A gentle guide for the spiritually curious soul

Whether you're just beginning your journey or deepening your path, this glossary is here to support your understanding of spiritual and energetic terms. We try our best to use grounded, heart-centered language to help you feel safe, empowered, and connected to the deeper meanings behind the words you’ll find throughout Lady Lighthouse.

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Aligned / Alignment

When your actions, choices, and energy match who you really are. It often feels clear, peaceful, or just “right.”

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Astrology

A system that uses the position of planets and stars to help you better understand yourself, your patterns, and your life path.

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Boundary / Boundaries

The energetic or emotional lines you draw to protect your peace, energy, and truth. Boundaries help you stay loving and empowered.

Boundary Book™

A simple tool created by Lady Lighthouse to help you track, learn, and strengthen your energetic and emotional boundaries — so you can live more clearly and with less overwhelm.

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Chakra / Chakras

Energy centers in your body that correspond with emotions, organs, and spiritual growth. There are 7 main chakras, from your root to your crown.

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Channel / Channeled Messages

To receive and share insight from your intuition, spirit team, or Source. Like tuning into a deeper knowing and letting it flow through you.

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Clairs – Your Spiritual Senses

Just like we have five physical senses, we also have intuitive ones — known as the "clairs." These are how we receive subtle information from Spirit, energy, or our Higher Self.

Refers to different types of psychic senses:

• Clairvoyance – clear seeing
• Clairaudience – clear hearing
• Clairsentience – clear feeling
• Claircognizance – clear knowing
  Each person connects differently.

Read more in our blog post here

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state of being aware of yourself and your surroundings. It’s the mental and emotional experience that allows you to notice your thoughts, feelings, and environment. In both science and spirituality, consciousness is seen as the foundation for self-awareness and connection to the world around you.

5D to 2D

A shorthand for shifting states of consciousness:

• 5D – connected, heart-led, expansive awareness

• 3D – everyday physical reality

• 2D – survival states or dense energy
  We all move between them — the goal isn’t perfection, it’s awareness.

Conscious Mother

A woman who guides with presence, awareness, and intention—tuning into her own healing, intuition, and values while nurturing those she care's for emotional and spiritual growth. It’s less about being perfect and more about being awake to the moment and modeling love, compassion, and boundaries.

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Divine / Divinity

A term that points to the greater Love, intelligence, or presence that connects us all — whether you call it God, Source, Universe, Spirit, or simply Love.

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Ego

The part of us that’s focused on identity, safety, and control -- survival. It’s not bad, but it can hinder our growth progress when it’s out of balance with the soul.

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Energy

Energy is what keeps us alive and moving—think of it like the electricity running through your body and the spark behind your feelings and thoughts. It’s the connection between your physical self and the deeper, unseen parts of you and the world around you.

Energy Transmuter

A person who has a natural or trained ability to shift and transform energy for healing, peace, or clarity — often without absorbing it.

Energy Work

A healing practice that helps move, balance, and clear energetic blocks in the body, mind, and spirit.

Energy Worker

Someone who helps others shift and heal energy. Think of them like a spiritual electrician — tuning and clearing the flow of energy.

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Feminine / Femininity / Feminine Energy

The receptive, intuitive, nurturing side of our being. When healthy, it’s creative, flowing, and deeply loving.

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Floaty

A playful term we use when someone feels a little too spiritually “up there” and not grounded in the here and now.

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Frequency / Raising Your Frequency /

 Vibration / Raising Your Vibration

Frequency refers to the rate at which your body's energy or vibrations naturally oscillate (measured in hertz - Hz). Raising your frequency or raising your vibration means shifting your energy to a higher, healthier state—often by adopting positive habits, thoughts, and environments that support well-being and clarity.

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Ground / Grounding / Grounded

To connect your energy with the Earth, which brings stability, clarity, and presence. Being grounded helps you feel more calm, centered, and safe.

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Higher Self / Soul

The wise, loving part of you that’s deeply connected to Source. It sees your life from a bigger picture and helps guide you toward truth and healing.

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Life-Force

Life-force is the natural energy that flows through all living things—like the spark that gives you vitality, health, and spirit. It’s what keeps your body alive and your spirit connected to the world around you. Some call it prana, chi, or spirit energy. 

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Medium / Mediumship

A medium is someone who connects with spirits, often those who’ve passed, to share messages. Mediumship is the practice of doing this with care and respect to bring peace, clarity, or closure.

All mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums.

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Manifest / Manifesting

To manifest is to bring something into your life through focused intention, aligned action, and belief. Manifesting is the process of tuning your energy, your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, to match what you want to experience. It blends mindset, nervous system regulation, and trust in the unseen forces working with you.

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Masculine / Masculinity / Masculine Energy

The active, structured, focused side of our being. When healthy, it’s protective, directive, and stable.

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Moon Circle

A sacred gathering (usually with women) that honors the lunar cycle. It may include intention setting, reflection, sharing, meditation, or rituals aligned with the New or Full Moon.

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Psychic

Someone who tunes into energy—past, present, or potential future—using their intuitive senses (like the clairs) to offer guidance and insight. They connect with your energy field and soul, not necessarily with spirits.

All mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums.

Psychic Abilities

Natural or cultivated skills like intuitive knowing, seeing visions, sensing emotions, or receiving inner guidance.

Psychic Channeler

A person who receives messages from Spirit, Source, higher guidance, or the collective energy. The messages can come through words, images, sensations, or energy, and often offer broader spiritual insight, guidance, or healing.

Key Difference:

A medium relays messages from spirits.
A channeler receives messages through spiritual connection or divine energy, often beyond just individual spirits.

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Sacred

Something treated with reverence, intention, and love. Sacredness doesn’t require religion — just respect and presence.

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Shaman

An individual who possesses psychic abilities and uses them to support others on their life's journey. These individuals are often deeply connected to the Spirit realm, the dreamscape, and Divine Source, as their messages and gifts bring healing, psychedelic experiences, and transformations at the mind, body and spirit level. 

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Sound Healing

A practice that uses sound (like singing bowls, voice, or music) to shift energy, relax the nervous system, and raise your vibration.

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Source

The origin of all — the infinite, loving energy that births and sustains life. Many see Source as God, Spirit, the Universe, the Universal Mind Consciousness, or Divine Love.

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Spirit

The non-physical part of you — your essence, intuition, and soul. Also refers to supportive energies or beings that help guide your path. It can also refer to Source.

Spirit Team

The team of entities including Source, your Higher-Self, angels, spirits, and guides that are specific to your life's journey and path.

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Transmute Energy

To change or transform energy from one form to another — often from heavy, stagnant energy into light, loving energy.

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Ungrounded

When you feel scattered, anxious, or “out of your body.” It often happens after intense emotions or spiritual work — and can be gently rebalanced through grounding practices.

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Yin / Yang

An ancient concept of balance — Yin is the soft, feminine energy, and Yang is the strong, masculine energy. Together they create wholeness.