Sundara said:
When it comes to receiving messages from the Gods in the form of symbols, one of Anubis’ allegories has to do with wielding a shield of armor. He’s been very present in my life lately in so many ways, and has offered actual help with physical matters that I’m surprised by. One thing that has been standing out to me is this shield of armor, wielding a shield of armor. It’s always over the heart chakra, and I’ve already been working to better open this and strengthen it. Would this matter be as simple as strengthening the AOP or does anyone know any other protective methods that deal with the heart chakra? I’m trying to figure out how I’d wield this shield of armor and I feel like the answer is right in front of my face. I know it’s not the most probable anyone could answer for how it pertains to me, but I wanted to hear some ideas on it.
I was told the same by other gods.
Stop opening, connecting to and exposing your soul psychically to take everything around you in all the time, it makes you easily impressionable to all kinds of influences and enables you to be far more spiritually vulnerable, you need a more controlled discipline over this and to protect the chakra from doing this. When you're psychically open, always reading things around you and taking information in, this has to do with connection which is ruled by the heart chakra, how you personally are reading things is you are unwittingly invoking it into yourself, you're taking the energy in. When you connect to so many things like that passively as a habit without directing the desire as such deliberately, then you open up to and take in too many energies around you, most of which in this world is not exactly 'safe' or 'good' even if it may feel positive (For instance some manipulative and emotionally controlling people are overly friendly beyond natural reasonability, especially to strangers). Being unnaturally passive is synonymous with being victim to outside influences, you are not the one who instates or solidifies the control so you end up being the controlled.
Connecting to things like this completely bypasses your Aura of Protection, meaning you can't protect yourself from what you yourself are allowing in not just to chakras but psychically, there must be rigidity in logical objectiveness. I wasn't given a shield or armor allegory I was just reminded of what I already know in how things spiritually work and it was brought to my direct attention what I was doing and why I was so easily affected by everything around me. What the shield allegory likely means for you is you need to block from this behaviour of connection, and to sever negative attachments from your heart chakra and, yes, actually shield it (Shiny black energy, can be combined with reflective lunar silver, a door, an actual shield, whatever visual works best for you).
Your heart chakra is far too open and I don't mean like in power but in that you allow it to connect and take in far too many things with 'open arms', remember the history of Egypt of the Pharaohs with the arms crossed over their chest, protecting the heart, the heart chakra is one of the largest causes of vulnerability to an individual who exposes it to everything all the time. This shield allegory is symbolical in telling you to primarily stop this habit of passively reading and taking everything in with open arms, you must close off from connecting to everything like this and choose what you connect to very selectively and objectively. "Focus more on yourself", remember you were told that?
Yourself, who you are, stabilize in your presence as
your own being, live through
your own eyes and perceptual existence,
not everything else's.
You need to centre yourself and this kind of grounding can help you see clarity in solidifying what I mean so you can better interpret this objectivity and understanding, I've already been through in doing this myself with guidance and assistance and it really does work but you need to devote special time for it so you can give appropriate and real effort, combine with Sun and Moon nostril breathing and
upper body Yoga (arm stretching, shoulders and shoulder blades, chest, this was also signed to me as more specifically focused on the heart chakra itself and strengthens it's tie to Venus and Green energy to reduce inflammation in the physical body as well. Can combine with blue energy and water element, both good to promote health, balance and harmony).
This kind of grounding and centreing is specific: Ground yourself with the earth element but not with soil or 'earth' but instead with visuals and focus on surrounding yourself in green plants, trees, leaves, vegetation, green nature, you can visualize being in a forest if you want even, strong in structure as the tough network of roots beneath the grass and the strong bulk of the towering trees. You can also look up images of trees, green leaves, plants to help instill it in your mind. Focus on the leaves in the earth element, green grass, the strength of tree trunks and bark, and take it in like you would any other element or energy or engulf yourself in it and recognize it in relation to the earth in physicality and materialness. Take in the earth element, but direct it with these visuals and aspects, also make the green colour of these plants and trees very vibrant as the colour is also part of this.
This was my own directions from my guardian, though I can't know if this will help you as it could've been something that worked for me specifically in my own caterings but you can give it a try. In it's general means though it helps centre the heart chakra greatly this way because visualizing green nature, as such is tied to the heart chakra and Venus, and making that synonymous with the grounding of the earth element helps to tie the earth grounding to the heart chakra
specifically. Remember the heart chakra is made up of two elements, Air and Earth, if the Earth element is not balanced in the chakra itself then it becomes unstable, this is a means of empowering the heart chakra in a way that harmonizes it's metaphysic and this will help centre you more to the chakra's function of stability and balance which can help give you more objective control over your other spiritual endeavors in correcting this as it provides key means of proper focus in both imagination and realness. The WUNJO rune is also very good for helping with this.
As for actually shielding the chakra, I personally visualized a shiny black obsidian door closing in front of my heart chakra with the intent that the door blocks out any and all non-satanic and negative influences from myself and that I no longer passively connect to things without my conscious and objective deliberation to. I re-enforce this door with as many extra locks or chains upon it to keep it closed tightly and strong as I feel is necessary to better enforce the intent, but you can do this however you like so long as you are correcting this 'excessive openness' by closing it in protection from things that are not of Satan or satanically safe and positive energies. This is not closing the chakra, I keep and stay tied and connected strongly to Satan and the gods, this is severing and blocking out unwanted outside influences and connections from the chakra, this is
shielding it.
All of this is how you "wield this shield of armor", it is not 'literal' but is symbolical in what you need to do for yourself.
Hope this helps.