Whilst the whole story is undoubtedly incredible, an incident that took place just moments before the mine collapsed on 5 August 2010 is equally astonishing – a white butterfly saved the lives of two of the miners, Jorge Galeguillos and Frank Lobos!

Included in a two-page letter Mr Galeguillos wrote to his brother, also a miner, were the words:  “We had been up to the workshop and as we were driving back down, a slab of rock caved in just behind us.  It crashed down only a few seconds after we drove past.  Just ahead I saw a white butterfly.  After that, we were caught in an avalanche of dirt and dust. I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. The tunnel was collapsing and the rocks buried a backhoe. A water tank lower down was almost completely buried too.”

If the pair had not let their curiosity slow them down and stop to admire the butterfly, they would have been crushed by the falling rocks.

Eleodoro Galeguillos’ response:  “Down in the mine, I don’t really know what that butterfly was.  Maybe it was a little angel passing in front of them, a little God saying, ‘Hurry up, there’s danger down here’.”

Whether a spiritual miracle or a scientific coincidence, the fact is that the presence of the little white butterfly saved two lives that day, in the most unlikely of places you’ll ever find one!

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A recent poll published in Time magazine revealed that 69% of Americans believe in angels, and 46% of that group believe they have a personal guardian angel. Ultimately, angels are most often a matter of faith, and many believers have offered their opinions on what a guardian angel’s role can be in a person’s life and even how you can enlist their help.

What Are Guardian Angels?

Guardian angels are thought to be spiritual beings that are ‘assigned’ to assist people here on earth in various ways. Whether there is one angel per person, one angel for several persons or several angels for one person is open to question. But whether you believe in them or not, or whether you want one or not, believers insist that you do have a guardian angel.

What is their assignment? According to “Encounters of the Angelic Kind” at Future365 (now defunct), “they intercept at many junctures in our lives and help wherever they can to make our lives run smoothly. Sometimes this is by inspiring a thought to spur us into action, at others it is to lend us super-human strength, such as in the case of a woman being able to lift a car long enough to free her trapped child. Or we hear of a runaway truck, with an unconscious driver at the wheel, inexplicably swerving sharply at the last moment to avoid a bus stop queue of people. In fact, there are many instances, which are often put down to luck, coincidence or even a miracle, but which have the touch of a hand of light behind it.”

So, why don’t angels come to a person’s aid every time it’s asked for? Sometimes, the article contends, “angels must stand back, whilst giving loving support only, as we work things out for ourselves – these are the times when we feel alone, the dark before dawn.”

How Do We Know Angels Are There?

Even those who believe in the existence of angels concede that they rarely make a physical appearance. However, there are other ways guardian angels can make their presence known, they say.

“Some people say that they hear angelic sounds totally beyond human description,” according to the article “Angels” at Future365. “Others have a feeling of sudden warmth or comfort, or, in times of sadness or grief, a gentle cloak of feathered wings wrapping softly around them. Sometimes angel energy may feel entirely different – like a sudden rush of air created by the passing by of an ‘angel on a mission’ at the speed of light. This is often noticed at times of impending disaster. At other times, simply an inexplicable presence is felt.”

How To Contact Your Guardian Angel

Robert Graham, in an article for Psychic Journal, suggests that we all have guardian angels that are willing to communicate with us, but that most of the time we are just too busy to listen. If we are attentive, he says, and are willing to remain open to this communication, we can receive subtle messages that can help us in our daily lives.

“If you want a clear and concise message from your angel,” Graham says, “you must ask a direct question. Your angel will always answer your questions. You must ask your question out loud. Clear, concise questions will get you clear, concise answers. Answers will always be tangible and explicit, something you can put your hands on. The answers I’ve gotten I could pick up and examine. Asking a frivolous question will get you a silly answer. The universe will match your level of sincerity.”

Angels are always willing to help us, according to Doreen Virtue, but we have to be willing to accept the assistance since we have free will. “To ask for angelic assistance, you needn’t conduct a formal invocation ceremony,” Virtue says. The methods she suggests are likely to be much more familiar and comfortable to most people, including writing a letter to your guardian angel – spelling out your problem and your need, visualising – ‘see’ protective angels around you in your mind’s eye, call them mentally – think your plea to the angels, speak aloud – state your case verbally.

“Connect with Your Angel” suggests yet another method: meditation. “Make yourself comfortable, sitting or lying down. Be aware of your breathing. Let your body become limp and relaxed. Empty your mind; create space, just as though the whole of the universe was there, inside you. Now just be. No doing. Only being.  Communicate to your angel that you wish to connect with her/him. Wait in peace. Be aware of what happens. It may not seem much at first. Be patient. Subtle changes will occur. You may see light, colours or form. You may be aware of a presence. You may feel tingling sensations. You may feel emotion. You will feel love.”

Is all this just superstitious folly? Is the idea of guardian angels just a human invention designed to help people cope with difficult problems? Or are they real beings? The matter cannot be proved or disproved definitively. Perhaps only your own faith or experience can determine their reality for you.

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Why are we seeing it all the time?  What does it all mean?  Are we the ‘chosen ones’?  Is it a co-incidence?  Is it a call for spiritual awakening?  Does it always seem to tie in with other synchronicities that are happening in your life at the time?

According to Doreen Virtue, these number sequences are signs and messages from angels, our guardian angels.  Others say that seeing 11:11 has something to do with 21/12/2012, the end of the world as we know it according to the Mayan calendar.  Did you notice that the numbers in the date all add up to 11??

Mystical Parties has two fantastic books on this subject.  One is called Angel Numbers 101 by Doreen Virtue.  If you see a variety of number sequences regularly, this book explains them all.  If you only ever really see 11:11, our book called 11:11 The Time Prompt Phenomenon is definitley the one for you.

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This is the do-battle angel, the one who not only fights the devil with a flaming sword, but grabs you by the scruff of your neck and yanks you out of trouble and danger.  He/She will give you a terrible time when you do the wrong thing.  The Aries Angel minces no words in telling you that you are messing up, and where you will go if you don’t knock it off.  The Aries Angel may not be tactful.  But he/she has a highly-developed sense of right and wrong, which is helpful in this often morally murky world.

The Taurus Angel (Earth, Fixed)

The Taurus Angel is stubborn.  If you want to cut a corner here or let your guard down there, Taurus Angel won’t let you.  He/She keeps after you and after you until you see the error of your ways, and get back on the straight-and-narrow.  Your Taurus Angel also has common sense and is generous about sharing it with you.  The Taurus Angel is rarely splashy or dramatic, but will stick with you through thick and thin, giving you the quiet strength in tough times and good advice each day.

The Gemini Angel (Air, Mutable)

The Gemini Angel has a light touch and a sense of humour that helps you put matters into perspective and gives you a sense of balance and proportion.  The Gemini angel is swift, witty and verbal.  When the Devil tries to lure you with a million reasons for doing what’s wrong, the Gemini Angel is right there with a million and one reasons for doing what’s right.  The Gemini Angel can be a nag, but in the nicest and funniest way possible: talking to you non-stop until you give up those devilish notions.

The Cancer Angel (Water, Cardinal)

This is the guardian angel to ask for if you need some “chicken soup for the soul,” some good old-fashioned mothering. (All male/female Cancer Angels are mothers at heart.) Your Cancer Angel comforts you, gives you good advice and a shoulder to cry on, and tells you to have faith that everything will work out all right.  Your Cancer Angel will do everything except giving you milk and cookies and tuck you in at night.  But, if they could, they would.

The Leo Angel (Fire, Fixed)

You know those pictures of what angels are supposed to look like:  Noble features, flowing mane, celestial sunlight shining all around them?  That’s a Leo Angel.  Your Leo Angel is a leader and a take-charge type.  The Leo Angel will advise you nicely at first.  Then, if you don’t do it, the Leo Angel will give you a good swift kick to set you back on the right road again. The Leo Angel is very responsible, very proud and darned if he/she is going to lose one assigned soul.

The Virgo Angel (Earth, Mutable)

The Virgo Angel, male or female, looks like the Virgo symbol:  Wholesome and fresh-faced.  The Virgo Angel is very efficient and reminds you to do all those daily little things so that you won’t fall into sloppy habits that render you vulnerable to devilish sneak attacks.  However, the Virgo Angel is a list-maker and note-taker.  You can’t get away with a thing or talk your way out of your flaws until you fix them.  Virgo Angel won’t let you sleep until you do.

The Libra Angel (Air, Cardinal)

That’s one good-looking angel you’ve got there.  Of course they’re all good-looking.  But the Libra Angel has that special glow that comes from having a heart that sincerely loves everyone.  The Libra Angel is eminently fair-minded and has a gentle but firm way of telling you what’s right from what’s wrong.  Angel is a gentle soul that treats you and others in a diplomatic way that gets the desired results without making a bad situation worse.  The Libra Angel is the exemplar of the word “grace” in all its senses.

The Scorpio Angel (Water, Fixed)

The Avenging Angel is more like it for this sign.  Step out of line and this angel gets you right back onto it with a flaming sword.  The Scorpio Angel gives you no rest until you repent the evil of your ways.  The Scorpio Angel is no fun.  But then again, neither is that certain place with no air conditioning and no exists.  The Scorpio Angel’s mission is to save you from that place, from yourself, and from your weaknesses and temptations.  And Scorpio takes that mission very, very seriously.

The Sagittarius Angel (Fire, Mutable)

If your idea of a guardian angel is a spirit that walks beside you everywhere and keeps you out of harm’s way, then you’re thinking of a Sagittarius Angel.  Sagittarius is the sign of both travel and companionship.  The Sagittarius Angel is a great pal who gives you lots of space to follow your own lights, intervening only when you’re in trouble or danger, or when your own judgment is so egregiously bad that you need to be straightened out, fast.

The Capricorn Angel (Earth, Cardinal)

You’ve got the Taskmaster Angel, the Drill Sergeant of the Hereafter.  No excuses, no rationalizations, no justifications, no gray areas, no either/ors, no if-ands-or-buts.  No stalling, no asterisks, no exemptions, no just-one-time, no just-one-more-time either.  Just do it.  Grow Up.  Get Over it.  Get used to it.  Deal with it.  The Capricorn Angel is tough on your conscience and cuts you no slack, and doesn’t have a sense of humour about some things.  All of which is a big pain now, but which saves you from bigger pain later.

The Aquarius Angel (Air, Fixed)

Remember Clarence from It’s A Wonderful Life?  Clarence is probably an Aquarius Angel, doing things in an unusual way, but so well meaning that somehow everything works out in the end.  If any angel can understand human flaws, failings and foibles, its the Aquarius Angel.  This angel will pull rank on you only if you really push the envelope.  Otherwise, Aquarius Angel prefers the explanatory Socratic method of showing you the error of your ways kindly.

The Pisces Angel (Water, Mutable)

The Pisces Angel is such a sweet and sympathetic soul that he/she probably weeps when you do wrong.  In the long run, that may be harder on your conscience than all the lectures and hellfire-and-damnation sermons in the world, and you’ll be good for all the right reasons.  The Pisces Angel is the one who urges you to be patient, to be generous, to give people the benefit of the doubt, to do unto others as you would have others do unto you.  That’s exactly how the Pisces Angel behaves, leading by example.  Follow that example.  You can’t miss.

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