Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What message or guidance can you offer us today?

Look forward to deep inner jewels, lying buried in your awakening self, even as your outer world deteriorates, falls amiss, and becomes but a semblance of its once mighty self. Look inward, as great changes continue to perpetrate and ravage the current landscapes. Mediocrity is no longer acceptable. It is time now to completely attach to new ideas and new ways of navigating the world you live in, for your old world is dying of its self-inflicted wounds.

You are beings who have the opportunity to evolve. By your very existence is this true. Do not doubt that you are in a place of opportunity and growth potential. Do not doubt that you personally matter; that you personally have something to offer, to give, but that you personally also have much to learn about that world you live in.

If you reduce your world to its pure state, of nature and man, meaning all nature and all mankind, so will you perhaps see what you have been provided with in order to survive, but also to evolve. You do not need to go beyond the provisions of the worlds, of nature, of the complex interconnectedness of everything you can touch and see. Put your hand upon the earth, feel its energy, and doubt not that it has much to offer. Look upon the growth, the plethora of plants, trees, and flowers, so readily available with offers of food, healing, and possibility of exploration. Do not either doubt your own ability to learn to utilize the basics of nature in their purest state.

Are you speaking of natural healing remedies, plant based, and such?

I am speaking of your whole world as being in perfect balance, offering everything you need in order for survival in human form. So yes, I speak of natural possibilities, of healing. But far beyond that do I encourage all of you to turn away from the corporate world, so greedily struggling to stay alive. Turn instead back to the reality of nature. Turn to your own innate abilities to recognize the possibilities that are right before your eyes. I do advise a shift away from that which is unreal, back toward that which is most real. I say “back” in deference to the fact that most of you have left, far behind, your innate abilities to recognize the bounty of your world, as you have turned to others, the greed mongers, to guide you.

It is now time to return to your roots, literally and metaphorically. Turn, and return, to your world in its glory and know that you are energetically connected to all things upon that earth. You are no more, nor less, important than everything you see and touch. You are equally present; equally available to learn and grow, and equally capable of experiencing your energetic connection.

Allow your selves to test your presence, in nature, in some way today. Allow your selves the luxury of feeling the air, the sun, the earth, the fragrances, the wind, the snow, the sand at your feet. Allow your selves to reunite with the energy of that earth, reconnecting with your ancient self, who knows that nothing is more important than evolving in a spirit based manner, recognizing that you are one with all that exists in your world.

Be kind. Be compassionate. Look upon your self as wholly connected energy. Each one of you, and everything in your nearness, is equally vibrant, alive, positively glowing with possibility. What is your next step going to be? Are you going to accept your place as an energetic being; interconnected with all other energetic beings; with nature, with the animals, and with spirit intent? Are you ready to love your self for this simple state you find your self in? Can you love your ancient self? Can you love your self, this moment, for who you are, an energetic being who is struggling to evolve?

Maintain awareness of these ideas of energy. Look upon your life in less complicated manners, in order to gain a new perspective. Allow your energy to guide you. Allow your self to refer to your inner knowing, more often, even as you allow your self to remain connected to all things in your life and beyond.

Present your self with this gift today of nature and your connection to it. You never know where it may lead you. But I suggest you pay attention to what your ancient self suggests to you. You may find that your refusal to shift is rooted in your ignorance of your own personal place, your own possibility, and your own greatest natural potential.

Where are you? Right there, in the midst of all that amazing energy. Can’t you feel it?

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have guidance to offer us for the week ahead?

Look upon your selves as energetic beings; capable of exploration, and aware of the life you live as being all you really need to guide you. My position is that of guidepost, pointing out to you possibilities and what you may have failed to notice or learn as you speed along your path. Your questions asking for guidance are greeted with serious consideration, but I do also admonish you to remain cognizant of your own abilities. I prefer to aid you as you lead, rather than lead you to a place that you are not naturally ready to go.

Don’t you find that we are ready for what you offer, most of the time anyway?

Yes, I do. But I must also state that often have you not fully considered the ideas I suggest, for your lives are so busy. For instance, if I suggest that you remember, at all times, that you are comprised of energy, so do you react as if you have never heard such an idea before, though we have talked about it many, many times.

I know what you mean. We tend to forget that very important fact. It’s important to be reminded of it. It is such a liberating insight, but we still need to apply it to our lives, in how we live and interact, making decisions in all aspects of life. We still have to deal with the nitty gritty facts of life, and that is what we also seek guidance on, such as how to handle relationships and encounters with things that are troublesome or unfamiliar.

Yes, I know that. Yet do I also contend that if you did not have my guidance, so would you who are seekers find your way naturally. Your innate ability to explore beyond your physical realm would be your guide. This is what we seek to aid you in developing, for only in finding and utilizing that aspect of your self will you be able to evolve. Your inner abilities, your inner knowing, and your ancient innate self are all available to you. Your training in awareness must remain attuned to the fact that you are as equally capable of guiding your self as I am.

Do you not guide your self in your dreams? Do you not guide your self in many aspects of your daily lives? Have we not already had so many conversations regarding your innate abilities?

Yes, to all of those questions.

Your abilities should not be in question, My Dear Readers. All of you are beings comprised of energy. All of you are living lives of awareness. You are not attempting to learn a foreign language, but in fact a language that is already inside you, awaiting excavation. I am simply a mentor, a reminder, of what lies waiting, pointing out to you that, of course, you already know that, and that, and that. Of course, you know you are an energy being. You can feel it. You have experienced your own energy self. Now you are learning what to do with it.

AHA, you say! But what to do with it lies also deeply embedded in you. Your greatest stumbling blocks to accessing your innate abilities and knowledge are fear, doubt, and lack of trust. You fear what you don’t know. You doubt what you experience, and then you don’t trust what you know has been experienced. Your experiences in life are really all you need in order to re-awaken your inner self, your inner abilities of knowing (clairvoyance), and your ancient knowledge of how to use it for evolutionary purposes.

As you begin this new week in your structured, segmented, compartmentalized world, allow your self time, each day, to experience your energetic self, as simply that, as energy. Feel your self as boundless, as expansive, as unconfined, free energy. Remind your self of this fact, each day, and then throughout your day. This will keep you tethered to your ancient spirit self, who always was and always will be. And this awareness of self, as energy, will aid you as you allow your experiences in life to be more meaningful, no matter how bland or normal they may appear. Look at each moment of each passing day as spectacular and meaningful. Accept the fact that even if you cannot fully grasp the fullness of it, so can you be aware of the truth of it. The truth, that every moment you are alive upon that earth is a moment of wonder, will eventually begin to aid you in awareness.

Wow, I just heard a loud CRACK as I wrote the word awareness!

Do not dismiss it as merely a loud crack, but look at the synchronicity of it, punctuating the very fact that I have been stressing, that you are all aware beings. Trust what comes to you in your moments of awareness, in your moments of contemplation of your self as energy. And then expand that awareness, little by little, each day, until you are living in heightened awareness more often, more fully; grasping meaning and taking note of how differently you view and understand your world as a result.

None of this is difficult or inconceivable. You are all capable of feeling your own energy, of listening to what your own world is saying to you, and of learning to accept the truths of your self study. Allow your self to become your teacher, even as you continue to look to me, and others, for guidance. We are here not to keep you bound to us, but to teach you to evolve and become whole and complete energy beings, fully aware and ready to advance into a role similar to ours, both now upon that earth, and later, as you transform and transcend the earth cycles.

Remember always, that you are energy and awareness. You are beings who are going to evolve to another awareness. Use your time upon that earth to heighten your innate abilities, so that you may find your self able to transform seamlessly, already having shed your fears, your doubts, and trusting your self, your abilities, and your journey. This is good!

NOTE: This message today goes along with something that Chuck is writing about, as related to the shaman’s contention and daily statement that, “I am a being who is going to die.” After our weekend spent contending with the ice storm we are aware that we had some very meaningful experiences. We’ll probably be writing more about them during the week, posting them on Chuck’s Place on Saturday.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
What can you tell us about the energy today, and what can we expect from it?

My Dear Ones, your progress is rooted in your awareness. The process of opening the channel to your awareness is continual. Your keenness is growing each day as you pay attention to what is happening all around you. But do you get it? Do you get the bigger picture? Are you aware that you are significant? Are you aware that everything you do, think, and act upon is significant and as meaningful as what you expect in return? Are you aware that not only are you a player of importance in that great picture, that playing field of life, but every move you make affects the entire game of life?

Live your lives not only with awareness, but live your lives with knowledge that you do make an impact. Your presence upon that earth makes a difference and you are of significance. This greater awareness may appeal to you, as you go about your busy lives, for you sometimes forget that you are playing an important role. I know that it is so easy to fall into complacency and forgetfulness of the bigger picture, but I warn you, today, that there is no time to forget this. During this time upon that earth, there is a great need to be aware of your significance, and the need to take action, to remain an active participant in life upon that earth. As I have said, you are living in a time of great significance and of great proportions, when everything, even the tiniest, most insignificant aspect of life, has great meaning and potential. Do not dismiss your self so easily from the equation, as you may have done in the past, even for a second.

Look upon your selves, My Dear Ones, as most important for the future. For progress to continue on a positive, spirit driven level, must all of you wake up to the fact that you all play a role, now more than ever. The times call for polishing your uniforms, getting out onto the playing fields, and getting into shape to live life differently now.

Taking on the challenge of approaching life with new tactics is not a burden, but a gift. Do you see? It offers you the opportunity to shift, a reason to become who you truly are, for the times call for truth of spirit self to reign over the old means of expression and ego driven self. In the old ways, your spirit driven self was kept hidden, present, but left quietly sitting in the shadows, in the background. You went about your lives doing what was expected of you, fulfilling prophecies that had little to do with your truths, except that every move you made gave you the opportunity to discover those truths.

Now do I offer you these new means of living your lives with a new perspective. The times call for change and this is how to change your self-perspective, so that you may be an active player on the field of a changing world:

1. You are a being comprised of energy, an energy being.
2. You have an important role to play in life.
3. Your every move impacts the world.
4. You are truth driven, a seeker of truth, and
5. You are unafraid now, for there is no time for fear.

Give your self the permission you need to fulfill a new prophecy that is based on your spirit driven, truth seeking, and truth expressing self. Allow your self to accept the fact that the world expects and needs your participation. It needs your spirit driven energy in order for the energy of good to take over and sweep across the playing field of life, with everyone using their energy for purposes of spirit, truth, and positive impact.

The world will stay the same if you do not participate in changing it. The energy of change is being offered, but it requires participation for it to truly happen. Can you accept your own significant role in the game of changing the world? That is your challenge, but also your awakening duty, you know. You are beings of energy, placed upon that earth to evolve, but to evolve with meaning, with significance, and with impact. Every step of your journey has meaning, significance, and impact. Get it?

Your challenge is to truly accept what this means. Keep doing your inner work, for that is the self who knows what I am talking about, the one doing the evolutionary journey of significance and meaning, impacting the world, every step of the way.

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
I would like to ask you to offer us guidance for this week. What can we expect energy-wise for the week ahead?

Continue to focus your attention on maintaining balance in both your inner world and your outer world. This balance will become more important as the week goes on. There is energy now that wishes to stir, and to stir deeply, the insecurities of you as individuals and as a nation. In order to maintain sanity of mind during such times, it is wise to remind your self often that every step of your journey is necessary, whether it be your individual journey or your collective journey.

I do not like to predict. I wish instead to simply offer this reminder of keeping balance at all times, for it is the best training you can practice. It will aid you, no matter what comes to greet you. Practice inner calm and inner balance at all times, so that as life unfolds you will be well-versed in how to achieve a state of calm pragmatism, for that is what life calls for now, during this time on earth.

Await not disaster, but do await change. Go into your week fully expecting that some changes will take place; that situations will arise that need tending to; that your concepts of life may be shattered, broken, or forced into new perspectives. But keep always in mind that these shifts are necessary maneuvers on the part of universal desire for growth and change.

You are living in times of unusual proportions and circumstances. Nothing can compare to the amount of support being offered either, and this is greatly due to the fact that more and more of you are receptive to the ideas of collective and universal, support, guidance, and cooperation. These principles, though widely disputed, are known to those of you who have had experiences of such phenomena. I ask that you continue to trust your experiences and that you look forward to more of them, with an openness that defies reason, for that is the best method of connection. Use your heart rather than your head now. Use your inner knowing, your uncovering inner self, to lead you and guide you to this openness that is having effect all over the world you live in, and in other worlds as well.

Your time upon that earth holds so much potential. You are beginning to understand this and accept that you are there for many reasons. But the greatest reason for being there is to release your self from the bindings that have held you fast there in reincarnation after reincarnation.

Allow your knowing inner self to be freer now to accept your life as it has been unfolding. Be gentle and kind to your self as this opening and accepting process is unfolding too. As your life unfolds, as you allow your trust in your life to unfold, so do you allow your trust in that which is outside of you to unfold, as it will, too. Do you see that all you really need to do during such times is to trust what presents itself, what occurs, and what is shown inside and outside of you as all being part of the great unfolding, taking place all around you?

Solidify your place upon that earth today. Firmly plant your self in that life for reasons of evolutionary growth. Whether or not you grasp the full meaning of your existence, at this moment, is not important. But your continual openness, trust, and availability to the experiences of life are important. Accept your appointment with life as it continues to unfold. Trust your journey and the journeys being taken all around you. Use your new knowledge to guide those in your care, and in your nearness, with compassion and love. Allow your opening process to also be used outside of you, for greater good, for purposes of compassionate intent that all may resolve their issues, accepting their journeys without judgment, but with mature, balanced ownership of what life offers them. Be responsible citizens of your own lives, but also responsible citizens of the world you live in.

Your energy is given to you to advance from that world. But do not leave that world without leaving your mark. Make it a mark of meaning; a mark of truth; a mark of new openness, new perspective, and great change, so that others may learn from you.

Teach what you know. Follow the signs in your life as they come to show you what it means to live a life of fulfillment and significance. You are guided, but so must you also learn to guide others, with compassionate non-judgment. This is your challenge during the times you live in, for these are the things that will be tested. Your ability to pass beyond holding onto your judgments of life, and others, is being tested, as you learn what it means to develop a new perspective on life as it unfolds in unique and stirring ways.

Be prepared to be challenged. Be prepared to be tested. Be prepared to have your socks knocked off, in one way or another, as this time of unfolding continues to ask you to change your thoughts about every aspect of life as you have thus far lived it.

Look ahead now to universal change. Look ahead now to opening your hearts. Look ahead now to being asked to trust the journey you are on more deeply than ever before. And remember always, the original proposal I made, to stay in balance, but a balance of openness to all things, to all events, people, and ideas, for all are valid. All things will shift now, as change continues to open doors and ask you to participate in life upon that earth differently now.

As doors open before you, open your selves too. That is how you will flow with this new life that is already upon you in great force. And keep in mind that you are energy, first and foremost, and everything else is too.