Over time I’ve become increasingly more conscious and attuned with the elements and now make it a daily practice to work in partnership with them and tap into the ability we all have to play in that field with empowerment.

Each of the elements teach me so much and it’s my relationship to them within that helps me to make sense of their reflection without, as well as supports my apprenticeship into magician hood.

As Water I learn to continually purify my thoughts and beliefs, not fear the depths, remain fluid, flow with rather than against, and use my feelings and intuition to sense into that alignment and understand the true undercurrents at work.

As Air I understand the softness of embodiment I can carry on a breeze to touch others, the strength and reach of my transformational force when I step into my power, the way presence can be humble and invisible while still experienced and shared, and how to communicate or pick up messages by constantly shifting perspective, and never remaining stagnant or stuck.

As Fire I know the constant renewal of each moment that is available, my ability to rebirth through unlimited creative life force, the power inherent in life cycles as a unified transmutational experience, the boldness of my will to manifest through action-backed desires, and yes I will always rise from the ashes as the perpetual artist of unlimited and multi-dimensional expression.

As Earth I am the ever-anchored container to hold all moving parts with nourishment and stability, able to manifest all thoughts and desires into solid form, maintain balance and grounding, am the eternal mother holding all of life in an unconditionally loving gaze, luxuriate in my sensuality of embodiment, celebrate my basal nature, and harness my feminine power to ever-be fertilely birthing anew.

As Spirit I know my lightness, clarity, the vast expanse within, the beauty of all other elements that fill that space, know the limitlessness available, the power of my vibrational frequency, understand the bigger picture, enjoy embodiment as a gift for experiential delights, and celebrate connection between all things.

We can tap into the vibrational frequency of the Big Five, just as we can any aspect of consciousness being expressed, and permanently put a stop to victimhood. It really isn’t a hard thing to do. It simply takes action to support the desire to do it, and that equates to presence combined with redirection of focus on a consistent basis.

Mental alchemy is an invitation – not a given – and as long as we don’t consciously choose to engage it, then everyone and everything else will simply do so for us. There is always cause and effect in play, but we get to choose which of those we’d like to experience more of with responsible integrity.

I don’t have to tell you that the nature realm is where I feel most at home on Earth, as my shares I think reflect that enough even if just through photos. We each have a different way to experience our joy – and this just happens to be mine, as well as happens to be my choice of both classroom and playground. The latter equating to being my joy reminder, as everything “nature” tickles my heart.

The way I live isn’t for everyone and nor did it happen by chance or without a lot of preparatory back story. I think it’s easy to forget that people have years of experiences behind them when we only see how they are experiencing things right now.

Work turns into practice, turns into play and fun – a way of being with increased ease and grace.

And summertime can definitely highlight what both lights you up, or shines a light upon what’s been tucked away out of sight.

Summer is vitality at its finest to me, but the same kind of creative life force is available to us all year round. We simply have to invite it into our lives from the unlimited well within our hearts.

We carry the light of the Great Central Sun within our very being. And even in the darker hours and hidden corners, that light will guide our way.

Pay attention to what sparks your joy and use that as a reminder that you can reframe each experience from a different perspective by engaging that feeling it ignites.

Maybe take a moment to feel into yourself and ask the parts within what lights them up.

What are your joy reminders?

You can use these as hinge points to shifting any experience in the moment, by calling up that reminder and instantly being taken to the feeling vibration it pours through, and illuminates within, you. This can help you to change the current story playing over and over in your experience, and anchor you in a new frequency that immediately pulls you out of the quicksand with a lifeline.

Try it. Make it a practice. Do it consistently. You’ll be amazed at the new empowerment you have at your fingertips in one easy sweep of a joy refocus.

It’s similar to a gratitude practice, yet it will transport you into the feeling and cellular memories of your joy triggers, right away, that can multiply with rapid grace as you tap into a real feeling and experience that becomes your now. There is no time distinction or separation between what you feel and think about, and what you are right here in the eternal now. Therefore, it really does help to have these joy reminders in your back pocket to call up when you notice yourself stuck.

It also helps if you make friends with and understand the power of the elements that reside within you and are you – the control board to outer experiences at your fingertips that can support your optimal alignment and strategic placement.

For me, this has become one of my key pieces to creating life alchemy, along with fine-tuning even the smallest of tweaks to my perception of bigger picture things that stretch expansion open wider.

Two weekends ago we had our first Tahoe Herbivores Meetup for this Summer, which was a fun gathering of nine of us for a hike, followed by lunch.

But what I loved most about this day was the wildlife reflections in what was quite an extraordinary display – perfectly mirroring collective key pieces calling from within to be seen, heard, and embraced.

These included a first-ever sighting for us, here, of river otters and a first sighting of baby osprey with mom.

We were crossing a bridge over the river – that alone has meaning – when my hawk eyes caught a brown mound slightly moving across the way. I knew immediately it was some kind of animal – thinking beaver at first – so I stopped and then told my friend walking just ahead of me that there was an animal over there. As I continued to watch I realized there were more than one – actually four – and they were all climbing over each other and very connected.

They then slid into the water and I said that they were either beavers or river otters, but once I saw them moving in the water I said they didn’t move like beavers…they were acting like otters. At this point, the rest of the group behind us had caught up and the group ahead had stopped and were looking at other things. I pointed them out and the whole group came in closer to watch and asked me what kind of animal I thought they were. I shared my two first initial thoughts, but added that they were moving like otters. At that point I caught glimpse of long whiskers on the larger one lit up by the sunlight and long thin tails slinking behind them as they moved in and out of the water and around each other. I was now certain of my intuition upon watching their behavior that they were in fact river otters and not beavers, despite our never seeing any here before.

This was a family of mom and three younger ones and they were just in pure play mode in and out of the water. And when out of the water they just climbed all over each other and were like one unit, without separation between them, just nuzzling and wrapping around one another. Love, joy, lightness, and playfulness emanated from this display that went on and on.

It was evident to me immediately that they were reflecting the power and value of the inner child and that the group was needing this reminder.

And in fact, otters do embody and message joy and play being important. Finding joy even through the challenges, finding that balance in all situations, and having limitless curiosity are spoken through their energy. If you watch them move in and out of the water and playing and merging with each other it’s so fluid and like one moving part together – helping to navigate things seamlessly and light heartedly as a team. They represent community and togetherness with peace and kindness at the forefront of interactions. There’s also shape-shifting qualities, resiliency, adaptability, divine feminine mysteries and understanding of the subconscious, psychic and emotional realms that come through as well. They represent both water and earth elements embodied, wholeness, harmony, new beginnings, purification, and spiritual awakening.

When I continued to research otter symbolism I found this to underscore my initial feeling.

Otter shows up when people have lost sight of their inner child. They help remind us to embrace new things without clinging to the past, just like children live moment-to-moment.

I found it interesting no one saw them as we passed, but my hawk eyes immediately did and of course like attracts like. I got the feeling I was meant to be a bridge (we were on a bridge afterall, too) for the river otters to share their message with the group, as I know this to be one of my roles in life as an interspecies ambassador.

When I felt into everyone around me who later sat in awe watching – it was evident why the clan showed up as they did to support inner child encouragement and to send a message to stop being so serious about life. It was fun that a clan appeared for a clan, with the perfect energy that was calling from their hearts to be embraced. Everything is always messaging us from the wisdom within.

We proceeded on after watching the river otter family for quite a while, and about a half mile further we came upon the sound of a young bird of prey calling out. We looked up and a large osprey was circling overhead and a young osprey was calling out from a big nest at the top of a dead tree.

Osprey to me is a master of depths and heights, as the only bird of prey that actually dives under the surface of water to capture their meals – speaks to balancing consciousness with unconsciousness and being that bridge that merges things together and brings things to awareness. Water, air, and earth elements are strongly their suit, but they do take bold actions which demonstrates fire, and are messengers between realms – so there’s spirit too.

I loved seeing the young one with momma, interacting as she circled and circled and baby called out. There was the feeling of nurturing and nourishing the inner child, as well as not being afraid to ask for what you want. While protectiveness from mom and caring for the well being of new life coming into the world to flourish was part of that wholeness of experience. We have the ability to be that nurturer to the parts within – the child within – and cultivate an empowered life experience that understands the wisdom and beauty of dancing in the gifts of light and shadow.

As we sat watching I looked down at the ground and found a smaller osprey feather – more of a breast or head feather likely from the youngster.

After we turned around to head back, we crossed the bridge again and stopped to watch as the river otter family STILL continued to play and love on each other. I took this video, while the group moved on and I stayed behind. You can see the otter family in the foreground with two Canadian geese preening themselves in the background.

Both sightings were powerful and purposeful, but also so beautiful in and of themselves.

I’ve continued to see my wild baby bunny friend (now named Ursa – because she’s my little “bear” guardian) here at the Forest Portal too, along with Hyzenthlay nearly every day.

The female energy is strongly showing up.

The rabbit sightings appear in the morning and evening and see us off before we leave on adventures, while also welcoming us back home too.

Even one of my dear friends just shared with me a new family of wild rabbits in her yard including momma and FIVE baby bunnies that are precious beyond preciousness. All of this just pointed to so much of what I’ve already been sharing in this post. And I loved that bunny portal activation going on across the states too. Weeeeeeee!

And speaking of adventures, we just got back on Thursday from another backpacking and camping three-day amazing journey. We felt guided to return to our same spot as last time because it’s so nourishing to us on every level.

After the initial hike up, it’s a purely relaxing, fun, disconnected but fully in tune with the ALL time.

Right before we headed to our lake destination, this giant, extraterrestrial looking insect welcomed us back. He was sitting on our car window as we got our backpacks on and I moved him to a tree stump where he sat before flying off into the forest.

And on my way out on our day home I found my first ptarmigan tail feather, which was a special gift that encouraged my fortitude hiking out with a heavy pack again.

This alpine bird embodies resiliency, strength, determination, courage, power, protection, and hope – all perfect messages while I forged my way up the first climb out to the highest summit point. They are also known as thunder birds, messengers of the gods, and connection to higher spiritual forces. Recently, when I find a significant feather, I can actually feel how it has been placed there precisely as a manifestation for communicating to me something timely – not just as a theme for a general time period, but specific to the exact thing I’m thinking about, opening up to, concluding, realizing, or doing.

So, yeah, those “firsts” in terms of finds and experiences have been ongoing recently and I also had the most incredible firsts in terms of crystal finds on this trip.

Yes, I did go on my quartz expeditions again – in fact I went twice in one day while Dave napped and read in the hammock at our campsite. He also did a twenty minute hike way up the mountain overlooking our lake home-away-from-home to explore what we thought might be the mother quartz we could see from our campsite.

He did confirm the white area was in fact all quartz. I may explore the area next time, but for now it was his journey and he laid on this big mother to receive activation himself, while taking this shot of the view of the lake, our camping area, and Lake Tahoe far in the left distance.

While he did that, I hiked out before and after lunch to the spot I’ve discovered about a mile out and spent two to two and a half hours each trip in full-on faery mode, being led by intuition and senses to amazing finds up the slopes of the mountain.

I was guided to wear my seven-pointed faery star necklace with moldavite on this trip and I used it to tune in, by holding it and having intention to be led. I would even state out loud, “Okay Fae, Elementals, and Cosmic friends, lead on. I’m listening!” And boy did they answer.

Each trip I’ve increasingly found more and more incredible pieces, but this trip was icing on the cake.

I usually find quartz rock with some clear crystal forming on them. This trip and last trip these increased with much more crystal formations on the rock and moved into tons of pure crystal chunks of all sizes and then…actual, full formed or forming crystals appeared.

Last time I started finding chunks that had keys, starbrary, information lines down the sides, and other interesting markings even though they weren’t fully formed crystals.

This time I found full-on shaped points, partial points, cluster points, earth-damaged (but self-healed) points without the tops or some sides gone or not fully formed yet, AND several tabby quartz, along with golden healers, smoky citrine, pinkish and blueish quartz, a few incredible pure smoky quartz – two of which are big and pure crystal and just WOW.

The photos share some looks at what I’m talking about, however don’t do them justice.

AND EVERY SINGLE ONE of the pieces I found had remarkable rainbows in them that were twinkling to say, “Here I am!” The rainbows were brilliant and large and didn’t even need shifting them various ways to bring them out.

I knew I was being led by the Fae energies, as it was extraordinary. I was astonished at what I was finding and didn’t even know these were possible here. But then, anything is, especially when you believe.

I had this feeling before our trip that something was awaiting me to receive and I held this idea around finding full crystals and then it happened on 7/17 – this day felt like full-on M-A-G-I-C-K.

I was careful about choosing what to bring back from the pieces the mountain spirits gifted, so as not to be too heavy of a pack to hike out with. I ended up with 38 pounds I hiked out the six and a half miles with instead of 45 pounds last time. And that was aided by my burying five larger pieces to await my return. And oh can I not wait to return because now I know what is possible and you better believe I’ll be off on more crystal adventures for sure to see what extraordinary things I can manifest next!

I actually pooped myself out over a period of four consecutive days, so the restful time after my magickal expeditions, on long camping later afternoons and nights, was perfect.

Note to self: Not the greatest idea to go on backpacking and crystal expedition trips immediately following two days of deep cleaning your entire house. LOL! I surely worked my butt off then, the day up to our camping site at over 9000 elevation, during my two expeditions of hiking, searching, and transporting to campsite, and our hike back down. But it’s also super exhilarating and amazing to see the endurance and strength one does have when met with mental alchemy to fuel the way. That, plus a lot of amped up crystal activations, protection, and recharging!

The evening we returned home we decided to go to our first free Music on the Beach event to slowly integrate back into mountain city vibes.

It was a peaceful evening with the usual mellow crowd, and a couple we know met up with us to watch the sunset and listen to smooth vibes.

I did actually find a dead baby mouse on the deck where the dead baby bunny was that one time, when we returned home. Her insides were gone, but the full fur body and tail remained. I held a little ceremony and buried her in the garden, feeling like a resurrection of inner child power was emerging within me. Rather than seeing this as an end, I immediately dropped into it definitely being a new beginning of magickal potentials.

While away, both my indoor and outdoor gardens flourished.

I took these photos yesterday on a cloudy, thunderstorm day, but as you can see everything beams happy still and of course is another addition to my own joy reminders.

The next wave of my giant lilies are now all starting to bloom in orange, yellow, and star lily white.

I’m amazed by how tall the garden plant babies are – the lilies tower over my head – and I’m loving the tropical and exotic feel to my indoor plants, including calla lilies in all shades of pinks, lilacs, and mauves.

Life is a beautiful expression of color our hearts splash, swish, and stroke across the canvas of creation.

We had some beautiful views to relish in with the Moon over my heart – our Star Lake campsite and high-vibed quartz mountain playground that is – with golden sunset casts across the water and trees and even a “Great Pyramid” looking peak, peaking out – which isn’t surprising to me. All my favorites packed into one tiny corner of this vast Earth realm.

This was just a few days before the full illumination of this second Capricorn Full Moon in a row and it felt perfect to be high up in alpine regions like a mountain goat where my horns can receive from the Cosmos, my hooves can navigate the root of being, and my senses can be guided by the elements – as within so without. 

Today we have opportunity to harness the most productive qualities Capricorn teaches us, and that to me includes leading by your own inner compass and maturing into the responsible authority of your energetic field so that outside things are directed by your inward focus. You can master your reality and by example, lead the way for others to do the same. 

Try not to let world stories direct your emotions and life, nor get caught up in illusions. Be discerning with your time and focus and see if you find yourself taking sides. 

Any side is not unity. Unity is wholeness of perspective and the way out of sides is to create something more ALL-encompassing. You may think that is impossible or will take forever. That is only the truth as long as you believe it and as long as you relinquish your power to create it.

Wishing you a strengthening Full Moon and a happy 56th anniversary to my parents today as well! May love endure across this beautiful Earth and beyond. 

Stay tuned for a small, concluding Part II of the previous crystal skull release coming up next to include the last few beings I didn’t have time to list with the Part I group that wanted out when they did. They always know when to align themselves energetically to be seen.

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