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To my knowledge, I’ve never channeled a Leprechaun before, but I’ve kept this greeting card for many years. I’m sorry I don’t know the artist, but I love this little man’s face and this week, that love sprouted in a surprising way… I wrote this story up for a writing class I am taking. READ ON:
Jennifer Channels an Elemental….January 2024
I got a huge surprise the other day… I was practicing with a team of fellow channeling students when in popped a part of myself I didn’t know I had. I’ve always been spiritual, sometimes downright religious, but I usually tend toward communication with my guardian angel or one of my spiritual teachers in the ascended realms.
My favorite spiritual teacher is Jeshua, usually called Jesus, but I like his Aramaic name. Jeshua’s other half is Mary Magdalen, and usually they channel individually, although once, they spoke together as one. Yeshua changes faces all the time, as far as I can tell, I’ve heard he likes to appear recognizable in the skin color and style that most feels like a brother to the person who is channeling. Mary has wild wavy bushy very long black hair, and a beautiful face with big dark eyes, and a full wide mouth, alot like a girl I knew in high school. She can be very tender and loving, and also fiery. You don’t mess with Maggie!
I don’t see them, like right in front of my face, but I do sometimes get a little glimpse of them, the size of an action figure, like the semicircle of small statuettes I have on my home altar. The Archangels are usually more like suns in my body, of different colors. I adore connecting with the Archangels, especially Gabriel and Uriel, who I call Uncle U. He is iridescent silver, and Gabriel is a glowing warm gold, and bubbles like a good ginger ale.They are very approachable and friendly and their advice is always omniscient and encouraging. My guardian angel is just a quiet, loving voice under my ear, always present, but I guess I take her for granted al little, and am more impressed with the big guys. Silly isn’t it? None of them are more important than another, we are the ones who love hierarchy. They just have different paths, different commitments to Mother/Father One.
So getting back to my surprise last Monday night. In our practice group we all take turns channeling, depending on our interest or questions that day. On Monday, I didn’t have any burning questions, but I had an enthusiasm and curiosity to ask one of the ascended masters or angels about the Elemental Kingdom. I had been reading a book a friend recommended about a woman who made friends with a Leprechaun. Really? you might ask. Yes. Of course it happened in Ireland, as that land still holds an ancient and sacred vibration. I’ve been to Ireland, twice, mostly researching a line of ancestors, but I didn’t have time then to pursue my fascination with spiritual things. I thought Leprechauns were a little mean and grumpy, but the one in my friend’s book was lovely.
So bringing my sense of wonder to the channeling practice, I was open to who might open the conversation. Maybe Jeshua? Jeshua had once consoled my sister Kate, when she woke up one morning to find a leprechaun sitting on her bed. He verified her experience as natural, explaining that the veils between our respective worlds are now thinning, and inter-species encounters would become more common. Apparently she had been traveling between dimensions into the fourth and fifth in her dream state, and her impression of her visitor was a remnant from a conversation she was having in another dimension. Sounds plausible, doesn’t it? It hasn’t happened since to her, but I was told that I have a unicorn friend that I love to ride when I am in the dream state. That was delightful to hear, and doubly pleasant to imagine, as I was over sixty years old at the time.
Back to Monday night. Here is the transcription of what actually was said.
Jennifer (settling in to channel) : All right. Tonight I have a question about Elementals. I’ve found myself absolutely fascinated with Elementals recently and I’m reading a book that was written by a leprechaun. [Tanis Helliwell’s The Leprechaun’s Story.] It’s just cracking me up. I just love it. It’s so much fun. I can’t get anything else read because all I want to do is read the leprechaun book, so I just thought I might bring that forward and see if it gets me anywhere. So I’m inviting any of the angels, or my guides, or the Ascended Masters who would like to come forward to talk about this.
…Taking a moment to settle and rest and wait, rather than making something happen, I just saw somebody whizzing by on a bicycle. That was interesting. Oh my gosh, it’s a day for humor! Yes. I’m seeing like telegraph wires and there are people riding bicycles along them. Okay. We’re getting playful today.
Elemental: “Yes, this is the most wondrous development! We are more, more than happy, to speak with you. I am an aspect of Jennifer, who is entirely playful and silly and always beefing up anything interesting, anything funny, anything humorous, anything to bring a belly laugh, to shake the foundations of all of the beliefs and the thought systems and the structures which hold you in such rigid postures, in such rigid chastity -belts-of-the-mind. [!]
Oh, for heaven’s sakes, you say? Relax. Let it be joyful. Let your life find the gold in every single moment. Let your eyes and your ears and your fingers and your heart and your tippy toes, let them just dance through each moment! The possibilities are endless, but you short circuit yourselves.. you… You decide ahead of time, what is going to happen and then you measure yourself up to this imagination. It is often rather fruitless and sometimes quite barren and sometimes quite gray, and black and white— and not fun at all. And so we would invite you to walk in Technicolor, to talk in hyperbole, parabola, swing on the branches. Take a, take a leaf from the book of the chimpanzees. Eat a banana. I mean honestly, put one in your ear!
It is totally fine to be silly, funny, goofy, childlike, wonder-like, imaginative to the point where you’re making paradoxes in every moment, where you’re connecting things that don’t connect, where you’re making anachronisms, and, you know, half duck and half fish or those silly things that you like to make when you’re children, and then you grow out of them. And then you start to think you’ve got to be serious all the time. And you think you have to think all the time and you think you have to make sense all the time. And you don’t —you can be totally foolish for the pure joy of not knowing what the next thing out of your mouth will be!
So you see, it is quite possible to be many aspects of yourself and it’s quite possible to deliberately decide not to filter everything, through your sensible filter, or through your wise & spiritual filter. We are a big fan of that fella Yogi Beyondananda who poked fun at all this spirituality. Because honestly, it is not helpful to take yourself too seriously.
Now we do understand the yearnings of the heart. We do understand where there is this longing for love. Because you have secluded yourselves from your own divine nature for so many lifetimes, and for many years— for you are not exactly teenagers. Cute as you are, sweet as you are, inventive as you are, you are ones who have walked the years of this life to a place where you can claim greater freedom. So do it! Do it and enjoy yourself.
This is the path to joy- it’s to let go, to let go of the way you think it will arrive, to let go of the way you think it will feel, to let go of managing the energy of the Universe as it comes through you -because you are not quite certain that you dare to let some things speak for you. Is there anything other than love?
Truly, truly? Only love in disguise. There are those who are pretending, there are those who are dressing up with the scary rubber mask. Just for the fun of it. And they too will have a laugh. At the end, it will be a great party and you will say ‘Why did I struggle so hard?’
We are grateful to you for coming together. We have greatly enjoyed your conversation where you share your hearts with one another. We are much enlivened by the laughter that you are channeling into your reality, because laughter is very sacred. Very wonderful energy! So play more, be silly more. Will you allow yourself this? It is a freedom— you must claim it.
Yes, allow the green hair to grow in your belly button. It is totally fine. We will enjoy it. And so will you. We hope. Much love and laughter to you.
My name is Gabriel Rafter. Goodbye!”
Jennifer: Well that was a surprise!!
PS Signs that I might be part Leprechaun: I regularly find four-leaf clovers, I hardly ever worry about my health, I talk to trees and sing to birds, I choose a settled long term relationship, I’m very loyal, often silly and love to play with natural materials… etc! Maybe another post? Thanks for reading… I Appreciate YOU! Love, Jennifer
SEE ALSO, my first channeling of an elemental:
For more creative fun see our team’s teaching site: (Maybe a workshop on Elementals soon?)
Hummingbird Moth ~ Photo by Dennis Sheehy
One night recently, I was meditating, when this surprising short message came through, from a new source who called herself Electra. She made a request to all of us, that I personally am still mulling over in my heart. Read and see how you respond! Offered in love and service, Jennifer
Hello, who is this?
I am Electra. I am not known to you consciously but come before you this evening as you have shown an interest in all things elemental. I am of the Faerie folk. We are most interested in an alliance with thee and thy kind, as of course, we are all now collaborating to assist the Mother to heal in body from the ravages of human civilization.
And what do you propose?
We propose that the humans who are interested in partnering with the elemental speak up to the human comrades and form circles that will result in bringing lightness, ease, vibrant health to any spot, location or area that in is need. You might meet at a place that has been neglected or harmed and form there a circle, hold hands, then chant, dance, tone, OM, whatever comes naturally. Pray. Tell stories. Laugh. Play ~ any spontaneous activity that brings an en-lighten-ed energy to the space where you have gathered. And this is enough. This is the beginning of the re-dedication of the Earth, the shift into “celebration with” rather than the “taking advantage of”. And of course, remember to offer thanks, to speak your gratitude and to listen for her words of love and guidance to you.
And what will this do?
It will re-align the energies in a loving and positive direction, clear the space of lingering mis-use and density created by ingratitude, and re-birth the ascended energies, re-create the alliance between all beings on the body of the Mother. We of course, have always done thus, but in our constancy have preceded you into the higher dimensions. Through this practice, you will be propelling the ascension of Earth’s people to rejoin with the kingdoms which have never left the harmonious interaction with our loving divine Mother.
Can you do this? Will you do this? the brave ones who care deeply will find a way to offer this service. yes, it will bemuse and bewilder some who have not yet reached a place of empathic reverence for all Life… but it will be an eye-opener and a demonstration of great love. Can you dare this? This is what is needed now, this is what we seek. Consider Love… and then step forward.
Blessings of the Faerie ~ this is Electra.
Dear Readers, I wish to introduce two dear friends in the next two posts. The first is the photographer Dennis Sheehy whose beautiful silhouette of owl and branches appears above. He takes one-der-ful photographs, illustrating a dedication to catching those moments that sparkle, that illuminate, that open a crack to see behind the veil of ordinary human perception. To this end, he spends hours walking, looking, noticing and skillfully recording those moments of illumination. Nature photography is a kind of meditation and a kind of channeling, making visible what ordinarily goes unnoticed.
Usually I illustrate my posts with photos I take myself… a quick shot of a moment I observe in the ever changing beauty around my country home, but I have thought for a while of including some of Dennis’ photos as a way of sharing his meditation and his talent with my friends on-line. He was once very involved in making gnome-homes, so clearly has a feeling for the aesthetics of faerie and the elementals (see also http://www.gnome-home.com ). Dennis is also a very dear brother to me. I recognized him as that immediately, I’m happy to say, and it turns out, he is the twin flame of one of my sisters. I first met him in the 1990s, when I arranged for him to teach a gnome home workshop at the elementary school in Freeport, Maine where I was teaching art.
I chose the owl for the first post, from all of his photos, because Owl is a personal symbol of wisdom and sight in the darkness, and a messenger between worlds, which we as channels are also. I do not resonate with the superstition of the owl as a harbinger of death, this is based in fear of change and transition. The Greek goddess Athena, renowned for wisdom, has an owl as her symbol. I have had an owl totem and spirit friend for at least thirty years.
When my son was seven, we went to a Native American tipi set-up demonstration, with a subsequent shield-making activity within the tipi. The Penobscot man lead us on a journey to find our spirit animal, and draw it on the shield with crayons. I still have the cardboard circle with the white and silver owl in flight. This is the first experience I had with clairvoyance, as I realized how easy it was for me to follow a guided visualization, and saw/felt the owl fly to me so vividly. I was in college at that period studying art education and later used guided imagery a lot with my students, who, as children, were closer to their non-physical senses than most adults.
My name Jennifer comes from the English name Guinevere; the original Cornish form was Gwenwhyfar, meaning white shadow, white phantom, white fairy, or fair one). The white owl on my shield feels like a phantom or spirit owl, not a physical one. My parents didn’t know the etymology back in 1951 (they didn’t have baby -naming books then)… I discovered it later in high school when I became enamored of the Arthurian legends. Pondering on why I have the name I do, another level of meaning came clear in meditation a year or so ago. Jenn ( Gen– root word for race, kind, or simply, the people) and fer (or, pher- from the Greek to love, as in Christopher = lover of Christ), which all adds up to Lover of the People, or All of Us! YAY! I’m so grateful for my parents’ intuitive wisdom!!
Multi-dimensional Blessings to all of you on this magical Hallow’s Eve, when the veils are blown away and we can all travel between worlds like Owl, and sense/see/hear/feel the Other Side. No fears– All is well– Always. Love to All the People, Gwenwhyfar
Messages From Grace 