In the dark of the year

I endeavour to conduct my professional life in a way that’s in keeping with my values of respecting the time, energy and intelligence of my clients as well as a belief that what we practice in the world will return to us threefold. This is called the ‘law of threefold return’.

Experience tells me that word of mouth is the best form of publicity for the sorts of services I offer. If my clients value the service I provide, they talk about it to their friends, family and colleagues. I have always believed that the best form of promotion is the recommendation of a person who has had first-hand experience - especially when it comes to something as personal as counseling and coaching and readings.

No junk-mail from me!
What this means to you is that I deliberately avoid bombarding you with advertising and promotions, reserving gently informative emails for the rare occasions when I have a special offer. Instead, I try to remain true to the same spirit of service that drives my practice, by posting my blog and hoping that the subjects I write about will be of use to my clientele, past, present and future. Further, I hope that the blog will keep you thinking about your emotional and spiritual health, and of course that you will think of me when and if you decide that you would like some professional support.

It’s getting darker out there
Which leads me to the ‘dark of the year’ which is already upon us. This is the time of year when we become more ‘inner’, and paradoxically, when we are often the most busy in our whirlwind outer lives. In honour of your ‘inner self’, I encourage you to plan some time during the dark of the year to slow down and shine some light on the places in your soul that need a little gentle attention, or even a major clear-out.

A better world is on the horizon
I am feeling encouraged by the outcome of the US presidential election because I think that it represents a freedom cry that will rally those of us who are weary of our current dysfunctional global systems and give us hope that we can actually change things for the better. There are those who say that this present time is similar to the 60’s with Martin Luther King and the huge levels of social change afoot at that time, but I believe that we have come even further than that, and that we are within sight of the land of which he dreamed. Not that we’re there yet, but we have it within our scope!

To get to our long-dreamed-of place of equality, peace and prosperity for all, we are each going to have to reach deep within our souls, encourage our best selves to come out, and make our own unique contributions. Now is not the time for the sort of cynicism that protects us from disappointment, no matter how many times we’ve had our hopes dashed in the past. We’re in the final lap of the race and we need to harness what’s left of our courage and pull out all the stops.

I believe that every single one of us makes a difference and that the time to make that difference is NOW. There’s a wonderful book by Dr. Seuss, his last one, called Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, given to me by a very dear friend many years ago. I find it a constant source of inspiration. It talks about the courage it takes to walk into the unknown. It says the following about being scared to go on:

But on you will go
though the weather be foul.
On you will go
though your enemies prowl.
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl.
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.

At the end of the book, he asks if we will succeed and his answer is:

Yes! You will indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
KID YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

Take the plunge!
What mountain do you need to move? Or do you have a dear friend, or colleague who is struggling with mountain ‘removal’? I will shamelessly promote myself here as a great person to help with mountains - when you get to the point of wanting to identify yours, or if you’re actually ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work - I’m your woman! So today I’d like to leave you with that thought... Make a plan, take a step, commit yourself. We can move mountains, but it takes personal courage. We can do it!

Information/energy and change

Channeled Message Number 8

Lucca: Are you coming through from a different level than the other messages I’ve posted on my blog?

Channeled Message: Yes, indeed. We are of a ‘higher’ level than you spoke through last time. We are of a different ‘department’ and a slightly ‘higher level’, although that does not translate as ‘more important’ as it would on Earth. ‘Here’, as you refer to it, we are non-temporal and non-spacial. When you make a request and have a certain intent, one that matches with what we are able to provide for you, we are ‘connected’ and can ‘elucidate’ for you as you require.

Dear Ones:

... Imagine a reservoir that holds the waters collected from the many streams of your higher geographic regions. You have dams that hold back the water and let it through as it is needed. The need is partly driven by the water available from natural sources and partly by the needs of the communities served by the reservoir.

This analogy suits our purposes for this message. All of you form the ‘community’ that is ‘served’ by the ‘water’ supply. The ‘water’ is the energy/information that 'serves' to elucidate all of you as you struggle to make sense of the developing events in your world. Energy and information are the same thing to us. Energy is a vibration that moves the cells in your individual and collective energy fields so that you can ‘remember’ what you came into this particular incarnation to learn and create.

As you have a greater desire to understand, your personal vibration contains your intention and we pick it up. This is instantaneous and happens constantly in your day-to-day lives. Some of you have agreed to come to Earth to aid in the transmission of this information/energy and it is you who open the sluices on the ‘dam’ and allow the information/energy to pass out of the reservoir and into the river. Each individual also has the ability to receive the information directly but many of you do not believe you can.

As information/energy, the metaphorical ‘water’ passes into the river and heads downstream, where it eventually comes through the pipes and taps into your individual consciousnesses. Each individual’s ‘tap’ is different and so you will each receive and process the information/energy in the way that works best for you. For some of you this will be in the form of dreams, daydreams, or inspiration. For others, you will read it on the Internet, in a book, magazine or journal, or even watch it or listen to it. Still others will hear it directly from another person who receives it in one of these ways. No way is better than any other.

The information/energy will affect your life according to what you need and every person has different needs according to their agreement as a soul. No matter who you are, you have a purpose. Some of you have yet to become consciously aware of what your purpose is. For instance, some of you are teachers, others are healers, some are communicators/messengers, and some are artists, etc.

Differences & similarities
In your Earth world, many of you are conditioned to be comparative, competitive and critical. Although these qualities can have their uses, in Earth's current, rapidly changing circumstances, these qualities can hinder your ability to value your own processes and needs, and focus instead on how you compare to others.

We say to you that no individual is ‘better’ or more ‘valuable’ than any other. Not even great leaders. No way of drinking ‘water’ is better than any other and no purpose is ‘higher’. You are all different and designed to be so. Your collective strength is in your infinite number of differences as well as your infinite number of similarities. These weave the fabric of human existence and you are often blinded to one, at the expense of the other.

Change
As you read this, Earth is engaged in a process of transition from one vibrational level to another. It has reached a point where you can now see the changes more clearly than you have been able to in the past but you have been moving in this direction for a long time. The way in which you experience of this vibrational change depends on why you are here. If your life purpose is to participate in the change, you will go with it. If you are here to experience resisting the change, that is what you will be drawn to do. Neither is better - just different.

The majority of the souls on the planet have come for this experience of the shift. But - and this is important to understand - ‘reality’ can encompass both outcomes; change to a ‘higher’ level of vibration and a continuation on the same level. There will be a migration of souls depending on their choice. Some of you will go to the station and take the train and others of you will see it off.

That is a question for which you are all creating a collective answer. You are experimenting with unity and duality. They can dance together or there can be conflict as one is the focus at the expense of an understanding of the place and value of the other.

Unity & duality
You can understand duality and unity as being within your self, your community, the planet and the Universe. You call these playing fields the microcosm and the macrocosm. You are an individual and a member of the global community at the same time. You think and you contribute to the global body of knowledge at the same time. You are both a drop of water and a part of the ocean.

These analogies might seem vague and frustrating to some of you and yet they are the best way for us to pass on information/energy. You will each interpret in your own way and thus find in the analogies what you need. Each of you will respond to the vibration of this message and use it in the way that best suits your purpose. Seeming synchronicities in your life can be the very best ways for you to discover your own truth, and your unique creativity is a way for you to make use of it by integrating it into your life.

There will be more on this subject but this is enough for one message.
Greetings and peace

It’s time for change

I hope you’ll excuse my not channeling this week, and the length of today’s blog. I was really inspired by the political happenings in the US this week and it seems to me that there is a spirit of hope suffusing the continent.

I was watching parts of the US Democratic National Convention on television this past week and not because I have ever considered myself an especially political animal. I had the sense that I was watching an event of historical importance. The last time I had this feeling was when I stayed up very late to watch a man walk on the moon.

Hope springs
To me, what’s happening in the US isn’t about Democrats or Republicans; rather, it is about the end of the old and the beginning of the new. When Obama first showed up on the political radar of the US, I was dubious about his ability to overcome the corrupt political machinery that is politics today - in every country. I had been feeling overwhelmed with hopelessness.

Alienation
The husband of a friend of mine is a German politician. Four years ago I was visiting them in Germany and he and I were left at the dinner table one evening while the rest of the family cleared up the kitchen. I found myself telling him that I had had very little to do with politics in my adult life, and that it wasn’t because I didn’t care or that I was lazy, but because I felt betrayed, alienated by the system and hopeless.

The political system doesn’t feel transparent to me. There seems to be massive levels of corruption and arrogance, and little that goes on after the election promises have been made seems to bare much resemblance to what the people around me care about. He looked at me. I think he heard me but he didn’t say anything. I don’t know if what I said made an impression on him. But it might have. He was, in my world, the first politician I had ever been able to talk to, face-to-face.

Someone might be listening ...finally
Judging by what Obama said in his speech in acceptance of the Democratic party’s nomination, he and his party are listening. I think that’s why he’s getting so much support, even from traditional Republicans and Independents. I don’t think we’re all being snowed yet again - I fervently hope not!

Maybe this is when critical mass becomes so important. It takes the final straw to get enough public feeling - and it was feeling that I saw being expressed in that huge stadium in Denver - to counteract the arrogance of the power brokers in the existing American electoral system. Paying lipservice to what people want and then going your own sweet way once you get into office, and blatantly rigging ballot-counting, and lying to the whole world in order to go to war, and taking away citizens' guaranteed rights and freedoms, can only last until enough people wake up and say, “Hey, wait a minute. You’re not listening to us and you’re supposed to be representing us”.

I met a local Whitehorse politician and his family at a social gathering when I was up there in May and I had the feeling that he was and is listening. I hadn’t expected it and was encouraged to believe that maybe something is changing in modern politics. I felt, in my heart, that he has a sense of integrity.

Re-empowerment
We’re only impotent as long as we believe we are. Once we take our power back and realise that the people who vote outnumber the people who pay for candidates’ campaigns, we might exercise our power by using it. I say ‘we’ very deliberately because, although I am not an American, I am under no illusion that their economic system doesn’t run ours and those of the rest of the world. I believe that we are all watching the Americans turn their system around and will be empowered by it - enough to demand the same at home.

Dominoes
I am optimistic enough to believe that political change can come. There are mutterings about a Canadian federal election this fall and it seems to me that Harper, our current Prime Minister for those of you readers who are not Canadian, has been sleeping very close to Bush’s cronies; something that I find very worrying indeed. I’m not impressed by the current opposition either.

Obama, who seems to be a different kind of political animal, appeared to come out of the woodwork, so-to-speak. He was there in the Senate, but not an obvious candidate for president. I hope the same is possible in Canada. Maybe we don’t necessarily need a leader with a lot of political experience, as long as the person is smart enough to surround herself or himself with quality advice and information and has the ability to make tough decisions, defend them and follow them through. We need leadership and communication instead of familiarity with toeing the line of the power brokers in our nation’s capital.

Hard work and sacrifice
I heard Obama say in his speech that every citizen was going to have to participate and that the changes weren’t going to be easy, for him or the public. I think people balk at making sacrifices when they don’t trust their leaders; when it looks like the leaders aren’t sacrificing at least as much as they are. That’s when they feel cheated, duped.

Personally, I’m not looking for the easy route. I’m looking for the route that makes sense in the long run. I’m just tired of flip-flopping governments, and parties, blaming the other party every time someone proposes a course of action that means we might have to make some sacrifices in the short term for some pay-offs in the long term. I don’t want empty rhetoric; I want sanity.

Democracy ... endings and beginnings
I believe this US election is the beginning of the fall of the old empire, which will mean the beginning of a new era of involvement and responsibility. Enough of us will model the behaviour required to make it work, encouraging others to believe that it’s possible to have real representation in governance.

I think that the principles behind democracy are sound even though they have never been fairly applied. Our economic and sociological power structures have got in the way. Maybe the Greeks and Romans weren’t enlightened enough to be more inclusive but we have no excuse. We have the past to teach us what happens when we don’t look after all of our society equally.

We’ve had inequality when land ownership was a criterion, and sex, and race, and language, and still money. It’s time to sort out the unfair influence and corruption of Money-as-God, and get on with applying the original principles of participative democracy.

Teaching involvement and responsibility
In my opinion, our kids need to see citizenship at work in their everyday lives, in all its complexity. I’m clear that for most of us, our political education hasn’t been thorough enough, at home or in school. Our society can teach and model citizenship and prepare kids to be active citizens. Young adults should be outraged at any infringement on their rights and privileges as citizens. They should expect to be consulted and to vote. Voting should be a rite of passage; more so than learning to drive. It’s as important as physical exercise and good eating habits. The welfare of our country, and indeed the world, depends on it. They don’t all have to become politicians but they need to learn how to be informed on the issues that affect their lives, and know how to hold their political representatives accountable for their promises and decisions. Politics isn’t about any outside ‘them’; it’s about ‘us’.

I hope this election has the makings of a peaceful revolution.

Tuning into the transition process

Channeled Message Number 6

Dear Ones:

We ask you to remember that you are not alone. The sun comes up on your day and you release those of us who have been with you in the night. This has always been so, but lately it is even more so, as we come closer to the time of recognition. You may ask, ‘recognition of what?’. Recognition of who you are, each and every one of you, and therefore recognition of who everyone else is in your world; each in their own splendor and in their own right. From where we sit, in the world of energy that is beyond most of your ‘normal vision’, we see you each as the most effervescent, joyful and uniquely talented beings. You/we were all made that way. The difference between us and you is that we have awareness of this and you are just coming to this awareness now.

The shift
These are changing times for you and you can feel it. Messages are being sent to mediums and those of you who are open to the knowledge, in order that you may pass it along to everyone you know who needs it. We who have committed to helping you, sit on the other side of an energy shift. We say it is a shift because once you know it is there, and have the ability to see from our perspective, it doesn’t exist for you any longer. It is a shift in perspective.

What is physically happening is that you are increasing your level of vibration. Many of you on the Earth plane have been able to do this temporarily, for instance during meditation, but you are now moving your awareness and energy to a level where you can live in it instead of just visiting. If you are not one of the 'helpers, then you are in the process of being helped. In which case, it is equally important for you to know what is happening.

How it feels
The reason we are telling you this today, through Lucca, is that you will be feeling the effects of the energy shift and many of you will not know what it is, or if you do, you won’t know what to do with it when it becomes uncomfortable. Lack of knowledge often results in fear and we wish you to be as free of fear as we can help you to be.

As she writes this, Lucca is feeling some of what we describe. This is in order that she will understand it herself. She does not usually feel the discomfort because she spends part of her time (for ‘time’, you may read ‘attention’, as it is not really time as you understand the term) in our realm and part in yours. She is one of the many beings on the earth at this time who are helping you to make the transition as gracefully as possible.

Not the first time
She, and many of you who are reading this, have already made a transition such as this in Earth’s history. We could have said ‘unrecorded history’, for you won’t have found records of the transition that you would recognize as such, but the events were indeed recorded. The records are in a form that you do not yet know how to access in the ways of which you are aware at this time. In the case of those of you who have already experienced what we describe, you are here to both help and experience, this raising of consciousness (energy levels), on a mass scale. The hope, which is virtually a certainty at this point, is that planet Earth will be able to participate in what is variously called the ‘Inter-Galactic Federation’, as a full member.

For example
Imagine, if you will, that you have decided you would like to join an organization to which you have not belonged before. You have heard about it and have decided that this is a group that may share your values and aspirations. Just to be sure, you reach out to the group and ask if you can attend a meeting or two. The group considers your request and invites you to attend as a guest, showing you around and answering your questions; helping you to experience anything that will help you to make your choice more easily.

Because this group operates in another dimension (energy level), you can only visit with their assistance. You will also need the group’s assistance to remember your experience, once you return to your normal world. Your memories cross the divide in the form of dreams, inspiration, art, and intuition.

If your visit confirms your original desire to join, you will again approach the group and ask if you may begin the process of becoming a member. This is a group which is open to all, but you will not immediately be ready to participate fully. You must learn the history, operating paradigms and philosophies. This is similar in your terms to becoming a citizen in a new country. In short, we have to teach you how to be here.

It is not a matter of ‘sneaking across the border’ because you literally cannot survive in our ‘energy field’ unaided, if you do not know how to vibrate at our rate. Each being vibrates according to what they do, how they see, how they think and how open they are to love, faith and trust. Anything that does not vibrate fast enough (high enough) will fall out of synch and snap back into the old level. There is no expulsion process; there is just ‘the fall’. If you choose, you can try again.

On our side, we wish your whole planet to be able to make this move permanently. This means eradicating fear. Fear does not exist as a state of being for us. But that topic is for another message!

Adapting to the Earth
For those of you who operate in our world as well as yours, you have had to adapt to living on planet Earth, some of you have worked at this over many lifetimes. You had to become an Earth citizen and make the appropriate adjustments to Earth’s existing energy levels. You will often have felt that you didn’t/don’t really belong, or that there is something just beyond your grasp. You may have dreams that don’t make sense when you awake. You may have a clear knowing that there is a way of living that is peaceful and full of grace, where conflicts are resolved without violence and where love, health and sharing are the norm. This is because you already know these ways of being.

Symptoms
If you have felt any of the following :

• frustration at being ‘stuck’ at a level that feels overly simplistic;
• as though you are feeling emotions that aren’t yours but you don’t know where they originate;
• that ‘something’ is just around the corner but you don’t know what it might be or how to prepare for it;
• disbelief and sadness at the levels of deception and manipulation that are coming to light on the world stage;
• a growing awareness of the numbers of physical ailments that seem to be systemic rather than specific, and for which the medical profession has no ready answer;
• discomfort in the work/profession you have chosen but not knowing what to do instead;
  
• at a loss as to what to do with children’s expectations of the world in which they live - suspecting that they may inherently know something you don't ...

... then you are already tuning in to and experiencing the transition process between your current dimension and the one that is opening to you. To return to the analogy of joining a new organization, when you have been oriented and helped to prepare to make the transition, you will be given the choice about whether you still want to join. Joining means committing to our creed and agreeing to live within it and participate in our governance, for in the Inter-Galactic Federation, everyone is lovingly held responsible for their choices and their actions.

Loving guidance
Please know that the planet Earth is being lovingly and firmly guided through the transition process between the three-dimensional world in which you now live, and being a newly initiated member of the next dimension - a fledgling member - and that you will be given all the necessary assistance in order to become a successful and flourishing member of the Federation. The time is near.

Peace