Angelspeake '101'  - An Interview with Trudy Griswold 

By
John Owen


It was recently my pleasure to sit down with Trudy Griswold,
the co-author of the Angelspeake books, for an exclusive
interview at her home in Connecticut.  Trudy, along with her
sister Barbara Martin, talk to their Angels, and since 1994
through their books, audio tapes, private sessions and
seminars, have put thousands of people in touch with Angels
of their own.  If you have yet to read one of their books,
or have not been fortunate enough to be in attendance at one
of the many Angelspeake seminars, and would like to get in
touch with your Angels, read on.  The Angels gave me
"Angelspeake 101" on that Wednesday afternoon in Westport. 

When one sits down with Trudy, it's hard to say where the
Angels begin and Trudy ends, so to ...Angelspeake (if you'll
pardon the pun!)  As Trudy explains, once the session
begins, what comes from her mouth is "channeled."  The words
you are about to read are of and from the Angelic Realm.
Trudy is shown images, and she merely translates them.  But,
as she is quick to add, we all have the same ability. It's
just a matter of beginning the communication.  Our Angels
are with us always.  We need only to give them the
opportunity to speak to us.  And as you'll see, when given
the opportunity, your Angels will do most of the talking. 

John:  With the astrological alignment of 
the Grand Cross,
the solar eclipse and the millennium approaching, what' can
you tell us about what's currently happening from an energy
perspective?

Trudy:  This eclipse has touched people in 
ways that has
really surprised all of us.  There have been so many Earth
events that have been occurring.   The droughts here in the
East and yet there are things happening all over the world. 
A lot of people are leaving the planet at this time.  Many
people have looked at this eclipse as a time of "hitting the
wall," which is the term that they (the Angels) are using. 
We read about other people's experiences, but each one of us
is having our own personal experience of transformation. 
The millennium is approaching, and this is a major event in
our lives.  Many people are being challenged at this time. 
Many are asking "what's going on in my life?" and, in many
cases, they are feeling shook up and a little lost. 

For others, it's like the brakes are finally off and things
are starting to move forward.  Each one of us has our own
way of connecting, but one thing's for sure, we are all
being affected.   We're hearing more and more stories of
people saying "my child seems to be having such a hard
time," or my husband, or my parents.  People of all ages are
having to open up on levels that they never have before, and
that's what forcing this movement forward, sometimes whether
we like it or not.  Here's the millennium, and we keep
thinking it's coming, it's going to be happening.  The fact
is we're living in the millennium and the shift, and the
changes, are happening right now. 

So often, as humans we'll say "Well, I want new things in my
life, and I want change, and I want growth," and then it
starts, but things happen in our lives that are so different
from what we thought they would be.  When we say we want
change, we think,  "Okay.  I want it to be this way, this
way, this way."  And then it starts to happen in God's way. 
And that is so different from what we ever imagined it might
be.  Then we start backing up, or backpedalling, and we say,
"Whoa!  Wait a minute!  I didn't want it to be that way!  I
didn't mean that!"  Yet if we open up to the greater good,
if we open up to all the changes that are happening here on
earth, we have to be ready to experience whatever God has in
mind.  We've often said, God doesn't give half a gift.  He
doesn't bring you all this way and then drop you flat on
your face.  The rest of the gift, the rest of the pieces
will also be brought to you.  Very often people say, "Let's
bring on those changes, let's have those things happen," and
then they get nervous or feel like this isn't exactly what
they wanted, but we have to learn to trust that everything
is happening for our greatest good in the correct time.

John:  What of the doom and gloom scenarios
 that are so
prevalent today?

Trudy:  Well, we all have choices about 
how we look at
what's happening in life.  I had a class recently where the
Angels wrote to a woman and said to her - and by the way,
this woman had been asking the Angels, "when can I leave my
job?"  They always wrote to her before and said, "be
patient."  Well, this particular day when she asked, they
said, "This is the day that is yours.  Things are changing
with your job.  This is a time when you can begin to put the
pieces together for moving on because your work is done at
your job.  Initially, it might take more time to reposition
yourself than what you had thought, but just know that we
are with you and it's time to move forward."  This woman was
panicked!  I asked her why she was so afraid?  She said,
"The Angels are telling me that I'm going to lose my job and
that I'm not going to find another one."  She was so scared,
and yet, that was exactly what she had asked for.  The
Angels were saying to her, "Yea, the time is finally here!" 
We would have thought she would say, "Hallelujah!"  Instead, 
she was saying "Oh, oh, oh no!" 

So how do you hear what comes to you?  What's your
perception of information as it's given?  We can take it as
doom and gloom, or we can take it as "It's here!  This is
good!"  I think we have to be careful what we take on.  Many
times people say, "well how do I know what to believe?" 
"How do I know if you're right, or this person is right?" 
And the answer is, you'll know from listening to your inner
guidance.  Everybody seems to have the right answer, but the
only right answer for each of us comes from within. So
process on your own level whatever comes to you, keep what
you like, and leave the rest.

John:  How do we open ourselves to our inner
 guidance?

Trudy:  What a good question.  You know, I 
remember when I
was a young girl people would say to me, "you need to listen
to your own good advice."  And I kept thinking I don't have
any good advice!  (Laughter)  What I've learned to do is
listen to my inner guidance through my solar plexus.  Within
each one of us there is a place of truth, or a place of
Œknowing' as I call it.  And it just seems that it's a spot
within you that makes you go, "yes, that's right!:  For me,
it's in the solar plexus, the "gut" area. As long as that
area feels balanced, and smooth, and right for me, then
whatever I'm receiving I consider to be truth.  And yet, if
that area of my being starts jumping and getting tied up in
knots and I get afraid, then I know there must be something
else happening here.  And I either give myself some time, or
I just realize that maybe that's not quite right, and that
when the time is right, the correct things will come to me. 
Some people say they get a tingling in the back of their
neck, or in their heart.  We all have our own places of
Œknowing'  or discernment.   Wherever that is for you,
recognize it and respect it, and listen to it.  But it does
take time to establish that within you.

John:  I'm still working on it.  I'm sure 
most people are. 
With all the thoughts and possibilities in my head, how do I
know which is the right one to act upon? 

Trudy:  If we find ourselves confused and 
torn, or
tormented, we have to say "I'm not clear enough yet.  I have
to give myself a little more time, because, boy, when it's
right, it's right."  We have a series of basic spiritual
Angelspeake principles that we live by, which contain some
basic truths.  One of them is, when the time is right, you
cannot not do it.  To some people that might sound like
double talk, but the fact is, when everything is
synchronistically positioned in our lives, we'll know what's
right and what's not.  We'll know what step to take next. 
Until that sense of knowing and correctness is there, then
don't do anything. 

Another thing my sister and I say is, when you come to the
fork in the road and you don't know which direction to go
in, then sit down.  When the time is right, you'll know
which direction to go, you'll get yourself up, dust yourself
off, and move in the right direction.  You know, some people
want this spiritual thing to be all neat and tidy and in
little precise answers, but your spirituality is your
process.  That's why they call it a spiritual process.  We
have to be patient with ourselves, not too hard on
ourselves.  It's very easy to go "clunk."  Why didn't I know
that, or why did I decide to that?  Well maybe it's part of
your learning.  Maybe you're all set and ready to walk on
that path or go in that direction.  If you're still
questioning it though, then maybe that's because the timing
is wrong.  Maybe the whole process of the next step is not
part of God's plan at this time.  So we get all the way to a
certain point,and then we just have to just wait.  So the
process does take time and we have to respect that.

John:  That sounds rather existential, as 
though we're
waiting for our destiny, for our life to happen to us. 
Others say that we are co-creators, able to co-create what
we want in our lives.  It seems like a very fine line.

Trudy:  It is a very fine line.  I do know 
that we all have
a purpose for living and being on this earth.  We're also
here to carry out a larger plan.  It is what the Angels
teach.  Of course, God is the keeper of that larger plan,
whoever your God is.  This isn't a talk about religion. 
This is a talk about each person's God, whomever that may
be, and where they're headed this lifetime.  I do know this: 
When I try to control my life too strongly, when I am
looking for too much approval, or when I want to be too
separate from God, I am so far off my path, I am so unhappy,
and I am the farthest away from my sense of rightness.  Yes,
I have many, many choices this lifetime, and yet, it's when
I realize that if my purpose is aligned with God's, if we
can be of a like energy and mind, that's when my life works
the best.   

I was watching Oprah the other day.  She had given a
commencement address, and said to these newly graduating
college seniors moving into the new world that failure, of
course is a very necessary part of our life plan, of our
life's learning.  Failure is God's way of saying "Excuse me,
but you are moving in the wrong direction."  And I thought,
isn't that a beautiful way to think of all of this?  So,
going in the same direction that God is going in is what
really puts us on our path, with our purpose, and keeps us
really loving life and making a difference in the world. 
Isn't that really what it's all about? I feel the happiest
in my life - and I think most everyone would agree - when
they feel like they've made a difference in someone else's
life, or when they have touched another life in some way,
either through body, mind, spirit, with a kindness, a
sharing of love.  There are so many ways to touch a life. 
That's the best of all. 

I hope that answers your question.  I believe that we do
have free will, but if we can be in alignment with God's
will, our life is generally the very best.

John:  So if you're continually banging 
your head against a
wall and not getting anywhere, odds are that what you want
is not what's best for you, at least not at that moment.

Trudy:  Absolutely. You know those times 
in your life when
you had wanted something to happen and it just didn't seem
to be coming together?  Then, all of a sudden, one day it
seemed like the right people were there, and the door opened
and you walked through, and the pieces were fitting together
and you felt good about what was happening?  That's when
we're going in the right direction and it's happening in the
right time.  It's when we want to do it our way and control
it, when life doesn't move forward with joy and
synchronicity that we are off track.

John:  Okay.  So now we're on track.  
We're affirming that
our personal goals and desires are in accord with God's
will.  We're listening to our gut feelings, our inner
guidance.  What's taking so long?

Trudy:  (Laughter) I know.  It does 
sometimes feel like it's
taking forever.  That's because it isn't on our time frame. 
We are such a unique part of God's bigger plan, and for many
people it takes time to really get that concept.  I think
we're all in the process of getting that on an ongoing
basis.  We're as important to God's greater plan as a blade
of grass or the most great that ever walked the earth. 
There is this plan happening.  We might be totally ready for
the next phase of our lives, and yet,  happening all around
us are people, circumstances, and events, and sometimes we
just have to be patient and wait for the pieces to come
together, many of them that we can't see or even know.  When
it's right, it is right.  Things open up, and that's when,
as co-creators, you're saying, "that's a great expression." 
Then it does come together in the right time and the right
way.  Living our spiritual life, this process involves a lot
of stopping and starting . At least, that's how it feels.   Of
course, it's never really stopped... it's always going
forward.  But if we get the sense that we've got one foot on
the brake, one foot on the accelerator, and why isn't this
thing racing down the track in the way I want it to go? we
just have to take a deep breath and say," in God's right
time."

John:  Perhaps at that point we should 
focus less on the
periphery, and more on what's going on within us.

Trudy:  It really is all about listening 
to our inner
guidance, keeping that alive.  We very often push our bodies
and all aspects of ourselves too fast and  too hard, saying
yes when we really want to say no, trying to be true to
ourselves, and yet being available to others.  It's quite a
juggling act, isn't it?  I feel the greatest secret to
keeping your balance is to really pay attention to what's
going on inwardly.  Listen, listen, listen, to what's
happening.  You will find your balance.  It's a juggling act
sometimes.  Especially when you take in all the aspects of
your life.  You have not only your personal self, but also
your spiritual self.  Then you have your family and your
work, and your friendships.  It's so easy to take our eye
off the ball, and the fact is that the ball is right within
us, that being of our Godself, or our greatness.  I believe
that within each of us there's a blueprint that God planted. 
It's referred to as a blueprint, but it's who you are meant
to be this lifetime.  We can come into our greatness, but
only when we have balance in all aspects of our life.  When
we can allow all these parts that we have worked hard on to
come forth and flourish, and we nourish the pieces of
ourselves, they help us to open up to our greatness.  Our
lives change dramatically.   John:  Now for those who have
yet to read Angelspeake, how do we best go about getting in
touch with the Divine within us?

Trudy:  We have a team of Angels, or 
spirit guides, or...

John:  Whatever you want to call them. 

Trudy:  Whatever you want to call them.  
It really doesn't
matter, because they're part of a divine team that is
working for our highest good.  We've got a support team that
is on the other side that we can access, and ask for help,
information, perspective, and clarity.  They've been with us
our entire existence, from the time our soul was made. 
Those beings know what we want to accomplish while we're
here on earth, and where we're at, and not only where we've
been if you happen to believe in other lives, but also where
we're going.  We can open that channel of communication.  It
has always been there.  They've been with us our entire
life. I'll just refer to them all as Angels. 

As you begin to open up, you realize that their input in
your thinking has kind of layered up over the years.  By
writing down the information that's around you or within
you, you can start getting the teachings that are there
within you as well.  It's always been there.  This is just a
way of drawing out the information, and having it right
there for you to work with and utilize.  And everyone has
access to his or her Divine team!  It's not like some of us
do, and some of us don't.  You also don't have to wait
passively for an experience to happen in your life.  Many of
us have heard stories of incredible encounters with Divine
beings.  I'm here to tell you that you don't have to
passively wait.  You can have an experience that will help
you as you walk your spiritual path.  That can be a life
changing experience.  That, to me is the greatest gift that
we could ever have.  God did assign a whole team of Angels
to be with us, give us perspective, help us.  Yet, we have
to learn how to work with them.

And we'll learn exactly how to work with our Angels as our
conversation with Trudy Griswold continues in next month's
edition of Planet Lightworker.  

John Owen lives in New York.  He has a background in web
page design, retail sales and radio broadcasting. He is
married and has 2 children. He became interested in the
metaphysical when he found the Kryon materials.