Angelic Messenger Cards: Divine Guidance for Personal Healing and Spiritual Discovery, A Book and Divination Deck [Paperback]

Meredith L. Young-Sowers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 8, 2007

With this deck and guidebook, readers can learn to trust and experience the exquisite power of divine guidance. By intuitively selecting cards, they harness the beauty and symbolism of flowers, otherwise known as Divine Messengers, thereby allowing angels to address and alleviate their concerns. For each card drawn, guidance is available on a number of topics, including present challenges that are calling for resolution, understanding messages angels are sending, taking advantage of spiritual opportunities for growth and healing, and the best way to apply the guidance angels are offering.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: New World Library; 2nd edition (March 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577315707
• ISBN-13: 978-1577315704
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,555 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2007 Version, April 9, 2007

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Janet Boyer "Author, Blogger, Mystic" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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"Life is abundance all around us, and the flowers symbolically show us the reflection of God. All our anxieties can find reassurance as we accept the blessings of the angels. We are guided with each breath we take; and through each heartfelt gaze into a flower, we do indeed hear the voices of the angels." - From the Angelic Messenger Cards companion book

When picturing an angel, you may think of winged cherubs or majestic tall beings that deliver messages and provide aid. According to author Meredith Young-Sowers, symbols and archetypes convey divine guidance to humanity, and one of the most powerful, simple, and exquisite form is through flowers.

Angelic guidance and delicate flowers may seem an unusual pair, but Ms. Young-Sowers harmoniously melds them together in Angelic Messenger Cards. Constructed of 48 cards with vibrant floral photographs by Judi Winall, the author's model of spiritual energy forms the basis of this oracle. There are six aspects to spiritual energy in this template with seven cards related to each of these areas:

1. Reflection - Becoming aware of your divine self

2. Partnership - Growing spiritually in relationships

3. Integration - Establishing an inner harmony among the body, mind, and spirit

4. Alignment - Performing meaningful work that grows from your divinely inspired life purpose

5. Rejuvenation - Participating with nature in the cycles of life for your personal renewal

6. Nourishment - Choosing thoughts, foods, and emotional responses that give you spiritual fulfillment

In addition to the 42 cards from the six areas, Ms. Young-Sowers includes four Wild Cards of Divine Guidance and two Wild Cards of Abundance. In the glossy 220-page, full-color companion book, the author provides a comprehensive explanation of her system, as well as how to gain the most from using the Angelic Messenger Cards.

The companion book provides four sections of material for each card, including:

* Present Challenge - Helps you identify your undercurrent of feelings that has caused you to draw this card

* Angelic Message - A channeled message from Ms. Sowers' guide, Mentor, whose focus and attention is on raising the spiritual energy of individuals on earth at this time

* Spiritual Opportunity - Interprets the flower image on the card you have drawn

* Application - Offers specific ways to further integrate and understand the message of the card

Ms. Young-Sowers does not provide the names of the flowers found on the Angelic Messenger Cards, believing that each bud and bloom offers a wealth of insight based on its color and formation. Through observation, stillness and openness, these delicate messengers can promote spiritual advancement and deliver penetrating insights about ourselves, others, and life.

When I first saw the attractively packaged Angelic Messenger Cards set, I had my reservations about how well it would work as an oracle. I have often received messages from birds, trees, and other elements of nature--but never "tuned in" to flowers (despite admiring them!). And, I couldn't understand what flowers had to do with angels--wondering if such a pairing would seem forced or superficial.

Because Ms. Young-Sowers holistic system offers breadth and depth to the subtle arena of energy, love, and well-being, I began to see how such an oracle could potentially work quite well. To my amazement, when I did two separate one-card draws with this deck, I received uncannily *specific* insight that was directly related to my questions!

Although I've only used the Angelic Messenger Cards for one-card spreads, Ms. Young-Sowers offers other layouts in the companion book, including a six-card "Opening to the Energy of Love Spread". For this particular layout, the author recommends dividing the deck according to the six "suits", then drawing a card from each group. She writes:

"Much like a physical X-ray, the guidance you receive spiritually from [this] spread gives you a means of evaluating your progress in matters that are not so easily measured but are the crucial basis for your health and well-being."

The Angelic Messenger Cards and companion book comes in a lovely, but sturdy, box with a magnetic cover flap, which is great for storing the kit on a bookshelf.

If you love flowers and have an openness to receive subtle, yet specific, messages from both floral intricacies and the angelic realm, you'll likely enjoy the Angelic Messenger Cards lovingly created by Meredith Young-Sowers.

(To see 10 images from this deck, visit the Reviews--Decks section at JanetBoyer.com)

Janet Boyer, author of The Back in Time Tarot Book: Picture the Past, Experience the Cards, Understand the Present (coming Fall 2008 from Hampton Roads Publishing)

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this really the angelic messenger hotline?, March 16, 2010

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Our family has members with diverse religious and spiritual beliefs (including the most apathetic of agnostics and dismissive of atheists), but everyone seems to have an interest in these cards.

Originally purchased by my mother (ex-Catholic turned Unitarian turned spiritual-but-not-religious), these cards have been with the family for a long time. She used to draw daily and keep a journal of them, making notes of keywords. Whenever she drew a certain card, she would jot the date down in the margin of its description page in the book. I do not know if she truly believed she was getting guidance from angels through the cards, but if it gave her some sort of method and encouragement for thinking about her life, then that is good enough for me.

As for myself, I am not sure about the whole angels thing. What I have noticed about the cards and their descriptions is that they always apply. It is sort of like when your horoscope magically happens to make sense one day, but the descriptions are not so general. Sometimes it feels like I am subconsciously commanding the cards that I know I really need. Even if I am not, then I am finding huge parts of myself and my ongoing and daily situations within the descriptions. The advice is always simple and easy to agree with. If nothing else, I can find myself in these cards the same way I can find myself in a horoscope once in a blue moon; reading the descriptions forces me to confront whatever thoughts or circumstances I am seeking to avoid by playing with the cards. I think that has some value.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars angelic messenger cards, May 12, 2008

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This review is from: Angelic Messenger Cards: Divine Guidance for Personal Healing and Spiritual Discovery, A Book and Divination Deck (Paperback)

i'm not one to believe in the new age stuff but i have had the opportunity to try these cards several times. each time the card and message have been appropriate for the moment and what was going on. they have been helpful and lead to insight. i recommend them to anyone who is open to another avenue of looking at life and it's mysteries. linda b.