Every season has been a treat for the eyes and a celebration for the soul here this year, as an historical Winter set the tone for unfolding abundance from Mother Earth. Following the depths of snowy enchantment came Spring surprises and a super bloom Summer. I can only imagine how rich Autumn will be when we fall into the thick of it. I’m envisioning vibrant nebulas of leaves bursting forth around every corner.

We have a Super Harvest Full Moon in Aries today that offers potent opportunity to bring ideas into manifestation through the creative life force that lives within our very breath and being. Courage, movement, and passion are highlighted strengths at this time, while keeping an eye on fiery triggers. If you can find ways to move energy through exercise, dancing, creative projects, or any steps forward in action, these can help to keep you aligned with energy’s need to keep momentum going.

I always take prompts from the forest animals as to what’s ahead, and I’m already seeing a frenzy of preparations mixed in with the last bouts of playtime. This little one, who’s actually quite a big and chubby guy, is one of my frequent visitors who bravely goes about his business alongside me. As you can see, he’s busy gathering what looks like nesting material, which he kept coming back for in intervals.

Cold days and dark nights are around the corner. I, too, feel my inner clock in get ‘er done mode and mirroring the little ones of the Forest Portal.

For now, hints of the season’s transitions begin with golden carpets and veils that highlight, rather than hide or distort. They tell us of Earth’s ancestry, from one golden age of potential to another.

Snowberries foreshadow the dusting of snow soon to come while pine cones are dismantled by forest gatherers who take nothing for granted.

Our maple trees are already taking to the catwalk in Fall’s timeless styles, my berry bushes are looking vibrant, while my garden blossoms are focused on dawning shades of crimson to fuchsia, and coral to bronze.

With our dark cherry new decking 98% complete, we moved our plants back up from the lower deck and redid their driplines. In the process my baby frog friend joined the excitement, hopping about from the giant pots we were moving. He has SO much energy and is quite brave for a tiny one no more than an inch big. I gathered him in my hands, once again, and brought him back to the pots up top. There were no signs of mom and dad, but I’m sure they are nearby.

Walks in the forest are delightful right now…and the mushroom madness continues, although two days ago it seemed that most had fallen into Winter’s slumber already.

This season of the mushroom has felt particularly important in reflecting states of deep transformation and eternal connection.

For me, they’ve also been telling of how the nature spirits feel ever so close these days and are revealing that which has been awaiting in the underground to emerge.

What do you think of when mushrooms come to mind?

I feel mystery, otherworldly presence, am reminded of the sacred and ritual, understand collective connection from micro to macro, feel my abundance, hear songs of immortal wisdom and healing power, see gateways, and come to stand at the intersection of life and death where rebirth and regeneration are gifts of transition.

Indeed these magickal amulets of the forest floor are more than enchantment, alone, although that kind of wonderly I never experience too much of. These millions of years old mycelium jewels are the elders of the land offering ancient knowledge that can guide our soul’s journey and connect us with the Unseen energies we take for granted all around us.

Many a faery tale and folklore have spoken of them, but perhaps these repetitive mentions reveal much more than a bedtime story, alone.

Creative life force pulses through a mushroom’s veins and reminds us of how each layer of our existence is interwoven.

Even when you don’t see them, they are alive in the shadows, pulsing their vitality through every vein of existence.

This abundance of mushrooms around me amplifies that threads are illuminating across the tapestry and bringing awareness to the spaces in between that have gone unnoticed. The web of connection through all things, realms, and worlds experienced, can find direction from one tiny spore.

So, too, are each of us that powerful and yet many hardly ask the questions that could change the course of their experience.

There are no predestined circumstances unless you have agreed to it on some level consciously or unconsciously in each fertile moment.

The mushrooms all around me have become wayshowers this season for the transitions of life I choose to enter.

And either the mushrooms are growing larger, or I’m shrinking into faery size, as I’ve been blown over by not just the numbers, but also the huge contrast from giant to miniature everything I find.

And even the energy revealing itself sitting below or glowing atop the mushrooms seems to be revealing what I shared about the Unseens ready to be seen without a wall between worlds.

It’s been quite a magickal week since the Equinox. Astrid’s moving into her immortal beingness has truly heralded a gateway of rapid shifts and experiences. Some of these have been evident in the daily alignments where intention meets personal reality.

September 22^nd began the Equinox here and on that day Astrid reminded me that wishes do come true.

We went on a hike with our friend – taking a different route than we have and wandering as so called. Prompted by a hidden family of large mushrooms we stumbled upon, I began telling our friend about the magick Amanita Muscaria mushroom that Astrid manifested for me the day after her transition and said, “I wished I had taken it home, as when we returned on that hike, it was gone.” I had visions of faery art creations I would love to have made from that very first magick mushroom.

Literally while I was speaking this out loud to Dave and our friend, we turned to our left and what do you think was there?

Yep! A little cluster of Amanita Muscaria mushrooms…only the second time now seeing them here.

My heart nearly popped out of my chest as I blurted with excitement, “Astrid knew I wanted to find more and there they are!” She continued to show me how the strength of belief, meeting desire, meeting unbounded love, meeting creative life force, and all the alignments in between, make things happen.

This time I made sure I didn’t leave without taking a couple of them, leaving behind butt ends of their stems, when possible, or some younger ones so they could continue on.

Not long after this manifestation fun, we stopped at the river for a snack break and for our friend’s dog to get a drink. I was standing on a rock when suddenly just below me a large garter snake caught my eye. She’d literally just appeared and had gone down to the water to get a drink.

I told the others, while I pointed down so they could see her too. She was one of the largest we’d seen and watching her sip the water was an interesting sight…also felt symbolic of consciously taking in the sacred wisdom of the underworld streams of energy available so that one can embody the the true essence of potential within.

The snake then retreated, crawling up and over the rock just below mine and stopping to just be there and impart a memory mark upon my consciousness of what this all meant that words fall short to describe.

I was feeling major magickal transformation at my fingertips….and this literally manifested, as I noticed two off-leash large dogs approaching, which concerned me for my snake friend’s safety. I told her to hide in the bushes, but she kept staring at me and didn’t move. Dave understood my concern and said, “Go touch her tail to see if you can get her to move.”  

So, I bent down and gently pet from near the end to tip of her tail with my hand that bears a sacred serpent tattoo, and yet she still wouldn’t move. I began to understand she had wanted this to happen, bringing the two of us in closer relationship to each other – alchemy in motion. After three attempts at petting her, she finally and slowly slithered off into the bushes…safe from the dogs who never had a chance to see her. My fingers tingled with the stirrings of unknown excitement.

Our hike continued on, wandering paths we hadn’t before, and what do you think happened? I found more Amanita Muscaria. And how many do you think I found and ended up taking home on this opening eve of the Equinox?

If you guessed five, you’re absolutely right. Astrid was helping to work the magick indeed on this portal. Five being my sacred number and always associated with messaging from Nestor and the rest of my five rabbit companions now in the stars.  

After our hike we did some grocery shopping and I was so excited to see a bunch of organic Autumn beauties on sale in abundance. I was feeling the season’s vibes so much, so I popped four squash, an enchanting blue pumpkin, and Dr. Seuss-like gourd into the cart.

They make me smile sitting on our kitchen island, watching them shift with the different light of day.

Colorful and cozy dishes of baked squash and squash soups have begun!

That day I also received the special little filigree bottle necklace I found to hold some of Astrid’s ashes in.

I have three already for Nestor, Joy, and Cosmo that are also colored glass bottles in filigree I keep in a special and potent place and can also wear when I want. This one felt perfect for Astrid with its royal essence and butterfly on the front.

So that night just before the official Equinox chimed in, I filled it with her ashes and then took a small pinch of them out to the garden. The little more than half Moon was exactly above the garden, providing me the light I needed to spread a little in three spots near some of the rabbit statues I have there. It was the perfect ending to a most magickal day, only made extra special by the arrival also of this gorgeous enchanted forest, hand-painted, repurposed, wooden chest, which now houses the beautiful boxes that hold the ashes of my dearest rabbit friends.

It arrived with this special rabbit over the Moon (so perfect for Astrid’s travel portal) hand painted, repurposed bowl for sacred things like crystals, that of course sits atop my mushroom table right now.

Are you seeing the mushroom theme continuing?

The next morning, September 23^rd, which was the Equinox for other parts of the world – making this portal an extended enchanting experience for me – gave me a sweet spark of joy. While Dave went out for an early morning bike ride, I was getting some things done and some sad thoughts moved through me of something personal about Astrid.

Dave came home and we decided to hike down to the lake that day, so I put back some things in my Wonderland office and as I turned to leave, something caught the corner of my eye. I knew immediately it was one of my wild rabbit friends.

This excited me to no extent and I yelled up to Dave that I’d just seen a bunny. The little one had run to the right, so I went into the adjoining room to go out into the garden and see if my friend was still there.

I opened the door and called out, then turned and looked to my left in the berry bush of my rock garden. And there he was hidden between the branches with ears listening to my voice!

Oh Frith! You returned! And on this potent day of the Equinox!

This was so special to me, as not only have I not seen any wild rabbits in the garden this year until now (at least not at any time I was there), but this came after my sad thoughts.

I knew that Astrid, once again, was working her magick. She wanted to make me smile and called upon our dear friend Frith to make an appearance.

The two of them were SO close and in fact, she taught him Reiki, you might remember. While he would hang out just across the way from where she laid on the other side of the sliding glass door.

Frith was grown up now, but his presence was all the same. So aware, so comfortable with me, and highly conscious.

Astrid knew this was the sweet medicine to work its alchemy…and it did. Life goes on and the magick continues.  

I was so excited and giggly, talking to Frith as I stood a few feet from him, that Dave came down to look. He poked his head through the door and both of us locked eyes with sweet little Frith. I giggled at his cute little twitching nose and those light tipped feet – just like Astrid’s. He then made a dash toward the fence door, but quickly decided to double back and head straight through the garden. I watched as his cottontail and thumpers flicked here and there.

What an Equinox gift!

We then headed out back and made our way to the lake. Still in full beaming joy that must have had me glowing from the inside out, I just knew more magick was on the way. How could it not be?

By this time, I had received full vision of what I wanted to do and create with my magick mushrooms, so we both kicked off the hike with intention of wanting to find more. And my oh my did we ever! We found a few secret pockets – including one in our backyard forest and one really big one – all just hidden away for believing eyes to find.

In all, I ended up with 15 by the end of the hike. I didn’t count them until home, but was floored again at what Astrid helped manifest. First my special 5 and now 15, connected to her birthday of 9/15.

This team was on manifestation fire!

They’re all SO beautiful, they deserved to have their portraits taken.

I had ordered some things for my projects, so I prepped the mushrooms for when they would arrive. And while they sat, we enjoyed our jacuzzi for the first time in a while, as it was moved into the forest while our deck was getting done. The Equinox two-day portal ended with a bat flying back and forth for twenty minutes over our heads. Mystery and transmutation was in fluid motion and the vibrations were resounding across the telepathic airwaves.

The days following the Equinox doorway continued in similar vein, with special Nature treasures meeting my heart’s desires and my spirit in body’s training into this next phase. I’ve been feeling like a wizard’s apprentice, and although we are capable of being the wizard at any moment of full embodied consciousness, this has been a enjoyable initiation of remembrance in more ways than I’m sharing here.

The 24th brought a sweet little owl’s feather to me and the 25th, this perfect red-tailed hawk feather.

Each time, after intentions. The hawk manifestation was another very special one, as the tail feather was a first for me (I have many from wings and body) and it is so pristine, not to mention was laid in this spot you could only see if you were called to turn that way, as if placed there just at the moment I decided I would.

I nearly had a heart attack at the tail feather find because of both my desire stated and because the night before I’d been wearing my Horus pendant I got in Egypt and was connecting deeply with that energy.

Interestingly, that night after wearing the pendant and before finding the tail feather, I had the recurring dream that I mentioned briefly in a recent post where I was 51, pregnant, in labor, and very worried about the birthing due to only one of us making it. The first time was on 9/11 and now again on 9/24.

I was then surprised by a package in the mail on 9/26 from two dear friends who sent me an incredibly thoughtful and meaningful gift. It is this beautiful large rabbit garden statue.

Their intent was for it to grace my garden and evoke precious memories of the happy times Astrid and I shared here and for our happy place. I felt Astrid’s weavings once again, working her love through the hearts of those I love.

This statue holds an immortalized essence of her that I have placed in the garden just right of my Nestor statue (not seen in the photos) in a way that I can see her from my desk and through the window, while she can peer in at me from the other side…wild and free as her heart is and for all of her forest friends to visit.

I was floored by the light energy that showed up and kept shifting all around her and her garden friends, when I placed her in her spot. I think she’s happy.

But the beauty and magick doesn’t stop there, as I took a solo Nature walk the next day on 9/27 for an hour or so while Dave had some things to tend to and decided to connect with Astrid while continuing in my training.

I noticed that the door on this prolific mushroom season was shutting and thought it would be a miracle if I found anymore of the magick mushrooms…but I kept believing, as Astrid would encourage me to do. And while many a mushroom were indeed dried up and merging back into Earth’s womb where they came from, I DID find 7 more! – A number that carries ancient mysticism, powerful universal connection, eternal life, and magickal luck.

I also found a giant porcini and two other cutie mushrooms that came home along with some fall blooms and woodpecker feather for my projects.

Most of them were nearing the end of their vibrancy, but because I let my intuition guide me off trail, I found the biggest most perfect and fresh one – which ended up being the last of the day.

Such a memorable way to say farewell for now and to merge faery tale with reality.

So why do I share all of this?

Because I believe that each and every one of us is powerful beyond measure and like each mushroom is the fruit of the mycelium web that connects and feeds everything, you are the flower of All That Is that connects and creates everything. Everything is who you are in unique glory. All knowledge is what runs through your veins and flourishes into your true expansive nature when you align with this and use it.

Faery tales may not be just for our entertainment or to teach lessons in creative ways, but to fuel imagination into believing who we really are and what is possible, once again.

On this fiery Full Moon, I plant to keep the initiating going and forge deeper into the vastness that lies within all that I am as All That Is.

I woke early this morning finding the house lit by the light of the Moon glowing directly through the windows from the forest. I went out on the deck and took a few photos. I’m not sure what that moving orb is, but it echoed all I’ve been sharing.

We’ll be heading out on one of our most magickal hikes today – one we haven’t done yet this year – an 11+ mile adventure where I can play in the field of possibilities this Moon’s Cosmic setup invites.

I wish you all an illuminating Full Moon into the thread of your very powerful existence.

And until next time, I’ll leave you with a sneak peep at the newest Magick Rabbit ornaments I created during this powerful week. This is a quick overall glance, and more individual photos will be found at the link below later this evening.

There will be five new, ready-to-ship ornaments that I fully enjoyed channeling with the help of Astrid and the family at this link:

Magick Rabbit Ornaments

Each one is very special to my heart for different reasons. I can’t wait for you to see each of them individually. So hop back on this evening, as you won’t want to miss the magick.

I am also sharing one of the customs I recently made. You’ll see more close-ups of it also this evening, but it felt perfect for today’s post with its Autumn theme.

I’ll post other examples as I’m able, so that you can see how creativity has no bounds.

There is currently just 1 crystal remaining – interesting to me that it’s a rare, raw blue agate portal beauty, reminding me of all the blue showing up these days with Astrid.

You can see it here:

Crystals and Crystal Skulls

And if you’ve been thinking about the Life Transition Support, just a reminder these are available between now and end of the year, and there are only 2 spots remaining.

Details are below and if you have questions, please contact me:

Life Transition Support