Soulbyte for Friday October 28, 2016

Environmental tragedies, complicated relationships, male and female discord and strife, unusual events and significant occurrences of all kinds are bound to occur due to the times you live in. Oddnesses become the norm, a sign of evolutionary energy. Bear the tension with compassion and grace, for these are the changing times bringing you forward into a new era where the meek will rise up and the ugly lie down.

Let not your discord overpower you but ride the waves of change with an open and eager heart, even while you hold to your convictions of what is right for the planet, for all beings, and for the greater good. Hold others accountable, but hold yourself accountable too, to the truth, at all times. Life is in changing mode. It’s time, whether you are ready or not.

Bear the pain of change, even as you embrace it for its ability to bring on that which is inevitable. It’s where you are headed anyway. How do you want to go? Swept along or with awareness? Consciously or unconsciously? It’s up to you. It’s always your choice. No matter what is at hand, big or little event, you choose your own approach, attitude, and sentiment.

This is really a change into the season of the heart. Can you just love?

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday October 27, 2016

Settle into accepting that you are enough.

You shine like the sun, glow like the moon.

You move like the wind and are still like the earth.

You are sky and you are water.

You are night and you are day.

You are light and you are dark.

You are one and yet you are all.

Find yourself in everything, find everything in you.

In this way, don’t you see? You are enough!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Wednesday October 26, 2016

Live without regret, that your heart may learn to sing, that your mind may be clear, that your word may be kind.

Give without resentment, that your presence may be felt with gratitude, your being found generous.

Love with compassion, that your spirit may know its place on earth and find its way to joy, no matter your trials and tribulations.

Find yourself in contemplation and resolution of all of this, knowing that you are good. Let that be enough for now.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Tuesday October 25, 2016

When the light comes in the darkness disappears.

When the darkness disappears so do the fears.

When the fears go so do the worries.

When the worries go so do the attachments.

When the attachments go so do the needs.

When the needs go, then you are free.

And when you are free there is no difference between the light and the dark, they are equal.

Is it time to let the light in?

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Woman-in-Charge

As the winds of change take a pregnant pause, we have a moment of reflective consciousness to assess what has happened, where we are now, and how to prepare for what is coming.

Hurricane Trump appears to now be downgraded to a mere tropical storm, still dangerous but no longer deadly. His catabolic action has truly served to usher in the breakdown of the ruling elite, the utter outing of the shadow of patriarchal rule. Decent folk of all political persuasion are turning away from the outright denigration of the feminine.

It appears that the gasbag inflatedness of the self-righteous masculine ego has been pricked and humbled. The collective conscience is settling on civility as the ruling principle. Curiously, it now becomes clear that Trump is actually the advance guard of the goddess, clearing the ground for the crowning of feminine rule. In every marriage, in every relationship, in the rule of the land, in the rule of the world, the feminine is truly set to take its leadership role.

This is truly momentous. When, in the history of the world, has a woman assumed the most powerful position of control over the entire world? We appear to be on the brink of this transition. My reading of the energy of this fateful transition has been consistent for the past several years. Ever since the towers crumbled, I knew that the world as it has been traded was coming to an end.

Our planet is sick, and human leadership, unfortunately, has been the culprit. Gaia initiated her healing crisis and we humans have become the pawns of her transformation process. Mother Nature is leading us now. She has delivered the healing potion, and yes, Donald Trump has been part of her brew, part of the clearing of the ground for her next move, the installation of the feminine in the place of power.

Why is it so vital that the feminine take the lead?

The feminine knows how to work with nature. Woman cannot escape direct confrontation with nature. While a man can duck out of his initiation rites, a woman will be initiated by nature into menstruation. She cannot escape it and it will revisit her monthly, prepared or not. When it’s time to deliver a child, nature takes over in the autonomous tumult of childbirth; this is not something woman can create or stop. Woman can only go along, acquiesce, humbly staying afloat as nature takes her course.

We, as a world, are faced with the crisis of planetary survival. The masculine attitude believes it can debate the validity of climate change. The masculine attitude still believes that it is superior to nature, can take its fill and not be concerned about its impact. The masculine attitude is searching for a new planet to inhabit, ducking off into outer space rather than taking care of the one we already have.

Well, thanks to Donald, women are coming out in droves, revealing the impact of unstoppable masculine energy in abuse to the earth of their own bodies, and an attitude of respect is emerging for the nature of woman. This should naturally be followed by a reinvigorated attitude of respect for the planet as well.

Nature must be respected, she insists upon it now, and she asks that a woman, her closest ally, rise with consciousness to partner in the healing of the planet. Gaia does not want a compliant female to lead her healing. She demands that reflective masculine consciousness and feminine wisdom merge to make the right decisions and acquiesce to the truth of badly needed change.

And so, I ponder the reflections I suggested at the beginning of this blog.

What has happened?

What has happened is that the evolution of consciousness, which started with the birth of the ego—the right to think and decide—that was made in the Garden of Nature, and cost us the harmony of living unconsciously with nature, has reached its climax. The inflated ego recreated nature into Frankenstein and has nearly destroyed the world in the process. This rise in consciousness took too much liberty, the towers had to come down.

Where are we now?

The dust is settling. Trump unwittingly performed his magic. The truth has been laid bare. We are being asked to acquiesce, to truly trust the coming to power of the mature feminine. Nature, the true condition of the world, of relationship, must be acknowledged. A necessary rebalancing must be accepted.

Don't let the flame of consciousness blow out! - Photo by Jan Ketchel
Don’t let the flame of consciousness blow out!
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

What is to come?

I believe we are averting a reinstallation of Hitler in the guise of Donald Trump. In 1933, Hurricane Hitler blew out the flame of consciousness in Germany. We appear to have survived the onslaught of a similar hurricane, this time around in our own country.

We will choose, with consciousness. This is a major advancement for consciousness, as it rises to the heart center, deciding on behalf of what is right and truly needed.

Of course, the future is never written in stone; it’s full of cataclysmic challenges. Elections are merely starting points. I foresee Gaia taking us far deeper into an environmental reshaping of our planet. What is critical now is that we all move forward consciously, with a respectful and reverent attitude toward feminine wisdom that knows how to prepare for and flow with the inevitable.

Of course, I also have to humble myself to the possibility that I might be trumped on the morning of November 9th! But the coming of the rule of feminine wisdom is inevitable, it’s already in play.

It’s the only attitude that can meet these times that are so a’changin’.

It’s inevitable,

Chuck

 

 

 

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR