30. "Love Casts Out Fear"

"Something evil this way comes."
~ Shakespeare.

I really was minding my own business, honest! -- playing an almost mindless game of Solitaire on my pda, while taking care of "a call of nature". About a minute into the game, my attention was grabbed by a dark, cold chill traveling at light speed from my gut, up my spine, into my shoulders, neck and head -- then it settled behind my eyes and in my jaw. You know the feeling -- the one that stops your heart and lungs in mid-beat and -breath and freezes all your synapses in mid-firing, except one: that one that's programmed to acknowledge fear. It was firing away in crisis mode -- sending out 9-1-1 calls to all concerned parties, which was "everyone" in this here body, from my autonomic systems to my suddenly very alert voluntary systems. A lot of things in this old bod' don't work well, or at all, any more -- but evidently my emergency alarm systems are still quite functional.

What the heck set that off? I wondered.

Over the years, I've learned to check what I was thinking and doing, at the time, before looking any further for clues and explanations for such feelings. At the time I went into alarm mode, I was on auto-pilot -- both physically and mentally -- so I didn't bother checking what I had been thinking about or doing. Those two were pretty obvious -- nothing, and next to nothing. So I immediately looked at the cards displayed on my pda's screen -- paying close attention to the numbers and suits showing -- looking for patterns or some other clue to explain my extreme alarm.

There it was. "6-6-6". I had trouble keeping the hairs on the back of my neck from raising, not wanting a repeat performance of my previous "alarm". Besides, that kind of response to those particular numbers is a knee-jerk reaction. I reminded myself that triple-sixes don’t always mean something negative. In fact, it was possible that it didn't mean a thing. (I said "possible", not probable.) My gut listened politely to my head, gave it due consideration and decided that it was more into probabilities than possibilities right then. While not launching anything other than adrenaline, it remained at full fight-or-flight readiness. In all fairness to my gut, past experience has taught me that the triple repetition of that particular number usually symbolized that a major negative influence with malicious intent was nearby. My gut had absolutely no problem with me keeping an open mind, as long as my shields were up and the rest of me was in battle readiness mode.

The only other significant bit of my circumstance to consider, at that time, was Hurricane Katrina. What used to be Katrina's eye was directly over my head. She had reduced intensity to being a dangerous tropical storm, by the time she arrived in the Nashville area, but she was still very organized and full of lots of rip and snort, as she continued to blow and drop buckets of water outside.

This whole experience took only a few seconds -- a split second for me to go into sudden alarm mode, with the whole chills-up-the-spine bit; another second for me to recognize the "6-6-6" pattern in the Solitaire game; and another split second to be almost overwhelmed by sensing a dark cloud of malicious intent, taking evil glee in causing extreme harm, death and destruction, and spinning up the same in others as it moved along. I felt its fascination with the spectacle of death, destruction and pain that it was causing -- like a kid pulling the wings off of a butterfly just to see what it would do, and taking a sickening joy in watching it squirm and struggle in pain until it finally died a most cruel death. I sensed all that in the flash of a split second -- in the blink of an eye. Being a strong empath can have its occasional perks. This definitely was not one of them.

It didn't take a college grad -- let alone a psychic -- to figure out the connection between my "fear alarm", the triple-six, and my empathing the incoming evil emotions. But I'd also learned over the years to verify my first impressions before I jump to any conclusions.

The only way I know to test and/or verify such things is to question my Guides. The only way I, personally, have of doing that is to channel a Q&A between us, while using two Runes -- Sigel and Is -- much like the Levite priests of old did with the two stones called Urim and Thummim. Of course, the results of such a channeling session or "reading" is only as good as the questions asked and who they are asked of. I take seriously the Biblical maxim, "test the spirits to see whether they are of God," and would never go public with anything from a reading that I had not confirmed. One of the reasons I waited so long to post this was to verify and re-verify its validity and veracity.

The mechanics of doing such a reading is a subject for another post (if you're interested). For now, suffice it to say that after asking over 40 carefully worded questions and checking and re-checking the identity, veracity and intentions of the guides & messengers who answered my questions and the viability of those answers, each step of the way, the reading could be summarized as follows:

The cold chill that I experienced, along with the "6-6-6" pattern in the Solitaire game were warnings concerning a "negative influence" associated with Hurricane Katrina. In fact, not only was there a negative influence, but a whole "cohort" of "negative influences" or "negative entities" -- a cohort of 2.5 K entities! That cohort was responsible for Katrina’s direction and strength. It was also responsible for the feelings I empathed, during the storm, that "fascination with the spectacle of death, destruction and pain" that was being inflicted by Hurricane Katrina. But that was not their sole motivation, though I get the sense that they were the type of entities that do what they do just because they can. They need no other motivation. This time, they were intent upon creating a diversion big and horrible enough to distract us all from GWB's War against Iraq, as well as his continued incursions upon this country’s civil rights and the general well-being of the world, for that matter.

My guides/messengers confirmed that Hurricane Katrina was comparable to the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, which the cohort was responsible for, also. The cohort tried to make Hurricane Katrina as damaging as the tsunami and will try again this year to inflict more harm under the guise of "a natural disaster". The death toll from Hurricane Katrina will rise above 15K.

Remember, this reading was done just a day and a half after Katrina hit the Gulf states -- long before anyone announced any kind of death toll stats. Heck, it's been two weeks since Katrina left Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama tattered, torn and trembling in shock. We still haven't been told the real death toll. I don't know if the general public will ever know for sure.

There was more to the reading, but that's enough to give you a good idea of its main points. Was any of it really surprising? Not now, two weeks later. For me, the most important piece of information in the reading was that, while Hurricane Katrina was "a natural disaster", it was not an act of God. In fact, it was the opposite. It was a natural phenomena that was co-opted and manipulated by entities of a distinctively negative bent, to do far more harm than that storm probably would have -- if it had been left to meander around on its own. I was also disturbed to find out that those same negative entities were responsible for the Indian Ocean tsunami, as well as planning to make a “superstorm” that would create even more destruction and chaos.

The positive thing was that my guides emphasized that this negative activity can be ameliorated, if not stopped, by putting as much positive energy out there, as possible. Of course, the most positive energy in the universe is Love -- especially the unconditional kind.

What more can I say? -- except that as writers we have the ability and opportunity to put more than the average amount of positive energy out there and reach further than most people usually can. When you think about it, we're able to send out waves of positve energy all over the world, with just one blog post, or book or article. If 51% of us did that, we would have enough positive energy to offset any tsunami or hurricane. It's definitely worth considering -- and costs us nothing to do it.

Take care, Y'all!
Love and Light,
~ Nanette

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