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Written  and Channeled By Jan Finley

The concept of Thanksgiving has become somewhat fraught in recent years, due to its association with Puritan hubris and white colonization practices, and I can’t help but agree that its tarnished reputation need to be cleaned up and revitalized. 

Even so, it one of my favorite holidays. The kids come home, relatives and friends visit, and I am awash in personal thanksgiving. Even when I am crabby, which occasionally happens. 

It is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate our many blessings, from the humble to the enormous. 

This year, Thanksgiving arrived at a tumultuous time. I am not sure it was any more tumultuous than the last many years, but it felt that way to me somehow.  Each day we keep moving forward in our usual way, but little in the way of heart expanded growth seems to happen. People seem more rude than usual and our rights seem to be disappearing bit by bit.

Thanksgiving was a perfect moment to stop and remember who we are and how we are connected to so many others. Being surrounded by people I love dearly was an opportunity to take a reset, to wallow in the love of others for us and to pour out our own love for them.  When we allow love free reign in our heart, it thrives, and that love, touching the love of others, sets off a powerhouse of glorious light and possibility.

This is how we heal. This is how we change the world.

And so I am told:

True gratitude arises from the depth of the heart and becomes nearly inseparable from love. Indeed, they are fundamentally the same.  While many are thankful for the new piece of jewelry or technology, the new toy or article of clothing, it is the grateful love for others that dissolves boundaries and barriers.  It is the acknowledgment of oneness and remembrance of the eternal connection between souls.  

Spend time regularly in gratitude, opening your heart to connection and the return to oneness that binds all together. 

Breathe it all in, love it all out.

Mary Oliver

Written and channeled by Jan Finley

No one can question that these are hard days.  We are bombarded with bad news. War news. Violence news. Every single day.

Many of us have outgrown the need for war, seeking kinder, gentler ways to resolve disputes. Some, however, still carry their shadow as shield and project it on others. I pray for awakening in all. 

Love is such a simple answer and it answers almost every question or concern. Responding with love always moves things forward. Such a simple thing; one would think it would be instinctive by now but one has only to watch the news to see how far we are from that simple one word answer. We have forgotten how to respond with love. Anger, hate and fear are reinforced at every turn (again, look at the news).

But….I think many more people actually respond accordingly. We have learned to think with our hearts and feel with our minds, and love and appreciate the synergy of both working together. We want peace. We crave peace. We want congenial relationships with our neighbors, our work associates, our families, with everyone. We want our community, our state, our governments, our countries to model peace and prosperity and we want to see all others prosper as well.  We want to be well and safe and secure.

So….why on earth would we want violence and war?? Simple answer: we don’t.

Those that do crave power, control and financial resources. They don’t care about us. They want to be remembered for their ability to absorb that which the rest of us provide: property, opportunity, our time and our hearts.

Is this really how we really want to live? I don’t know about you, but I am done providing these elements for others. I am done watching children, women and the elderly die to feed the egos of these power hungry few. I am tired of watching homes, schools and hospitals destroyed by the power hungry.

I want peace. I want love. I want kind companionships. Friendly neighbors.  I want to work together to create the peaceful world that can be ours. I am going to repeat that: I want to work together, with all of you, to create the peaceful world that can be, and should be ours.

Any one else care to join with me?

And so I am told:

All that occurs now is designed to awaken those yet asleep.  You are beset at every turn with news of war and violence against others. The need to strike out when injury is perceived is a deep wound within humankind, and it indicates an unwillingness to allow the heart to lead the way. The hearts of all must be trained to think and the mind to love. 

Humans are becoming exhausted by constant violence and must find their way to their deepest heart. The manipulation of humans by the media exacerbates the need for revenge, the need to lash out when injury is perceived. All healing begins in the Heart/Mind, that sacred Union. Only through compassion will this fear-based  wound heal. 

All movement forward begins with that first deliberate and very conscious step. In the coming days and years, more people will begin to express and embrace that desire for peace. The days of tyrants is over, although it will take time for the last of them to fade away.  Even so, there is a rising wave of consciousness in humankind, each person triggering another to open to love. 

There is an element of the absurd in much of what is taking place at this current time.  Humankind has been carefully trained to overlook inconsistencies and absurdity to maintain this current unsettling status quo.  As humankind continues to embrace the power of love, it will clearly see the inconsistencies and reject them instead of blindly following contrived doctrine. 

Attitudes and beliefs will continue to shift in the next few years, leading to much healing of much polarization between groups on earth at this time. 

There is much to appreciate in these confusing days as there are far more of you than you can imagine. Do not embrace what you are told by those who sow fear. Instead, believe that what your Heart/Mind knows is true. There is no place for fear moving forward.

Written By Jan Finley

Even though I knew the Pluto station was coming this last week, I was not prepared for what that station had planned for me. I was turned inside out, picked up, shaken hard and dropped somewhere else. I have never enjoyed feeling disoriented and unsure about where I am. This experience was no different. I spent some time gathering the bits of me and remembering who I am, which helped me return to my inner Head Office of Stabilization and Balance – my heart.

And so I was told:

Prepare for the ride of your life. There need be no fear in your heart or mind. You are warriors in truth and now is the time when you actively become who you truly are. A heart warrior does not engage in violence. The truest warriors are those who battle with weapons of love and light. Stand in your deepest truth and embrace all of who you are.

Illusions are failing, creating disorientation and confusion. Do not believe that it will always be so. Reality, as you know it, is flexible on a good day, as you would say. Reality is everything, all at once, in every direction, because it is based on choice.

Choice will always be one of your most powerful tools. You choose the reality in which you live and you continue to make choices every day about how your reality manifests itself.

Now you have the choice to manifest a new world and new you, based on the tenets of creation and balance.

There is no need for fear. Stop looking “out there”. Everything that IS exists within you. Look within, stay within. Peace and healing begin within each of you.

By Jan Finley

Life continues to rock and roll and this week was another one for the books.
Nothing catastrophic occured, it simply felt disorienting and a bit confusing,
laced with a few good laughs. I was irritated with myself and then irritated
at my judgment of myself.

While I was busy being irritated, I looked a fingernail this afternoon, one
that had a split a week or so ago, down low, where it would hurt if it caught
on something and tore. I trimmed as much as I could when it happened so
it wouldn’t tear. Today I realized it had begun to grow out and was
balanced and looked right again. I felt a pull deep inside me and realized I
was being shown me. I am beginning to grow out and be balanced and
right again. Such a humble and quiet message that reached deep down
inside my heart and soul.

Being off balance is not the end of the world. Those days when you wake
up and feel askew seem to take on a Herculean weight sometimes. Today
was one of those for me. I felt wrong and sad and dark and I had no idea
why. I was just irritated.

This afternoon my fingernail very quietly showed me the way back to
myself. It reminded me that I am more than my irritation and that rocking
and rolling sometimes returns me home.
As I read in a book today, I am at a “begin-again”. Not a beginning, but that
moment when we decide to take that first, momentous step forward. I am
balancing and everything looks right again. There is indeed magic here.

And so I am told:

Balance is a tricky maneuver isn’t it? Seems so simple: stand on two feet
and divide your weight between them. In truth, balance is anything but
simple, and it doesn’t begin in your feet. It begins in your heart, that deep
place within you that speaks truth and lights the way.
As you humans shed the old, and the new begins to come alive, balance is
precarious, usually briefly, but often feels much worse than it really is. One
must simply remember to breath, to let go and trust that all is working
exactly as it should.

There is a continuous unsettled feeling in your world right now, in this
moment of time-space, and humans are learning to adapt and grow while
letting go of the old and out worn. It can be exhausting and create
uncertainty. You are shedding the outworn faster than ever before and you
must continue to do so, all of you.
My beautiful light beings, remember that every single thing begins in the
heart! Spend time becoming familiar with your heart space. Create a
sanctuary within your heart, so that when you lose your balance, your heart
will open the way forward for you.
Messages and guidance surround you, in every thing you experience and
observe. Open your Self to the wonder.