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Which archangel is guiding you?

Michael, Raphael, Gabriel or one of the others: who is close to you now?

9 questions 2 minutes

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Michael, Raphael, Gabriel or one of the others: who is close to you now?

Whether you take archangels literally, symbolically, or somewhere in between, they are a very old way of naming the kind of help a person needs. Courage is not the same as healing. Being understood is not the same as being let off. These nine questions are not really about the sky. They are about what you have been carrying lately, and which shape of help would actually meet it.

2 minutes · 9 questions

the questions in this quiz

  1. What do you most need right now?

    • To feel safe, and less afraid
    • To heal something, in me or in my body
    • To say what I actually mean
    • To know what the right move is

  2. What keeps coming up in your life lately?

    • Somebody who takes more than they give
    • A tiredness that sleep does not touch
    • Words you cannot get out
    • An old thing you have not forgiven

  3. When something goes wrong, what is your first move?

    • Get everybody safe, then think
    • Look after whoever is hurting
    • Say the thing out loud
    • Work out what caused it

  4. What would the people who love you say you are here to do?

    • Protect
    • Mend
    • Tell, or make
    • Understand

  5. What are you carrying that is not yours?

    • Somebody else's fear
    • Somebody else's pain
    • Somebody else's silence
    • Somebody else's mess to sort out

  6. Where do you go when you are low?

    • Somewhere solid. Hills, water, big old buildings
    • To sleep, or to whoever will look after you
    • To beauty. Music, gardens, a room full of paintings
    • To one person you love

  7. What have you been asking for without saying it out loud?

    • Courage
    • Relief
    • To be understood
    • To be let off

  8. What are you like at your best?

    • Unshakeable
    • Kind in a practical, useful way
    • Articulate. You find the words other people are missing
    • Wise, and slightly funny about it

  9. What would make the biggest difference this month?

    • One boundary
    • One proper rest
    • One conversation
    • Setting down one thing you have been holding against yourself

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