Sarah Ingram
Published November 30, 2025 11:00am
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Now, the angels take car of anything Ange can’t handle in her diary (Picture: Hannah Law)
The first time Ange de Lumiere discovered she had a sixth sense was when she narrowly escaped death at the age of 21.
As a trainee lawyer, she was living with her parents in Paris in September 1986 when a series of bomb attacks terrorised the French capital.
Travelling on the underground from her intern job, Ange had planned to stop at her favourite store in the city, La Fnac, to buy some books. ‘I was determined to go shopping – and I am not the type of person who changes her mind,’ Ange, now 60 and living in Bristol, explains.
‘But that day, for some reason, I could not get up and stayed rooted to my seat on the metro. I saw the doors open and then close in front of me at my stop and I thought “what is going on?”
Ange was a focused law student until her near-death experience (Picture: Supplied)
Ange remained on the train until she got to the stop near her parents’ house. As she emerged from the underground, she saw ambulances and police cars scream by. When she turned on the newsat home, she discovered that a terror attack had taken place at the very spot she would have walked down on the Rue de Rennes, killing seven and maiming 55.
‘At the time, I was very upset. I hadn’t understood what had happened to me and why I had been unable to move from my seat,’ she remembers.
The experience launched Ange into a lifelong quest for answers about intuition, spirituality and the nature of the universe, and she later came to accept that it was intuition – a sixth sense – that had saved her life that day.
Believing that angels had protected her, she bought every book she could find on mysticism and – alongside her high flying legal career – began training in tarot, reiki, mediumship and animal communication.
For 15 years, Ange worked hard to excel professionally, loving every minute of her job. However, when she had her first son in 1995, the new mum started to experience burnout as she juggled long working hours with parenthood. ‘I couldn’t sleep. And I felt helpless and was losing hope,’ she explains.
She threw herself into the realm of mysticism at 21 years old (Picture: Supplied)
In 2001 her work/life balance took another tumble after Ange’s marriage collapsed two years following the birth of her second son. She’d moved to Bristol from France and working as a single mum, then received the devastating news that her company was restructuring and the job she loved hang in the balance.
‘I was exhausted and had lost hope. I was lonely and didn’t know how I would survive financially. It was very stressful,’ she remembers.
Then something happened that made Ange realise ‘that angels were there to help me’.
It was a beautiful blue-sky day in September when she was walking in a park in Bristol wondering about how she was going to pay her mortgage and look after her children. In desperation, she looked up to the sky and asked aloud: ‘What am I going to do?’
Seemingly in answer, a white feather, about 10cm long, drifted down into her hand from nowhere.
‘There was no bird around, no-one else. I now know, it was the angels saying: “This is going to be tough, but we’re going to be with you. We’re going to support you.”
Ange was previously a lawyer, but became a mystic after a spooky incident (Picture: Hannah Law)
Soon, Ange started to see signs everywhere. One night, on the verge of breakdown worrying about how she was going to keep a roof over her head, she again pleaded for guidance. The following morning, her son woke with an ear infection and she took him to the doctor, who took one look at the frazzled mum and signed her off with stress.
Ange left her job, retrained as a sustainable success coach and never went back to law.
‘I believe the ear infection was created by the angels to take me to the doctor, because I would have never gone myself,’ explains Ange, who also works as an author and podcaster.
‘I started to understand that angels could help in very pragmatic ways. And from there, I began to deepen my connection with them constantly, and I’ve never looked back.’
Ange's top tips to harnessing your sixth sense to achieve success
● Use your intuition to make important decisions. Ange advises you first do your research, using logic and knowledge. Then write down your question on a piece of paper and go away and do something else. The answer will come later when you are not expecting it, or in a dream, she says.
● Look out for angel signs. These could be white feathers, butterflies or three numbers in a row. Learning to spot them will show that you are on the right path.
Ange says she sees signs everywhere (Picture: Hannah Law)
● Learn to meditate. By sitting down quietly, you will learn how to read the thoughts that pop up, differentiating between intuition and ideas that have come from elsewhere.
● Ask the angels to manage your diary. If you find yourself over-scheduled and feeling exhausted, they will step in to cancel plans, Ange insists.
● Avoid energy vampires. These fall into four categories; the complaining, the argumentative, the attention-seeking and those that court drama. ‘They drain your energy on a spiritual level, so it is important to set boundaries around them,’ Ange says.
● Look very hard at what your definition of success is. Take time to journal and ask what is important to you. Ask yourself if you are living an authentic life, or trying to live up to someone else’s expectations
● Trust the angels to manage your tech. They will step in when needed, according to Ange. Whether that is something that comes to you on social media via the algorithm or connecting with a friend. ‘My phone once rang a friend without my touching it and it turned out she really needed to talk to me. There is so much magic in the smallest aspects of life,’ Ange adds.
Now Ange speaks to angels every day and believes that certain unsettling moments over the years – such as when a clairvoyant said to her ‘you have angel dust all over your hands’, or when an unexpected orb kept disrupting a video she was trying to film for work – was actually down to ‘the energy of the angels surrounding me and building up around me.’
Angels are, she explains, ‘spirit beings that are in service of humanity’ – and they help Ange and her loved ones all the time.
She speaks of one friend, a single mother of six, whose car was sabotaged with sugar in the fuel tank. While her friend was furious, Ange sensed it was divine intervention and a mechanic later discovered the brake pads were dangerously worn.
In Ange’s view, the angels had acted to prevent a crash. She also tells the story of another moment, after visiting a girl whose brother was in a coma, when he he came to Ange in a dream and told her he’d recover.
Tarot cards are a big part of Ange’s practice (Picture: Supplied)
Though hesitant to share the news with her friend, she eventually did, and that same night, the brother woke up.
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Ange now uses her gifts helping others trust their intuition and use their sixth sense in the workplace. After experiencing burnout four times in her life for example, she now knows to watch out for the signs, and if she is getting snappy, she hands her schedule over to the angels and asks them to manage it.
‘I simply ask, in my mind, “please handle my diary”. If I tend to overcrowd myself, the angels will cancel everything that’s not necessary. I don’t want to let a client down, so I don’t like to do it. But normally they just cancel instead.’
It sounds far-fetched, but for Ange, it works. When she is fully-aligned with the angels, she finds everything else – work, family and travel – all fall into place.
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She adds: ‘When you’re in the zone, everything works. The flight attendant smiles more at you, they offer you freebies, your luggage is the first to come out. It feels like flow, and it feels like ease, and it feels like magic.’
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