Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us today?

My Dear Ones, it is not within my power to do more than guide you. Although my words may offer incentive, so is it up to each of you to take action on your own behalf. Today I urge inner contemplation around your greatest issues of fear, reluctance, and denial of the need for change. Now is the changing time. It is a synchronistically and energetically aligned changing time. It is a vital and valuable time, energetically speaking, for inner growth, but no matter how often or how much emphasis I put on this fact, it will not aid you if you do not accept your responsibility in participating for the good of self.

Even as you elect to confront your basic reasons for sluggishness in taking action, so also realize that others in your life are being confronted with this same aspect in themselves. There may be great desire for change, yet has the impetus for action not arrived. I urge you to create your own impetus now based on what you know about your self, about your situation, your desires, and your deepest needs. Your impetus must come from your inner spirit’s yearning for recognition and your acceptance of it as your new partner in your life. This requires a new love and appreciation of the self.

A compassionate and yet unrelentingly focused self must now come forth in order to procure you a place in this energetic time of prosperity for the human race. You are all being given the opportunity to engage in this changing time. You are all being asked to participate in a global outreach that will have the possibility to shift the way that the human race lives and acts towards every being upon that earth.

But such a sweeping proposition of real change will not happen if you, each individual, does not make a commitment to change the self. How can you aid in the global energy of change if you have not dealt with your own inner energy? How can you understand global compassion if you have not processed what compassion of self means? How can you propose to others that they change if you have not asked the self to change first?

Each one of you must engage in change in order for greater change to occur in the world. Ask the self to face the fears that block your own energy from true emergence. Ask the self to wrestle with the problems that keep you caught in your old habits. Ask the self to truly participate in a new life now.

I know you are all good people with solid values founded in goodness, compassion, kindness, love, and many more fine qualities. But I urge you to consider your fears as your biggest blocks to growth, for they keep you from your true potential.

Do not be afraid of what awaits you as you confront these fears, for it is but life; life on many levels; life as energy; life as eternal, and life as impetus for further growth. Perhaps that is all you need to get you started on your true journey, simply the prospect of the energy of life, ready and waiting for you to tap into it!

NOTE: We were, very generously, given tickets to hear the Dalai Lama speak yesterday at Town Hall Theatre in New York City in a dialogue with Mary Robinson, the former President of Ireland. One of the topics he stressed dealt with the idea of oneness as being the answer to addressing many of the problems in today’s world. As he pointed out, there can no longer be a we and a they in the world; there can only be a we, and that the world is too interconnected for us to be so divided. If we begin to think of us all as one then we can begin to understand and live compassionately. I think in Jeanne’s message today she is asking us to address our divided self, the we and they aspects that keep us from our true self, and to learn compassion for these interconnected aspects of self. Then we can bring what we have learned into the world outside of us. -Jan

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message for us as we begin a new month upon this earth?

Continue your studies in self-awareness, remaining cognizant also of the world around you. Ground your self, with attachment to your inner self who guides, who knows, and who asks for recognition and trust. Alignment with this inner self is your anchor. Your life in the world around you will flow with greater ease and greater contentment if you allow this inner self to be heard, paying attention to and trusting its guidance and its truth.

Look for better balance now of the two selves, the inner self and the outer self, but look also for direction to stem from your inner truths, your knowing certainty, that continually emerges from within. Your inner knowing self is as the roots of a tree, your innocence its trunk, your outer self its branches, its blossoms, and its leaves. What kind of tree are you at this point in your life, and what kind of tree do you have the potential to become?

Are your roots firmly planted in the right soil for nourishment, with recognition of what they need to remain healthy and full of growth potential? Do you allow them to grow even deeper in the nurturing ground where they seek sustenance and further reaching for that which is beneficial? Are you a sapling blowing in the winds of change, as yet still sensitive and unpredictable in your anchoring placement upon that earth? Will you need replanting, or are you upon the ground that will nurture and allow you to continue growing for many years to come, offering potential for true spiritual and personal growth? Are you prepared to transplant if that is necessary?

Are you a tree that has had to compromise itself, your core too moist and damp, your leaves too weak to hold on as the stiff breezes blow? Is your inner core hollow or rotting because you have not dared to spread your roots to firmer ground, or allowed your branches to reach to the sun of nurturance and happiness?

Are you more firmly planted in a forest of compatible trees with everyone taking only what they need, allowing each the room to grow, to develop, and to spread outwardly and upwardly, while able to be innerly firm, accepting of your own inner strengths and outer beauty?

What kind of tree have you become? Are you covered in vines that have crept up over the years, keeping you caught, sucking your energy, smothering your life? Or are you allowing such attachment to take your sustenance, for your own purposes of decay? Have you acquiesced to your fate of decay rather than invite outside influence to come to your aid?

How do you perceive your self? Are you not another living creature upon the earth who needs everything that the plants and trees need? Do you offer your self good ground for planting your seeds and your roots? Do you understand that your innocence is your core, though it has often become overshadowed by the aspects of self that have come to test you with their challenges, ruling you innerly and outerly, creating a thick bark that may not be advantageous to your true roots or your true beginnings?

In finding your core, in growing strongly from your roots that are well planted, well nurtured, and well drained, will you enable a finer spreading of branches, allowing for exploration into the world outside of you. Your branches are only looking for the light, reaching for the light, seeking only the light, for only the light matters.

Contemplate awareness of self today in this manner. What kind of tree are you? Where are your roots planted? Is your core in alignment with your true abilities and attributes? Is your canopy of branches able to find the light? Are you offering your tree-self all that it needs for true grounding, true inner strength, and true growth?

Now is a time of inner and outer contemplation. Now is a time of growth with potential for shift and change, with opportunity for nurturance, replanting, adjustment, and for both inner and outer guidance to become known and acceptable. Step back from your self and study who you are from the perspective of nature. Be truthful in your assessment of the self as a being of energy and spirit with many needs and many desires.

Are you fulfilling these needs and desires of energy and spirit? Are you attending to these aspects of self? Are your roots receiving nurturance? Is your core acknowledged for its truth speaking, for its strength, for its innate knowledge? Are your branches given access to the light they seek?

With your right ruler in place, with your path chosen, and with your acquiescence to the truth of self as an energy being on a spiritual journey firmly planted, may your physical outer world open up, showing you where to find the light in your life, allowing you to continue growing and spreading both your roots and your branches, with your inner strength holding you firmly anchored and connected to all things.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
I am asking you to continue teaching and guiding us today. Monday’s message, #491, felt almost like a compilation of many of the topics you have been stressing over the past few years. I realize that you always address the mature adult in us, expecting that aspect of us to lead. Many people, however, struggle with undiscovered and unrecapitulated pasts and, as a result, are confronted with repeating old patterns and behaviors, and are often being ruled by any number of child aspects, or even the big baby. I know that you stress balance and moderation as a means of gaining control over aspects of the self that tend to rule, but what if the old rulers continue to reign and, in spite of good choices and the right decisions, they do not recede, but continue popping up and demanding attention?

I must say, My Dear, that this is quite a loaded question! My first response is that if the old rulers continue to rule then it is clear that they have not been properly dealt with, or they are not ready to relinquish their seats of power, for they are present as teachers as well as provocateurs. In order to be done with aspects of the self that tend to be in control must you truly be done with them. But as long as they can still teach you something about your self, they will remain in control of you.

What do they seek to teach you? Well, I suggest that it is obvious from whom the ruler is. Is it your big baby? If so the first obvious thing to learn is that you are being ruled by the big baby. Is it your controlling adult self who rules? Then acknowledge and accept this truth. Is it your underachieving teenage self, full of low self-esteem who rules? Then address this truth, seeing it clearly as your place of control. Address, first, who rules you. Be truthful about this assessment, looking at your self in your life and acknowledging, from your inner truth speaker, that your life has been dominated by one aspect or another.

Perhaps you are most often in your adult place of rule, but occasionally slip back into an old track, an old personality returns to test your stability. If this is so, then the means of acknowledging and addressing this process will be the same. Find who your ruler is, and then determine how this ruler controls and proclaims majesty. Observe your self in the role of this ruler. Begin to see how it operates by taking your tips from the truths being shown.

If you are ruled by the big baby, the first thing to do is to take into consideration all traits of babyhood, and observe the self with these traits applied to your actions and decisions. How does a baby act? What has a baby learned and how does a baby use what it has learned because of its helplessness, neediness, and curiosity? How does a baby manipulate so that it gets what it wants? How does it process what it perceives and is confronted with? How does a baby placate and comfort itself, especially in the presence of grave danger or the possibility of annihilation?

These and many more questions can be applied to any aspect of the self that rules, whether the low self-esteem teenager, the controlling adult, the scared ten-year old, the shy eight-year old, the foolhardy twenty-one year old, or the explorative forty-year old. All or any aspects of the self must be asked these and many more questions in order to begin the process of dethroning the ruler.

1. Determine who rules.

2. Address the definition of how this ruler accomplishes its goals.

3. The next part of the process is to discover what this present ruler is attempting to teach you?

Your ruler is present in your life not to sabotage, but to teach. However, sabotage can happen, over and over again, as part of the teaching and learning process. It may even be the final result if the mature adult self is not extricated and placed in a position of power, dusting itself off and facing the ruler who is both attempting to keep it asleep or in denial, while at the same time attempting to wake it up and invite it to a duel.

Your job, as evolving beings, is to evolve. Many of the issues now before you may be evolutionary issues, needing attention, begging for attention, so that you may finally be released from the fortresses and dungeons they have challenged you to recognize them and fight your way out of them.

Do you understand your own rulers? Do you see the challenges before you? Do you see where you are caught? Do you accept these truths that are revealed daily? Do you want to relinquish the comforts of the discomforts in your life? Do you accept the fact that change produces many more discomforts, as you challenge your self to the duel that must be proposed and fought in order for growth to happen?

Change requires adult guidance and supervision. Change requires adult commitment. Change requires adult participation. Change requires adult acceptance of the truths. Change requires adult action. Change requires adult rule, and I do not mean an adult who is a tyrant, or even a fairy godmother type. I mean a mature, balanced, fair, knowing, and evolving adult who is not afraid to allow for the possibilities in life to lead the trusting self forward on the right path. But most of all, the mature adult must listen to and pay attention to the inner self, who is the greatest guide of all.

This aspect of self is revealed daily, if you take the time to listen, if you shush the rulers for a moment, and ask for quiet and inner silence to reign over all other aspects that wish to intrude. It may take some practice if you are not used to listening to inner guidance, but with training you will have access more often.

I leave you today with this guidance. This is recapitulation work, but it is also evolutionary work. It is daring work. It is beginning a process of dethroning and dueling. It is challenging work that will aid you in finding your true adult ruler, who is gracious yet firm, loving yet knowing, accepting yet also aware that every choice and action should be in alignment with the truth of your inner trusting self. Remember, your greatest teachers lie within.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have some guidance for us today?

The time of regression now passes into a time of reaction, return to spirit awareness, and a reawakening of your spirit intent upon the earth. As I have often said, one of the most enterprising and rewarding mantras you can offer your self on a daily and even moment-to-moment basis is: “I am an energy being.” This is the key to your existence. If you allow the idea of it to broaden into every aspect of life, going beyond the confines of your own body and spirit, so may your awareness of everything begin to grow, expand, and gratify you with measures of awakening far outweighing anything else you might attempt to discover or expand upon.

No other fact of life is more important to keep in mind. In maintaining your awareness of the self, and all else, as energy, so do you offer the key to resolution of all issues, to the dissolution of all structures, to the dismantling of all judgments, to healing, and to the ability to detach from the attentions paid to the whirlwinds of life as they approach to guide you. These whirlwinds come and go and are comprised of attachments, habits, behaviors, addictions, pleasures, blames, negative as well as positive energy feeders, and all the structures, concepts, and decisions that have kept you tumbling through life with little or no sense of self, of direction, or of true spirit.

Keep in mind that energetic shifts, inside and outside of you, happen quite often. You may notice the big ones, such as now, more readily than the smaller shifts. Small shifts and offers to change happen in small ways. They are presented to you in the questions you are asked, the choices proposed, and the energy you are confronted with each day, inside of you and outside of you.

With your attention now firmly placed upon the self as an energy being, unfettered, detached, and selflessly seeking guidance, with intention to grow as an evolving being, I alert you to your own responsibility to journey forward fully aware of the self as comprised of spirit and physical body, energy and matter, negative and positive energy, anima and animus (female and male energy), light and dark. The ability to fall into your human needs is as equally important as your ability to access your spiritual needs. Yet your time upon that earth requires mature balance while at the same time you remain aware of all that calls to you asking for your attention, your tending, and your appropriate responses, choices, and decisions based on your overall awareness of the self as an energy being upon a physical journey.

Stand in your truth. Know your self fully. Know your big baby desires as well as your adult desires. Know your spirit desires in your inner world and your outer world. Know your attachments and your abilities to detach as the signs show you the direction to take.

Investigate the self. Unless you know the self you cannot know your purpose, your true direction, your fuller abilities, your connections, nor make meaningful and right choices and decisions.

Know the spirit self as clearly as you know the body self. Be open to your troubles as well as your delights, knowing that without acceptance of self there will be no acceptance of others, nor beauty of life fully realized, nor love achieved.

Love the self as energy. Love the self as physical being. Love the self as wandering seeker. Love the self as troubled investigator. Love the self as balanced and open, while still loving the fearful and hidden self.

Remain available to each of those aspects of self when they come asking for your attention and your love, your compassion, and your evolutionary goodbye to the restraints and inhibitions they have placed upon you. Be aware of the self as curious, in all aspects of life. Choose to fully seek understanding of the self in the context of the knowledge that all things are comprised of energy.

Slow down and breathe into your bodies to begin your new journey, each day, asking the self to align, to grow a little each day, to learn something new, and to be open to evolutionary directions as they are revealed.

Your ultimate direction is certain, your end revealed from the moment of birth. All things physical must end. But what do you take with you when you go, as all must choose. Will you take your well-trained aware self, or your equally well-trained forgetting self?

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Can you offer us guidance to wrap up this week and lead us into the coming weekend?

Today, I offer first a synthesis of what you have learned over the past few days and even weeks. You are learning that you are energy beings, that you can TAP into your own energy, that you can utilize it innerly and outerly and, best of all, that you are in total control of your entire life by the choices you make, the directions you take, the options offered, and the decisions to do what you do. You may dispute this last fact, but, I dare say, if you allow your self to be honest you will acknowledge that yes, you are in complete control because only you say yes or no, only you say perhaps or maybe, and only you say now or later. Only you decide, and only you take action. (At this point in the channeling I had the clear insight that the events of our childhood, when we may feel that we did not have a choice, are the result of the choices made before we entered this lifetime, and may perhaps be our greatest challenges of this lifetime, in essence our core issues to resolve before we can evolve.)

You may wish to blame others for your place in life, for your current situation, for your dilemmas and your problems, but I contest the process of blaming others, and ask all of you to take responsibility for your journeys, for your choices, and for your own progress in life.

Keep in mind, at all times, that you are energy beings. As energy, first and foremost, you have the ability to enter many situations and make many contracts for reasons that may not be clear to your mental and physical self who may protest greatly at the imbalances in your life. But think about your energetic self as your true decision maker and allow that self to lead you to places that will challenge you to grow. Can you accept that although you may be unhappy in your life that you are, in fact, there for a very good reason that your energetic self is fully cognizant and aware of?

Are you ready to accept that your energetic self is showing you the truth of your path, pointing you in the direction you must take, in order for your life to unfold and evolve? Do you accept the next point I make, that you are fully capable of tapping into this energetic self, and finding the reason for your situation? Are you ready to do that? Are you ready to hear the truth?

The truth is spoken to you over and over again, throughout your life, and on a daily basis. But you might notice that you elect to ignore it, often, because the truth requires that you face the challenges of change and transformation that the truth reveals to you in its messages. I speak of acceptance of these truths, energetically presented and utterly known, with certainty. Yet do you choose to ignore them, while you continue your common habits and behaviors of burying your words of truth under mounds of fear?

Fear is always the greatest challenge. It appears at every step. It is the human challenge, the invader who enters your life to do battle with your energetic self. Your truth, clearly spoken, and revealed by your very innocent and honest spirit self, is then confronted with the voice of fear saying, well, what if? How can I possibly do that? I can’t do that! When, in fact, you can decide to go with your spirit, confronting your fear, seeing it as just another energy, a negative energy that teaches you as much about your self as your spirit energy does.

So, you see, these are your two complications, your competitors, in a standoff for much of your life, your spirit energy vs. your fear energy. Now, I also contend that you are in total control of both of these aspects of life’s battles. Yes, you are!

In order to access true control, you must be willing to acquiesce the fear control that has dominated thus far. Fear keeps you safe. Fear keeps you alert. Fear protects you, but it also stifles you, hides you, and keeps you stuck in a place of reluctance to listen to the truth spoken by your energetic self.

It is wise to turn the tables on your fear, but you must first know what your fears are, and that is the next lesson I wish to advise you upon, know your fears. This is the next step to take and the next part of the process of evolving. If you do not know who or what your energy is, how can you wage a good battle? Your fears reveal themselves quite often, but they are often as deeply hidden beneath your daily patter as your truths are, residing side by side with your energetic truths, beneath the oblivion of control that has thus far been your mode of operation.

I challenge you to make a list of your fears, from the greatest to the tiniest. And then I ask that beside that list you make another list of your energetic truths. You might find that your fears are many and your truths few, but you might also notice that your truths are grounding, mature, noble, and worthy of your attention, while your fears may be old and tired, worn out, and energetically depleted or sorely bruised from years of use and abuse. You might find that your truths do shine more brightly than your fears, yet have you still not accepted them as your guiding truths, but for fear of what?

As I mentioned the other day, your purpose and meaning in life is to live from your spirit self, allowing this aspect of self to override all fears, allowing it to challenge you and bring you forth into greater acknowledgment of and access to your self as a being comprised of energy, ready and willing to embrace the true self.

So, ponder who your fear-driven self really is. And ponder also who your innocent spirit self is. Allow them to face each other. Look honestly at these two halves of the self and begin a systematic dismantling of the fear aspects of self in favor of the spirit self emerging and participating in your life. Good Luck!