Hello- My name is Ruth MacKenzie and I want to introduce myself.

I'm a channeler of Ariel and have been since 1991 when she first spoke to me. I say "she" because I have a sense of female energy and because she told me I could genderize her if it helped me to relate better to her. When I asked who she was, she said she was what we would call an angel and that I could call her Ariel.

Ariel spoke to me for the first time when I was very ill physically and very desperate emotionally and she told me she was guardian of my soul while I'm in the body and that every human being is assigned at least one guardian and sometimes more depending on their need and their life work. I was told angels are attracted to great light beings and gravitate towards those of greatest light.

Since I was most familiar with Christianity at the time, she used Christ as an example of this. There are many more but the theme is the same. There doesn't need to be a religion involved for light beings to attract angels and there are those in a body on earth now who are very powerful and are here for our guidance and growth. These beings also attract many angels.

For the majority of us, however, angels are a gift to protect our souls during our lifetime and may be called upon for prayer, assistance and advice.

Ariel is my friend and each of us has friend like her we can call upon at any time. There are many ways to contact ones guardian angel. Let me begin by saying that sometimes we are contacted by them. Ariel told me that because I had a deep closeness to her as a child and a young person, she was more easily able to contact me, later when I was 47; i.e. I was more inclined to hear her and believe her (after an initial few minutes of thinking that I had lost my mind.)

In the coming weeks and months I'll talk about what I've been told are the ways to make contact with your guardian or guardians. For now I'll explain where I was at the time and why I met Ariel. In the 70s I began to be ill quite frequently with one ailment after another, medical doctors diagnosed many problems and surgeons began to remove my organs one at a time. I still worked while raising two children but found myself getting weaker and more discouraged and in more pain as time went by. The pain later diagnosed as Fibromyalgia went undiagnosed until 1986 and the illness of Lupus wasn't officially diagnosed until 1988. As you can see, many years of pain and illness along with child-rearing as a single parent and holding down a job to accomplish this finally took their toll. In 1990 I returned to the University to complete work on a health related degree, learning many alternatives to Western medicine as well as many ways to look at illness itself and it's reasons, possible causes and gifts. After one year I was completely spent and contemplating shuffling off this mortal coil in a Native American sweat lodge (which, as sick as I was, would have finished me), when Ariel first spoke to me. I was in an empty room, in pain and desparate forrelief, rest and sleep. At the time I hadn't yet learned enough about alternative therapies to find help and Western medicine offered many chemicals, which just made me worse. One of the drugs, prednisone, affected my mood and caused a gain of 100 pounds which lowered my self esteem. So, I foolishly decided, against medical advice, to simply stop taking all medicines and see what happened. Some medications require weaning, so this abrupt cessation was unwise and caused a terrible reaction emotionally. Additionally, I was alone in a dormitory room during the summer and that day was sexually molested by a professor who came to my room, and later that same day was deserted by the therapist (and friend) I turned to for help!

I arranged for my dramatic demise and packed my things to be moved and lay down to rest and heard a voice. I don't now remember Ariel's first words and she tells me it doesn't matter (although I wish I could remember them; she is so special to me). But, she began talking to me about who she was and why she had gained permission from Spirit to speak to me. She told me my thinking was cloudy and in error and that later she would tell me why taking my own life was unwise for me but that if I listened to her and did what she instructed, I would be all right. Obviously, since I'm writing this, I'm all right.

Life has evolved amazingly and I received alternative health care help as well as allopathic assistance. In 1992, Ariel began giving messages to other people - first my friends and then, as word spread, to acquaintances and then to friends I hadn't met yet. The incredible blessings I've received are all from Spirit and Ariel led me in a direction to understand the gift of the illness.

In the next installments I will explain what I was told about suicide and how to contact your guardian(s) and guides. Eventually Ariel and I will begin answering questions, so be patient and feel free to leave your queries for us.