General meaning of the Chariot card:

• Focus and vision
• Discernment
• Keeping determinedly on the track that points to your dreams
• Balancing emotion with logic
• Considering all options and making decisions
• Energy, drive and follow through
• Avoiding diversions
• Decisive
• Getting the ‘show’ on the road
• Moving beyond the planning stage and taking action

Advice from this card:

• Challenging yourself is good and brings renewed energy
• To get the best out of life be prepared to balance logic and emotion
• Use your mind to see where you are going and your feelings to propel you forward
• When you use both your mind and your energy you step into a natural flow
• You know what you want and it is time to take the steps to make it happen
• You are ready for change and able to enjoy success
• Be prepared to say no to people and situations that are not aligned with your dreams
• Trust yourself; your instincts, ideas and dreams are showing you the way

How to listen to the clairvoyant message from this card:

If you want to get the best from any card you read then ideally you will approach it in a manner of total openness, trust and respect. To do this you need to trust yourself enough to be able to become a blank page, detached observer and faithful translator of everything that comes up once you ‘connect’. The process of connection is simply the ability to be observant and interested, or perhaps the word is ‘fascinated’. You look, you listen and wait in total faith that what you need to see, know and hear will be given. The clearer you are of expectation and emotion, the clearer the messages will be. Personally I adore every card I ever read and can’t wait to hear what treasures it will reveal. It is like opening a gift at Christmas and not knowing what is inside, but knowing it will be something good.

Listening with your eyes, your heart, your mind and with your ears simply means to be fully receptive to what is presented to you. And once ideas/pictures/words/memories etc begin to flow, it is always good to keep them in some way, whether that be by writing down the messages, recording them or speaking them out loud to someone.

To round up your reading simply feel and mentally state your gratitude for all the card has offered.

Cards are healing and nurturing, truly wanting to help and guide you in the best possible way as well as to support you in making positive decisions and changes. Acceptance enables you to surrender to the total enjoyment of this process of interaction.

Once you have mentally thanked the card, you will have automatically disconnected and re-grounded yourself to the present moment and can safely move on.

Clairvoyant message from this card to you right now:

As I open up to the message from this card I feel an immediate and impatient tug on my sleeve and see the figure from the Chariot card standing beside me, urging me to follow. I realise that he is eager rather than impatient, excited to show me something.

As I follow I feel his energy and remember just how powerful this card is and how it can boost our drive and willpower and also help us to retain our calmness of mind so that our energy is focused positively toward achieving our goals.

The figure has come to a side of a cliff and asks me to look down. I see a kitten on a ledge quite a way down the cliff and part of me smiles because I have been given a number of visions lately that involve kittens and another part of me feels concern because there does not seem to be a way for the kitten to get off the ledge, or for me to get down to it.

Then the kitten disappears from the ledge and moments later appears sitting next to me, also peering over the edge of the cliff, whilst the figrure from the card is laughing merrily to himself. I sit back and smile, waiting for the rest of the message (and allowing the kitten to curl up in my lap while I do so).

The figure from the card begins to talk, ‘There is always a way – always. When you set out to achieve something and focus your mind and energy toward creative solutions, determined to find the way through, then you will automatically magnetise those answers to yourself. It is only when you doubt, or quesiton ‘should I/shouldn’t I’, ‘is it right or is it wrong’, ‘what if’, etc. that you scatter your energy and become confused and drained. The way you use your mind can make the difference between being stuck and being free, between being happily motivated and being overwhelmed. The way you speak to yourself in your mind makes a difference. So if you are someone who tends towards worry, doubt or hesitancy then it is time to lay down those habit patterns and begin to approach life in a new way. Instead of questioning with your mind and dragging your body along behind you, reach inside, let your pasion flow and aim it in the direction of the dream you want to make real, then determinedly enjoy the journey. The process of getting from A to B will lift you, help you to grow in confidence and joy, enable you to believe in yourself, highlight your true worth and hopefully also bring a few new friends along the way.

Whether it is a new health regimen, a new approach to your career, study, opening your heart to love, or anything that you know is presently lacking in your life, I can help you find your way. I can help you to find the energy, the motivation and the clarity to take the right path. Like the kitten who found another way off the ledge, I will shine a light before you, helping you to see the best way to go. All you need to do is be prepared to open your mind, set your desires free, trust and enjoy the process of change that will happen as a result and know implicitly that you are worthy of happiness and success. Do you have the courage it takes to work with me and move your life on in greater ways? I hope so. If so, I am here, ready, waiting and eager’.

As the figure fades away (with a grin and taking the happy kitten with him) I am left with a sensation of deep peace and ‘thank goodness for that’. I realise that resisting the flow of good things from life is actually much more exhausting than jumping in and living everything that is on offer.

What can this card do to help you:

The healing offered by this card is such that it will calm scattered or overwhelming emotions, enabling you to gain greater mental focus in order to use your energy to positive and constructive effect.

Or, if you are lacking energy or motivation, it will help you to trust yourself while you let go of whatever has held your inner flow from coursing through your veins. Scattered thoughts and doubts will be brought into certainty and you will find that you no longer want to hold yourself back.

Generally this card will help you to begin to create positive challenges in your life and to release painful experiences or burdens. We all need something to stop monotony and boredom and those things that keep us interested and present can just as easily be happy things and really do not have to be painful. So this card will help you to make new and truer, happier choices for yourself and to understand exactly what needs to be done for success to occur.

How can I be open to receiving what this card has to give me?:

You can hold the card or the image of a card that you have printed out and spend time In quiet repose, either meditating or just resting, and gently become aware of the energetic changes that begin to occur. Perhaps you hands will heat up, or you will begin to feel really alive. Cards offer pure energy support in clearing and cleansing anything that has ever held you back.

If you have congested energy anywhere in your body, placing this card, or a picture of this card on that area will help to shift things. Of course this is never to be used to replace medical help, but as an enhancement to any form of healing.

Jane x

Giraffe’s clairvoyant message to you today:

I see a baby giraffe running happily across the plains towards its mother. The impression I get is that it wants to share some new experience with her. There is patience and tenderness obvious in the mother’s response to her child. The scene makes me smile and I feel my heart relax. Such simplicity of connection, such a tiny moment and it holds so much richness and wealth.

The scene becomes dark as cloud draw in and a storm gathers. The baby giraffe shivers as it snuggles close to mum. The mother leans in and leads the baby to cover where they watch and wait for the storm to move on and until the sun shines once more.

Giraffe today teaches the simplicity of connection and togetherness. The mother gets joy out of the act of nurturing and the child through being nurtured. Embracing relationships and enjoying acts of sharing are uppermost here. Giraffe’s life is simple. There is no rush, just breathing, walking, eating and relating. These wondrous animals observe their lives calmly, rarely losing their cool and even when they do it is soon over and forgotten, much like the storm.

Today, if you have found these words, then you are ready to let the healing energy of Giraffe reach you and teach you about letting the right people get close to you (those that leave you feeling good about yourself) and to just be a quiet observer of those people who have a different intent to your own and would leave you disturbed or drained were you to let them get too close. Giraffe is asking you to understand that relationships are to be enjoyed and nourished rather than things to ‘struggle through or overcome’. If you have challenging relationships around you then you can learn to stand back, detach and become an observer, you can learn not to take things personally and the best way to do this is to focus on good relationships and bring more and more of those into your life. Dare to let the good people really close, knowing that doing so will always be to mutual benefit.

When you simply let everyone be exactly who they are and have no desire to try and change them (instead choosing to be close or detached depending on how their presence makes you feel), then you will find an immense sense of peace settles in your heart and old disappointment will melt away.

Sometimes Giraffe will appear in a reading or in dreams when you are facing a decision in your life which involves either moving on and away from a past relationship or daring to open up to someone new or in a new way. The first step is always detachment (a re-gathering of yourself together). It is only through detachment that you can honestly see and feel what is good and right for you and what needs to be released. Next comes understanding and peace in your heart as old energy of confusion disappears from your aura.

At other times, when Giraffe comes strongly into your thoughts and awareness, it is when you are holding yourself back from shining or when you are isolating yourself. The message is ‘what a shame not to share with others, and to miss out on the joy relationships of all kinds bring’. Life is all about sharing, especially the type that holds poignant simplicity and present-moment playfulness.
The courage to step out of old ruts and comfort zones and to embrace new and wonderful experiences is the gift that Giraffe offers you today. To accept the gift, open your heart in prayerful intent and take some time to look at pictures of these beautiful creatures. Feel their grace.

Amen

For some reason the image has left me feeling slightly sad which is strange as I adore watching cats play. I feel the angel’s hand reach out for mine and I now see him clearly, blue eyes, and a tender smile. He asks me why I think the image has made me feel sad. I breathe and allow my own words to come to my ears, no idea what will be spoken. ‘I am sad because I would like to live my life as naturally and spontaneously as that kitten and watching the picture has highlighted just how busy and confused my life can be sometimes. Right now it does not seem possible to live that way and in truth I am not sure if that really would make me happy. It would be nice to really know what would make me happy’.

The angel asks me whether the kitten needs to know what makes him happy and I realise that ‘no, he doesn’t’, he just gets out and lives his life. Actually the kitten is in a state of total trust that life will provide many things that bring happiness and play and he sets out to discover those things. The kitten ‘knows’ that life is filled with play. The kitten is beyond doubt and has no capacity to worry or stress.

The angel begins to speak, ‘what do you think would happen if you absolutely knew (decided) that every day of your life was set up to bring you pleasure and that all you have to do is keep awake and aware and to discover those moments? What do you think would happen if you swapped the intention of ‘doing your best’ with the intention of experiencing the best that life has to offer? What do you think would happen if you stood still in life, breathed, observed and made choices based only on those things that set you alight and lifted you to a better place?

When you trust that life has your best interests at heart and that it is set up in alignment with the happy, fulfilled person you were born to be, you allow life to be a perfect arena for living all you were created – destined to be . You give life space to live ‘its’ purpose. Then, when you let go of all that ‘control’ and set your frequency to ‘discover’, you put yourself into a state of pure potential, pure openness. And from that state of mind you let yourself pick the happy moments. You follow the ‘lifted’ feelings within you that come in response to life’s happenings and you cannot help but become happy. And, when you are happy, your energy makes a difference to everyone who crosses your path. No effort is involved, it is just a moment to moment sense of being in the rightness of your own flow – flow that is in harmony with the flow of life. And when you are in your own true flow you attract others who are also in flow, and you automatically inspire others who haven’t yet found their flow, to realise there is a better way of living should they choose to do so..

Every person on earth has a unique soul expression, personality and life purpose. The true choice is always the happy choice; the one that triggers a positive, heightened, enlightened, good feeling inside you and which brings excitement at the mere thought. Or, if you have been depressed and stagnant within your life for a while, perhaps that choice will trigger challenging feelings, until your life force begins to run through you veins again, in anticipation of stepping fully (and trustingly) back into the arena of life.

In round up today, if you really want to make true choices for yourself, then allow life to be your very best friend, give it the space to touch you, teach you, heal you, guide you, motivate and delight you. As you let life in, you let love in and before you know it the little instances of joy that you discover for yourself will become moments that you share with others of like mind and roots will begin to grow under you, building a trend, creating a lifestyle that almost seems to build itself and then, in quiet moments of reflection, you can look around and hug yourself in gratitude at just how magical and perfect your life has turned out to be.

If you need courage to be positive, to truly let go and to trust implicitly, then pray and I will be there to guide you. Angels work with life to co-ordinate moments and people in perfect ways, at perfect times, in perfect order. Your prayers allows us to step forward and help you release old habit patterns and to approach your life in a brand new way – a way that fits you to perfection. I pray you let all your choices be happy ones and that you come to understand that when you let yourself be happy you bring happiness to the world’.

Amen.

Question from NT:

Dear Jane,

I don’t know if this is a question you can help me with but I find that I am always tired except when I am feeling fear or anxiety and dread. There seems to be no middle ground. Can you advise me on how to be more balanced and level in the way I feel? My husband gets very impatient with me and this may even harm our marriage. Thank you if you can help but I understand if it is not something you would advise on.

Regards

N

Answer from Jane:

Dear N,

Your letter was the one chosen randomly and normally the content would be relevant to the psychic agony aunt section, but it reflects the letters that a number of people have sent in this month so I have chosen to answer it in the general questions and answers section.

You have kept your question brief, but I could feel your energy strongly through your words and understand how overwhelming it can be to feel you have no control or balance over your own emotions.

This can happen for a number of reasons, whether that be because you are holding onto an old trauma rather than being fully present in your life, or if you are suppressing your energy (perhaps through feeling the true you is not acceptable or good enough), or if you are very sensitive you may be picking up energy from someone else which is why it feels so ‘alien’ and does not process naturally through your own energy system.

Before I look specifically for you, let me suggest a few things that really will help.

• Regular meditation, whether following a recording or going to a class
• 5 minutes of conscious and calm breathing whilst observing your immediate environment
• Cut out all stimulants such as caffeine and drink more water
• Have calm music playing around you as often as you can
• Walk slowly in nature, appreciating the beauty around you
• Go for a healing sessions

I am presently in the process of creating some new guided journeys, meditations and visualisations which will be available on the website and I will let you know when these become available.

Now, to look at you specifically. I see you like a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards and I see the pendulum moving close to your husband and then far away, as if you are doing your best to please and get up close, then feel overwhelmed and need to gain space, which is when you feel drained. The drained feeling and exhaustion is your body’s way of almost demanding you take some time out in order to breathe and replenish.

I don’t feel that your husband is causing this so much as your low self-esteem is causing you to try too hard to please him (so he becomes your focus rather than you focusing on yourself) and in doing so you have begun to lose your sense of your own identity. In trying to judge what he is thinking of you and adapt yourself to suit you are living your life from the outside in (looking at yourself to find fault rather than looking out at life from within your own energy space). The result is that when you get too close to your husband, you take on his emotion which feels much too strong to handle and which is becoming more and more irritated with you as from his perspective you are ‘crowding’ him. You seem to be pushing your own feelings aside as something invalid and to be ignored.

To heal this, and in the process get true harmony back in your marriage, will necessitate you beginning to ask yourself what brings you joy and for you to begin to go out and do things for yourself, away from the home and from your husband. You need to almost re-boot your emotional self and build up a brand new habit pattern. For you specifically I see an evening class – creative, regular walks somewhere pretty and especially somewhere near water, listening to calming music with your headphones on and cooking for the sheer delight of creation. I see you have an immense creative talent that is lying dormant and yearns to be expressed through you and when you lose yourself into it you will regain your laughter and joy and generally fall back into being ‘just you’.

I wish you happy healing.

With warmest wishes

Jane

The person whose story made the strongest impression is someone I met on a train and ended up talking to for over an hour, animatedly.  I can’t even remember how we started talking, never mind how two strangers got into such detailed information so quickly, but I am happy it happened.  The lady was called Carla (and I am sure she won’t mind me using her real name) and she was a recovering alcoholic.  She told me about her bad times when she had no control over her actions and she told me how the look on one of her son’s faces, of horror, was the turning point when she finally sought help.  I asked her what had given her the greatest strength during her recovery and she said it was the little things that she did on a consistent basis, like always sitting down for half an hour in the morning with a cup of tea and writing in her journal and always going for a walk at lunchtime no matter what the weather and the ritual of immediately making a cup of herbal tea whenever the thought of alcohol came to mind.  At the beginning she says she went through gallons of tea but it worked.  But, of all the things that helped, she said writing in her diary was the most supportive.  It was a safe place where she could put down her feelings, express her fears and anger and timidly at first, but more strongly as time went on, her hopes and dreams.  Her diary never judged her and somehow she always seemed to come away with her mind cleared of clutter, feeling serene and determined.  Lastly she said that her diary became her daily reminder of why she was taking the steps to recovery and how important the love of her family, especially her sons, was to her.

And for me, I couldn’t let the magic or inspiration of this lady’s generous story go to waste and knew that it yearned to be written into the blog.

So for this blog entry, first of many I hope, I will list a few of the obvious benefits that have been highlighted to me this week within the above and other conversations:

A reassuring routine

• A new focus to replace a negative habit pattern
• Somewhere safe to explore your feelings and express/offload negativity
• Somewhere safe to explore your dreams and express your hopes
• Healing and uplifting, clearing the mind of clutter
• Time out of a busy life – ‘me time’
• To gain clarity when feeling confused or when you have a choice to make
• To write out irritation with someone so resulting conversations can be constructive
• Wonderful to look back on to see how well you are doing

May you make some quiet time in your own life to discover or evolve the joy that journalling can bring.

Amen

Development Class – June 2012

The Magician.  

Card no. 1 in the Tarot pack

General meaning of the Magician card:

Readiness to start something new

• To gather your resources
• To emotionally collect yourself in advance of an upcoming change
• To own your personal power
• Mental and emotional dynamism
• Determination to manifest something
• Decisive
• Teacher
• Ready for anything

Advice from this card:

It is time to begin with a clean slate

• Take life into your own hands rather than wait for it to come to you
• Believe in yourself, you are awesome
• You can inspire others
• As you inspire others you become inspired
• You are a natural teacher
• If you want it you can make it so

How to listen to the clairvoyant message from this card:

If you want to get the best from any card you read then ideally you will approach it in a manner of total openness, trust and respect.  To do this you need to trust yourself enough to be able to become a blank page, detached observer and faithful translator of everything that comes up once you ‘connect’.  The process of connection is simply the ability to be observant and interested, or perhaps the word is ‘fascinated’.  You look, you listen and wait in total faith that what you need to see, know and hear will be given.  The clearer you are of expectation and emotion, the clearer the messages will be.  Personally I adore every card I have ever read and can’t wait to hear what treasures they reveal.  It is like opening a gift at Christmas and not knowing what is inside , but knowing it will be something good.

Listening with your eyes, your heart, your mind and with your ears simply means to be fully receptive to what is presented to you.  And once ideas/pictures/words/memories etc begin to flow, it is always good to record them in some way, whether that be by writing down the messages, recording them or speaking them out loud to someone.

To round up your reading simply feel and mentally state your gratitude for all the card has offered.

Cards are healing and nurturing, truly wanting to help and guide us in the best possible way as well as to support us in making positive decisions and changes.

Once you have mentally thanked the card, you will have automatically disconnected and re-grounded yourself to the present moment and can safely move on. 

Clairvoyant message from this card to you right now:

As I look at the figure in the card and open to his message, I notice that he is very focused.

I see him sitting in a mini sports car, child size, while he is full size.  It is a comical picture.  The car is red, which is a colour strongly linked to the magician and represents power, energy, health, motivation and ‘drive’.   As I watch he shows me that he is trying to find where he fits.  First he tries the bumper cars at the fun fair, but that doesn’t fit.  Then he tries driving on a normal road and that definitely does not fit.  Now he is next to me and has a message.

‘So often people expend energy and effort trying to find where they belong.  They travel, change relationship, change job, do many things to find a sense of rightness and belonging.  But often they forget that it isn’t the destination that makes the biggest difference, it is the process.  If you are having a hard time fitting in or finding your place in your life, or within an area of your life, then perhaps you need to look closer to home.

In the image I was trying to find where I would fit in with the car I was driving.  What I didn’t stop to consider was whether the car itself was right for me in the first place.

Maybe this could represent changing job again and again and never really being satisfied.  Could the problem be that you need to be doing something different totally – a new arena/career/sense of motivation?

Maybe you are trying to make your relationship work, jumping through hoops to do so.  What if the reason it is so difficult is because it doesn’t fit you and does not fit your happiness.  Are you going to wait a lifetime to make changes.

This advice is not necessarily about relationship or job, but may be about your sense of style, a hobby, type of exercise, anything that you have compromised with or are ‘making do with’ in the hope that ‘one day it will get better’.

Yet this card is not advising you to leave a job or a relationship, or to leave anything, what it is saying is:  Please take time to consider what makes you feel alive and strong and happy.  Take time to remember all your talents, experiences and resources.  As you do this, get clear about what you really want from life.  You will find clues from your past, guidance from life all around you and desires that arise within you.  Whether your method of gathering all these clues together is to create a vision board or to write yourself a letter, or to get some practical career or relationship advice, is not important, the main thing is that you do something in order to lift your mind toward new ideas and a new vision for yourself and your life”.

What can this card do to help you: 

The healing and energetic motivation offered by this card is one of gathering together scattered energy, whether mental or emotional and focusing it forward toward one inspired goal.

So if you are ready to get clear, get motivated and to fully claim your potential in readiness to start a new phase of your life, then accept the support of this card.

How can I be open to receiving what this card has to give me?:

You can hold the card or the image of a card that you have printed out and spend time In quiet repose, either meditating or just resting, and gently become aware of the energetic changes that begin to occur.  It is also ok to place the card on a part of your body, or to put it under your pillow when you sleep.

As you open to the energy this card offers your hands could heat up, or you may begin to feel really alive and motivated.  Trust that whatever happens is exactly what you most need at this time.

This is a card of pure energy and offers support in clearing and cleansing anything that has ever held you back.

If you have congested energy in the lower half of your body, placing this card on that area will help to shift things immensely. Of course this is never to be used to replace medical help, but can be a wonderful enhancement to other treatments.

Final note from Jane: 

I have worked with cards for over 27 years now and they never cease to amaze me with their stories, clarity and sense of fun.  I truly hope you let yourself be open to receive some of the healing and support so freely offered.

If you would like a personalised reading then it will be my absolute pleasure to do one for you.  Just visit the readings page of the website to find a full list available to order.

And, I would love to hear any of your stories, of what occurs and positively changes for you once you start to link more consciously with this wonderful card.

Smiles and warmest wishes

Jane

Question from AS

Dear Jane,

I found your website a few months ago and remember that you used to offer a psychic agony aunt column.  I think you have removed it from the website now but I am still writing and hoping that I am lucky enough to get a reply.

I have lived with my fiancé for two years now.  We moved in together after going out for about six months.  It has not been easy but I always thought we would work it out.  I have suspected for quite some time that he was seeing someone and then a few weeks ago he told me he was leaving, took his things and moved out.  He has ignored my calls but I have been told by friends that he has moved in with someone else.  I still feel that this is temporary and he will come to his senses and come back to me.  I still feel that we are in a relationship and keep forgetting that he is gone so that the pain keeps hitting me as strongly as that night when he moved out.  I don’t know what to do.  What can I do to get him to come back and to make this work.  I can’t imagine not having him in my life.  Please tell me he will come back and how to make it work this time.

Thank you

A

Jane’s Answer:

Hi A,

I am sorry to hear how difficult life is for you right now.  Break-ups can be intensely painful and the way yours has broken up sounds particularly so.

You asked about the ‘agony aunt’ section on my website.  You are correct, it was something I used to offer.  I am still happy to choose one letter a month, of a more personal nature, and to give a short clairvoyant message in response.

Before I start, from myself, I have to ask why you would want to ‘fix’ something that does not seem to have brought you any significant happiness in the whole time you have been together.  Personally I think you have got used to pain as a way to be and have forgotten what it is like to be with someone who truly loves and respects you.  The first step is always self worth and self love, both of which seem to be lacking at present.  I think your ideal focus would be ‘how can I nurture myself today?’.  It would also be great if you could spend time with people who value you and ‘lift you’ so you begin to remember what happy relating is like.

But enough of me, now to what is clairvoyantly guided for you:

I get an image of you hitting your head against a wall and then crying because doing that is painful.  Then the pain recedes and you don’t know what else to do so you hit your head against the wall again.  It is as if you are in an energetic loop that is holding you stuck.  The words I get are ‘no closure’, ‘she has had no closure’.  I see an angel step up to you and try to get your attention, try to help you look another way, but you are too caught up to see, or to be able to stop.  Suddenly I notice deep inside you a ball of energy.  It is energy with the label ‘anger’ written on it.  And this angry energy is also your sense of self worth and self love, which has been suppressed.  Every time you ‘tried’ to make this relationship work rather than just allowed it to evolve you suppressed a little bit more of yourself until there was very little left at the end.  This is also why you are feeling so empty and alone and feeling so needy of the presence of your ex partner.  Unfortunately, until you are ready to feel that anger and let it course through your veins, let it fill you up from the inside and stand you up tall again, then the only solution for you is to keep repeating this painful loop.  Once you do let yourself feel the anger, I see you standing up tall and free, looking yourself in the mirror and wondering what you ever saw in the person you lived with for so long.  I see you looking around at your home with fresh, new eyes and feeling lightness and freedom, stronger than you have ever felt before – and relief that you are no longer ‘going through the motions of life and trying to pretend you are happy’ when deep down you know you were the opposite – desperately unhappy.

The ‘surrender’ to the energy inside you will take a decision on your part to just sit and breathe and ‘invite’ it to the surface, then simply let it flow until it finally reaches the point where you feel the laughter and relief (and that will come).

I am shown that, when you are ready, you will take this step for yourself and you will exhilarate in your freedom. I am also being shown that once you have reclaimed your energy, your ex partner will come back and want your attention again (presently you are still feeding him energy which is also draining you).  I sigh with relief myself when I am shown the image of you showing him the door very firmly and then laughing to yourself once he has gone.  It is like, once you can see him and still retain your strength, then you will never, ever get caught up in that way again and your life can begin in earnest.

A, I sincerely hope that you have the courage to give yourself this gift of time and openness and that you let your sense of self stand taller inside you than it has ever stood before.  You deserve this new beginning and once you take this decision I am sure that you will be surprised at how quickly you move on from a situation that was simply a stepping stone to something so much better yet to come.  With love and blessings and hope that you hear these words in the way they were intended.

Jane x

So I imagine I am sitting down opposite him, somewhat bemused, and I wait for the message to come clear.

Before I can take another breath the angel leans forward and grabs my hands and suggests we go for a walk.  He seems overly eager and excited as if the previous scene has never happened.  I find myself mentally saying ‘OK, Angel, whilst I appreciate it is for me to watch and listen and for you to give the message, what exactly is going on?’

He grins and the whole scene disappears.

Scatteredness and distraction are the two words that come to my mind as this humour filled angel begins his message for today.  There are two reasons why people get unmotivated.  Either they have rushed headlong into a situation and poured forth all their emotion and energy, normally ended up drained and disillusioned (and probably made more of a mess in the process), or they have totally suppressed their energy and are living on autopilot, trying to find distractions to make their lives seem worthwhile.  Scattered, drained emptiness or suppressed disconnect that needs to create stimulation in order to feel anything at all.

The causes of these states of being are less important than the cure and for both extremes the cure is one and the same.  Make a decision to change.  Make a decision to approach life afresh and find a better way for yourself.  And, if you find yourself getting pulled back into the old ways, simply re-affirm that you have chosen a better way and step forward again.

Scatteredness is quite simply a waste of precious energy which can be better used for joyous exploration of life and happy sharing.  Distraction is quite simply a diversion, where you are living shallow, while all of your potential happiness and joy is locked down inside you.  These states of being are equally out of balance and on opposite ends of the spectrum to one another.  Often when someone decides to change they will automatically begin to do the opposite of what they did before.  As you can see, that is not the ideal way to step beyond this behaviour loop.

And this is where the word motivation comes in.  When someone is motivated, they have a vision, a desire, a goal or a dream, something that goes beyond themselves, something that sparks a focus in them and a decision to succeed no matter what.  If you lack motivation, you lack vision and you lack the clarity to know what exactly you want to achieve.  So if you want to find the motivation to look for a new job, for instance, you need to first decide to change and then you need to understand why you want a new job and what that new job will give you that the old one didn’t.  And, if you can’t find something that creates a spark inside you within the thought of finding a new job, then you are unlikely to find any form of lasting motivation or success.

So, once you have decided to change; to rein in your energy and channel it more smoothly and productively for yourself; or to release the lid on that inner suppression and dare to step more fully into your life, then the next step is to pray for guidance.  Pray to find your true inner spark of yearning and vision.  Pray to discover what touches you and sets you alight.  Making this prayer with all your heart enables me and other angels to draw close to you and to begin to bring signs, people, opportunities and healing your way.  You will need to keep your eyes open to the life that is happening right in front of you and remain alert, because that is where you will find us and all the treasures we bring to you.  We can only connect to you in the alertness of the present moment and in the willingness to approach life with an open mind and heart.  For those who are scattered we offer you the balance of serenity and the detachment to be able to look, think, breathe and consider before you ‘jump in’.  For those of you who are suppressed, we offer you a feeling of confidence and safety that what you have to offer life is worthy and that connecting fully can be the best thing you ever allow yourself to do.

You are ready, and ready now, to take a step forward and get happy, get inspired, get motivated.  Motivation is simply the eagerness and willingness to put action into your dreams and ideas to make them real.  If you don’t feel motivated then pray for angelic support to redesign your goals so that they become totally aligned with your inner excitement, with your soul joy.  And then listen to the ideas, watch your dreams, feel life around you and especially notice anything or anyone that sparks you into happiness, laughter, exhilaration or a ‘thank you God’ type of gratitude.  When you are positively moved, then you are on track.  Celebrate that fact and then be open and alert to the next thing that positively touches your heart.  Before you know it you will become so good at being happy and motivated, you will forget there was ever another way.

To try and force motivation will always have limited success.  To look afresh, to get clear, to be open to renewed vision, to pray for guidance, to decide on happy, successful change and to be open to the magical synchronicity and guidance from life, well that is exactly the type of lasting motivation that I prescribe and, with all that I am, I will support you in discovering and nurturing these things for yourself today.

May you know you are worth all the happiness life has to offer and open your arms to receive.

Amen.

Angel of Motivation

Question from RW:

Hello

I am looking for a bit of advice.  I seem to have opened up to clairvoyance to some degree. Often in the night I see figure moving and sometimes a word or a few words.  To a degree this is a bit disturbing as I am not sure how use to it or not sure how to respond to it.

Any advice from you would be appreciated.

RW

Answer from Jane:

Dear R,

I can imagine this would be very disturbing if you are not used to such things.

You are obviously very sensitive and naturally clairvoyant.  What I need to stress to you very strongly, however, is that you are first and foremost a person, that you have free will and you can choose to keep being open to these things or you can choose to close them down until you have more knowledge and experience.  Only you can assess how disruptive these experiences are to your peace of mind and your life and make that choice.  Personally, however, I would recommend you take your development slowly and suggest that you do not  try to expand what is presently happening without a constancy of experienced support around you.

If you choose to close down to these occurences (for now), then you will need to get very focused and decisive.  The power of intention and prayer will help.  The more ‘grounded’ you are and ‘present’ the easier it will be to switch off and claim your own space.  Exercise is a great way of getting grounded, as is reading, study and opening your mind to new things.

An amethyst crystal would also be protective, grounding and bring you a renewed sense of personal space.  Just place it in your room or have it with you in your pocket.  Taking time to hold the crystal, feel it and look at its detail will also help you to be receptive to its full healing capacity.

Lastly I would suggest that you find a teacher or class in your neighbourhood, or accessible online (pray for guidance in finding exactly the right teacher, easily accessible to you).  This would be a class that can teach you about your talent, about opening up, and could give you some practice and experience in choosing when to be ‘open’ and when to ‘close down’.  It is never good to be permanently switched on and open as it can lead to emotional, mental and physical exhaustion.

A strong prayer to whichever Archangel you are most drawn to (I sense Archangel Uriel closely around you), asking for protection and guidance would also be a step in the right direction for you.

I am in the process of creating some teaching videos so if you make sure your name is on our mailing list, we will let you know when they are available.  These could also be useful to you as time goes on.

I wish you happiness as you begin to gently explore this wonderful talent of yours and the courage to keep your own space at all times so that this ability never becomes an intrusive thing.

With warmest wishes

Jane

QUESTION:

Hi Jane,

Like you I work spiritually.  I am a healer and give readings now and then.

When I work I do all I can to prepare and connect myself properly and I make sure to ground myself afterwards.  My problem is that lately I seem to get drained and tired.  My work used to make me feel enthusiastic and excited but now I struggle to find any motivation.  With such a long client list, some of whom have weekly or monthly sessions, I cannot let them down.  Regarding finances I am lucky that my husband will support me if I do decide to stop working in this way.  Can you please help or suggest anything that could make a difference.

Thank you

SP

REPLY FROM JANE AND REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

Dear S,

Thank you for your email and query.  As I read your letter I can sense the tiredness and your true nature seems to be ‘hidden in the background’ somehow.  What I would like to do is ask you a couple of guided questions (a bit like I would in a life coaching session), and ask that you fully surrender and allow your own deep truth to appear on the page.  Essentially when we ask ourselves the right questions the answer is always there.  I get the feeling that part of the problem is that you have become so focused on helping other people with your spiritual gifts that you have forgotten to use those gifts first and foremost for yourself.  This process will help you to rebalance.

Q1.  When was the last time you felt fully alive and happy?  Describe how that felt.

Q2.  What is your core reason and motivation for working spiritually with others (i.e. what do you get out of it)?

Q3.  Go into your imagination.  If you were to give up working spiritually, how would that affect you and your life?

I look forward to hearing from you again.

With warmest wishes

Jane

RESPONSE FROM S:

Hi Jane,

This was not easy.  At first I was angry about doing these questions.  I wanted my answer immediately like my clients get from me.  Then I understood that maybe I give too much to my clients and not enough to me and that answering the questions would be giving to me again.

A1.  Answering this makes me see that I am unhappy all the time not just spiritually.  The last time I felt fully alive was an afternoon a few months ago.  I was with my sister and my nephew and we were in the garden.  My nephew is 6 and we laughed so much at his mischief.  I remember how his eyes were all sparkly and his energy was infectious.  We had a special tea together afterwards and I went home tired but good tired and happy.  I got home to an empty house and by the time my husband got home I was numb again and cold.  Only his return made me get up and do the things that had to be done like making dinner and cleaning up afterwards.  My husband is kind and generous but there is no fun or unpredictability in my life now.  If I am honest I haven’t had fun since I was studying all my spiritual courses and also doing art classes at the same time.

A2.  I cannot answer this question.  Nothing at all occurs to me.  My heart closes and I want to cry when I think about why I do this.  I started because I was bored and I found a class and the people were nice and I became interested then fascinated with what I was learning.  It was like coming home.  I belonged with those people.  I miss feeling like I belong.

A3.  If I give up working spiritually then I will be back to square one.  I will be feeling empty and bored and unmotivated.  Before I found my spiritual work which I have been doing for 5 years I had nothing that interested me.  I remember being with the people on the course and laughing very much.  I do not want to stop this work.  I do want to get my enthusiasm back.

I am very grateful that you took the time to answer my question.  Something is stirring inside me again.  I cannot wait to hear your reply.

Thank you

S

ANSWER: 

Dear S,

Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions and for breaking through your inner resistances.  Already as I read your second email I feel your energy returning.  Your energy is also now strong enough that I can pick up some guidance for you.

Firstly you are lacking a sense of community and your work has become so natural (easy) to you that your feelings of being energetically drained are, once again, linked to boredom.

The way to keep your energy moving is to motivate yourself and find new things that positively engage and challenge you.  You are not presently being challenged in and of yourself.  Whilst the problems of clients may be challenging to them and you are helping them to find a better and clearer way, this does not keep your own inner fire alight.  Right now it is imperative that you separate your own thoughts and feelings from your husband, your home and your clients (they are not the cause of this malaise).

As you stop looking for a cause to your problem within your life and instead open your mind to other/new things, positive change will immediately begin.   I sense that you are needing an ‘upgraded’ version of your studies.  You have come too far to go back and study in the same way and if you did that you would only be doing it for the sake of ‘doing something’ and would get limited benefit.

What I am seeing is you setting up a group, in your home, and inviting other healers and teachers along; hosting a meeting of people walking the same path as you so you can all help and support one another.  It seems to be necessary to make this a ‘fun’ and ‘let your hair down’ space rather than a serious support group.  As I write I can feel a smile coming to your face and your mind is working on new ideas.  You have a good mind and great instincts and desperately need to keep growing as a person in your own right.  Ultimately I sense you will evolve the ‘meeting of like minds’ into something more and one day go on to learn how to ‘teach the teachers’ .  I also sense a few practical, creative, courses for you as well and choosing these with the intention of simply having fun would be ideal for you.

In truth I don’t sense anything wrong with your present way of living, your spiritual work, or your marriage.  You energy has been suppressed or ‘on hold’ by the fact that you are bored, lacking challenge and that you are deeply yearning to do something new, meet new people and to keep growing as a person in your own right.  When you do this the other areas of your life will once again take on a good perspective.

I wish you luck and renewed excitement.

With warmest wishes

Jane

FOLLOW UP:

Dear Jane,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.  A week ago I thought I would never feel happy again.  I set up the meeting immediately and we met last night.  I now have so many new ideas brewing in my mind and you are right my spiritual work is just a good part of my life again and not my whole focus.  My husband has seen the difference in me and tells me he is relieved.  We are going to meet every week at my house.  I know all who attended went away happier and we have many new and exciting plans.  I will write again soon.  Thank you again.

S