Spirit Guides 101: Who They Are and What They Do

Who Are Spirit Guides?

Have you ever felt a sudden intuition, noticed a perfect synchronicity, or had a dream so vivid it stayed with you for days? Chances are, your spirit guides were reaching out.

Spirit guides — also called soul guides or light beings — are non-physical beings who accompany us through every incarnation and the spaces in between, on the astral plane. Each has their own specialty and personality, but they all share one purpose: to support your soul’s journey.

What Spirit Guides Do During Our Time on Earth

When we incarnate on Earth, spirit guides walk beside us. Their role isn’t to control our lives or make decisions for us, but to gently nudge us toward alignment with our soul plan. Here are some of the ways they help:

• Creating synchronicities so we cross paths with soul mates and key relationships.

• “Waking us up” when we drift too far from our chosen path.

• Sending dreams with messages to offer guidance or warnings.

• Inspiring our intuition so we can make choices aligned with our higher self.

• Protecting our energy and guiding us toward the right people, places, and opportunities.
  

What Spirit Guides Do After Our Incarnation

Death isn’t the end of our connection with spirit guides — in fact, it’s often the moment we feel their love most strongly. After our incarnation ends, spirit guides:

• Welcome us back on the astral plane with compassion.

• Comfort us through the transition of death.

• Guide us through a life review, helping us see the lessons we integrated and those we may need to continue working on.

This phase is about understanding, healing, and reconnecting with the bigger picture of our soul’s journey.

What Spirit Guides Do Before Our Next Incarnation

Between lives, spirit guides help us prepare for the next chapter of our soul’s story. Their support includes:

• Teaching and reviewing lessons still to be learned

• Helping us create our next soul plan, which can include our soul type, life missions, talents, and desires

• Guiding us in writing soul contracts, deciding which karmic patterns to balance in the next lifetime

It’s a sacred process of preparation, where our free will and our guides’ wisdom come together.

Why Spirit Guides Are Our Greatest Cheerleaders

Spirit guides aren’t just neutral observers — they are our biggest cheerleaders. They always listen, even when we think they’re silent. Often, it’s not that they don’t answer — it’s that we struggle to hear their response.

Their encouragement comes in subtle yet powerful ways: a gut feeling, a sign at the right moment, or a dream that answers an unspoken question. The more we learn to quiet our minds and open our hearts, the clearer their messages become.

How to Start Connecting With Your Spirit Guides

The truth is, everyone has the ability to connect with their guides. It’s not reserved for “special” people — it’s like a muscle that can be strengthened with practice. Here are a few ways to begin:

• Ask questions before meditation or journaling

• Pay attention to synchronicities and signs in your daily life

• Keep a dream journal to capture nighttime guidance

• Explore the Akashic Records, where guides often reveal themselves

• Practice intuition exercises, like sensing energy or automatic writing

• Take a channeling course to develop your 4 clairs & learn to safely connect

Spirit guides are here to support you with love, patience, and wisdom — in this life, between lives, and beyond. Whether you’ve felt them through an uncanny synchronicity or a comforting dream, remember: they’re always listening, always cheering you on.

Want to learn to channel your spirit guides?

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If you’d like to hear me dive deeper into this topic, I’m sharing an episode of my podcast Mystical & Practical called “Who Are Your Soul Guides?”. Together, we explore the role of these light beings who have been walking beside you since the very beginning.

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Meli Guidance is a certified advanced Akashic records practitioner, a past-life psychic and a channelling coach. She is also trained in oracle cards and tarot readings. Her specialty is helping people grow by reconnecting them with their soul’s purpose and life missions. She believes that by remembering our past lives and seeing what our life plan is for our current incarnation, we can achieve our future self’s highest potential. In addition to channelling spirit guides for people from all over the world in English and French, she offers online courses and coaching sessions to anyone who wishes to develop their ability to communicate with the invisible world.

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