I Know Now That I’m a Lightworker; I’m Just Honing in on What Kind
All thanks to Kimberly Fosu and well, Spirit!
Kimberly has a great knack for writing just what I need to know now.
Case in point is her latest story here, 3 Critical Messages for Lightworkers Not Fulfilling Their Purpose. How did she know this was exactly what I needed to know right at this very moment?
She’s a highly evolved being, tuned into both worldly and soulful vibrations, including mine. She makes herself available for and draws in souls like me who are exploring these issues. You know how they say, when the student is ready, the teacher appears? That’s true in my case.
And might the opposite also be true? When the teacher (Kimberly) is ready, the student(s) appears. If so, that’s me!
I just so happened to be browsing through her book, 100 Billion Souls the other day. The section on lightworkers caught my attention.
In her recent post, she describes light workers as “someone who feels a deep calling to help others and uplift humanity. It is someone who believes strongly in their heart that they are called and have a mission to promote love, compassion, and healing in the world. Their purpose is to spread light and positivity, helping to counteract negativity and darkness in the world.”
I didn’t set out to be a lightworker.
In fact, I think of myself as rather heavy and earthy compared to our dear friend Rikki, who took her spirit walk recently. She wasn’t tethered to the earth at all. If some of us are rooted to and grounded in the earth, she was connected to celestial dimensions and angelic realms. Clearly a lightworker in both meanings of the word light.
Rather, I saw and still see myself as a spiritual seeker, an explorer. Someone who has more questions than answers. I’m suspicious of folks who appear to know it all. Especially if they portend to know what’s best for me.
But reading through Kimberly’s definitions of the seven types of lightworkers, I sensed that I would resonate with at least one of them. After all, I have been at this for a while, and live a faith-based, divinely-guided (most of the time) life.
What are those seven types of lightworkers?
I’ll do my best to capture their essence. Kimberly feel free to correct me if I misspeak. Thank you!
Healers help humans, animals, and the planet heal from pain and suffering. They can do this because they’ve healed themselves. Often their mere presence is all it takes.
Lightkeepers keep the spiritual flames burning through the darkest of times. They incarnate purposely in difficult times to promote peace and love.
Gatekeepers guard and manage different energy portals here on the planet. These are places where the veils between physical and spiritual worlds are thinnest. I imagine Sedona, Arizona, and Glastonbury, England are two such portals.
Transmuters can transform dense energy into light. Their presence calms tension and promotes peace, which is why they may be born into challenging families or times.
Messengers are adept at receiving information from spiritual realms and making them accessible on this plane. That can be through words or other forms like music and art.
Wayshowers live the change they wish to see. That way others know it’s possible and learn from their examples. They don’t just teach how, they live how.
Blueprint Holders come here to change the programming of the planet. They’re the paradigm shifters among us, heralding a new order and evolutionary leaps for us all to make. They give me and all of us hope.
What kind of light do I keep?
Can you guess?
As I reviewed these seven types, I resonated with Wayshower. This relates to Kimberly’s teachings about the significance of pain — the walking through it and the healing from it. Both are important if we are to use our lives to show the way to others.
Now the year and a half I spent cheating on my husband, causing pain to him, the lovers I picked up and dropped, and myself, make sense spiritually. In owning and exploring my pain, I became relatable — an anchor for others who’ve been there, done that, and come out on the other side.
I’m evidence that there is indeed another side to come out on.
The side of healing, redemption, and amends-making. By owning what I did, and using the twelve-step tools to make sure I never have to repeat that pain, I made living amends as well as specific ones. With the help of Higher Power, I’m a new person.
And if I can do that, so can you, and so can everyone.
That’s how I show the way.
But I also resonate as a Messenger.
I have two practices I use to receive messages from the spiritual realm.
One is called Inner Listening.
We do this as a group at my church. After praying in and creating a safe space, we go within and listen to the questions in our hearts that we want to ask Spirit about.
It could be why some blessing or misfortune has taken place. It could be next steps in dealing with a dilemma. It could be our purpose for being on this planet at this time. Or it could be as simple as what’s my priority for tomorrow.
Then we go into a meditative space where we listen for answers and jot them down. Most of the time, Spirit has tender and endearing messages for us, usually with a sense of humor and a don’t sweat the small stuff approach. Other times the messages are butt-kicking, tough-loving types. It’s all good because it’s all God.
Before closing, we’re invited to share all or part of the messages we receive. They nurture all of us, not just the one who asked. And I can share from experience, this is not information I would have thought up on my own. If I coulda, I woulda, and I did not. This is from a Higher Source. I know that in my bones.
The other way I receive messages is via the process of SoulCollage®.
What is SoulCollage®?
SoulCollage® is a process of allowing our souls to select and arrange images into collages, typically on 5 X 8-inch matt boards. It’s like creating our personal Tarot or oracle deck. In addition to being ‘read’ when created, we can do readings with one or more cards to answer specific questions.
SoulCollage® is a great example of messages coming to us from Spirit via visual images — photographs and graphic images arranged in a small collage.
Our souls are attracted to images that our linear mind may reject. Something bigger’s going on and it behooves us to pay attention to it. These collages aren’t always pretty, or neat, or artistic.
Sometimes the ‘ugly’ or messy ones have the most urgent or important messages. Here is a digital version of the second card I ever made:
This was not long after an incident at my church when I was a teen group facilitator. One of the mothers got physical with a teen who had left the building during our Youth Sunday celebration.
When I tried to scream STOP! nothing came out. I’d lost my voice and couldn’t even squeak. I sat frozen, a deer in the headlights, which brings up shame to this day.
I made a SoulCollage® card showing a baby crying near a shark’s gaping jaws and an empty red chair where help should have been. The image captured how powerless and scared I felt. It didn’t need to have people on it to do that.
My original version did not have those eyes staring out from the maw. Boy, do they pop, adding a layer of creepiness that goes deep into how I felt at the time.
When I asked the card, Who Are You? This is what I heard:
“I am the one who unintentionally hurt another by losing my voice and not speaking up. I am the one who still carries fear from childhood when I was not safe around a rageaholic dad. I am the one who is now willing and able to heal this way of being that no longer serves.”
Then I asked, What message do you have for me?
This is what I heard next: The message I have for you is that beating yourself up does not help. Shame keeps you immobilized. Guilt empowers. So take responsibility for your role in this. Make any amends you can. Reclaim the power of your voice. You are stronger than you think you are.”
Shame immobilizes, while guild empowers.
What a powerful and useful message that is! And applicable to any number of situations. This may be a well, duh! nowadays, but at that time, the inner child healing movement was just beginning. For me and my fellow inner explorers, this was a breakthrough. And will continue to be for anyone beating themselves up for harm done to others.
And who among us has not harmed another?
This is why I see myself as a Messenger and a Wayshower.
It may turn out that I spread love and light in other ways as well. But for now, this is more than enough. It’s huge! And yet somehow feels just right. And so enlightening. Namaste!
Thanks and blessings to Kimberly Fosu for enlightening us about lightworkers!
3 Critical Messages for Lightworkers Not Fulfilling Their Purpose