Tania Marie

This episode comes in response to questions and frustrations around connecting and communicating with crystal skulls and crystals. I do offer one-on-one sessions to help with this, but wanted to put out some tips for the wider collective since it’s become a part of more people’s experiences in the community that have been following along, as well as people just searching for help overall.

While the focus is on crystal skulls, anyone who is having challenge with opening their gifts in the more energetic and esoteric fields, will find this episode helpful as well. It covers an overview of pre-communication things to explore and address that could potentially be hindering your process from the get-go. And therefore, they can be applied across the board to many areas of life you are wanting to empower more.

I do also include one, next-step access point for beginning the communication.

In an upcoming episode I’ll touch base on a few more post-groundwork processes and tips, so look out for that one.

But stay tuned for the next episode, as it’s a special interview with a return guest to this blog that many of you enjoyed hearing from.

Until then, remember that if you ARE interested in watching this video and received an email update about it, that you’ll need to click through to the post because WordPress doesn’t embed videos. And as always, I welcome your insights, experiences, and comments.

I’ll be sharing updates and latest inspirations soon, but for now I hope you enjoy the new episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls. Happy Earth Day (today) and Scorpio Full Moon liberating wishes (tomorrow)!

Episode 8: Tips on Opening the Channels to Talk With Your Crystal Skulls ~ Addressing 1st Core Step Groundwork to Connect More

My Spring yard clean-up has been delayed due to another weather swing in temperatures and late storms. The last of the two storms this past weekend saw us waking up on Easter morning to a fresh, full foot of powder covering everything around our Forest Portal home, with much more at the mountain tops.

The white winter wonderland made for a fun contrast that day, as the outer world landscape was definitely quite different than the inner world one that greeted us at my family’s home.

Mom made us vegan hams roasted with pineapples on top, mashed potatoes, peas, focaccia bread, and carrot and raisin salad. In addition she added a platter of appetizer yums that included crostini topped with vegan smoked gouda cheese with salsa or spicy jelly on top!

Dad surprised us with one of my favs from childhood he used to make – lemon pie a la vegan!

Another beautiful holiday warmly spent, celebrating renewal and the promise of all things that come to an end truly do mark a new beginning.

The journey home continued to reflect the variances of experience that shift moment-to-moment, as we traveled through rain, hail, and snow flurries with the day’s light reflecting duality as one and the presence of hope and closure all at once.

As always, how we choose to perceive things can make all the difference. And while these flips back-and-forth of weather could be confusing, to me they truly illuminate the gift of embracing each moment and what it has to offer.

The extended ski adventure time has been fun and of course we’re grateful for the moisture to add to snow packs that aid fire season.

The slopes after the Easter storm were incredibly magickal with blue bird days that revealed themselves after the parting of mystical cloud openings.

It is truly heavenly.

There’s no wonder why this ski resort we live just five minutes from IS actually called Heavenly.

I love seeing my favorite flocked trees along the landscape, framed by boundless blue skies.

You feel like you’re in another world.

After that big snow dump the weather did a huge overnight shift from 30’s temps in the days to hitting near 60 for two days in a row.

This melted the flocked beauties back to springtime green dresses framing beautiful Lake Tahoe.

And then things swing-shifted back to the 30’s again with a small weather front bringing a few more inches of snow over the last two days.

Oscillating, extreme experiences are prevalent collectively, as we explore a path toward a new equilibrium on a journey through the undercurrents of contrasting energies. Everything is a process of releasing and retrieving the outmoded and best parts, to merge and create a new alchemy way of living.

I know that many are feeling the energies of this upcoming Eclipse on the 8th and that a lot of info may be pouring onto your radar from what people are saying about it. As always, make things your own experience, even though we do share in a collective one. Only you can make of it the way you choose to make it, as not everyone experiences the same things.

Especially not if you tend to your own garden of life and harness the energies as your own version of a perspective-matching expression of it.

Eclipses bring up the things we may not want to look at that are integral to our healing and evolution and with this one we will be moving through the healing of pains and seeing the truth of situations, while teaching us to have more courage and find our unique way through the changes.

This Aries New Moon Total Solar Eclipse is also a SuperMoon and a new doorway is offered with it, but will assist bringing up seeing the limitations that are holding you back. A lot of focus on what is over and old wounds that you may not have let go of fully, to assist with the last pieces of detachment in order to move forward – endings and closure to draw in fresh starts and opportunities are abound. This may be something you’re personally moving through for yourself, or that you’re helping someone or others with.

Forgiveness may also be called up. Remember that forgiving doesn’t mean condoning. It’s a way to release detachment and free yourself so that you can move forward.

On the first day we hit 59 degrees, I was driving home from the post office and saw an unusual sight in the sky for up here in the alpine terrain.

I stopped the car to watch this flock of large white birds with black tipped wings circling above.

They moved in and out, creating different formations and I was taken in by how large they were and the white and black coloring, together.

I felt immediately that they were pelicans (although would be unusual), as I’ve seen some down in the valley on the lake there a few times over the years. Yet, here they were up at this lake getting my attention. I did research it when I got home and indeed I was right. They were American White Pelicans that do in fact have black wing tips.

I read that they will sometimes travel far from their colonies to feed and that they can sometimes be seen here and in outlying areas of the Sierra lakes and reservoirs.

Pelicans are connected to water, air, and land making them a symbol of balance between these elements. Their energy supports the capability of deep-diving into the watery realms of emotions and self-reflection, envisioning and cultivating new ideas, and then grounding and manifesting the result of that introspective journey. There is a harmonious relationship between emotions and thoughts, so that mind and heart merge in partnership rather than trying to prevail over one another, and trust is cultivated toward intuition. They bring hope, strength, and new possibilities while also demonstrating resiliency and grace when navigating life’s challenges.

Seeing this beautiful sight of their graceful dance in the air, together, felt mirroring of the space both individually and collectively that is possible right now and through this New Moon Eclipse portal.

I’ve reflected recently on the shifts over time with navigating things and seeing the truth of how the things I go through in life, stretch me into greater resiliency and fluidity of experience. Especially so, when I make an effort to be conscious and curious of each moment and rich part. AND, when I engage all of my parts to work together in balance so that I don’t get locked into the denser of human experiences alone.

Darker times do get lighter and more grace filled and that can include the grieving process of parts of our lives and souls within our lives. Grieving has its own beauty, as an expression of our depth of connection. It’s an individual process for each of us, still, yet it can and does have ability to shift over time.

For me, I find that the more I embrace the sacredness and alignment, as well as the inherent wisdom of each experience, the more I am able to be in the celebration of cycles and not sink into the heaviness like the quick sand it can become without these anchors. I enable myself to then see renewal’s promise that comes through the softening of my clutch.

I find that pain turns into nostalgia.

Grief reveals itself as love and love’s wisdom is eternity.

The white pelicans coming together on that warm, sunny Spring day between two storms felt like a promising omen of things to come.

Are there little signs around you of movement and support that you might be overlooking?

Sometimes when things get tough, it’s hard to see the sparkles of hope lighting up in your path, or even just how much you already have moved through and manifested so brilliantly.

Be curious and present – look up – look down – and all around you.

Little golden threads are being thrown out for us to catch all the time.

In these extreme times of change, we need more moments of pause because it’s easy to react and be triggered, and it’s also easy to make hasty decisions before our body and spirit feel aligned with something.

It’s okay not to act immediately.

It’s okay to breathe and reflect.

It’s okay to take a moment before jumping in and deciding to land on the next path.

The pelicans circling and creating new formations above me felt reflective of this – their exploration of the next feeding ground (far from their nesting area) and reflecting upon the energy currents while in the space of thought and intuition merging, before making a decision of where to land next.

So, so many people are in the processing of navigating huge transitions in life – not just the loss of people or animals, but the shift from one way of life or part of life to another. And there is so much uncertainty of where things will land and what the conditions will be in this new space, while everyone reconfigures their positioning in it all.

Take the time you need to feel into the frequencies, each small step along the way – taking in the wider view of things, but know that you won’t fully understand the scope of the new, or why you left things behind, until you do actually land.

It continues to sound repetitive, but gentleness toward self and other, as well as self care and knowing yourself continue to deepen in value.

Even our dear Sweet Pea knows how important this is.

She’s actually doing quite well after the loss of her brother Boojum and despite her condition, living with bladder cancer. You can see her snug like a bug in her bed atop one of Astrid’s castle tunnels mom put by the window for her – her favorite spot.

I told Dave that although she navigates her own journey with it all, I get from her that she’s also really leaning into and enjoying this rich time she is experiencing by being our only child. She was the first, and truly has always been a more independent kitty who likes her space and the softness of quiet and the gentle things in life. She’s become equally a momma’s girl even though she’s more connected to Dave, while still also seeking us both out to share time with.

Mornings are her playtime with mom and she acts like a kitten as we do our fun ritual on the bed of snuggles, purrs, licks, and chasing after my quick hands. She had pulled back from Dave a bit while Boojum was in decline, but is now enjoying naps and meditation time with him again. We actually were both woken two nights ago by her licking both of our faces.

She’s been relishing in all the extra attention and spoiling she’s receiving and in many ways has actually shown a spike in her engagement and energy. She’s especially loving all the yummy treats to herself and where she never used to ask for them, is seeking them out. Unlike her brother, who lost his appetite in the end, she has a robust and healthy one. She still has her tumor, but she’s trucking along and making the most of each day as the princess of the entire house. We are grateful.

Thank you to everyone who’s reached out and shared your love and condolences. It’s a beautiful thing to experience the connection that is made possible even if we’ve never met in person. It’s simply about opening our hearts and keeping them open, regardless of what is happening around us, but also BECAUSE of what is happening. Love, kindness, and compassion is ever-more needed.

We’ve experienced so much separation within and without, increasingly so since 2020, that finding ways to connect with the heart of yourself and community are lifelines to cultivating a new level of thriving we can share together.

And that leads me to some of the other ways I am able to share support with those of you who feel called, alongside sharing reflections here that I hope in some way might provide a tiny piece of hope or a glimpse of possibility.

Below you’ll find my biggest session discount, new and heavily discounted crystal skulls, and the latest episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls.

Eclipse season may add layers of complexity or challenge to your experience and the already more intense energies of these times, or perhaps is highlighting the areas you simply can no longer not face.

I received strong guidance to offer my largest discount on Intuitive Guidance Sessions that I ever do – I might have offered this once before several years back.

I have both sensed and heard things that make me understand the pivotal space people, and humans as a collective are at, which speaks to doing all that we can within the scope of our abilities and strengthened wells to help that shift anchor.

You can read about the sessions, which are offered to support a wide scope of areas in your life at the link below, where you’ll also find the discount already reflected in single and package options.

I am able to support 5 new clients again, for sure. I will reassess if I can take on more after the 5 spaces are filled, based on the scope of intentions and needs that are involved with each individual.

Some people have asked if these can be used as a space for mentoring. Wholeheartedly, yes!

We can create a process to support any area of life that you desire to cultivate and take more prominence as your soul path, or even as an integrated piece to your life to create more balance because it truly lights you up.

Other assistance is in areas of any transitions taking place from one thing to another in your life, or any area of personal and spiritual growth that you’d like to take to the next level.

Any of these can also be combined, and undoubtedly will naturally be combined, as they are all connected. It’s about you and crafting the perfect weaving of personal reflection.

I know a few of you have been on the fence or even shared some fear about doing this work, so I’m hoping whether it’s here or elsewhere, that these powerful doorways like the Eclipse, will help you to find the avenue and support that can assist your momentum.

The discount is now effective, as of 4/4:

Intuitive Guidance Sessions

For those of you looking for other ways to work through your personal processes and activate new doorways of experience, or those of you who have been curious, I DO have a new group of wonderful crystal skulls that have been added to the offerings.

At the link below you’ll find 5 fresh faces – and I’ll just let their videos, photos and info speak for themselves, but I have a feeling they’ll connect quickly with those of you who’ve been waiting. I’ve been releasing, as they tell me to and to be honest I’d be happy to keep them all! LOL! If you watch the latest episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls, you’ll notice one of the skulls being offered shares the same material of my skull featured as energetic support in that episode. The energy of all of these beings are specially intuited as frequency matches to assist the shifts and to focus on areas those of you ready to go to the next level in your life may find especially dialed in where is most needed.

Alongside the 5 newbies, you’ll also find the 4 remaining beauties I’m truly surprised are still hanging out, given their energy and especially since many have had a lot of inquiries. Well, you’ll discover that these 4 have now received a special (and incredible) homing discount of 22% – 44% off to support anyone on the fence, compliments of them messaging through me that they are eager to get working! There is also a special homing discount on a pair, if they go home together, which is a purchase 1 and get 1 free offer.

So if you’ve been waiting for a special friend or looking to get a gift for a special someone, then you may find what calls to your heart in these 9 crystal skulls:

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

And that leads me to the last piece of support and streams of possibility…a new episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls.

This one is a short share and here’s the description:

In this new episode we add another layer to understanding our crystal skull family. What if the skulls are in fact the manifestation of our galactic family in a form made more efficient for these times we are in? We explore crystal skulls as the emanation embodiment of multi-dimensional beings to assist receiving wisdom and teachings in a conscious state that we need for Earth’s and humanity’s evolution. Included is a new collective message from The Speakers – the collective of 22 beings that speak through my crystal skulls.

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Sending you a warm embrace filled with loving support, peace, and fluidity as you move through this Eclipse and all other shifts of the year unfolding.

May each piece of the journey open like the petal of a blossom, with ease and grace of sunlit promise and fragrant inspiration.

Our Winter in Spring continues here, as a new storm moved in on Wednesday and the second hits today through Sunday bringing more snow to the already thawing landscape. You can see in these windowscapes of our backyard, how things keep bouncing back and forth by the day

The seasons are being fickle with my bulbs who oscillate between the experience of receiving both sunshine and snow kisses.

On our way out for a walk at the other end of town, the morning of the first of these late storms, I snapped a few photos of some of my bulb baby clusters sprouting with glee and the very first crocus blooms.

Last year it was the yellow crocus who burst forward first and this year it’s all about the purple babies, which feels fit since I’ve been wearing a lot of purple and immersing in my amethyst crystal friends – a favorite of my rabbit and tortoise companions.

I am hoping to get out perhaps next week to clean up the perimeter of the house from Autumn and Winter shedding, but that will depend if the forecast holds long enough to provide me days of sunshine and melted ground. It will be a big undertaking again, but I do want my blossoms to have a nice welcoming and there’s great satisfaction clearing the old away.

I’m so excited for all of these beauties to emerge. You may recall that each year I keep adding more and more bulbs, which I’ll do again this Fall. It’s the perfect rebirthing energy to open new doorways and it’s going to be glorious!

And glorious is also the aroma wafting through the house right now from the oven. I’m baking one of my favorites – a crumb cake – while writing this share as the falling snow frames the peripheral of my vision in the garden patiently waiting to awaken.

It all feels nostalgic, which somehow feels perfect for this season of transition we’ve entered once again, both in the outer world visual landscapes and in the inner world emotional ones.

It’s hard to believe that it will already be seven months, on the 30th, that Astrid has been physically gone from our lives. It seems like yesterday, but that yesterday is now so far away.

Which brings me to this week’s pivotal shift that took place within the gateway of the Libra Full Moon Lunar Eclipse that I felt important to express with my friends here who are a special part of our lives.

It is with great sadness that I share our sweet boy, Boojum, has joined Astrid in the stars.

He had a rapid decline starting Friday the 22nd, which at first seemed to be one of his uremic episodes he bounces back from. This time it went longer and the effects took him out much more physically to a state that hinged on any-moment-surprise-trauma. Interestingly, I’ve noted that Boojum is very tied in with the Full Moons and in fact many of his previous episodes have all culminated on and around them in the past. I had a sense, even before the episode started, that this Full Moon Lunar Eclipse could be much bigger for him – likely the end – and started preparing Dave when in fact he did start his decline.

When he didn’t turn around like other episodes, I knew this was a pivotal point.

As mentioned in other posts, Sweet Pea came to Dave just before he and I started dating and Boojum came just months after. So while they are connected to Dave, foremost, I have been in their lives nearly since the very start with Sweet Pea and in fact from the beginning with Boojum. Dave is deeply connected to cats, like I am with rabbits, and so it is even harder for him to go through this loss after having these soulmates in his life between 15 and 16 years (they’re both nearly 17 years old). So, it would also be for him to decide if and when to assist either of them before any traumatic incidents and suffering occurred.

With a Libra Full Moon, relationships and partnerships are highlighted, and the portal that opened with this one was indeed one of endings. The kind of endings that lead to new beginnings and fostering new layers to relationships both within oneself and without – even if at yet they’re unseen.

Over the months, weeks, and days we’ve had to keep assessing things to make sure our kitty babies were having quality of life and when experiences would potentially surpass that. The day before the Full Moon, a lot of processing took place and it was in fact on Monday, March 25th’s Full Moon Eclipse when Dave knew what his decision must be for Boojum’s sake, although his heart would rather choose otherwise.

He made the call to see about scheduling Boojum’s transition and was surprised when our go-to person said she was available that very evening. It could have taken place on the actual day of the Full Moon Eclipse, but this proved to be shockingly too soon for Dave, so instead we scheduled the next evening to give us a full day with Boojum.

And that’s exactly what the 26th was – Boojum day. We both put aside everything else and did nothing but lay with him and our little family throughout the day, as that was all he wanted to do – be with us snuggled in our comfort.

That morning started off quite potent though. Dave got up, while I lingered in bed with both of the cats. I heard a bang and then the downstairs sliding door open and close. Dave then appeared in our room cupping something in his hands. He was distraught as he walked over to me, opened his hands and gently handed me a precious little bird.

I knew what had happened. The bird had hit our window and Dave had retrieved him from the ground. He said he was still alive when he picked him up, and he hoped that his warmth and Reiki would revive him. When he handed the little one over, he wasn’t aware he had died. I told him he had passed peacefully with him. Dave told me he was too fragile to handle this, too, right now and walked out of the room leaving me with the little bird.

I decided to stay there with the bird for a while, doing energy work to go backwards in time to the impact and support him through the entire journey with loving energy. Then assisted the transition to the Cosmos and felt to share the little bird with Boojum. Both cats were with me, but didn’t seem interested until I let Boojum connect and he leaned in to gently touch him with his nose. Boojum had always been a gentle boy.

There was indeed alchemy woven in the experience between Dave and the bird and the bird and Boojum. It felt to me that this bird had consciously played a part for this process. I think you can connect your own dots. I buried the sweet little one in my garden with a tiny quartz crystal and flower, and covered the grave with one of my rock finds from the area, adorned with blue quartz.

Oddly, just several days before this, I heard banging inside our chimney followed by bird cries from within. I knew a bird had somehow gotten down it and was stuck. More banging, more crying…I was worried and trying to figure out what to do, while hoping for the little one to find his/her way out. Sweet Pea was equally on alert, laying near the fireplace and looking with wide eyes each time the sounds came from the chimney. But the bird did find their way out and for about twenty minutes after the incident, I kept seeing and hearing a bird outside squawking quite a bit. I feel it was the one who had gotten trapped inside, voicing his/her relief from the fear and struggle. That also seemed reflective.

And then the third incident happened – things do go in waves of three – as just yesterday the 28th I found another dead beauty when we woke up for breakfast, laying on the fresh snow bed that cradled her now lifeless body. She looked like she had just passed from also hitting one of our other big windows. I carried her in, but only told Dave who watched me go outside, rather than showing him so as not to bring more pain to his grieving. It was very sad to have all of this happen in such a short span. And yet it all feels connected and weaving a potent alchemy. A bird hitting your window heralds significant change and new phase in life.

I buried this beauty with a tiny quartz crystal and sprig of pine next to the other one in my garden that has become an animal sanctuary on many levels.

Everything is connected.

We’ve now ordered the same special stickers we used to have in our treehouse at the very top of the mountain in our condo before moving here. These have special reflectors to warn birds.

And that brings us back to sweet Boojum.

In recent weeks, I noted how both Boojum and Sweet Pea had started seeking me out when I’m downstairs in my office – a place they normally stayed away from since they knew it was Astrid’s domain. Even after Astrid transitioned, they still didn’t want to pass the threshold of the door, nor go downstairs that much. Her presence is still powerfully present.

But each of the kitties began to look for me there, cry out to me, and want to be with me on my lap at my desk.

I knew a shift was happening, as I’ve always noted that animals in pain or transitioning seek me out.

I gently would draw things to Dave’s attention, as to prepare him step-by-step. We’ve known conditions and possibilities for the kitties for a while, so this helped in preparations behind the scenes. With Astrid it was a surprise, and that suited me more, which she knew. And although I’ve known the reality of things looming with sped up, approaching time, it’s taken a while for Dave to allow himself to fully go there. So it was good to have things go more slowly than a surprise blow for him. Especially after already having to go through Astrid’s departure. Each of our soul companions know what is best for us.

And I believe we do the very best we know how to for them.

When we learned of the critical points each of our kitties had reached, we made a commitment not to travel and just be with them at home to administer all their meds and to share all the love. In fact we cancelled two trips we had planned around my birthday because it was more important to make the most of our time together.

And that’s just what we did on Boojum’s last physical day with us. As I mentioned above, we stopped the clock on everything and literally just spent the day snuggled up on the bed together as a family with him, as all he wanted to do was cuddle, be cuddled and comforted, and rest. That’s actually really all he wanted in his last days. He’d follow us around everywhere we went and just wanted us to hold him. So we did.

And we made sure, just as we did with Astrid, to each write and read him a special message before his departure. Dave also sang him a song and he sat on the couch the whole time listening.

I won’t share the whole passage I did with Boojum, but I do want to share these parts as they feel to speak to something key to pass along in message.

“…I’m so grateful for the gifts you’ve given to me. They weren’t always easy to see at first, nor to embrace in the moment, but you helped me to ponder the beauty of all that comes before me. And that includes you. The way you live for the moment and know nothing of a past or future. The way you sucked the marrow of life, which is one of the things most people don’t know how to do, long for, and fall short in ever experiencing. The way you cradled your earthly embodiment as the gift and miracle that it is – really living and loving for the sensuality of this experience like no other. You taught me and anyone who was present to your alchemy, how rich this life is and the reasons why we embody here. Not merely to go about the stresses we add onto our lives to live for a day that may never come, but to REALLY BE in body and drink of its wine right here and now. All of the earthly pleasures, you knew so well, how to luxuriate in as the mysterious black panther prince that you are and always will be…

…Your heart is kind. Your mind a bit crafty and even at times bratty, but it was all part of your calling our attention to nurture a love for our feelings and desires in the moment…to not push away joy and breathing in what was possible to have now. It was at times hard to swallow, but that is because we’re taught not to honor these feelings. You were right there always saying, “yes” to all that you want…and teaching us the same…to say “yes” to all that brings our hearts joy. So thank you. I may not have said it enough and took me long to see it, but I have come to understand your alchemy and will not forget it in the days ahead. And I’m sure you won’t let me, as you continue to make your presence known from where you are headed…”

We lit a candle and were all together in our home and space we shared, to support him on into the eternal.

It was a beautiful, peaceful and sacred experience. Unforgettable, just as Boojum is.

After, we went for a walk out behind the house in the forest and it was a beautiful sunset sky celebrating Boojum in heavenly peach clouds serenaded by a pack of coyotes in the near distance.

We have so many wonderful memories to draw upon and call up when we need to transmute the pain.

He was such a character and made an impression on everyone – usually imparting many giggles. He pranced across the floor on his toes, galloped like a tiny pony, and proudly humped his Humpty Bear (despite being fixed) without any qualms that eyes were upon him – in fact he hoped so lol! 

I will miss the sweet moments and how my singing was able to lull him into peace, especially if he was scared or not feeling well.

I will miss his googly eyes locking with mine as I whispered “Boogish” over and over in his ears.

I will miss him riding proudly like the prince he is, excited to be swung over mom’s shoulder and carried everywhere like this.

And I’ll especially miss the way he paused time and softened me with his slow motion, outstretched arm reach to touch my face with his paw. Something he did over and over on his last morning with dozens of intentional paw presence all over my face to let me know he “would always be right here,” just like E.T. said to Elliott with his touch before departure back home to the Cosmos.

We’ve kept relatively quiet to ourselves again with this process until it was over, as it’s been important to us to create these intimate spaces to anchor in the love as a family.

But because you’ve been a part of our journey, and have shared your love with our fur children, we share this sacred passage with you.

It’s a way I heal through sharing and vulnerability, as writing is very cathartic for me.

It also feels important because of all the grief so so many are navigating these days individually and collectively – a way to help flow that energy and to know its presence in our lives is a rich weaving we share, although feels otherwise.

As I wrote before:

Grief is challenging for most people, as when you’re in the midst of it or it comes on fast, it can feel quite traumatic and send a ripple of downward spiraling and feel never-ending until or unless the softening occurs. One never really ends grief, but it does fade and joy can actually reside alongside pain and loss. In fact, grief and pain can actually be a connective bridge for joy and sweetness. And while grief comes in waves of intensities, between those waves and even after the crest of each, pockets of potential are activated that only the doorway of pain helps to access.

We grow through the pains and rise from the ashes by leaning into the inherent beauty of each piece of wholeness.

An end of an era continues here for us, with the passing of two of our three fur children within seven months and our third nearing her own day, which I trust she’ll navigate beautifully too.

In the meantime, we’re embracing each day fully with the courageous Sweet Pea who is going through her own evolution, while of course helping us with our own as well. She was the first and she’ll be the last. A full circle indeed, but also like a spiraling, unwinding itself and preparing to spiral anew.

And there’s a lot of full circle going on I see, as today’s Good Friday marks 21 years ago that Nestor – my twin soul in rabbit form – first came into my life in 2003. That was the beginning of an era for me that has shifted so much and during which I’ve seen six dear soul companions in animal bodies move on.

There’s been a huge deepening for both Dave and I through all of this. Individually and together it’s all added richness and I know will continue even though right now the other side is not yet seen.

I know that Dave will go through his own opening, as I have, through the passing of his closest companions, but unlike the last time he lost his beloved twin soul in cat body in 2008, this time he is not alone in processing the grief. He’s doing beautifully and I’m proud of how he, too, is navigating this transformation.

The hardest part was in the letting go and making the decision. He has since felt relief, although mourns the loss that taxes his heart strings to their resiliency depths.

And relief is shared on my end, while I process the grief as well. Relief knowing Boojum is at peace and now in his expansiveness to be part of my team. I look forward to the magick and mystery Mr. Jaguar shapeshifter will bring into my days and work ahead and to his beloved dad too.

So yes, a lot of releasing, relief, resiliency, and rebirthing dancing in our days. I feel that is not ours alone as experience, but a collective tapestry shared.

I’m reminded for some reason of the time, three years ago, when our little family was in refuge as evacuees from the fires. I remember seeing a large spider’s web at our garage door when we headed out and locked up our house, carrying our three fur babies with us. Webs reflect spider’s resiliency to build and rebuild, even if their web is destroyed. 

I wrote this during that time:

“I feel we are much more resilient than we think or give ourselves credit for – just like the enduring and adaptable cactus I’ve found around me recently, too, that speak to our survival and protection even amidst challenges, but in a way that creates thriving.

The human body is miraculous and the heart is an alchemist. Even though we keep getting thrown a bunch of curve balls and continue having the rug pulled out from under us with everything going on in the world, time and time again, we’ve proven we have the ingenuity to recreate and rise again.

However, in the midst of it all we need to remind ourselves about the importance of refuge – both to create this within ourselves, but also to create spaces for this in our lives in either literal ways of a safe haven, a supportive community, or recharging outlet of some sort. It’s true, this could be a home, but it could also be what ever makes you feel at home, energized, and fills your well. We need to take time for ourselves, not be afraid to ask for help – as any form of family can be refuge from harsh experiences, and be willing to seek out or build this if one doesn’t exist. Opening our hearts to, or helping to create this for others, are gifts we can also provide in the form of refuge.

And maintaining that relentless commitment becomes vital to anything we want to manifest and see in our lives and out there in the world. Remembering not to give up too soon, as sometimes when things seem the hardest, is when we need to stay the course the most. Changes can be right around the corner, but we’ll never know if we don’t stay consistent, persistent, dedicated, and focused. It’s easy to get off track with everything that comes at us, so having markers in place as reminders, staying aware to the messages coming at you, and souls in human or animal bodies (or even just guides in general) who care about you to give you that encouragement, can all be super beneficial. Also, even when things feel like they’ve arrived, the way to ensure they are a mainstay is to consistently embody that energy and not let down your awareness and connection to intentional living. Remember my mention of hawk in my last post and the message they carry of “clarity and vision…the ability to hone in on something (the micro) within the wide (macro) expanse and to be able to go directly to the goal with absolute bullseye focus.” If you really want something, you’ll come to see how truly important it really is by how much you walk the talk of that intention, hope, or dream.

We’re in some fertile and vital times as humanity and this speaks to me of each of us deciding how important what we talk about truly is to us. And if it is, I know we have the resiliency to see it through and the support matching our level of commitment. I also know how important creating times, spaces, places, or groups of refuge for ourselves is key for our well being and capacity to rebuild a new reality.

Like castles in the sand, life is impermanent and its beauty is meant to be cherished moment to moment without attachment to any fixed idea or length we think it should be or last.

There’s something to be said for those experiences of building and creating when you’re engaged in the fleeting moment to experience the rush of imagination and possibility at its height.

And even when the ebbs and flows of life wash over us, there’s this feeling of wonder that lingers in the sands that carry renewal in their memory.

Hope is never lost.

We can rebuild and dream again and again…potential is unlimited.”

With Easter just two days away, thoughts of rebirth and hope are strongly on the mind.

We got to visit my parents last Sunday for a nice afternoon of lunch and a symphony show, which gave us a chance to enjoy their Spring display of Easter-inspired decorations more than just once.

We’ll be heading down again to share in a family celebration and the warmth my parents will create for all of us and a friend we’ll be bringing since he’s always on his own at holidays.

But I did get a chance to snap a few happy shots of the sweet Spring animals and vibrant blooming colors they already had lighting up the house to share the hope.

And took this sweet video of their new dancing bunnies in a cosmic egg.

The sky and landscape were equally beautiful that day on our travels back home up the mountain, framing this whole experience of Boojum’s transition with a heavenly journey.

We continue to soak in each day and do our best to mirror Boojum’s mastery of the moment and what truly living is all about.

Where it takes us is a mystery worthy of embracing.

The end is just the beginning.

I hope the change of seasons breathes some fresh energy into your days and experience. With our walking through the Spring Equinox gateway yesterday, I noted a sense of sweet surprise lingering in the air.

I don’t know what is held in the breeze, as of yet, but it feels like it’s brought in a new layer of trust and inspiration. Things are rearranging within and there are answers on the tip of my tongue to what I’ve been wondering about.

How about you? Do you feel like something is close to discovering?

A little more patience and I sense reveals at hand.

In the meantime, Spring temperatures are in full swing here with low 50’s and really penetrating sunshine even when out on the slowly melting mountain tops.

We’ve enjoyed beautiful outings and treks, taking in the shifting landscapes before us.

The thaw is in process, uncovering all of my new varieties of bulbs in the front beds pushing through to new days.

But the end of the week sees Winter coming back in time for Spring, as what may be our last storm is predicted Friday through the weekend, with more precipitation through end of March.

That means a little more skiing in store on sunny slopes and blue sky days.

What ever shows up is an opportunity to keep fluid and embrace each moment.

The same goes for what shows up in one’s energy field and in facing the undercurrents of fear.

I have been focusing on rewiring something huge for myself and working intricately with new activations. Perhaps some of you have similarly been engaged in your own unique way.

It feels like standing at the precipice of something incredible – like the sprout pushing through to the sunshine for the first time.

Codes, keys, mysterious pieces and notes…all for unlocking the harmonics of our essence.

I don’t believe they are hidden. I feel we have forgotten how to see and use them.  

To look with the eyes of the heart, pierces the layers our minds became accustomed to perceiving.

To tune in with the tones of our frequencies, attunes the melody of our instrument.

And we decipher the Cosmic harmony within the breath of our existence. 

Days for me are filled with this kind of adventure.

And I find the reflections of this pilgrimage in all that surrounds me.

New pathways await because I am the gateway.

And so are you.

Spring brings to mind rabbits and of course that makes me miss the physical presence of Astrid and my other loves more.

I’m grateful to have Frith visiting the garden daily, leaving behind mounds of pellets that will nurture the soil. And I just saw a large cottontail up the street while on a walk just before Spring Equinox.

Check out this sweet little chickadee taking a Spring bath. Hehe!

I have a feeling many forest creatures will be visiting this Spring and Summer.

And I sense other changes on the horizon for our little family here.

I’ve been extremely productive these days, getting so much done and making room for the new.

I’m excited to jump into some projects that have been on hold and continue forth with others.

And due to my having cleared away so much, I am able to make room for supporting others at this time again.

In response to what I’ve felt from others and the current energies, I’m going to do another offering for Intuitive Guidance Sessions.

It’s a pivotal time and I sense the struggles and also the fears around moving forward.

However you feel guided to support yourself, I hope that you will do just that.

Even if that means simply being more gentle with yourself, relaxing a bit on old ways of going about things, and lessening up on attachments that may be hindering your expansiveness.

If you resonate with and do decide you’d like to partner in a process together, then you’ll find the Spring Special on sessions at the top of the page here: Intuitive Guidance Sessions and please direct any questions you may have here: CONTACT ME

Beaming out love and wonder, as you embrace a new season of opportunity.

March is moving right along, with less than a week to go until Spring Equinox, less than two weeks until this month’s Full Moon Lunar Eclipse and then ending things off with Easter falling on the last day and Sunday of this month.

I’ve heard from a few people (including faery sister Laura and her followers) that the Pisces New Moon felt refreshing and like a beautiful, clearing reset and, for me, it literally has been that on a physical/embodiment and deeply integrative level since the 8th – like Uni and higher self conspiring with knocking out and loosening old stuff for full clearing. It was a catapulting thrust forward into the new. My mind feels more free and nebulous than even what is normal for my Pisces self and things are still rearranging from the activation I experienced.

I’ve felt lighter, even more flowy, and experiencing energy channels with greater clarity as well. I experienced this confirmation directly, while supporting someone with an Energy Session partnered with The Speakers on the New Moon – that the channel for transmission is through the roof. The feedback shared with me, underscored the amplification. So, yeah, to reiterate what that page’s offering shares, “these are extremely high frequency” SO “be sure of what you intend and ready for what that involves.”

I hadn’t been feeling any particular challenge before this, yet the New Moon energies in my birth sign truly felt like an initiatory rebirth. And how timely also, as March 12th was my 23 year anniversary of legally becoming Tania Marie – making my middle name my last.

In addition to all of this, the morning of the New Moon, coyote just so happened to saunter by in the forest out back again, while the day kicked off.

And the next morning a pack of coyotes was wildly yipping away in the same area. It was so loud, even with the door closed. We opened the sliding door to listen and then I pointed out four of them silently making their way in the trees after their serenade to each other. There were likely more, but it was interesting to have a pack so close again – seeking us out at home this time – and their timing felt like an initiatory one.

And with that last statement, about initiations – it’s my pleasure to announce Mody Ra joining me once again for Episode 6 of Talks With Crystal Skulls – Deepening Into Ancient Energies & Stones with Mody Ra.

In this new episode we dive a bit more into a discussion about ancient energies and stones, as well as explore some of Mody’s skull carvings to provide more insight around how these pieces truly are initiatory to us stepping more into our wholeness and authentic power. I also share some of my personal experiences with the Ancient Egyptian stone skulls I have been working with from Mody.

This topic was a guided message I felt we needed to open the door more to…and it is just the beginning. A way to open the door to the key of you.

We hope you enjoy, and please drop us a comment under the video on YouTube and subscribe if you’d like to receive updates on new episodes. Remember that if you are viewing this through your email, you’ll need to click through to the post for the video.

Here is the new episode. We hope you enjoy it.

And a little update on crystal skulls and crystals – some amazing pieces moved on to their perfect homes during the window before, during, and after the New Moon, which felt aligned with the energy shift it brought and people moving into the next phase of their journey. Thank you so much for being beautiful, resonant, heart homes for these beings! It makes me so happy to know there are wonderful collaborations coming together for the highest good.

There are six (all master carved) crystal skulls still awaiting to be seen by their person that includes one mystical white dragon/skull pair sitting atop a majestic light smoky castle for the Year of the Dragon. All individual crystals have been homed. Amongst the rest of the skulls are four small beauties that are easy to travel with you and also the rare, larger Pitico carved apatite in calcite skull – this one is almost half off its original value, as I passed along the savings I received and on top of that added more. If one feels to be calling and you have questions or need any assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out or ask to reserve one. Here is the link: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

And if you watch the new episode, you’ll see how the essence of these two skulls (above) play into a part of deepening into our wholeness through both light and dark. I don’t know if anyone noticed this from the listing photos of these two separately, but I’ve always felt they made a perfect, sweet duo together – balancing duality, harmonizing shadow and light in a dance of alchemy, and supporting one’s wholeness at core levels, as they illuminate the highest versions for integration.

Both skulls are carved by Subhash Meena in the reflection of what is called a “magickal child,” helping to connect with the innocence, purity, joy, hope, wonder, and creative potential of your inner child and authentic soul and heart song.

One is a Himalayan quartz with many rainbows, chlorite, golden healer, and enhydros. The other is an obsidian with some silver sheen on one side.

They are already being offered on sale individually, but if anyone feels drawn to these dear ones together, please reach out as I’d be happy to provide a special to home them as a pair.

The journey of life is so unique to each soul. Although we share underlying themes, the way to work with them and how they play out is relative to the individual. 

Therefore, what you see playing out in the world doesn’t necessarily speak to your experience. So where you place focus and energy may tether you to something that wouldn’t otherwise be you and creates a division to your otherwise strength and wholeness for boundless creative vitality.  

Aligning with matching frequencies to who you are and what you want to create is key, regardless what others are doing. 

When I’m out snow shoeing in the middle of a storm, this is directly mirrored to me through my experience. 

For me, it’s enchantment and fun, with a whole world of potential blowing around me that I choose to experience through the eyes of my inner child. I forge my way and let the snow fall as it may around me, the wind blow through, and my warm heart untouchable by the cold. 

It is incredibly potent to be out in the wide open white-blanketed landscape without a soul around. And I am the paintbrush bringing new life and color into a new world of my creation.

As we enter March’s gateway, Winter seems to have finally blown in with full force here. After a mild season, the end of February through now has turned things around.

What felt like Spring days and thaw came to halt with Leap Day’s biggest storm yet. Leading up, it seems surreal that we enjoyed beautiful days like the photos reflect below.

And that all of my bulbs in the front yard bed – more than I could count – had pushed through the exposed ground that is now under several feet of snow.

And in between it all, my birthday was the quiet I intended with only some mellow celebrations the two days before.

That included a Spring-like walk followed by a surprise sushi party by a couple that are our good friends here.

They brought over all the fixings and made us vegan sushi, to show us what we could do ourselves with the birthday sushi care basket they gifted me.

Even the kitty babies got in on the fun – shhhh don’t tell them it’s not raw fish!

We of course made veggie sushi. Mmmmmm!

And we did make more sushi during the storm to enjoy and it really is easy and comes out professional looking.

Dave also took me to a birthday lunch and symphony downtown and it was a beautiful and peaceful, sunshiny day!

But on the day of my actual birthday, along with a little snow I received the most beautiful gift – we had our very first sighting at the house of a bobcat (our house seems to be earning its name as the Forest Portal where all of these appearances pop through). It was a young one and she or he decided to come right up on our deck while we were having birthday morning breakfast. We got up and followed the bobcat and I managed to get these little captures of photos and mini videos.

Just gorgeous and such a potent shamanic presence to receive on my “rebirthing” that I read can show up to reveal a new spiritual power and that felt resonant. And you’ll recall that just a few days before, a giant raccoon had visited in about the same place as the bobcat. And upon researching we are sure that she was a pregnant female, as this is the time of year that they mate and females will then go off solo. This makes sense as to why she looked so fat, and what a gift that she stood up fully at the sliding glass door to show off her pregnant belly to us. And then not long after bobcat, we had coyote run across the road in front of us. It was a full gifting of harbingers for transformation ahead, all around the Full Moon and my birthday. I’m beginning to feel that Astrid has a hand in all of these encounters to make sure I’m surrounded with the animal love she knows does my heart good.

Then the big storm came, and it did in fact bring blizzards and white outs as predicted, and we did in fact receive a little over four feet of snow at our 6600 home elevation with the tops of the mountains surrounding us, getting over eight feet. It’s closer to the ten plus feet they predicted at the higher and further peaks. It was quite the storm and even one of the two only and main highways into Tahoe was closed for over three days. And I’m grateful to say we kept safe, warm, and without incident, as I know many other communities did in fact have power outages.

Friday and Saturday night were the wildest. It looked and sounded like the gods were warring in the skies, as white blasts and swirls were thrown here and there. And during and after each night of the storm, every window and sliding glass door’s view was half blocked by wind swept snow and mounds of white that Dave had to clear a perimeter path for so that the snow was away from the house.

We enjoyed two days of snow shoeing out back in the forest behind the house during mid-storm mornings when things weren’t quite as wild. And it was incredibly potent to be out in the white landscape without a soul around. Just wide open white blankets, enchanting and mysterious forests, and magickal creeks to cross.

The first day I wore my vintage snow jacket that bears the name Polaris. I loved it immediately because of the North Star on back, the name, and of course the color. I didn’t mind that it was a bit large, as it’s so cozy, and wraps me in magick.

Polaris is the brightest star in the Ursa Minor (Little Bear) constellation and marks the little bear’s tail. How perfect is that with my bear connection? And being a large jacket, I do feel like a happy little, round bear in it.

We took turns breaking the trail on the one mile trek we like to do that circles around and crosses a creek twice.

I took some photos of the adventure to share the beauty of it all, but also some short videos to capture things in the moment.

I was so excited to find this tree trunk that we pass all the time, but only this time did I see the perfection of its rings that mirrored the sun halo and symbolism that has been coming through. I’ve never seen such precise circles.

And right after, upon coming to my favorite magickal tree canopy, I discovered someone had wrapped this tree of life talisman on it. The tree of life has always been prominently showing up for me.

We love seeing our house from the forest in all the different seasons. So we snapped a few shots of it covered in a cozy snow bliss.

The kitty babies – Sweet Pea and Boojum – gave us this look when we got back in, thinking why ever would you go out in that wild white cold?

Mom and dad are much more adventurous than these cozy kitties.

Sunday afternoon (3/3) I then saw this enchanting sight.

A beautiful, round robin sitting on the railing of our deck.

I watched him for about ten minutes, all puffed up while the snow was falling around. Since robins appear in early Spring, it was interesting to see this one in the midst of a huge snow storm.

We haven’t seen any birds around the house – only on snow hikes where the chickadees will sing away no matter how cold it is.

So, the presence of this beauty felt again like a harbinger of change and that rebirthing Spring days are around the corner.

I watched as he jumped on our cherry blossom tree and was eating some of the tiny old berries still remaining on the branches. I decided to take a short video to imprint this beautiful sight.

Pure enchantment and such a sign of new things to come.

He returned the very next day, in the very same place, doing the exact same thing when the storm broke. Skies are now clear and the forecast shows a warming trend taking us back to Spring-like weather. And it’s in fact looking a bit Spring-like on our kitchen island with the plant babies.

But for now, we’re enjoying the snow drenched mountains, blue skies, and sunshine – some of the most magickal scenes one can witness with crystalline sparkle everywhere the eye turns.

We’re back on the mountain skiing in the mornings on the great powder. And great snow conditions mean Tania becomes more brave and indeed our first day back after the storm had me taking on some super hard and steep runs with the craziest natural moguls (from the storm on ungroomed runs) and pot holed funnels I’ve ever done. Dave warned me I wouldn’t like it, but I felt guided to go anyway on my own. And I was SO proud of myself I hadn’t an inch of fear – just full trust I could do and I did.

“I think I can…I knew I could,” said the Little ‘T’ Engine That Could. YAY!

But the vistas are some of the most wonderful parts of skiing on the mountain. I love taking my time and breathing it all in.

It IS REALLY a faerytale to see and be in these landscapes and to watch the snow envelope the land.

It’s been enjoyable to watch the world outside transform once again.

And all of that transformational energy brings up thoughts of butterflies.

Their presence has been fluttering about in my thoughts quite a bit along with their connection they have to my spiritual and rebirthing adventures that has been swirling in my mind a bunch more again lately. In fact, through a series of synchronous unfoldings, one of my newest crystal skulls revealed her name to be Maya.

There’s a lot connected to that whole reveal, but it happens to weave parts of my awakening and receiving the butterfly as the symbol of my life’s work way back at the beginning of my spiritual journey. The butterfly also was my very first sacred tattoo and I did in fact baptize her “Maya”.

I wrote about that – now 26 year anniversary of the start of my Spiritual Skin – in a blog post titled Birth of Maya.

This links with my Mayan “pasts” that unraveled my other ancient threads, Pleaides (Maia star – one of the Seven Sisters), and so much of my journey, which is that of continual recreating and rebirthing over and over again. I’m a perpetual creatrix – reflecting my birth path number that associates me with the #3 Tarot card of The Empress who is depicted as the perpetually fertile and abundant mother, pregnant with creative life force for constant new beginnings.

No wonder that pregnant raccoon came around 😉 And no wonder fertile rabbits are my cocreators.

But back to butterflies…this interesting Winter/Spring mix we’ve been experiencing all season has felt so reflective of that forward and back steps that seem to keep happening. In reality, they aren’t really backward steps though, but a foothold on fertile void ground that is on another level of the spiral that just “seems” to have swung back around, but in fact is on a new playing field.

Things click into place and leaps happen. Then there’s this hold and wait period, in that fertile void, while the next clicks happen. Then more momentum, then wait/percolate/integrate…like a rubber band really revving up and soon it’s going to sling across the galaxy with all that momentum. LOL!

Perhaps this has been something you, too, have felt. And to me it’s been about this butterfly effect where the cocoon is still needed, but the butterfly has in fact made many holes to the new world of experience with legs and feelers taking in the fresh terrain. She is both excited and patient…knowing to rest and make sure to do each step right, or the release won’t be the promise it knows in her heart awaits.

The butterfly knows the secret of divine alignment and having all of her parts with her to take into the new world because if any part gets left behind, she simply won’t make it. And if any part isn’t fully transmuted into the new essence to match the new world, then she won’t be able to fly.

Patience and persistence is her strength. Trust is her fuel. Alchemy is her destiny.

She knows her resiliency lies in the very fragility of her being and the power of the now. Fully embracing the weeks she has of life, she performs great feats and spreads her gifts to the entire ecosystem of collective consciousness she is integrally a part of. But she doesn’t rush the emergence. Every little piece she masterfully orchestrates, integrates, and unwraps until the miracle of her weaving is complete.

Some butterflies can travel faster than we can run and journey over 1,000 migratory miles – small, but mighty indeed with ability to accomplish great feats because of only focusing on the knowing of possibility.

They can tell time through their antenna and track the position of the Sun through their eyes, and this tracking system lets them know where to turn to stay the course of their genetically programmed destinations – inner knowing is the guiding force that steers one to experience divine alignment and to follow the destiny of spirit embodied.

The genetic coding within their DNA makes them incredible shapeshifters moving through astonishing and miraculous body transformations over the course of its life from egg to butterfly – the inherent coding within becomes activated when the precise elements are merged, creating enhanced adaptability that leans into change with grace.

There are so many miraculous qualities to a butterfly and her journey that speak volumes to our own, mirrored potential and what awaits us to unwrap and light a spark to within the cocoon of our slumbering DNA and Cosmic coding.

Every piece of life around you is an incredible world of boundless marvel worthy of your attention, as it can redirect the course of your day and life when you truly breathe it in.

And ultimately, points you to the miracle of you, as your very existence in all ways you experience it…is a Universe unto itself.

The butterfly’s secret is in your heart to unlock, and the key is you igniting the truth of who you really are.

There are a lot of rapidly streaming energies and messages these days that people are experiencing, myself included, and it’s taking time to let it integrate and settle because once one thing comes it usually is the precursor for a whole string of many more. These are the times we’re in and in it together.

So, indeed change is the constant that butterfly reminds us of throughout her life transformations and even upon death, as she has always been a symbol of immortality, resurrection, and rebirth. Her presence affects the wellness of ecosystems even in her limited days with wings. And even as a caterpillar, both she and her excrements are a source of nutrient-rich support to the landscape and other animals.

These are metamorphic times and every single step is integrally valuable and divinely perfect in and of itself.

There are no ultimate results. There is simply continuous innovation of the all-encompassing moment for you to weave as your heart’s delight.

We are edging toward another New Moon – this one in Pisces – and Spring is definitely in the air, as Mr. Robin announced. Even my friend Frith has made his presence known again, once the storm ended. I found a hole he dug his way through for quite a long way in the thick snow to get to his favorite spot, and some poops, golden puddle, and tracks yesterday morning.

So many reflections of the journey and so many keepers of wisdom who are transmitting support for our accelerated evolution.

These days I’m guided to share less information streams and more organic experiences, along with Nature windows and other visuals, as I feel the frequencies are easier to relay and be of supportive inspiration this way – for now.

The groundwork is being laid and soon more direct expressions will deem time-appropriate, and until then we are all building a stairway through the spiral of unfolding cocreation.

A great many downloads have been coming in and it’s included a lot around the crystal skulls and revealing just why they have become so prevalent, along with other extraordinary crystal finds that are unearthing.

Some of this will be in the next episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls, which feels to be an important one.

In the meantime, a few updates around crystal skulls, include a new giveaway collaboration with Mody and discounts all around to help these amazing beings to get to their homes and do the work.

First up – in honor of Mody’s daughter, Maya, we’re giving away an ancient red basalt skull (what a beauty) and an energy session with The Speakers. It’s called Maya’s March Magick Skull Giveaway. Unfortunately, it is on Instagram, as it’s just the easiest platform for things like that. The giveaway started on 3/3 and will end at midnight PST on 3/12 with winner announced on 3/13 – Maya’s birthday.

But to create something for everyone, Mody is also offering a March Magick 20% off Discount between 3/3 and 3/13, as well, on nine select skulls. The discounts are reflected for these nine skulls at this link (scroll through): Egyptian Skulls & Dragons by Mody Ra

And, in tandem with this, I have also added an across-the-board discount on all crystal skulls and crystals from my own offerings. Discounts range from 15% – 35% to assist these connections I feel to be key to those hearing the call, which truly make all of these steals. Again, I’ll be sharing more about why this is all powerfully taking place at this time for the collective in the upcoming episode, but I hope that all of this helps anyone who has been really drawn to any that either of us have shared. The pieces that remain include some of my favorites like dreamy aquamarine, the blue stones that keep coming up in meditation, emerald for that heart chakra emerald bridge, sunstone/moonstone, and more. There are a couple of very special personal release pieces and one dragon/skull pair. The link for these is: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

And speaking of dragons…several people have been asking about dragons and both Mody and I are happy to share that there are a few dragons at the links – a couple did find homes, but there are the three remaining. All of them happen to be white dragons, which feels particularly resonant with our snow and that sparkly pure potential of new beginnings. You can find those at the links above. Included is a new full body enchanted little white dragon from Mody in Moon Stone.

We’ve just received the light of the Virgo Full Moon – also known as the Snow Moon – that illuminated fully this morning of 2/24/24 – cool numerology there don’t ya think? It comes just two days before my birthday and apparently we’re forecasted to have snow that day as well. So this Winter baby is feeling all the feels of the season and energies igniting my 51st.

Although we won’t be in an historical hobbit hole of snow caves for this birthday, I’m still enjoying being in my quieter cave and also happy that we’ve recently received a bit more snow to add to a hugely contrasting season from last year.

We enjoyed three days in a row of waking to fresh inches – six new inches on each of the mornings of the 19th and 20th, and then another three inches on the morning of the 21st. Yay!

That’s made for some great snow shoeing adventures and breathtaking landscapes that can lighten any day.

Some people have shared that this Moon has felt intense leading up to today. For me, I’ve been feeling extra sleep has been nurturing to the experience of a lot of integration in my physical body taking place and downloads streaming in, in accelerated fashion.

This Full Moon may invite you into a deeper dive of healing energies and ways to create greater wellness and sense of peace in your life. If blocks and fears have been taking up more space, this is an opportune time to initiate some cleansing rituals so that you can create more room for the things that bring you joy and peace. Do things that help ground you, pay attention to and take care of the fine details, and stay the course of what you’ve put in motion with commitment and personal integrity.

In my own life I indeed have found myself focusing on those details and fine-tuning things to better align with intentions and where I feel things heading. It’s driven me to make more adjustments to where my energy and time are focused – removing and adding what threads into all of that. I’ll share more on this, some new offerings, and birthday release at the end, as I like to have the focal point of posts to be on inspirations and any guided messages that feel to be of support.

I did feel to put out a blog before my birthday, as I’m wanting a more quiet and low-key one this year that will have a soft intention of deepening into the new cycle I am journeying. And since my family shared a combined celebration of my, my brother’s, and my mom’s birthdays on Valentine’s Day this year, we’ll be letting the actual day unfold without plans. Check out dad’s incredible three layer vegan cake he baked for all three of us! Weeeeeee!

This also comes after our having quite a full couple of weeks with visitors that were here back-to-back over the course of eleven days with only two days downtime in between.

So, the spaciousness is a welcome friend right now and opportune to harnessing the codes I feel awakening within.

During those visits we had some great ski days, and I had a couple of particularly great days on the mountain in fresh snow, feeling anchored in my adventurous and athletic nature – in awe that skiing is a thing I actually do and have progressed so much at.

On one of those days – the 12th – that feeling was highlighted with seeing this Sun halo, which also confirmed a thought I was exploring for the future.

And then, AGAIN, we saw another Sun halo (below) just yesterday morning on the 23rd when I was tuning in and asking about something else, which was later confirmed upon my arrival home with my pulling the Ace of Cups Tarot card.

I just love how many signs and messages show up these days for us all in really profound and consistent ways.

Is it that they are actually increasing in appearance, does it speak to our being more aware, or have we invited more cocreating to be part of our lives from our collective web of support? Perhaps it’s all of these in divine convergence.

I do feel like there’s a profound and rapid level of cycles moving through and that has involved a lot of continued grieving energy on many layers for souls and pieces of our lives moving on.

This may be because of all of the transformative energies we are deeply integrating these days, and the need for that energy to merge into harmonic alignment. But no matter the reason, these times do call for finding ways to navigate change and create support systems and processes to assist what truly is a natural part of the cycles of consciousness in totality of being – to keep moving and traveling through the various layers of interwoven experience and emotion that are all connected.

If you find yourself moving through loss, have you found ways to support your grieving so that the energy continues to flow through?

Creating a ritual can add meaning to the process – perhaps lighting a candle, planting a tree or seeding your memorial garden – any way you can find to honor the gifts of that person or part of your life that has moved on. This helps focus energy on the valuable ways these people and experiences have had impact for you, which creates forward momentum with the love and gratitude it will bring up.

Journaling and writing out your feelings and thoughts is also a great way to move energy, so that it doesn’t stay stuck in the hurt and pain alone. This supports the transmutation of feelings, as you allow the raw emotion to have a voice and outlet without becoming an energy block.

Maybe creating an altar in honor of the person or part of your life may speak to you.

Engaging your creativity and creating something artistic could also be a way of remembrance and moving through emotional energy, by deriving inspiration from the beauty of the connection and meaning in your life. Perhaps this may bring new ideas or ways to harness your creative life force and rebirthing phoenix energy, which honors the wholeness that both life and death are One as.

Finding support in a grief group might be helpful for some people, talking with a counselor, therapist, or coach, or leaning into allowing friends or loved ones to be there and listen or to do things with to help when the emotions get tough.

Sometimes you just need your own space, quiet, and personal explorations that suit your individuality and being with yourself and the emotions, as you know how, is the best thing.

All of us, though, I think can benefit from quality time spent in and with Nature. Mother Earth has the best way of knowing how to support those cycles and movements, while nourishing and being nourished by the symbiotic relationship you share with Her.

There are many ways to experience healing and help during the cycle of change that can affect everyone so differently. One of the main things to remember, is taking care of yourself the best way you can – honoring your process, allowing emotions to flow, being extra gentle with yourself during your grieving, tending to your needs on all levels, and especially not forgetting your physical wellness – eating, hydrating, grounding, nature time, getting good rest, and honoring the space you might need to consciously move through things that reflects your unique experience.

Working with crystals, sound healing, body work, yoga, exercise, dancing, singing, etc. are some other ways you can assist your energetic field to flow, your body to experience its resilience, and overall for you to find your natural course back to balance.

Grief is challenging for most people, as when you’re in the midst of it or it comes on fast, it can feel quite traumatic and send a ripple of downward spiraling and feel never-ending until or unless the softening occurs. One never really ends grief, but it does fade and joy can actually reside alongside pain and loss. In fact, grief and pain can actually be a connective bridge for joy and sweetness. And while grief comes in waves of intensities, between those waves and even after the crest of each, pockets of potential are activated that only the doorway of pain helps to access.

No one likes having to go through the pains, and yet I can only speak for myself, that it’s in the toughest emotional intensities, losses, and hurts, that some of the biggest alchemy leaps and transmutations have taken place in my life. I don’t fear the pain, even though the pain isn’t something I run toward. I just know that the nature of being is cycles and all things rise from the ashes in incredible ways when I lean into the inherent beauty of every piece of wholeness.

And speaking of wholeness guides me to share one of the recent sacred tattoo designs I cocreated with a beautiful soul. I only had a four inch by four inch space to work with, but one can still pack in a lot with symbolism.

I won’t go into all the personal details about it, but overall it embodies a mandala that has a more organic, alive flow to it than purely a perfected sacred geometry focus, that reflects a “womb of creation” with unfolding natural harmony and the feeling of pulsing energy, movement of a birthing, creating and recreating. There is the essence of vulnerable strength I wanted to capture, authentic processes, and transitions of life in motion.

There’s a triskele/triskelion at center to anchor the cycles of life and energy in motion of interconnectedness with endings and beginnings as One. It is layered over an organic, but balanced tree of life with spiraling roots that anchor and fluidly flow – receiving and giving nourishment – and an eight petaled flower for additional universal harmony, infiniteness, prosperous growth, personal power, regeneration, and wholeness energies to add to the wisdom and enlightenment of the tree’s cycles and embodiment of spirit experiencing the fullness of integration.

There are also three Runes included that spoke to personal things for the soul this was created for, but they include Ansuz (Voice of the Universe), Laguz (water/ocean), and Sowilo (Sun). There are also three butterflies layered on each side of the tree, emerging from the center, as if it was the cocoon and they are in fluid motion of accelerated flight of creative cycles. And last, there are tulips of renewal/rebirth on each side extending from multiple layered symbolism of three stems, blades of grass, water in motion, flames, and energy or sound waves.

You might see why I shared the design and some of the symbolism in it, as it does speak to the collective cycles we’re navigating that grief is a part of along the journey of undoing into ashes, to rise again in an innovative way.

There’s truly so much one could write about these days because of everything streaming in so quickly, but I find it’s better to stay in the stillness of each moment and allow things to deepen more before trying to voice what is going on in the energetic realms. There will come a place and time for more, and/or a different way to share it.

For now, I’m leaning into what feels like quite a transformative year with many surprises and turns around each corner.

If you, too, are experiencing deep breaths and exhales into more expansive embodiment, then I hope some of these Winter landscapes and images shared, have the perfect coding for you.

And that leads me to some updates about new and upcoming offerings and changes to current ones.

FULL MOON GIVEAWAY:

I know most of my friends here aren’t on Instagram, but for anyone that is, just a quick heads up that Mody Ra and I teamed up for a Giveaway that runs through the end of today – 11:59pm PST. We are gifting the winner one Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Skull that Mody has carved (you get to choose the one that speaks to you out of 3 skulls) and I am gifting a personal channeling message from The Speakers. Details on how to enter are at my Instagram page – @taniamariemagick

BIRTHDAY DISCOUNT & CRYSTAL SKULL PARTY:

And for those of you who aren’t on Instagram to share in the giveaway fun, I do have an upcoming release this weekend of skulls you may not want to miss – my way of celebrating my birthday with all of you since I don’t have any big plans. I didn’t have time to get them up for today’s post, but please check back at the Crystals & Crystal Skulls page this weekend, as listings will go live anytime between today and Monday. If you’ve been coveting any of the remaining skulls or crystals awaiting homes, I’ll be sharing a special birthday discount on them to help make those heart connections happen. And then there will be a new group of special ones ranging from smaller to larger – some including dragon consorts for The Year of the Dragon and several emanating the “blue ray” of energy that I keep strongly receiving as a key message. Something for everyone and each budget. I specifically chose some of these to bridge to you, as I know many of you don’t have access or know where to go to find your crystalline friends, but have been doing the necessary preparation to get them ready, and awaiting for their reveal.

SACRED TATTOO DESIGNS:

I will be taking a break again from custom tattoo designs. This offering is only available through the end of this month – February 29th and then I’ll be removing the page link from my website. So, if this was something you’ve been thinking about, you can still take advantage of the discounted offering I’ve made available at Custom Tattoos for a few more days.

INTUITIVE GUIDANCE SESSIONS:

These sessions are still available with one session or package session options to support you through any aspect of life you’re navigating. I can currently welcome up to four new clients, if this is or has been of interest. Packages are also available with payment options, just as I also support with crystal and crystal skull adoptions. And if you don’t see a package option that fits your needs, please reach out and I can create one for you.

ONLINE REIKI CERTIFICATION TRAINING & EMPOWERMENT SERIES:

The uptick in Reiki training continues and support with integrating this into everyday life, as well as wanting to dive into the potential zones and expanding one’s way of experiencing life have been in line with the rapid shifts. The feedback on the Reiki courses has included people feeling that even though some of them had gone through Reiki training before (wanting to renew their relationship to it) – that they found these to be especially resonant with a freeing way of experiencing Reiki with greater excitement and fresh perspective that aligns with the now. These online courses are all easily found at the links included here.

TALK WITH YOUR CRYSTAL SKULLS SESSIONS:

And last, this is a new offering that comes because of receiving many inquiries and nudges from others. People who are especially new to bringing home a crystal skull or have a growing collective of them are looking for help with how to connect with their skulls, hear them, receive names, and what to do or how to work with them – essentially how to “talk with your crystal skulls.” And although I do and will be sharing some tidbits in episodes of Talks With Crystal Skulls, the kind of personalized attention and time is something apparently people have shared needing more of. So, I am now offering “Talk With Your Crystal Skulls” Sessions – a kind of mentoring and one-on-one exploration where I can help you to discover your way with your skulls. You can find that new offering and more details here: Talk With Your Crystal Skulls Sessions

(End note: As I just finished writing this post, the fattest, biggest raccoon we’ve ever seen, and actually the first we’ve seen at the house, just waddled across our back deck in the dark – how’s that for some embracing change and exploring new possibilities energy? Into the mysterious playfulness and inner child realms we go!)

It’s always love day in my life because the heart chakra is the portal that rules my world. I find that when we let love lead, the rest falls into place. Vulnerable strength comes by leaning into the heart’s wisdom. The heart has a power that’s undeniable when we surrender to it.

All the things our minds would rather try and work out, the heart simply does by natural alchemy.

True, it’s not always easy to step into the heart space, especially if you’ve had years of conditioned structures built up around it for protection. Yet the moment you say “yes” to a little more vulnerability, the door cracks open and love feels like a gentle, fresh breeze tousling your inner child’s hair with a long awaited welcome.

I’ve shared the photos laced through this post before, but they always speak to me as the epitome of love and the sweetest love story I know – perfect shares I feel for Valentine’s Day. I will never get over the way these two formed hearts with their entwined bodies, and would touch temples together in communion with one another.

These two – Cosmo and Joy – and all of my bunny loves have been on my mind and heart a lot and today – Valentine’s Day – couldn’t go by without sharing these most memorable photos of the two sweet angels that embodied the meaning of this day and LOVE.

Cosmo, my special needs son, was and always will be the epitome of unconditional love and he cast his heart’s spell on Joy – helping her to surrender and lean into a deepening love and interdependency, rather than independence. Joy was always a sweet angel, but Cosmo supported her into the next evolution of her deepening transformation, while Joy provided her strength and love to enrichen Cosmo’s solo journey into a super power bond.

The power of one is great, but two joined in heart is unstoppable.

These angels – rabbits – have taught me true, unconditional love and opened my heart to greater expanse forever.

Love Day is every day for me, especially because of the souls in rabbit bodies who have been my best friends.

The heart chakra became my logo, if you recall, which I called the Emerald Bridge and in fact, that logo shows up in each episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls.

Having learned the alchemy possible through this vortex portal, it has been a focal point of my life and life’s work. So any day that we can talk a little extra about love and focus on the heart is a good day to me!

I wrote this a while back, and felt like today was also a good day to reshare it.

The Bridge…..

See what someone can become – their wholeness of being, not solely what they appear to be or the temporary clothing they wear.

See the magnificence of possibility in an individual that resides as their essence. Then you can see what they are attached to as a current reality – their pain, their tragedies, their story of incompleteness.

By doing this you create the space between – an immeasurable void of enlightenment.

You see what is and what could be.

This place is the origin and return where the stars of the Cosmos are alive within.

When you meet someone in this void and infuse intent into the starry constellations of the heart center, a shift will occur and becoming is activated into being.

Stars move and form anew.

Love is the Bridge.

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The Heart Chakra is where unconditional love resides. It is the balancing integrator of opposites (between body and spirit, male and female, persona and shadow, ego and unity) and acts as an energetic “bridge” between the lower and upper chakras.

Love is the most powerful energy in the Universe and is a vital energy to be focusing on every moment of every day, more so now than ever. Holding your hand over your heart with conscious connection, for even just minutes a day, can help you to stay present in your heart, help heal and open it to greater depths. It can help you to see with eyes of love and choose, respond, and act from love. Ask for help in doing so from your guides, angels, your Source connection and even ask your essence to be present in your higher heart always.

Heart awareness is a game changer.

Love is the alchemy.

And if you would love a little friend to help with a powerful heart boost, one of the crystal skulls I recently released is a perfect wisdom keeper and guide for that journey – the Emerald Skull. Emerald is known as “the stone of successful love” that opens the heart chakra, nurtures the capacity for giving and receiving unconditional love, and supports emotional healing and equilibrium for more nourishing relationships.

That beauty, along with three other powerful skull friends, are still looking for their cocreators. If you would like any added insight about them, I’d be happy to assist.

Mody is also providing a Valentine’s Day special on his skulls, so any at the link will receive 15% off through the end of today. If you are called to anyone, please reach out and I can put you in touch with him, or if you’re on Instagram you can directly message him at his page.

Thank you Cosmo and Joy for always being such beautiful ambassadors of love.

And thank you to everyone who is doing their best each day to open the heart door to your inner world of love potential a little further.

There is so much love to discover and no end to how far we can go with loving even more.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Aquarius New Moon, today, and soon-to-be Chinese New Year of the Wood Dragon tomorrow! If things have felt intense whether in your personal experience or via feeling the outside world through your sensitivities, this New Moon may bring a flash of fresh air and inspire a surge of innovation.

This is a great time for reflecting upon the ways in which you’ve felt confined or held back in your life, and how you might harness a new outlook or invite a sense of motivation toward creative changes. Something electrifying to your life direction, parts of self you’re accustomed to, and even to your dreams, may stir an invigorated spark for creating a different version of reality to align with how you really feel.

I’ve been in a quiet (curled up cozy) mode again – these seem to come in waves – as I allow all that I feel to just flow and swirl within and around me. I try not to grab onto any one thing, and encourage myself to find even greater peace and trust with things in flux and in a different state than what might feel more comfortable.

Winter, here, continues to be odd and also in constant flux.

One week we’re walking our sparse-to-no-snow neighborhood streets and finding exposed sights we wouldn’t otherwise see if the heavy snow of last year were covering them – like this Troll portal door and mini Otherworld someone created for others to enjoy.

I love the giant door created on this Troll rock house with chimney even! And the pathway leading up with all the little Troll magick along the way.

The next week there’s snow covering everything and even white outs from a passing storm.

We did have a decent one (storm that is) that brought great powder to the mountains this past weekend and made for invigorating skiing. I had a couple of great days on the mountain this week, exploring by myself and feeling the joys of my achievements in what once was a huge challenge. Skiing has become one of my biggest accomplishments and proves how one can master their fears. I got in the most vertical feet I’ve done in a day because great snow makes for a hoppy ski bunny to feel extra confident.

The much welcome breaks on the expansive mountain tops were an opportunity to breathe in deeply, exhale with surrender, and feel the incredible new powder beneath me like a fresh slate.

I found myself in a meditative…flow, wind, flow, wind…gliding along down the slopes like a wintery serpent.

Everything is a weaving of alchemy if we view it as such.

There is so much potential available.

And the landscapes I found myself in were the things my dreams are made of.

Just look at these dreamy winterscapes…ahhhhh the crisp essence and sweeping majesty of it all.

The colors are of pure potential and the mystical blues that pervade my visions and the watery realms of my cosmic heart.

There’s something extra enchanting about the perfect flocked trees.

And Winter’s light, both illuminating and revealing shadows in a dance of perfection.

The watery realms have been communicating loudly and they mirror both the oceans between land here and the cosmic waters between the worlds of beyond.

I feel this may be part of the extra quiet I feel, as it’s a deepening and listening that is happening on new levels. The watery realms are those that call for feeling and emanating that which is felt within, without. Telepathy feels on high right now, and doesn’t surprise me, as this is where we’re headed more…to be able to project thoughts and feelings without the limitation of words, in a fluid way.

This is part of why cetaceans are showing up a lot for many people in increase to the regular frequency they may have been already. But it’s also about our being ready to be able to receive, hear, and understand the coding they message that will assist current and upcoming changes necessary.

That reminds me that I had a dream two nights ago…not about cetaceans, but about water. In summary, I was inside a room of some large structure that had an atrium in the center where a dark pool of water was, with rocks and surrounding wild area. This felt like another world within the world inhabited by humans but residing together. I was watching as two little girls walked by the pond and bent down at the water, proceeding to pull out giant frogs (another prevalent animal spirit that shows up and quite fitting). They were removing the frogs and seemed to want to take them with them, and this made me not happy. Then I noticed one of them picking up a rabbit that had been laying in the bushes. At this point I went down stairs and over to them and proceeded to shoo them off, telling them they couldn’t take the animals and disturb them. It was interesting being they were children, whom I resonate with always, and yet their energy was that of not understanding the sacredness of this area and that their actions were damaging to these beings.

The girls left and I put the frogs back in the water. And then I saw two rabbits. One was laying curled up asleep and peaceful between some rocks over the dark pond and the other was huddled in some bushes in pain. I noticed this one had been injured…no bloody mess in the dream…but that his fur down to skin had been split open over the top of one of his back legs and it seemed like the leg was dislocated or the bottom part of that side of the body was detaching.

He was in pain and I held him with intention of comforting him through his process and as I turned to look at the other rabbit that was a bit larger than this one, I realized that she was laying in the exact position of this white rabbit I painted as part of the Cosmic Egg Blossom Mandala.

I felt the depth of connection tying them both together. That the one incubating in a cosmic egg womb, so to speak, was an extension of this rabbit transitioning and was transmuting all of the feelings and energies from the other in complete tranquility of potent stillness. The sleeping rabbit was readying to birth and I was here honoring and comforting the one that was dying.

There was this sense of the rabbit over the dark primordial water, inhabited by giant frogs (of metamorphosis, renewal, rebirth and fertile creative energy like the rabbits), as this other rabbit was suffering in pain that felt deeply reflective of the alchemy at hand, collectively and individually, taking place beneath all the immense and intense change – a simultaneous recreation birthing from the old that is dying.

I woke the next morning to find that Frith had been active in the garden, leaving clear rabbit tracks back and forth in the fresh white snow of potential.

And that feels like a good place to stop for today’s short post to welcome in the New Moon and Lunar New Year, while honoring my own potent stillness.

I do have a little something to help celebrate with as well – an Aquarius New Moon Crystal Skull Release.

Last week I did have a group of six skulls move on to loving new homes that were shared in personal showings, but today’s group just announced wanting to be introduced for today’s energy and offered to everyone. I always listen to their timing. So, I literally pulled together quick videos of each for listings at the last minute and found this the easiest way to share without being overwhelming with work on my side.

Some have supported my own transformational journey and are ready to do the same for others. Some I sensed would only be with me temporarily to assist the energy grid here of skulls and crystals, as part of my role is to support them to do their work AND get to their people (reflecting energetic support for what people are going through), which plays out in different streams of experience. While they are with me, I assist them into their purity, let them work with the collective here to both prepare them for their travels onward and to activate necessary keys within the skulls that stay.

It’s a beautiful process that is sacred and humbling to support. I am overjoyed by every interaction no matter how short or long.

This new group has a lot of master carved and smaller ones, which I know more people are drawn to especially if starting their crystal skull family, plus one larger one. I did this short video so you can decide if anything calls to explore further at the link here: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

The video includes the last two crystals remaining that can be great wands to activate your skull and crystal grids or help to move energy through them. I have some DT’s myself for this purpose in my grid and wand to activate each session I do with them.

Also, Mody shared with me some new pieces that include two stunning Isis skulls in white and black rare ancient stones, along with a cobra bearing the ankh at its hood, and some dragons (for the Year of the Dragon – although one is off to its home already). They can be found at the link here (scroll near the bottom of page for the new pieces): Egyptian Skulls & Dragons by Mody Ra