Just as I felt, June has sprung forth with vibrant exuberance from the get-go.

And while I’ve noted a lot of nitty-gritty kind of things popping up to focus energy toward, it all feels to be fundamental to expansive new terrain. Again, reminding me of that hourglass effect where things are squeezing into very defined clarity, streamlining, and sifting purposes in order to release into expansive liberation and creative forging.

From one reality to another we go!

From closure of May to onset of June I’ve also seen an uptick in alignment taking place, confirmation that many of us feel like we’re finally entering a time of doing what we came to do, and a lot of collaborative merging of soul family we in fact set out to do that with, really lighting up for the next level.

There are indeed many new collective ideas birthing and an underscoring to making thoughts and choices more conscious.

Do you realize the quantity of time spent in certain types of thoughts that are creating your experience, over the quality spent in presence of being the experience you want?

This Gemini New Moon of today – 6/6 – is opportune for reflections and shifts like these that are available to us.

It’s also the doorway for today’s New Moon Crystal Skull Release! YAY!

This is a personal release of a larger group that is ready for new guardians. I have recently anchored my collective by directive of frequencies for particular grids of which these beautiful souls assisted in energetic preparations, but are not part of the finalized group. Since I’ve been guided to work with groups, these ones have shared their readiness to move forward. I love them all so much and they will always have a home with me until they move on, or even if they don’t. Yet I sense that there are perfect hearts they would match up with so I’m letting them choose. Included are a few crystals that have also been integral to shifts.

More info can be found at the link below (please check out the initial paragraph description at the top of this page for this release):

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

What ever you would like to bring more of into your life like peace, love, joy, harmony, expansion, or abundance, may be assisted into being through a personal commitment of spiritual responsibility.

And if that sounds too heavy for you, even though the approach doesn’t have to be, perhaps just allowing yourself to soak up every bit of now that you can like a piece of bread savoring the last bits of your delicious meal, is more than adequate.

A gratitude soak in the presence does wonders.

As soon as June hit, it’s been like that for us here – soaking in all the goodness of these pre-Summer days.

That includes Sun Oven days, which we kicked off with homemade breads and cookies baking by sunshine frequencies and light codes of mmmmm!

The air is warm like a familiar friend, vivid green envelopes the ground, tight buds and new blossoms excite at the first touch of light, my skin turns gold with the same sunshine alchemy, and the waters flow in refreshing bursts of alpine surrender to a new season ahead.

The trails right now are filled with yellow beauty, as wafts of bitterbrush blossoms soften tight thoughts with their sweetness.

We love bitterbrush days, as their scent here reminds us of cinnamon and their vibrant color is like a stroke of joy to the canvas of life.

Even our house is surrounded by them.

There’s a new wave of flowers just beginning in our front yard too.

My blue and lilac lupine are popping first, along with the start of my purple allium (you might recall grew to giant sizes last year), and lots of other little wildflowers in a variety of colors.

My garden is just starting to get excited too, which I’ll share more of as the new season blossoms.

These are just hints of the lushness in first stages.

It’s going to be a beautiful Summer and the butterflies seem to think so too, as they are everywhere right now along with the sweet bumble bees.

And the wild creatures of the forest are so active right now, at least for us. As I mentioned, since the last day of May through start of June we’ve experienced an uptick in alignment and this has been especially so with the animals.

This kicked off on May 31st when we decided to do a higher elevation hike to see how the trails are doing in terms of melting snow and as we descended a favorite meadow that sits where one of the ski slopes of Winter is, we came eye-to-eye with two young does. It happened so fast there was no time to capture their beauty, as moving would also have perhaps frightened them. They were sweet and I could see remnants of still-spotted fur on their bodies. We rarely encounter deer because they stay away from people here, so this was quite the treat.

And then June was in full gear.

To say the month started off potent is an understatement, at least for me. The morning of June 1st was quite a powerful experience and a mixed bag of emotions from sadness to expansion. Right before we were heading out for our full day, I was getting my clothes from the dresser where Dave had recently placed framed photos of him with our fur babies to honor them.

I was looking at the one with Astrid from her last days, for a while, and a wave of sadness came over me because I could see she had the knowledge of her death and how she leaned into loving Dave for those last moments.

I then turned and a wild sight was right before my eyes. A small baby rabbit laid dead just steps away from the sliding glass door that wasn’t there minutes before, and a long tailed weasel was nearby. It was apparent the weasel had just killed the bunny because he was trying to carry her and failing at it since the weasel was so small himself. He likely got into the rabbit hole, attacked and then dragged the baby out. The weasel was maybe only a foot long and very thin, so he had to make several attempts to pick up the bunny and take it to its nest.

Dave had just come into the room when I noticed the baby bunny and watched with me – I felt his presence to witness this all play out was actually a key part.

In kind of a shock as to what I was seeing, I opened the door and stepped out, also wanting to check if the rabbit was actually dead. She was. And the weasel, although so tiny, I could tell was very protective of his kill, thinking perhaps I might take his meal from him. The weasel boldly came closer to me – not in any vicious way – but was trying to test whether I was a threat or not. I resigned myself once seeing the bunny was for sure dead and watched as the weasel tried to pick up and drag the bunny again. It took a few attempts, but eventually both the weasel and bunny were gone under a manzanita bush.

Dave was surprised by this whole thing too and kind of shocked as to our witnessing it. I was in a suspended state of feeling at first, kind of outside of it while also seeing other parts of me play out. It was quite something after having just had the touch-in with Astrid and yet I knew that was EXACTLY why this happened instantaneously. Astrid is so powerful and our connection is alchemically transformative.

I oscillated between two sides of the coin in feeling…and deepened into listening for Astrid’s message. Emotions were delayed because one part of me was outside of the experience from a wider perspective. Yet, something in me decided to let the other side have a moment and to lean into Dave. A short emotional release came and then went as quickly as it was embraced and I returned to the wider, outside observer. It was an odd experience that felt caught in this in between place that wasn’t fully committed to what might have been expected of me to feel. It’s really complicated to explain. My logic wanted to say this was traumatic and my inner wisdom couldn’t engage that.

I knew it was about the transformative power of death and the relationship we have to it. I knew also that my experience and way of processing this would be helpful for Dave and his process that he’s been working hard on since the death of all of our fur babies. How we move through things trickles to others and to see and hear, in the moment, how this process happens is much more powerful than just talking about it.

What I came to in message was reiterated when I decided to do a search about rabbits and seeing their death. I wanted it to really be clear for both myself and Dave in understanding.

Rabbits have always served as messengers between realms, given that they live below and above ground and are most active in liminal spaces. They also symbolize both life and its fertile abundance, growth, and creativity AND death with its transformative abilities – hence a harmony between both and rhythms of balance. They’re tied in with the Moon and cycles of nature.

Death is a passageway to new beginnings and new beginnings have natural cycles in the circle of life on Earth, but also the continuance of evolving cosmic consciousness and eternal cycles – life after death.

Death is an opportunity for spiritual evolution and deepening, profound transformation through release of attachments.

Rabbits serve as guides in navigating all of this and embracing the power of death. They are communication bridges who can travel between physical and metaphysical dimensions.

Astrid definitely did this that morning of June 1st.

I recognized the reiteration of her message within a very short period. I have moved through her release into the eternal with the greatest flow because of this understanding that has anchored me in being able to transmute any waves that came through over the healing process as short-lived and then experienced as joyous expansion – something I’ve been assisting Dave with in small steps.

The photo of Dave with Astrid in her last leg of life, was a literal doorway reminder and alchemy inducer for me to anchor this process. Astrid saw an opportunity to help play something out when she observed and felt how I went into that photo’s momentary story, she knew to quickly and profoundly shift things with a very impactful message to assist the two of us. And, therefore, the story evolved above, that I shared. Perhaps it could have been taken a different way, but this was my experience.

We are the writers of our story and experience, and any part we choose to dwell in and expound will become our story for how ever long we linger in the words and energy of it. She saw this as opportunity to drive home this message – with me leaning into the experience. I went there also because it’s what Dave needed to see and how quickly the shift is possible without losing the love, nor honor for the being who’s heart is entwined with ours.

Another piece of her message was reiterating what I’ve said over and over…that the sadness, pain, or loss is not what she wants me or us to remember and repeat in the mind. She wants the love and connection to be the focal point and to know that continues on when we focus there and acknowledge the door is always open to this experience – but we must walk through it.

Also, what ever you spend time focused on, is putting energy toward more of the same because it says to it, “this is what I want to experience.” I focused on the death and sadness that the photo evoked and therefore instantaneously saw death and trauma manifest. Astrid and I create powerful portals of growth experience together. So, if we want to experience something else, then putting energy and full embodiment into that will go a long way in manifesting an alignment to that resonance, OR a different way of perceiving the experience that is expansive.

It all shifted within minutes for me and I was able to take Dave through this exact process in real time.

There’s so much more to this whole experience in layers I think one can glean for themselves, but I felt called to just share this much. It was wildly potent. Astrid knows exactly how I work, how to make an impact that has greater reach, and what has instant and staying power with me. Love’s trauma and connection that cracks open the cosmic heart of eternal consciousness.

She wanted me to share this story for others as well.

Something else it spoke to, was more personal, and involves this “wombing” I feel to be in right now. This is not a Winter womb of darkness for reflection, but instead is quite a fertile womb that feels very vibrant and alchemical. And it’s an in between space – just like our road trip felt to be. On the one hand, it feels like parts of me are wanting to stay within my own experience and yet other parts of me – like octopus tentacles – are reaching out to feel the energetic terrain in fullness for the path of greatest alignment. There’s a LOT going on in the “wombing” and it’s a brightly inspiring and creatively lush space, just like my garden is right now.

AND, to circle back to the dead baby bunny, this “wombing” feels to be birthing something totally fresh. Not me embracing the old child core parts, but creating new child foundational parts because from the now we can rewrite the past and innovate the future. So that baby bunny felt also to be a death of the deepest parts of who I think I’ve known myself in this life to be, and realizing the perfection and expansive potential that opportunity provides.

Perhaps that all may only make sense to me, but I have a feeling it might speak to some of you so I’m sharing it.

The rest of that first day of June was magickal, continuing in a flowing momentum of alignment activated by this powerful morning experience once it was embraced and integrated.

We immersed fully into June’s invitation, with full days of pre-Summer activations.

First it was kayaking down the Upper Truckee River, which was absolutely serene and beautiful.

Afterward, we dropped equipment off, I made us a picnic lunch, and we loaded up new equipment for our first beach day of the season.

Alongside soaking in sunshine and crystalline waters, we were graced by my dear geese friends and one family of 12 goslings and mom and dad!

Aren’t they precious?!

And so perfect to see after the morning’s potent event.

Twelve goslings is 1+2=3 – my birth path number.

Talk about a celebration procession!

I then found these three goose feathers that ranged from dark, in between, and light. Interesting, right?!

A ladybug also decided to give us both some of her luck, love, hope, and guidance. She first came to me and explored my towel and then my hand. Once done, she flew over to Dave’s sock and hung out for a while.

Upon returning home from the beach I finished off the day with garden time, hands and toes in the dirt, and planting my last few babies.

I was wiped in a very full-spirited way.

The following day we headed out for another adventure and while driving from our house we had to stop for not one, but four, beautiful gray squirrels with giant bushy tails that decided to play on the road in pairs of two – something we’ve never seen. They seemed young and reflected that joyous nature and child-hearted way of viewing life for the first, fresh time.

We then set off to do one of our favorite bike rides – just a 12 miler – that combines a bike path, dirt trails through the forest, meadows, along the river and lake, and across a bridge, with a stop under our favorite Elder Juniper.

I also thought we should go down to my special place where I commune with my amphibian friends to see if the tadpoles had birthed and in fact they had!

I love to be with them in all stages of growth and will be returning to watch them evolve.

This day was also filled with feather finds and creature messengers.

While biking I found this beautiful mallard and Steller’s Jay feather – blue seemed to be the energy of the day.

We also went through a wetter meadow area and I noticed a garter snake slither across as Dave passed before me. I stopped to make sure he was okay and discovered he had a friend with him. I watched the two of them slither off together into the grasses.

Dave also saw a tiny mouse run across the trail, which I didn’t find out until later when we were walking down to an event from our house.

That’s one of the things we love about where we live. We’re on the forest and tucked away in nature at 6600 elevation, but close enough to everything – even within walking distance of things like the lake, the main TRT (Tahoe Rim Trail), other trails, post office, grocery store, and other parts of town.

We recently just got a new event center just 2 miles from the house and so after our biking day, we decided to walk down to our first show there and back, since it was a later afternoon performance and we’re having warm temperatures conducive to evening walks.

About halfway there something made me start to think about whether or not I might find a dead mouse on the ground that I would need to bury. I didn’t know why I thought that, but I kid you not…literally a minute later I see a dead mouse on the ground. We stopped so I could bury her and told Dave how I had just thought about this and there she was. He then told me about that tiny mouse, which he thought was a baby since it was smaller than this one, that ran across the path while we were biking.

I also found a transitioned bumble bee on the way there, that I tucked safely into my pocket, as I have a special nature space in my office that creates a natural portal to the Earth’s energy and children.

The show was featuring the music of John Williams, by the Reno Philharmonic, whose scores are from some of the most famous films like Star Wars, E.T. (my fav!), Harry Potter, Schindler’s List, and more. It was inspirational and the perfect backdrop for all the recent experiences.

On the way home we took a different route that Dave chose.

This aligned me with finding a great horned owl’s feather, a smaller, dark brown feather from a robin’s wings, and a mini hornet’s nest to add to my sweet little bumble bee.

We even went by the sweet, old, what looks like copper, mushroom heaven sign from the 80’s that almost bears my name (if you replace the “y” with an “i”. How perfect is that? It’s just a half mile from the house.

And because things usually happen in three’s, June 3rd completed the cycle of nature immersions and potent messengers with our very first sighting of a beaver.

We walked one of our favorite hikes, chosen by Dave again, just down from our house that goes to the lake, meanders through forest and meadows, granite outcroppings, and through some beautiful wetland habitats about a mile and a half from our home that have been built by a beaver family that came to reside here several years ago.

They’ve done a fantastic job, cultivating this ecosystem and yet we’ve never seen one, although can see a beaver lodge and fresh evidence of their amazing woodwork all the time.

This walk gifted us seeing the first wild irises, which we normally only see in one spot much higher up in elevation. There was just one surprise plant in the middle of the meadow.

And then my hawk eye caught glimpse of our very first beaver sighting, too, on this day.

It’s highly unusual that a beaver would be out because they are crepuscular like rabbits, meaning that they come out at dusk and dawn. Side note: I used to call Astrid a little beaver (one of many animals this shapeshifter reminded me of). Her fur and teeth resembled one for sure!

Anyway, as we walked by the terraced ponds the beavers created, I saw some brown fur moving through the branches. See her in the water swimming at the center of the photo below?

I pointed out the beaver to Dave and we were both so happy to see one finally and it didn’t have to happen by coming out at dusk.

Here’s a couple of short clips of her.

It was a young and smaller beaver – are you seeing a pattern here in all the young animals of these three day experiences?

We watched until she disappeared and continued on our hike where I discovered a small cluster of robin’s wing feathers (again), which looked like a faery’s fan.

I was hoping to see the beaver once more on the way back. We looked at the same area when we passed – nothing. Then, were almost passed the whole larger pond and end of the beaver habitat when something brown caught my eye in this open area.

See her at the center of photo here again?

I pointed it out and Dave thought it was just a tree stump. I said, no, it’s a beaver…I can see ears twitching. So we went to look from a different angle and lo and behold it WAS a beaver- the very same one.

We watched as she ate her meal this time – it was late morning around 11 am. She held it with her front paws, while sitting atop a higher area in the water and munched away. Then she returned to the water, dove under for a while and came back up with more of what ever she was eating in her paws, returned again to her spot, and continued eating.

This sighting was such a gift and I was grateful to get a few videos to share because I just love beavers!

She was not afraid to be out in the sunshine, but was very focused on her own integral details and piece of the puzzle – much like me.

Seeing this young beaver – a master ecosystem engineer and architect of such fantastic habitats, felt like a potent reflection of this fresh me “wombing,” as I devise my own new architectural plans within the collective evolution.

Every thread of these days was integral to the tapestry I’m working on weaving together.

Every single encounter and messenger had wisdom to embrace and integrate.

And the morning of June 4th, guess who I saw once again?

I saw the little weasel on our deck and Dave saw another small bunny hopping around not long after.

Cycles and circles keep spiraling and it reflects that what we see is colored by our focus or expanded by the lens of our hearts.

The frequencies we embody are activators for the field of experience. And these can shift just as nature ever-evolves before our eyes, but the potential for sustained harmony is ever-present even if we oscillate. This is the nature of being.

June’s energy is definitely in motion and even more is transforming here than I can share at the moment – shedding and regenerating like a lizard.

Not to mention a lot of details needing to be attended to and new patterns reflecting essence, to pour heart power into.

This is June.

I’m feeling an array of directions laid out before me like flowers on a table I’m putting together into my bouquet of choice.

May you linger in the fragrance of this field of possibility and imagine the expansiveness awaiting your presence to embrace and cocreate too.