Talking to Your Spirit Guides

Many people ask us questions related to why they cannot see or hear their spirit guides. It can be very unsettling to some to be out of the loop about what spirits are doing in their lives. So, we are going to cover some basics about spirit communication that will help you understand how to communicate, how to interpret messages, and how to know when you need to be paying attention, or when you are receiving some intervention from your friends and helpers.



Meta-sellers often claim claim that their spirits are very strong at communicating and influencing the lives of those whom they are sent to help. Often times, this is a promise that many buyers feel is not kept. While we are taught that we should have perfect love and trust, it is hard to trust a claim to which we cannot see the proof. My first point to make is that is just the problem. You don’t know where to look for the proof. Before you begin to question the seller, first recognize that their perception is based on experience that you may not have. So we need to work on expanding your experience. So here are some ways to help give you the skills to really test what these sellers are up to.


Communication with spirit does require a good deal of skill. If you want to have a conversation of the kind that you might have with a friend, you have to build your knowledge of spiritual language. You are probably getting all the signals, you just don’t know they are there. It is like looking a Chinese Kanji. If we were not familiar with it, we would not know that it was a language that holds information.


So how do spirits communicate?


You will most often hear mediums and psychics referring to spirits as “saying” or “showing”. Sometimes psychics may describe what they are seeing or hearing in order to get clarification from you, because they are not sure of the significance, or what to inquire into further vs. what may just be white noise or spiritual babul. That is a struggle that you may run into as well.


The first thing to ask if you are not receiving messages is “What have I asked them to tell me?” If the answer is nothing, there is your answer. If you haven’t asked for anything, they are not going to talk to you. They have your higher self to deal with, and they will influence you automatically to the interests of your higher self. First, establish communication with your own spirit. This means meditating on you. Who do you want to be? Where do you feel called to? What are your natural strengths and abilities? Weaknesses? What gets your dander up? What makes you feel passionate? Questions like these help you to know what you are about. Make sure to keep track of what you think and feel when you meditate. This is time where you are gaining higher understanding. Meditation is about communing with yourself, or whatever powers and forces you are trying to connect to and gain information from. The most important thing is to know you. Your higher self communicates with spirits all day, and gaining that understanding of yourself will greatly help you. You may find your own inspiration and direction by simply practicing this. I promise that your spirit and your spirit guides have worked out a plan, and it is accessible inherently in the will of your spirit. Make sure to spend time with yourself, and to always question your actions in medias res. Is what you’re doing in accordance with what you really want? Or are you giving in to the perceptions of just your conscious mind, instead of your using your higher understanding? Improving this connection is important to help you with your spiritual growth and practice. It will give you the initial direction you need to start asking the right questions, and help you look for the solutions you need to be successful.


Spirits communicate in a number of ways. The first and most simple way is through intuitive feelings, or gut feelings. When you first encounter a new guide, or begin your journey into spiritual work of any kind, you must pay attention to this gut feeling. This is the truest test of what you are seeing and feeling. If something doesn’t feel right in your gut, you need to deeply consider that idea, place, person, thing, path, experience, or whatever it may be and assess its validity, impact, or significance with care. Your intuition is a basic physical and subconscious response that spirits are easily able to use to help you. Regardless of your level of awareness, when you start working with new spirits, they will use this “gut feeling” to turn you from things that you have said you don’t want in your life, and to turn you towards things that you want. Start communication by first developing this intuition. Just do what you feel you should do, and learn to trust your gut. When you see that it has not lead you astray, and something happens that is unexpected and seems miraculous, make sure to thank your guides for the much needed assist.


The second way that spirits communicate is through manifestation. That sounds crazy right? I know what you are thinking…”I don’t see them ever!!!”. Well, that is not the only way that spirits can manifest. Spirits manifest most simply as feelings, pressures, or adaptations on that gut feeling of intuition. The most common thing you will feel is a brushing feeling, a cold or hot feeling, a pressure in your head, a floaty feeling, or a feeling of nausea. So try this, ask your spirits to manifest for you. All you have to do is say the words, like you would to a friend who is playing hide and seek. It is that simple. They will show themselves to you, just pay attention. Keep tabs on the feelings that occurred, and trust that they are real. Some strong spirits can make you jump, or control your movements. They won’t do this to you against your will, but some may keep you from moving into oncoming traffic, or work to delay you on your way to the store so that you miss a critical car wreck. When you get the feeling that something is watching, it is. That is simply your guides, or maybe other spirits in your environment, making themselves known to you. Use your intuition to find out if you should try to connect further or not.


The third most common method of communication is startlingly visions and dreams. That sounds like something that takes years to develop right? In some ways this is true. But visions can be simple flashes of color, symbols, or words that pop up in your mind’s eye. For example, whenever you feel like taking random pause in your day, check what is running through your mind. Maybe you see the color red, and a skull. Well, maybe you were going to the drink machine to get a coke…probably you are being told not to do that. Your spirit guides don’t help you say? Well guess what….they are trying to keep you on your diet plan. The best way to start interpreting these moments is to let them happen, or ask for them. See what comes up in your mind. Ask them to show you things, write down what you think you see. Look at what you wrote, ask again if that is what you saw, and make changes if you need to. Once you think you have the parts down, think about what all of the images could be associated with and begin to build the message. Interpreting these momentary flashes of vision, as well as your dreams, can give you a lot of insight into the messages your higher self and spirit guardians are trying to send you way. Keep in mind that expanding your knowledge of signs, symbols, and associatations gives you the upper hand in receiving the messages because it gives you the alphabet that you need to receive the messages, and it also attaches a meaning to that alphabet. When you are having success with receiving messages of this manner, you will start to see trends in the types of messages you receive from different sprits. Pay attention to the subject matter they present, the intensity of the energy behind the message, and any tendencies that suggest the same source, or repetition of the same themes. Looking into these things helps you to see who is talking, and what the most common subject is. Usually, the most common subject is based upon a big area of your life in which they are trying to help, or in what ways they can relate that they are helping and understanding you.



Above I discussed some of the basic ways that spirits can communicate with us. Once you are consistently getting messages in those forms, you can then progress into attempting to get more from your spirit guides. While some people will develop from all different directions I their communication with spirit, most people find that it is a little easier to start with the basics, and work their way up. When it comes to divination, understanding energies, symbols, and associations can be a make or break factors in your success.

There are many different types of divination. Divination is simply referring to a method that helps you communicate with spirit. Intuitive divining, or using intuition, is something you have worked on when you are learning to react correctly to your gut feeling. Developing this skill further requires a little more care and some checks and balances. That is why tools are used. There are many tools to aid in divination, and they will each in turn help you to expand on the messages you receive from your spirit guides.


Some various methods of divination include:

• Tarot

• Ouija/Spirit Board

• Dosing Rods

• Pendulum

• Guided Meditation and Visualization (You can guide yourself ;P )

• Scrying

• Oinomancy

• Runes

• Tea Leaf Readings

• Palmistry

• Astrology

• Numerology

• Oracle Cards

• Phrenology


I recommend that you pick one of the above to work with on a daily basis. Some of them may not seem like they are the best for answering specific questions, but they will all trigger you to ask more questions, and you should allow your intuition to answer. The easiest for most people I have found is using a pendulum or dowsing rods to get answers from spirit. Slowly you learn how to work with your guides to access the truth in situations. You learn what questions to ask, and you learn to understand how your intuition is an important part of divination. Sometimes, you may feel the answer “Yes” and be right, but the pendulum swings “No” when you are asking questions for others. Maybe the are putting the intention of “No” that creates the negative result, but your guides remind you that the correct answer is yes. Having these kinds of experiences allows divination to build on intuition, and reflects that divination can be affected by many energies. Learning to communicate with your guides through intuition allows you to discern more appropriate interpretations.



Messages from your spirit guides can come in many different forms. It takes time to hone your skills of interpretation and “learn their language”. Guides will communicate in the best way that you will be able to understand them. The more you expose yourself to new experiences, ideas, and knowledge, the more messages they will be able to communicate. They may manifest their messages as feelings, visions, intuitions, metaphors, comparisons, and associations.


Interpreting messages you receive from your spirit guides should be based in a few key elements:

1.) Who is telling me this?

    a. You always want to be aware of who you are communicating with.

    b. Pay attention to what messages you are receiving and what the “voice” sounds like

        i. This means, focus on the attributes of certain kinds of messages that are conveyed in a similar way, most often this means that they are from the same guide

    c. If you cannot say for certain, through visualization or intuition who is speaking to you, proceed with caution.

        i. Don’t take these messages with a grain of salt, and double check your protection

            1. Did you cleanse your area?

            2. Ring a bell, smudge, salt?

2.) What are they showing/telling me?

    a. Compile your experience in terms of elements that are meant to tie together

        i. Think of messages as building blocks in creating the whole picture.

    b. Take a not of all the elements that are being presented to you. They are like pieces to a puzzle.

3.) Ask questions for more information:

    a. Is this event certain?

    b. Is this a message for me or for someone else?

    c. Ask for clarification on signs and symbols

    d. Are these present/past/future experiences or predictions

    e. Are these lessons speaking to the desire of the heart, or the greater purpose of the spirit?

        i. Depending on what you are doing, understanding your heart is important

        ii. In my opinion, your higher self and divine powers know best what will bring you happiness, your body knows that there are limits in this world that may keep you from manifesting it as easily as spirit believes

4.) Always ask your guides if you are interpreting what they are saying correctly.

5.) Recognize that spirits are not omnipotent, they have perceptions as well although they may be more broad.

    a. You can learn from anyone, but remember, it is ultimately up to you to gauge what works for you and your spiritual path, and what does not.

Over time, you will learn the signs and symbols of your guides. You can even assign them your own signs and symbols to help them communicate with you more effectively.



It is very easy for us to overlook the blessings in our lives. The main work of our spirit guides is literally to just “guide”. They help to put us in positions where we can better manifest the blessings we ask for.


They are more present in the realms above, and help to gather information for us far quicker than we could ourselves. Guides help to make the process of manifesting blessings and our life’s ambitions easier.


When you feel that you are having a miraculous experience, trust that you are!!! If you discount these events as simple circumstance, you discredit not only your guides, but the divinities you are working with to manifest these changes. Make sure that you are always on the lookout for the little miracles in your life and that you are thankful. Accepting these blessings will help you to believe more in your own ability to work with other forces to manifest your desires and walk with your spirit. Building trust and faith in spirit is the main key to bringing about happiness and harmony in your life.