Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for humanity today?

This is a time of shift, yet is it up to each one of you to engage in it, to partake of the opportunities that arise to further you along. You exist as a leaf upon a tree. When the winds come, when the time is right, you will be buffeted and loosened, knocked from your connection and sent swirling down from your perch. Will you allow the breeze to lift you and carry you afar on your true journey? Will you fall to the mulchy ground beneath the tree of life and merge with the undergrowth? Will you sit silently awaiting the call to move on, stumbling along the ground, a leaf on the wind that has come to carry you?

Your lives upon that earth are energetically spurred, attached, and set up so that you have many opportunities in a lifetime to awaken, become aware, and move on to new life. New life comes in many forms, both subtle and forceful, engagingly enticing and fearfully alerting, yet do you always have the option to flow or not to flow. Even the tiniest leaf upon the ground may tumble but an inch before it hunkers down among the dead and dying mulching leaves, electing no more engagement in adventure.

Do you see what I am proposing to you today? I am in the mood to suggest that awakening opportunities are present in every moment of every day. Even if you are buffeted by the wind, a leaf upon the breeze, are you aware that this is so? Are you aware of your journey, your own energy, and the energy outside of you pushing you along? Do you feel controlled by your life? Are you unaware that you have total control, if only you would wake up and engage in the energy that is not only present in your life but fully necessary, previously arranged so that you might grow?

Each one of you upon that earth has the opportunity to awaken at any moment to the flow of your life, on an energetic scale, as part of all energy, meant to be, but also eager to exist, if only you will allow for it. This is the final question I pose to you today: Can you allow your self to fully exist, as an energetic being on a mission of growth and evolution, energetically propelled and engaged? You are all energy beings. You are all capable of more fully engaging the energy around you.

During this time of shift and great potential for human growth, perhaps you will energetically protest your usual routines, habits, thoughts, behaviors, ideas, and rituals, and reengage in the fresh new energy that is calling you, asking you to notice what is really happening inside of you and outside of you. Find out how you are really feeling. State you truths and live by them. Decide to use the energy for a real shift and you will be supported greatly in your endeavors.

Find your calmness, your balance, your heart-centered goodness, and lift the edge of your awareness out of the place where you are caught and like a leaf upon the breeze allow your self to travel some place new, without fear, open to the journey ahead.

Sorry this is a little late today. Due to extreme cold the internet has been down all morning. Have a great weekend!
-Jan & Chuck

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for us today?

Bring your energy inward now as the outer energy continues to pull at you. Remain centered, balanced, and in a state of flux, within and without, so that equilibrium and maturity of purpose and decision remain in tact. In turning inward, your work upon the self may continue unabated though your outer world may continually rev its engines. Your inner energy, to combat the outer engines buzzing loudly, must tune to a lower hum for this equilibrium to be achievable.

I cannot stress enough how important it is, especially at this time of year, to remain innerly connected. Find your balance and your inner place of calm so that you may flow now, uninterrupted, into holiday time, available to interact with dignity and mature grace, through this time of coming change.

There is little else you need attend to now. Stay focused on maintaining a steady inward gaze throughout the time ahead. This will aid you in holding your place in your inner work. Turn inward with heart-centered breathing, with calming mantras, and with mirrors of inner reflection, finding always the personal meaning of your outer world, asking the self, in an innerly manner, to ponder what is being shown outside of you. Your world reflects your deepest issues and this you must constantly contend with to truly remain in flux.

Enjoy your inward turning, not a chore but a path to enlightenment of self. This is the reason you exist, not only to live in that world, but to find the true reason you are in that world at this time. What are you supposed to learn? Your answers to that question must be taken from your outer life and answered in your inner life. To get to a place of deep inner work, to a place of true flux, is to accept responsibility for every step you take, every place you find yourself, every confrontation and challenge you encounter and turn inward in contemplation, without judgment or blame of self or others, but as simple fact that this issue is most important and necessary work at this moment.

To ask the self why is just the first step. The second step is to wait for the inner self to respond. Your answers will come, though perhaps not as you wish them, perhaps in an unusual or uncomfortable way, but no matter how they arrive, your next step is to receive them and take them back into your inner self and go deeper, asking what you are supposed to learn next. This is true inner work in flux with every day life.

Find your equilibrium and without fear or judgment allow the self to venture inward even as you move forward in your outer life, flowing and knowing that life and the universe expect you to keep challenging the self to fully grasp the true meaning of your existence. I give you this gift to ponder, as usual: the SELF!

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
I’ve been feeling a hopeful, bright energy while at the same time we are heading into the darkest time of the year for those of us who live in the northern hemisphere. I feel that darkness encroaching on the horizon, a kind of pulling-in, comfortable darkness though, rather than a negative darkness. The winter has turned cold now as we await the advent of the holiday season and family gatherings. What message do you have for us today as we prepare for this season?

Whether is it dark and cold or light and warm, so is the energy of the earth universal. Tap into the calmness of the season more fully now as you go into a time when traditionally there is much spending and attachment to that which is outside of you. Turn inward to granting the self and others the peace and calmness of inner energy that is so useful and beneficial, and that is also free. Turn inward to the truths that all of you hold within: the power to calm yourselves, the power to stop yourselves from exploitation of your energy, and the power to heal yourselves. Turn inward at this time of extroversion and allow for exploration of a new and deeper inner process that does not cost a penny and that will leave you quite peacefully steady, balanced, and calm.

I speak today of the power that resides inside the self to smooth ruffled feathers, soothe frantic energy, and calm desperate nerves. I speak of the innate ability to find inner balance and to find a means of tapping into the innate well of utter calm energy that resides inside you.

Each one of you, My Dear Ones, will fare well in life if you can turn inward and find your place of peacefulness. Developing a relationship with this calm inner and knowing self allows for greater contact with this self and with those who are present in your lives to guide and support you. Beginning a process of inner calming, inner acknowledgment, inner listening, and inner speaking will, as you practice these things, bring you closer to this inner self more easily each time you turn inward.

This is not a selfish thing to do but a deeply necessary practice, especially now in the waning time when energy is indeed asking you to turn introspective, to protect this aspect of self from the cold winds of winter. Is not winter best dealt with by making preparations that provide for warmth and protection, for nurturance and conservation of energy for the cold and darkness ahead?

Even as you speak of winter, so must you think upon the season as an energetic time, traditionally a time of hibernation and inner rest, a time of rejuvenation of energies before a new spring arrives in a couple of months. Observe the world of nature during this time in order to learn a new practice of inner work. It is not unusual that the home becomes a center, family is sought, and warmth, in all manner of speaking, is desired.

Whether you are a family oriented person or not, the time calls you to go innerly to your own warmth, to sit by your inner fires of energy and read your truths by the light of your own hearth. This is a turning in time, most definitely, though your commercial world has you believing that it is an outward turning time. In truth, there can be little effect of outward expression at this time, except perhaps as a perfunctory nod to traditions long exhausted and over done. The deeper tradition, the most necessary, lies inside each of you, in your own nature, as it calls you to acknowledge the inner self, even as the outer world grabs your attention.

As adults in a world that has gotten out of synch, and out of all proportion with nature, it is up to each of you to more firmly establish a new tradition based in the oldest tradition of the natural world itself: to turn inward. Use this time of darkening of the light to change the way you relate to the world, to each other and, most importantly, to the self.

A practice of natural calming, seeking inner connection, and allowing the self to remain aware of the outer natural environment will aid you in developing a new inner tradition during this time of change. It is time to break the old traditions, reconnect with the natural energy of the time of year and the energy of the universe and delve into your souls, My Dear Ones. Give yourselves the gift of connection with the self. For only in connecting with the true innocent self will you have anything to offer of meaning to anyone else.

Be calm. Be real. Be silent, and perhaps you will hear the true sounds of the season as you open your door to the true visitor who is knocking.