Note: Happy New Year everyone! I had the great pleasure and awe to host Yeshua/Jeshua for a public channleing session on the Solstice in December, my first such event. There was a lovely small group present and they asked great questions. I will be posting the transcript of this session in several installments. This one is Yeshua’s opening message and the first question about whether the Solstice was celebrated in his time, roughly 2,000 years ago. Love, Jennifer
Solstice Channeling, at Working Well, So Po, Maine, Dec. 21st, 2025
Jennifer Donaldson: Welcome, everyone….
Divine Mother, Divine Father. Thank you for this circle of wise souls, loving souls, those who have gathered together today to share, to learn and to talk with Yeshua. We invite Jeshua to come and speak with us…
Jeshua/Yeshua: Yes, it is my great delight, my great honor to come forward tonight to each of you, individually and together. It is an occasion, is it not? We have the candlelight, the boughs, the beeswax, yes, tea and cider, spices in the cookies. Yes, it is a lovely celebration of the longest night of the year.
And many walk through this time of year with a great heaviness in their hearts. This is true. And so we bring light, we bring gladness, we come together. We reach our hands out to one another. We share. We share gratefully. We share our learning hearts, our growing hearts, our curiosity.
I am most interested to see how you are doing, each one of you, how you are representing yourself, how you are carrying your energies. It is a very busy, hectic time in your world. And I am very sad to say this is because of my birthday.
I would not wish any greater burden on any of you for any reason, so we are as active as possible to lighten your loads. Yes, we are as active as possible, to hold your hands, wipe your tears, embracing you. We work through your friends and family. We often impulse the energy to offer greater comfort at this time. This is the reason for the parties. This is the reason for the traditions of coming together.
This is very helpful. And yet, you do live in a nation where there is a maximum amount of freedom offered to each generation, and this has been taken to extremes, to enable an exploration of what it is like to live in a family or a society with more space between you. And, yes, this can be very difficult.
This one, Jennifer, becomes sad in the beginning of December every year if she’s not going to see her son. This is an annual pilgrimage of the heart through the sadness, and over the years, you learn to accommodate to it, but our hearts are with you, and you will find ways to reach out and be as one.
It is truly a matter of time and space illusion in your worlds. It may perhaps be helpful to realize that what you see in front of you you have created — is this not so, Kate? We did learn together (in a previous class] to say, “I created this. I created this.” If you can begin to understand that you have given yourself these learning opportunities, the different ones that come your way. There can be the grief of someone who is not separated from their family but their family is so difficult, or there is the grief for one has passed, whom one loves andno longer sees.
Usually at your holiday time, you begin a new year, a new experience for you to realize these are gifts you have given yourself, and just be gentle. Just be gentle with the feelings that arise. Bring that love to yourself and realize “This is my expansion. This is the way I am going to grow now. I have this new experience, [e.g.] my mother is not here.” But she is in spirit. She is free. She can visit you whenever she likes. And if you invite her to be present, she will come.
You can also specifically ask your long-distance children – some of you have this situation – ask them to visit you, higher self to higher self, in your dreams, and you will have a wonderful sense of reunion, you will wake up feeling some ease in your hearts.
Yes, and there are those who gather together with other single people. Of course, we are most honoring of those who have chosen a path of service, a path of focus, a path of devotion, each of them a different scenario, a different flavor, a different set of learnings, but one in which you are learning to be alone, which is the next step to becoming all-one. You see?
There are those who are highly embedded in their families and do not learn to be alone, because once you know that you yourself are the candle, you are the Source, you carry the light within you. You carry the love within you. You are made of love. You could not be made of anything else. There really is nothing else that can create life. And once you are in your physical representation, you carry the light within your hearts, within your love, and it shines. This is not just a metaphor. This is real.
Do you watch your cat sometimes looking at you like, “Ooh”? They are noticing your aura, the different levels of your energetic being. They see you light up. This one, Jennifer’s cat, when she sees that Jennifer is rather sad, this cat actually gives her a little time and a little space, which is the cat’s wisdom-way of saying, “I trust you, you will be fine, I see.”
But if, on the other hand, you have dog friends and they see you sad, they are the most gracious companions. Is that not true? Yes. But you see, the animals are here for love. They’re teaching you love. They are embodying love in ways beyond what you have known so far. And when you think about 50 years ago – or maybe you are not anywhere near that age – the animals were much more independent and less interested in being with the humans. They are very devoted to your welfare now, and very much a part of your families in a new way.
Everything is evolving. Each one of you so much, since your childhoods, have grown so much, and you will continue to grow. In the future that is becoming present, on the edges of your present, each day is lighter, more unified, more hopeful, more creative.
There will be those who mourn [the old ways]. There will be those who drag their heels, but if you are looking for the light in one another, you are honoring the love and light in one another, you will draw to you more who will give you some support with this and begin to share with you their vision, their optimism, their knowing of this great procession into a higher vibration.
The entire body of Gaia is moving every day into a higher and higher vibration. She is settling in quite well. But you will notice the storms, or you will notice the times when there is a release of energy, which needed to be released, needed to be eased within the body of Gaia.
Gaia is the Divine Mother Incarnate. Now, she did not go through the forgetting that humans do. She is aware of her divinity. And Divine Mother still exists apart from Gaia, from physical nature. So these are great mysteries, but you will learn.
Gaia is growing and Gaia is vibrating faster and faster. This is at times uncomfortable. This is at times confusing. You have heard of Ascension? You have heard of ascension symptoms? You will get tummy aches, or you will get headaches. You will get emotional experiences. “Where did that come from?” And it just arises, and then it goes.
So Gaia, too, has her emotional outbursts. She is healing the parts of her body that have been damaged. Yes, she’s not going to shake off all her parking lots in one day, but little by little, she will reduce that which is excessive and return it to its elements. It will take some time, and you may help her, if you like.
We would like to pause for a moment, having touched on a circle of points of entry, points of interest that may come forward from each of you. We have time to discuss questions which you yourselves have about your experience now. So who would like to begin?… [quiet] I am quite friendly, you know.
#1. I’ll ask a question. Did you practice the Solstice during your time?
Good morning, Sun. I see you. I see you. I feel seen. What a miracle of life we are, in this moment!
Jeshua/Yeshua: Yes, indeed, only we were not in the more northerly or Celtic lands, which is the source of your evergreen boughs and this sort of thing. But yes, when there was the festival in the wintertime, when the days would proceed through [their darkening…] You see, our lands were closer to the Equator, and there was less of a contrast, as you have from the northern lands or further to the south, of course. So the lands farthest from the equator had such contrast and such long nights. Think of the Scandinavians, and their very short, three or four hours of daylight each day, and what a very long winter. These [solstice customs] are for them, you see.
For us, we were aware of this because we had the knowledge of our astrologers, and they followed the patterns of the year, and they knew, they knew of these rotations. So yes, we did, and our understanding and appreciation of the Sun was an annual ritual. It is embedded in the Egyptian rituals, the Egyptian ways and the ways of the Essenes, the Essenes as being the community in which I myself was raised.
The Essenes have great reverence for the Earth as a holy, living being. And they are well aware of the godhood of the Earth herself, the Great Mother, you see, and when I myself had the need to become closer to the Great Mother, that is when I took myself off into the desert by myself so that I could lie upon the ground and re-ignite, refresh my soul, and be taught by the Mother and hear my own Spirit clearly.
If you go by yourself for a walk in the woods, it is delightful, but it is more than that. Don’t you feel when you come back, renewed? Yes, and if you go with others, it is lovely. You all benefit from this. But if you are by yourself – again, the alone – and take time for this, this is very valuable. You will hear your own spirit more strongly. And you will hear the spirits of the plants and the trees and the birds and animals, yes, and you will hear your heart. You will, you can, bring all of your sorrows to Mother Earth, and she will ease them. For you, it’s a very practical path.
Yes, but notice whether you pay attention to the sun, whether you greet it in the morning when you arise. Do you take time to say, “Good morning, Sun. I see you. I see you. I feel seen. What a miracle of life we are in this moment”? If you take time to acknowledge the sun and to spend a few moments with it when it rises – not during the middle of the day, because you do have your ozone holes – but early in the morning, and as the sun sets, you can look directly into its rays with no harm. And you will see the blessings being offered to you. You will see the radiation of love.
Light, Love, these are the same. Light is more often interpreted mentally. Love is more often interpreted with the emotional body. But do you not feel something sacred when you see your sunrise, your sunset? Yes, so we did indeed honor the wheel of life in this way, the passages of the sun.”
To Be Continued…
Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, December 21st, 2025, South Portland, Maine, USA
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