Love Illuminated

Sunrise in Fog ~ Photo by John P. M. Higgins 2025

Note: When we get together in our channeling “practice” teams, we usually take turns, each channeling separately. However, in the past few months, we have been channeling simultaneously, each of us in the channeling space, receiving, and able to toggle back and forth to speak from our human level also. It is most wondrous experience for us and we want to share it. Love, Jennifer, Rob and our friend Rachel O’Gara.

Council Fire Conversation, 1 Sep 2025

– Archangel Gabrielle, channeled by Rachel

– Archangel Uriel, channeled by Rob

– Archangel Jophiel, channeled by Jennifer

Rachel: I believe I have Archangel Gabrielle.

Rob: Ooo, let’s go with all the Archangels.

Jennifer: I had the same thought.

Rachel: Isn’t that funny?

Rob: Huh. Can I have Uriel then?

Jen: Yeah, you can have Uriel! They love thinking of us fighting over them!

Rachel: [Laughs] Ridiculous!

Jen: I’m getting Jophiel.

AA Gabrielle: Hello, all. It’s Archangel Gabrielle. So nice to be with all of you. It is, indeed, a pleasure. I’m grateful for being included tonight.

AA Uriel: And this is Uriel. Based on all that you’ve talked about this evening, Rob thought it was important to have the Flame of Illumination present, so I’m always happy to accommodate. Thank you.

Jen: This is Jennifer. I invited Jophiel, because I think of you, Jophiel, I think of you as a dad figure, as a brother figure, as someone I can just be comfortable with who is in my family, and I find that connection to be so accessible that I find YOU accessible. So what I’m curious about, actually, is what your particular perspective is.

AA Jophiel: Well, I am one – like Saint Germaine to some degree, [he’s] very much a son of mine – who has participated in the earthly story, who has reveled in the experience of what you called tonight “The Game.” And it was a very fervent and sincere game that we brought forward during that era.

We immersed ourselves in it, in preparation, deeply, and for a great length of time. And then when the time came to take on the earthly body suits and experience life in physicality, with its limitations and with its particular blessings, for there are many, I was most grateful to be one who was able to do so.

Most of the ones you call Archangels are not desirous, not wanting, not choosing the physical experience, but there was a need for one to come forward as the family father figure for this one you know and love as Yeshua, and because we all know each other so well in the Ascended realms– and there is never a limitation on love, there is only a discernment of who would be the one most willing to participate.

And I revel in the fact that you sense in me the family figure for we are family to you. You may think of us as great lights in the sky. You may think of us as vast energies who barely have a personality, but in truth, we are deeply known to you, well known to you, amply known to you, and we enjoy this so much!

Thank you for including me again.

Uriel: I would point out that this is the time long-awaited, prophetic times, where humanity is awakening to all that you have spoken of this evening. The fact that you are having these conversations about love and forgiveness and separation says that you are on the doorstep. You are doing what you came to do, to bring such awareness to all of humanity, touching however many souls that you are able to touch, each individually, and far more so than you are even aware.

This is a grand adventure coming into physicality with its limitations, self-imposed. The rules of the game say that you are not aware of all that those on this side would see and know and feel, and yet you are finding your way through and still finding your way back to the Heart of One. This, again, is why you’ve come, and we are so overjoyed to see the progress, to witness your blossoming.

I’m sure Gabrielle would have a lot to say about that love and the joy that accompanies it.

Gabrielle: Thank you, Archangel Uriel and Archangel Jophiel, for your words of wisdom.

You all are making your way in your human experience, and yes, affecting all of those around you, just by being. As you know, or you’ve come to learn, love is all there is. And a simple way of moving forward in this life is remembering the divine beings that you are and all that you’ve accomplished thus far.

[It’s] such a joy to be here and listening to your musings, wondering about this or that. But when you get to the heart of the matter, love is all there is. And you show that, each, by being yourselves and the interactions you make with your loved ones, family, friends and strangers. That’s what we mean by affecting others that you may not be aware of.

You’re raising the collective just because you’re learning and accepting what is in this game and being truly okay with it. Thank you, all.

Jophiel: We are wondering if anyone would like to pose a question.

Rob: This is Rob. Since it was on my list and Gabrielle just spoke of love, are there any comments about the whole notion of love being expressed in degrees? Is there such a thing?

Gabrielle: On the mental mind, maybe. But truly, there are no degrees of love. How we all see it, believe it, and know it, being all one, is that love is love. But I can see from the human plane, using words and understanding your own definitions can create the degrees in your mind, but there truly isn’t.

Archangel Jophiel, do you have anything to share?

Jophiel: It would be hard for us to express a small degree of love, would it not? Yes. Jennifer is remembering that Yeshua often signed off from their sessions by saying, “Great love to you.” Great love is love. Love is great. Love is intrinsically full and powerful and wondrous and abundant, you see. It is the minimizing of love which we do not experience. It is the lack or paucity of love that we do not experience. This is the mental construct of your human perspective, your beliefs.

And so you reassure each other with your “great love” or your “very much” when you say, “I love you.” You see, “I love you” is, in itself, an expression of separation. There is only One of us here.

So Yeshua was quite correct when he said, “Great love to you,” so that you, Jennifer, who was still feeling some separation, could understand that there was the reality of great love available and lovingly offered, generously offered, caringly offered, and had only to be accepted for it to be real.

And you, Uriel, what would you say?

Uriel: Within the human construct, within the construct of societies, the whole idea of being separate from others, in order for one group to assert in any way power over another, that inherently is based on a belief of one being in some way better than another. But that is not the way of love. Love is! It is equal to all. It gives life to all, whether they be, according to your society, the least amongst you or the greatest amongst you. Love is the same.

So humans have developed this idea of love being offered conditionally in order to support that belief that some are better than others. This is a false notion, just as much as any one soul being greater or less than another, for we are all one.

Unconditional love means offering that great love to all equally, without condition. This is where we are headed. This is the path that humanity is on. Bit by bit, step by step, it is all coming to fruition.

Again, we are overjoyed with the progress all are making. As you say, it won’t be long now. 😉

Jen: This is Jennifer that is wondrous to hear. Thank you, Uncle UU. And I familiarize you as well, because it makes me happy to feel family together. It is in families that we have our greatest struggles, it seems at times. And when you say we are doing wonderfully well, I reflect on the greater degree of acceptance, self-acceptance and acceptance of each other, that I, myself, feel in my own family, and what a miracle that feels like. But then there are times when I wonder, are we really getting anywhere? I hope so. It really helps us to hear that we are.

Uriel: Indeed. Indeed, you are. We are. We all are. And yes, for many, families are a source of great struggle, but I would remind you that families are also the source of the greatest joys in life. The greatest expressions of love, one to another, are within the context of family, and we are, indeed, all family.

Jophiel: Yes, it is in families that births and deaths occur. It is in families that you delight in the crowing laughter of a baby. It is in families that you create these children, in all its wondrous unfoldment of birthing — the greatest amount of love. It is an incubator for love. It is an academy for love. It is a great, a grand experiment in love, in which the greatest game is immediately its own reward.

Uriel: Indeed. Gabrielle, would you like to bring this home?

Gabrielle: Yes. Thank you. With the love that you all share for one another and your families, because love is all there is. It is wonderful to be with all of you and enjoying the many moments that you have together with us, your family and friends, because, this game, this is the game of life on this Earth.

So play it, dear ones with love, joy, and wonder. Good night, until we talk again.

Jophiel: Love abounding and overflowing, my heart to yours.

Uriel: And my love for you, all here, IS. Go in peace and in understanding and In comfort that we are all family. Farewell for now.

Transcribed by Rob Loveland and https://otter.ai

Mary Magdalen on The Divine Feminine

PART TWO of the Old Port Channeling, March 9th, 2025.

Mary Magdalen: Blessings to you, my sisters. I am so glad to see you in this place, in this moment. This is a new beginning for Jennifer and I extend my gratitude also for your support of what we are bringing forward. We are beyond ego with this particular endeavor. It is of great joy and fulfillment, of course, to Jennifer, so why would she not choose what brings her joy? Right? Why not we all make this choice for our own joy and to spread the joy and share the joy and be the joy together? It is so much richer and more beautiful when we are gathered. 

Yes, yes, and this does make such a beautiful gathering, the three, the sacred three, the triskele of the Celts. Yes, the Divine Feminine. They knew a lot about the Divine Feminine. They honored it. And it’s not just the Maiden, the Mother and the Crone. It is also the Divine Feminine in all of its expressions~ the tenderness, the caring, passionate caring about your community, your neighborhood, your world,  every heart – you care passionately! – and your family, of course. The family is really a metaphor for the human family, it is a living metaphor. But neither is more important than the other, just one is a smaller group, just as we are, an intimate group today. 

 So we can discuss more about the Divine Feminine anytime, it’s one of my favorite topics. I rejoice for you that we are together today in feminine embodiment, with all the blessings this brings. And you have been in feminine embodiment in many lifetimes, but also the other, the male embodiment. But you chose in this life to experience divinity As Love, and this is the way of the feminine.  

To experience, seek for and practice and know and remember your divinity As Consciousness– this is the way of the Masculine. Now you all carry that within you, so if it attracts you, have fun with it. But if you feel a little less drawn to the hour-long sitting meditations in a hall where you are bathed in consciousness, fine, and if that is a delight and a bliss for you, wonderful!  If you are more drawn to feminine Ways of Love, love experienced in your quiet moments, love experienced as you express it and extend it, as you embrace another, as you help another in any small way, then you are expressing the Divine Feminine, the path of the feminine Love Expressed. 

We can feel your curiosity bubbling up. We can feel your interest in many matters of particular concern to you, so we will open the floor, so to speak, to whatever is bubbling up within you. Take a quiet moment, if you like. You’re ready for a question? Just speak up. 

Attendee: I’m keeping this general, there’s so many more I have that would be specific right now. But could you speak from your vast knowledge of love — how do you balance the love that comes through you and pours out of you with self protection and boundary? 

Mary Magdalen: This is a very good question. There are most on the planet who have an unconscious memory of their many human experiences which have resulted in their beautiful, divine vulnerability being mistreated in some way, and these are memories that you carry in your DNA and your cells, but also memories that are rampant upon the planet, in which case you may have been given advice to not allow yourself to be fully open, fully vulnerable, fully in a place of love with everyone. 

For you, at this stage where you are well aware of the value of being open and being loving, I would say it is a matter of discernment and wisdom.   Realize that not everyone that you interact with is ready for that level of openness and love from you. So if you respect their boundaries,  allow them to grow in their own time, in their own pace, and to remain closed where they choose to, then you will be honoring that value of boundary without needing to shutter yourself in the love that you are willing to be.

Does this make sense to you? 

Yes, you have chosen, in many lifetimes to open to the extent that you will interact with others who are holding more hurt within themselves, and what they will share with you will be some level of hurt, and you will say to yourself, “I got hurt when I opened my heart this time”, but when you are able to move completely beyond any thought of victimhood by another and trusting that each other person you meet Is divinity, although they may not express it that way, they are mirroring to you those parts of you you have planned in advance to bring up somehow in your current lifetime. To become clear as to what the energy is and why the energy occurred, and to move beyond your sense of victimhood into a sense of compassion for yourself as well as the other, these are opportunities for you to practice your compassion, your wisdom, your self-compassion. 

We are not perfect. We are perfection in the expression of Mother/ Father’s energy, but we are not always perfect in our human choices and experiences. For example, our choice of words at times, may feel lacking in love, in wisdom, in timing, but do not berate yourself when this occurs and the other also. There is an opportunity for you to be compassionate with another and to understand that they were expressing from a less than purely loving place due to their own stresses, their own beliefs and hurts. And you let it flow, you let it move along. That was then, this is now. And you move back into your loving self, and they will move back into their loving self as well. 

Sometimes, well, usually, it takes many, many lifetimes to be able to sustain the Loving Self through most of your days, but even then, you can have your moments. So remember to be compassionate with yourself, wise, understanding, accepting and grateful for all your experiences. Each one brings you a greater degree of wisdom and a freer expression of love.

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, Portland’s Old Port, March 9th 2025.

A Note about PERSONAL CHANNELED SESSIONS ~

Jennifer is now channeling guidance for you from the COUNCIL of LOVE, including Mary Magdalen, Yeshua, one of the other Ascended Masters, or one of the Archangels. Your session will be filled with profound personal support and supreme wisdom from the higher realms. This can be a most wonderful way to advance your spiritual journey. If you like the channeled messages we post regularly here, don’t hesitate to schedule a personal session focused on You and your questions.

RATES: Introduction: $45 for 30 minutes (personal message from your choice of Ascended Master or Archangel, one question w/ audio file.) This short session is a perfect chance to try this type of guidance, or to use as a follow up to a Full Reading.

Full Reading: $90 for an hour (including intro, guided meditation, personal message and time for your questions, plus full audio file.)

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Mirrors of Love

Photo by Mary Ellen Chadd, Child Skating On A Frozen Pond

PART TWO: ON LOVE, channeling with Mary Magdalene ~

[Continuing from this last part] It is a huge challenge to be human, and yet it is a huge blessing to be human, the exquisite pleasure which you feel when you feel another’s heart, whether you have fallen in love or embraced a child, whether you have kissed your elder, whether you have held your mate, whether you have held the hand of a brother or a sister, and seen the love in their eyes, the appreciation, the encouragement, the willingness just to be together in this adventure. You all know so much love. Each of you knows love in abundance. 

We feel ready to move along to the question part of this session, if you have brought some question, or you think of one. Now, if anything that I have said has sparked a question, or you wish more elaboration, or you wish to know more about some aspect I have perhaps glossed over a bit, let us proceed. And if my helper, my sweet helper, will call out the names since Jennifer has taken off her glasses and sees a beautiful blur, you go ahead and speak up. 

Question #1: I’ll actually start with a question. In our world, currently, I’m experiencing the lack of loving expression so profoundly and so broadly. Can you respond to that lack of love more of a global level, a lack of expression of love, because love, love, love is there, but… 

Mary Magdalen: Yes, you do know love yourself. You are asking about why there seems to be so little love out there. You are perhaps partly expressing or projecting a belief in lack of love to the greater whole. You are also partly believing that it is possible for there to be a permanent lack or a solid lack of love. There are chimeras, there are movies, there are videos, there are words which seem to be not of love. Do not put to put too much belief in these. 

There is at the moment in your public life, a great outpouring of what you would think of as the shadow self. You see, it used to be the older generations would only show what was nice, what was pleasant, what was of good manner, and much was repressed for a long time. Now, you are seeing the expression of the shadow self of the collective, which is saying, “Can I still be love? If I am unpleasant, if I am unkind, can I still be love?” You are asking in your heart of hearts, “Is it possible for there to be love when there is so much disagreement, when there is so much separation?” 

Well, there is so much belief in separation still, and this is why so many of you have come to be on earth at this time to shine your light in the ways that you do. Just by being you. You do not need to start a great mission. You do not need to start a TV station, though some of you might want to.  You can write a song, you can write a poem. You can smile to your neighbor when you see them. You can smile to the stranger. And this is shining your love. 

You see, you are picking up, dear one, the collective belief in lack of love empathically through your heart, and it weighs on you. But this is not the true essence. It is merely an expression that is troubled, that seems to be lacking in love, that is afraid that there is no love or not enough love. You are aware of all of these in your own individual journey, and you have overcome them.  At this point there is more of a seeing it out there and believing, in you. You will all find your way to love. This is the path forward for mankind, humankind, man- and woman-kind you. Does this clarify for you? 

#1: Yes, very much. Thank you. 

Mary Magdalen: I am glad. Would there be another question from anyone? … Wonderful. Go ahead

#2:  Well, I can honestly say I love myself. I love my body. I’m really grateful for my body, and I send love in every part and every aspect, and I also send love to my soul, and then I do sort of feel that I should be in harmony, because love dissolves all the negativity, and then there’s harmony and there’s balance, and also with the physical disbalances, they should be, they could be removed in that way, but that does not quite happen. Can you please give me a little bit more information about that? 

Mary Magdalen: Are you asking about the healing aspect of love for you to feel better? 

#2: Yes, that’s, that’s it certainly, yes. 

Mary Magdalen: There is a reason why you are all incarnated together, and we would suggest to you that you reach out to the greater collective, whether this is something you do in your mind, or something that you do in an occasion such as this, where we are together, where you will receive a strengthening of that love and that delight and that joy that you are looking for, a strengthening of Your Own Beingness by being part of the whole. You are whole, but your wholeness is not separate, and this is a lingering fragment or figment of your belief in separation. 

You will all go through many stages of belief,  a little bit of separation may continue for a while. So I would just advise these group meetings or the times when you can have the human interaction in your own daily life, whether it is a hand or a hug or the sweet communion with eyes. We see your love and we see your spiritual practice, and you are a most beautiful soul incarnated dear one. 

Yes.  But take advantage of -in the most positive way of that phrase- the fact that you are all here together in this beautiful world, and know that there will be times when the energy feels a little less, just as the tides come and go, the tides recede, and then they come back again to shore, and they wash beautifully upon the sands, and they gift you abundantly. And then they withdraw for a little while, and then they will return again. So to trust in the cyclical nature of energy flow, would this help you as well? 

#2: Definitely yes, thank you. 

Mary Magdalen: I’m glad.  I am here for you. 

#2: Thank you so much. 

#1: #3 has a question. 

Mary Magdalen: Yes, go ahead, dear one. 

#3: Hi, thank you. Okay, so my question is on personal relationships, you had said something in your beginning about leaving behind judgments and criticisms of self because we’re all love. If we feel that maybe love may be lacking in a personal relationship, and that’s the wrong word, or there’s a fear in me in some way, because it may not be real at all. It could be the judgment of self, the lack of self worth, or whatever. Can you give me guidance on how to remain true to myself and maybe eliminate the fear, or may not even exist at all? 

Mary Magdalen: Is the fear within your own ability to be loving in the relationship, or is the fear projected to the other that they may not be loving enough for you? 

#3:  Projected to the other okay, but it may not… 

Mary Magdalen: It triggers, perhaps, your feeling that you are not quite enough? 

#3: Maybe. It never occurred to me, okay, maybe.

 Mary Magdalen: The dance of a relationship is the mirroring for each other, the love that you each are, or where you are, not believing in the love that you are. There is never less than love. There is less than love in the belief that is expressed. It is only through the belief that there can be a lack of love. How could there be a lack of love? Look at this wondrous, amazing life that we are. 

#3: So really, it’s my belief systems.

Mary Magdalen:  Well, in the dance of a relationship, you will also encounter the other’s belief systems, yes, and they will project upon you occasionally. But, in that you are completely knowing of your own love, the other can say just about anything, and you will wait until the wind has stopped blowing and you will come back with your peace and say, in your own way, “I see you. I love you. We can get beyond this. We can go now together,” and you are in peace and harmony again, you see. 

In a relationship, sometimes you are projecting your peace and harmony, your belief in the goodness and abundance of love, and sometimes it is the other way around, and you know that in the sacred partnership, you have agreed to work together with all of the energies that you each encounter each day. These are varied, you see, not always the sweetness and light. 

#3: Right. 

Mary Magdalen: This makes life interesting. This makes relationship dynamic, but to the extent that you can be with another, or take a little time out and then be with the other, and hold the love that you know you are and that you know, essentially, they are, then it does not matter. The expression of less-than-love is not real, and it will pass. It will fade out like a slide show on the wall, and he will return to love, and you will mirror that for him. 

You are all here to be mirrors to each other, and this is the beautiful way of relationship. It can happen in family relationships, and it does, sibling relationships. What kind of relationship are you working on, each of you? 

You see, it could be a relationship with a neighbor. This one, Jennifer, had a neighbor who had neighbors who had a barking dog. It drove the neighbor “up the wall” every time the dog barked. She had a little work to do with love for her neighbor and love for the dog. Simple, right? You can see it in others. You all have so much wisdom. Trust yourselves. Does this answer your question? 

#3: It does, and it’s interesting. When you speak of the mirror, you know, when you recognize things in the other person and in family too. So yes, identifying it. Yes. 

Mary Magdalen: And I can say a little bit more. Those parts of yourself that you are uncomfortable with, you will assign to another.  You will feel more comfortable if you can temporarily disown the “discomfortable” part.  True? 

#3:  Yes. 

Mary Magdalen:But if you see something in another that is disturbing to you or is uncomfortable to you, and you say, “Bless that too.” That part, too, is only [there] because that person is afraid of love. That person is afraid there is not love. “Bless that too, bless my brother or sister. They are just believing in ‘not-love’ and this too shall pass.”  It may take a week, it may take a year, it may take another lifetime, but they too will come to know themselves as love, as each of you are doing now, and there are many ways to express this love, do not think it has to be one way or another. Love is not limited. Do not limit it. 

Channeled by Jennifer Joy Donaldson on February 19th, 2025

[ note: the final part of this session included a question from a child about communicating with the Elementals, a charming Q & A I will make into another post. You can look forward to that! ]

LIVE Channeling on LOVE ~ Feb 16th

Mandala by Jennifer Donaldson

What: All About Love ~ a LIVE channeling with Mary Magdalene

When: Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at 11 am Eastern Standard Time, about 45 min. long

Where: On Zoom at: [the channeling is complete now.thank you.]

Why: For Valentine’s Weekend, wouldn’t it be wonderful to chat with one of the Ascended Masters on the subject of LOVE? I chose Mary Magdalene, because she is the Queen of Love, Jeshua’s beloved, wise in all the ways of the heart, and she is willing!!

She will come and be present with all who would like to hear her heart healing and expanding message: All About Love.

She will also take questions from the attendants, so you are welcome to bring a question on any aspect of love that you are wondering about. If your question is personal, she will likely answer it in a more general way, so as to be of interest to all.

Bring your open heart and help us to hold sacred space for this mystical experience!

Offered in LOVE, by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, Council of Love channel, coach & teacher.

A FREE event from A Lighthouse for the Soul.

Was Mary Magdalen in France?

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Jennifer Joy Donaldson: January 12th, 2025: I haven’t been to the South of France (yet!) where Mary Magdalen supposedly went after her beloved Yeshua was crucified, but many devotees have taken such a pilgrimage, where, aligning with Mary’s energies has been profoundly moving to them. In our upcoming on-line Course: Yeshua and the Magdalena, we will explore traditions, secret knowledge and the power of channeling Mary directly in meditation with the intention of learning more about this period in her life. The wonderful channeling I am sharing now was published in the Fall, when we first started to develop the course. It seems well worth re-posting in this context, especially for anyone considering enrolling in our course. Of course we’d welcome you with open arms, as Mary and Yeshua do in this channeling!

Channeling Yeshua & Mary Magdalen together, Oct. 7, 2024 with Rob Loveland:

Jennifer: So, I’m getting that this is Yeshua and Mary together. But it didn’t take very long, so I’m not trusting that! (Laughing) What?! You’re fast!  Hold on, let me just take a breath…. 

Yeshua & Mary Magdalen: It is our great pleasure to speak with you both tonight. We have been listening in! (Jen laughs). We are grateful for your interest in us, and not surprised.  You both have many, many ties to us both, and of course, there is the curiosity, because you are in your own physical lives. 

You are grounded in the earth with your spirit stretched wide and infinitely, and yet your focus is on the human life and what life was like, and how we found each other and how we lost each other, and how we came together, and how we learned from one another, and what our relationship was, and what were the details, and what did it look like and, and, and where did we go and when? 

And, of course, this is all of interest to you, and we do understand, not only your interest but, also, we support your understanding that the details are not that important. But we are very mindful of your human journey and your desire to know, because both of you are led in this instance, by a heart connection to us, to both of us. And this is very, very old…

It is older than the world that you know,  our knowing of each other, because you have levels of yourselves that are connected with us when we were first on the earth and you were first on the earth. There are levels of you who are connected with us from when we were first birthed, from Mother/Father God. We have known one another for so very long. 

And there is a mystery around our life on earth, there are many versions of tales and the desire to sort and to clarify one from the other. Was this true? Was this not true? You know, it does not really matter. What really matters we will tell you. But to say, “Was Mary in France, or was she in Spain?” Well, she was in France, you see, and it is something which we are perfectly happy to clarify for you. If you have a burning question about how things were, we can, of course, see the entire picture and offer to you some details. 

Rob: I do have a question. 

Yeshua & Mary: Sure. 

Rob: So I’m wondering… I have feelings about …the idea that Mary was in southern France, separated from you, if you were, in fact, deceased at that point, then okay, that separation is a natural part of what the human experience is. But if you were not, and you had to be separated, I just find that incredibly sad. 

Yeshua: And it was so for us, the need to part from one another, but we had also been warned that this would come, that our time together would have a parting. So we understood the necessity of this.  If my family had stayed with me— I’m speaking as Yeshua — then they would have been in constant danger. If I had traveled with them, then I also would have eventually, as the red flag, called attention to their whereabouts, and their safety would have been compromised. You see? 

Now, I did live for a time, but it really was only a short period,  more a matter of two or three years, and not 40 years or 500 years. [Channeled sources vary widely in the number of years Yeshua survived the crucifixion, if indeed he did].  

Rob: Just a question. I mean, that’s something that I ponder to myself, whether I would, if I were ever asked to do something that extreme, would I have the strength to do it?

Yeshua:  Well, you realize that we also were greatly assisted by our heavenly hosts, our Mother, our Father, we each had a very deep faith and deep understanding of our origins within Mother and Father, and we knew that the separation was temporary and that each of us would be completely protected, through the… let me see how to say this…  not ‘protected’ in the sense that we needed to, that we thought it was to seek safety for each of us separately, but ‘protected’ in the sense that there is no, there is no real separation. 

We had learned to telepathically communicate. We had learned to bi-locate.  I was completely able to continue to visit with Mary in her meditations,throughoutthe remaining years of her life. 

Rob: Is that one of the reasons that she chose to seclude herself, to become more of a recluse?

Yeshua:  I will let Mary speak now…

Mary Magdalen: As I became older in my life, and I had concluded much of what I came to France to do, the teachings that were passed on to the community which sprung up around where I was living. And I raised my daughter and saw her married, and I knew that there would be the passing down of the wisdom that had been taught,. After that is when I became more solitary.  And I enjoyed the last few years of my life, largely in meditation, largely with my beloved Yeshua- in communion through the meditation. Yes, yes, and I could see him within myself, and I could see him at times seated with me, but it did not last very long. 

Rob: I see. Thank you so much. 

Yeshua & Mary M: We are grateful for your interest and your commitment. We would be happy to speak with you again, and we can build a more elaborate understanding, if this is your desire…. We are with you.

Channeled by Jennifer Donaldson with Rob Loveland, 10/7/2024

Hearts & Hands Together

Dear Hearts, along with Christmas preparations, I’ve been engaged in the excitement of planning our new winter course Yeshua & The Magdalena with Rob Loveland, Lighthouse team member and fellow channel & teacher with the Council of Love.

I’m late with my tree and stuff because I find the subject of the course so absorbing… truly, these classes are a fulfillment of a lifetime’s passion, one might say obsession at times! Both of us have read and researched widely in 20-21st c. sources about Jesus and Mary Magdalen, as well as going deeply into personal relationships with each of theses two Ascended Masters.

On top of that, we have explored the mystical connection called “channeling.”  We learned channeling from The Council of Love’s founder, Linda Dillon, a few years ago and have been channeling ever since. As our readers know, many of the messages we receive have been shared on this blog. Last winter I began to get messages from Yeshua about creating a course where he and Mary Magdalen could be the topic and the co-teachers. How exciting and beautiful!!

So, Rob and I have been zooming weekly for most of a year, discussing and channeling for any new instructions, refinements or understandings to make the upcoming course even more wonderful. We have been having long, thoughtful and heart expansive sessions with both Yeshua and Mary Magdalen to prepare for offering this course to you, now, to start January 25th.

Today, we want to share with you Yeshua’s invitation to join us.

My Dear Brothers and Sisters, I am most pleased to be able to welcome you to this moment, to this opportunity for a little chat with you. We would like very much to have the opportunity to sit with you, be with you, be in community with you for the duration of a class. 

We understand there are a great many questions about our lives, mine and my beloved Mary Magdalene. We know there are lots of questions and that this is a point of interest, and that is fine. We would be happy to assist Rob and Jennifer in unearthing some of those historic details which would settle your minds, because curiosity is one thing, but it is also quite delightful to have it satisfied. And there are reasons why there are so many varying tales. You may have heard this, or you may have heard that. 

We would first of all, though, like you to know that we are most, most looking forward to the opportunity just to be with you, to be learning with you. And we do learn so much about you when you bring yourselves forward like this. We want to learn with you. We want to play with you, laugh with you, share tenderness, share insights. 

We want to encourage you in your spiritual growth, each of you growing so quickly. Now we wish to be able to give you the opportunity to have all of your own emotional, spiritual, mental needs completely met by us in this class. For the duration of this class, we will be attending to each one of you. 

This is a very personal choice that you have made, and we are delighted and honored to be so chosen to spend this time with you. So there will be lots of learning, and there will be lots of play, there will be lots of discussion, and there will be lots of new insights, lots of deepening the knowing of who you really are. And you know we will tell you that we love you. So there will be lots and lots of love. So for now, we will say farewell and we will meet again soon. This is Yeshua.

…..Each time I read it, I’m moved by Yeshua’s statement that he and his Magdalena are looking forward to spending time together with us as a group,  to learning together, to laughter and play as well as insights and details from their historical life on Earth. We will have lots of questions, and they will answer generously. 

Most of all, by embarking on this journey, we will open to huge personal support from them, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. In the course, we will expand our understanding of who they were and continue to be, who we are becoming and how we are joining our hearts and hands, together lifting up the world.  

The other morning in my meditation, I got the vision of these two beloved teachers joining hands in my heart. Rob and I put our hands in next, then we all turned our hands flat, on top of each other, and began to circle clock-wise as in a dance. As we twirled, more and more hands joined ours. It was a beautiful and exciting vision, then Rob collaged the graphic at the top of this post. 

Thank you, dear friends, for following these posts and for sharing our excitement. For now, I wish you all the greatest of joy in your days as we move into the Solstice and the blessings of our various holidays.  Love, Jennifer 

Thanksbeing: a perpetual hug

photo by John PM Higgins

Hope you had a beautiful Thanksgiving Day… mine did not turn out the way I expected, as some family were sick. So we postponed a few days. At first I felt sad and disappointed, but as the day went on, I discovered that opportunities opened up: deeper connection to those I did see, time to myself in the studio, so rare, and the chance to sit with myself and explore the depths of gratitude. In the fullness of love, I would like to share my thanksgiving prayer with you ~ Jennifer

Thanksbeing:  November 28th, 2024

And as I settle into my heart, I ask my Higher Self and my Guides to come closer, to take my hand, pat me on the back, caress my cheeks, smooth my hair, kiss my brow. Thank you all. Thank you, my guides, for all that you do for me. Thank you to the ones who I know intimately and to the ones who are still a little unknown to me. Thank you for all who assist me in this human life, keeping me out of danger, alerting me to my opportunities, helping me settle into the emotions that I am feeling in any given time, helping me to wring the truth, the beauty and the lesson from each experience.

I AM deeply grateful to Mama and Papa for creating me in the first place. And for giving me the power to create also my life as it comes to me. I’m grateful for understanding that it is a movie that I am projecting, that it is myself that is outside of me and the universe that is within. Somehow we are backwards in our thinking, thinking we are nothing within and that what is outside is everything. 

Oh, I know this is a conundrum and difficult to understand, but I am beginning to glimpse this truth: All that I Am and all that I’ll ever Be is within me, there in the wholeness, there in the stillness and there in the embrace of Mother/Father/God. 

There is a perpetual hug going on, an infinite embrace. It is a very loose embrace, there is much movement afforded, but we are all truly connected by love. And what is that but an embrace? 

I wish to thank all of my brothers and sisters on the planet, those I don’t know and those that I do, those whose faces I know, and those who are new to me, those who are dear to me and those who are very close. Thank you for the friendship, the love, the support and encouragement. Thank you for the laughs and thank you for the good times and the explorations, thanks for all of your creativity and your amazing minds. Thank you for leading the way. Thank you for following. Thank you for walking with me, hand in hand,. 

Bless this beautiful physical planet, bless the light emanating from it and the love imbued in every cell, every grain of sand, every needle on every pine tree, every tiny insect and every beautiful butterfly, every humming bird and every albatross, every little mouse and every amazing elephant, the land animals, the mammals in the sea and all the beautiful fish and the creatures who live in water, especially the wonderful octopus. Thank you all for sharing this planet with me. 

Thank you all for being in this physical realm, this amazing physical adventure, this 3D/ 4D/ 5D movie, this whole created reality. Together with our amazing, amazing Divine Parents, all who have come before and all who will follow, thank you for this amazing life in this amazing place. I do so love this world. I do so love Mother Earth in all her glory. Thank you, Mother, for sustaining us. 

Thank you to my beloved teachers, the Ascended Masters, the Archangels, and all who have encouraged me on the path to my joy. I do now claim Joy. I claim the giggles, I claim the smiles, I claim the heartwarming glances.  I claim the joy of driving down the road and seeing beauty left and right. I claim the joy of waking each morning to the light streaming into my home. I claim the joy of hearth and home, of affection, kindness and companionship. 

I know the joy of extended family, those born into the same family as me. I feel the joy of those born to me, and the joy of those born to those born to me, so precious, so precious. I carry the joy of those who came before, my parents, my aunts and uncles, grandparents and ancestors. Thank you. 

Because of everyone and everything, I am who I am today, I am in the joyous moment of this Now, this gratitude prayer. Thank you. Thank you All.

Thank you to each one of you who have read this, each one of you who will, each one of you who extends your love to meet mine, that together we may weave a more wonderful world. 

Thank you to my team, my old friends, my new friends, to all who lend their hearts to the common good and the blessing of friendship. I am deeply grateful, sweetly grateful, blessedly grateful, ever grateful for what is now and all that is to be.

 May we go forth in heart, may we go forth hand in hand, walking together, expanding our love, expanding our light, lifting up, embracing, consoling and inspiring. 

May we give back all that we have been given and keep the ripples going. May it be so, with so much love, love upon love, wave upon wave, and breath upon breath. Thanksbeing. 

To All Who Love, by Jennifer Joy Donaldson, November 28th, 2024

Yeshua & Mary Magdalen: The Twelfth Hour

ANNOUNCING: Spirit CAFE will be open on Saturday from 11-12 EST – all are welcome!

Photo courtesy of John P. M Higgins

A SPECIAL Channeled Message from Yeshua & Mary Magdalen, by Jennifer Donaldson with Rob Loveland, October 28th, 2024

Note: I often channel with Rob and other friends from the Council of Love, but this time we had a chance to be in the same room (rather than on Zoom) and the message was especially powerful and timely. Speaking to all who have been preparing for these “truly tumultuous times”, Light-workers, Love-bearers, Old Souls, all — this is what we were born for!!

Jennifer: (Settling in to channel) So I’m feeling Papa on the back of me from my ears all the way around to the back and all the way down my spine, down to my heels, to my elbows and the backs of my hands, just supporting me lightly, like a book stand supports a book.  And on the front, I feel Divine Mother silkily nestling into my face, my eyes, my cheeks and lips, my throat and all the way down my torso, just completely covering me like a soft, radiant, bright pink and deep blue quilt, a fuzzy blanky.

Sinking into my heart, Mother/Father meet in my heart, front and back, and on either side is Yeshua on my right, Mary Magdalen on the left, holding my hands. And they put something in my hands as a playful note, as a note of encouragement, gifting a little silver heart, and each one is a locket. The lockets spring open and inside the locket, is a hair of each of them from their days on Earth. Very beautiful, really sweet gift. I’m grateful. Thank you. I will wear those in my heart. 

So, Yeshua and Mary, Rob and I have talked a lot about the future of our class [and our plan to offer it through] the Council of Love… both of us have a very strong sense of loyalty to the COL… I feel that they are part of my soul family, and precious to me, those relationships, and [i’m wondering] what we have to offer one another going forward, through these times, these difficult times. And I still have a deep longing in me to reach as many people as possible in service. 

Yeshua and Mary Magdalen, together:  We are happy to be invited to respond to your self reflection. [Rob’s Grandfather clock began striking twelve.]  Yes, as you feel, and as you hear, it is the 12th hour. We have been connected deeply with you… throughout these last stages of the 11th hour, where there [have been] messages of awareness, we will use that word rather than warning, the messages of awareness to begin to be aware, to begin to be ready for a truly tumultuous period in your lives which is going to upend everything

And some of you have experienced this personally, in an episode of some sort, such as a hurricane or a sudden event in your lives, in which it turned everything upside down. Well, this is going to be a collective experience, and you will find that you do not need to enter into it on the individual level in the same way that you have had if you were caught unawares. 

And this is why we have been preparing all of you, because it is very helpful to have the many of you who can be one degree or five degrees or 10 degrees removed from the impact of shock, because it is no longer a shock. You’ve been hearing about this for years. You know that something is going to happen. You don’t know exactly what, but you are prepared, so that when it arrives, you will say, “Yes, this is it. Here it is. This is what we came for,” and you will be able to hold your center, to hold your love and to hold your light. 

Those of you who have collected around the symbol of the lighthouse are clearly those who wish to hold clarity. You are willing to channel, you are willing to write, you are willing to teach. You are particularly dedicated to holding clarity and holding the torch in the cave, as it were, during the “earthquake”. 

So you see you chose this. We honor you for that, but we also remind you that you are well prepared, and you know what you are doing. You know how to do, what to do, and in that, in those moments and in those days and weeks of the worst of it, you will be able to remain the calm center, and that will be greatly assistive to others

Remember also that one of your greatest skills -gifts- at this time will be as listeners. We know that you are mightily attracted to the role of ‘provider of words’, and we tease you a little bit about this. And this is a wonderful thing. What you have been able to, so far, extend to your brothers and sisters on the planet has been greatly instrumental in creating a fabric of peace, trust, knowing of goodness, knowing of love, knowing of centeredness, knowing of the power of your own being as creators.  

So, all of your channelings, messages and postings and teaching offerings have been to establish and create and extend this net of assistance to your brothers and sisters. And so, continue with this, if it gives you joy, but the greatest gift that you are going to bring in service to your brothers and sisters at this time— it will begin with those closest to you, in geographical proximity, at the time, as the events unfold, as the oft used phrase, the days tumble one into another with revelations and new learnings each day — that is to listen. This is the greatest gift. 

The greatest gift is to listen, because if you [any of you] are in anxiety, you will have the need to speak and say, “I don’t understand what’s happening. I don’t understand what to do. I don’t know how we will get through this.”  Well, you are miles ahead of this, my dear, both of you, and all of you who are in your circle—  and I would count the Council of Love, teachers and COLTs and your fellow students far and wide, as those who have been prepared to listen, to say, “Yes, this is not comfortable, this is not fun, but we are here together,” and listen to them. 

Listen to them [those who are anxious]. Even if you have the answers, they may not be quite yet ready for the answers. So until they say, “What do you think?” or , “What have you heard, or what do you know?” Or, “How can you be so calm and peaceful in this terrible moment?”  We can just say, “It has been foretold. We knew it would happen, and we know we’ll get through it. We’ll get through it by loving one another, taking each other’s hands, hugs, comfort, cheerfulness, humor.” All of the blessings of your humanity and all of the strengths, blessings and virtues of your divinity coming together, in one great, cataclysmic moment. 

You will find that you are not really surprised by what happens, because there is a part of you that can see. There’s a part of you that knows, and just because you have kept the trap door closed, so to speak, you were and you are, venturing into greater knowing while you sleep, and you are experiencing a much greater awareness, and tucking it under your hat, so to speak. But this will become more and more available to you. 

The main thing is to remember your own gift is to listen. Hold space for the love. Hold space for the light, but not at that moment to be proselytizing or to be offering too many words of your own, unless requested, because when one is in panic and one is in fear, one is not able to take it in and what one feels instead of comfort from your words, whatever loving words you may offer, they will mostly feel more unsafe, more unheard, and a deeper sense of separation. So for them to feel connected, the best thing is for them to listen to their hearts, listen to their own guidance, but have you model that by listening to them.  

So, you will not need to hold this level of containership throughout the rest of your life, but you will have had a profound experience of the blessing that you offer if you allow the other person to feel your energy.  And we are speaking specifically to those of you who enjoy giving answers and words to others. 

Of course you do. It is still an excitement for you that you have discovered such answers. But now you see the value of holding space. And you do not hold empty space, you hold radiantly loving space. You hold trusting space. You hold peaceful space. This is a very valuable container for all of your encounters, all of your family relationships, and all of those who are connected to you in this period. And so allow your humanity within the larger group. …

So go ahead, move forward with your plans [for the next class]. Do not be surprised if they get tossed in the air. Do not allow yourself to become unseated or unsettled by anything. And if you find yourself temporarily unsettled, sit down. Breathe us in. We are with you, and we will help you resettle yourself into your core. 

Rob: Thank you so much. …

Yeshua & MM: [chimes are heard] Your clock is quite charming. We enjoy the chimes. We enjoy so much being invited to speak with you. We are grateful. Thank you for being you.

28 Oct. 2024, by Jennifer Donaldson with Rob Loveland

Mary Magdalen & Yeshua Together

This Fall, Rob (one of our Lighthouse teammates) and I are teaching a course together on Yeshua and Mary Magdalen for OLLI, the Senior College open to all over 50 around the country. We have been meeting to channel the material for the class and also channeling during each class. So far it has been most wonderful. I thought you might enjoy this one session where Yeshua and Mary speak as one, then separately, advising us about their earthly life together. Enjoy! Love, Jennifer

Channeling Yeshua & Mary Magdalen together, Oct. 7, 2024

Jennifer: So, I’m getting that this is Yeshua and Mary together. But it didn’t take very long, so I’m not trusting that!(Laugh) What?!You’re fast!  Hold on, let me just take a breath…. 

Yeshua & Mary Magdalen: It is our great pleasure to speak with you both tonight. We have been listening in! (Jen laughing) We are grateful for your interest in us, and not surprised.  You both have many, many ties to us both, and of course, there is the curiosity, because you are in your own physical lives. 

You are grounded in the earth with your spirit stretched wide and infinitely, and yet your focus is on the human life and what life was like, and how we found each other and how we lost each other, and how we came together, and how we learned from one another, and what our relationship was, and what were the details, and what did it look like and, and, and where did we go and when? 

And, of course, this is all of interest to you, and we do understand, not only your interest but, also, we support your understanding that the details are not that important. But we are very mindful of your human journey and your desire to know, because both of you are led in this instance, by a heart connection to us, to both of us. And this is very, very old. The word ‘old’ is not old enough. “Primal”. 

It is older than the world that you know,  our knowing of each other, because you have levels of yourselves that are connected with us when we were first on the earth and you were first on the earth. There are levels of you who are connected with us from when we were first birthed, from Mother/Father God. We have known one another for So very long. 

And there is a mystery around our life on earth, there are many versions of tales and the desire to sort and to clarify one from the other. Was this true? Was this not true? You know, it does not really matter. What really matters we will tell you. But to say, “Was Mary in France, or was she in Spain?” Well, she was in France, you see, and it is something which we are perfectly happy to clarify for you. If you have a burning question about how things were, we can, of course, see the entire picture and offer to you some details. 

We would not intrude upon your journeys at this point in your lives, being teachers and coaching and being the lighthouses that you desire so much to be, and are, in fact, being. We would not give you an assignment at this point unless this was something you clearly chose. So let this develop., if it does and if it doesn’t, that is totally fine. You have not in any way let us down or disappointed us. We have no expectations, my Dear Ones. Just allow what brings you delight, what brings you passion, the passion to study something, to learn more, to know more, to explore more deeply. And you now know that this is a wonderful way to explore if you have questions. But again, your version is going to come under question, just like anyone else’s version of any story that you choose to tell about us, and that is fine. 

Rob: I do have a question. 

Yeshua & Mary: Sure. 

Rob: So I’m wondering… I have feelings about …the idea that Mary was in southern France, separated from you, if you are, in fact, deceased at that point, then okay, that separation is a natural part of what the human experience is. But if you were not, and you had to be separated,   I just find that incredibly sad. 

Yeshua: And it was so for us, the need to part from one another, but we had also been warned that this would come, that our time together would have a parting. So we understood the necessity of this.  If my family had stayed with me— I’m speaking as Yeshua — then they would have been in constant danger. If I had traveled with them, then I also would have eventually, as the red flag, called attention to their whereabouts, and their safety would have been compromised. You see? 

Now, I did live for a time, but it really was only a short period,  more a matter of two or three years, and not 40 years or 500 years. [Channeled sources vary widely in the number of years Yeshua survived the crucifixion, if indeed he did].  

Rob: Just a question.I mean, that’s something that I ponder to myself, whether I would, if I were ever asked to do something that extreme, would I have the strength to do it?

Yeshua:  Well, you realize that we also were greatly assisted by our heavenly hosts, our Mother, our Father, we each had a very deep faith and deep understanding of our origins within Mother and Father, and we knew that the separation was temporary and that each of us would be completely protected, through the… let me see how to say this…  not ‘protected’ in the sense that we needed to, that we thought it was to seek safety for each of us separately but ‘protected’ in the sense that there is no, there is no real separation. 

We had learned to telepathically communicate. We had learned to bi-locate.  I was completely able to continue to visit with Mary in her meditations,throughoutthe remaining years of her life. 

Rob: Is that one of the reasons that she chose to seclude herself, to become more of a recluse?

Yeshua:  I will let Mary speak now…

Mary Magdalen: As I became older in my life, and I had concluded much of what I came to France to do, the teachings that were passed on to the community which sprung up around where I was living. And I raised my daughter and saw her married, and I knew that there would be the passing down of the wisdom that had been taught,. After that is when I became more solitary.  And I enjoyed the last few years of my life, largely in meditation, largely with my beloved Yeshua, in communion through the meditation. Yes, yes, and I could see him within myself, and I could see him at times seated with me, but it did not last very long. 

Rob: I see. Thank you so much. 

Yeshua & Mary M: We are grateful for your interest and your commitment. We would be happy to speak with you again, and we can build a more elaborate understanding, if this is your desire. Little by little, not one big marathon session. This is wiser. Enjoy Wednesday. I think you will find that the class develops perfectly. We are with you.

Channeled by Jennifer Donaldson with assistance from Rob Loveland, 10/7/2024

Archangel Gabriel: The Beauty and Intimacy of Channeling

Jennifer: Ah, so I have a question for whoever wants to answer it, and that is that I have this desire to start a local meditation group, where I am willing to offer channeling, so that a group of people near me can all experience together the intimacy and beauty of opening up to the messages from the higher vibrations, for those we love, our masters, angels and guides. I just want to be part of something where we all get lifted up. And I would just like some guidance on how to approach this, or if it, in fact, is a good idea and not something I’m looking for, for external validation. I think I will ask Archangel Gabriel/Gabrielle, the communicator. 

AAG: Yes, we are nudging you, Dear One. We have been nudging you to be more present within your community to those that are near you, and it is something that you hang back from. It’s the reverse of the external validation. You are a little afraid to step forward, because you’re afraid you will not be validated. 

It is not about validation anymore. It is just about that you have developed this ability. You feel confident it. It is a great source of joy to you, and your heart longs to share it. This is a pure place to come from, and it is completely supported by all of us who guide you and who help you, and we are more than happy to assist you in judging how to present this to those who live near you. 

It is certainly possible to do exactly the same thing in a zoom format with a larger group. If you would like to offer this, you would be most welcome to do so, and we would support you. As far as doing it locally, talking with your sister is a good first step, and you have identified a third member, someone who has requested repeatedly to sit in meditation with you and is very eager to learn spiritually. 

So bring it forward, one step at a time, one person at a time, like creating a necklace where you thread one bead at a time, and each bead will be unique and beautiful. And it is fine to have a larger group of eight to 10, knowing that only six to seven or five would be even able to come at any given time.  And as far as the frequency of it, it is probably wise to start with twice a month. If there is demand, you can add a separate group going the opposite way. If you start with first and third of a particular day of the month, then you can do the second and fourth with a different group. 

And you see, you enjoy very much being a small group of people who bring their hearts to this openness and this communion with spirit in a very authentic and deep, profound and beautiful way. And so the others will also, and you will find that there is interest in this. So begin as you are feeling nudged to do so, and do not doubt yourself. 

Channeling Archangel Gabrielle, Aug. 23, 2024, by Jennifer Donaldson

Note: After this message came through during our group channeling session this week, I am excited to proceed with setting a date and time to have one or two open monthly Meditations with LOVE – watch for an announcement by mid-September. With LOVE< Jennifer