‘Lightworker’ is a term often used in the spiritual community.
If you feel as though you’re called to have a deeper purpose in this world, you might be able to relate to this special role.
In this article, we’ll explore the main signs of being a lightworker.
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What is a Lightworker?
A lightworker is a term that refers to a person who has undergone a spiritual awakening and feels called to illuminate the dark places of life.
Lightworkers are often empaths, old souls, and highly sensitive people, with a strong connection to their soul’s voice.
A Lightworker Illuminates the Darkness
While ‘lightworker’ sounds like an exclusively new age term that focuses only on love and light and the ‘feel good,’ it’s not. Or at least, it doesn’t have to be.
The light and darkness are intrinsically connected – one cannot exist without the other.
It’s for this reason that authentic lightworkers often focus a lot on the darkness or the shadow side of humanity.
Many lightworkers focus on:
- healing trauma,
- undoing toxic core beliefs,
- healing the inner child, and
- shining a light on the buried shadow self
After all, what use is the light if it cannot illuminate the darkness?
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21 Signs of the Lightworker
Are you a lightworker? Do you feel a higher calling in this life?
See how many signs you can relate to:
- You’ve undergone some kind of spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul.
- You’re a highly sensitive and empathic person who is aware of the nuances and subtleties of life.
- You have a strong connection to your intuition.
- At heart, you’re a counselor and you love to help others.
- Since childhood you’ve felt older than your age reflects – deep down you’re an old soul.
- You experience a lot of uncanny synchronicity as if Life is trying to speak to you and guide you.
- You’re prone to having many deep thoughts about existence such as “what is the meaning of life?”
- While the darkness intimidates others, you’re drawn to exploring and illuminating it within yourself. You’re a shadow worker who seeks to live a more awakened life.
- Past trauma has created deep suffering within you that you’ve tried to face, embrace, and heal. You’re a wounded healer.
- At heart, you’re a mystic who focuses on ways to live a more ensouled life.
- You possess a high level of self-awareness – which can often feel painful!
- Deep down, you believe that life is a spiritual journey of learning, growing, and transforming.
- Because you’re energy-sensitive, it’s easy for you to feel overwhelmed in daily life and struggle with anxiety.
- You thrive in nature and feel drawn to an eco-conscious lifestyle that honors the planet.
- You’ve experienced brief moments of ego death that have turned your life inside-out.
- Living a life that is authentic to you is your utmost priority – you value walking your own unique path.
- You’re prone to experiencing bouts of depression.
- Other people tend to use you as a ‘dumping ground’ for their emotions and problems (and you struggle to set personal boundaries!)
- You feel called to reconnect with your Soul. In reality, your life is one big journey of soul searching!
- You have a visionary nature and you feel destined to make some kind of positive change on this planet.
- You have deep love and compassion for this planet and believe that Oneness and Wholeness are everyone’s birthright.
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I’ve been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.
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How many of the above signs could you relate to?
I hope you know that if you’re a lightworker, you’re in good company. This website is about helping you to walk the path less traveled and embrace your spiritual calling.
As a light/dark-worker myself, I know that this road can feel isolating.
But keep connecting to that source of love within you.
Keep reaching out to your Authentic Self.
The light within you will always help you through any dark tunnels that come your way.
What is your mission as a lightworker? What soul gift do you feel called to offer to the world?
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The thing that concerns me is the paragraph where you write about experiencing darkness and how it will help us appreciate the other. After so many years of living through the darkness, experiencing and acting out on my dark thoughts, I don’t want to go through that again, but maybe, just maybe because I did experience that dark period of my life, it has helped me appreciate my life now, just as long as I don’t have to relive that time of my life again. That period has made me realize how wonderful just sitting outside in my yard with the warmth of the sun on my skin and nature surrounding me can bring me peace and happiness. Of course, there are many more periods of my life that feel that great, but wanted to give an example. I do also like labels. It helps those who don’t know us to have an idea of what we’re about. Thank you for the wonderfully written article.
I agree……I stopped using labels awhile ago. How about the fact that we are all just human? We are in war after war because of labels, skin color, gender, money, blah,blah, blah, I cannot listen anymore!!!!! Labels are connotative of judgement, and by all means, we as humans do that, but I try to live by the code of “Until you walk a mile in someone’s shoes”, you truly have no concept, or right, to judge what is there. I am all for shedding the ego; however, we are in the physical, you have to have a certain amount to exist here, it comes down to balance, doesn’t it? The light/dark dynamic has always been, WE created it! To learn. You cannot have one without the other,what fun would that be??!!! Spiritual elitism is old at this point…..no man is greater than another…….
I disagree with #3. As I have said often, all labels are nouns and all nouns are labels. We MUST use labels to communicate effectively to one another. Against labels? Stop using all nouns.
Also, the whole, you need bad experiences to appreciate the good is just an opinion. Many faiths believe we will one day experience all good when we reach a nirvana state.
Of course there is a division between good and evil, but I guess you are one of those people who don’t believe murderers, rapists are bad people.
Most of those agreeing with every word you say are probably your fans….
The entire human language is composed of labels and generalizations Lorrie, so we might as well stop speaking altogether. ;) I never stated that I am against labels, as that is once again a reflection of the dualistic mind. To me, labels have their purpose. I believe in murderers, rapists, pedophiles, etc. but I don’t simplify them as “bad people” — they are people who have made monstrous decisions. You could call my father beating me as a child “evil,” and although the impact on my body was terrible, in the long run a lot of good came out of his violent behavior; namely my self-growth, my empathy for other physically abused children, my ability to forgive, my dark night of the soul which allowed me to spiritually mature. Can it really be said then, that he is a “bad person”? That is the same kind of reasoning people like Hitler, the Spanish inquisition (and countless other people and movements) used, i.e. you are “bad” or “evil,” therefore that justifies my mistreatment of you. This doesn’t feel like an intelligent approach to life.
So called “darkness” has been my greatest teacher. I’ve learned more lessons in life from it than most anything.
I think that once you understand labels for what they are, ironically, you aren’t bothered by them much anymore. :-)
Brilliant post, Aletheia! I love the quote from the gnostic manual of Nag Hammadi.It is timeless. Thanks for this.
Yes. I got shivers when I first read it; so powerful and deep. Thanks Lauren!
To me, it’s like a door that leads me to a wider, and deeper understanding. I learned it through paradoxes in life, my life. Then I started to see it everywhere. It’s so beautiful, like the nature, the life, revealing itself.
Not a lightworker? Exploring your demon? Yes, this can be surprising for some people :) But, it is what it is, and you put it out firmly and beautifully, Luna. Thank you :)
And thanks everyone, for sharing your thoughts and experiences, this really makes my day :D
Thank you Ika <3
Oooh girl! I feel what you are saying but I wonder how Doreen Virtue and a host of other folks would feel about your article. So with what you have discussed/divulged would it be safe to say that our counterparts such as Doreen are spiritually immature or worst, a fraud?
Haha, probably not very good — or perhaps very good (I can’t be the one to say). Generalizing is never safe, so the best thing to do is to go with your own gut instinct: are these people serving people in a beneficial way, or serving their own need for power, presence, and money? It’s up to you to decide.
Good question…I’ve thought about that myself.
To me, she has her place in teaching life’s mysteries as any spiritual teacher does.
There are people who need to hear, and learn what she teaches. And I feel she truly believes in what she’s teaching.
I’m not a fan/student of hers. But just from what little bit of her works I’ve read, I don’t sense any malice in it, or in her. I feel that she’s being sincere, and teaches what she has learned in life.
I see her teachings as having a place in the body of the whole. :-)
So isn’t this trying to put labels on others? I think that is worse than labelling ourselves, To me all of the words, Old soul, empath, lightworkers etc. are descriptions for all the same type of soul, but labels are just made up human words to give our differences to each other meaning, because I for one have always known I was different and felt I did not fit in or belong anywhere, because I always saw how different other people were to me. I didn’t think I was better than them, just different, in fact for a long time I thought there was something wrong with me because I was so different to everybody I had ever met in person. I spent my teens pretending to be like them in order to fit in and have friends, so I hid my sensitive side as much as possible. It hit me hard when I reached my early 20’s however, after the birth of my first child, I was so exhausted and could no longer go on pretending I was not the emotional sponge that I have always been since I can remember. I don’t believe every human soul is the same, as I believe we all have different missions to complete and lessons to learn, depending on how many lessons we have already learnt or missions we have successfully completed, since I don’t believe that we always complete them successfully in one lifetime. I really think it can take a few lives to learn 1 lesson, and we will fail lessons numerous times duiring a lifetime. As for Introverts and extroverts, that is a completely different thing since they are different types of personality, based on how much or little social interaction somebody needs to stay emotionally and psychologically fit. However I do believe that will depend on the lessons and missions we are here to complete, as some missions will need more interaction with people than others. So to finish, I believe we are all different, but all equally important in the world…Whatever we label ourselves to understand who we are is irrevelant, it is the traits we relate to that are important,but without these labels, those of us who are in the 15-20% minority of humans who are so sensitive and intuitive that we can feel the emotions of others at such a deep level, we would never have found like minded people who understand us enough to offload the weight of emotions we carry around.
Amen!!! There gets to be all these labels. They can create grandiose highs leading to lows, or depression leading to highs. As you say – they separate and they become things; that we feel obligated to either fulfill or overcome. I’ve spent a lot of energy in my life overcoming label or my own or other’s making. We are all built of the same components. Granted we have different abilities which are often quite obvious. But I know for me… As a Loner…. I have to look for as many commonalities with the human race as I am able – or i can’t accomplish what is needed.
True Deb (including the label “loner”!). Even in my bio above you’ll see a selection of labels, and they’re necessary to communicate to others what you are about, but they are not who we truly are which is always important to keep in mind.
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Maybe your Twin Flame, Mateo Sol knows? He seems like a swell guy!
No offense meant to females.
Do these “Lightworkers” ever covertly make use of portable LED fan Holograms combined with UV face paint and Ayahuasca as a display of virtuality for other people? Or does that describe the DEA?
my question was for the OP / author. sorry. if not clear
Do lightworkers know how to break and entry into abodes?
These questions sound crazy if so am sorry but they are real questions.
I had one of these… whatever they are visit me, I still do not know what it was. Otherwise I wouldnt still be trying to figure it out. I don’t think im crazy.
Lightworkers are suspicious to me bc they associate themselves with ‘arcturians’ like some Star Wars fantasy. I’m more inclined to think it is DEA. I was heavy into at the time, no more bc I do not have the resources to analyze the sht. Btw I am not a Sasquatch.
I guess these labels helped me at some point, because it’s through them that I finally found a sense of belonging after having felt lost and lonely for all this time. Now I don’t need them. I’d rather not call myself anything, and just be. But maybe they can be of some use at some point, until you go beyond that.
Hi Anne, I really like that you mentioned about a sense of belonging through the labels. You said, “I’d rather not call myself anything, and just be” —> I do feel the same. Just be, what a simple yet powerful words. Thanks Anne :)
Definitely Anne. Labels are completely necessary (up until a certain point in your spiritual growth).
Good work!!…I’m just a person who for the most part – is centered on freeing myself – from negative thoughts – against others and myself – in doing so – I begin to find the “one” – and the blessings from this is I’m becoming clearer and clearer – and stay with god as I understand him more and more. and that’s what I do…
I love the article, Luna. :D It has been increasingly tiring for me to see people online claiming to be ‘old souls’, ‘light workers’ and whatnot. Mostly because these labels seem to have lost the essence in which they were supposed to represent. A lost of authenticity, to put it bluntly. There’s been an awful lot of clinging to labels, it’s rather sad, to be honest.
I can relate to that feeling John.