As I’ve been developing and doing even more readings and healing sessions in the past few months, I’ve naturally been working more directly with my guides for other people. Recently, I had a new experience during a healing session for a client (more about that in a bit), and it got me to thinking harder about my relationships with Archangel Raphael and Archangel Metatron. I’ve had some deep spiritual revelations that I’m still working to find the words for. While I meditate over these experiences, their meanings, and how I might be able to explain those to you, I’m also looking over my notes and journal entries and blog posts about some of my earliest experiences with these powerful archangels, which also happened to occur as I was just beginning to accept my role as a healer.
Raphael and Metatron, “My” Archangels
Some spirits/entities work with us because we request their help. For example, in early 2010, while I was in my Year of Shadow and Light, even though I no longer considered myself Christian and had never been Catholic, I searched the internet for information about patron saints—and any other spiritual helpers who might heal my blindness. I discovered Saint Raphael, whose name means “healer of God” or “God heals,” and called on him for help, not realizing that he was an archangel, only that he was patron of physicians, travelers, and the blind. My calling out to him began a long relationship with him as one of my healing guides, meaning he helped me then (and still helps me) to heal myself but also aids me in helping others to heal.
Some spirits initiate contact with us without being asked, and you can engage (or not) if you choose. This was what happened to me with Archangel Metatron. In early 2017, I never would have dreamed of calling upon an archangel, figuring I wasn’t important enough for an archangel to acknowledge, let alone speak to. Maybe that’s why Metatron initiated contact with me, because he knew I’d never have the temerity to approach him. In those early encounters, Metatron almost always brought me a gift. Through nearly every encounter, he gave me clearer and better access to the Akashic Records, as though I were proving myself each time to be worthy of deeper access. Or maybe it was to ease me in gradually or even to move slowly, out of respect for my low estimation of my abilities. Whatever the reason, I still find myself stepping away with new abilities and strengths—or maybe just better understandings and self-knowledge—after an encounter with Metatron.
I’m actually beginning to wonder if he has been putting me through a series of attunements.[1]
[1] An attunement is really just a way of putting a person more directly in touch with (in tune with, or attuned to) an energy or skill that is available to all humans. The Akashic Records and Reiki, for example, can be accessed by absolutely anyone, but connecting with them is much easier, and the results more powerful, after we have been attuned to them. Such attunements can be done by individuals who have themselves been attuned and then taught specific processes to attune others, but attunements can also happen “spontaneously”—which, in my estimation, means through intervention by Spirit, whether we are aware of that intervention or not. Mikao Usui was reportedly spontaneously attuned to Reiki after meditating for 21 days on Mount Kurama.
Holding Space
Now, back to that new experience I mentioned at the beginning of this post. In this recent healing session, a client and I agreed mutually to not necessarily stick to the process I use in a Reiki or Akashic Records Reiki session but to let our healing guides, well, guide us through the session. I started the session as I would an Akashic Records Reiki session, but after a while, I noticed I was doing some things I’d never been taught to do and had never done before. I always trust that my intuition is leading me to do what’s best for the client, but I do like to know why it’s happening, or at least what, exactly, is being done. I guess my questions were distracting me from being a conduit for the healing, because our guides told me, essentially, to step back and watch what was happening, and to hold space for it. I did just that, holding space, watching, and explaining (I was recording this distance session) what I was “seeing” and what I was being told was the purpose. Probably one-third to half of the session was done in this way. And then, when the guides were done, they simply started leaving. (Normally, when it’s time for a session to end, I thank all the guides for their assistance and tell them they are welcome to leave the healing space when they like or stay as long as they like. They know this, of course, but it’s a courtesy that most spirits, like most people, seem to appreciate, as most people do.)
My client and I spoke by phone immediately after the session, as this is something a few of my distance clients like to do, and she told me of some sensations she had experienced and insights she had received during that session, which all corresponded to what our guides had told me. I was fascinated by this whole experience. I have always believed that I myself am not really a healer but that I am the vessel through which Reiki and other energy flows. But never before had I been told to simply stand back, witness, and hold space when I was being the channel. I was given to understand during this session that I was acting something like a bridge. In other words, “holding space” in this case meant I was literally holding open this little pocket of “space” for the healing energy—and, in this case, also the guides—to meet with the client. Maybe another analogy would be that I was a facilitator or an event coordinator, bringing together all of the elements for a tremendously transformational meeting.
Angelic Reiki?
At any rate, I was so fascinated that I began an internet search to try to see if anyone else had had similar experiences. A couple of days before, I had been moving my oracles and a few other spiritual items to my office, and I had been searching online for a statue of Metatron to accompany my statue of Raphael because, after all, I work as much with Metatron in the Akashic Records as I do with Raphael in healing, and Metatron is a powerful healer as well. In that search, I had stumbled across a book with Metatron’s name and the phrase “Angelic Reiki” in the title. I had looked interestedly at it but then moved on. As I began my internet search after this new healing-session experience, however, I remembered that phrase—“Angelic Reiki”—and searched for it. Sure enough, I found a website in which someone was explaining the differences between Usui Reiki and Angelic Reiki. Two of the key differences, the person noted, are that in Angelic Reiki, (1) the practitioner is attuned not by another practitioner but by the angels themselves and (2) “It is the Angelic Kingdom of light and the dedicated healing angel that are responsible for the healing process. The healer (or facilitator) just holds the space and does not interfere with the process. The healer is the bridge, a pure channel, between the recipient and the angel.”
Say what?
Yes, those were the exact words I had received during and after the session: “bridge,” “channel,” “holding space,” and “facilitator.” That was what got me to thinking—maybe Metatron has been working to attune me to Angelic Reciki since 2017—or even before. Heck, maybe what I’ve been practicing as Usui Reiki is actually Angelic Reiki. At this point, I have no idea. I just know that I’m going to need to learn more about Angelic Reiki—and consider renaming my Akashic Records Reiki healing session, because if I keep having experiences like the one I described earlier, that’s just not going to be an accurate term.
I’m still trying to take it in, to understand it. I’m still asking what the heck happened that day and what direction this is going, but so far, my guides have been silent, except to tell me to keep acting in faith and to review my notes about my previous experiences with Raphael and Metatron. So tell me, what are your thoughts on this? I gladly welcome any sort of perspective on this right now.
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