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—Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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#406 A Fairy Tale

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today, I would like to follow up the “other world” experience that we discussed the other day with a few additional questions. On that day, in June 1977, when I had that experience in the horse meadow, I had been, as I mentioned, sewing my wedding dress. I had, in fact, pricked my finger with the needle as I was doing some hand stitching and gotten blood on the white fabric. I remember trying to wash it out, thinking that it was a bad omen, a foreshadowing of something, though I couldn’t quite figure out what it meant. But I knew it had to do with the fact that I was soon to be married.

My question today is, what did all of this mean? What did it mean that as I was sewing my wedding dress, I pricked my finger, got blood on the gown, then went for a walk and stepped into that medieval world where something sinister was brewing? Can you offer me some more insight into the process and the experience?

I am inclined to use a fairy tale analogy to explain your situation since it so nicely fits that format. You, a young woman about to be married, were sitting and sweetly sewing, blissfully unaware that evil lurks, always waiting for the opportunity to hatch a plan. Your red blood dropping onto your white wedding gown was innocence spilled, but also about to be challenged. Your desperate attempts to wash it out, to hide it, were, in fact, your deepest desires to remain in your own world, untouched by what was waiting for you, yet knowing that it was inevitable. You could not control the process, but you could, by your actions, deny to your self that change was upon you. Your requirements of your self, at that time, were that you move forward, no matter what, that you proceed as planned, in spite of the dire warnings you had given your self in numerous ways.

Your entry into another world, also on that day, attempted to introduce you to the fact, and I stress the word fact, that in spite of your controlling efforts were you, in fact, not in control. As you walked a path that you had been on many times before, so did you resolve to shake off the disturbing facts that were coming to you. Remember? You walked to get away from the consequences of your decisions. For as they were unfolding, you were losing control of your truest self, and your truest desires. Were you not being shown another world of possibilities?

Yes, you were being shown the magic that exists right before your eyes. You were the princess in the fairy tale who must marry because it is determined by another. The king says, “You may marry my daughter, worthy knight!” Yet were you, the princess, aware that you were not in agreement. And this was true. Your entry into the medieval setting was showing you the other option, opening a door to awareness, offering you a way out of your predicament. But the king, your own inner king, was not going to allow you to break your word, your code of conduct. Your determined self was in control of the situation, making sure that all was perfect. Even down to every tiny, even stitch upon your wedding gown was going to be done properly, by you alone.

So you must admit, you not only chose your path, but you also paved it piece by piece with stones that you hand-selected and placed at your feet. This was your challenge at the time. Many others have walked the same path; ashamed to admit that they were making a mistake, yet equally determined to do it right. To make a mistake, yet make that mistake a work of art is quite a common goal!

As you walked to shake off your truths, My Dear, your inner truth was not willing to be silenced so easily, or so finally. Your spirit self had other desires that had nothing to do with marriage. You resided in one pretty foggy world, yet was the day, as you described it, quite clear and beautiful. You could not allow your own clear truth to be seen. However, your spirit allowed you to be a part of some magic that day, in an attempt to offer you knowledge of things to come in your life, yet also knowledge of things hidden, and as yet unrevealed. Your life was being presented to you in the analogy of the scene, the murder about to be committed. Was it not what was happening to your spirit? Was it not about to be murdered?

The horses and riders chasing after you were but your innermost desires attempting to catch up with you, to show you that what you were about to do was going to murder your spirit, stifle it, keep it locked down for many years to come.

You had to keep the experience a secret, for your lover was not your true one, no connection to your inner truths could be found there. Your secrets remained hidden, as you told no one of your experience, but simply returned to your seat and continued sewing diligently upon your white gown. You were the perfect princess, resolved to duty, the inner king in control, while in the shadows lurked the truth.

The murderer was you. The deed done at the moment of escape from the medieval scene, as you leapt back into your sunny June day. Yes, you achieved a sense of safety, but it was but the decision to remain upon the path as laid out by the king, rather than face the truth of what you were doing to your spirit self. You see? It is not really so complicated. Yet at the time, were you but a child still, in many senses, but a child under lock and key, locked in by the king, who was the self as well.

Your journey into timelessness was, as I said previously, very necessary. You held onto that vision from that day forth, a nugget of gold inside, given to you on that day, a wedding gift, knowledge of things to come. When I speak of timelessness, do you not see how it all comes together again, as if no time had passed? Your world then parallels your world now, the two worlds of that day, and all the worlds since. See how nicely they all fit together?

Your puzzle is fitting together quite nicely, but perhaps it is no longer quite a puzzle, My Dear One? Take your pieces now, all the bits of knowledge about the self. This I advise all My Readers to do. Accept all your parts; your inner parts; your king, your princess, your dutiful child self, and your spirit self who is so capable and available to have experiences. Allow them to coexist in truthfulness; acknowledging, accepting, and allowing them to be present in this time of timelessness, with this gift of knowing who you are. For you are all those pieces; and your fairy tale is not over yet either. You have many more experiences to come!

#405 Invitations into Other Worlds: Shifting into Heightened Awareness

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Today I have some questions about experiences in other worlds. Recently my seventeen-year old daughter, Maggie, related an experience of literally walking into another world. I have also had many experiences of crossing over a line that clearly delineated one world from another. Her experience was very recent. She was at a park near a lake with some friends. It was night, around 9:30. As they entered the park she was aware that something did not feel quite right, that there was something weird about the energy there. She remained aware of this uncomfortable feeling, a little uneasy. She recalled standing on the edge of the grass where it met a small sandy beach at the swimming area on the lake. As she stepped over the line onto the sand everything changed. She was very conscious of the shift, as everything visually turned wavy, like rippling water. She also experienced a rushing sound in her ears, pressure in her head, eyes, and chest, and the feeling that she was under water, almost as if she were drowning. She knew that she only had to step back again onto the grass to stop the encounter. She didn’t panic, but it scared her.

When she told me about this I was reminded of an experience I had when I was twenty-four. I was living in Sweden and was about to get married. In fact, that day I had been sewing my wedding dress, something that I know is taboo in a lot of cultures, but nonetheless I made my own wedding dress. I went out for a walk in the early afternoon. It was June 1977, a beautiful sunny day, clear and lovely, the sky a crisp blue, not a cloud in sight. I walked along a path I had walked many times before and would walk many times again. It went through an area that was fondly known by everyone in the rural neighborhood as the “horse meadows” because at one time, though no one could ever tell me how long ago, horses had been kept there. The meadow was now overgrown with trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and tall grasses. About halfway across the first meadow there was a tractor path, which defined the beginning of the second meadow. On this day, as I crossed over the tractor path I entered another world. The atmosphere shifted. It was no longer a beautiful, clear, and sunny June day. It was now damp, cool, and misty. In my ears was a rushing sound and I could perceive voices in the distance, almost as if they were coming through a radio that was not quite tuned to the right station. My vision was blurry, shimmering, that underwater feeling that Maggie describes. As I perceived three or four people on horseback in medieval dress, under a cluster of trees, I was suddenly aware that I should not be seen. I knew that if they saw me I would be in grave danger. I stood as still as possible behind a small bush, trying desperately to hear and see, but couldn’t maintain clarity. Every now and then a few words would become clear and my sight would take in a detail. There seemed to be an aire of intrigue about the whole situation. I had the feeling I was eavesdropping, that I was privy to the final plans for a murder. This was a rendezvous, with a definite overall feeling of negative intent. Suddenly, I was aware that they could see me and I knew I had to get away. I also knew that if I could get back over the tractor path to the other side I would be safe. I ran as fast as I could, with them in pursuit, the horses’ hooves beating the ground behind me. I literally threw myself over the line, falling into the grass on the other side of the tractor path, back into sunlight, the same June day I had left only moments before, out of breath, my heart pounding, and totally amazed at what I had just experienced, wondering what it meant. I had no explanation for it. I didn’t tell anyone about it at the time, and it never occurred again, no matter how many times I walked through the meadows.

In subsequent years, I have had many experiences of crossing over a line. On one occasion, I did not return to conscious reality for several weeks. Then all of a sudden, the feeling of being immersed in another world abruptly lifted when I had a car accident. I consciously woke up, back in this world, when I hit a deer. I instinctively knew the deer was necessary to get me out of the world I had been caught in for so long. I still thank that deer for giving its life so I could return to this reality.

Maggie and I both wonder if you could explain to us the meaning of entering such worlds. What are we meant to learn? How does that line appear to be so definite? And is it related to specific spots? Maggie discovered that other people at her college have had similar experiences at that park. And another girl who was with her that night felt the same weird energy, though she did not have the same experience that Maggie had. It is rumored that someone drowned in the lake and she felt as if she were experiencing that person’s death. Are we in fact entering another world when we have these experiences?

I will begin by answering that last question. Yes, you are entering another world, a world that shifts you into heightened awareness. As you enter through the veils, so to speak, as you step through the veils, that action shifts you into heightened awareness. As you pass through that veil, it is removed. Your awareness is sharper now and you are able to perceive what you normally cannot perceive, since the veils block it from you. I would elect to call it entering another world, but in reality are you entering into a state of another awareness, tapping into your innate ability to perceive, see, feel, and know without forethought, or involving a thinking process. You simply know, by your acutely aware state, that something has shifted. You know, intuitively, that you have crossed a line, and yes, that line you speak of does often exist in the same spot. It is available for those to access who are at a place of openness and awareness, living a life that is more energetically aware than many people dare to admit. Your young daughter has the trust in her own energetic experiences to retain the details because she accepts that they are real; without judgment she trusts her experiences as being real. And that is quite a gift!

Many people are too quick to dismiss their encounters in other worlds, even though they have such vital experiences as you and your daughter have had. I know that you, My Dear Jan, have had many more experiences than you like to admit, and I also know that the process of leaning to trust those experiences as being necessary and vital to your evolutionary growth must be accepted and learned from. When you step into heightened awareness, your normal perceptions and mechanisms will not work as they do in your everyday world. Your hearing does not hear as it does normally, but it becomes heightened, along with your overall energetic awareness. Your hearing becomes ultra-sensitive, as you hear everything, until it hones in on the world you are entering and being shown. Your “knowing,” as I call it, is also ultra-heightened. You do not think or perceive in quite the same way as normally, but without a shadow of a doubt you are aware of everything that you are experiencing in a different way, instinctually, as an animal is aware. Even your body awareness is heightened, as you experience your energetic self. So even the feeling of choking, or difficulty in breathing, and pressure upon the body that Maggie experienced, although frightening, may still be experienced energetically, more than physically. When entering another world, all of your normal sensations increase in value and potential and, if you retain your calmness, you can have quite an experience.

Why are we offered these experiences?

In most cases, one is offered such opportunity in order to grow. For in no other way will you be able to understand what energy is all about without having experiences. Without experiences will you not understand good and evil. You will not understand how communication and guidance is possible. You will not be able to trust your own journey if you do not understand that such opportunities are available. But also know that you do have experiences, and quite often.

Many times are the lines into other worlds less defined than what you speak of. Often is awareness not increased to such a heightened state, yet are you in another world. In such cases, dullness is more likely experienced, a void, or a state of waking sleep, where you clearly cannot shake your self out of a state that has you caught. Such occurrences are also meant to offer you the opportunity to recognize that the world you live in is not so clear cut and tactile as you might want to believe, but that it is, in fact, quite amorphous.

If you can perceive of your self, and everyone and everything in your world, as energy, vibratory energy in constant motion, so can you perhaps more easily understand what I am talking about. If you look around you at your solid world and say: “Okay, that chair is not really solid, but is, in fact, simply defined by my perceiving it as solid,” so perhaps can you also imagine that you can perceive energy as anything you like. Keep in mind that energy is all around you, in formless presence, as well as in the concrete world you have created because you know it as such. You know a chair is a chair because you have learned that it is so. But if you are in a state of heightened awareness then everything will be perceived as energy. This energy is not seen, but it is known, which is a different seeing perception. Knowing is awareness of energy. It is awareness of perceiving other energy beside your own, and this is what you have described in your experiences.

Why and how did I enter a world that appeared to be medieval? What was I specifically being shown in that encounter?

You were being offered the opportunity to experience timelessness; no time; the experience of pure energy, without the definitions of time and space, as you know it. I have often imparted the knowledge that time and space do not exist, that everything is and has always been, that all worlds are one world, existing simultaneously. As awareness is trained and heightened, so are you more able and available to experience all worlds. You entered another world, one that you had learned had happened a long time ago, one that was labeled “medieval,” yet could you enter it in present time, for there are no time zones, there are no centuries and years where energy is concerned. Those things, those definitions, are merely well-utilized in your concrete world of learning, in order to teach you the difference once you have experienced timeless energy. All worlds are simultaneously in existence. When I speak of being right with you, yet in another world, so is it true, but you will not understand this until you experience it. You, Jan, have already seen me in your world, though I exist in another.

Many among you have had energetic experiences that you could not explain. You have gone into other worlds, and returned from them. But you have often returned confused, or electing to disbelieve, to push aside your encounters with energy, as too absurd, too frightening, or too troubling to retain awareness of. But I seek to tell you, now, that these are the experiences you need in order to evolve. How can you evolve to another world, when you die, if you are not ready to accept that such worlds exist? By your experiences, you are being given the opportunity to track and study how these shifts to other realities take place, so that, as they happen again and again, you may retain your awareness of them. And so you may begin to live differently as a result of them too.

I can say, that as I gained awareness of other worlds, and as I recapitulated, I realized that throughout my life I have entered many worlds, and do almost every day, in some way. Sometimes a shift is very subtle, but it is experienced nonetheless. But, I think I would not have gotten to such a place of acceptance, trust, and awareness if I did not dare myself to push through my doubts and fears.

Yes, the human is burdened with fear and doubt. They are your greatest gifts and challenges. If you look at your life, what else has truly challenged you? You will find that they are at the root of everything. Fear is your first biggest block, and then must your doubt be hammered down and broken through in order for you to regain the awareness, innocence, and trust that you are born into that world with. You did not enter that world clothed in fear and doubt, but you entered it naked, with awareness, and knowing, able to see all worlds at once. But as you grew your awareness was taught over, that the world is concrete, tactile, and limited. It is your challenge to hold onto, to re-discover, the awareness that you were born with, but that was immediately clothed in the perceptions of the world you live in.

These ideas of energy and awareness have I spoken of often. Your experiences, My Dearest Jan and Maggie, are simply your lessons in awareness re-igniting and re-awakening. Your wings of knowing are being offered to you each time you have an experience that so jolts you. But keep in mind that each day are you also having tiny jolts that may not be quite so abrupt or noticeable, but they are happening nonetheless.

In conclusion, I suggest that you, and all of My Readers, attempt to anchor your selves in your awareness, reminding your self that you are in training, that you are a student of other realities. Remain open to experiences, but retain your anchor in your world, always, in order to keep your balance. You are in control of when you elect to step back over the line that defines one world from another. But as you step back over, please do not dismiss or forget the experiences you have had. For they are extremely meaningful and valuable, teaching you about energy in its purest form, without the confines of time and space, as defined by the minds of men who fear and doubt their own experiences.

I don’t feel that I did have control of stepping back over the line in my experience of hitting the deer. I felt it was the deer that jolted me back. Did I in fact have control? Could I have gotten back on my own?

Yes, My Dear, you could have, yet do I know that you needed that valuable time lost in that other world. Do not doubt that you elected to hit that deer, as much as that deer elected to stop you from continuing your forays into the other world. It was time for you to return and you both knew it.

What about people who get caught in dark places, by dark, negative, or evil energy?

That is another story, which we will discuss another time. But be aware that just as it was your choice to return from one world by violent means as you crashed into that deer, so is it a choice to enter and experience the dark side. Many of you may have that experience in this lifetime, while others of you may already have had your full experience of the dark side in other lives. Do not doubt that your experiences in other lives are also meaningful. Your accumulated experiences are part of your growth. I can see we still have many things to talk about, but this is enough for today, My Dear One!

Continue your journeys. Do not reduce your experiences to frightening encounters, but accept them as invitations into other worlds. You must be ready for such experiences or you would not be receiving such enticing invitations. Stay calm and balanced as you continue to go forward. And remember, you are surrounded by good. Awareness of this will keep you safe. Your own strong energy will be your protection, if you keep it alive and strong with this intent of good. Trust what you are being shown, My Dears. It is reality. It is energy. And it is valuable and meaningful that you allow your awareness to grow and be practiced in this manner. Good Luck!

#403 Powerful Energy Will Be Tugging At Your Heart Strings

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Allow yourselves to enjoy the stirrings of love and compassion as the universe pushes for such activity. However, do not feel let down if your own experiences are not of this sort, for not all will feel such energy. This type of energy is available for those who are ready to receive it, not because they are special, but because they are at a place to learn from it, and to use it wisely, with awareness. If you are feeling stirrings of compassion, be aware that, during this time now, you can get your self into quite a fix if you follow your impulses. Far better to remain aware but distant as this energy now gets somewhat tricky.

I speak today of feelings of love, of sexual feelings, of stirrings of desire, for those are the attributes of this energy that you may feel and wish to act on. If you are in relationship transitions, so is it wise to be careful, for the energy is apt to take over, and this is what you must be aware of. When I suggest that you might be better served by remaining distant, so do I mean this in the sense of your outer world. For if you are not sure of your feelings in a relationship, if you are on the verge of either commitment or break up, so will you be tested and challenged now. This weekend will surely test your emotions, your decisions, and your place as relates to love partners, potential love partners, and past love partners.

I suggest that awareness of the energy will aid you, but I know also that it is often impossible to stay focused on the possibilities when you are in the midst of affairs of the heart. If you find your self stranded in the land of no return, briefly captivated, and placed in the hands of that deeper physical self, so must you perhaps go there in order to learn what you must learn. And the learning may be good, even an excellent growing experience. Or the learning may catapult you to a moment of recapitulation, or it may solidify your already made up mind. All of these possibilities, and others, will aid you; so do not shrink from your encounters and your experiences of self in the energy system that now affects the planet earth.

Be aware that this time is fraught with dual emotions and many mirrors. You may feel quite confused, even as you are feeling tender, loving, gracious, and accepting. But look also around you at the rest of your life so that you can maintain a balance, seeing the bigger picture regarding your decisions that will most likely be made on an emotional level during this energy time. When relying on emotions alone may you have experiences that you may not otherwise allow for, and although this is good, so is it also risky. Look outside of you often over the next few days in order to achieve balanced awareness, and in order to see your reality more clearly.

Take time to breathe. Take time to step back and say to your self: “Hey, wait a minute. Where am I?” Because you will be deeply drawn into one world and you may forget your other world, and although this is a valuable experience, so do you not want to stay caught in just one world. You want to have experiences, but you also want balance.

So as I said in the beginning, keep your self alert. Keep your self aware that there is powerful energy that will be tugging at your heart strings. There is a grand feeling of love and relationship brewing. But it is up to you to remain aware of where you are now in your life. What are you ready to risk? What are you ready to experience? And what position are you going to allow your self to end up in? Are you balanced enough to go for it? Or are you feeling uncertain about your place, as far as relationships go?

Make your choices based on this knowledge of the energy. Remember that it is powerful, that it will pull at you and nudge you, but that it is up to you to decide what you will do as you feel its definite tug. Are you not a sexual being? Yes, you are! But you are also smart and ready to grow. Your challenges, My Dear Ones, are going to be between these two aspects of self, the sexual self and the intelligent knowing self. These two aspects must consciously make some decisions together. Keep also in mind that love of self is also called for during this time. Turning inward and offering the self some longed for love and compassion may be the best alternative to the outward pull. It’s up to you!

Personally, if I were any of you, I would have some fun with this energy, but I would keep it focused on my inner sexual self, rather than my outer sexual self. By that I mean the sexual creative energy that will be quite charged this weekend. What else can you do with it? Where else can you utilize it, if you are not certain that this is the time to leap into an affair of the heart? Perhaps this is the time to reach your hand to your self and embrace the tiny self inside who has been asking you to come and play, to come and talk, to come and reacquaint your self with each other?

Find your love of self now too. A powerful use of this energy would be to spend some time alone with your true self, your tender self, your inner self, your good self, your knowing self, your accepting self, your trusting self, your best friend self. Find out who you are now, no matter what your experiences may be. It is a good time for exposure of truths of the self, but also a good time to embrace those truths, with love and compassion for the self who experiences them.

#402 Alignment with Right Knowing

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

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

Watch for signs of alignment. Be observant of how the signs in your own life correspond to what is happening outside of you, as progress continues to be made. Universally, is this a time of energetic convergence. The potential for continued strides to be made on many levels exists, is available, but awareness of this aspect is very important to maintain. In your daily lives now, My Dear Ones, notice and utilize what is being offered. Study your place now with an eye toward swift change, but make your moves in alignment with your inner knowing and your heart-centered place of calm.

In accordance with the wheels of progress, is it time for not only significant change, but truly meaningful change as well. This is what you must focus on in your own lives. Yes, it is universally a time of change, but in order for it to be lasting, and for it to aid you in your own evolutionary progress, do I suggest that your steps of daring be deeply significant and meaningful for you.

Just because this is a time of shift does not mean that every opportunity is the right opportunity. It does not mean that you should dare your self simply because daring is asked for. You must place your self in alignment, not only with the energy around you, but also in alignment with where you are in your life, with what is being offered and shown to you, and with what your heart knows is right. Do not leap simply because this is a time of leaping. Leap with daring awareness, not with abandonment. This is the sobering counterbalance to this energy that now pushes so forcefully for you to shift. In many aspects of life upon that earth is it so necessary for change to happen, but in order for it to be of lasting significance, so must you calm your self to a state of right knowing before you act.

So, take all of my messages of daring, place them around you, and sit in centered calmness around them, then find your inner direction and begin there. Often is such energy best utilized first innerly, rather than in some grand outer scheme that may change your life drastically, but perhaps not correctly for long term growth and gain. Where are you in your life at this very moment? On a roller coaster? On a precipice? On the brink of disaster, or the train of unending thoughts that do not subside? Are you in a whirlwind? Are you caught in a dark place, a hidden place, an exposed place?

None of that really matters, you know. The only thing that matters is that you remain connected to you, to your inner you, in alignment with your evolutionary goals. Keep in mind that you are seeking the truths of the self, that you are searching for answers, and for direction for your existence upon that earth in this lifetime. You are seeking a deeper spiritual connection, but this must first be a deeper connection to your own spirit before any other.

So although you may feel pressure, even from me, to leap about at one opportunity or another, so do I prefer that your leap be innerly, rather than outerly, if nothing outside of you truly resonates. That being said, if you are in just alignment with some outer aspect that is timely and right, so do I suggest that now is the time for such a leap if you have so determined that it is so.

You are in control. Keep that in mind. But your control must now be aligned with your spirit self, and not your mental self who simply repeats the rhetoric of old. Your control must be placed in the hands of your willing spirit self now. Ask that inner aspect of self to lead you to your proper place of daring. Push aside your old determinants and your old arguments now, creaky and dusty with usage and age, no longer appealing, but still powerfully present. It is time to hand over power to your knowing spirit, so eager for the opportunity to guide you. If you align your self with this aspect of self, trusting its decisions made in calm awareness, so will your leaps into change be leaps of daring coated with right knowing. That is what is most important now as you continue your journey.

Good Luck. Please retain your awareness of guidance, your openness to viewing your life as a journey unfolding and necessary, but also as meaningful, leading you to fulfillment. Your inner spirit self asks now for the opportunity to show you its purity and innocence, but it also asks you to totally trust it as well.

#401 Something is Being Pointed Out to You That Will Shift You

Jeanne Marie Ketchel
Channeled by Jan Ketchel

Dear Jeanne,
Do you have a message to guide us today, as we begin a new work week?

My Dearest Ones, this time now is one of continuing conflict of opposites, of pulling apart, but also of counteraction, required to bring together the disparate parts of the self, the society, and the world. Why is there so much conflict? Why is there so much still unresolved inside of you and outside of you? Why is there so much fighting? Why go to war against the self and others when it is far more acceptable to meet on common ground? For all are reflections of the self. All conflicting views, all uncomfortable suggestions and encounters, all differing thoughts, are but the grit that must be sorted through inside the self for true and lasting resolution to occur.

This is a time when each of you must remain focused on your own inner process, but do not dismiss or disregard what is happening outside of you. Continue to use your world to aid you as it points out to you your own difficulties and issues that need attention. If you tend to judge the decisions of others, the thoughts, the actions, the spoken words of others, so turn to your self and ask: Do I speak, think, act, and decide in much the same manner? Am I truly learning to forgive, to flow, to depart from the old rhetoric? Am I evolving?

These questions are the present questions for Now, for this time upon that earth, for this time of change to do more than simply blow over your heads and stir you with its sweet scent of things to come. You must take in that breath of fresh air, deeply into your gut, and allow it to shake you out of your slumber and your stagnancy. Your progress must now be granted the truth of the insights being shown, and they must be processed and accepted. Now must you ascertain that you will make the leap, taking in a full breath of fresh and invigorating change, allowing your self to make the leap forward now.

No matter where you are in life now, no matter who you are, no matter what place you find your self stuck in, so are you being shown the way out of your dilemma now. Look around you and you will see the signs. You will see the possibilities being offered. You will notice something is being pointed out to you that will shift you.

But you must make the move, the decision, the choice. You must dare your self; fully knowing that times will be hard; that yes, it is the way to go because otherwise I will remain unfulfilled. In this lifetime, are you all being offered a grand opportunity to change. This is not only so for your country, or your brother, or your children. This is also true for you.

So I leave you with the possibilities all around you. Today, turn your awareness to what is being offered to you. Look outside of you and reflect on the direction of growth being offered. Ask your self: Will this opportunity lead to change? Will this step show me a truth? Will this daring move get me beyond this place I have been stuck in? Question your existence, My Dears. But do so in the context of all the gifts being offered, the signs showing you the way, and the possibilities being presented to you. Then it’s up to you to choose what you will do next.

May you trust your journey. May you feel centered and aware of your inner calm self, even as you fear the daring self who pushes you forward, even as you know you must confront other fears before you will be free. But that is what life is about, you know. It is a long process of confronting your fears. No matter what shape they take, so must they be met, face to face, then investigated, dismantled, and accepted, before being crumbled to a fine powder and swept from you, shaken off, so that you may be free to walk on lightly, trusting your journey and your prowess, with humility, gaining awareness, and learning always what it means to truly love, and to truly give love, to self and others.