Why I Connect With My Angels Rather Than Spirit Guides🪽

Writing this on Halloween as I wanted to talk about something that happened almost a year ago now. On the first day of November 2025 I had an interesting spiritual experience.

It was late at night, I was meditating, and I felt love move through my body.

I don’t mean I simply felt good and happy, but I quite literally felt love move through me. Viscerally, as a block of energy. And immediately got the sense something had “changed”.

I felt a distinct angelic presence next to me (not for the first time but this instance stood out for sure).

Recently I shared my change in preference for connecting with angels over spirit guides on Instagram, and was surprised how many people related. I heard from other intuitives who helped confirm that I was right on the difference between the two.

Here are some things I’ve noticed about angels:

They have a more ‘separate’ energy than spirit guides. A few of the spirit guides I encountered felt more so like different versions of me; others shared in this perception.

The first spirit guide I encountered directly in meditation around 2018 felt like a familiar friend, someone who I might have lived a life alongside centuries ago. A bald-headed wiseman named “Thorn” who always wore orange-colored robes kinda like a monk.

Spirit guides can be parallel versions of you or past life companions. Sometimes spirit guides ‘are you’ in some sense.

Angels feel (more often) like they exist outside of your consciousness. Their energy is not of this Earth, and the guidance they bring often doesn’t fit nicely into Earthly rules and structures.

Spirit guides tend to come and go depending on the phase of your life. You hear a lot about spirit guides “leaving” people, but that perceived abandonment is just the start of a new season in someone’s life. A sign they’ve learned some important spiritual lesson. Angels tend to stick around a bit longer in my experience.

One is not better than the other, we just need different energies at different points of our journey.

In this phase of my spiritual journey, I want to more directly interface with something ‘outside’ of myself. I also feel most motivated by loving energy.

Angels have not led physical lives like us humans. They exist on celestial or astral planes, they consist of higher vibrating energy. We can contact them through love.

Yes, I know how woo-woo that sounds 😂

Many years ago I started following a spiritual teacher who recommended you “fill yourself with love” as a connection practice. My spirit was definetly open to this, but my mind was like “sounds silly!”

When you hear the phrase “fill yourself with love” decide what that means for you. It could mean focusing on your most vibrant positive memory in meditation, or reflecting on all of the things you are grateful for.

Start doing that and go deeper and deeper, until you feel yourself overflowing. This is when your angel connection will be highest.

Quite literally, the best way I’ve found to contact angels, is creating a force-field of love, it’s like a magnet or protective shield that allows them in.

I started to sense a deeper angelic presence when I got in touch with my feminine energy. Which isn’t about outward behaviors or fashion choices, but not resisting the feminine energy of flow and receptivity.

I allowed myself to do nothing for a long stretch of time. I practiced more self-trust.

The presence of your angels can feel like warmth, a full heart and as if you are being guided by a fatherly or motherly love.

Angels can contact us when we are about to repeat an old pattern but know better, so we do not have to replay an old dynamic all the way to the end to learn the lesson.

Angels tend to drop ‘breadcrumbs’ like feathers, coins, scents and song lyrics. As well as lead us to specific encounters with spirit animals.

One of the best ways to connect with angelic energy is to tap into the heart center as described above. Place a hand on your heart during meditation and ask yourself what it feels like to experience love in the body. Allow this sensation to increase.

You can affirm “I call in my benevolent guides/angels now”

Just to reiterate, I am not saying spirit guides ‘bad’ angels ‘good’. Being more connected to your angels also doesn’t mean you possess a higher level of consciousness or anything like that.

Spirit guides may appear more prominent in your life when you are more focused on Earthly/practical affairs, angel may appear when you are tuning into your clairsentience (the main psychic sense they communicate through) or focused on love as a practical force.

I remember when I first started reading on spirituality, borrowing and requesting estoteric books from my library as a teenager, angels were a more common reference point.

Around 2018, I noticed a shift in the language in spiritual communities. More and more people were discussing or prioritizing spirit guides. I follow their lead, and spirit guides were my main focus for a time.

However more recently I have just felt a pull towards angelic presence. It makes so much sense for the phase I am in, where I am allowing the things in my life to better flow. I’m letting go, and really embracing the feminine energy.

I want to see what I can do solely through love, the shifts I can create in my reality with it. As cliché as that sounds.

That’s all for now friend! Let me know if you’ve been able to connect with your angels in the comments below, or share your experience to inspire others.