We are excited to announce that we’ll be hosting the next SPIRIT CAFE group conversation on Saturday, December 20th at 11 am EST. What is Spirit Cafe? The leading topic this month will be Who & Where Are We, Anyways? ~ a check-in on what’s evolved for each of us, in terms of how we feel the ascension is going and how we see ourselves as galactic citizens! Yeah, really!!!
Lately, Rob’s channeling of 3i/Atlas (and Linda Dillon’s also & others) have got our team thinking more about this aspect of our ascending identities. Perhaps you, too, are tuning in to a sense that you remember something or resonate with some of the celestial civilizations out there… Have you got a story to share? A recent intuitive experience of knowing you have ET origins? Cosmic family? How is that helping you?
Sue sent this channeling to us this week, and synchronistically I, Jen, had just started reading Ken Carey’s book The Starseed Transmissions… guess we’re sharing a wave-length! LOL. Written in 1988 – who knew? (Perhaps you have all his books on your bookshelf.) We find things when it’s the best time for them to make sense to us. Personally, I wouldn’t have been able to relate 37 years ago! Ken Carey was way ahead of his time!! Enjoy this read: https://goldenageofgaia.com/2025/12/16/ken-carey-return-of-the-bird-tribes-chapter-one/
ANYWAYS… how are you doing? And have you been connecting to some of the fascinating channelings from and about Galactic Beings posted more often these days? We are really interested in the Arcturians! So much to learn and be excited about… and through something like Spirit Cafe, we can truly support each other.
SO— BRING your favorite cuppa and gather with us for a great conversation on Saturday!! We can’t wait to see you. Join us on Zoom at 11am EST on December 20th https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84820870165
Portland Head Light through the sumac, September 2025, by Jennifer Donaldson
My friends, how are you doing? Many Light-workers and Love-holders report being particularly exhausted lately. Sensitivity to the world’s pain can drain our energy very quickly. Compassion for all that the planet is going through can stretch our spirits very thin.
Here is a way to refresh your weary heart: by taking a break rather than doing more, with easing up rather than trying so hard, with choosing peace rather than focusing more on the chaos, with a daily hour outdoors soaking up the color, the beauty, the inspiring design of our natural world.
I love to walk in a nearby park along the rocky edge of the ocean, breathing in the dee deep blue of the ocean, and the refreshing oxygen and presence of the trees. Then I find a bench and sit for a while with what is strong, enduring and grounding, the cliffs crowned by this beautiful Lighthouse.
Where are those special places in your part of the world? How can you take loving care of yourself in the midst of change? How can you rise through exhaustion to holding the excitement about the beautiful life in 5-D that is now open for everyone?
Our Lighthouse team has been sharing thoughts about this in preparation for our monthly SPIRIT CAFE coming up this Saturday- the 20th.
SPIRIT CAFE will be open again for an hour of conversation and a short meditation or channeling, on Saturday September 20th at 11 am EDT (Eastern USA.) Come for community, insight and more fascinating conversation about All Things Spiritual.
This month our team – all of us areCouncil of Loveteachers & coaches – will open a discussion on-line on the topic of Lightworker exhaustion vs optimism. Why are many feeling disheartened while others feel stronger than ever, full of hope and energy…. What is going on?
Linda Dillon, our mentor and founder of the Council of Love, with our angels & ascended masters, are constantly expanding our understanding through strategic, informative classes and seasonal events. Because of this great resource, many of us have bonded into a strong & supportive community, filled with hope for Nova Gaia.
Spirit Cafe is inspired by the Council of Love. Please join us this month! We’d love to see you. Everyone is most welcome.
Dear Friends ~ The Lighthouse team want to announce that our popular and beloved monthly hour of SPIRIT CAFE is moving from the second Saturday each month to the THIRD SATURDAY from now on….
So that means, our next CAFE will be on August 16th! Always at 11 Eastern (New York) time, we have recently ADDED an extra 15 minutes to our hour, for anyone who wants to stay for a channeled message from one of our favorite Ascended Masters or a guided healing meditation using the COL (Council of Love) tools we have learned to disperse negativity and amplify Love.
Sue, our Host, is very welcoming and keeps an eye on the time and encourages plenty of participation, and Martin leads the guided meditations. Jen and Rob and Roxanne are all ready to offer a channeling to lift the topic to a higher level.
We are always happy to see you, and if you have never come, please join us, you are always welcome!! In our two years on Zoom we have covered many fascinating spiritual topics and shared valuable insights from all of our diverse perspectives as spiritual beings living human lives on the ascending Planet Earth at this amazing time.
This last month in our channeling sessions the guidance of Trust, Surrender & Allow kept coming up. No matter what is happening in the turmoil around us, one or all of those choices will serve us best, individually or collectively. Here is the guidance that I got from AA Uriel on Trust, Surrender, and Allow.
AA Uriel: I’d like to add one point. So this group, this circle, is fond of reciting the expression to “Trust, Surrender and Allow.” I’d like to touch on the difference between surrender and allow. Of course, behind it all, in order to operate from this position of being in physicality, but fulfilling your portion of the divine plan, requires a tremendous amount of Trust.
You are trusting that even if you do not see the plan in its entirety, you know that it is there, and it is for the highest good of yourself and all involved. But the idea of surrender is simply you acknowledging, while in physical form, that you are not going to stand in the way. You are surrendering yourself to the higher plan based on that trust.
Whereas, Allowing says that you are not going to put anything in the way, that you are not going to erect any obstacles in the way, based most likely on your own ego’s perceptions of what is the right thing to do. That can be difficult to discern, we acknowledge. But as always, go into your heart and ask for guidance on what is the best for all concerned. And when you feel it, then you will know. I think that is enough for now. Thank you so much.
And thank You, Archangel Uriel!
There is no question that change is happening in all facets of our lives, in our relationships and in society … and it can be very unsettling. The real question is how are we dealing with it? Or, better yet, as lightworkers, how are we putting ourselves in the right energy to transition to the new world where unity consciousness, compassion and concern for the common good prevail?
In our view, the answer lies in:
Trust, that all is happening according to Divine Plan;
Surrender, put aside our own ego’s desire to dictate the outcome and control how it unfolds;
Allow, determine not to put up any obstacles in the unfoldment of that Plan.
Please join us for our next Spirit Cafe, more info on SPIRIT CAFE, where we will explore these ideas and share how each of us are doing this … or using other methods. How are you putting yourself in a space of creating the new? This will be exciting ~ See you on Saturday ( 11 am New York time…)
Note: Just completed. It was wondrous and amazing!! We heard from Archangels Metatron and Jophiel, Jeshua & Mary Magdalen (together), Serapis Bey, St. Germaine and a Universal Consciousness called UNI. It was so much fun and so helpful… Thank you to all who came out to play!!We’ll hopefully do it again next month…
Announcing ~ SUNDAY MARCH 16th: An OPEN channeling session with me and other COL Teachers who channel the Council of Love’s Archangels, Ascended Masters, Saints & Enlightened Beings. Join us for an hour of Q & A, inspiration and the purest loving energy. Starting at 11 am EDT, Sunday! Here’s the LINK
This is Jennifer. I’d like to share my story with you. I’ve been moved to offer channeling lately in small groups, hence the Sunday event. I sometimes ask myself, “why?” I’ve had to work through past life memories of untimely demise, and layers of timidity and projected scoffing, and still I want to channel… I want to share channeling with others. I do already share that via the blogs, but more than that… I want to share the ENERGY of LIVE CHANNELING with any who are open to listen. It is such a pure, intense and beautiful energy, one that lights my heart on fire –and I cannot keep it to myself.
All ascended beings, those who reside in a vibration higher than good ol’ 3D, carry an energy of love, and we do always ward the gathering by calling in the Archangels to bless and protect us. Sometimes we channel our favorite 5 Archangels: Michael the Protector, Raphael the Healer, Uriel “Uncle UU” resident shrink, Jophiel the father of Jesus, and Gabriel/Gabrielle, who gave the Koran to Mohammad and first told Mary that she would bring forward the Prince of Peace. They are all five very wonderful.
Sometimes we act as the speaker for one of the Ascended Masters (pictured above from one of our webinars, thank you, Rob) – any with whom we particularly resonate, sometimes it’s just who steps forward when we are centered and willing. I often feel Yeshua and Mary Magdalen ready to speak, but my teammates often channel Lao Tzu or St. Germain. Occasionally, it’s a complete surprise. If you’ve followed these posts for a while, you’ll know I have channeled a dreamy mer-being and a witty charming leprechaun! (May 29th, 2024 and Jan. 19th, 2024)
Do we sometimes channel our own souls, our “higher selves”? Yes, indeed! Isn’t all channeling from our higher selves? Yes, to a degree, but, more than just us, it’s often a partnership, a dance, if you will, with the energies of one we have invited to dance with, to play with by choice in the higher energies. It’s a collaboration, and a great model for how all of us interact when in our dream time or between lives. This is how it really works:
When in the physical body as we are now, we as channels open our heart centers, and our upper chakras, creating a passageway for the energies of a higher vibrational being to flow through, specifically to use the language centers of our brains, thereby picking up our education and some of our vernacular. The energy then flows to our hearts where we feel it, discerning the tone and content, where we get the opportunity to “approve this message” or stop. Then the energy will come out of of mouths as language, as coherent words. In my experience, the energy has always, always been positive, sensitive, highly intelligent and desiring only to be helpful to us on the planet in our lives. The energy is enlightening, loving and healing, this I can vow.
In case you’re wondering “Who are the Council of Love?” The Council of Love is a large umbrella group of very high vibration, always of love and service and supreme wisdom. We who channel with the Council of Love have developed years of trust and experience. No one awful ever shows up! They cannot jump that high. We who channel have maintained our skills through our channeling practice groups, some of which have been going for many years- or remembered skills from lifetimes of preparation in the mystery schools or the mystical branches of the world’s religions. What we have in common is our channeling teacher, Linda Dillon, in my humble opinion, one of the finest channels active in the world today https://counciloflove.com
I hope I’ve piqued your interest to join us this Sunday, or for one of our monthly calls (on 3rd Sundays) – scheduled for the “spiritual but not religious” who prefer to hang out in their pajamas on Sunday mornings (let’s see a show of hands!!) It will be 11 am, my time, Eastern USA, but that’s 8 am on the West coast, or afternoon in Europe, so check where you are… I will be sharing some of the messages here on the blog, but we won’t be recording, so as to promote the comfort level of the attendees.
We hope you’ll join us if you can! We sure would love to see you. Come as you are…
BONUS!! TREASURE HUNT: on Rob’s own website there is a free gift, a downloadable PDF booklet about the Ascended Masters ~ see if you can find it!
JOIN Host Sue Scofield and friends for a rousing discussion of what’s new, what’s growing, and where we might find some joy…Spring is on the horizon! We may not see it yet, it’s certainly bleak and cold in the North still, but somewhere, somewhere, the crocuses are peeking up and daffodils stretching their stalks, lifting their heads, and opening their countenances after the long winter’s nap.
Maybe we just need to “trust, surrender and allow”, maybe we just need to HOPE, or just believe in the cycles of nature to carry us forward into a brighter, more energizing season. Even if we don’t believe in the Divine Mother, embodied as Terra-Gaia, She Still Is. The ancient saying from the Oracle at Delphi goes: Bidden or not bidden, God is present.
So, apart from our perceptions of what’s going on “out there”, there is a “Ground of Being” that sustains us, that shares energy with us. And what is energy but love? What would life be like if we saw everything – Everything – as an expression of Love? Jeshua once said to me : “All Love is energy, all energy is Love.” It may not always express itself as the highest version of itself… “Darkness is only energy that has lost up to 97% of its light.” And the light is coming back, as it does every Spring… Thoughts? How do you feel? What gives you energy when you’re feeling low?
These are the musings and wonderings, the kind of sharing of our heart-minds that we play in on Saturdays when our team holds a Spirit Cafe (every 2nd Saturday). It’s that time again! Won’t you consider dropping in?
Note: Some of us are still attending or teaching the course: Yeshua & The Magdalena, on Saturdays, and will be unable to join in this month, but Sue and Roxanne will hold CAFE for all who come, and we’ll be back in April!!
HI Everyone! Just a warm invitation to our monthly zoom chat, SPIRIT CAFE, an open forum on a variety of spiritual topics. Hosted by our teammates Sue Scofield and Roxanne Smith, come and enjoy conversation with a mug of your choice and a bunch other people who quickly become friends. No particular theme this time, so, what’s on your mind? It’s a full hour, free and always fascinating! Starts at 11 am EST. Here’s the quick link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81970023054
By the way, as the scheduling for our course Yeshua and the Magdalena landed on the same day and time, and several of us are in that class or teaching it and won’t be able to attend the CAFE, it will be fun to see who turns up this month! Try it –you’ll like it!
cU (see you, get it? looks like a little mug! LOL) Love to all!
The December 2024 Spirit Cafe discussion focused on Joy, and remarkably we spent the entire hour on that one topic — normally, we start with one topic and then meander wherever spirit seems to take us. But Joy is such a rich topic, one that everyone wants to experience, we just couldn’t leave it! After all, who couldn’t use more joy in their life?!
We discussed that while happiness and joy are related, there is a difference. After hearing the wisdom of so many, I arrived at the conclusion that happiness is the temporary, outward expression of the more permanent, inward experience of Joy. Got it.
Then, we talked about how feeling gratitude is a gateway to joy. So, that got me thinking … how are happiness and gratitude related to joy and love? Of course, being a nerd at heart, I was reminded of Star Wars Master Yoda’s assertion about Love’s opposite, Fear:
Fear leads to hate.
Hate leads to anger.
Anger leads to suffering.
So, perhaps there is an analogous progression for joy … and this is what I came up with:
Happiness leads to gratitude.
Gratitude leads to love.
Love leads to joy.
I’m happy with that! … and I’m so grateful to be part of the Spirit Cafe discussions among such loving souls. Won’t you consider joining us for the next Spirit Cafe on Saturday, 11 January 2025, for more joyous opportunities of learning, community, and fun?!
This picture was snapped just as we, Sue, Rob and I -Jen- started to come on for last month’s conversation and you can see by our faces, we really love Spirit CAFE!! It’s not just the camaraderie, it’s also the way we spur each on to find the highest perspective, the one that makes your heart zing and eases life’s tensions. I always feel like I’m walking on air after one of our CAFE conversations!
SPIRIT CAFE WILL BE OPEN this Saturday, December 14th, from 11 am to noon EST. Come & be with us for a heart-lifting discussion. Come as you are, sit in & listen or contribute to the conversation. We love to be with you!
On Saturday, we’ll start with the topic Finding Joy, share some personal stories and reflection — Is joy available, present or rare, abundant or elusive? I find It’s like taming a wild fox… joy can be a process of cultivating trust. Once you make friends with joy, it’ll continue to surprise and delight you!
So get your favorite cuppa and bring it on over to a wonderful heart-felt sharing in our Zoom room,as we feel through Finding Joy. For some tips and laughs… Join us this month!
Hosted by Sue Scofield and a group of COLT friends at A Lighthouse for the Soul ~ all newcomers welcome!
A Lighthouse for the Soul 