easily accessible to us. So calling in the archangels is calling in the big guns, energetically.
Each of the archangels has a particular job or specialty, and they each have a particular color associated with them. Until today, I was lucky to be able to name four of the archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Azriel, and Metatron. I had no clue what their specialties were. And I still have no idea why three end in “el” and the other one sounds like a Transformer.
But that’s all okay, because like I already said, Andrew Barker (of Tarot With Andrew) is an expert when it comes to angels.
In fact, Andrew works with the angels all the time, whether he’s doing a regular tarot card or oracle card reading, or whether he is reading angel cards. He calls on them for assistance in his daily life, too, whether it’s asking for help finding his keys or asking for protection during an armed robbery (yikes!).
Like me, you can head off to google and find all the big tarot podcasts he’s appeared on (The Tarot Lady, Biddy Tarot, and more). Or you can do what I did last year, and book an angelic tableau reading with Andrew: it is a rich, layered sort of card reading. Andrew used one of his angel card decks, and dealt out 18 cards . . . which is a huge spread. And not only did each individual card have meanings, but there were additional levels of meanings based on pairings and groupings of cards.
But to get the best of all worlds, you could attend my first séance next month. (Reminder: a séance is a gathering that includes spirits as invited guests.)
Andrew will be joining me on Zoom on Wednesday, April 9th from 8 pm to 9:30 pm to talk about angel cards and then do a card reading for each person in attendance. Tickets are priced at $55, and the number of tickets is limited to 13 seats to allow enough time for each attendee to get a reading.
Don’t miss this amazing event!
Me with Andrew at an event last year
