We are already nearly two weeks into 2024, as I sit here writing down these thoughts. Blog posts tend to be longer when I do write, since I don’t share as often. It feels appropriate that I peek my head out on today’s Capricorn New Moon – the first of the year.

New Moons help us bring clarity to our intentions and visions, while Capricorn lends strength, commitment, and resiliency towards building those desires, step-by-step. New levels of responsible leadership might call to you in the areas of life you are gifted at – be that leading with kindness, leading with joy, leading with creativity, leading with innovative ideas – anyone can be a leader in a particular expression of energy. When life is lived aligned with your truth, you spread a valuable gift to others.

Day-to-day experiences continue to swiftly go through cycles from one extreme to another on the collective front.

While this could be unnerving or feel unstable, oddly I find it to be a comforting sign of deeply transformative evolution and a way the balancing scales are finding equilibrium through the constant creative innovation we’re collectively implementing. In fact, amidst the unclear unfoldings, I am increasingly experiencing more clarity. I’m grateful for that, as I know it’s not a given and not shared by everyone. Yet, I feel it important to share what we each are experiencing, relative to us, as it provides hope and also another storyline than what one might only potentially be hearing and thinking is out there.

In the outer realms around me, that back and forth swing has shown up in our snow level contrasts between last year and this year. While this time of year, then, was making history in record highs, we’ve been at record lows so far until recent storms. We just came through one of the warmest and driest periods for the early season that apparently tied for fourth in these categories since around 1970.

Between the 2nd and 3rd of this month we got about four or so inches and then finally Saturday we received about seven inches in an all-day storm, with more that is coming down now as I speak in our next big, all-day storm.

These are the levels at our elevation of 6600, but the mountain tops of course receive more and in fact over a foot (18 inches in some parts) fell over parts of the Sierra the first round. This was all a boost to the slow season start and this current storm may bring more than another foot of snow.

Things are later this year and still unknown as to just how much of a Winter snow pack level we’ll ultimately end up receiving, but it’s evident that Mother Earth is reflecting her own course of action amidst change.

All of this reminds me of things playing out in the world – daily unknowns, but an underlying coherence to the process of creation.

All of these ups and downs in terms of watery energy levels, are reflecting what I’m seeing people experiencing in terms of an emotional see-saw effect. There are currents running through everything that don’t have an agenda to unnerve, but unnerving they still can be when one is moving through so much all at once, might be unequipped, or trying to stay afloat amidst a sea of others feeling pulled under by the strength of these waves.

The old roots are being unearthed, so that the new seeds below them can start to breathe and flourish.

So what do you do?

How can you find a way back to your personal empowerment within it all, instead of giving that away?

I think everyone’s processes are different and therefore all we can do is share our personal experiences and walk in the truth of that experience the best we each know how to. We all have a different approach, different parameters to work within and what we’re capable of and willing to do or not, and unique ways of experiencing things that are relative to our journeys so far.

For me, as I’ve mentioned before, having my own anchor and process to reframe things is very helpful. Taking a pause is especially beneficial for me, so as not to lash out with an unconscious reaction – and with Mars in the first house I DO actually understand how the thrust of fiery energy in the moment can get the better of us if a healthy framework isn’t implemented.

I step back and observe myself from an unconditionally detached space, allowing within that safe space for vulnerable communication of initial (and healthy movement of) emotion. Because I allow the feeling its voice, it doesn’t come out explosive (more practice of this moves energy naturally and organically in the moment and eventually doesn’t get backed up awaiting a trigger). This observer role helps me to understand why I might feel that way and offers myself the untethered version to why and how I could feel differently if I were purely in the now moment with wider perspective of the bigger picture.

I like to give the parts of me their voice to be heard and acknowledged, but also because that expression is part of energy’s natural course – simply to move through. This is done however, by holding space for myself and knowing how to honor each part, yet also nurture them back to wholeness.

I know this isn’t something easily done, as it is cultivated and sometimes we may need an unconditional and kind other to hold that space when we feel lost in a spiral.

In either case, I find that a willingness and surrendering to vulnerability can assist the process and allows the natural strength and resiliency within that, to rise up and play a more prominent role toward the highest good responses.

Greater presence, patience, practice, and perspective play potent parts in the process.

Phew! That was a lot of “p” words. And in the name of making things lighter, that sentence could make for a fun word game or mantra to repeat quickly, several times.

Perhaps that was one of coyote’s messages when she appeared behind our house on the 4th – playfulness. I watched from my morning spot on the couch, enjoying a vegan latte and breakfast, as I saw a large and very light colored coyote stroll up the snowy trail. Along with her clever, resilient, balanced, and fluid way of approaching sudden changes in life, she teaches us to do this all with a sense of humor and to know that we are supported with a big “yes” from the Universe.

And when we are feeling bogged down by things, we can also take a look around and within us and do a sweep of our energetic and physical space to assist movement of those more challenging or stuck areas we feel emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and/or physically.

Between the last week of 2023 and the first week of 2024, that’s what we did here…clearing and reorganizing our living space, which resulted in two carloads of donations (18 bags plus loose items) we dropped off on 12/31 and 1/4 – that all felt symbolic and potent. We both also reorganized our offices and I got all of the closets and storage cabinets in fresh and roomy order.

My office changes were directed by Astrid and my crystal skull friends – The Speakers and two other skull groups that have formed, which resulted in swift and clear movement of activated energy with the work we do together. The feedback from everyone who’s joined their sessions, so far, has been confirmation of everything I trusted and, in general, why the crystal skulls have become such prominent cocreators for people.

And indeed both energy and channeling sessions with The Speakers have been extra potent since the changes. I’m especially loving these because they are bringing the multi-dimensional realms into every day experience and creating these ultra clear channels for us to tangibly merge what was once more separate. There’s great fluidity, clarity, and rapid manifestation, which I feel is part of what we’re going to be experiencing and creating more of in the months and years to come – things don’t have to take long. The ways in which The Speakers help me to stretch is such a gift of complete trust and detached compassion.

It’s all made me see how the “Transcending Duality” online workshop I created over a year and a half ago about multi-dimensionality, is now more prevalent and was in fact a pre-requisite in a way to The Speakers coming through. In looking back, I also see the way I usually receive messages and visions ahead of time, has helped to anchor energies in so they are ready for the movements that come. However, even the Everyday Reiki workshop also reflects its relevancy more now because of the greater need people have to really walk the walk and integrate things into new, but easy and natural ways of bringing spirit and flesh together without all the rules and parameters – simply personal, creative alchemy in motion.

It’s so interesting to look back on how we and our lives have transformed and the things we’ve been led to do that at the time may not have had as much mind-grasping reason, yet become integral steps to our overall evolution.

We don’t always need to understand why, if the heart simply knows its way.

This reminds me of the labyrinthian journey, which incidentally we experienced just three days ago at the start of this week.

We had an appointment down in the valley, so as we usually do to make the most of our day, we added in some extra side trips. Dave found us a labyrinth to walk – something we’ve done a lot around and on the New Year or other potent times. This one was apparently the biggest in the area and we were excited to visit it for the first time.

With the recent snow, I wondered if the labyrinth would be covered, making it hard or not possible to walk. But when we arrived to the garden it resides in, there was just the perfect amount of snow that left subtle imprints of the stone-marked path beneath it.

This added some rich layers to the journey, making each step extra present and intentional, while also blurring the lines between seen and unseen.

We stepped forward with trust and allowed each step to guide the way.

This beautiful labyrinth was set in the middle of a quaint little town as part of the Heritage Park Gardens we will definitely come back to when Winter thaws. But being there in the silence of the snow covered fields that put the garden to rest, and a labyrinth center that looks out on the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains we live up at, was such a gift to experience.

While walking the labyrinth I noticed that it was encircled by giant lavender bushes between other plants like sage and some I couldn’t identify. But it was the lavender that caught my faery heart and while I walked the labyrinth, I pressed a few pieces of the dried blossom ends off into my hands and was overwhelmed by the still-so-strong lavender scent that infused my intentions with extra magick.

Lavender is a favorite to this faery’s heart, so it’s no wonder I have a couple of shelves of jarred dried garden lavender always in my kitchen. There’s a sense of spacious elegance, grace, purity and innocence of heart, and serenity that lavender infuses. These were perfect qualities to be surrounded by and to breathe in while I followed Dave’s foot prints left behind in the labyrinth’s snow pathway. I took five dried blossom stems home with me from this day…they smell SO good!

We explored the garden after our walk and I snapped several photos to bring the beauty and stillness of this fertile space of potential lying beneath the snow to you.

I loved some of the signs and just the sweetness of this little creative vortex. I hope you do too.

The sweet lavender fragrance brings up visions and codes, reminding me of what I wrote about labyrinths in the past:

Every step of the journey is integral to the path of wholeness that you are on.

It is ever-changing and ever-perfect, taking you to your own sacred center and back out into the expansive reflection found there.

At times you may need to call upon your intuition and creativity, engaging receptivity and courage when deciding to enter the journey to center or not – the way in is the way out.

I enjoy the “way in,” as I’ve been continually journeying deeper and deeper to my sacred center. I’m not too concerned as to how that will look on the way out, as right now I’m just immersed in the inner, knowing the outer will take care of itself by embracing that.

The Labyrinth was a common Native American Indian symbol that they used to represent life as a journey and our infinite, eternal nature. It is a way to understand that life is what you make it and the way we choose to live it, determines the degree of freedom and expansiveness we experience.

It is a portal of life evolution.

And in a post I shared over four years ago, I found this:

We each carry the power within us to create our own version of reality. And although it doesn’t always immediately show up in the outer world, you can still travel through life under the spell of your own intention simply by changing your relationship to everything. Yet, sometimes and often more times than not, you will in fact experience that reality in the form of reflective things that pop up out of nowhere or message you with sweet whispers of confirming support. The trick is to listen and trust what shows up and how you feel led in each moment.

Change is a constant and yet there are times that feel increasingly potent with transformational momentum – like recently and upcoming. I feel it revving behind the scenes and I sense it is happening for many. It may feel like a lightning strike when the manifestation of the change takes place, but truly has been in the making with every forward step.

Being is seeing and knowing.

It’s an experience of energy within the labyrinth of myself – that centering and balance labyrinths help your focus with while you go on a mini pilgrimage of higher self connecting.

That last part about a mini pilgrimage of higher self connecting is a constant invitation I feel extended to all of us, as we navigate these liquid lightning flashes of heart sanctum activations. There’s such huge acceleration taking place that I don’t think we always realize is happening when we’re in the middle of things.

So many discussions and reflections have centered around softening processes to the old versions of ourselves that were erected from outmoded paradigms of protection, survival, and power over. These are moving into new paradigms of trust, thriving, and shared empowerment that are rooted in unconditional compassion for the highest good of all concerned.

As I shared with a dear friend, in many ways the work many have done for years seemed without an end result, but now is becoming clear why it was integral. We’ll be needing all of what we anchored to help us stabilize during continued, rapid transformation and be of support to the growing number of people who will flourish from loving heart bridges of true empathy and compassion.

What if all of the ways we’ve been used to defining things as, went through a transformation too?

It’s my personal feeling that it’s not only some areas that we’ll creatively weave change through, but all areas.

For example, what if being an activist turned into being an activator?

This word came to me as a potential evolution and new version for what it means to be an activist.

In my personal experience, the word “activist” carries an old paradigm way of describing a process that fit a matching framework and timeline. And “activator,” to me carries a fresh paradigm process. That’s not to mean that everyone’s evolution looks the same, as for some, moving into being an “activist” may very well be their personal evolution. We’ll always have a wide spectrum of all things playing out at once because they balance the wholeness of polarities, yet I am seeing this as part of the new wave in creation – that visionary change will sweep through all areas of life.

But let’s just take this one example and break it down.

Activist usually describes a physical action taken or method taken by someone to create change.

Activator describes a chemical and molecular process that stimulates and initiates change through someone.

Equally powerful, but different in their approaches and reflective of their times and an individual’s frequency transformation.

An activator embodies a frequency, molecularly and energetically, that by way of being, creates a chain reaction that exponentially multiplies and ripples outward at the molecular level to create change. And therefore, someone who wants to facilitate transformational progression doesn’t need to be boxed into one way this looks or is labeled as. We create more expansive ways of inclusiveness and potential by expanding our perspective and vocabulary.

Cosmic Love Activator was a phrase that flashed in my mind that felt fitting to me. And we each may become different versions of “activators” with varying areas of focus or expertise, based on our individual expression of the Whole.

Anyway, sometimes I just have these multi-dimensional conversations with myself and like to share them out loud. They always make me feel more expansive when I discover a different way of expressing and creating. And after all, we are unlimited in our creativity. We merely need to exercise that conscious power for the highest good of all change.

It’s definitely like we’re developing the groundwork for new creative birthings, so perhaps the redecorating of my birthing room/womb – the Wonderland office – is just that.

And while I was rearranging and creating grids all over it, I was reacquainting myself with so many of my special crystal friends and seeing them all in a new light. That included this very special giant, raw blue chalcedony – one of my most rare and amazing finds I unearthed myself.

This piece was around when Astrid was and she loved it. It came just before the time period when she started pointing toward “blue” stones and crystals being of importance.

She actually told me in a dream to tell my friend Lisa of The Lemurian Rose to find me the crystal with “blue” in it. And since then, the crystal skulls and crystals have continued with “blue” as one of their messaging prompts amongst others. I’m still awaiting disclosure of the meaning behind all of this, but continue trusting nonetheless.

Anyway, this blue chalcedony is super special to me and being activated by her makes it ever more so. It now has center, anchoring prominence in one of my skull grids.

Chickadees and mushrooms have also been on the scene.

A different friend from the stories I shared about in my last post about mushrooms, found more fly agaric/amanita muscaria beauties in the Bay Area on the second of this month – three hours from here – and sent me these photos of them in their own evolution between a week’s time.

It’s fun that people have come to think of me with these, as it reminds me of how Astrid manifested the very first and all of them there after. So each message of more, feels like her winking at me again and again.

And while on our first real snow shoe adventure just this Sunday, the day after the storm, the chickadees were in abundance and very chatty – continuing to follow us up the mountain.

Not only were they sweetly singing away on that beautiful sunny day, but over and over kept landing on my hand, shoulder, and even the top of my snuggly snow cap.

I just melt every time I feel their delicate, but strong grip on my finger and see their precious, tiny bodies, spirited eyes, and sweet little feathers up close.

There was never time to catch a photo of them on my crown, but they did continue to land on it, Dave’s, and each of our friends’ crowns too.

I did catch this one, though, on our friend’s hat, the above few photos of these cuties in the surrounding trees, and on my hand.

These were taken by my friend of me.

There were more than a dozen at a time that were coming at me even though I wasn’t feeding them.

I’ve shared before how mountain chickadees have become so special to me. I love their bold, spunky and sweet, innocent essence. They are very social and playful, filled with joy, and although tiny and fragile in appearance, they are tough and adaptable to the harshest of cold winter elements. Many believe them to bring good fortune and to be keepers of wisdom. I love their sweet songs that remind us that beauty and riches are found in the simplest of things and that hope and love is worthy of always nurturing and believing in.

There are many reflections that nurture the heart to believe and encourage continued hope. We just have to open our hearts to see them and focus more energy there instead of elsewhere.

And while I haven’t physically seen Frith since the last time I posted photos of him, he has been around A LOT. I find his tracks imprinted in the snow in his usual places. He runs from the garden, over to my office, along the wall between my office and the connecting room, and then off to his area by the bush where he used to commune with Astrid.

In fact, he’s been hanging out a lot by the wall between the rooms, as I found a ton of bunny poops in the snow where he must have been resting for a while, and even a little golden bunny puddle. Hehe!

Having Frith and the rabbit energy around me does make for sweet softness to land in while I continue adjusting to my life without physical Astrid with me. In fact, I’ve had three adoption/foster trainings and interviews with the organization over the end and beginning of the years that I now volunteer with as their adoption counselor. They’ve all had happy endings. And during the time I’ve come to be with them, the organization (which started in 2019) has experienced a lot of growth, which is really awesome to see and be a part of.

Life goes on, growth continues, and cycles will start and end, over and over.

Nature is always a beautiful and wise mirror for all of this. She always helps me through anything I’m going through to understand in ways words aren’t needed.

I’m happy to see the snow again.

Snow is magickal.

Everything draped in white is a sure sign Jack Frost has whistled his song of Winter wonderly through the now slumbered land.

I cherish spacious breaths, immersing in the beautiful stillness and grace of wandering powdered forests on snow shoes.

No one around. Only the sparkly winks of fresh crystalline snow to assure you everything is alive with consciousness even when you think you’re alone.

Mountain top vistas are full of mystery and shifting light, and the dense forests drape around you with snowy arms that kiss the skin. The silence is so fertile with only the song of mountain chickadees and the tiny tussle of snow from the Unseens to commune with. 

Wandering a snow-covered mountain through forests and meadows is enough to make you believe that magick is real.

And watching the Sun both rise and set in Winter’s sky, as he unapologetically paints his creative strokes across the canvas before you, enlivens the artist within to rise and sing. 

Enjoy these windows of wonder and may they spark new creative expression to emerge again and again.

In the coming days I plan to list some special cocreator crystals, perhaps a couple of crystal skulls too, and maybe even some raw Tahoe quartz grid sets. I will have a few more skulls later, but I only release them as they tell me too. I am still offering the Personal Crystal Showings, but some people reached out to ask if I would post a few too. So, while I don’t have ability to list them all, I will share several as I do have time. I’ll try to announce that when they are up in the next few days, or check back by this weekend.

And because of how challenging things have been for people lately, I was intuitively guided to offer a big special on one-on-one intuitive guidance 1 hour phone sessions between now 1/11 and 2/11. These are general sessions that can be used for any kind of support. There will be one session and package session options as opportunities, including larger packages to take advantage of. Please see the link above for details and options.

I’m not sure how much longer I’ll offer phone sessions, as this is something I only do intuitively these days and I’m feeling more called to the channeling sessions with The Speakers. This could be the last round for now, but will be available to schedule at this special exchange rate through 2/11.

And speaking of skulls, today is the last day to take advantage of Mody Ra’s generous discount on the amazing and rare new ancient stone skulls he has available.

If you have any questions about any of these, please reach out.

Until next time, Happy New Moon my friends!