Spirit Guides are spirits who work with us as guides and advisors. Every person has a number of Spirit Guides, or Familiar Spirits, around them.

These spirits are there to help us in our lives, especially in dealing with major life lessons. They are also there to advise us, if we know how to listen to them. Spirit Guides are drawn from among the spirits of people we have known, with whom we still have a strong connection.

Sometimes these are people we have known in this life, and sometimes they are people we have known in other lifetimes of which we may or may not have conscious memory.

Although a person may have many Spirit Guides, usually one special spirit will be the main guide. This spirit is a companion and guardian throughout life, even if the person has no conscious knowledge of their presence.

There are many different kinds of Spirit Guide, some of whom specialize in healing, or the development of particular qualities or talents. But it is not necessary to know what a Spirit Guide specializes in to receive their help -indeed, it is not even necessary to know they are there to be helped by them.

In medieval times Spirit Guides were called Fairies, before that term came to be attached to Nature Spirits instead. They are also sometimes called “guardian angels.” But whatever they are called, the concept is always the same -a spiritual guide and helper who eases our journey through life.

The guides work to help the person, even though the person may not be aware of their influence. For some people the guides appear as humans, for others they appear as animal spirits. Most often the guides are spirits you have known in this or other lifetimes. It is beneficial to talk to the guides frequently and work to build a relationship with them. One can also learn to receive messages from ones guides. In Judeo-Christian religion Spirit Guides are called Guardian Angels.

The term “Spirit Guide” has its origins in the Spiritualist Church, but the concept is ancient and universal –though of course people’s beliefs about the Guides vary. In many Traditions the Guides are either Ancestors or are sent by the Ancestors –people from the family the subject belongs to in the present life.

Some Traditions hold that Guides are Spirits we have known in other lifetimes, who help us because of Karmic ties. Other Traditions hold that the Guides have never been physically incarnate, but are purely spirit. In some Traditions Spirit Guides are called Guardian Angels. In other Traditions Spirit Guides manifest as Animal Spirits, sometimes termed Totems. Cinderella’s “Fairy Godmother” was a Spirit Guide, possibly the Spirit of her dead mother. The Correllian Tradition holds that Spirit Guides may come from several sources including Ancestors, past life ties, and other aspects of our own soul. Everyone has Spirit Guides, though most people are unaware of it. Working with our Spirit Guides can be very beneficial. 

Information from the Correllian Tradition Wicca