Messages from Jeanne

#548 This is Transformative Energy

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Do not lose sight of your goals and your potential. Do not lose your footing in your inner world or your outer world though you may be drawn out of balance by circumstances beyond your control. Watch, wait, and be present for those who need and those who resist, but do not take the steps for those who must take their own steps in order to grow. It does not matter who you are, or what your circumstances are, you must take your own steps and make your own way through that life.

In order to more fully appreciate the energy of the times in which you live, I suggest a concerted effort be made, each day, to stay connected to your heart-centered place of calm knowing. Let this be your anchor, no matter what is present in your life. At all times, find peace here, find balance, find connection to spirit and to self here.

By your attention to this steady connection will your outer difficulties, problems, issues, and resolutions become more clearly addressed, with natural actions of compassion and care, without forethought or ponderance, because each action and reaction will be truthful and right.

Ease your circumstances greatly by paying attention to this anchoring place. Begin your day, each day, in heart-centered anchoring so that your every choice will be automatically generated from this place of compassion. In caring for the self in this manner you will find that your care of others will be more appropriate and less fraught with discussion and indecision. Heart-centered action is right action, truthful action, releasing action, based in energetic responsiveness and resonance, truly the greatest means of living a life of meaning.

Energetically, this time is greatly pressuring for change. There is outer pressure caused by the alignment of many forces beyond human control. It is a time of acceptance to the facts of such outer power and energy. It is a crucial time in learning what it means to acquiesce to the inevitability of life leading you on your journeys. It is the time that you have always been waiting for, the energy that will push you forward now. Although you may not clearly see what is before you, I know you are fully aware that you are being pushed to move forward now into the future. It is upon you.

This is the time to flow forward now on your heart-centered goodness and resonance. You don’t even have to think about it. Go with the flow of it, for it is good energy. It is just asking for you to change now, to accept its guidance, even though you may not understand what the future offers if you allow its guidance into your life. It is good energy for all because it is transformative energy. You will find that everyone now has the opportunity to get their needs met, their truths revealed, and their plans for what comes next will flow naturally from this revealing process.

You will find that even your own truths will lead you properly during this time of pushing energy and your own position will become clearer. Even though you may each feel that you are in a position of taking care of others, watching others, or aiding the growth of others, so will your own growth become clearer. Your own path will become known and your own issues presented more succinctly. Go with the flow of this energy. Though it may feel a bit uncomfortable, it is really quite nice!

Messages from Jeanne

#547 Quiet Contemplation as a Tool

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Today is a day to be practical, succinct, and clear, but, above all, sensitive to the needs of the self and others. Do not fall prey to the big babies, the fear mongers, or the uninformed. Stay focused on heart-centered knowing and inner guidance and your day will, most assuredly, go smoothly.

Quiet contemplation must be your tool for a successful outcome to the days’ challenges. This is going to now become, by far, your most pertinent and useful tool, both for navigating the outer world and for staying connected to your inner world.

This is a day of confined challenge. You will not need to go much beyond your own issues today. Look for them being reflected back to you in each encounter that requires inner contemplation, though those encounters may appear to be purely objective outer dilemmas or confrontations. In essence, this is a day of intense personal scrutiny, though it will be by outer reflection.

Look closely at the mirror presented to you and ask the self to consider the deeper meaning for the inner you. Remain aware, connected, and quite present as you go about this inner contemplation, for your energy will also be needed in your outer world. Good Luck!

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#546 Chuck’s Place: The Tool of Self-Pity

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Welcome to Chuck’s Place, where Chuck Ketchel expresses his thoughts, insights, and experiences!

Earlier this week I threw the I Ching, which presented me with Hexagram #62 Preponderance of the Small. The I Ching chose the image of the skylark who, though a bird, stays close to the earth rather than soar beyond its limits. The gift of flight is acknowledged, but staying grounded where it needs to be is the sober requirement of the skylark. The danger with gifts is that we may become over-identified with them and push beyond the reality of where we truly need to be.

At one level, I think this archetype, Preponderance of the Small, is a fitting representation of the relationship between ego and spirit. We are given the gift of consciousness in all its smallness and must check its shield of hubris as we acknowledge our orphan status and find our way to the deep nurturance and wisdom of the spirit or collective unconscious. (See Message #542 Direct Experience.)

On a personal level, my encounter with this hexagram immediately generated both resonant awareness and the option of engaging Self-pity. Resonant awareness saw the truth in the hexagram and the appropriate response to its counsel. The ego self had a different reaction: the I Ching is suggesting an inadequacy. Suddenly, the door is opened to a lifetime of vignettes capturing hidden inadequacies and, deeper still, the judgement of core failure and the inability to change. Self-pity then rushes forth, offering to shroud the ego in an energetic cocoon, alienated and forsaken, yet bathed in a comfortable, self-contained protectorate.

And so, we are confronted with the classic blue pill/red pill choice. If we choose the blue pill, Maya, the spinner of illusion will step in and generate all kinds of “facts” to support our Self-pity. At the core of Self-pity is the secret belief that we are special, since, after all, on some level there is the belief of undeservedness for our predicament. With our specialness preserved we are not forced to change; we are safe to continue to wait, in entitlement, for the world to finally give us our royal recognition.

The red pill is simply the truth, and right action, which necessarily flows from it. With the truth we are challenged to stand in the field of our reality, inadequacies revealed, no specialness to cloud our clarity, no judgements, simply acceptance and responsibility for our continued evolution. (Sometimes, we swallow both pills at once!)

This morning, as I contemplated presenting this topic, I consulted The Wheel of Time by Carlos Castaneda, what I call “the shaman’s oracle,” as it depicts all the archetypes of the warrior’s way. Synchronistically, I opened to commentary on Self-pity. Carlos points out that Self-pity is inherent in our human condition, never to be eliminated. He counsels that the challenge is not to eliminate Self-pity, but, in fact, to rearrange its role in our lives. In effect, as I interpret it, he encourages us to use its energetic push to bring full focus to a truth attempting to reveal itself. How do we do this?

Steady the self and suspend judgment. Allow the self to get calm with its smallness and determine what actions flow from this place of truth. Thank Self-pity for being the foster parent that fosters evolution! Make it clear to Self-pity that we no longer need to be swaddled in blankets of illusion. With this action, we truly derive value from Self-pity, as we assign it the rightful place in our lives, by turning it into an evolutionary tool that serves truth over illusion.

Should anyone wish to write, I can be reached at: chuck@riverwalkerpress.com

Until we meet again,
Chuck

Messages from Jeanne

#545 Attainment is Achievable

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for your readers today?

Align now with the conviction of your heart and your knowing self, facing your challenges, and forging ahead. For only in conviction and attachment to the greater good of the heart’s desire will fulfillment be attained. I do not anticipate failure for anyone if your goals are true heart-centered goals, if your path is viable, if your truth is continually spoken innerly and outerly, if your guidance is pure, and if your means do not conflict with your heart’s greater intent to evolve.

This is a time now of brightness to come. A gleaning of life ahead will be glimpsed and the path revealed if the focus remains heart-centered and pure. I cannot stress enough that truth of heart is your greatest guide and this you know, even though you may not yet have dared to listen to it. Abide by your inner desires to live in purity of this heart-centered self, with alignment of purpose, living fully from this place of truth.

Attainment is achievable; it is in full view. Do you not see it? Continue to urge the ego self to listen more closely to what is truly being spoken. Your quiet heart speaks most loudly and clearly when you need its sound advice most urgently. Listen to your heart, remain upon your path, keep to your strong inner convictions of growth, truth, and prosperity of real evolution of spirit. That is your charge!

Messages from Jeanne

#544 Stay Connected: Heart to Path

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message do you have for your readers today?

Remain quietly cognizant of the inner self at all times. Even though storms may rage and disruptions arise, it is the stable, heart-centered path that must remain in your awareness. Though the veils will undoubtedly fall before your eyes again, do not lose sight of the connection between your softly speaking truthful heart and the path beneath your feet.

It is time now to fully understand the path you have chosen. By your heart’s yearning for change and recognition, and by the signs placed before you, pointing out a new direction, so have you begun a new journey based on resonance and acceptance of the self as ultimate guide. Though your decisions may still be tenuous, and your path but slowly being revealed, so is your heart urging you to continue in this new direction of resonance and knowing.

If resonance is not felt, if the path beneath your feet does not feel right, does not receive your every step, then stop and sit a while until the mist clears and you can clearly see where you are. If your path of chosen resonance is a mistaken one, based on preconceived notions and unclear messages, there is no fault in stepping off it to find a new path. For in the end, the only path that will be right must be the one of complete resonance.

By this I mean that your heart, your feet, and your guides, signs, and supports, must all align in a clarity that resonates. Such a path is still going to be challenging. In order to truly be able to accept the journey that your heart points out so clearly, and in order for true evolution, you must recognize the challenges as inner challenges, to be dealt with by you alone.

Why are you now on this path? What are your challenges? They may be old or even ancient, archaic, challenges, or they may be new advancing ones. They may be newly acquired or simply newly shone, as if a bright light has finally picked them out for you because this is the right time to confront them.

Does your ego intrude too much as you seek your way? Describe your ego to your self so that you may clearly understand how it operates to both propel you and offer you challenges, great and small. Does your ego push you now upon this path that is so right, or does it inhibit your every step? Are you still battling ego over spirit desire?

This is why I ask, today, that quiet communing with the inner self is necessary, in order to more fully understand what is going on in your life as you continue your journey. Each day are you offered challenges and each day must you make a decision about how to address those challenges. Abide by the truths of your spirit in making your decisions, for only in asking your heart-centered self for truth and guidance will your resonance pick up the correct choices and decisions to make.

Sit in quiet time, contemplating the self, and ask for a fuller understanding of who you are. Ask for clarity so that you may connect your puzzle pieces and gain understanding of how and why your journey is as it is. Do not push aside the thoughts that arise. Write them down. Accept the fact that you must, each one of you, no matter how enlightened, face challenges to your ego, your spirit, and your outer world and all that it encompasses.

Inner contemplation leads to outer clarity. Inner contemplation leads to inner clarity. Inner contemplation leads to clarity of vision, for this moment in time, and, however brief it may last, so does it offer you a glimpse of the true nature of self in the universe.

Do not forget that you are an evolving energy being. No matter how stuck you may feel, how uncertain of your path, whether new or old, how unworthy you may perceive your good fortune, or how challenging your perceived misfortunes, please learn to trust that the journey you are on is truly significant, for it is leading you to understand the self.

The self is body, spirit, thought, consciousness, awareness, and knowing energy. The self is all things. The challenge is to remove the blockages that keep you from this awareness of self as all things, all energy, all awareness. Once you gain a glimpse of the self as all things you begin to understand the insignificance of the self as ego, as matter, as brain and body. For what matters is the energy of self as part of that wholeness of all things, as light, as part of the interconnectedness of all things.

Continue your inner work. Find your spiritual path in that life and you will begin to more fully understand the whys and hows of who you are and the meaning of that life. Stay connected: heart to path!

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR