November 2026

What if the uncertainty is not emptiness, but space?

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A Note From Valerie


Welcome to November

I spent a lot of October helping with my two grandbabies, and honestly, there are very few places I would rather be. Watching them grow, seeing more of who they are becoming, and feeling our bonds deepen is something I am incredibly grateful for. Babies have a way of bringing you right into the present moment.

And maybe that is especially important right now.

October also seemed to bring a lot of old stuff back to the surface. I know I have felt it, and I know others have too. Old beliefs, fears, patterns, things we thought we had already dealt with or understood. I don’t really think this means we are going backward. It feels more like we are being asked to see things again, but from a different place, as we prepare for some kind of change.

What kind of change? I’m not sure yet.

There is also a fair amount of fear out there right now. Elections, AI, world events, uncertainty about what comes next. I don’t want to give all of that too much attention, but I do think it can make it harder to stay present and connected to what is actually happening in our own lives.

And that may be part of the work right now too.

My art show at the Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro is up through November 15, so there is still time to see it. And with the holidays coming, I’ll be sharing a few specials further down in this letter. I’ve also been adding some things to my Etsy shop, so if you feel like taking a look, the link is below.

Mostly, I just want to say thank you.

I am deeply grateful that you continue to read these letters and spend this time with me each month. And for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope it brings you good food, people you love, and a few moments to simply be where you are.

If something here helps you, gives you a different way of seeing something, or makes you think of someone who may need it too, please feel free to share it.

With love and gratitude,

Valerie

PS The photo in the insert is the Hunter Moon, which peaked on October 25-26.


November Transmission:

Recognition: The Awareness Beneath the Story


There is a great deal becoming visible now.

Some of what is coming into awareness is beautiful. Some of it is uncomfortable. Some may feel deeply personal, while other things move through the collective at such a volume that it becomes difficult to know what belongs to you and what you are simply witnessing.

This is part of becoming conscious of more.

You may have imagined that greater consciousness would always feel expansive, peaceful, or enlightening. Sometimes it does. And sometimes it means you can no longer look away from what you once could or did not see.

You recognize patterns sooner (and this is a very good thing). You become more aware of what frightens you, what you judge, what you resist, what you have carried for years, and even what you have mistaken for the truth about yourself.

And at the same time, you are becoming more aware of the one who is aware: the Divine Self, the God-self, the consciousness beneath the personality and beyond the story you have learned to tell about yourself.

This Self does not need to be created, earned, healed into existence, or summoned from somewhere outside you.

It is already here.

You have learned to acknowledge what arises. To accept it. To appreciate what it may have shown you or how it may once have served you. And to allow it to move, change, remain, or become something different without forcing the outcome.

These understandings have served you well, and you are ready now for something more.

Recognition.

Recognition is not another task. It is the awareness that the pattern, belief, emotion, or fear you are experiencing exists within your consciousness, but it is not the entirety of who you are.

The thought is being experienced. The emotion is being experienced. The old belief is being experienced.

And there is something within you capable of witnessing all of it.

Recognition changes the relationship.

Without Recognition, acknowledgment can become another way of studying and overanalyzing the problem. Acceptance can become an effort to tolerate it. Appreciation can become something you believe you are supposed to feel. Allowance can become waiting for the experience to disappear.

Recognition offers another possibility:

I can experience this without becoming it.

Every pattern, belief, program, and response has played some role in your experience of being human.

You do not always need to understand why it was created. You do not always need to return to its origin.

Sometimes it is enough to recognize the energy of it.

This has been part of my experience. It served in some capacity. I no longer need to fight it in order to move beyond it.

This matters more than you may realize because when you meet a pattern differently now, you are not changing what happened; you are changing the energy through which the experience is held.

Humans tend to perceive the past as fixed and the future as something waiting to be created. From a broader perspective, time is far more dynamic.

What you call past, present, and future remain connected through consciousness. When you bring a different awareness to something now, you do not erase the event. You alter your relationship with it.

And when that relationship shifts, the energetic imprint shifts with it.

This is one way to understand the Akashic Records: not as a fixed history carved in stone, but as an energetic field containing the imprint of experience—what has been lived, felt, chosen, learned, and carried.

The event does not need to be rewritten. What can change is the energy through which you hold it now.

And when that changes, the past is carried differently within you and the possibilities available to you moving forward also change.

Nothing needs to be erased or denied. Energy is never static. A shift in awareness reverberates beyond the present moment, echoing through what you experience as the time/space continuum.

And there is yet another layer you are ready to consider: You are not separate from the world you inherited.

From a wider perspective of consciousness, the line between ancestor and descendant is not as clear as the human mind perceives it. You may understand this through lineage, collective consciousness, other lifetimes, or experiences held within the Akashic field.

In this way, you are not simply the recipient of what humanity has created. You are also part of its creation.

You are your ancestors, and you are becoming the ancestor of what comes next.

This is not about blame, it is about responsibility.

You are not being asked to repair everything that has ever occurred. You are being asked to recognize what you can now see from a different level of awareness and choose what you will continue to energize.

You have heard: What you resist, persists.

And what you continually feed with your attention grows stronger within your experience.

This does not mean ignoring injustice, danger, or suffering. It means recognizing the difference between clear awareness and unconscious energetic attachment.

You can see what is wrong without becoming consumed by hatred for it. You can acknowledge what humanity has created without condemning humanity. You can recognize where old consciousness has contributed to what now exists without turning that recognition into guilt.

And from a higher perspective, you can ask: Knowing what I know now, what do I choose to contribute?

That is conscious participation. As you become conscious of more within yourself, you become conscious of more around you.

Things once accepted without question are being questioned. Things once hidden are being revealed. Possibilities once considered unimaginable are becoming increasingly real.

This can be exhilarating.

It can also be frightening.

There are many things being brought before you now that are capable of generating fear. Some require real discernment and thoughtful action. Others are possibilities amplified until the possibility itself begins to feel like an immediate threat.

But fear is not the enemy you have believed it to be.

Fear creates an energetic response. It activates awareness. It brings something forward.

The difficulty begins when you immediately resist it, fight it, judge it, or demand that it disappear.

Even resistance can become an old pattern.

You have learned to believe that fear means something is wrong, that it must be conquered, or that spiritual awareness should somehow remove fear from the human experience.

But fear is part of the human experience, and fear carries information.

So when it appears, begin with Recognition:

Fear is here.

Not: I am fear.

Not: This means something terrible is going to happen.

Simply:

Fear is here, and I am aware of it.

From Recognition comes acknowledgment.

Yes. I am afraid.

Then acceptance.

This is what I am experiencing right now.

Acceptance does not mean believing the fear or agreeing with its prediction. It means ending the argument with the fact that fear is present.

From acceptance, appreciation may become possible—not appreciation for pain or suffering, but for the part of you that is trying to communicate.

Fear may be protecting a younger part of you. A part that learned it was safer not to speak. A part that believes certainty is protection. Or perhaps it is responding to something occurring now that genuinely deserves your attention.

This is why fear must be heard before it can be understood.

When you are no longer battling fear, its energy can change. It may reveal what it is protecting, expose an old belief, bring forward a memory, or show you where judgment has lived.

And sometimes it will simply say:

I am afraid.

And that will be enough. Not every fear produces wisdom. Not every uncomfortable feeling requires another excavation.

Sometimes being witnessed is the shift.

This is where Allowance completes the movement.

You allow fear to speak without giving it control of your life. You allow the energy to move without deciding that it defines you.

You allow yourself not to know. You allow yourself to be human while remembering that you are also the awareness experiencing the human.

This is not detachment.

It is deeper participation.

The world itself is moving through profound change. There will continue to be predictions, warnings, technologies and possibilities you do not fully understand, political and social changes, old structures being challenged, and new structures forming.

You can care without carrying all of it.

You can remain aware without remaining activated.

This too is Recognition.

What is mine?

What am I witnessing?

What is actually happening now?

What energy is moving through me?

And who is the one aware of all of this?

These questions return you to the deeper Self.

An Activation for Recognition

When fear or uncertainty rises, begin with the body rather than the story.

Place your feet on the floor and take a gentle breath in through the nose and let the exhale be longer.

Lightly tap over the center of the chest or just beneath the collarbone.

Feel your feet. Feel the chair beneath you. You are here.

Bring the fear into awareness without enlarging it.

I recognize that fear is here.

I acknowledge what I am feeling.

I accept that this is present right now.

Continue breathing and tapping.

Ask:

What are you trying to show me or protect?

Do not search for the answer.

Let it arrive—or not.

Then ask:

Is this happening now, or is my body remembering an old energy?

Honor whatever is true.

Bring one hand to your heart and imagine the light there as a small sun. Allow it to expand through the chest and body.

I appreciate the part of me that has tried to protect me.

You do not have to disappear for me to hear you.

You do not have to lead me in order for me to listen.

Now notice.

You are aware of the breath.

You are aware of the body.

You are aware of the fear.

And there is an awareness holding all of it.

This is Recognition.

Ask:

What can I perceive now that fear was making difficult to see?

Perhaps there is an answer.

Perhaps there is only:

I do not know yet.

Let that be enough.

Take one more breath.

I acknowledge.

I accept.

I appreciate.

I allow.

And I recognize.

Fearlessness has never been the goal. You are remembering how to listen before fear has to take over.

You are remembering that what rises within you does not have to become your identity, and that a pattern does not have to be hated in order to change.

Consciousness moves. Energy moves. What you call time moves.

You are not changing the past.

You are not controlling the future.

You are changing the consciousness through which both are experienced.

This is how you participate differently.

Not by condemning and fearing what was and what might be, but by bringing a different consciousness into what is here now.

And this changes more than you yet understand.

The world may continue to feel uncertain. More may be revealed. More may change. You will become conscious of more still. And you are becoming increasingly capable of seeing more clearly, choosing more consciously, and meeting what arises without losing yourself within it.

You are not being asked to know what comes next. You are being invited to recognize who is here now. And perhaps the space you have been calling uncertainty is not empty at all. Perhaps it is the field in which a different awareness is becoming possible.


For those who enjoy going a little deeper, I post my full channeled messages and more personal essays on my website and on Substack. There’s more room there to explore what’s unfolding.


The Unhidden card + Redemption, Focus, OM and Comfort

I drew from all three of my decks this month, and once again, the cards were pretty hard to ignore. (I am truly, always amazed.) From The Unhidden came: “You can survive not knowing. What becomes unbearable is knowing—and continuing to live as if you don’t.” That one stopped me. Once we see something clearly—about ourselves, a pattern, or even the world around us—we can’t really unsee it. Redemption came from my original Akashic deck, and that feels especially meaningful with this month’s message. We may not be able to change what happened, but we can change the energy in which we hold it. And then three cards literally fell out of the Light Symbol deck: Focus, OM, and Comfort. Where is your focus? Can you come back beneath all the noise and chaos to the deeper part of you that already knows? And can you let some comfort in while you do it? Maybe this isn’t about fixing everything we can now see. Maybe it is about recognizing it, choosing differently, and being more conscious of where we place our energy from here.

XO

Three decks. Three different ways of seeing.

Over the years, I’ve created three card decks using my own original artwork, each with a different purpose.

NEW — The Unhidden

A 44-card oracle deck created for the things that are ready to be seen. Each card pairs one of my original images with a statement from my channeled messages designed to reveal a pattern, shift perspective, or put words to something you may already feel but haven’t quite named.

The Akashic Record Intuitive Reading Cards

My original deck, created years ago using energetically infused artwork as a tool for intuitive and Akashic Record readings.

The Akashic Light Symbol Cards

Created during the pandemic, these cards use original symbols as another way of accessing intuitive guidance and deeper awareness.


Akashic Record Intuitive Reading Cards — $49.95

Akashic Light Symbol Cards — $35.95

The Unhidden — $56 (keep reading to see November's "deal!")

Shipping included.

If one of them speaks to you, contact me to order.

They are also available from my Etsy store, button below.

A little something special for November…

As a thank-you to those of you who continue to read, share, and support my work, I’m offering a free 30-minute Akashic Record reading with the purchase of The Unhidden this month.

The details are below.

The cards are available in person or through my Etsy shop.

Akashic Records

Akasha is a Sanskrit word often translated as “primary substance” or “that from which all things arise.” The Akashic Records are often described as a field of consciousness that holds the wisdom, experiences, and energetic imprint of every soul's journey.

Accessible through intention and prayer, the Records offer insight, healing, and guidance that support greater awareness, self-understanding, and spiritual growth. Rather than providing fixed answers, they invite us into a more conscious relationship with ourselves, our soul, and the greater intelligence that guides life.

Within the Records, we are invited to see ourselves through the lens of compassion rather than judgment, possibility rather than limitation. They can illuminate patterns, beliefs, gifts, challenges, relationships, and opportunities for healing, allowing us to navigate life with greater clarity, trust, and grace.

Many people experience the Records as a sacred space where awareness expands, healing is amplified, and deeper truths emerge. Through this work, we begin to shift from navigating life through fear, struggle, or separation toward a deeper trust in our connection to the Divine and our own inner wisdom.

At their heart, the Akashic Records remind us that we are far more than our circumstances, our stories, or our perceived limitations. They offer an opportunity to remember who we truly are and to engage with life from a place of greater consciousness, purpose, and possibility.


Private, in-person appointments for Hypnosis within the Records, Akashic Record Transformative Healing and The Subconscious Canvas are available in Charlottesville.

Phone & Online appointments are available

from ANYWHERE


October at Morven Park in Leesburg, VA



I am an experienced Akashic Records reader, intuitive transformational healer, certified hypnotherapist and artist.

I offer intuitive guidance, hypnotherapy, and creative processes that support inner listening and integration.

I love what I do!

XO


Valerie Sargent, CHt



 

2030 Avinity Loop Charlottesville VA 22902 703.615.2220   thefigleaf444@gmail.com  www.thefigleaf.net

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