#angel work

I love angels!

People particularly work with Archangels because they are the leaders of their domains. There are theoretically infinite angels and you could really pray to any in any domain but we'll get back to that.

There are many different groups of Archangels, rather than one agreed upon "pantheon"

I work with the Ars Paulina system, which includes but isn't limited to (because there are many): Archangel Samael = Angel of Execution Archangel Haniel = Angel of Grace Archangel Raphael = Angel of Healing Archangel Gabriel = Messenger Angel Archangel Michael = Angel of Protection Archangel Zadkiel = Angel of Mercy Archangel Cassiel = Angel of Temperance Archangel Azrael = Angel of Death Archangel Uriel = Angel of Wisdom

Lists in this post courtesy of my friend @angelmilkdreams <- amazing blog for angel work btw

Ars Paulina is the angel version of Ars Goetia and is part of the Lesser Key of Solomon

You can also look into your birth angels or sun & moon angels through this system! They're your teaching angels, so they can sort of tell you what you may do in this life or something about your energy. The angels are assigned by zodiac:

Traditional: Aries & Scorpio = Samael Taurus & Libra = Haniel Gemini & Virgo = Raphael Cancer = Gabriel Leo = Michael Sagittarius & Pisces = Zadkiel Capricorn & Aquarius = Cassiel

Modern: Scorpio = Azrael Aquarius = Uriel Pisces = Asariel

For more about your birth angels, I suggest checking out Ariel Gatoga. I still recommend him after all this time.

If you ever get into angel work, you might want to explore different sets of angels to see who resonates with you. You also don't have to work with every angel in a pantheon. The main ones I call upon are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel and Haniel. I bring in other angels for prayers to others, though

Practitioners have different opinions about this, but I think angels are one of the easiest spirits to work with!

Because they love unconditionally. They love to help us and their purpose is assisting creation! They do still exist beyond this material world though - so it's not like strict servitude to humans

Another great reason: they don't require ceremony to be summoned. You may come across things like ceremonial magic for angels, or enochian magic etc. Ars Paulina also has rituals for summoning but I found you don't need them (maybe if you're asking for huge stuff).

That's cool if people want to do that though you simply need to use your words. Just invite them into your life, or your space, or something (like job, if relevant). There's no structure to prayers but you can be inspired by helpol prayer format if you so choose.

"Archangel Haniel, Archangel of Grace and Harmony, I invite you and your blessings into my life."

This is a good enough prayer to say to start a devotional connection with Archangel Haniel.

Angels don't need offerings but they're still nice to give. We usually say you venerate angels or work with angels rather than worship. But it's up to you as well - this way is just more common.

Some offerings can include angelic imagery or icons, flowers, things that remind you of angels, items that are specific to certain archangels (oils, sachets of herbs, amulets and talismans), incense!

Where do they come from? Who knows? /hj Depends on your belief system.

I believe angels come from a variety of sources. I believe angels came from the universal source, I believe they probably came from God too. I believe pagan gods have angels. I believe Hermes, Iris, Eros and Thanatos are angels who have their own angels. It doesn't really matter to me where they came from - I just know they exist in different forms across religions

Fun fact: Did you know the most common hierarchy of angels was written by a guy named Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite? His book was called On the Celestial Hierarchy

Extra fun fact: His inspiration is said to be the Chaldean Oracles and Hekate's triad of angels. The iynges (don't know too much about these ones), the synochesis (intercessors and guides) and teletarchai (something to do with initiation, probably with mysteries).

Extra extra fun fact: Zeus was said to have an angel (angelos) in inscriptions at Stratonikeia, Hekate's most significant town as a civic/patron goddess. Some scholars theorise the unnamed angel in Stratonikeian inscriptions could be Hekate herself

Anyway, angels like devotional acts too! Prayers are a good way to communicate with them. It is possible to sense the energy of angels! I noticed a difference in my room when I started working with angels - I could tell they were around, and they made things a little brighter

Can you use prayers from Christianity and Catholicism for the angels if they resonate? Yeah sure

You can also get into astrology with angels. It's a pretty big part of Ars Paulina (the planetary aspect). If you want to work with Haniel at a peak time, do it on a Friday when the planetary hour is aligned with Venus. If you want to do the same for Gabriel, Monday on Moon hours. For Raphael, Wednesday on Mercury hours.

Angels have sigils and symbols. You can use the planetary symbols as sigils for them too. I've attached a couple sigils for Raphael here

This website has information from Ars Paulina - another I still recommend after all these years: https://www.archangels-and-angels.com/

Ariel Gatoga's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/arielgatoga

But I think it's a disservice to who AA Michael is and who he represents. He is blood and spit and dirt. He stumbles when he stands up after being hit. Like that one quote about hope, he has dirt on his face and blood on his knuckles.

Yes, he’s celestial. And yes, he’s beautiful and otherworldly. But he’s also a soldier. A defender. Someone who stands their ground despite all else telling them it’s not worth it. His joints ache and his hair gets scruffed and he is fierce.

All this and he can still be elegant and heavenly and divine; because he is.

Lately I’ve noticed something uncomfortable, and honestly, a little eerie as someone who is transgender and queer: the rhetoric used against godspouses mirrors almost word-for-word the same rhetoric used historically (and currently) against LGBT people.

Here are just a few examples:

anti-LGBT: “These are sinful acts.”

anti-godspouse: “Sexualizing deities is hubris.”

anti-LGBT: “They don’t understand what they feel internally.”

anti-godspouse: “They don’t understand how their deities actually feel about them.”

anti-LGBT: “These acts are filthy and dangerous.”

anti-godspouse: “This practice is dangerous, you could attract tricksters or demons.”

anti-LGBT: “You weren’t born this way — God made you a specific way.”

anti-godspouse: “Deity marriages are impossible! It’s all delusion or spiritual psychosis.”

anti-LGBT: “They’ll go to hell for their sins.”

anti-godspouse: “Their deities will punish them for sexualizing them.”

Sometimes the statements are literally identical when you strip them down:

anti-LGBT: “It’s immoral.”

anti-godspouse: “It’s immoral.”

anti-LGBT: “It goes against my beliefs.”

anti-godspouse: “It goes against my beliefs.”

And my personal favorite:

anti-LGBT: “Stop shoving it down our throats.”

anti-godspouse: “These people need to stop talking about being godspouses.”

And that’s really the point:

Whether you’re LGBT or a godspouse, both groups get told the same thing—go back into the closet. Stop existing where others have to see you. Stop speaking. Stop sharing. Stop being visible.

Because your existence makes some people uncomfortable. Because it challenges their worldview. Because they don’t experience it, and instead of choosing curiosity or compassion, they choose dismissal.

The parallels aren’t accidental. They reveal a deeper pattern:

I've been meaning to do a post for St. Raphael....jahfk thank you for putting him back on my radar Anon T~T

── .✦ St. Raphael the Archangel

(Divider by: @sister-lucifer)

Titles

┊Angel of Creation ┊Watcher of the North ┊Angel of Compassion ┊Angel of the Apocalypse  ┊The Lord's Healer

Patron of...

the blind

travelers

bodily ills

those born under air signs

happy meetings

nurses

physicians

medical workers

the sacrament of Penance / Reconciliation

Protects....

lovers

matchmakers

pharmacists

physicians

nurses

healers

health inspectors

travelers

young people

the blind

the ailing

St. Raphael will help with...

travel with ease and safety

heal your mind, body, or spirit

clarify your thinking

make decisions

see life's endless possibilities

do well on your exams

Associations

🪽Feast day: September 29 🪽 Tarot: The Magician 🪽Attributes: fish, traveler's staff, flask, chalice 🪽Plants: Carrot, Celery, Caraway, Cinquefoil, Dill, Fennel, Fenugreek, Fern, Lavender, Marjoram,Mandrake, Maidenhair Fern, Lilly of the Valley, Palm and Vervain 🪽Colors: blue, gold, pink, purple, green, red, yellow 🪽Day : Wednesday 🪽Animals: Monkeys, All Birds especially the Ibis.

Offerings

frankincense

myrrh

fish-shaped amulets

fish made of silver

red or blue candles // lavender scented candles

feathers

bird icons

souvenirs

Devotional Acts

take care of physical and mental health

travel

go fishing

take care of a sick loved one

learn more about angels

read up on AA Raphael

go to Reconciliation

Resources

Angels, Spirit Guides, & Goddesses by Susan Gregg

archangels-and-angels.org

Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages by: Judika Illes

catholic.org

For those who came across my blog for the first time, a few explanations:

I am otherkin, a spirit that has incarnated in a human body. My name is Ainu, and I have several aspects - masks, one of which is, of course, human. My human mask's name is Maria. My spirit form looks like this:

I appeared in cosmos and was abandoned by the force that created me, after which Lucifer took me, changed me and gave me self-awareness. So I'm basically Lucifer's adopted child.

I've been communicating with Lucifer (sometimes i call him Helel) for several years now, trying to develop my abilities with varying success. He is my emperor, my friend, and my father. I'm an artist, so I sketch many of my visions.

Since all my stories are based on my communication with Lucifer and my visions, I warn you, everything further is a HUGE UPG!

Whether you believe it or not is up to you. I'm posting this because maybe one of the practitioners will recognize familiar places or moments. If this resonates with you, please let me know.

1. Returning home 🥹

Yesterday I was finally able to stay at home alone and decided to do a reading with Lucifer.

I've been having sudden mood swings lately and had nervous breakdowns, so as expected, reading didn't go well. Lucifer told me to work with the angels. Not that I was against it, I love angels, but it caused me a wave of fear. What if our bond with Lucifer weakens? I have a tendency to focus on only one entity in my practice, so I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to pay as much attention to Lucifer as I do now. I know how stupid this sounds, he's my father after all, but my trauma of being an abandoned child surfaced at that very moment. Lucifer tried to calm me down, first with words, then with hugs, but it didn't work, I even succumbed to paranoia at some point and thought that someone was pretending to be him. In general, I seemed to have a tantrum, so Lucifer had no choice but to just roughly crush me with his energy and not let go until I calmed down.

"I never leave my children" - he said in a low voice. This phrase will probably stay with me forever. Because I believe him.

I slowly calmed down, after which Lucifer decided to show me my home for the first time. You know, I used to learn about Lucifer's dimension from my fragmentary and vague memories. But it was the first time I was there in real time.

What immediately coincided with my memories was the fog. Lucifer's estate was nearby, I had never been inside i think, but from the outside it seemed to be made in Rococo style or something similar. The estate was surrounded by gardens. Architecture was intertwined with nature, as if it were one organism. The sounds really didn't match those of earth, the plants had a sound like cracking glass for example.

I'm an energy weaver, so my gaze immediately shifted to the threads of space. The fog showed these threads perfectly for me. Some of the threads were narrower, some wider. Lucifer smiled slightly as I looked around, and then, with a wave of his hand, he began to move these threads, swap them, and the flowers in the garden that these threads matched began to change color and size. After a sly glance in my direction, he began to tell me what I was doing in his dimension before incarnation. I used weaving to create and change the surrounding objects, to create passages to other spaces. I worked in tandem with Ibis, we were colleagues and always worked together. Now Ibis is my friend, he often accompanies me. When I was weaving something, Ibis harmonized it, implanted created objects or entire zones. Ibis is an air elemental and often uses the image of a Chinese soaring dragon to appear. I've been mostly in my true form all this time, too, but sometimes switched to a human.

My brain was flooded with understanding how it all works, it was wonderful!

I asked to see someone I know there. Lucifer took me to a silver swing, where a girl with white hair and wings was swinging, and I immediately recognized her as Hillela. @hislittlestar

She was glad I finally got home, and even patted me on the head. And it must have looked weird because I was in my true form with my masks and so on 😂 But I liked everything. Hillela told me to come to play when I have time.

Lucifer and I walked on, Hillela followed us, I think out of curiosity. Lucifer began to tell me how he brought me to him for the first time, I was horrified and fled to the edge of the dimension. I made a "house" for myself there. Although Lucifer said it was just a hiding place. We were moving fast, and Ibis even joined us. It turns out that my speed when I move along the thread is very high and I seem to slip through space. At first, I thought I was seeing a forest because I temporarily switched to a human mask. But it wasn't a forest. There were vertical threads, like a glitch that passed through space. As strange as it may sound, it was like an energy gradient between a dimension and, I don't know, emptiness? other dimensions? I don't know how it works yet, but since we later use it to navigate, the boundary between dimensions is very arbitrary.

My house looked like a black ball suspended among these threads. We climbed inside, it was empty, there was a minimum of extra energy and it was something like a pocket space. Lucifer told me to lie down and I curled up on the surface. He put my masks on his lap, Hillela sat next to me and began to stroke me, and Ibis in the shape of a dragon wrapped around me. I've never felt so good before, I felt like I was part of a family, and I can't let go of the thought that this was my therapy 😂

2. Archangel Michael 🔥🪽

We stayed like that for a while. Then I finally asked what Lucifer said about angels. He said he wanted archangel Michael to teach me and that he was going to introduce me to him. We all got out of my "nest", I said goodbye to Hillela and Ibis, and Lucifer and I stood at the very edge of the dimension. Lucifer grabbed me by the threads on my head and pushed me forward, and it was a very unusual feeling, as if I was being stretched and narrowed at the same time. My physical body started shaking and my head started to hurt.

We found ourselves in a new place, it looked like a huge golden fantasy-alien cathedral. There were no typical religious symbols, just patterns on the arches and soft ringing and music. Lucifer immediately called Michael, he spoke in a language from which I apparently understood 20 percent of the words, but only because I just felt their meaning.

Well, Michael... This man was huge, I think he was 5 times bigger than me. He looked a bit like Lucifer, but his hair was dark and his eyes were honey-colored. I didn't see Michael's full armor, but his clothes were strange, like a robe with armor elements. There was fire circling around him, and when that fire was behind him, I caught a shape like wings, but I didn't get a good look so I'm not sure. Michael greeted me and picked me up in his arms, which made Lucifer laugh. I think I even heard Lucifer say that Michael was "showing off".

I can compare Michael's energy to cold fire, burning, but refreshing and cleansing. In the comparison: energy of Lucifer feels like a hot sun to me, more nourishing. Michael touched my head and my migraine went away without a trace.

Lucifer reminded me that if I feel bad, I can always come back and call him, and then he disappeared.

Michael carried me through the golden hall. His voice had a slight echo. He noticed that Lucifer likes to pick up abandoned spirits, and Michael respects it. He asked me what I want from our interaction. I said that I want to be a warrior capable of defending myself. I feel like a fragile instrument that feels bad from any fluctuation of energy. Lucifer also seems to want me to be a leader in human life, but I clearly lack the courage, so I asked Michael to help me with this.

Michael agreed and said he would teach me. He even promised that we would make me a weapon. He also warned me to use it only to clean the space and protect myself, otherwise he would stop me. Michael made a very warm impression on me. I like him. We talked for a while, after which we said goodbye and I found the thread Lucifer had left to slip back home.

3. I've been hired again 🪡

Ibis was waiting for me near my house. He asked me how I liked Michael, and that he wouldn't mind seeing him either. And also that after Michael, I smell like ice cream. I laughed and asked if he knew what ice cream smells like, Ibis replied that he didn't, he just voiced my association. We went back to Lucifer. He was leaving his estate accompanied by another spirit. They were talking about something. That spirit looked like a pale man with long black hair, and he quickly left when Ibis and I arrived.

Lucifer said he had a task for me. He has a meeting with someone the other day and we need to prepare a place. I asked why it was all so sudden and one day, and Lucifer replied that he thought I was ready and that he wanted to heal me of my deep-seated self-doubt. So yes, a job...

Lucifer described what he wanted to see and took us to the garden. Ibis and I started working.

I traced the existing threads, moved them and changed their properties. I also wove new objects. I made a round table, four carved chairs, obelisks on four sides, at the ends of which there was a concentration of elements. There were flowers like peonies all around. When I finished the weaving, the Ibis enlivened the garden, harmonized the structure and the garden became really beautiful.

Lucifer made a couple of corrections, after which he praised us for our work. I finally felt useful! Next, Lucifer noticed that my physical body was literally shaking with tension and energy, and sent me back to my body. But before that, he showed me a place through which I could make my way back home. It turns out that there is a space above the fog. There is a gazebo with a spiral stair and a beam going up. Lucifer smoothly returned me to my body as I rose up.

I was overwhelmed with emotions, and to this day, knowing that I can finally visit home and do something useful fills me with confidence and happiness.

4. The next day.

I got home through the gazebo, as Lucifer showed. I continued to explore the dimension. This time I decided to go without father.

I trace the threads of the roads there. I vaguely remember some of them. I saw little spirits and a red-haired woman who lives near the fire. She noticed me, and I immediately cut the connection with the thread. I don't want to draw attention to myself yet.

I rose above the fog again, and in addition to the gazebo I knew, I could also see the top of the mountain.

I slipped to it, and saw that there was something with the concentration of negative energy. There were also a lot of spirits, and I glided over them, trying not to be noticed. I was afraid of being attacked. Ibis came for me and we hurried to get out of there. He said that not all places are worth visiting, this is one of them. It's generally better not to go there without father.

As I understood it, it was place related to his responsibility as the devil.

Also, at the end of one of the threads, I saw a strange arch that leads to a cliff. There's probably water behind it. Most likely, there is a passage to another dimension area behind the arch.

It seems that Lucifer's dimension is located at a crossroads between different additional dimensions, where his allies live. So it's like a nexus.

I've been in my "house" again.

It's really empty, like a piece of space inside a ball. There's something like a star there now, it's round and hot, and I can hug it and feel warm and good. The energy of this star interacts with mine and distracts me from the rest of the world.

After resting in my nest, I quickly slipped back into my body.

I plan to ask father where I can and cannot go. And maybe I'll be able to visit his estate.

I saw it at goodwill and thought it fit Damien Echols' description of her

She even has a cherub friend !!