Ancient Wisdom This Week

Gemini is ruled by Mercury, a fiery little planet close to the sun. As an archetype, Mercury, (messenger of the gods) reminds us of winged angelic beings such as guardian angels. Interestingly, “Malakh” in Hebrew means both angel and messenger of God.

A guardian angel is a being of light assigned to your protection and guidance. The belief in guardian angels played a major role in ancient Judaism and Christianity and can be traced throughout all antiquity. Saint Jerome stated: “How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from his birth an angel commissioned to guard it.”

For some mystics and theologians, the Holy Guardian Angel is the representative of one’s truest divine nature and the equivalent of the Genius of the Hermetic Order, the Atman of Hinduism, and the Daimon of the ancient Greeks. Some rituals were intended to facilitate the ability to establish contact with one’s guardian angel.

The nature of the guardian angel is to be a heavenly representative, a messenger, and a contact between the physical plane and the higher worlds. An angel’s mission goes in two directions: it may serve as an emissary of God downward or serve as a messenger who carries prayers upwards from below.

Even if perceived in one form or another, guardian angels cannot reveal their true form to humans because they belong to a different dimension. Do not necessarily expect your guardian angel to manifest itself in your life in a supernatural fashion. Often, your guardian angel reveals itself in nature, in the ordinary common-sense world of causality. So, keep your mind open about what shape or form your guardian angel may take for you during the next two weeks. Just see what happens.