My first experience of, what I believe to be, angelic intervention came when I was travelling in Australia. I was camping with fellow travellers on Fraser Island (Aboriginal name K'gari - which means 'heavenly' or 'paradise') near to Lake Boomanjin. Here is the Aboriginal legend about Fraser Island:
When humans were created and needed a place to live, the mighty god Beiral sent his messenger Yendingie with the goddess K’gari down from heaven to create the land and mountains, rivers and sea. K’gari fell in love with the earth’s beauty and did not want to leave it. So Yendingie changed her into a heavenly island – Fraser Island.
I awoke, bleary eyed, early one morning and took myself off for a dip in the nearby lake. I walked to the far shore of the lake which was bright, sparkling white sand. It was pure white like sugar. The lake itself is coloured by the tannin of the tea tree leaves that surround it and has a pleasantly minty odour. The water was inviting and warm and I enjoyed my swim. After dressing I started to navigate my way back up the lake shore to where I thought I had entered through the thick woodland. However, the doorway and pathway back to my camp mates availed me. I walked up and down the lake shore for what seemed to be an eternity with only Dingo and bird tracks to accompany me. I was truly lost and no one knew where I was. I sat down on a log, picked up a stick and wrote 'Help!' in the sand. Within seconds I heard my name being called in the distance, I looked up the shore to see my travelling companions shouting and waving. I was so relieved and felt very foolish. I had simply not walked far enough up the lake shore as I had forgotten in my dazed, early morning state how far I had walked. I knew instinctively this was more than just coincidence, as also the night before I had dreamt vividly of a spirit being made of multi-coloured lights. Later, after my return to the UK, in reading and learning about angels I discovered that when we ask for help the angels step forward.
I stayed in Australia for 8 months of my 12 month visa, I was becoming homesick, had run out of money and importantly there was a family crisis at home that I felt I needed to get back to help and support with. My time in Australia had definitely been one of self discovery with a mixture of pleasant and not so pleasant experiences - it wasn't all paradise! However, the natural beauty and power of its awesome landscape had seeped into my soul. The red earth that I remember seeing seeping out into the sea, like the lifeblood of the land as I first flew over the northern coast, was now running in my veins. On my last night in Australia I had the most incredible dream. In my dream I heard a female voice singing exquisitely in what sounded like Arabic. I saw, floating above me, a beautiful, shining angel. She was golden-orange light and stretching her arms out to me in a gesture that suggested she was reaching out to communicate with me. She looked middle-Eastern, totally stunning in beauty, her face the gentlest and most loving expression and her hair and 'clothing' floated around her. I instinctively knew what she was singing - roughly translated it was "we are celebrating your homecoming to your family". When I awoke I could still here her song and it stayed with me and reverberated around my body for the whole journey home. I have to say that I was grief-stricken to leave Australia too - I was leaving a boyfriend as well as a mountain of experience - I sobbed under my blanket for hours on the flight back to the UK. Funnily enough one of the things that my Turkish, Muslim, boyfriend had discussed was angels and how they appear in Islam and Christianity (and across many other faiths and beliefs). Ultimately, it was the right thing to do and without realising it I was on a new path.
Back in the UK I found some temp work at a bank. It was boring, unfriendly staff and soul-destroying data-entry work. The blessing was that an old school friend worked their and the office was right next to Exeter Cathedral and its green which I escaped to in my lunch hours. The frontage of the Cathedral has many angels carved from stone. It was at this time I began to make cards onto which I'd collaged coloured angel feathers made from paper. I decided to take them to a gift shop which was tucked behind the Cathedral one lunchtime. As I set off on my route I noticed tiny white feathers along my path, I kept thinking 'well it must be birds', however the feathers led me all the way to the shop. Happily they put my cards on sale! I also started making fairy and angel dolls which I sold at craft fairs.
Life moved on and I met a new boyfriend. I'd spend weekends with him at his home on the edge of Bodmin Moor, in Cornwall. The village was near the Minions moor which has ancient Neolithic stone circles 'The Hurlers', a giant stone called the 'Cheesewring' and 'Rillaton Barrow'. I couldn't sleep one night and I could hear something high-pitched in the distance. I realised it was like a choir singing. I nudged my boyfriend but he wouldn't awake. So I tiptoed around the house checking what I was hearing wasn't air trapped in the heating system or some other noise in the house. I could still hear the choir in the distance coming from the direction of Moor. It was a still night. It was 3am a bit late for a choir to be in the middle of Bodmin moor. As I tuned in the clearer the singing became, in the end I just had to accept that I couldn't explain it and went back to bed. I later read about angelic singing and thought about my dream on my last night of Australia also.
During this time I read allot about angels and continued to create angel and fairy art. After a few years of losing touch with them I have in the last couple of years started to work with the angels again. I'm painting a series of angels for Caroline Palmy of www.palmyhealing.com which is a blessing that has led me deeper into researching and creatively expressing the angels. I have collected several angel oracle decks which I enjoy reading for myself, friends and family and looking at the how other artists express angels. As I have been creating the artwork I intuit the essence of the particular angel I am working on. I am finding that the energy of that angel manifests in my life as I work with it. For example, whilst I was painting Archangel Gabriel, who's associations include communication, lots of lessons around communication and sorting out my communication in different media came up for me. I've had a big frustrating challenge with my ADSL Broadband connection and after several phone calls to the technical team decided to go straight to the sales team who offered me fibre Broadband at a competitive price.
The angels can work with us in many ways, all we have to do is ask.
Have a wonderful day!
Blessings Claire x
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| Archangel Haniel |
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