Updated 2021.12.28

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We all have a variety of Spirit Guides who work with us throughout our lifetime and try to communicate with us and let us know of their presence. 

Some of these Spirit Guides come and go, while others stay throughout our entire lifetime, assisting us in following our life path.

On average, we have anywhere between 7-12 Spirit Guides on our team at any time. 

Spirit Guides, in whatever manner they appear, can

• Reveal themselves in meditation

• Share their names with you through the naming of others or in dreams

• Send signs through numbers, animal messengers or synchronicities

• Communicate with us through symbols, divine alignment, and many more ways

We all have more than one Spirit Guide on our team, and they all fulfill different roles. 

You may have one leading guide and others that assist or move in and out of your energy field, throughout your life. 

Below you will find the main types -

The 6 Most Common Types of Spirit Guides

1. Protector Guides

Protector Guides are strong in manner and character and often have large, muscular-looking spiritual bodies to match.

These guides are often of indigenous heritage to wherever you are living or in your ancestry.

While many are human, Protector Guides can also appear as large animals such as elephants or panthers. These guides are called upon when you need strength, courage, and bravery. 

They are great to call on to have with you to watch over you and when embarking on any new project, journey, or era of your life where a higher level of courage is required.

2. Gatekeeper Guides

Gatekeeper Guides, also called Doorway or Portal Guides, are like Protector Guides, but for the Spirit World. 

These guides offer psychic protection and support for spirit communicators. They manage your dream time and only allow higher vibrational energies and the most appropriate spirits to work with you. 

Gatekeeper Guides usually appear when your spiritual or intuitive gifts are opening, offering you safety and guidance.

In the post, Mediumship Helpers: Deceased Loved Ones Can Help You Communicate With Spirits, I write that our loved ones can sometimes serve this role. 

3. Message Bearer (Messenger) Guides

Messenger Guides assist us in finding and obtaining information, improving our ability to get, hear, and deliver messages from the spirit world, and in developing clairaudient or clairvoyant skills. 

Many psychics, mediums, and those who work in the Akashic records use Messenger Guides during readings and for gathering the spiritual information they provide to others.

While Messenger Guides are usually humans, they can appear in the form of a bird, usually a hawk or eagle, and often a bird of prey. 

This is due to their spiritually symbolic ability to travel great distances in a short amount of time to obtain information quickly and swiftly with little detection.

According to Bernadette at WhatIsYourSpiritAnimal.com, Eagles represent Divine Messengers, and Hawks are thought to symbolize increased spiritual awareness.

So to me, they make the perfect deliverer Spirit Guide of the Divine.

4. Healing Guides

I was first introduced to Healing Guides in a psychic classroom next to Phoenix & Dragon, a famous metaphysical bookstore in Atlanta, GA.

Healing Guides help us with our spiritual, emotional, and physical wellbeing.

They are excellent guides for anyone working in a wellness profession and also when working to live a more wholistic life. 

We can each connect with a Healing Guide to improve our well-being. Healing Guides often appear as spiritual healers in their time on earth and often appear in Spirit as ancient monks, old-world shamans, and spiritual healers on the other side.

Sometimes Healing Guides appear to people as Mother Mary, Jesus, or Archangel Raphael. 

It is normal to have Archangel Raphael to appear as the color green in your mind's eye when present.

Call on this color when you want to draw in their energy and guidance. Or to call in a Healing Guide, think of a historical spiritual healer you know and respect, and imagine them coming into your energy field during your next meditation. 

5. Teacher Guides

Teacher Guides help us with our spiritual growth.

Teacher Guides are often our Master Guides, the ones who oversee our life path.

They direct you to books you need to read, classes to take, and introduce you to new and necessary physical teachers here on earth. 

Teacher Guides assist us in understanding the philosophical and spiritual aspects of any studies we undertake while on land. Teacher Guides help us learn our lessons through action. 

I suggest calling on a Teacher Guide when you are looking to learn more on your spiritual path and expand in any area of spiritual wisdom. 

Then, allow yourself to be introduced to teachers, books, and like-minded souls along your way. 

6. Joy Guides

Joy Guides bring us joy, laughter, and to remind us to lighten up.

Joy Guides often appear as children, fairies, or otherwise joking spirits.

Going through a difficult time? I suggest calling upon a Joy Guide to help you discover peace and lightheartedness.

Other Guides do exist, too, there are

• Lifetime Guides

• Short-term Guides

• Energy & Alchemy Guides

• Power Animal & Totem Guides

• Earth Devas & Sprites

• Guides Watching Over An Entire Soul Group

Once you have established contact with one those of specific higher energies, such as a Spirit Guide with a specialty above, it is a great blessing you will feel.

Just like developing any relationship for the first time, working with Spirit Guides takes time, dedication, and effort. 

Working with Spirit Guides will strengthen your willpower, lighten your mind and mood, assist you with self-actualization work, and promote you becoming more compassionate with those around you. 

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• What Is A Guardian Spirit?

• Different Types of Spirit Guides: The Gatekeeper Guide

• Identifying Your Spirit Guide: A Simple 5-Step Process

• Your Psychic Senses: How Spirit Communicates With You

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Disclaimer: Any reference to the word ‘heal’ on this page and in any associated material refers to the concept of spiritual and faith healing. For physical healing, please refer to your trusted medical professional.