Jewish Angel Work

Jewish Angel Work

Jewish Angel Work

I don't see a bunch of writing about angel work in general, and what I do find is often heavily Christianized! I wanted to talk about what angel work can look like from a Jewish perspective.

(Gentiles may interact and enjoy, but understand that this is for educational purposes and not an invitation to appropriate! 🤍)

A Jewish-Specific Perspective

Judaism views angels in ways other traditions may not share! Some examples:

Angels aren't former humans. They are their own distinct beings just like demons, cows, land spirits and butterflies. People who pass away, even children, are not considered "angels returning home." These angels have specific forms and looks depending on the type, some more humanoid than others.

Angels don't have free will. This does not mean they are held hostage or can't have their own personalities, but their will is an extension of HaShem's Will, serving a specific role in making that Will manifest. Kind of like employees in a corporation doing their tasks!

They don't have names. Or at least, they don't have names we're supposed to know or ask for. They may be incomprehensible to humans, or maintaining a level of anonymity as to not distract from HaShem. Either way, asking for a name is often discouraged in traditional texts.

They AREN'T all here to help you. While it all serves a Divine Will and is therefore Good in the grand scheme of things, many angels serve completely neutral functions from a human perspective. Some could even be considered harmful to humans, the most prominent example being HaSatan. (Even still, HaSatan isn't seen as a true villain. He's just doing his job.)

Some of them are ONLY here to help you! Historical Rabbis were big on the concept of guardian angels. The Talmud says "Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, 'Grow, grow.'" (Midrash Rabba, Bereshit 10:6.) Every living creature, including you, has a guardian angel to help you along your path. Some translations say the angels hit the grass, and that's not the only story of angels smacking things, so that guidance isn't always gentle, but it's always in the right direction.

Types of Angel Work

Spirit guides. Like mentioned above, guardian angels can help encourage you to "Grow! Grow!" and keep you on a path in line with spiritual health and lovingkindness.

Communing with HaShem. Gd is extremely esoteric. Angels help us send and recieve messages in an easier-to-conceptualize way! Meditation and prayer can also play into this. Beyond every-day applications, angels can also appear unexpectedly with important messages.

Communicating with other spirits. As angels are often messengers, I also think it's helpful to call upon their aid when working with other spirits!

Working with angels of various functions. Modern day Rabbis often marry angelic theology with scientific phenomena, with angels overseeing the process. By that extent, we could ask those angels for help/guidance when relevant!

Protection. Psalm 91, often recited for protection, depicts HaShem commanding angels on your behalf to guard you in all ways. One bedtime prayer names the four archangels to surround us.

Shalom Aleichem is traditionally sung on Friday nights before Shabbat dinner. It invites angels of peace to basically come and hang out with us during shabbat, then to leave in peace once shabbat is over. Many arrangements also make a good lullaby.

Other Notes

Metatron (מֶטָטְרוֹן) is a specifically-Jewish angel who gets appropriated a lot in spiritual circles. He does not appear in the Tanakh, but is mentioned in the Talmud and largely fleshed out in kabbalistic literature! (Islamic literature does mention him by different name, ميططرون, Mitatrun/Mitatrush. Solidarity.)Lots of people recognize Lilith as closed, but the same attention hasn't been given to Metatron. He's a very complex and ambiguous figure worth a whole post of his own so I won't get into it here!

This post is by no means comprehensive! This is just a very "quick" overview of a very rich field of study.

Further Study

On My Right Michael, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture-- Mika Ahuvia

A Gathering of Angels: Angels in Jewish Life and Literature-- Morris B. Margolies

Ascending Jacob's Ladder: Jewish Views of Angels, Demons, and Evil Spirits-- Ronald H. Isaacs

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2 years ago
Major Arcanas As Professions

Major Arcanas as Professions

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The Fool - work with abroad, connections with imports, language teacher, multinationals, entrepreneur, intern, college student, art major.

The Magician - entrepreneur, job that needs skill with the hands (acupuncture, hairdresser, artisan), actor, salesperson, influencer.

The High Priestess - education, especially children, nutrition, psychology, cook, housewife, food engineering, toy factory, fortuneteller, spiritual advisor, librarian.

The Empress - management, business administration, foreign trade, secretariat, translation, decoration, stay-at-home mom, model, cook, farmer.

The Emperor - business administration, work related to areas of technological innovation, the military or sportsmen, CEO, tycoon.

The Hierophant - philanthropic areas, ONGs, religious work, social work, diplomacy, and a degree, journalism, writer, editor, priest, spiritual guru, politician.

The Lovers - sales area in any sector, tourism, theater, advertising, the arts in general, porn star, stripper, masseuse.

The Chariot - activities related to transport, cars, the latest technology, chauffeur, mechanic, athlete.

Strength - aesthetics, physical education and various body therapies, medicine, zoologist.

The Hermit - teacher, writer, doctor, antique dealer, restorer, librarian, gardener.

Wheel of Fortune - financial market, exchange offices, casinos, lottery houses, stock exchanges, and areas related to public relations, hospitality, game Show Host.

Justice- public jobs, won through competitions, politics, police, with government positions, in the diplomatic area, law, insurance company worker.

The Hanged Man - nurse, auditor, inspector, porter, secretariat, general assistants, yoga instructor, prison guard, philanthropist.

Death - doctor, farmer, geologist, business administrator, gardener, accountant, assassin, death row executioner, surgeon.

Temperance - working with liquids in general or with what is transported in liquid form such as alcoholic beverages, medicines, juices. chemist, chef, food critic, regional or even international traffic.

The Devil - does not limit the individual to a professional wing, so he can also go to extremes for the desire he has, such as landlord, drug lord, sex trafficker.

The Tower - social assistance, humanitarian aid, medicine, firefighter, police officer, construction worker.

The Star - music, painting, sculpture, poetry, cinema, makeup artist, dressmaker, beautician, agent, promoter, sound artist, astronomer, harpist, dealer, meteorologist

The Moon - oceanographers, sailors, fishermen, owners of bars and restaurants or nightclubs. artists in general, medium, hypnotist, psychiatrist.

The Sun - motivational speaker, entertainer, comedian, social relationships, work with the public, artist in general, member of society.

Judgment - work done at home, connection with the law, lawyer, judge, work with disabled or people excluded from society, social assistance, board member, executive producer, director.

The World - pharmacist, massage therapist, scientist, teacher, community leader, religious leader or priest, fashion designer, makeup artist, interior decorator.

2 years ago

i hope you find someone that matches your capacity to love

2 years ago

Hi, how can we identify if a person is spiritual or a puppet?? What's the difference??

This is a really good question, and the message I’m getting from my guides right now, and feeling called to deliver in the subject, is that it’s important for us to focus on bettering ourselves instead of labeling or identifying others.

I know I’ve been talking about celebrities and politicians being puppets a lot recently, because every time I see a celebrities picture lately I’ve also seen their spiritual ties and guides, but it’s possible the enthusiasm with which I shared these things was misconstrued? Or someone who reads my blog is useing them as a distraction or excuse for why things are the way they are or something?

Psychoanalyzing others and looking into their spiritual sides or higher/lower selves is only beneficial when we do so from an observational standpoint and with the understanding that our observation of others is limited to our observation of ourselves.

Your body knows the truth intrinsically. You’ll feel the answers in your soul, but some of you are so disconnected from yourselves that you confuse anxiety and fear with spiritual affirmations.

I’m not meant to answer this question any further right now. If you’re meant to know the answer, you’ll already know. If not, there are other things spirit wants you to be focused on.

2 years ago

the gods show you the version of themselves that you need most, your experiences won't be identical to other worshippers/devotees out there because you are different from others and that's okay. that just adds to how beautiful the connection to the theoi really is.

2 years ago

I like the idea of soulmates but it fails to make sense to me. Yeah in first place to be born and be able to think and be aware of everthing is without official purpose too. Like to this day nobody can tell you really what the purpose of life is. So why should soulmates make ense or have a clear answer to them. But then also why are we being reincarnated, if you are into astrology you will come across the theme of things you learned in past lives and things you have to learn now but why? (1/~)

When will you be stopped reincarnated? Or does it stop only when a certain karmic debt is paid while you everytime get a new side quest. What role can the soulmate play when we are not always promised to meet them in every lifetime? If we can go a whole life without meeting them are they even important? (2/2)

that’s a run through several schools of thought:

the purpose of life is experiencing. (neale donald walsch) 

humans reincarnate because our driving force of remaining desire cannot exist in a vacuum after death. hence you escape samsara = the cyle through liberation from the suffering that comes with attachments. meaning, it leaves no unfinished business that would require another life. (theravada buddism)

among others, you can attain said enlightenment aka moksha through three ways. love of god = self, knowledge, or compassionate deeds — bhaktiyoga, jnanayoga, karmayoga. (hinduism)

you may be in your last physical life if your sun or north node is in the 12th house, meaning you went through the entire circle. if your 7th house is empty, your shadow side is resolved, so it won’t attract. (astrology)

karmic debt is not important, it can’t influence you if you choose to. only thought and the now matters. meditation is the key. (zen buddhism)

the soulmate plays their own role in the first place, is important by themselves. they’re not born to be yours. in fact, they do what you do simply as a different reflection. they’re merely a choice of many available to you, not a fate since free will is always granted to us. they could be important but you decide against it by your belief or vibration. ironically, once you see them outside of being solely in relation to you and focus on you, that’s how they arrive. (new age)

being your own soulmate matters first, otherwise a soulmate won’t materialize and exist on the outside anyway. the establishing of harmony and order inside of oneself is all that’s needed to steer things. what other people do will follow naturally and in balance to that. (taoism)

2 years ago

A list of Wordcraft abilities

Not many people will be able to understand what Wordcraft is. To remedy this, I have compiled the list below along with a few alternative ways to define Wordcraft. Please note that this list is not definitive. There are always going to be more powers and abilities that have yet to be discovered.

Alternative ways of defining Wordcraft:

- The writer’s witchcraft

- Word witchery

- The magic of words

- Eloquent Enchantment

List of Wordcraft abilities:

- mimicry of powers and abilities of characters (limitations of physics do apply)

- creation of paper charms (aka petitions, wish cards)

- character communication (bibliomancy)

- potion creation (energetic infusion of described potions into water or liquid)

- spell casting (using books as inspiration for incantations to create change. Can also be off the cuff casting)

- verbal empathy (the ability to tap into knowledge of a person by reading or hearing their words)

- magical storytelling (can write stories and works that create magical effects)

- persuasion (some Wordcrafters are extremely persuasive and can lace their voice with magic to charm people)

- spell writing (can take any spell and rewrite it into pure incantation form. Can also create new spells for others)

- Reading magic (by reading a book, a wordcrafter can intuitively pick up the type of magic held within.)

In short Wordcraft is all about fluidity and words.

2 years ago

small reminder that this reality isn't the blueprint. why tf would one singular reality dictate the whole damn multiverse??? you are allowed to script and shift to whatever reality you want, even if it's deemed as "unrealistic" from this reality's standard. you are allowed to have EVERYTHING you desire, don't let this reality limit you from what you truly want.

2 years ago

the philosophy of fluidity, the steady balancing flow, within all, the hidden symmetry, the asymmetric elegance, behind such: the internal dynamics, the reflective resolution, traversing one, our innermost aura, the steps of the soul, as pure as our lucidity; the dreamless infinity, beyond the self & beyond the soul, eternal.

2 years ago

hey! ok so this is just a little rant.

i won’t necessarily say i have lucid dreamed, but i have been in a dream and been aware that i was in one. i just can’t necessarily control it? or i still get caught up in the dream. good thing most of the time when i am aware i’m in a dream it’s not a nightmare. but i noticed that the times when i do tell someone in my dream that i know i’m dreaming, they look at me weird or something suddenly goes off? i can’t explain it.

so one time, i had this clip of a dream of me and my mom were planning on going to a carnival or something. she said something along the lines of “oh maybe it’s not a good idea, i don’t want you to get hurt on one of the rides” or whatever. and since i knew i was dreaming, i said “oh it’s okay, i’m dreaming anyways so let’s go.” then she stood and looked at me with a slightly shocked expression like “girl what?” 💀✋🏼 she looked a bit petrified too, but she just said “okay..” right after like i just didn’t say what i just said.

then there was another clip of a dream i had where my whole family and i believe my friends in that dream were in one room and all of a sudden i blurted out “i’m dreaming!”, then they all stopped where they were. like not in a gradual way but more like they stopped in their places? like robots. then they all started to casually go about their business like they just stopped acting in a film or something 😭😭

there’s been tons of times where this has happened to me. there was even a time when i had a dream that someone was trying to hurt me and i was trying to manifest a knife to defend myself. i tried to manifest it by yelling “knife!!”, but the knife appeared in the other person’s hands and they looked at me like they were confused LMAO, i was like 9 when this happened too; i was aware of what lucid dreaming was and i thought this was me doing it at the time.

i think this is what made me develop the belief that when we dream, our subconscious minds travel to alternate universes where people play into their “roles” to help send us messages from our higher selves or spirit guides 😏🙏🏼

2 years ago

Magical Months

January - safety, protection

February - forgiveness, healing

March - success, motivation

April - luck, oppertunity

May - growth, maturity

June - commitment, love

July - authority, self-control

August - accord, peace

September - spiritual growth

October - personal change

November - empathy

December - understanding

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