Chapter 2: Guides and the Self
In our journey, you asked your guide three questions:
What message do you have for me?
What wisdom or guidance can you share?
How can I stay connected with you?
As you build your relationship with your guide, these are questions that also might be helpful to explore (we don’t want to overwhelm them with so many questions on the first meeting!):
Are you tied to a particular season, time, or life phase in my journey? If so, what does that signify?
When and how did you first become present in my life? Were there events or feelings that awakened our connection?
How do you appear to me when you are guiding me? How might your appearance or energy help me recognize you?
What knowledge or skills do you have that make you an effective guide for me?
In what ways do you see my path more clearly than I do?
When do you feel called to step in and offer guidance in my life? Are there particular patterns or moments when you sense I need you most?
What do you need from me to make our connection stronger and clearer?
How do you provide guidance—through intuition, synchronicities, dreams, or some other way?
What gifts or insights do you bring to help me overcome challenges or find meaning in my life?
What myth, story, or archetype do you embody, and how does that relate to my life?
What symbols, images, or metaphors do you use to communicate your guidance to me?
In what ways are you an expression of something timeless or universal in the human psyche?
How do you relate to the other inner figures or archetypes in my psyche? Do you collaborate, challenge, or contrast with them?
What cultural or ancestral wisdom do you carry, and why is it relevant to me now?
What do you perceive as the central story or purpose of my life, and how are you guiding me toward it?