Soulbyte for Friday October 16, 2026

-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Just as you live through the seasons of nature so must you live through the seasons of life. Each season has its high points and its low points but overall, each season brings to you all that you need in order to progress to the next season and the lessons it will bring. Do not shy away from any of the seasons of life, for each one brings you its unique qualities and allows you to experience them from a place of heart, of knowing that you have acquired the means by which to enjoy life and everything that comes with it with a measure of grace and gratitude that only a long life and many seasons afford you. In younger days you did not have the sage wisdom and beauty that you carry so elegantly now. A child has its own grace and beauty but a wise person carries so much more and has so much more to offer. Embrace the life you are in with the grace and gratitude that only you can embody.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday October 15, 2026

-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Though the leaders have failed you, do not fail yourself. Though the leaders have had their time to prove their worthiness, do not give up on yourself. You have everything you need inside of you to manifest what you desire. Hold your precious desires in a safe place, whether they be personal or universal, for you or for someone you love, for your own fulfillment or for that of the greater whole. In safe containment they will continue to gain power, and you, in keeping them safe, will also know and experience your own power to create something special, something unique and one-of-a-kind. Keep your dreams alive through thick and thin, knowing that one day soon they will come to life.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday October 14, 2026

-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Keep in mind the long history of the world; its wars, its times of peace, its natural disasters and its natural wonders. Keep in mind that over time new ideas have developed and manifested new things, that an idea held in the heart is a future possibility. Keep your dreams alive even if you have to keep them a secret, for it is then that they will have the opportunity to develop to fullness and when they emerge, they will be fully grown and fully manifest as you had wished.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: The Truth About Virgin Birth

Create from Within…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

The word virgin implies something completely pure, untouched and unexploited. However, purity is not necessarily about morality. Purity means not being infiltrated and controlled by foreign elements.

When we define virgin birth, the emphasis is upon a creation that is wholly parented by parts of the self, namely by the conscious and subconscious parts of the mind.

Whether we are aware of it or not, what the conscious mind thinks, believes, feels and imagines forms the suggestions that we deliver to the subconscious mind, the mind that manifests the physical circumstances of our lives.

The fact that this divine capability to create exists within the human mind is the truth of the power of the virgin birth. We are the sole creators of our lives; we need no outside influence to create our lives.

The imperative of the spiritual guidance highlighted in a virgin birth is for us to become fully aware of our inner generative powers and to assume full responsibility for the life we create.

The conscious mind has the ability to exercise its awareness through thinking, reflecting, weighing options, making decisions and choosing actions. Outside thoughts and knowledge may be quite helpful to us as we discern what is truly right for us.

However, the conclusion of this discernment must be fully owned by the conscious mind and must not represent the will of outside influence seeking to manipulate and commandeer the mind of another.

When we fully own our beliefs, they will result in virgin suggestions to the subconscious mind that manifest physical circumstances in alignment with our truth.

The subconscious mind has the agency to receive these intentions from the conscious mind and magically embody them with physical reality.

The subconscious mind is heavily influenced by the intensity of feeling that accompanies a desire from the conscious mind. The subconscious mind is also heavily influenced by the quality of relationship that we, meaning the conscious mind, have with it.

I know, for instance, that my subconscious mind has not forgotten one moment from our life together. When I am consciously at a loss to remember a name, place or event, I request the subconscious mind to refresh my memory. Every time it responds, I shower it with gratitude—Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I then feel its glowing appreciation.

If I receive a quick healing for a physical concern, I similarly express deep joy and gratitude that my request has been granted. I trust the path that the subconscious mind follows, however circuitous, to accomplish any request, reflecting my growing belief and confidence in its healing powers.

The subconscious mind is not interested in an argument, but it does appreciate definiteness. It can rise to any occasion. It loves the imagination, especially a drama that is heartfelt.

The subconscious mind has all the magical ability to create but it refuses to take responsibility for deciding what is right. Right or wrong, it will manifest our dominant thoughts and beliefs. Morality is not for the subconscious mind to decide.

This is why a virgin birth is so critical. The conscious mind must examine its deepest beliefs. Are they really ours? Are they owned by the conscious mind? Or are they the internalized views, the legacy of a heavily socialized childhood? Are they actually our own genuine thoughts? Or are they outside suggestions, targeting our senses and conscious minds, seeking us to manifest what serves them?

Powerful thoughts and beliefs will impregnate the subconscious mind, wherever they come from, if the conscious mind consciously or unconsciously becomes entranced by them. The subconscious mind insists that the conscious mind suffer this discernment. After all, the subconscious is doing all the work of creation!

Virgin birth is completely an inside job. Make sure all your suggestions are completely refined and truly owned. Arrive at the place of no doubt and pass that blueprint for life onto the subconscious mind for manifestation. Relax in the knowing that thy will is done.

No doubt,
Chuck

Soulbyte for Tuesday October 13, 2026

-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

When it may feel as if things are only getting worse, remember the poets who have written of the darkness before dawn, of the light in the dark, of the crack in the wall, of the strong seed that finds its way to the light and to new life in a different form. Always there is hope that new life will surely come. Keep focused on that, even as times feel very dark, and the winter is soon to come, and hope seems to be vulnerable to decay. Let your mind not wander from the truth that even so there is new life to come. Always.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR