‘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.
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?
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.
– N. Rowe
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.
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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….
Brilliant post, Aletheia! I love the quote from the gnostic manual of Nag Hammadi.It is timeless. Thanks for this.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.