Living and creating a more whimsical life can be a doorway to opening your conscious awareness and expanding into more of your powerful potentials as spirit in flesh. I find these long August days offering a beautiful landscape for this kind of exploration, as the light shifts and the land stills so loudly with the melodies of a Summer well spent held in each golden grain.

When you intentionally decide to cultivate living with a sense of wonder, dropping into the sacredness of presence, fall in love with the everyday of Earth’s treasure chest of sensory experiences, seek the adventure of a small stretch into new terrains of thinking, feeling, and being, play more, luxuriate in the simple more, and choose to expand your curiosity without judgment or expectation, you find yourself aligning more with life and cocreating with vibrational resonance, what you’d like to experience more of. You also find yourself becoming much more centered and aware.

Sometimes unplugging fully for small periods of time allows this space of expansion to occur. It also helps you to be present with the power of your consciousness. Finding ways to deepen into the wisdom of Nature and leaning into more enchanted invitations that surround you daily, can assist you in rewriting beliefs to match your hopes for life. This can also include finding your own creative outlet to channel life force through as a way to engage your innate abilities.

The more the years go by, the more I drop into this state ever-more fluidly and consistently. It is my anchor in a world that vibrationally oscillates so vastly. It doesn’t matter to me how this appears to others, as for me it can mean the difference between vitality or not. I choose to live touched by inspiration and moved by creativity.

And Nature will forever be a muse for me since it IS the spirit in flesh. The two are not separate.

We are multi-dimensional by nature and therefore all information we seek is always a conscious awareness away. We’ve been taught to believe information is repressed or hidden. It merely isn’t being acknowledged, interpreted, or engaged, but is always right there. To accept and embrace the knowledge within is all we may be missing. The conscious mind embodies both camps of reason and assimilation of emotions and intuitive knowledge. One is not better than the other, nor are they inaccessible or separate. The conscious mind is the bridge that empowers both.

I ponder much held in my rich spaciousness of Nature’s arms and undo, thread by thread, the beliefs that I’ve gathered from all sources over life. Be it even “New Age” thinking, I release the hands I once accepted to a new invitation from The All to spread my wings further.

Illusions are dropping away and with it there is greater lightness of being experienced AND yes, instant magickal experiences just as my imagination has always pondered.  

There are new light codes streaming in and the more naked I am to stronghold beliefs of any kind, the more I tap into my awareness of consciousness and the answers that are right there.

And with “no time” as the truth of experience, I am not tethered by ideas that limit my power to create anew. Things CAN be simple and easy. At least that is what I believe and therefore it is becoming my experience.

I spend all of our time while hiking and being in Nature for reflecting, releasing, rewriting, and renewing myself on all levels. I find it the easiest and most supportive way for myself to do this during what is to me a form of walking meditation and movement of energy. And through any challenge that has or will arise, it is my sanctum and way shower to the source of divine inspiration and liberation within.

The day before the New Moon we did one of our longer hikes through magickal spaces, up to one of the many lakes.

Along the way there were many faery portals.

We then came across this sweet bumblebee nestled in a thistle.

This little one had transitioned in the many petaled arms of this bloom. Dave and I were both taken by this sight and the layers of profoundness it evoked. This was the second time we’ve seen the exact same sight of a bumblebee held in his deathbed of a thistle. It’s so powerful that even Dave was inspired to write a poem about it the first time we came upon this.

There’s such bitter sweetness of the wholeness this vision brings up. And such perfection of the life cycles all wrapped into one seamless and evocative image. I also love the message of living life to the fullest to the very last breath – taking in the sweet nectar of life every single moment, as if it’s your last.

From which you come, you return. From which you give, you receive. From which you are, you “bee.”

I felt extra strength and nurturing around this womb of renewal with our recent New Moon of 8/4. In fact, just a couple of weeks prior I had yet another pregnancy dream (I have had so many of these in the last ten plus months) and on the day of the New Moon itself, quite the divine (and mother energy) messenger.

We were taking a downtime day from very active days, to just soak in a favorite rest spot under the Giant Elder Juniper again. After our picnic lunch, Dave proceeded to read and nap and I proceeded to my usual exploration walk around the lake. It is set in a park that also edges a forest and the river. It’s a place for families and while off the beaten track, is behind a neighborhood.

About a third of my walk around I came to the turn before hitting the other side of the lake and on the trail ahead I saw a black bear. We both stopped and stood totally still watching each other and connecting. The bear appeared the usual dark black in the shade of the trees.

The bear didn’t move and we maintained our stance for 15-20 seconds. Just beyond the bear is where more people were along the lake. But here, we held our own experience in the in between on this Leo New Moon.

It was the first time I encountered bear on my own, as usually I’m with Dave. So, like the golden bear that climbed our fence to peer at me through my office sliding glass door, this “big” energy was meant just for me.

There was no threat, as we held equal gaze and energy, yet I backed away slowly to ensure the bear knew my intentions were soft and harmonious and that I honored the sacredness of her presence.

I went back about fifty feet, as she watched. Then she turned to make her way into the forest toward the river. As she did so I then saw a remarkable thing. When the light of the sun touched her fur it revealed her entire coat to be gold just like the bear who came to my office door.

New Moon blessings indeed and a powerful harbinger of this potent doorway opening between then and 8/8/8. I loved the symbolism of this cycle creating a darkening of the Moon – the black bear in the shadows – but on the other side of that is complete illumination that the continuum of the cycle does eventually reveal come the Full Moon. Both are contained in one and a New Moon indeed heralds a rebirth and access to the inner light ever-present and ever-unfolding.

The rest of my time along the lake banks was filled with frog and toad energy again – some truly giant toads too! I can never get a photo of them because they move fast, but I’ve seen them sitting there as big as both of my palms together and saw one swimming with legs outstretched about two feet long! I’ve never seen any so large and when they leap into the water it makes a huge splash. That’s some really potent frog messengers indeed!

The late Summer blooms were out and the edges of the water, everywhere, were lined with mostly goose feathers and down glistening in the sunlight and water sparkles.

They felt like feathers from the wings of angels scattered about with auras of starlight and yet still embodying their divinity in every single, tiny one.

We had taken the previous week off from backpacking in order to get some things done around here and just do some simple hikes, bike rides, and beach days. But come Tuesday we were off on another adventure – our fifth so far this season.

We returned to one of the lakes from our very first backpacking trip, where we got the idea for a hammock. This time we stayed there the full trip, as it’s easier to hunker down rather than move each day, break down and set up camp. We were away two nights in the doorway between the New Moon and Lion’s Gate.

The trail was beautiful with several small and large lily ponds, many fields of blooms, and a lot of views to take in along the way.

And our campsite was divine (just take a look at all that light around it) by the shelter of another favorite sprawling juniper, the perfect backdrop for our hammock, and the amazing, strong nurturing cradle of the rainbow-hued red metamorphic rock slab we love to lay upon in warm embrace.

I chose this journey because we’ve talked about summitting Mt. Tallac, which I have never done. Dave did it over thirty years ago. I thought no time like now to do it. And since these trips have really integrated my inner mountain goat, I’m always up for a challenge and strengthening my resiliency and endurance. I also thought it might be cool to summit while we are in the energy of the Lion’s Gate Portal.

With our camping at a lake on the inner Desolation Wilderness track near Tallac, it helped break up what could be a really long and extra challenging one day hike into a shorter day hike. It was still nearly eight miles round trip with a lot of ascents, big two foot high steps up at times, and rock (or gruss as they call it) trails.

I’m so glad we chose this way (of the three ways up) to go, which is more the back way, as it was such a beautiful trail that passed another large lake and then meandered through tons

of flower strewn meadows, trees to provide intermittent shade, a favorite enchanted tree with many faces (can you find wee little me next to it in the collage?), and expansive vistas of what we’d left behind.  

If you couldn’t find faery me, here’s the photo on its own again.

After a good, long, and refreshing night’s camping sleep I usually have a lot of invigorated energy, so this also aided the day feeling less strenuous and allowed me to really take in and enjoy all the beauty surrounding me of flowers and pollinators galore.

A true faery land in late Summer’s light, as the grasshoppers serenaded us along the trail and kissed my skin with their leaps and wings of light filled splendor. They literally like to spring at my face, or sometimes at my chest or arms.

These August fields of golden grasses and last hoorah of blooming vitality were inspiring.

And so have been the beautiful fields of cattail grasses filling the meadows like we’ve never had before near home, along with a gorgeous habitat ecosystem of lushness courtesy of our mountain beaver family.

But I digress…August feel goods got me distracted.

Until we neared the last part of the ascent, near the top, we didn’t see anyone on the trail that wound through forests, up the mountain and across vast mountain meadow slopes. There was a point where we were hiking up the terraced rock trail with the forest to our left when I started to hear a loud knock on a tree echo around us. It was just a single knock and it came every twenty or thirty seconds – sometimes a minute might pass – but it was consistent for five or ten minutes. Just a single, loud knock against a tree. I giggled telling Dave that it might be Big Foot, as it was obvious to be something large knocking – not a wood pecker. Plus, it was just one knock at a time. Then it came to me in a flash. What we were hearing was in fact a buck thrashing his antlers against a tree. They do this to practice for antler battle during mating season because it helps to strengthen their neck muscles. And mating season is upcoming in the October to early December period.

That was really cool to be experiencing the vibrational energies moving through the air and a wonderful reflection of vitality, resiliency, fine tuning higher awareness, and moving into a new period of growth and leadership. The instinctual nature of deer, guides in the way of trusting our internal messaging system and to look for new perceptions. They represent the divine and are messengers from the otherworld.

The knocking was indeed to get my/our attention, but since I was the one who noticed it, I especially tuned into where I was being called at this point in life.

As we continued up, the knocking disappeared.

This whole area is mostly all granite and red and other metamorphic rock slopes and ground so I had no thoughts of this being a crystal finding trip this time. But wouldn’t you know that surprises awaited – in good ol’ magick style.

Along the way I found literally the only three “random” quartz rocks along the trail, which included this sparkly raw quartz stone with what look like green dendrites in it.

Then, when we got to the last area of Tallac’s summit, I was led to the only two large rocks I saw that had quartz veins in them.

Before we went to the highest point, I looked down in that area and there were two stones hidden between rocks near the large quartz veined one.

This one with a quartz vein and this little one with a tiny cluster of quartz forming on it that included a few small full terminated points and one with etched markings across the side.

I thought that was pretty special and was grateful to be told these were the gifts for this gateway and my coming all this way to the top.

After that I was surrounded by small little butterflies dancing around the dark, jagged rocks that reminded me of the back of a sleeping dragon. Then a beautiful swallowtail caught my eye and I was taken in by the contrast of her grace and temporary vitality fluttering along the top of this enduring ages-old rock mountain.

When she landed on the edge of forever, I felt the brilliance of wholeness in all things here and now.

I circled her in this expansive vista below.

We then proceeded to the very top and took in the full 360 degree panoramic views where you can see nine lakes from this high point of 9739 feet – the third tallest peak in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

Mt. Tallac is considered a challenging hike because of the amount of ascent and the rock trails, but here I was feeling not in the least winded and enjoying the views of my home all around me.

We savored this vantage point of expansiveness and potential before descending back to our cozy campsite on the lake and embraced the winds of change that flowed all around us at the top.

From here I listened to the stories of the land that hung in the whispers of the in between.

I do love all the varieties of rock in this area…and especially the red metamorphic rocks that surround the lake area we chose as our campsite, and enjoy looking for beauties that catch my heart. The rainbow ones of many colors are a favorite, but I also love the purple, pink, and blue ones.

I found a small collection that spoke to me, including one that had swirls of metallic gold on it and nearly all of them have sparkles you can’t see in photos.

I also loved this perfect sparkly pentagon and perfect star stones.

I even found a pastel, perfect heart.

After we settled back into camp after the long hike, to rest and nourish our bodies with some warm meals, I went down that evening by our beach area where we bathe and sit watching the sunset to clean up our utensils.

I crouched down to begin and something caught my eye.

It looked like a small piece of glass likely softened over time by the water and elements that was maybe a reminder of past campers leaving broken things behind. I picked it up and was astounded.

It was a perfect tiny double terminated quartz point!

“Are you kidding me?!” I thought, and also exclaimed out loud so Dave could hear. He was so surprised too.

Other than the few quartz rock and small piece I found, this area just DOES NOT have any quartz fields in open sight or that I’ve ever seen in the times we’ve hiked it.

And yet here I was, on the eve of 8/8/8 bending over at the lake and right in the water at the edge of the rock shore, the only perfect DT crystal is laid at my feet – washed up to water’s edge right there at the very moment I arrive.

There’s even a key left from a baby DT crystal that has broken off of it. Just wow!

To say the impossible is possible is an understatement here. This truly felt like the crystal had come through a doorway just for me at that very moment – like it sought me out. True divine alignment and magick at hand. No doubt about it! And as my last post stated, I do live to believe in as many “impossible things” as I can.

Why? Because it makes it possible.

I couldn’t get over this, but loved it all the way.

Here, I had resigned myself to it not being a crystal journey, and here the Elementals…the ALL…and my multi-dimensional self said, “Oh, but it CAN always be, as long as you believe that anything is possible. And we know, I DO believe.

Needless to say, we had another great time and we soaked it all in, as we packed up that last morning.

And on our last day back to the car, the ptarmigan messenger made an appearance again.

You may recall that on the two last trips I found a ptarmigan tail feather as we headed out. This time it was ptarmigan in the flesh.

I heard this little clucking noise to the left and felt there was some animal there. I turned and saw the ptarmigan on a tree log slowly walking across and eyeing us with soft little clucks.

That was a sweet parting gift on 8/8/8 along with this giant hemlock varnish shelf mushroom – or hemlock reishi, since it’s a member of the reishi family.

I found it hidden behind a giant tree off trail – so perfect – so vibrant – as if nature took out a paintbrush right then and there.

Was it because of my mushroom and butterfly hat I wore for this trip that I called these reflections up? Was it our mushroom jerky we always like to take along as snacks for our journeys?

Or, was it simply being in the flow?

I did in fact see more of this on my cell phone screen at prominent points on the adventure.

The entire trip was only 16.5 cumulative miles, but according to my tracker this clocked in at 44,837 steps, 4,387 feet of cumulative ascents, and 8,774 feet of cumulative ascents and descents. And while I had the least amount of pounds I carried on my back this time, yet still more than my pack on its own – 35 (the most has been 45) – it’s become easier and easier and I actually look forward to these trips for building up my body’s endurance that aids all of my other activities and amps up my immune system and resiliency. It also helps me to move energy.

When we returned home I found my day lily, upper deck plants had suddenly bloomed forth three beautiful red lilies to greet me home, which was a nice surprise.

While the rest of the garden is slowly edging into pre-Autumn hues of splendor with a new collective of black-eyed Susan beauties (including a small meadow of them in the back where we threw the wildflower seeds to regrow the area after fire prevention tree removal that one year), the little forest animals are still in high gear of milking every last drop of enjoyment they can squeeze out of lazy August days.

I love watching them run about in playful mode. It makes me giggle. Even the birds have been chasing each other and singing away into the late Summer evenings.

Equally so, I giggled on our integration beach day, the day after 8/8/8. We like to have a relaxing downtime day when we get home from backpacking, to help us both adjust back to being around people again and to allow our bodies their renewal process after gifting us their resiliency and strength.

While I laid on my beach towel I suddenly opened my eyes to see a large garter snake swishing across the sand past where I laid. She went directly to a log in front of me, eyeing both me and the water ahead.

We connected like I did with little frog, who emerged from the same bushes this snake friend now came from.

Snake went to the water and appeared to be cooling off and getting a drink. I caught it all in this video, which also catches us both startling each other.

I have no fear of garter snakes and love snakes in general. Yet, I’m also quite respectful of any wild animal’s space and of the sacredness of their presence.

After a dip in the water, the snake came back to the log and then proceeded quite quickly to swish her way directly at me on my blanket. There was no threat at all, and of course garter snakes pose no major harm since they are not poisonous and have tiny teeth. And while she seemed to want to come directly at me, I moved out of the way quickly so she’d not feel cornered.

We both startled each other by this and as I moved, she moved quickly the other direction and went back off into the bushes from where she came.

Dave said he thinks perhaps she didn’t see me. I know she did, as they are highly vibrationally in tune even if not “seeing” and perhaps like frog, wanted to literally come to and on me for a very deliberate message. The animals often see me as one of them and there’s this moment of this split second realization alongside that of “Oh, yeah, you’re also this other form” – oops!

She reflected alchemical transformation, protection, renewal, primal wisdom, and healing.

Frog reflected good luck and fortune, amazing self discovery, and fresh, transformative, new starts.

Bear reflected courage, strength, protection as well, leadership, power, wildness, maternal love, and abundance.

And yet they also each hold personal messaging beyond the medicine they embody.

Or perhaps they are simply remarkable encounters with nature – however you choose to see it.

They are reminders to me to keep believing and keep opening in the wider ways I have been. The gaps between realities and timeliness are becoming seamless and all things are possible in the in between. 

All three feel like a powerful triad mirror of amazing, big changes happening right now and this fresh new chapter of expansive personal transformation.

This day I also received the pieces I was waiting for to add to my spiral quartz garden. I love how it’s coming together with my favorite flower embodied in a metal sunflower garden of sentinels around the spiral.

I also added a temporary tree stump seat center (I’m using this piece for something else, but wanted a stand-in until the actual piece arrives) and then was guided to add a mini sister spiral in the open space to the left of the larger one.

For this I used the beautiful rainbow hued, red metamorphic rocks along with a few pink and periwinkle hued sparkly stones I found another time (I’m not sure what they are, but they have quartz-like essence), with the heart stone followed by the sparkly pentagon stone with the star stone atop it at center.

This mini spiral is for the Fae and the wee ones that cross between worlds. I made a promise when we got this place that I would honor the land and create a sanctuary for them here. This only felt right to have these magickal stones intentionally placed from my heart to theirs.

There are just a few more touches I’m waiting to arrive. I’ll share as they come together. The process is fun though, and rather than wait until the finale I thought it important to enjoy each step along the way with you.

The creative journey has also been fun, as I’ve been in an artsy mode again recently behind the scenes. I’ll share more as the projects come together, but let’s just say that I’ve fallen in love with a way to immortalize my love for Nature in some special pieces I’m creating for myself and feel I may be guided to make some available for others soon too.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying the step-by-step coming together of the crystal grids in my space and SO loving the energy of the quartz I found on our backpacking trips.

The energy is SO PURE! And the light codes are amazing. Finding crystals on my own makes this experience so much more potent and meaningful and the fact that only I have touched them besides our Earth Mother herself, is extremely sacred.

Some of these will be part of the pieces I’m creating and that I may offer too, as I feel the energy is so important to share with others – not just in photos to receive – but in person to have and to hold. Plus, I have so many that it feels right to spread the Cosmic and Earth love.

Speaking of crystals, there is just one very special crystal skull still available. It’s the rare and beautiful Rainbow Chalcedony in Quartz Magickal Child Palm Stone Skull with a large vibrant rainbow at the crown. I haven’t seen one like this with all the beautiful array of color swirls in it.

I do have a fun story about it, though. While away, this beauty was in the garden with a couple of DT Lemurians to prepare them and receive energies between the New Moon and 8/8/8. Astrid has been around so much and in fact when we got back I found a feather and tuft of rabbit fur next to them and the DT’s were showing rainbows they never had, matching the vibrancy of the little Magickal Child. So this little one is quite potent in spreading those rainbow light codes.

I’m always amazed to see which ones take their time to connect and which do so immediately. I can feel there is a connection made already, and it’s just unfolding. So this beauty awaits and is ready when you are with extra oomph from the Portal energies.

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

The rainbow light energies feel prominent with the coming home of the rainbow hued red metamorphic stones, this rainbow chalcedony in quartz skull palm stone, the rainbows appearing on the DTs, the incredible rainbows on nearly all of the quartz crystals I’ve found recently out in the wild, and also finding rainbow light appearing on two of The Speakers just a couple of days ago – right after (IN FACT) I had completed what I have so far of the spiral meditation garden. The last piece was the faery spiral and then there were the rainbows appearing on these beauties.

I have no idea where it was coming from.

You can see a big rainbow on the back of Solon’s head and one on the side of Alkebulan’s face in these photos. I love it!

Also, I didn’t mention this here, as I felt to offer these on my social media platforms first since I sensed some of their guardians were there, but I did make my portal art available during this potent doorway too. They felt ready to find their homes. Not only that, their energy felt to finally be now-ready overall, as many of the things I’ve created have been ahead of their time. That feeling was confirmed when two connected right away with their people.

I’m speaking about the three pieces of the In Lak’ech series of Five that were uniquely housed in custom made metal frames – so these are one-of-a-kind, never to be repeated again. Air and Fire have been spoken for, but Earth is surprisingly still here.

I say that because Ancient Egyptian energy has been strongly surfacing right now for many embracing the core pieces of their soul in totality and so I’m curious who it is waiting for too.

Earth highlights Ancient Egypt, the frame detailing mirrors the pyramids and palm trees within the painting. Earth holds Egyptian key codes through the Great Pyramids including Venus, The Hathors, and SO many other key Egyptian figures – Osiris, Isis, Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Horus, Thoth, Sekhmet, Ptah, and more.

It’s an “experience” to meditate with and allow them to do the work on deep levels, helping to shift your DNA and patterns into freeing transmutation. It can be hung, or set up to lean again a wall or shelf, placed on a small decorative easel for an alter space, or however your imagination calls for.

I made these available at intuitively guided specials to help get them home where they are meant to be and the work can unfold from there. This feels important.

You’ll find Earth available by scrolling down to the bottom of my Artwork page or you may contact me for payment plan options, which of course the crystal being is also available with.

Thank you for viewing and being part of the Earth collective’s shifts into higher awareness and harmonious being. It makes a difference. You make a difference being here right now too, as it’s not possible without you.

And last, just a quick update that the Mentor Muse Program has two spots remaining. Regular Intuitive Guidance Sessions have shifted out of their hugely decreased rate for most of 2024 and are still available with a smaller intuitively guided discount, as I transition into different things.

We’ll be away visiting family on the East Coast for a little over a week, so I’ll not be able to ship until I get back or do any sessions until then as well. I’m sure this trip will hold some more rich things to integrate. I’ll keep you posted when I return and look forward to any update comments you may have to share, or reflections of synchronicity with things I’ve shared here.

And until then, may you bask in the potent light of these long August days, as Summer nears closure.