Immediately behind her was the largest orb of light I had ever seen. Was this ‘Uncle Eric’, our family guardian angel, jumping into the photo? What is extra funny is that the orb is behind my daughter, not actually in the place where she held her arms out. It just goes to show that you can’t control everything! Strangely, nothing appeared on any of the other 50 or so photographs that she had taken immediately before my request. Was this a coincidence? You decide!
Sparkles
One of the letters I received on my website was from a lady who saw ‘angel sparkles’ in her room on the evening before her brother passed over. Was this a sign from heaven that he was being collected and taken ‘home’? People see these sparkling lights for all sorts of reasons, so don’t worry if you have seen them too! They appear during impending birth, during family parties and gettogethers and during special occasions in our lives. As with the other experiences like feathers and lights, these sparkles are usually accompanied by a feeling of great love and warmth.
Emma wrote, ‘It’s my belief that angels will appear to us in the way that we can most easily perceive them, and possibly at different stages of our development their visual appearance may actually change.’
I am inclined to agree with this statement. Emma went on to explain, ‘…during the initial stages of my development I started to see a bright blue light flashing at me which would often obscure and interrupt my normal vision. I asked many people what this might mean, but none of their answers felt quite right for me. I also came to feel very quickly that Archangel Michael worked with and watched over healers, although traditionally I know that Raphael is associated with healing.’
Emma is right but I always say that if you feel a different angel is working with you on specific tasks then you must go with your own intuition because you are probably right! I know several healers that work with Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel.
She says, ‘It wasn’t until last year that I learnt that this blue light is often associated with Michael, and when I read this I got the familiar tug of intuition and deep-seated knowing that this was connected. This also coincided with a period of cleansing for me and Gabriel’s name kept coming into my mind, and I also started seeing a white flashing light. Someone read to me from a book, that white light was associated with Gabriel, and Gabriel was associated with cleansing and purity, which resulted in another feeling of connection.
‘Not long after that I was doing a reading for someone who works with angels herself and as I turned to the room at the side of where we were sitting, there was a seven-to-eight-feet-tall figure, which I knew instinctively was an angel, although there wasn’t a great deal of clarity to what I was seeing, but a vague white and gold light. Over the next few months I had several more external visions whereby an image of the “stereotypical” angel with wings flashed up at me, with more clarity, as pure white light surrounded by gold. I still see Michael’s blue light flashing too.’
And again, different people see different colours (not necessarily those which are traditionally associated with particular angels.) So, go with your own instincts.
Emma believes that as we develop and our vibrations increase, the clarity grows, and also the culture within which we are raised might also determine how we perceive their vibration and the form in which they manifest, so that they are recognizable to us.
‘Angels are intelligent reflections of light, that originallight which has no beginning. They can illuminate. Theydo not need tongues or ears, for they can communicatewithout speech, in thought.’ JOHN OF DAMASUS
White Shadows
Do you ever catch a swirly mist out of the corner of your eye? This might be spirit or angels—or it could be just plain old smoke! Never discount the obvious with any of these experiences because not everything is paranormal!
However, white cloudy shapes are often captured on camera too. I saw a fabulous flash of white light on a wedding photograph. It was ‘sitting’ between the bride and her mother—in the position that the bride’s father would have sat if he had not died a few months earlier. It makes you think doesn’t it? Was this light a wedding guest from the other side?
One visitor to my website sent me a photograph of one of these great shadow pictures. The family had just finished hanging ‘angel bear’ decorations on the wall at home, and taken a photograph of the new Christmas decorations. The image showed a white mist in front, which was shaped like an angel. He immediately asked other family members what they thought of the white shadowy shape and they all agreed that it looked just like an angel. I was so convinced, I added the image to my website!
Another photograph came through to my email tonight, but this photograph is a little more private so I have decided to keep her name a secret. One distressed lady was taking a photograph of her beautiful daughter who was struggling with a weight disorder and also severe food allergies. The poor girl had lost a lot of weight and the mother wanted to show her daughter how badly she needed to gain a few pounds by photographing her in just a T-shirt and her underwear. Yet her daughter is almost completely obscured by a white streak which goes from the top of her head right down to her feet and she told me that she just knows the angels exist. This lady has a special angel altar at home which she regularly uses as a place of worship, and this is a big help to her. The angels certainly made their presence known here.
You can easily create a special corner at home where you can make a little angel altar with a small picture of an angel or a little figurine and then fill your space with some special objects like crystals, flowers and photographs of loved ones. For more information about angel altars, read my book, An Angel Treasury (also published by HarperElement).
‘The proof if heaven be, or only seem,That we forever choose what we will dream!’ HELEN HUNT JACKSON
Rainbows
How many people ‘see’ rainbows as a sign from the afterlife and beyond? Many associate the passage from this life to the next with rainbows, especially with animals. Rainbows are associated with bridges from one plane of existence to another.
The film The Wizard of Oz has become a classic and the song ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ is arguably the most popular song to come from the film. The words tell us that somewhere over the rainbow there is ‘…a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby’. It seems to express the fact that people have some distant memory of this rainbow land but can’t quite remember it! Many people feel that they are visiting the earth from our real ‘home’ over the rainbow. The rainbow has become a symbol for ‘the other side’ and people see their loved ones as well as angels coming from this place. Here is a rainbow inspired experience:
MONA’S RAINBOWS
‘In August 2002 my dear friend Mona passed away. I feel she has sent me many signs.
A few weeks later I hired some videos. I hadn’t really thought about my choices but was surprised at the coincidences I had found. One was the film Pearl Harbor, and Mona and her recent boyfriend had taken a trip to Hawaii when she found out her cancer was back. Both of them had really wanted to see Pearl Harbor.
The other movie I picked up was The Judy Garland Story. Well, I never even thought about this until she started singing the song “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.
