Tania Marie: The Root of Ease, the Grace of Origins
The cactus blossom makes things look so easy the way she beautifully rises and unfurls her delicate petals between the harsh cactus spines.
She speaks of resiliency and adaptability in the way she thrives in tough conditions.
Her vulnerability reflects true strength, as she embodies the essence of grace as her reality, rather than anxiety over what could appear as a threatening environment.
“What if it were easy?” she whispers.
I shared this message before, but it spoke to me again as some guidance for navigating the energies many are going through these days.
Too often we spend time worrying and conjuring up every angle in our heads of the worst case scenario and how hard something will be.
But what if instead we asked, “What would this look and feel like if it were easy?”
And then, imagined a variety of potential scenarios of exactly how wonderfully fluid and magickal that would be, rather than every awful way we normally do.
What if we then moved forward with that embodied emotion and belief?
The reason we stress is because we’re operating on old habits, conditioning, and patterns that are in cruise control rather than taking control of the steering wheel and guiding our lives along the path intentionally with conscious presence to our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and even how our bodies are reacting to those things in each moment.
We often are forcing things, operating on “shoulds”, stretching ourselves thin, doing more than we actually need to be because we “think” we have to, over-complicate situations by worrying, and miss the simple paths because we believe, “Life just COULDN’T be THAT easy!”
As the end of the year comes soon to closure and I know many of you might start thinking on New Year’s resolutions or simply wanting to rewrite your life for the upcoming new year, perhaps you might reflect upon how to rewrite your approach to life and begin a new chapter with you as the author, and the path as one of ease and grace.
This is also the path of alignment where flow transmutes resistance and life force can move freely as is its innate nature to do.
We were wandering through an invigorating, ancient volcanic region a few days ago where this message was inspired by the cactus fields, and the beautiful blossoms spoke their golden alchemy.
The past two weeks while we’ve been away, I’ve noted that root chakra energy has been on high again and the lower chakras partnering in with that dance.
These are areas especially overlooked, as people have desired to climb higher and ascend, leaving behind the “root” of things.
This results as difficulties with manifesting in the fresh realities because a reclaiming and integration of the nature of our physicality has been denied, devalued, or simply forgotten.
These energy themes have been reflected in the landscapes we’ve had opportunity to wander through on hiking breaks in between care taking and very rain days.
Since the first day we left on our road trip and took a day in the Mammoth area to break up the drive, deep Earth energies were speaking to me to work with, within and without.
Some vistas even mirrored the Pyramids of Giza, echoing my journey of reclaiming in Egypt recently.
We’ve wandered through a lot of ancient terrain, including the Mammoth Earthquake Fault and a lot of volcanic regions.
I was gifted several treasures to work with including 30 million year old lava rock, obsidian, agate, and light blue chalcedony to name a few – all being of volcanic origins and rich with the current energies streaming through for awareness and integration.
And we encountered a variety of beautiful creatures, too, that each carried their own potent medicine.
There were a bunch of magickal things around each wild corner to breathe in.
This included stumbling upon a spiral labyrinth that just “happened” to be by a hiking trail, offering us opportunity to anchor in some intentions with my favorite kind of mindfulness practice – a walking meditation.
As I share this post we are traveling back home now.
It was a productive and important couple of weeks helping Dave’s dad and stepmom with many life things.
It also gave us opportunity to spend time with their special “emotional” needs rescue coonhound, Grace, taking her on walks and giving her extra love and play time.
She has a hard time trusting people, as she has deep emotional trauma, so these weeks were taken slowly and with great care.
The connection meant more to me because of this.
This is one of my strengths, so I don’t find it hard to be with the patience and presence it requires.
She and I share a love for stopping to smell all of the roses, clover, and explore any little discoveries along the way too.
She was especially fond of jogging and running with me, instead of walking, since she doesn’t get the chance for that.
I also had time to reveal and connect to some deeply heart based realizations and activations during these weeks, so “elevating the heart” was the medicine for our time away, along with rooting into sacred origins of the primal nature of being.
I can definitely feel in the last month and a half, that return in the most personal of ways – not just as a collective process – but a reclaiming of my original codes.
The dreams that were actually key seeds, are now sprouting.
There is grace within our sacred origins.
The photos laced throughout this post are some of the landscapes we journeyed through on our breaks and in betweens.
And now we’re returning to the alpine realms where sunshiny end-of-Autumn days await us after snow danced there again while we were away.
We return just in time to share a festive Thanksgiving ~ “Gratitude” ~ Day with my family, touch in with some of our friends briefly, do some quick garden Winter prep, unpack and repack, then head out once again.
It will be a quick, few day turnaround indeed before heading out again on a different kind of vacation starting this Sunday the 30th through December 17th.
Then busy holiday times begin. I can’t believe it will be nearly Christmas when I return, and the end to 2025 so near.
I haven’t time for much else in my few days home, so this is why I’m getting this post out now, since I won’t be back until mid December.
Until then, if you missed out on any of the newest crystal friends, I do have a surprise that the pink amethyst star being is back at special offering for this unique one at such a large size. This beauty was released by their claimer for personal reasons and so is now available again. Sometimes this happens and it’s part of highest alignment being honored. I can’t believe she’s still around, though, especially with themes of origins swirling around. The color and sparkle is far more beautiful in person. Perhaps she’ll end up having a new mission here. Time will tell.
For now, you can find her below and if you’ve been challenged with purchasing options, I do have a way to provide Paypal if you prefer or need that. Just send me a message and I can assist. And just a heads up that if she calls and you purchase after 11/27, she won’t ship out until I’m back in mid December. If you purchase on or before 11/27, I can get her out this Friday the 28th.
Wishing you all a beautiful Gratitude Day, however you are called to spend it.
Let it remind you how this practice of being grateful can be a daily game changer.
Our perspective shapes everything.
Tania Marie: There’s Beauty in all Phases of the Journey
We’re just about to embark again – duration unknown – to do some caretaking. We’ll be making a road trip out of it and breaking up our drive with an overnight in Mammoth to hike before continuing on to my birth place of Southern California. We’ll return before or by Thanksgiving.
Leading up to this we’ve been able to enjoy some walks down Summer’s lane, as the weather provided us wonderful opportunities to immerse in our beloved activities.
Weather has continued to swing back and forth, providing us extended days filled with hiking, biking, and even a perfect kayaking day.
Just look at these amazing conditions on the crystalline waters of Lake Tahoe.
In between it all we’ve been handed some reminders of the actual season we’re in, mixed with cold, rain, frost, and even snow at the mountain tops.
Temperatures seem to be dipping just as we leave and looks like a more pre-winter chill will be in the air upon return.
It’s all brought up the mushrooms and even this field of giant white beauties.
As I, and all of us, go through our own unique and profound transitions, so, too, does our Earth Mother.
Leaving behind the warmth and brilliant bosom of blooms, she embraces the mysterious darkness and elegant cloaks of fallen wisdom, making way for frosted shawls of wintry wonder.
Seasons change and so do we.
There is much to both let go of and to remember.
The light of day fast surrenders to the dark of night so that we experience more connection to the rhythms of Earth and Cosmos in harmony.
This is a celestial event of spirit in flesh, where deepening sacredness overflows from the cauldron of our hearts.
It can be illuminating when we surrender and have the courage to retrieve what’s been forgotten.
Our vulnerability is empowering and clarifying.
Yesterday, we came upon a sight that stopped my heart in its tracks. I did take a photo to remember it, but won’t share it since it would be emotionally traumatizing for some.
We found a perfect wild cottontail rabbit body on the side of the trail, without her head. There was no blood, no signs of anything except a clean cut of a missing head. I picked her up and buried her, totally mesmerized by her beauty and perfection, and the feeling of her sweet fur, thumpers, and tail. It has been a while since I’ve held a rabbit and of course I identify with them.
Without going into personal details of this, I’ll simply state that it reflected to me a renewal of self and transformation of identity.
Later, I was curious to look this up and had my feelings confirmed, along with these symbolisms: death of the old self (way of thinking/being), a “silent” beginning (one that is embodied rather than spoken), living even more from intuition/instinct/feeling rather than intellect/overthinking, and even a sacrifice for the new self.
Autumn Equinox brought equanimity within and without and of all opposites that light and dark might reflect to each of us.
And when things stand with conscious awareness of this reflection, the sweet intricacy of every thread becomes as valued as the whole web of All That Is.
It is a most miraculous and beautiful thing to exist indeed.
Every day I feel immense gratitude for the air I breathe and the beauty all around me. I don’t take for granted that there are varying experiences across the globe and that what I am able to see, feel, and immerse in is an astounding gift.
It is this very reason I share these gifts, so that they might touch, inspire, or bring some level of hope and belief in some way to whom ever needs it in the moment they see these windows or read my words.
We are bridges for one another and that is most beautifully made possible through the vortex of our hearts – the gateway to harmonic convergence and our multidimensional potential.
Enjoy these reflective windows into my garden of life ~ our days here in the alpine region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, our recent Taurus Full Supermoon, a harvest of some Autumn blooms (I’ll be harvesting a ton of lavender soon), and the bed of plants and blooms in their transition.
There’s beauty in all phases of the journey.
And here’s a sweet peak at two new, magickal crystal beings that are now available:
Crystal Friends for All Seasons
Tania Marie: In Between the Seasons of Metamorphosis
Autumn’s colors continue to change with the winds and the temperature has been moody. It’s been a see-saw back and forth between a taste of chill and a kiss of warmth.
Life these days seems always unpredictable and so the best thing we can do is be ready for anything and get better at swinging with the shifts so that we can come to know our resiliency more.
We’ve had a particularly beautiful season painted in abundant splashes of all the vibrant shades that Fall has to offer.
And mixed with sunshine and frost, it all makes for quite the enchanted display.
I often feel like the landscapes we hike through are surreal.
Life has more often than less, also felt that way to me.
Probably more so these days.
In the midst of wild cosmic rides and earth rooted perplexities, there’s these whispers of clarity that linger on the impermanent in between and provide just enough voice to the truth of your heart.
This is the space where nothing else matters and that eventually will help shape your reality if you practice leaning into it more.
Keep nurturing the courage to support this inner stillness and the voice of your true power that emerges when you do.
As I shared once, we are brilliant self-sabotagers, but we are also reluctant magicians fearing our own power.
Whether it’s answers you seek about where to go next, or answers about any question that arises in the moment, much can be discovered through an honest reflection, curiosity, and a willingness to take action in any small way that supports a feeling or nudge.
The rest will unfold from there and reveal itself as you move along.
Not surprisingly, I feel a transformational rewiring happening for myself. The past week it’s been very obvious to me how the energy upgrades from our Egypt trip are now really starting to recalibrate things internally. This, coupled with the increase in cosmic energies streaming in our atmosphere, have found me with little appetite, but loads of energy and even exhilaration, then a need for shut down and absolute surrender and rest. It is a deep metamorphosis.
And that seemed to get a cheer of agreement from this little tree frog who jumped into my hand when I was uncovering a crystal in the soil the other day.
This little one was literally hiding in the ground, likely in a semi-hibernation preparation, but shared some sweet moments of renewal with me in the sunshine.
This was a particularly amazing day for smoky quartz finds.
This being one of the amazing gifts that actually showed up right after Mr. Frog appeared – talk about good luck.
I’ve now been on this hike three times this year and each time gifted me quite a collection of crystals, along with animal messengers.
The first time it was a rubber boa I saved, the next it was three does that let me share space with them as they grazed, and now a tiny tree frog who was getting ready for the shifting seasons.
Apparently, we both aren’t quite ready to go full on into hibernation mode yet. There’s a lot percolating as we reclaim parts we never were actually ready to give up.
That’s a place I find myself landing in right now and seems to be a theme – reclaiming.
As I mentioned in my return post, I’m always ready to embrace the depths of the journey and being in Egypt has definitely rekindled and awakened new layers to explore.
Egypt has been a womb of clarity and strength for me to access more of my wholeness – the multidimensional consciousness that is more than just who stands before you in this reality.
And this multidimensional focus is an experience that is increasingly lighting up for many these days and as it does, it is helping people to transform their lives in ways that don’t necessarily call for a cut from everything they know, but instead supports a shift into broadening the total experience by trickling out from embodiment and shifting everything in vibrational resonance to that.
As Lee Harris shared in his most recent Energy Update, “You can become an emitter of multidimensional possibilities.”
I continue to stretch into that breath of existence even though it defies logic in the here and now and more often than less, means I may be walking paths of starlight in the abyss of only my own heart.
And yet, I know I am never alone when in my essence.
I’ve always been someone who will not be swayed by the stories of a limited reality than what I know as my own experience of expansive potential.
When I journey back to Egypt I feel every molecule in my physical body light up in mirror to what I know as my truth.
And with each journey there, I continue to be in awe of how easily the veils drop when you have the courage to journey into the inner Temple of Mystery.
Each doorway initiates your training in principles of alchemy that can liberate you.
I’m continuing to unwrap this trip’s offerings and especially one in particular that has revealed things about myself that beautifully challenge me to new levels of honing my gifts and how that expresses outwardly.
What we each choose and embody, acts as an anchor and bridge for others.
Each journey back to Egypt keeps increasing and deepening the breadth of experiences and still there’s so much more to unwrap – mostly equating to how the inner journey that is activated, translates into the outer one.
I’m looking forward to how things continue to evolve while the energies settle and organically land. I can already say that things are weaving together quite quickly.
I feel my own return more solid – the reclaiming is strongly rooting – and that is being fueled by an actual return that will resume once again.
I hope everyone had a magickal Samhain/Halloween. I always remember and honor my sweet boy, Cosmo, who slipped through the thin veils on that portal and because of this, is ever-present in our daily lives as if he’s never left.
Life is full between now and end of the year so posts will be when windows of inspiration present themselves.
We just celebrated Dave’s birthday and now we’re about to host Dave’s mom this week. Then a few days after her departure we’ll be heading out to spend 1-2 weeks helping out with Dave’s dad post a non-evasive outpatient back surgery. Then, I can’t believe it will be Thanksgiving, we’ll be heading out for a vacation, and before we know it, Christmas. Goodness gracious!
The holiday season is upon us and another year is coming to closure once again!
That said, if you’ve been coveting one of the crystal skulls that were recently offered, two remain and I’ve been guided to do a Samhain Sale through end of tomorrow 11/2 only on them. That gives me time to get them shipped out this week as well, if they are called home. This sale puts one of them at almost 25% off and the other at 20+% off. Quite the special offering for these here: Crystal Skulls
May all possibilities be open to you!
Tania Marie: Deep like the Ocean & Light as a Feather ~ A Transformative Journey In Egypt
While the golden womb of Autumn cradles my body and soul upon laying my feet back in the alpine realms once again, I feel held in the perfect embrace of patient unfolding.
Not more than five days of being back and seasons are already shifting with our first snow falling on the 14th of last week.
This is the earliest we can remember receiving so much snow, bringing six inches overnight to our 6600 elevation and waking the next morning to a stark contrast from the desert sands of Egypt we just returned from.
Nature helps you to know your own resiliency and surrender in full presence to the fleeting moment, which is all we ever really have.
It’s been an incredible several weeks and these golden masterpieces of enchanted nature artistry, mirror the alchemy in my meditations since returning, as golden light energy has been a continued theme pouring through me.
Even my garden has turned up the volume on Autumn magick with abundant roses, lavender, echinacea, and carnations greeting me home.
That is, until the snow hit, but weather is swinging back to Autumn once again, while the white mountaintops hold the anchor for the future we walk toward.
Alongside settling in and taking my time to unwrap all that has happened, we’ve returned to hiking our familiar routes to breathe in the crisp air of fresh starts.
I went to the mountaintop with questions and what I found was everything I brought within me already. Answers are in our own hands.
I’ve been receiving an increase of more light and frequency codes since returning and tuning in with threads woven anew in my heart. These I can feel pulse through and the experience is an expansion and DNA shifts rearranging within.
Twice, I was given vision of key codes that slowly materialized in front of me as very intricate golden symbols, one piece at a time coming together to form them. They are almost like cosmic sigils holding light and sound that instantly recalibrate.
But I get ahead of myself, as a short rewind is in order to unpack some of the sacred journey a group of us gathered for in Egypt at the turn of seasons bookended by a New Moon Solar Eclipse and a Full Moon.
And before doing that, I wanted to send a huge thank you to all of you who were anchoring energies back in your own sacred spaces. We could feel you all weaving and holding this powerful gridded tapestry united with us and in fact heard from some people about exact alignments and visions that were unfolding at the same time as our group was going through things.
As you likely have guessed, this will be a long share even though I’m not sharing everything, which includes a lot of photo captures since some of you are more visual and they’ll tell the story even if you never read the words. It’s hard to place limits on things like photos, or even an expression, as that just doesn’t feel to be my path. Plus, being this is one of my most favorite places on Earth, I can’t keep a lid on the magick. And since I know some of you are thinking about visiting Egypt, and/or may never have the chance, this is a way to share the energy and you can travel there through your heart and meditations.
So, if you’re interested in the journey, you might want to grab your favorite beverage and wait until you have a moment to sit with this or skim it the way your heart guides.
I’ve been wondering how to convey things about this experience, but trusted that the way would organically show up once I was ready to sit down and the energy was ready to be written. What I know is that it’s being guided as coded weavings, rather than a detailing of everything that happened. The same goes for the photos I’ll be sharing, as you can imagine that three weeks with an artist’s eye and an energy guided heart would result in a thousand or so captures.
The result is an energy snapshot that pulls together the essence of this trip from my perspective. I also hope to impart some helpful information that might be supportive to anyone who I know is also wanting to experience Egypt at some point. Perhaps the shares will mirror and/or underscore things you were/are going through in coinciding, energetic expressions relative to your life and path during the same time.
It’s been a while since I last shared, but before we headed off to Egypt you might recall that Dave and I went camping with three of his high school buddies, one of our mutual friends, and four dogs – this equating to me hanging with five guys, three male dogs, and one female dog for four nights and three full days.
We were originally planning to backpack the backcountry here in the Tahoe area, but rapid weather shifts had us camping in Sequoia National Park in communion with Earth’s guardians and wisdom keepers instead.
This turned out to be a potent change and our last minute resiliency aligned us with some very grounded, ancient energies of the elder Giants that would support the journey ahead.
Embracing change is always key, as our higher selves know what is most harmonious for us.
This trip was relaxing, energizing, deepening, and mysterious with back-to-back long, climbing hikes of 7 to 8 mile treks each day, lots of nature gifts including feathers, quartz, and even finding some potent charm symbols left behind (see photo below) that were buried in the dirt of our campground that was literally a giant graveyard of up to 3000 year old Sequoia stumps rooted in the Earth (they were logged many years ago). Gathering around campfires every morning and night were our ritual, and look at the perfect phoenix and dragon that showed up in the flames one night (see photo below).
The energy and wisdom was still lingering from the energetic footprints left behind from these once towering masters. We were in a more remote area of the park and one of the hikes we did is the home of the highest elevation grove of Sequoias still remaining that are around 1500+ years old.
We were visited by a doe and two fawns one morning, a doe on one of the hikes, and experienced the strangest eerie animal calls and cries in the night that I researched may have been a small family of foxes or a pair of them. I was also visited by what I feel was likely a fox in the night that came by my side sniffing me out and pushing their head under the tent toward me. On our way home, I saw a beautiful dead fox on the road and this for me felt like a confirmation. So much fox energy was interesting and telling of magickal transformations at hand.
Our time with the Sequoias kicked off on the morning of the Pisces Full Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse, which added to the full circle of Egypt’s trip ending on the Aries Full Harvest Moon.
I had a few days relaxing at my parent’s house after the ancient Sequoias where Chamuel (the master Lemurian resides that I gave my mom years ago to anchor a grid between us) and then we were off to continue in the vein of that energy – returning to my ancient roots in Egypt.
I did keep a short journal of my experiences and thoughts, but I am only going to highlight some things, along with the main takeaways from it all.
As mentioned, the first two weeks would be a tour-led, larger group that combined people I knew with new connections and the last week with a smaller, closer knit group that journeyed with my dear friend Mody. In each case, the adventure bringing me in heart connection with sisters and brothers that made the journey rich.
This trip was very different from my previous two in 2007. Those two were at a different time in terms of world scene dynamics, and my personal spiritual growth journey.
In particular contrast, my first trip to Egypt was mostly private, which included a group of only five and pretty much experiencing every site with a private entrance free of anyone outside the group, or nearly no other tourists. I also went through the biggest physical and internal shifts, as a first trip can have the ability to ignite in a place like this.
The focuses on this trip also had a different lean that supported all of that for the people that joined, which wove together a mix of some private entrances with the colorful tapestry.
This trip was very actively “collective,” which I sensed from the get-go when accepting the invitation. There were a lot of group dynamics that were always shifting and morphing, and a lot of outside influences as well with greater contact with others.
All perfectly suited to what is currently needed and where my next steps are headed, and aligned with what I know to be my forte to work with. An active classroom for embodying peace within chaos at times, which we are all being provided opportunity to harness. This is true empowerment, as we will always be moving in and out of different experiences in life and the defining piece of that is how you navigate and reflect a resonance of your highest desire and intention within it.
This is the shift point.
Your power.
Your choice.
And what you choose and embody acts as an anchor and bridge for others.
So, while this trip was different than 2007’s journeys, the common thread for me underscored what I already knew – how Egypt is a heart center holding some of the greatest keys of awakening and empowerment for me in this lifetime in terms of supporting what I came here for.
And all that I can say is that I always feel my most powerful while I’m there, and after returning with codes I retrieved, these continue to infuse my days and life with that same power, where ever I am. It’s also one of the key spots where I know I continue to have roles with direct facilitating in collective ways.
We each have power spots and heart land areas across the globe that speak to us in unique ways. They hold frequencies that activate and initiate something within us when we merge our resonance within these soul ley lines. It is like a spark that ignites and transcends time and space, bringing us back into the wholeness and remembrance of who we are, layer by layer.
In returning to Egypt, I continue to receive new initiations into different and deeper personal gifts.
Egypt is not my only resonance, but I’ve experienced it as the most dramatic in vibrational frequency for my personal evolution and where my soul feels greatly cradled in familiarity and harmonic convergence. Hence, it’s no wonder I return so much and know I will again.
Places like Egypt hold an extremely heightened vibrational frequency that will touch each person who visits in a different way. The energy is that of an awakening on all levels, but this isn’t always experienced in the way our minds would like to dictate it.
It stirs everything within you to crack open and pour forth, both shadow and light, without filters as a means of helping you to embody greater wholeness. And it asks of us to be most vulnerable and embracive to all of that, experiencing it with greatest compassion, integrity, and humbleness – but always expressed in ways that you are ready for and that you, alone, choose how deeply you want to dance with.
Everyone’s experience will be different.
For some it works on subtle levels and small shifts that will likely go unnoticed unless deep presence is nurtured around your days to those changes that occur during and after your time in an area like Egypt.
For some it may manifest as physical symptoms, like a purge and cleanse while things are recalibrating and can be more intense based on filters or fight, or how deeply the energy has reached in your healing and integration evolution.
For some it may manifest as outward projections playing out, emotional outbursts or flows, irritability, or mental, emotional, and/or physical discomfort, as energy heightens the areas in need of most love and compassion within us.
For some it may manifest as ecstatic bliss, heightened euphoric feelings and senses, and overall increase in heart opening.
For some it may manifest as a kundalini awakening, opening of spiritual gifts, feeling new sensations or seeing visions, sudden epiphanies, out of body experiences, a deepened relationship to your higher self and the All/Source/God, etc.
There is no one or right way and it could be a combination of many of these or a variety of other things altogether.
All this to say, everyone’s experience is different in accordance to what each person is in agreement to accept, and where you can release attachment and judgment around how it needs to be, not compare it to someone else’s experience, and simply surrender to the hidden gifts however they manifest, the more you can support your unique experience to provide the most benefit for you.
I saw all of these variations play out during this trip and instantly for me I experienced this as a giant reflection of the collective world scene.
How perfect and not surprising.
And not surprising to me, also, why each of us were there.
My own role became clear immediately.
I also saw reflections of this energy dynamic on the road, which included the experience of driving and traffic, which is quite the feat there – the only other place I’ve seen as a wilder ride in that regard is Bangkok, Thailand.
I noticed how even my nervous system and initial reactions the first couple of days to the highways completely shifted into a place of surrender, peace, and equilibrium, as I worked with the energies consciously.
For me, I use what shows up as a way to both understand the bigger picture, as well as train myself how to put into practice tools that can support greater consciousness around how to shift energies. It’s an apprenticeship of spirit in body learning how to merge the gifts of each in every moment.
It takes practice, presence, and patience. And it’s not without challenge, but it does get easier with conscious intention brought to each moment. In such a power spot on the globe, like Egypt, everything can be heightened with extra clarity and extra potential, providing exact insights and opportunities for how we as individuals have the ability to work energetic dynamics that can ripple out.
Much of my experience on this trip was holding and shifting energies with intense presence. And interestingly, despite a very full, on-the-go, and decreased level of my usual sleep preferences, I was alert, found myself refreshed after smaller windows of rest, and able to sustain high levels of energy on a constant basis that I used both for myself and toward collective workings.
After sleeping just an hour or two, I would often wake thinking that I’d slept a full night, only to be surprised I still had more hours to sleep. Time was skewed for me throughout the journey, and I had no idea what day it was either.
I did have my own personal things, aside from the group-oriented energies, that I was tuning into and processing as well. And I figured out a way to manage both, which took a lot of focus.
We were all engaged in both individual and collective work on this trip, whether known or not, but many of us realized how key it was JUST being there with the frequency we embodied, with specific souls and their frequencies, and in the specific sacred sites with their frequencies at this particular time.
Sometimes we overthink things and think there’s all these specifics we should be doing, when the mere fact of showing up and saying “yes” to a time and place and partnership, can in and of itself be the courageous shift point and key code for change. This may be the only, and yet most potent, reason for your being called there – to Egypt, or any other power spot on the globe or particular experience in a specific place, time, and group of people.
I’m grateful for all who showed up on this journey with the myriad of gifts and resonance they reflected and embodied. Each piece, integral to the rest. Each with an important mission and role. Each bringing forth exactly the ingredients that made alchemy possible.
We don’t all have the same trajectory, mission, desire, or intention. So, I only speak for myself always as to how I experience something. Every creative expression is valuable in how it is chosen to be experienced and my truth is that alone. The key is being able to flow the energy through and let go of judgement.
I experienced many incredible visions during meditations, messages, reveals, and what I would call active initiations into my next level path.
There were many miraculous things that unfolded along the days and some extraordinary insights, openings, and “downloads,” not to mention some beautiful and powerful connections made.
That is the other thing that happens for me in Egypt. I always encounter some of the most powerful soul connections I have with others and they always awaken something bigger as a takeaway for the next part of my journey.
I’m continuing to unwrap this and especially one in particular that has revealed things about myself that beautifully challenge me to new levels of honing my gifts and how that expresses outwardly.
But more simply stated, there was so much we got to experience together on this trip over three weeks, which included a journey of the human myriad of experiences with opportunities to alchemize empowerment, a reflection of who we really are and what we’re capable of to embrace through each other, and an extensive breadth of touching in at a multitude of sacred sites that assisted these hinge points from unconscious to conscious embodiment.
Even if time was short at some places, the mere fact we stood in the timeless sands of these multi-dimensional doorways put the code into the key of life.
I saw all of the places I did the first two trips to Egypt, but so many more new ones I never had. And I know that is by divine design that some footsteps should be retraced and others newly made.
But all of this set us up for very full days that called for high presence with all of the energies, as you’ll see below from some of the things we immersed in – rich indeed.
Dave and I arrived a couple of days earlier than the rest of the group, which gave us opportunity to immerse in some cool excursions that our leader put together last minute.
This included some secret expeditions to places off limits to others like the Mysterious Staircase and Caves (with only one other traveler and our tour leader whom we assisted with some sacred geometry measurements) where the energies were potent and discoveries were telling, as well as getting to ride ATVs (my first time) through the desert to see the Lost Pyramids.
At the Mysterious Staircase that we gained secret access to, Dave took a photo from above of me and our guide, Larry, descending the steps to the bottom and although he could see us in the camera lens when snapping the photo, we were not present in the actual photo that was taken. Mysterious indeed!
I didn’t add that photo, as you wouldn’t be able to compare it to what was actually seen through the camera lens by Dave, but this blew his mind – not something easy to do.
And while in the caves exploring, I heard a rustle and felt a presence in one of the dark caverns that sent chills (receiving a vision about this as well) and later found an incredibly beautiful and translucent piece of flint I may make into a pendant.
Similar oddness took place at another off limits area where the Khufu Causeway is, just after I’d been led to a secret pyramid reflection (from no obvious source) through a doorway that only showed up with precise sun rays casting shadow. Then would disappear as you can see from the second photo of me on the stairway where the pyramid would come and go on the slanted support wall of the stairs.
I felt immediately that something was hidden there (two others confirmed the feeling) and not long after the three of us went into the area I was led to, did we get shooed off by guards.
Larry was always getting us into secret places and having adventures you just don’t normally get a chance to do. Like this walk through the alabaster field, escorted by police on camels who didn’t get the memo that we had permission to be there. All was well…it was just a fun and wild experience from start to end.
Other excursion surprises that were firsts for me, too, included an oh-so-magickal, sunrise hot air balloon ride over Luxor’s sugarcane fields with views of the Valley of the Kings and Colossi of Memnon.
And swimming in the Nile at the original site of the Isis temple ruins still standing, to immerse in the powerful sacred feminine energies.
Most of us just jumped right in with all of our clothes on and spent time connecting with the doorways of magick felt in the stone, waters, and the energetic field here. The water isn’t always this high here, but we got to experience it as a full immersion rather than just walking out to them at ankle’s depth.
Both were some of the major highlights for me and deserve extra photo showcasing.
The following summary will also receive a more extensive photo montage to give you a flavor for the energies experienced.
We also climbed inside and tuned into the energies of other pyramids besides the Great Pyramid this time that I hadn’t before (Step, Bent, Red, Menkaure Pyramids), visited a bunch of new-to-me tombs at various locations, several tombs in the Valley of the Kings, multiple temples along the Nile, the Unfinished Obelisk, mystical and amazing Serapeum of Saqqara that induced a journeying for me, spent lots of time exploring and discovering all around the Giza Plateau in great depth over three different days (including an impromptu sound healing I was asked to do in a tomb), walked the alabaster field through the desert around the Plateau with special permission (from Ashraf, Director of the Giza Plateau whom we had opportunity to meet and hear a talk from) after the Plateau closed, tuned in to the energy within many mosques (including the oldest) I never explored before, visited a special Coptic church where Joseph, Mary and Jesus stayed during their journey through Egypt where several of us had heart deepening experiences, enjoyed two authentic, made-with-love Egyptian meals shared at home with Mody’s and Mohamed’s families, a day in Alexandria visiting Kom El Shoqafa Catacombs (considered one of the 7th Wonders of the Middle Ages), Serapeum and its underground tunnels including a healing sanctuary and library (this Daughter Library is said to once hold books from the original Great Library of Alexandria), and Citadel of Qaitbay, visited the old Egyptian Museum of Cairo, National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (with incredible 22 royal mummies featuring the most well known ancient kings and queens of Egypt), the new Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), visited the Pharaonic Village (a living museum created on the Nile to exhibit ancient Egyptian life), took a gondolier boat on Ain el-Sira Lake at sunset, spent a full day at a private resort in El Soukna on the Red Sea, enjoyed meals on Nile dinner boats (including a private one that Mody secured for us – we did two Instagram Lives from atop the decks), relaxed a few days on a Nile Cruise to explore temples, visited markets (two of us were graciously treated there by a sweet family and enjoyed their warm Egyptian hospitality – the wife had lived in Texas!), went to Mody’s workplace, and even visited some places twice. Mody was incredible at getting us into places and having them open just for us everywhere with his connections, but we surprised him with an early birthday party complete with mini cakes and a gift extravaganza to kick off the last week.
Side note: There were cross-overs of Mary and Mary Magdalene energy that came through and tied into a lot of the energies woven throughout our time in Egypt at some of the sites. I had a vision at the healing sanctuary of the Serapeum of Alexandria of Mary coming through there, for example. And of course the Coptic church was strongly streaming her energies for several of us who experienced a rush of emotions through heart activations.
And there was more, of course. The reason I mention this briefly is because there felt to be a full circle to all of the energy I experienced on the ten week trip Dave and I had in Europe this past Spring where so much of the same energy and visions had been experienced. Like with our Sequoia trip with the Giant elders there, our trip in Europe was also an integral part of what culminated in Egypt and laid the groundwork for the work. This even included the crossover of immersing by the Mediterranean Sea, which we got to do both there and in Alexandria.
There is no way to ever share everything and even if I did, they are my experiences alone. But I touch on some things because I know they will resonate with others and the energy you are working with or have been experiencing at the same time. We are all connected and doing this together. The energies are connected as well and not separate or isolated by any humanmade division.
As mentioned, we did get some wonderful private times in some places, which I was grateful for. This included two hours in the Great Pyramid, inside the Bent Pyramid after it closed where Mody got us in, inside various tombs, in a special room of the Temple of Abydos to meditate, and by divine design (like in the chamber of the Red Pyramid, a short window at closing of Dendera, and other rooms within temples) – people cleared out leaving us alone in several other locations when it was needed. Not to mention, Mody was the “king” getting us into places everywhere and even opening up places that were closed just for us, including a huge Nile dinner boat for our group alone when it wasn’t open, and a room and spot at a private beach resort on the Red Sea all to ourselves.
My soul relished in our full beach day immersing in the sea, sand, and sun.
Can you say “revitalize?!”
It was a way to cleanse and relax from all the energy work over the past weeks and fill my cup, along with quenching my mermaid heart with warm liquid silk, crystalline waters.
Mmmmmmm, it felt so good.
We were spoiled indeed.
And so, this trip had elements of balance weaving some alone times between all of the very active times.
And speaking of active energy, another thing I want to mention for people interested in exploring Egypt for the first time, besides the various ways that energy can be experienced individually, is that if you do venture into the pyramids be prepared for what could be challenging situations for some.
There are long shafts you need to climb down and up for long durations in some case. Some pyramids are quite rigorous in the inner system of tunnels where you will be bent over the whole way going forward or backward (your choice), and in some cases crawling, and other cases ascending and descending many steps, and enduring heat and sweating along with the physical stamina needed and passing people up and down, if it’s not a private entrance. It’s totally doable, but some people might have claustrophobia or physical challenges to take into account that may make it harder, not as enjoyable, or not an option.
Most people came out of the first day’s experience in the Great Pyramid with extremely sore muscles for several days in their quads and hamstrings from the climbing. You also need to be mindful of your head the whole way too.
There were some people who opted out of going into the other pyramids after having done one or two because it was too much for them.
It’s an individual experience and even the energies moving through you or that day, can have an effect. This can also be true, actually, for any of the sites you visit since the energies are potent and affect everyone differently and can show up at different times even if you feel great one day.
It’s not just physical challenges that can present themselves, but one might also be challenged with facing shadow aspects within. Light and dark are connected experiences. In order to journey upward, you must also journey downward.
Darkness illuminates the light.
Light casts a radiance on the dark.
On our trip there were times when some people listened to their own inner guidance and opted out of certain experiences the group was doing, or desired other experiences depending on how they felt or what they believed was more aligned for them. So exercising your own inner compass to navigate the experience is always your choice.
For me personally, I felt invigorated and moved through the pyramid shafts quickly. With our alpine hiking at high elevation and ascending inclines daily, this provides us with training that makes these kinds of experiences a lot easier. But I find the whole thing very exciting and integral to my process and the journey it takes to receive the pieces I need, so I already start off with a motivational drive. They are home for me, the same way I absolutely thrive in higher alpine elevations where not everyone else experiences that same kind of ease. I absolutely love it. And even though I can have claustrophobic tendencies with some things, this doesn’t play out in these spaces for me. I would take on any of the pyramids or challenging obstacles (which may even include areas saturated in deep, root, shadow energy) because of the enlivened vitality I felt and because of the opportunity to work with energies at a level here that you normally don’t have opportunity to experience. That said, I did sweat like crazy (as if I was in my own sauna) and even more so probably than others because of the amount of energy I move, along with the physical exertion, but this also felt like a part of the initiation and purifying for me. You’ll know what’s right for you.
But what definitely seemed to be right for our group, was how all of this trip lined up without anyone planning it.
The night of the Virgo New Moon partial Solar Eclipse was our private two hour entrance into the Great Pyramid, which was at the start of this trip rather than being the conclusion of it like it was on my first two trips.
This felt to really crack everyone open from the get-go.
And, we explored the Giza Plateau for the second time and entered Menkaure Pyramid on the Autumn Equinox the following day – the first time being on the 20th and a third time in the last week before leaving just after the Aries Full Moon.
Before entering Khufu’s Pyramid for our private two hour entrance between 7 and 9pm, we noted a large bird hovering over the top of the pyramid. This instantly brought back the experience from my second trip when the people standing outside the entrance said they saw Horus hovering over the top of the Great Pyramid while we were doing our healing ceremonies inside for 9-9-9.
On this trip, we got to explore the King’s and Queen’s Chambers within the Great Pyramid, as well as the subterranean chamber – the latter being a first for me and so potent. I feel this subterranean chamber connecting so deeply with the collective root energies and shadow aspects to retrieve and transmute. Again, this being a perfect reflection in my opinion, of how this trip was so collectively focused in terms of what showed up and even the places we found ourselves in that represented much needed energies we were there to work with.
Being in the Great Pyramid is always pivotal for me and this time was no exception. I won’t go into all details, but I had another of my profound experiences doing a sound channeling while laying in the sarcophagus – receiving at the same time energy and sound from our amazing spiritual guide, Sam.
I never know what is going to show up and I don’t go into anything with expectations or intentions…I simply allow and follow the guidance that shows up in the moment.
The lead up had been sacred – including supporting others as they laid in the sarcophagus and my assisting another young lady in the group with her first sound channeling (I had prepped her the day before for this), which was hugely opening for her as it had been for me the first time. I also joined with Dave as he, too, went through an initiatory experience in this alchemical space. Dave and I noted, later, how we had a moment where our tones hit the same note/harmonic at a given point in his chanting and sound healing.
Side note: I always paid attention to how I was guided with sound when assisting others or in any of the temples and not simply follow what others were doing. I would receive messaging as to when to keep silent and hold the frequency via embodiment alone, when to tone softly, loudly, and whether or not to join someone. (I’ll get back to a message around this that I received in Abydos later.) I was always conscious around being supportive and not overpowering…aligning my frequencies or energy in a way that assisted the highest to come forth from others.
For example, with the young lady I mentioned, I remained silent, but held her hands before she started and I stood at her feet holding a supportive, grounded point (I get chills sharing that) channeling all of the energy flow that could be assistive to her feeling her own empowerment and trusting that. And she did beautifully! I hugged her after and shared how proud I was of her. She teared up from the experience. With Dave, I wanted to support his own voice in this power chamber, and yet also felt it key to join a little to be in partnership, as well as to add healing frequencies. Every moment, I was tuning in to what was of highest good.
Also, at times, sacred areas we visited would give me message that sound was not required and this made sense, as I would drop into seeing parallel realities happening there at the same time we stood in the place. The boundaries between timelines disappeared and I would witness what was taking place in these areas, in real time, and the figures I saw would acknowledge me and invite me, yet would also let me know when something was not needed.
But back to the Great Pyramid on the night of the New Moon Eclipse…This is a brief summary of one part of my experience there….I ended up being the last person to receive and share from this space of laying in the sarcophagus and it was very different from my first time moving sound through me. Sam was facilitating the healing session, first starting off with adding his own toning and energy work to shine a guiding light and then allowing each person to do as they were called while he supported and chimed in with that.
The first time I shared my sound channeling in the King’s Chamber had been a very angelic-like resonance that reverberated. This time a profound power was unleashed from the very depths of my essence, but carried more than just my own, as a channeling of light codes came through. This came after a lead-up of things I had been guided to do within the chamber and after seeing what I call the “Eyes of God or the All” on the chamber walls and breathing as One with them where I sat meditating at the foot of the sarcophagus.
The frequencies that came through me were a culmination of collective parts of the whole I had been guided to retrieve from within the chamber’s “time” capsule by walking barefoot around the perimeter in the dark and touching all directions and corners of the inner space, collective parts retrieved from all who was within the space itself, and this included myself – light and shadow all transmuted within the codes that moved through from my higher heart. The top of the pyramid opened as I laid there holding my labradorite over this same energy chakra – the very one I held the first time in Egypt, along with my Nestor crystal rabbit from then too – and stars dripped golden codes into my higher heart and this emanated forth from my heart and throat and out through a sound channeling.
I would like to add a note here about another way that being in our essence can shift things. My physical body alone has always had a more shallow way of breathing, I breathe quickly when exercising, and breathing exercises have always been different for me than others. However, when I am purely channeling sound, my lung capacity breaks all physical barriers and I am able to hold very long notes with sustained power behind it – a feat that can only be reckoned to being in essence and something miraculous happening when dropping into that seat of power within that we all have awaiting our embrace.
And hence, this experience on the eve of the New Moon in the King’s Chamber was incredibly electric and revitalizing…everything was moved through the sound at decibels that would seem uncharacteristic for me.
To kick off the trip with this, definitely laid the groundwork for unfolding experiences.
What I received as message later, at one of my favorite spots – the powerful Temple of Abydos -where the above famous hieroglyphs reside (check them out) and the magickal Osirion (also above) stands – during my walking meditation through the inner rooms there, was this: “You are the music” and I reflected that, “I am the music”. (I also had some other powerful realizations and training that took place while in Abydos – a very resonant and key temple for me)
This was an instant activation or inner recalibration, as I felt a huge click take place and my heart had an emotional response to the new landing of this truth in embodiment.
So going back to what I was sharing before, this speaks to me of how whether or not I actually move sound through my throat chakra, the frequencies are still exuded by presence of embodiment and purity of intention. A cosmic song is held within our energetic field and shines louder as we drop resistance and barriers of fear. Silence is both golden and loud.
Sound healing is a major component for Ancient Egyptians in terms of healing and spiritual balance. Ancient practices centered on vibrational frequencies, energy, and consciousness held in these mysteriously constructed pyramids, temples, and spaces that act as gateways between realms. The Great Pyramid and the King’s Chamber have extraordinary acoustic properties and some suggest the possibility of structures like this having even been built with sound.
There’s no surprise then, why sound healing can be highly transformative when done in this space…not to mention so many other unknown, but felt reasons to experience being in this extraordinary place that can be profound.
Sound channeling through my own vehicle has been, for me, the most profound for evolution, integration, transmutation, and empowered embodiment.
I was so happy to be able to share it all with Dave and have him experience, firsthand, why for me this is such a power spot and has been important in my life.
Egypt is a clear access point for me to my fuller self and the All.
This is not something that has to be done in a specific place, as it is always within us to understand anywhere we are, but there are elements and frequencies that can come together to create greater alignment for this.
Egypt provides this support for me.
Dave saw and experienced me light up in the ways that I do there and I got to see him shine in new ways as well and him take lead and follow his own inner guidance with things that proved profound in their own ways.
I also saw how others appreciated his presence and anchoring energy.
I also enjoyed seeing him in this space and watching his gifts flourish, as he took lead on things and followed his intuition.
I have noted since returning home, how his senses have amplified and his resonance to alignment has increased in awareness – all beautiful things.
Everyone has their own timing and journey with things, and to support the beautiful unfolding of that relative to each is the gift we can give each other.
Like anyone, he discovered the pieces that resonated and those that didn’t in Egypt, and he went through his own transformative experiences that I feel will continue to unfold over the days and months.
Just like we all will go through from this trip.
He also got to understand how this experience can be curated to match those resonances and he puts that in my hands to create for any future explorations he would be open to join.
It’s exciting to see where the journey will take us.
And he also supports my own callings back to this ancient land when that takes place.
This trip was one that had been presented to me/us, rather than one I would actively have put feelers out for…and in that way, felt divinely guided as a mission. I can conclude, in fact that is what unfolded because of the people that showed up. Alongside that, had I not been there I wouldn’t have met key people that will play into the upcoming days and years. One in particular has already ignited a change in the way I view myself and will be moving forward.
The entire journey was jam packed with richness all around and we definitely got time to also immerse in Egyptian life outside of the tourist areas and enjoy many meals all over the city.
And yet, breathing in the essence of this ancient land has still only been barely scratched.
Each trip keeps increasing and deepening the breadth of experiences and still there’s so much more I’ve learned about and feel called to explore, as well as return to some of the key places for me in a different way.
I’m grateful for the connections that this trip brought together to unpack and anchor things in this life and also that will make future guided immersions possible and curated just the way my heart feels called.
The interesting twist to saying that is I, and another one of my dear friends from the trip who was doing a lot of energy work with me, had both felt before going that there was the potential of this being her first and last trip, and perhaps closing things for me. However, we both walked away from the trip getting messages about the specific work we did together this time having concluded, and that there was different work ahead. Hence, our guidance was that there’s more to come both together, but also in individual ways and at different times.
That said, I’m also so grateful for the beautiful friendships that were nurtured because of the opportunity to get to know online connections in person. We instantly felt where the bonds ran deepest and where some bonds were only meant as a precise key point in time, on the map of star-crossing alignments for a greater good.
And it was such a gift to also meet and deepen the bond with Mody of course. Being together only reiterated our connection and demonstrated how family is recognized not by blood, but by the open heart you share with others. We trusted the connection the moment we communicated online close to almost three years ago, and it translated exactly as was felt, in the flesh. Dave also felt that instant bond with Mody and that connection was one of the main take-aways for him that he was grateful for.
Dave caught this sweet moment of Mody and me on our last evening before leaving Egypt, after we shared a little goodbye dance.
It was particularly fun to be able to visit Mody’s workplace and see all the raw stones and carvings in person. This also gave us opportunity to connect with Mody’s giant skull and dragon carvings – some of the largest of their kind in the world brought to life from Egyptian alabaster and temple stones.
His workplace hosts a resident pigeon’s home that they made for these sweethearts. The pigeons watch over Mody as he works and he and his workers care for them. Ahmed, one of the sweet souls I got to connect and nurture a bond with, who is guardian of these sweet pigeons, felt my connection to them and my role.
He brought me over the two babies that they have been caring for and placed them in my hands. I was overwhelmed with love and showered them with energy and nurturing. They nestled into my hands and absorbed it all.
Speaking of animals – there are feral cats and dogs everywhere in Egypt and at the temple sites. We would always stop and share love with them all and they with us.
Some of our group would bring left overs from meals and feed the animals along our routes. One of the women who had been in Egypt back in February and was returning, connected deeply with one of the sickly dogs back then that had a giant heart pattern on his fur and through a very long process actually ended up adopting him. He became a part of her fur baby family back in the states.
Check out who’s watching us girls while we seized the moment to enjoy a refreshment and snack to watch the sunset before the evening’s festivities began.
We encountered a lot of bats hanging out in sacred areas of temples and pyramids – adding their sonar frequencies to our sound healing – geckos on temple walls, great blue herons, egrets, a variety of other birds, fish, of course camels, horses, donkeys, cattle, and even mummified crocodiles.
The Nile is rich in many ways, as is the experience on the Mediterranean and Red Seas. I hope to immerse more in all of these.
But back to Mody’s friends and business associates – they were a gift to us during the last week we spent in Egypt outside of the tour. They so generously gave of their time to drive and take care of us throughout our days with them and immediately became family for me.
Naser and Sayied became my brothers, just as Mody has been and now they always will be.
Mody’s blood family also welcomed us as their own, hosting us graciously, nourishing both our bodies with great food and our souls with love, as this is the way for Egyptians.
We are One family. Bonds that transcend time and space and speak to the heart of true compassion, kindness, and love.
I learned even more about Egyptians, being with Mody in these days and listening and feeling into the hearts of others I connected with, as well, on this trip. And I think others also had their perceptions shifted in the days spent immersing, especially when they truly listened with the heart to people’s experiences rooted in love.
An appreciation for each person’s differences and yet not seeing those differences is the Egyptian way.
There was so much deepening on both a human and spiritual level that I experienced – once again.
It’s always amazing how much more the heart can expand.
I welcome opportunities to crack it open wider – and that comes both through the bitter and sweet. The depths and contrasts to emotions as well as the experiences that take us on wild and even sometimes tumultuous rides is all part of the alchemy of love.
I’m always ready to embrace the depths of the journey.
I’m looking forward to how things continue to evolve, as it will take a little time to let the new energies settle and organically land.
Although I didn’t share everything about this sacred journey and the weeks of very deep work, I think you can feel how much was woven into the experiences and the photos help convey the energy that speaks louder than words.
And even though I didn’t write about it all, this is still a long share, as I just can’t see any other way around it – other than not sharing at all. But that isn’t my path.
As a bridge, I embrace the parts I can share, as a form of its own activation of remembrance.
Egypt is a homecoming for me…for many.
A window into ancient origins.
A place that can open doorways within to much more than what we think we know.
An access point to transcend reality as we think we know it and all linear timelines and dimensions to more than what lies in Egypt alone…the grains of sand whisper wisdom and divulge mysteries to the courageous hearts.
A portal to the heart of origins – Earth and Cosmos.
Since being back there’s been a continuation of dimensional separation dropping and journeying through the cosmic gateways, (deep like the ocean and light as a feather, as a dear soul told me), like my experiences at certain sites of Egypt and in meditations there.
This has been accompanied by animal encounters with deer, coyote, and hawk messengers making a point of connecting and acknowledging this expanded experience.
On yesterday’s New Moon I found a collection of raw smoky quartz and was visited by three does when I was guided to sit off-trail and discovered they were there grazing.
The day we drove home from Egypt and were just down the road from our house, a beautiful, large coyote ran up to the sidewalk and peered at us with her soulful eyes piercing ours. A wonderful way to be greeted upon return. She is one of the resident coyotes who then showed up again the morning of the 16th just off our back deck in the forest, as you can see.
And the very next day, on a walk with our friends, another lovely coyote walked by the trail as we stopped to watch.
Hawk greeted us the first day’s hike back down to the lake, accompanied by mallard and my geese friends.
The evening before the last coyote sighting, our resident, guardian red tailed hawk greeted me back home just before sunset. He landed on the tree out back and sat there for several minutes connecting. My new camera is wonderful at capturing gorgeous images and crisp detailing when the light is right. Just look at him!
Horus has been in my meditations a lot – no surprise there for me. He guides me daily.
And for now, that guidance will assist as the year winds down and we enjoy the rest of Autumn before officially welcoming in the onset of Winter that this early snow sent a preview of.
I’ll use the rest of October to get everything in order and caught up, then immerse fully in fresh energies the month of November. We have Dave’s mom visiting then, but a quieter rest of the month after that for my project immersions and curating plans for 2026.
We’ll be away in December and again in February – travels in a different vein that will aid my personal projects and new directions. And some other surprises in store.
I’ll share along the way, as inspired by collective energies and nudges of inspiration.
Until then, I have been guided to share a small group of new crystal cocreators who ask to be seen.
While in Egypt I was led to some very beautiful and powerful stones along my walks in and around temples, pyramids, and the desert landscapes. These include raw alabaster crystals, flint, golden mica quartz, quartz, and other unknown beauties carrying ancient energy. I also have with me beautiful colored desert glass from Nubia – these are similar material to Andaras, but charged with Nile River, Isis Temple, and Moon energies. I have a couple of small carvings from Mody I brought back as well – with a large group of carvings that will be shipped to me at a later date. But all of the pieces I just mentioned bringing back have been added to my Egyptian grid and are being used to charge current pieces that are being released at this time.
I will be adding a small group of crystal skulls by tomorrow 10/23. I shared a peak of a couple of them before heading out to Egypt on Instagram, as they were stating their connection to the energies of this power spot. Some people picked up on that and the giant master skull was called home.
If any call to you and you need assistance, please let me know. Details can be found tomorrow on the page link below.
Until then, and always, may your days be filled with love, peace, and wisdom.
Tania Marie: Coming Full Circle & Last Update Until Late October
September begins and in a few short weeks we’ll be ushering in a new season.
We have the Autumn Equinox and Eclipses of the 7th and 21st upcoming, which will prove to make this month pivotally and potently transformative, as well as a coming full circle activation.
We’re making the most of Tahoe’s quieter shoulder season right now with hikes, bike rides, and a couple of beach days sprinkled in before our favorite beach closes for this year. We’ve slowed things down a bit to honor what shows up each day and going with the flow of energy, rather than pushing things.
It’s been beautiful and peaceful and I’ve been able to work on getting the things done that I wanted to before this next busy period begins.
This included a nice family celebration for my dad’s 80th this weekend with an overnight at my parent’s house and dinner out where the restaurant surprised him with a huge piece of cake.
This made for double celebrations, as we continued the birthday fun back home with a cake extravaganza my dad made for us all to include his favorites – this three layer vegan chocolate, almond, cherry cake. Mmmmm!
We had a great time celebrating this jubilee and it concluded with a new cycle for us too.
Both Dave and I got a new cell phone upgrade underway and, simultaneously, I just got a new battery for my computer. What a difference they both make!
We had our phones for five plus years, so it’s a nice refresh – more so for me because mine was not optimal anymore. So, if I missed any messages from anyone over this weekend that might be why, as there was a lot of converting going on.
Things like this always feel like an overall upgrade is being reflected for our lives, especially if our things start to show signs of not keeping up with current energies we’ve shifted into.
It’s that letting go of old, to make way for new symbolism and things do usually start to break down, slow down, or altogether blow up, when we create major changes in our lives. This seems to happen more rapidly these days than the longer year periods they may have taken in the past.
As these new things take root, we’re gearing up for a lot of activity and excitement. So, there’s this interesting mix of both slowing some things down, endings, and then revving things up, and beginnings – all at once.
Currently, I have plans to embark on another five day backpacking journey on the 7th’s Pisces Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse with five guys and four dogs! Dave has some old high school buddies coming up to experience Lake Tahoe’s back country and a Tahoe friend is going to be joining. It’s a first for many of them to do a trip like this and so I helped Dave, as the trail leader and tracker I’ve come to be known as (hehe!), in mapping the course to make it hiker-friendly for the group. There’s been a lot of gear and prep talk with everyone and it proves to be a fun time.
I say currently I have plans to join, as I’m going to finalize my decision the night before due to some other things I’m considering.
After that, it’s going to continue full and busy, as Dave has a short trip while I stay with my family, and not long after he returns, we’re off on a long awaited and exciting adventure. Once we return from that, Dave’s mom and boyfriend will be coming out for a visit for a few days.
This is why after this post, I’ll not be sharing again until late October.
So until then, I wanted to leave you with the energy of what IS about to ignite, as it’s extremely meaningful to me on many levels and does connect to collective.
Without going into all the backstory on how this came to be, which has been a relatively quick, very organic, synchronous, and aligned journey so far, I’m about to return to a heart home for the third time, this life.
I am returning to Egypt.
This is part of my own coming full circle activation I mentioned at the start of this blog.
It’s a soul calling and path embracing.
The last two times I was there, was back in 2007.
I went in April and May that first time and then returned in September of that very same year because I couldn’t stay away.
The photos I’m sharing are from that first trip mostly, with one group photo from the second trip, that profoundly transformed me and when the power of sound healing first ignited in my life and for the first time through my voice.
The energy is tangible in these sacred temples and sites.
You can literally hear the humming and the cosmic music and it awakens pieces of who you are.
I went through a massive rebirthing like no other that involved a unique, and only-ever-time-for-me, kundalini experience on the full day and eve before visiting the Temple of Isis on my first trip.
I then awoke the next morning completed rebirthed and upon entering the sacred grounds of Isis, this Egyptian cat ran up to me to greet me.
I did massive integrative healing and retrieval of past lives for self and others I knew, along with collective work of the same on that trip. I was also able to receive support from my family when I needed them the most.
Here’s some photos of me and mom and me and dad.
I then was able to assist in energy work to support the group of travelers on the second trip, which was made possible by my having integrated the energies of this powerful, sacred spot on Earth, on the first trip.
And this third one feels like it will take all of this and merge it with something more, to a new level.
The first trip was a very small, nearly private trip with two leaders – a channeler and a sound healer. There were only five of us outside of them – four being my family (mom, dad, me, and my ex-husband).
Look at all those orbs around us inside the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid – that’s me at center.
Egypt is actually the only place that I cried from leaving and felt somewhat depressed for a while to be away from. So when the same woman who led that journey talked about putting together a special 9-9-9 trip (this concluded with a private ceremony inside the Great Pyramid on 9/9/2007 that she received guidance on being important for collective energy shifts) just a few months after the first one, I didn’t hesitate for a second to say, “yes.”
This second trip had sixteen of us plus the same channeler leader – so 17 total.
There’s always an Egyptologist that joins each group, as well, and any other Egyptian handlers necessary for what the individual tour involves. The man on the right is the dear and amazing soul, Mohamed Nazmy, who has since transitioned.
This September we have a similar group size returning with 13 voyagers plus 2 leaders (15) for the first part of the tour and 14 voyagers plus 2 leaders (16) for the second part of the tour.
We’ll be there for three weeks total – the first two weeks with the tour group and a second week with a smaller group of 9 of us that are staying on and joining up with my sweet friend, Mody Ra who so graciously has welcomed us with open heart and home to show us the magick of Egypt through his eyes.
This smaller group is made up of people who know each other and Mody online only, but will be meeting for the first time in person. We know, however, that this coming together was written long ago for the work we will be doing there with this particular soul family frequency returning once again.
For me and Mody, it’s an extra fun, heart-warming, and meaningful moment we’re both looking forward to.
The front end of our time in Egypt will be following nearly exact footsteps as my two previous trips, with a few new additions. And the last week with Mody will be a more local’s experience and adventuring to new places altogether.
We have a lot of fun surprises in store during that last week, but overall the whole journey will be a wonderful surprise of energetic amazingness – of that I’m sure.
To say I’m excited, is an understatement. I’m especially excited to share it with Dave because it’s his first time ever experiencing Egypt. I know it will be pivotal.
I’ve been taking things one day at a time though, and listening to the messages for any energetic preparations, as well as am being in receiving mode as to what key and important things I’ll be guided to do at each sacred site and along the way.
For this, and other reasons, I’ve been more removed lately while I tune in and connect in other needed ways right now. So, just a heads up that I’m in a different space right now until after I return.
On the past trips to Egypt I’ve done a lot of self-guided processes, alongside the group things we initiated together, and I know this time will be similar. I know I’ll be guided to share some things with the group when the moment moves me too.
There’s a lot of bookended collective energies and alignments that have all happened without planning them, although we know how that goes on other levels. There is significance to the timing with collective rippling woven in, as these things always have.
We get in a few days earlier to get anchored, but things will ignite on the Virgo New Moon partial Solar Eclipse on 9/21 (which will involve private time inside of the Great Pyramid again) and come full circle with the Aries Full Moon on 10/7, Egypt morning time. We’ll also be there for the Autumn Equinox on the 9/22.
Given what took place during and after my last two trips, I can’t even fathom what’s about to activate.
All I can say is that I’m hugely grateful things came together in such a supportive way to make this trip possible and I trust what will unfold, as there has never, personally, been the levels of energy and astounding experiences than the times when I’ve been in Egypt.
For now, it’s one day at a time with complete trust in cosmic perfection.
In the meantime, I hope that each of you continue unwrapping the golden threads of your own cosmic perfection.
There’s so much support around us in all forms to receive and amazing doorways of opportunity for alchemy to be woven into your own elixir of life.
What we each do is connected for all.
There are always so many possibilities.
As, I sign off until October, here’s a last update on crystal offerings.
The most recent large crystal skull beings were lovingly homed and we couldn’t be more grateful. Again, I’m always taken back at how they clearly know when they want to be shown and whom they want to be with. It’s pure magick to help bridge these beautiful connections.
After listing these, a few little magickal beings spoke up that they were ready to fly, so I offered three Starseeds that are more affordable yet potent pocket, travel, dreamtime, and altar companions. I shared all of their information at the link below, so please read their story to learn about them and how they specifically asked to be bridged to you.
And don’t forget that if one of these sweet beings calls to you and you’d like to start working with them, my last shipping date is September 5th. Otherwise, I will resume shipping in late October.
There’s nothing too far out of reach, so keep dreaming, believing, and moving forward, one step at a time!
See you in Autumn, as we near Samhain!
Tania Marie: Late August Reflections, Updates & Tips
We’ve been enjoying that late summer afternoon thunderstorm and rain vibe here the last few days. I actually broke out the vegan hot chocolate and cozied up with my blankie shawl for some writing and monthly record keeping.
I love how this ignites warm, golden sunset evenings, glowing through the newly moistened forest.
It won’t be long before gold will kiss everything soon.
Is anyone else looking forward to the Autumn enchantment?
Seasons sure do cycle through quickly.
It’s not always easy for me to feel what day of the week it actually is, but lately this has been extra odd for me.
I really have no idea of time anymore other than when I sit down, focus, and really zero in on it.
The garden is also in its late Summer lush mode.
Autumn blooms will soon be on the way.
It’s so fun how each year it’s always different and I never know what will pop up or how it will look.
Have any of you garden faeries out there also been enjoying the surprise parties your plant babies have been throwing?
This year’s late Summer gifts have me enjoying an abundance of mini crimson roses and lavender, with some sweet little purple catmint and other Autumn colored blossoms dancing in between.
The black-eyed Susans are also just beginning to pop through along with some daisies.
But oh does the lavender smell heavenly each time I walk by.
Our wild rabbit family seems to love it all, as every time I go out to the garden, one of them is sitting in it and we scare each other. Lol!
Speaking of rabbits, I’ve been having quite a few dreams with them recently – some I’ve already mentioned – and continued ones with Astrid, Joy actually made an appearance too, and a very potently healing one with two large white rabbits – one of them was named Amandine.
That last one came on the heels of a very powerfully shifting day involving pivotal, deep, integrative healing that took place in waking life…only to continue in dream time.
Since then, there’s been another increase in profound experiences of alignment, more instant manifestation, and more ease and grace with heart matched intentions due to the clarity created by breaking through the deeper layers of the old core. It’s taken greater vulnerability and self-realization, along with creating compassionate channels to walk in fuller exposure of truth.
I’m encouraged by the things I experience, and what I also hear from others, of what is possible no matter what’s on the larger scene. It’s the little things we each do that make a difference. So rather than get frustrated and discouraged by looking “out there,” focusing “in here” will start creating major waves of tangible change in your every day world.
A couple of days ago we enjoyed one of our favorite walks – one where a lot of magickal little things pop up.
It was the first time these beautiful horses greeted us here.
They are not wild horses, but having them wandering the meadow and forest there was such a gift to see.
Truly a dreamy vision – one I’ve seen in my Pisces imagination.
I went closer to connect and say hi.
These two were males. There was a third in the distance between the trees.
They spoke to me of an energy that I’ve carried since a little girl during years of their spirit being with me to help.
And after having done some deep healing, having them show up was like recognition of that shift and how they STILL are with me guiding and helping.
I love how a pack of coyotes in the rain just went crazy with yipping outside with that last sentence.
Hawk encounters have been ongoing, which I feel is aligned with the upcoming things next month.
Had this one above do a fly over when laying on the beach.
I’ve also discovered we now have a resident red-tailed hawk who made himself known when I was out doing some garden stuff one day. I had actually just been looking to see if we had a hawk’s nest in our large front tree and wondered if one was living here. I looked out from the upper deck and he flew low, right by me, coming to land in a tree just across from me and making softer screeches.
We peered at each other and I thanked him. After acknowledgment was made, he then flew the opposite direction landing in a tree further down. And this went on a couple of times, back and forth with fly-bys. He was communicating quite profoundly. Amazing!
I’ve seen this hawk quite a bit recently. Again, the dramatic hawk fly-bys and other raptors have increased since my Horus statue carved from the Great Pyramid stone was on its way here.
And upon arrival, the messaging and alignments have doubled.
Horus has been hanging out in the garden a bit.
We also had a beautiful osprey encounter at another lake we hiked at with a friend. Dave had just mentioned that an osprey lives at the lake there that we’ve seen, and I secretly was calling to her in my head and heart, and of course these two things between us prompted some high-pitched whistles I recognized immediately, followed by a fly over and circling by none other than Miss Osprey herself.
I’ve been realizing that not only do these messengers show up as a sign of things previously, but also are now showing up when thought of or called upon. Many answer with vocalization too.
There’s a nest the osprey uses that’s just down the path that we eventually reached.
Right after seeing the osprey and nest, I came across this perfect dragon head etched into a fallen tree.
She looks so much like the one tattooed on my left arm who peers over my shoulder.
And just look at how alive her eye looks!
I won’t even go into the dragons here! LOL! Too much to share already about the rest.
Anyway, the sacred raptor messengers continue, but so has ptarmigan’s presence.
We returned to one of our go-to hikes yesterday where I found a ptarmigan and hawk feather the previous time and ptarmigan had showed up crossing the trail in front of us.
Well, Dave had just miraculously found a quarter in the middle of the lush bushes and handed it to me to have because it had a cool crane on the back of it. He told me to keep it, like a feather I might find, since it’s a crane. Literally, right after that I looked down and saw a ptarmigan feather, which came home with me.
And right as I picked it up, sweet ptarmigan herself started clucking again.
We followed her vocalization and found her high up in a tree!
Each time I pick up her feathers, she always appears and seems to say, “Yes, that’s mine. I left it there for you.”
It’s sweet to not only have one-off experiences with these messengers, but to be forming ongoing relationships with them. It’s a new form that connection is taking with the animals that mean so much to me, all made extra possible from the love that I don’t allow to be shut out because of not having my dear ones physically with me anymore.
I continue to love more and welcome in the different ways I am able to share that love and expand into amazing experiences of potential.
As August nears end, Astrid’s now two-year transition anniversary approaches of the 30th. I still can’t believe how fast the years have gone and that I’ve been that long without a physical rabbit companion by my side. It’s so strange.
And yet, life continues to be beautiful and magickal because of the love we share. And in fact, is now more closely resembling the things I believed in as a child.
I’m grateful for how connected I am with my loves who’ve returned to the stars, how much they make themselves known, for the wild rabbits here watching over things and tickling my heart with each appearance, and for all of the other animals that have welcomed me as family .
Many of us have lost, and continue to lose, very dear souls in our lives. Death is ongoing, just as birth is. Every moment either dies or renews. And in between both is the heart that bridges them and allows us to know love. Love never ceases even if the form of something does. Nothing is replaced. A unique creation emerges that offers expansion of love – to know it, ourselves, each other, and all things even more.
So much feels to be full circle right now. Perhaps some of you are experiencing this as well.
There’s a lot of depth being reached, especially when engaged with the desire to be vulnerable and present to what shows up. I can’t explain how almost miraculously life is unwrapping, but simply put it’s how I believed things could be and finally am experiencing little snippets of that. To know this is only the tip of the iceberg is incredible. But it all fuels my wanting to keep singing, “Don’t stop believing”. We have yet to know our potential individually and as a collective.
I’ve been in awe recently of the astounding signs that speak seamlessly in answer to things. The more we are present to these, the more they happen and create other things to show up and fall into place as well.
That can happen in waking and dream life – where the heart bridges these worlds and merges them as one state of being your consciousness travels.
Some of my other key and remembered dreams have involved a secret place I was taken to within an upcoming space I’ve been invited back to – more on that another time – where I engaged in sound alchemy with a mystery school of elders. In that same night’s dream walking, I found myself pregnant, twice, one after another.
The every day increasingly feels fertile to the point I can literally tell when the next “wow” is about to land, as I recognize the subtle frequency shifts that precede it.
Eclipse season is about to ignite again with the upcoming Pisces Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse of the 7th.
Synchronously, Dave and I have a very full nearly five weeks that kick off beginning that day here. for that reason, early September will be an ending point for blogging for me until sometime later in October. I’ll get in one more send-off blog before heading off.
We are also about to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday this weekend with a family get-together for a couple of days. We’re going to spend the night with my family and immerse in this biggie birthday!
In celebration of him, I quickly pulled together a few favorite photos. I had in mind a couple of others, but couldn’t find them easily. So for now here’s the ones that did want to show up, in honor of my dad who’s done so much for us all.
My dad shares a love for plants and animals and the beautiful and magickal things in life.
Here he is, below, loving on Cosmo in the Magick Bus (our RV) and you can see him above with Boojum during that same time too. Then some other magickal times including him with the wild horses he and I got to connect with together on a special day, us at the beach on a sunset walk during one of his visits to see me when I was living in Costa Mesa, CA after we went to the LA County Fair together, and on another celebratory day.
Dad enjoying the great outdoors he loves, while visiting Alaska.
And one of my favorites of him and mom on a beach walk with me, getting their bare feets in the sand and water! Weeeee!
I’m grateful he’s here with us and look forward to making more special memories together.
A BIG THANK YOU
I wanted to thank those of you who trusted the call to become guardians to the new crystal skull beings that I was guided to offer recently.
There were some truly sacred, magickal, and moving experiences that unfolded with the two incredible elder beings – the large citrine and cathedral lemurian. Both connections brought chills, tears, and amazing synchronicities and signs that all underscored the message they gave me for their timing of release and their knowing who they were to be with. I know without doubt they are exactly where they were meant to be and the stories shared really spoke to why as well. I love that they went to spots on the Earth grid that are integral to things too. Beyond beautiful.
Just a heads up that there are a couple more special crystal skull beings that have spoken. They will be released some time between today, the 27th, and Friday the 29th. I am listening to when they want to go public, as they know their timing. So just keep an eye out on this page the next couple of days, if you are sensing a nudge already and don’t want to miss them:
As a side note to that, I will only be available to ship out until September 5th. So if you are interested in one and would like them sooner than later, just keep that date in mind. Otherwise, I won’t be able to resume shipping again until later in October.
EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS
One more detail I wanted to mention, concerns email notifications for new blogs I publish.
It’s come to my attention that several people have been missing notifications of blogs I post, who used to always receive them. I can’t conclude that these are the reasons for everyone, but in working with one person we were able to find a backlog of email notifications for my blogs in a folder that her email application had created called “managed subscriptions.”
If you for some reason don’t see email updates from me anymore, and used to AND also would like to continue to, then these are some things you could check and/or do:
- Check your spam, trash, or other folders you might have – email applications may have suddenly designated them in one of these categories, so it’s good to take a look there
- Make sure to unblock wordpress email: donotreply@wordpress.com as this is the email that sends out my updates
- You may want to resign up for email updates too after doing all of this
It’s possible that because my name isn’t evident in the title of the blog, that some email applications deem this spam, automatically categorize them since there’s not a name associated with it, or it’s not easily visible or recognizable to you in your folder and can easily be overlooked.
I had a friend who his very techy and good with this stuff, look at things to see if there was an issue on the end of my blog site, but couldn’t find anything. The same conclusion was found in relation to a couple of people who have said now and then they can’t comment on my blog, when they used to be able to do so.
So along with the above, on my part going forward, I am going to look into adding my name to the titles of the blogs to see if that makes a difference for anyone. This is why you might see that appear suddenly instead of just the title.
Again, this may not be an issue for you, but since a few people had this happen suddenly after receiving email notifications previously, it’s something to keep in mind for any future potential. You can also reach out to me and let me know.
Thank you to everyone for all the support and love. It means so much.
Make the Most of Each Day
The unknown path can be both daunting and exciting. It asks of our courage to explore things outside of our comfort zone and familiarity. Curiosity can help with gentle steps forward.
Where do you feel tightness when thinking about change?
This can help reveal where greater understanding and compassion could be of support.
Daily, I watch as our new wild rabbit baby, Finn, greets each day with curiosity. He has a built-in survival response to keep his senses always on alert, but he balances that with this innocent joy of adventure, wanting to explore his new world and try out the delicacies that his home provides.
He knows to stay within the safe bounds that mom has taught him and never goes too far out of safe distance to his burrow so that he can easily bolt back if needed.
Yet, he zooms, hops, and sniffs about with curious wonder – even chinning ownership over things like our new jacuzzi – sometimes coming nose-to-nose with chipmunk and squirrel friends who also celebrate life with zest. They joyfully welcome this new little prince of the forest.
I saw Finn out with Foxglove yesterday morning. I haven’t seen that, actually, since Frith was a baby and would hang out with mom in the front yard sometimes. I feel Foxglove is Finn’s mom, teaching him the ways of the forest.
I fall in love even more with life when I witness Finn’s exuberance and buoyancy of spirit while fully enjoying each precious moment. He tempers just enough exploration with familiarity, learning how to expand his experience one step and day at a time, as he faces decisions that can sometimes mean life or death in the moment. He never knows what each day and stretch he takes will offer, but he continues to be curious and to want to learn more every day.
I’ve noticed energies challenging and triggering everyone right now in new ways, and how all of this is taking a willingness to step back and detach from in order to look at it all vulnerably and feel the truth of things beneath the surface from a place of curious detachment and presence.
I’ve also been hearing from more people of all ages that are receiving a surprising health diagnosis that is also asking a lot from them to handle decisions around how to face choices that are even more pressing and defining.
It’s definitely not an easy time right now for many.
Sometimes nature reminds us that we have more choices than we think we do and our approach can have a profound effect on how this day and moment could be.
Things don’t define us.
We define…or rather…we expand our experience by the deepening of our hearts in every moment.
Finn’s days aren’t promised, but he promises to make the most of each day.
That’s all any of us can choose to do.
Happy Virgo New Moon
Just a heads up that the only crystal being that is available is the incredible Elder Cathedral Lemurian Quartz Skull by Pitico. This one has Rainbow Light, Record Keepers, is an Interrealm Traveler, Bridge Harmonizer, Star Seer, Ancient Terra Code Guardian & More. There’s been a lot of interest in this one, which isn’t surprising given the light and energy they exude, but is still awaiting their home. It’s amazing to feel these connections forming and building in the background as the person works to ready themselves. I often find that crystals like this one draw in either someone who knows immediately, or someone who doubts themselves and is working at claiming their power. You can find details about them, including some very rare attributes, at the link below. To find a cathedral lemurian crystal in such natural, high quality, let alone to be carved is amazing.
Amplified Messengers of the Feathered Kind Plus An Elder Crystal Messenger Ready to Fly
Messengers have been reaching an all time high these days in terms of conscious, magickal connections. Have you noticed that too?
While I’ve always communicated with animals, the precision of communication has amplified in terms of Spirit channeling through the bodies of the animal world.
I’ve expressed before how I feel that higher dimensional consciousness streams through this way because I sense it’s how they can assist and come through for us in waking life that doesn’t totally disrupt or shock the human experience until that state of being is more fully ready to receive in this way.
While I experience these kinds of communications via dream and meditative or altered state times as well, it is more evident how much they are communicating and transmitting through direct animal encounters – a way to merge dimensions and worlds.
I share a lot – not all – of these stories here to thread together some of what I mean by this.
Another experience with owl recently happened as well that demonstrates both the direct communication lines and the manifestation possibilities.
I mentioned finding some owl feathers on the last day of our backpacking trip – they were a little tuft of smaller ones I discovered in a mound of special quartz pieces KC – aka Bean – and I found. Finding them at the end in this high energy spot seemed fitting after all we’d gone through on that adventure and a way to herald in what was upcoming.
Then on the 13th – last week – while doing a short hike with Dave, I found a Great Horned Owl feather. It was the smaller kind that comes from their body – breast area – with soft tufts of gray down attached to the bottom.
My finding it was kind of extraordinary because I noticed just the gray down part was stuck around a rock and dusted with dirt on the trail. I wasn’t going to pick it up, but decided to bend down and lift up the rock to pull it out. As I did so, the rest of the beautiful feather emerged from the dirt. I brushed it off and smiled. I wouldn’t have known that was there if I hadn’t decided to follow through on the nudge of curiosity.
I was overjoyed and felt it to be significant in timing.
Owl energy can be around when you are entering periods of transition to help assist in accessing deeper wisdom and intuitive knowledge that will help guide you into the new, unknown.
There is an owl hieroglyph at the Temple of Edfu in Egypt – interesting as you’ll see, since this Temple is dedicated to the Falcon God, Horus. Horus has also been linked with Hawks.
For Egyptians, owls are guardians of the Underworld and are bringers of wisdom and protection, and act as guides for the souls of the dead on their journey onward.
Owls are quiet observers with ability to pierce through shadow energies and therefore impart that there will be times to sit quietly and/or remove ourselves so that we can receive what others might miss and align ourselves with our truest path.
Owls have also been linked with extraterrestrial experiences. While that’s been true for me, they aren’t the only animals that have marked ET encounters in my life. They just seem to show up a lot in this form for other people.
I placed the owl feather into the pocket of my shorts where I had found a hawk’s cheek feather I’d placed there a couple of days before, but had forgotten about, and I continued on. After that I found some raw quartz and added it to my pocket. When we got to the car I went to retrieve everything and found that the owl feather was gone – the quartz and hawk’s cheek feather were all that remained.
I was so sad to have lost it, as I felt the importance of its energy. I couldn’t understand how it had fallen out. Or was there some other explanation? I wondered why it had disappeared.
I kept thinking about it on the ride home and Dave told me maybe I would find it the next day, as we were going to be doing a longer almost seven mile loop hike with some friends that would include the little section we had just done.
I hoped, but knowing how hikers, bikers, and animals come through there along with the wind at that elevation as well, I wasn’t sure where it might end up. Afterall, it was miraculous that I found it in the first place being that it was hidden under a rock and dirt.
That night, as we were watching a series with our sliding glass door open to take in the cool night’s air, we heard the loud hooting of an owl.
We’ve never had one so close to the house, let alone do I remember one hooting by the house at all. It sounded to be in one of the trees just off the deck. Dave was even surprised, as we listened.
I knew the owl was getting my attention.
I immediately told Dave, “He’s telling me he wants me to have the feather!”
I also felt other messaging – that he wanted to assure me that others are assisting with the preparations for things I’d be doing next month and that he’d heard my intentions around things and was supporting them. The feather was indication of guidance for the journey and the wisdom to discern.
Eventually Dave got up from the chair and turned on our outdoor deck lights that illuminate the forest trees just off of it to see if the owl might be visible. Of course as soon as the lights went on, the owl stopped hooting and didn’t resume again.
The next day we went on the longer hike with our friends.
As we got about midway on our hike, I suddenly noticed something peeking through the dirt on the middle of the trail again. Up until then, I had carried owl in my heart and had a strong sense that something was going to show up and it did.
It was another owl feather, but larger this time and baring the barred patterning.
I said out loud, “An owl feather! The owl wanted me to have one.”
Dave said, “Seeeee….you got one anyway.”
I was so happy and could feel owl winking at me and strongly in my presence, surrounding my aura like we’d become one.
I went about telling our friends the story of what happened and they thought it interesting.
We continued on and I was getting more excited knowing we were back on the part of the trail from the day before.
Suddenly I reach down to the right and retrieve my long lost feather, “I found it!”
Dave again said, “Seeeee. I told you, you could find it again.”
I repeated, “The owl wanted me to have it and the other was an added bonus to let me know how connected and clear the channel was.”
I was so happy.
It was so much more to me than finding the feather again, or the feathers in general.
It was the clarity of communication and the powerful connection that I felt. There are simply just no more veils or boundaries with things. And the animal world was my direct channel to the heart of things that would otherwise seem out of reach.
This process of surrender, trust, and heart knowing was part of the guidance and message.
Synchronously, last night after I finished writing this part of the blog about owl, we went out for an evening jacuzzi immersion on the forest. I saw a large bird fly through the dimly lit sky and come to rest in a tree off across the trail behind our house. I could see its pattern of flight and outline, knowing immediately it was owl silently making an appearance as an underscoring to my insights and experiences. He remained silent in the dark.
Silence is golden…another of the messages that has been strong recently amidst anchoring space for others in a different place.
Not long after that, bats began dancing in the air above us.
I mentioned hawk earlier when referencing the Temple of Edfu and Horus where one of the owl hieroglyphs can be found.
Well, hawk has also been revving up with very deliberate messaging.
You know I’ve shared how my, and my rabbit companions’, connection with them is strong. I have had a deep bond with Horus and many unusual and surreal experiences of protection and guidance with hawks especially, and falcons as more rare, refining of energies.
I mentioned the small hawk cheek feather in my pocket with owl’s feather. And I mentioned the hawk feather in my last post that I found after the ptarmigan feather, but I’ve been finding quite a few of their feathers actually in recent weeks since returning home from our months away. There’s been a more consistent flow of them and alongside the feather finds, Horus has made himself known and present.
But before getting to that, an unusual sighting happened first that I haven’t seen in years since I lived at the north end of the lake back in 2006-2009.
Just last week, right before the owl feather experience, I was sitting having my morning fruit bowl pre-breakfast and suddenly a huge presence flew straight across the windows on the forest. She flew super low at eye level to me sitting on the couch, and was just a few feet from the deck.
This was no hawk, although I’ve seen very large hawks. It was a Golden Eagle.
Her flight across the length of the windows took place as if in slow motion. I could see every detail of her face, feathers, and enormously powerful body. And those eyes! They pierced into my soul on this deliberate fly-by. A transmission took place that was unmistakable.
It happened while I was also in communication about something important. I knew it to be a punctuation of things upcoming and wanting me to know that everything was in alignment and I was ready.
I haven’t written about Golden Eagle before, but here’s a few things that stand out.
Golden speaks to me of alchemy.
Eagles have incredible vision and can be linked to prophets or seers. Golden eagles are considered by some to be linked to the supernatural and celestial, embodying great power and strength.
Golden Eagle is linked to the Sun and is known as the Thunderbird in North American indigenous cultures. This magnificent one is sacred and carries messages of renewal and well being.
I can still see and feel her presence.
Fast forward to yesterday.
Dave and I were coming back from a hike we haven’t done for a few years off in a place called Hope Valley. As we were driving back on the highway we both gasped.
A giant red-tailed hawk flew directly across the front window of our car at eye level again. He was literally only inches away from hitting the car, but his navigation was impeccably timed.
This large red-tailed hawk, again, remains etched in my mind’s eye and seemed like it took place in slow motion. Every detail of his face, eyes, and feathers are clear and the experience just as exhilarating as when it happened.
We were both shocked as to how this hawk managed to make it across without us hitting him. But more so, we were in awe of the experience and sight.
Hawks are also connected to the Sun and hold protective powers – my experience for sure! They have a presence of guardianship.
Although falcon is the main connection to Horus, hawks have association as well in my experience and for me I have always felt an immediate link to Egyptian and Cosmic memories…they are also sacred and often depicted hovering over a Pharoah’s head as protection. They rule the sky and also protect Terra with their wings.
Synchronously, I learned that a very special, custom carving from Egypt of Horus (created in the image of the statues at Edfu) had arrived Friday. I haven’t picked him up yet, but during all of this he’d been in transit, journeying home to me. He was brought to life by my friend Mody Ra in a most sacred and powerful stone that comes from inside the Great Pyramid itself – a place that was hugely transformative and integrative for me and where Horus made a grand appearance after one of the activations we did inside, on one of my visits there.
But back home, this made three encounters with large raptors just in the last few days that felt deliberate as experiences they intended for a reason – Owl, Golden Eagle, and Red-tailed Hawk.
Not everyone may look at things the same way, but when you start to make the connections to things going on in your life, questions or invitations, and timing, it’s hard to ignore them.
When I have encounters such as these, but especially with the particular types of birds, whether in person, visions, dreams, or through feather gifts….it has heralded a change or upgrade in direction of my life, more bleed through of cosmic integration and support coming in, as well as opened doorways to what used to be hidden within me to be remembered and accessed.
I know I’m not alone in this way of experiencing the connections. And I also don’t expect anyone to change their thoughts or beliefs otherwise.
I remain open to how guidance comes through without judgment or parameters on it.
Messengers are a way for the All, Spirit, God, Goddess, and the Multi-Dimensional aspect of You to share guidance and answer even when you think no one’s listening. Depending on your particular way of receiving, this can come in many forms and is something we can respect and honor as an individual experience.
In the meantime, the coyote packs have been howling in the forest every few nights, Astrid showed up with a powerful dream message last night, and the contrast between worlds is merging seamlessly.
And speaking of a merging of worlds…today I have another surprise, extremely rare and large crystal being who specifically asked to be shown. This magnificent one says that someone has been preparing for the connection to begin the next level of their life’s work path while they have been doing their work and readying in the interim. They bring together cosmic light, unconditional love, and ancient wisdom – highly transformative and amplifying for manifestation as highest good for all, facilitating bridge work for transitions and manifestation, and assistive for aligning with your truest spirit and heart calling. Like the spectacular citrine rainbow elder that was released and homed recently, this one is also an elder who has anchored the frequencies of Astrid’s giant Earth and Cosmic grid. More info for their guardian and cocreator can be found here:
A Butterfly Heart Activation & the Transformational Journey
The day before the 8/8 Lion’s Gate I received a sweet gift from none other than a dear butterfly spirit.
Butterflies have been with me as my guides since the start of my conscious journey and have been meaningful messengers ever since. In fact a butterfly was my very first sacred tattoo I imbued on my skin while living in Sedona, AZ at a pivotal point on my transformational journey.
A butterfly was also the guide who showed up when I was given a message around my path in life when first learning to hone my psychic visions.
Some cultures believe butterflies to be spirits coming back again to this plane of existence.
To the Mayans, butterflies are seen as ancestors returning for a visit to physicality, and part of that return is to support the shifts in consciousness by bringing back the wisdom, integrated into the now, for a return to natural harmony.
I remember on one of my sacred journeys to Peru, upon arriving at Machu Picchu, a butterfly flew at me and directly brushed my lips like a butterfly kiss. We all saw it happen and our shaman guide said, “The ancestors are welcoming you back.”
Dave and I were doing one of our go-to hikes on 8/7 and near the end of it is when my encounter took place with this Pine White Butterfly.
I saw her land on the dirt, pine needle, and rock ground next to where I was hiking through on the trail – Dave was ahead of me – and noticed her struggle and seem very frail. I wondered if she might be transitioning.
I bent down and put my hand out. She instantly crawled upon it without hesitation.
I held her for a while, noticing she didn’t seem to want to move too much and the wind was easily moving her folded wings back and forth like a sail, as she held onto me.
I decided to keep following Dave and continuing back to the car, feeling like I could give her any energetic support she might need for her process for as long as she wanted to stay with me.
I walked for several minutes with her in my hand until we got to an opening where the Sugar Pine Trees grow. I stopped briefly and watched as she suddenly took flight into the sky.
She looked more like a flower floating on the wind…her flight was very different than I’ve seen from a butterfly before. I wondered if she had received all she needed and was ready to go. Yet, also was curious as to the way she danced on the edge of air and life like a fragile feather blossom.
She ascended straight up high above, passed the Sugar Pine tip tops toward the Sun, and then suddenly stopped and flitted here and there on a soft, floating, but intentional descent.
I watched with great interest to see where she was headed and to my surprise, she aimed straight at me like an arrow and came to a gentle and deliberate land right on my chest, over my heart – attaching her sweet legs to the vintage Peter Rabbit dress I was wearing.
I took this photo from above, looking down from my chin – hard to do!
I was in shock – literally in awe of what I’d just witnessed and experienced.
It was also like the saying about “If you love something/someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours.”
And as corny as it may be, I also heard the words from the old Mariah Carey song, “Butterfly” in my head that came out in 1997 after I was strongly anchored in my butterfly energy back then.
The meaning of the song was about a relationship, but the literal expression of the words had just happened – taking place between me and the butterfly:
I have learned that beauty
Has to flourish in the light
Wild horses run unbridled
Or their spirit dies
You have given me the courage
To be all that I can
And I truly feel your heart will
Lead you back to me when you’re
Ready to land
Spread your wings and prepare to fly
For you have become a butterfly
Fly abandonedly into the sun
If you should return to me
We truly were meant to be
So spread your wings and fly
Butterfly
That just gave me chills all over again.
I felt she wanted to come with me and there was alchemy taking place between the two of us that no one else would truly understand, but it felt so full circle and so potent. Parts becoming whole.
It wasn’t to end just yet.
I caught up with Dave and shared the incredulous story. He thought it was amazing too.
I was right, as she stayed over my heart on my dress all the way back to the car. I told her if she stayed with me I would take her home to the garden flowers and she could do as she liked there…enjoy them, or pass in the magick of this space.
She sat still on my chest on the five minute drive home and when we got there I put my hand out, which she took the invite to, and let her walk from my hand to this flower.
There she sat, glowing.
Again, her folded wings moved left and right in the wind like a sail, but she hung on. I watched her a couple of minutes and then she spiraled up to the top of the flower.
My attention was called by something – I can’t remember what now. I turned away literally for a couple of seconds and when I turned back – poof! – she was gone.
I never saw her again.
Did she fly off?
Did she slip through the veils and was literally a manifestation called up for this energetic encounter?
Originally, I thought I might be able to give her energetic support, but perhaps it was I who was the one to receive.
Maybe both.
Maybe it was a manifestation of my own creation – a part of me returning to me.
Maybe it was an ancestor helping to prepare me for what’s to come with an activation of deepening remembrance.
All I know is that her leaving and then aiming right for my heart where she stayed all that time, was not random.
And I could feel my heart frequency shift.
It was the smallest act and yet it held so much significance and was truly magickal.
Anything is possible when we invite that belief into our every day life.
The Moon was huge in the sky the next few nights, glowing golden for the full illumination and igniting of the Lion’s Gate Portal.
The day after 8/8 we went on another go-to hike.
It was the epitome of late Summer feelings in the air as we descended one of our favorite areas – an open meadow on the slope we ski down in Winter.
During Summer this space flourishes with plants, blossoms and buzzing life.
The plants on this day were the tallest and fullest we’ve seen.
Look at D glowing!
He reminded me of my Pine White Butterfly friend.
And although the flowers were nearing end of season, there were still so many goldenrods, lupine, fireweed, and more!
At the beginning ascent aof this hike I found a beautiful and sparkly quartz root with granite cap that looks like a dragon’s head.
And on the descent, down the steep slope and lush meadow, a ptarmigan feather appeared.
I showed Dave and said it’s from a ptarmigan. He shared how we haven’t seen one in this meadow for quite some time, thinking I might not really know what type I had found lol!
Well, instant manifestation in order again! Dave’s been exceptionally good with this speaking something out loud and things happening right after.
She appeared literally thirty seconds after that.
She started to cluck softly and move up on a rock after crossing the trail in front of us. We had a feeling she might have some chicks nearby. She didn’t act or sound upset though. She continued to just look at us and softly cluck.
We continued on.
Several minutes after that I found a hawk feather that caught my eye in the middle of the flourishing meadow.
At the end of our backpacking trip I found some owl feathers and have found a few hawk feathers since.
The wild rabbits continue to grace each day. Foxglove has been around the most since 8/8.
Butterfly, ptarmigan, hawk, owl, and rabbit all carry symbolism of messengers between realms – Earthly and Spiritual.
I do feel a stronger focus in the in between right now as I prepare for things next month…and of course that is likely not just me. I just share from personal experience.
In the meantime, a lot of support is streaming through and I’ve noticed my sleep time being even deeper with a lot of preparation happening, restorative nourishment, and things rearranging.
Physically, I’ve been led to start a new exercise routine I used to do back in my twenties. I added it to our daily adventures and that’s felt invigorating and strengthening.
And, after abandoning my Garden Tower when Astrid transitioned – you might recall that I used to grow her herbs that she liked – I finally got the inspiration to move it.
It had the old, dried out soil just sitting in it on the lower deck all of this time – a place that’s never been conducive to long term care because I had to be present to water it.
So, I took it upon myself to finally take action on the inertia I was feeling because of the scope of the task. I started to empty the top 1/4 of the soil and composting center, but after discovering that I could move the tower with even just this little less weight in it, I set about doing that rather than the arduous task of continuing the cleaning out.
I was more intent on moving it than emptying it at this time.
I had the vision of it sitting next to my garden in the space where we had to remove our two beautiful tall guardian trees that had become infected by bark beetles. It also happened to be the flattest little spot that seemed like it was created just for it. So, I slowly lifted and shimmied it down the most direct path I could see possible. This was a step-by-step process.
Once down near the area, I had to then clear the ground because the branches of one of the sprawling bushes was in the way of my being able to get the Garden Tower over them – at least on my own.
So I went about pruning it – a great thing anyway – falling over on my butt once because of the thick branch I had to cut through lol!
And then I was able to shimmy the Garden Tower into place. With a little repositioning of soil and turning it just right, I got it perfectly positioned, sturdy, and steadied on flat ground. It’s actually an ideal spot with both direct and filtered Sun at all the right times of day too.
At some point I feel that I will get guidance on what to put on the stumps, but for now they carry the whispers of the tree beings that once stood there and feel right to leave as is until then.
I won’t be getting the Garden Tower going this year, as the season is too short now here in Tahoe to start stuff. But in this spot I’ll now be able to connect it to the garden dripline system, replace the soil, and plant herbs, veggies, and flowers once again! Yay!
After positioning, I had to then cut down the big branches I pruned in order to fit into our waste can and haul that out.
It was a big task, which confirmed why I had inertia to start it, but once done I felt so accomplished. 🙂
While doing this I also noticed how I have mystery plants growing in my garden that seeded themselves. I have no idea what some of them are, but they’re lush and I’m excited to watch what kinds of blooms appear.
I even discovered a pineapple sage plant growing next to one of my new rose bushes! What?!
I haven’t had pineapple sage since during the years of Astrid in my Garden Tower, now over two years ago.
Anyway, now the deck is clear, all the plants will be together and I have the solution for watering it that I never had before. All of which support our current lifestyle without fur babies, and our leaving the home more for backpacking, travels, or even overnights at the folks’ house!
Sometimes inertia can be a good thing for aligning with timing and inspiration, as I didn’t really have the vision before for what to do with it. I just let it sit there. I was almost ready to donate the Garden Tower, but now it can stay! Yay!
I also haven’t fully been in my office on a regular basis still, but just completed setting everything up and energetically preparing the space because my project is in the phase of full flow.
It’s taken time to settle into a new way of life without Astrid and the kitties. Life will always be different, but it can evolve into something beautiful too!
You don’t need to rush things, but get ready to rumble when the energy amplifies in divine messages!
Turn the Mundane into Magick as You Embrace the Now ~ Reflections from a Backpacker
As I return back to civilization and a more regular daily routine, I find myself reflecting on the last two weeks with all the potent symbolism and themes that were loudly singing amidst the music of life.
I’m soaking up the Summer sun rays and enjoying the sweet simplicity of my garden’s auric joy.
So much has spoken to a message of “embracing the now” and how we can “turn the mundane into magick”.
I, and those with me, also noticed an increase with instant manifestation happening. Unbelievably amazing how the spoken word brought forth a direct and exact result within seconds or minutes.
Did anyone else experience a rev up of energy since July’s New Moon?
On top of these, there was an incredible flow of animal messengers that carried their powerful wisdom and reflections of what our days and months ahead would hold.
On the day after my last blog – July 24th’s Leo New Moon – a streak of snake energy began big time, accompanied by an Astrid and magickal rabbits dream.
First it was a garter snake crossing the trail at the beginning of a hike Dave and I did that day. The snake wasn’t bothered by us, just sitting there watching, and then slowly moved across the path. And on the way back, a more rare alligator lizard shimmied across the trail – not far off from where the snake had been on the way up.
I’ll skip the details of the dream, but what I loved was their appearance, mirroring a cosmic family.
The rabbits were called “lavender eye rabbits” in the dream, although their eyes were more of a very deep purply azure in the shape of really large almonds. One rabbit was white and two others were agouti coated similar to Astrid.
The next morning a new baby wild rabbit appeared right after confirmation of a very exciting, upcoming experience. I didn’t get baby’s name until later on August 3rd though.
Then our friends Happy and Bean arrived – now two Sundays ago – and the adventures began.
This included a coyote sighting from our back deck on our first evening together at the house. Last time they were here it was a young bear.
Coyote felt perfect to ignite our trip, ringing in the playfulness, adaptability, and balance our time together would be saturated with.
He appeared to be molting, which mirrored the “shedding of layers” all of the upcoming snakes would represent for the changes we all talked about in our lives.
Messages of embracing big shifts to what we thought were our plans had all come to us each, individually.
We set out the next morning for a five day backpacking journey that took us through both familiar and brand new terrain in the backcountry here.
We drove to our starting point and left the car there, with plans to come out at another end and Uber back once we completed it all.
It ended up being a thirty plus mile trek with 8700 cumulative feet of elevation gain.
We usually take it pretty easy on our backpacking, and just do the longer miles on the way in and out.
Dave and I usually just do three day trips here and in Yosemite.
We also did a four day trip with our friends in the Grand Canyon several years back.
This time we extended it out to five – the most we can comfortably accommodate foodwise with our bear cannisters.
This time we all wanted to explore more – mirroring all of our intentions in life to expand into new directions overall – and while we still didn’t do anything extreme like some hardcore hikers who do the whole Tahoe Rim Trail or Pacific Coast Trail in one big sweep, we still did more than normal while also keeping balanced.
Day 1 was 7 miles
Day 2 we stay stationed to relax and immerse with only a 2 mile day hike
Day 3 we did 10 miles
Day 4 we did 5+ miles
Day 5 we did 6+ miles
All of this equaling 30+ miles with a lot of ups and down, which adds up to that 8700 feet of elevation overall.
It was breathtaking, awe-inspiring, raw, wild, adventurous, exciting, hilarious, challenging, and had us all honing our different skills to support the team.
I wasn’t expecting to, but I ended up being lead hiker the entire trip, keeping us all paced at a nice turtle-like rate good for both the heart and enjoying all the surprises along the way.
That is, until I went into rabbit mode for the miles we needed to get through super fast on our longest day, to avoid the mosquitos that the previous night’s rain (and all of the afternoon thunder storms of the previous week) had stirred up.
That day left me and Bean delirious with laughter to get to our campsite after doing more strenuous miles than we thought – well, the girls actually had mapped out the correct mileage and we agreed we should likely keep in charge of what we each know well lol!
I was also cultivating and honing my tracker instincts as “Pocahontas – Pokey” to help keep an eye on the trail, especially on all of the new sections we’ve never done and when trails were hard to see in the more wild areas.
This was the wildest portions of trails back here we’ve experienced, but we had a great team of very prepared and experienced hikers. Our friends also had satellite phone access if necessary for emergencies.
We did have maps and all that too, but instincts are also important on hikes like these and we worked so well together when we needed each other.
The adventure was a huge success on all levels with SO much beauty, raw magnificence, and amazingness to explore. Many river crossings were involved and views to take your breath away around every corner. It was also full of laughter, connection, comradery, joy, and sharing.
It’s really hard to express what these experiences are like, but the memories you make are priceless.
It’s not something for everyone, as it does take one being open to relinquishing a lot of the things in life you become accustomed to enjoying or feeling that you need. Yet, we also really make the most of the experience and have created our own version of backpacking joys.
Yet, there’s this freeness and wild abandon that exceeds in ever-giving pleasure to experience.
Feeling the fresh air on your skin and in your lungs.
Sleeping under the stars and living closely with nature.
Knowing you don’t need all of the things you think you do.
Being in tune with the elements and deepening your instincts, strength, adaptability, resiliency, and intuition, as well as cooperation.
Experiencing your senses on high and feeling the freshness of truly being alive.
Having the sun awaken your aura, the water revitalize you, the dirt remind you of your nature, realizing that the animals and plants speak the same language as you, seeing how the stars do mirror the beats of your heart – all of this clicks a switch and suddenly everything starts to make sense.
The mundane becomes magickal.
And you realize how important it truly is to embrace the now.
Life doesn’t wait for us to put everything into some idea of a perfect place.
Life goes on and so much is happening beyond the stories you hear on television, social media, in the papers, or even through secondhand gossip.
When I’m out in nature like this, I hone in on the now moment with ever-increased attunement.
We saw three garter snakes on our adventure – two on the first day’s hike in, including one crossing the rocks and one swimming in an enchanted lily pond we stumbled upon and have never seen in this area.
Then another on a later day. That first day we also found what appeared to be bear cub tracks right by the surprise lily pond.
We saw three frogs including a larger one, medium sized, and a tiny baby tree frog across the days.
We had three bald eagle sightings, which is unheard of in these parts. This all took place on our first evening. Two caught our attention at the same time when we heard their screeching call to each other and saw two come together in the sky above us and then both go off in different and opposite directions. Later, before sunset, another one came flying over again.
On our amazing hike up and down the pass, we discovered the most giant mushroom any of us had seen. We stopped to photo it with one of our traveling companion guardians (Sasquatch) who protected us along the way.
Here’s some of our other friends.
We had a falcon cross over us when we reached a beautiful meadow where what looked to us like an “Eye of Horus” cloud had formed in the sky at that moment.
We had an osprey fly over the lake of our second destination campsite.
I had a three inch common desert centipede scare the heebie-jeebies out of me when I discovered it in the hood of my rain jacket I was folding to put away! It gave everyone a scare when they heard me scream, although they said my scream sounded like a half giggle! We got that guy out into the forest rapidly and were on high alert after that. Centipede energy in the symbolic crown (hood) – hmmm!
We had a hummingbird come at the group out of nowhere on the last day when we stopped for a break under the shade of some trees of a rocky climb we were on. The courageous little one just stopped midair to say high and acknowledge us, hovering, then sitting on a branch without wings flapping a million miles a second, and then disappeared.
And all along the way we saw tons of butterflies, moths, dragonflies, bumblebees, fish, spunky chipmunks, little birds, and ducks.
I also found several perfect natural seahorse carvings mirroring the one we have in our living room, plus many more creatures and beings alive all around us, etched by Nature’s hand, including magnificent Ents (ancient tree beings)!
Not to mention, an array of gorgeous flowers blooming everywhere along the way!
Summer was buzzing and so were we.
You can’t help but to feel the electricity of life force and you easily forget that anything else exists or matters.
As mentioned, along the way, we experienced incredible, instant manifestations also.
Too many stories to tell on that, but let’s just say wow!
Our individual energies were complimentary, but by the end were synergized even more than they already were.
It all pointed to how we can unite and become more powerful together when sharing our individual and unique gifts as a means to strengthening the whole.
And this continued in reflection upon returning to civilization – a hard thing to do I might say, after you’ve been so peacefully in tune with nature’s cycles.
We called for an Uber at the end of our journey, in a more remote area and wouldn’t you know that the perfect driver met our call and vibe.
It was the best ride ever from such a great soul with a relaxed, joyful, flowing, and embracive energy.
He also just happened to have crystal and orgone pyramids on his dashboard, along with the grooviest music playing the entire forty-five minute ride.
His pyramids mirrored the myriad of pyramid formations of mountains and stones along our five day journey.
We celebrated our homecoming with a walk along the Lake Tahoe, as we waited for our favorite Thai restaurant to open for us to enjoy a feast.
We then settled in for a relaxing evening back home, being greeted by our resident red-tailed hawk out back, sitting atop a tree watching over us – as if to say, “Well done!”
This was bookended by my new wild baby rabbit showing up the next morning to greet us home.
To integrate things, we decided to enjoy a beach day after that and our mutual friends joined who just moved back to Nevada in Reno. We piled in a car and off we went.
And it was the perfect way to soak it all in and relax after an invigorating physical experience that lets you know what being human is all about.
On the morning our dear friends got back on the road to head home, Finn popped out again.
That is the name that immediately came to me, creating a trinity of “F”amily to the rabbits here – elder Frith, adolescent Foxglove, and baby Finn.
But the animal connections didn’t stop there.
The next day, Monday the 4th, Dave and I decided to do our bike/hike trails – one where he bikes and hike.
It happens to host the site of one of my secret crystal places (smoky quartz that is) and oh did it gift me again with some of the largest I’ve ever found there, along with beautiful formed and etched pieces from very light to super dark and saturated smokies.
I actually felt called to turn back earlier than usual, in part because I had no more room to carry anything in my tiny, overflowing hipsack.
I discovered there was reason for this, as it put me in timely position to save a giant rubber boa.
We don’t often see rubber boas, as they are more rare to sight than the garter snakes. We’ve seen about four in total since living here and this one made five.
I got near a turn in the trail when I noticed the long shimmery olive green girl jutting out nearly half way into the trail. She wasn’t moving and I thought at first she might be dead. I looked closer and nudged her slightly with my finger and saw her tail slightly move. Phew!
What was incredible was that she was untouched, and seemingly had gone unnoticed. At least three people had been ahead of me on my way back on the trail. Not to mention countless others before that. I let them pass, as I was going slower so as not to drop my stash of crystals. None of them had stopped to see her likely because she looked like a branch.
I became worried, as she seemed to have been sunning herself and just resting, while not only hikers went by, but more scary was all the bikes going by and that I could hear coming. I couldn’t get her to move with the little nudge, so I decided to stand right next to her left side at the edge of the trail, to protect her. I heard many people coming on bikes and hiking.
Again, incredulously, nobody looked down to see her. That was my hope in standing there, along with making sure people went around her, but thought they might stop. Instead, they just looked at me and said “hi” and went on their ways. Phew again!
Once I knew the coast was clear, I then went down to her again and talked to her. This time I rubbed her gently from midway on her back to her tail – oh how I love the feel of snakes! – and she seemed “tickled” by that. She began to finally move more forward and I told her to hurry! I heard people coming around again. I gave her one last tail touch and off she went, slithering beautifully away through the brush and under a log to safety.
If I hadn’t been there, I think she would have been run over while she was asleep sunbathing, or harassed by people who may have had a different way of interacting with her.
I’d never seen a rubber boa as large as her. She was nearly three feet long and about an inch and a half thick. Rubber boas are harmless and not venomous – and actually are known to be gentle and one of the most docile species of snakes. I really love them and seeing this large beauty really punctuated the snake experiences of the week, as well as underscoring the energies of peace, resiliency, and connection with Mother Earth.
I read that rubber boas also symbolize “protection, transformation, and adaptability due to their unique defensive posture and secretive nature.” They curl up when they feel threatened and may give off a musky odor.
I feel this magnificent being was a pillar of our collective experience in how these times really need us to learn to be more like her.
Peace within chaos.
In tune with Nature.
Resilient to rapid changes.
Protective without violence, in knowing oneself and anchoring embodied self-awareness and harmonious connection.
My wild rabbit family continues to appear daily and sometimes a couple of times a day. I was so in awe when this morning, this one stepped out – I believe it’s Foxglove – after Finn had traipsed across the deck last evening before bed. I know Foxglove by her notch in one ear, but couldn’t fully make it out.
She was sitting camouflaged in the shade when she miraculously caught my eye and I started talking to her…then she hopped into the sunlight.
This all took place after another part of the exciting upcoming development lit up this morning.
Just look at her glow!
Like a wink from the Cosmos.
Step into the brilliance of your embodied authenticity and don’t be afraid to bring all parts of you to light. You are whole and complete as you are.
Everything is magick depending on your perspective and how you want to dance with all of it.
The every day is incredulous when you realize all that we take for granted.
I hope you find some morsel of nourishment from today’s share, for the spaces within you that yearn to be fed.
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A little heads up that the remaining crystal beings listed are now on a special Sale through the 8/8 Lion’s Gate. I was guided to offer 33% and 22% off the pieces until then, if they call, in order to help them get homed and doing their work. The time is now.
Two of the pieces were temporarily on hold/claimed right before I left, but released while I was away. I also had a few messages asking about the Paypal option being removed temporarily. I’m still in the process of getting things changed there, which is going to take a while, but am able to open this option up for this sale. So, if you were preferring that, you’ll find that available when viewing the page and these incredible deals: