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Messages from Jeanne

#381 The Dark Serpent of Change Tangles with the White Serpent of Transformation

Dear Jeanne,
Today we start a new week. The intense energy of last week appears to have died down. What can we look forward to this week?

My Dear Readers, do not get fooled by appearances. While the intensity is toned down do not risk taking your eyes off the situations that remain brewing. Even a temporary respite leaves doors open for the wrong kind of energy to enter and wreak havoc. The Dark Side does show its face now as this time of seeming lull does attend upon your time frame. Vigilance and alertness are still called for My Dears, and your cognitive abilities are even more necessary now, as trickery is in the minds of those in power and those who seek power.

This trickery may not even be uppermost in the calculations of risks proposed, but (and this is a big but) they must consider all angles, and no angle is without its possibilities. Even the most negative and direst of possibilities will pass muster now, as the culmination of opposite powers does its dark work behind closed doors.

You seek truth. You seek purity and innocence. You strive for this in your own life and this is where you must remain focused. Do not look for those in political favor to be as innocent and truth seeking as you who do your recapitulation work so diligently are. This is a time of compromise for many who otherwise would ride the white horse of change through the veils of deception, enlightening you all. But the veils are being pulled tighter and tighter now, and your very truths are being locked and clamped down by those who seek more power over your world, your country, and even your very body and soul.

Are you speaking of the American political scene right now? And even the repercussions on the world stage?

I speak dually of the politics-as-usual playing out in America. One side speaks and seeks truth, but the other responds by digging deeper trenches around its coffers, seeking not exposure of how high its treasures loom into the night sky, or how valuable they consider their deceptively acquired gold. The coin is golden on one side, a treasure, but flip it over and it is but a dark hole that sucks into its depths the unsuspecting, hearing its tricky, confusing rhetoric that seeks to utterly fascinate with its deceptive thinking. Although this energy plays out now upon the world stage, deeply embedded in the internal affairs of America, so is this dark side interested in each and every one of you. For once it perceives weakness, and attention placed on the possibility of change based on its ideas, so does it perceive the greater possibility of roping you in, tying you down to it ideals, and then it will have you for its own purposes of perpetuating its greed.

Do not fall for this dark energy that tricks and twists the truth and presents a shiny picture that, in truth, is full of dark holes lightly covered over with a false veneer. Do not trust what is thrust before you as “the salvation.” Do not listen to the lies that even the good people among you are forced to concede to. This time of destruction will continue unabated now, for yet a time to come. The next few weeks may appear to be energetically calm, but beneath the surface the dark serpent of change does tangle with the white serpent of transformation.

This scenario is also going to be going on inside each of you. You may find your selves drawn back to people in your pasts who have meant much to you. You may find your selves caught in conversations that do not resolve, that do not accomplish what you know must be accomplished. You may be squabbling endlessly in messy confrontations with no point, no resolution, and really no heart as the basis. You may discover that your truths are constantly being revealed, yet are you unable to maintain awareness of them. You may also find that appearances, at first seemingly right and safe and good, soon slip into less appealing and undesirable patinas that you would rather no longer encounter.

To find the silver lining in all of this doom and gloom is to remain connected to inner self. This is what must be maintained and nurtured now, in order to keep a handle on the truth of reality. The true connection to innocent self, in order to be held in your awareness, must be properly, and with concerted effort, placed in your face, right before your eyes. Keep your eyes focused on this inner truth of self at all times.

If you must play in the projective field, which is also very active now, so do I ask that you consider that all projections are self studies, being presented for your growth. In order to really work this time must you see your self out there in the world, doing all those things you find so appalling, so disgraceful, so ugly, so disingenuous and dishonest. Place your self upon the faces of others and look for the quality being so boldly displayed and ask: “Where is that quality in me?” In this manner will your time in dark deception be well used, your ability to maneuver through this mess well managed, and your time well spent on growth.

Turn now from wanting, from even a hint of greed. There is enough of that already negatively impacting the energy. Turn inward where light and innocence seek your attention, cleaned and scrubbed clear of the sticky oil of deception that now seeks control in your outside world. Once that oil is smeared upon the truth, will it be difficult to clean it off and once again see the true picture.

Your good leaders are in battle now with those whose hands are sticky with that oil. Their clean hands take on dark smears at every handshake at the end of every deal now being made. The good ones seek to wipe it off, but it does not easily remove before the next deal is struck and the next oily hand extended. Watch out now as presentations of compromises are presented. Do not trust the outcomes, but keep in your hearts the truths that the good ones seek also to hold in their hearts.

Maintain now an energy of good. Allow the white serpent inside you to hold onto its purity for the right reasons, even as it must go to battle with the oily dark serpent inside you, each confronting the conflicts and controversies that now will rise up during this dark time of change that is upon your world.

Maintain your inner lights now, My Dear Ones. Your seeking self will not let you down. Your truth seeking politicians will not let you down either. Let them proceed with the deals being made, but await further truths being revealed at a later date that will expose the utter truths not now ready for your ears and eyes. Prepare your self for the bright light to come. It may be blinding after all this darkness, but if you have been preparing, by staying in your own light, so will you be able to handle it.

Truths are now difficult to see and hold onto; that is the truth of these next few weeks. But maintaining awareness of good, of honesty, and of desire for innocence to become known are the sparks that must guide you all now. Use your handhold on these inner truths to light your way. Keep your hands in front of you, pulling aside the veils, dark and numerous though they may be.

Commentary on the Message

Commentary on Message #380 From Chuck

I am delighted that Jeanne so eloquently comments on our favorite subject of exploration when we walked together in this world, PROJECTION. In relationships the usual focus for projection is the anima/animus, one’s soul, which accounts for the compelling power and magic of the in-love experience. In Jeanne’s reply to this female reader she instructs that she reclaim the strength and beauty of her own strong woman. In effect, that is the real challenge to finding one’s wholeness. Yes, when we fall in love we are experiencing union with our contra-sexual internal other. For a man this is his inner woman and for a woman her inner man, as reflected in our partner. However, we are also falling in love with our partner’s valuation of us; through being wanted and desired by another we become valuable. Many are caught by an inability to value themselves, hence they constantly seek the reflection of their worth in the attention given to them by the other. Jeanne instructs this woman to turn her inner man’s fascination to her strong woman, that is, to fall in love with herself. This is not narcissism; this is the experience of truly valuing and giving attention to the self. Loving the self entails an honest recapitulation, which involves facing all the truths of the self, with total acceptance. Loving the self is valuing and withstanding the utter truth that, despite all our wonderful companions, our completion is totally a solo journey, and we are all completely worthy of the adventure.

Messages from Jeanne, Questions for Jeanne

#380 Relationships Can Be Very Tricky

Today, A Reader asks for guidance about a relationship.

Dear Jeanne,
I read your “wisdom messages” regularly, and thank you for your valuable guidance. Perhaps you will be able to respond to this situation for me? I’ve been in a long working relationship with a man, with whom the connection has also been “more,” but in the last couple of years it has mellowed into the form of task companions and friends. Recently, however, his attitude toward me has deteriorated into flagrant rudeness, arrogance, and even mean-spiritedness.

In any other situation, I’d be less conflicted about just getting out of this relationship, but I have a professional connection with this man that I feel I need to keep intact and amenable while I look for work. In a matter of weeks, an enduring, fairly close connection has become a source of hurt to me, and by all appearances, just an annoyance to him. He will not discuss this; his position is that if he’s not feeling “good energy” coming toward him from someone, he will not be bothered by them at all. I’m all for good energy, but to me, acknowledging what’s happening, clearing negative energy, and creating understanding is healing, and will help revive good energy!

This entire relationship, which I felt was kindred and lasting (even in its difficulties), is now hitting me like an ongoing sucker-punch, which I am literally feeling in my solar plexus. Still I keep hoping we can resuscitate what was good between us, at least enough to create a graceful (grace-filled) split! Dear Jeanne, do you have any insight into this particular situation that you might share? I swear, the energies are whipping my life enough without this knocking me over the edge!

Thank you, thank you…. oxo Anonymous.

My Dearest Reader, relationships can be very tricky, especially between strong men and strong women who each have equal abilities to love, desire, and compensate for the frailties of the other. It is not your responsibility to uphold any aspect of a partner that that partner cannot himself hold as his own. Keep that in mind as I answer your question. By this I mean that you do not need to protect or to treasure an aspect of this man you are so connected to. It is far better to ask him to own it, even as you own that aspect in your self. Is that clear?

I find it necessary, as regards relationships, to first state that all relationships begin as projective, idealistic flurries. Once the flurry dies down, so is it much clearer who stands before you. Your own relationship with this man may be at the clearing stage now. As it is with you, so is it with him, and this you must pay attention to. Regard not his disdain, but regard your own inner struggles to become an independent and strongly stable person in your own right. This is where you are caught, you know. The projection is now being revealed as just that, and you stand nakedly exposed and alone with the dust of the flurry you have been caught in for the past several years. Within a relationship flurry, within a whirlwind, is clarity not truly possible. It is only afterwards that truth can be exposed, posed, and proposed.

Your dilemma does not stand with this man, but within your self, though you look to him for support. This I can understand, but you must not hold out hopes that he will supply you with what you request. It may not be possible for him to turn back and observe your needs while he flees his own reflection in you. This happens in relationships, quite often, as truths are revealed.

Did I not, myself, once flee a relationship upon that earth when it got messy and tough, in order to find once again the fire ignited in another? To continually seek the spark of ignition is to remain always in the whirlwind, always in the beauty of the projective state. But that state does not last forever, as reality soon shakes you awake and says: “Hey, wait a minute! You must have balance, and stability, and honor the truth of your own being, even while you honor the truth of another.”

Find your self now upon your own two feet, not let down gently, but let down nonetheless. Find your center. Find your strong woman inside you that this man was once drawn to. You have not totally accepted that she exists, yet have you seen her on many occasions. She asks you now to release her from this man who abruptly pushes her from him. She stands before YOU and asks YOU to take her back. Do not give her back to any man, but only take her back to your self.

This is how projections end. They do not necessarily fade out, though that is also possible. But in your case, the screen went suddenly blank and you were left in the dark. Turn the lights on, My Dear. Look around your self. Where are you? Where do you honestly find your self? Alone? Well, that is truly the best place to be!

Now you are at a place of rebirth. Now you are being asked to fully accept who you are without attachment, without projection, without your soul having to be connected or controlled by that of another. This journey of the soul is yours alone to take. You are not bound to another or another’s soul, as you might predict. That is not how journeys through life are accomplished. Yes, we travel many times with others, with other energy beings, but ultimately must we sever ties in order to have our own experiences upon that earth, separate from those who we may eventually complete our lives with at another time, in another world.

I give the example of my own completion as Jeanne Marie Ketchel. My soul’s completion had nothing to do with the vital connection I maintain with the two who now continue my connection to you in this manner. My Dearest Chuck and My Sweet Jan and I have had previous connections upon that earth realm and will have connection in the future in infinity. But each of us must accept our own soul’s journey and the completion of our individual lives in spite of what we have learned about our connection to each other. Completion is centered on the individual, completing the individual soul’s journey.

This is what I present to you now. My advice is: Remove your attention and, subsequently, your energy from this man. Remove your focus, your thoughts, your yearnings for connection and completion from this man. Yes, even though you have, and have had, quite a strong and deeply fulfilling link to each other, so is it time to also turn your back and walk in a new direction, not out of spite, disappointment, anger, or disdain, but purely for energetic reasons.

Take back your energy and apply it to your own growth. You have deep wells of sadness, I see, but you do not even know of your deeps wells of strength yet. Remove your feet from dangling in the wells of sadness and the wells of the past and walk swiftly now to your inner wells of strength and beauty.

Your request for something from this man will not now be replied to. You will find, in spite of your insistence that you need connection in order to move on, that this will not be true in the long run. You may hold on to that idea, that you need him, if you must, but it will inhibit your progress. It will keep a thread of attachment through which your energy will drain out of you, weakening your ability to access your inner strength.

As I said, relationships can be very tricky. Know this, all of You Readers who dabble and tease in the projective field. It is far better to sit alone on a Saturday night, and discover who you truly are, than to sit with another who is not who they appear to be. The energy now upon that earth is tricky in this way. So if you are already playing love games in the projective field, watch out because you will find that this tricky energy will produce many projections at once and you will not be sure which is the real person. And you can get fooled, bitterly so.

This is a time of deception, of untruths, of cause for alarm because there are mirrors all over the place. Do not get caught in the dark movie house, or a hall of mirrors where you cannot find a real person in the darkness.

You will not succeed in finding what you want outside of you by looking into those movie screens or those funny mirrors. You will only find what you want by looking inward, facing your self, your truths, your reality, and then allowing your acceptance of self to birth new appreciation of your lovely qualities. Do not give them away, but keep them inside you. Nurture them and feed off them your self now, allowing them to become your new wells of strength.

I hope this aids you in your dilemma, My Dear Reader. Your question is one of confusion of self really, and not a question of another. Relationships provide us with the opportunity to discover who we truly are, and that is your real challenge now.

Turn your back now, withdraw your strength and your beauty from this man and give them back to your self. Then will you find your way. Your path will be clearer, your head and heart stronger, and your journey more defined by your own capable hands pulling aside the veils rather than someone else’s. Look at your hands and ask them to lead you where you need to go. They will find you what you need. Good Luck!

Messages from Jeanne

#379 Do Not Fall For Anything That Looks Too Good To Be True

Dear Jeanne,
Can you offer us some guidance for today?

My Dear Ones, remain innerly centered now during this time of continued turmoil. Your place will not be disrupted, your flow not blocked if you remain innerly concentrated. I do not mean doing this in an obsessive, stuck way, but as a calm and observant being who knows that all difficult situations pass, things do begin to change, and shift will come.

These are good things to keep in mind as you go through your days and as you pay attention to your own world, your world of family, work, and play, but also your outer world and what is going on in the community in which you live. There will continue to be disruptions and many excuses will be posed. Do not listen to the excuses, but look instead for the truths behind the excuses. This is what all must do now, as they consider not only what is going on in the world outside of them, but also in the inner world that is so important.

Your inner world may now reflect the turmoil and disruptions of the outer energy. This is common. Do not get caught feeling dismayed or puzzled or lost. Allow your inner seeking self to sit back from the fray, observe it truthfully from a place of no attachment and then see what your feelings are. To be able to detach from circumstances that are conflictual is quite a necessary and reasonable stance to take. In detachment will you observe a new awareness that you may not be able to achieve if you remain in your tumbled world of rationality and reasoning that holds you captive in repetitive thinking, and thinking that cannot quite leap beyond the norm.

It is time to think differently now about just about everything in your world. But it is also time to sit back and observe, notice, and begin to make plans for doing your life differently. There is a new energetic shift now that asks for truth to be spoken and acted, but it also warns of catastrophe if you do not act from a place of detachment. It is far too early to get caught in this teasing energy that now sweeps in to confuse you even more!

Do not attach to yet more strange and unnatural tales of deception, but sit back and see what else will be revealed. For this continues to be a revealing time and more news is to come, but it may be unclear and slightly deceptive in how it is presented, so do not fall for anything that looks too good to be true.

Do not listen to stories of grandeur and overflow. And do not jump to conclusions in your own life either, but wait out this hailstorm of controversy, confusion, and conflict that is about to rain down on your world. This process is inevitable, unstoppable. Your best course of action however, in such times, is to remain steadily calm, pragmatic, and continually looking ahead to long-term affect, questioning always your inner self.

Where do you want to be in your life in one month’s time? Where do you want to be in your inner world? Well, you will not achieve either dream if you listen to the nay-sayers, or even the truth-diggers outside of you. Yes, their predictions may be correct in the long run, but what does that truly have to offer now? You must remain innerly focused now, strong upon your warrior legs, your feet firmly planted in the truth of your reality, no matter what is presented to you from without. Remain steady now, My Dears, that is the best advice I can give you.

On the other hand, please do not forget to enjoy every minute of your life upon that earth. You are there to learn about your self, but it is not a bad idea to enjoy your learning experiences too! Continue your hard work on the self; maintain your diligent awareness of the signs in your life, but pay attention to the inner you who does truly know when it is time to work, when it is time to resort to a calm inner place of contemplation, and when it is time to play and be in the energy of the world around you. This inner you is the one to listen to.

Good Luck as this new energy bursts forth upon you and then comes to a grinding halt, throwing you all forward with an abruptness that will wake you up. But will you wake up clearheaded and truthfully aware? Or will you wake up dazed and confused? Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for you. That is what you must take care of answering your selves, by going innerly and solving your riddles by listening to your hearts.

Messages from Jeanne

#378 Accept Your Appointment with Evolutionary Growth

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us as we begin a new week? What can we expect from the energy and how can we continue to use it rather than be confused by it?

Do not be so troubled by the intense energy shifts and the revelations now and soon to be made known to you. Your intent must remain upon growth, personal growth and evolutionary growth. It is most advisable to remain strongly heart-centered as you go forward now.

Yes, there is much turmoil around you now, and even inside you, as the energy continues to push you in a direction of change that will matter, asking you to make decisions that will also matter, though they may also disrupt the flow of your life and appear to shift you in the opposite direction. But this is right, if you know that your heart yearns for such shift in direction. You will know by the balance of inner calm knowing and outer anticipation and excitement, as you elect to make a change that may at first appear to be drastic and challenging.

Do not hold your self back from accepting your appointment with evolutionary growth. In order to embark on this journey must you be ready and able to encounter the shifts in direction that must be taken note of and actualized. It is not enough to take a journey that simply notices the signs that point the way for you. But you must elect to move in the direction they point out to you when you know, by your inner resonance, that such a direction is right for you.

This is definitely a challenging energy time. It will be so for quite a while, long enough to offer many opportunities to change direction and to move in new directions, if you so desire. And that is the main issue here. You must each confront, within your selves, whether or not you truly desire to change? Are you ready and willing to take on this boosting energy that will, in fact, send you on quite a journey if you accept it as your impetus, your companion, and your ever-present enlightening force? Do you really wish for such change in your own life now? Even as you observe that change is needed in the world around you, so must you elect to participate by putting your self out into the flow of it.

I see so many of you confused in your lives right now. This confusion is also part of this energy; for it is so pushy that you cannot help but feel it. It may be more apparent to you than your sense of direction, or your noticing of signs, or your sense of self at this time. This is very common. So do not worry that you are losing your sense of direction, or that you are just a totally confused mess. The energy is letting you know it is available, and that is all you really need to know at this point if you have not found your focus, your direction, or your equilibrium.

By simply accepting that the energy is available can you relieve your self of its intensity. This is what I have been suggesting that you do and I continue to suggest this activity. Say to your self: “Okay, I accept the fact that the universe is offering tremendous energetic support. But I will not simply allow myself to be drawn in to it and risk being sucked away by its intensity. I prefer to monitor my own sense of well being, my own sense of place, and my own inner knowing based on who I know I am. I am a conscientious, mature, and intelligent being who is in the process of discovering my spirit intent and this is where I will place my focus. I will not get drawn out to the energetic craziness that is playing out all over the world. I prefer to stay calmly centered now, aware of my own needs to use this energy properly, so that I can allow myself to move forward, with my intent to evolve as my goal. Rather than simply jumping into the energy because it is present, I elect to sit a while longer and contemplate which direction of change really resonates with me.”

My Dearest Ones, this is a time of deep reflection. It is a time of inner searching. It is also a time of uncovering. What is being revealed must be further examined and accepted as truthful revelations that have thus far driven the world you live in. And in spite of the direction thus far taken, so is there always the possibility to elect a new direction, a change that will turn you around in a completely new direction. But as I say, you must elect this change based on what is clearly being shown to you now.

What you don’t like, what you see that is wrong, irresponsible, immature, and utterly and clearly corrupt must be fully acknowledged and left behind. Your own intent must remain focused on personal growth now in order for greater change to happen. All of you must reject negative activities, dishonest and irresponsible acts of personal, professional, and social injustice. You must all clean up your acts and rid your selves of confusion regarding what is right doing and what is wrong doing. You must become aware that every action you take in your lives affects everything else around you.

So for today, and to begin this week, I continue to advise inner contemplation based on outer truths now being revealed. Question your intent, your purpose in life, your meaningful activities versus your wasted energy. Find your resonance now, your inner resonance, during this time of great outer turmoil and you will be well on your way to making the right choices. Your inner you will not fail you, though your inner you may certainly challenge you! And that, My Dears, is what you must confront–the challenges that you are placing before your selves! Good Luck!