Understanding Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels, and Your Spirit Team

Yoshie Miakoda

Understanding Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels, and Your Spirit Team

Spirit guides, guardian angels, and spirit teams each play distinct roles in supporting us through life's journey. While these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, they actually refer to different types of spiritual support, each serving unique purposes.

Spirit Guides: Your Spiritual Teachers

Spirit guides are evolved souls who have chosen to assist you in your spiritual growth and life journey. These guides act as teachers, offering wisdom, insight, and gentle direction as you navigate challenges and learn your soul's lessons. Unlike loved ones who have passed, spirit guides may never have had a personal relationship with you in this lifetime. They're assigned to you based on what your soul needs to learn and experience.

Spirit guides communicate through intuition, synchronicities, dreams, and those quiet moments of knowing. During psychic readings or meditation, you may become aware of their presence and receive guidance specific to your current circumstances. Some people work with the same guides throughout their lifetime, while others find that different guides step forward during different life phases, each bringing the teachings most relevant to that period.

Guardian Angels: Divine Protectors and Loved Ones

Guardian angels hold a different energy than spirit guides. In the spiritual sense, guardian angels often include loved ones who have passed to the spirit world and continue watching over you with deep affection. These may be grandparents, parents, friends, or even children who have crossed over but maintain a loving connection with you.

These guardian presences offer comfort, protection, and reassurance. During mediumship readings, these loved ones often come through with evidence of their continued existence and messages of love. They celebrate your victories, support you through difficulties, and send signs to remind you that you're never truly alone. Their guidance comes from a place of unconditional love rather than formal teaching.

Your Spirit Team: Specialized Support for Your Work

If you work as a medium, healer, intuitive, or in any spiritual capacity, you likely have what's called a spirit team. This is a specialized group of spirits who specifically guide and support your healing or spiritual work. Your spirit team may include master teachers, healers from past eras, or spirits with expertise in the particular modality you practice.

When I work as a medium, my spirit team and I collaborate closely to bring through the most helpful and healing messages for my clients. I've learned to recognize their distinct energies and the ways they communicate, creating a partnership that enhances the clarity and depth of every reading.

These spirits work closely with you during readings, healing sessions, or spiritual practice. They help facilitate connections, provide information, and enhance the quality of your work. Many mediums develop relationships with specific members of their spirit team and can sense their presence when working with clients.

Discovering Your Spiritual Support

Understanding who walks beside you in spirit can bring tremendous comfort and clarity. Through intuitive readings, spiritual consultation, mediumship sessions, or your own meditative practices, you can connect with your guides, receive messages from guardian angels, and gain insight into your spirit team’s purpose in your life.

If you're curious about your spiritual support system, I invite you to book a reading to explore these connections more deeply.