My Spirit Guides Guide Me

Issue No. 11

This story is my own. I think it is an amazing part of my being legally blind. I have had to learn to rely on my Angels and Spirit Guides in an incredibly detailed and physical way.

When I go places alone, either with or without Jupiter, my Guide Dog, I have some interesting challenges. For example, I can't read street signs, so I have to learn my way around using landmarks and memorizing the order of how streets are named. This can be an interesting process even in a familiar city, and really gets interesting in a strange city. Sometimes I get turned around in a new place or loose count of the blocks I've traveled. Over the years, I have learned how to ask my Spirit Guides, "Which way"? I would hear in my head, "Go Right", or "Go left" or "Stay straight" and I would find my way again.

I also have no depth perception, and boy that's a problem, sometimes. I've pretty much learned to never trust what I see with my physical eyes, because it may not even be what I think it is. I've learned to watch people's feet when they are right in front of me, so I can tell if they step up or down. My Angels are really great about helping me cross streets or find doors and things like steps that may be unexpected. I can just about count on at least one person walking up and passing me as a way of helping me get across a street with no light, or see a curb I hadn't noticed. Sometimes I can be wondering what the name of a street is, or a bus name, and within seconds someone will come along and ask that question to someone close to me and I have my answer.

Now, all of this sounds so amazing and it truly is, and yet, my human side just can't seem to trust that my other dimensional friends will always be there for me. That is funny. <laughing, gently, with myself> You would think that with such a constant validation, my human side would finally relax.

And the duality dance goes on. <chuckle>