And away we go, flowing first with some Eclipse and Equinox musings to help you to partner with the energies, a reflection on last week’s adventures highlighting the power of play, and as always you can skip to the end if you’re interested in new offerings and updates.

As we move into the days following the Pisces Full Moon partial Lunar Eclipse, energies have built up toward tomorrow’s Autumn Equinox portal. Eclipses can stir soul remembrance and awaken heart callings. They offer nudges and whispers, but sometimes also more pronounced messages depending on our needs, toward the pieces of our path we may have left behind or even forgotten.

Perhaps, even, long held beliefs and unconscious patterning will also come to light in hard-to-accept ways so that you can rid yourself of their underlying affects that are confusing or obscuring higher self guidance. So, this is indeed an opportune time to really let go of the things holding you back, that are not aligned with you, and are taking up your time, energy, and focus as a distraction to your truest desires.

If you haven’t already, perhaps you might carve out some time to reflect on the transformational journey you would like to embark upon, as Autumn Equinox is the gateway for these transitions. Slow shifts and rebalancing can be seen all around us in Nature, reminding us that we, too, go through these cycles and leaning into them with greater awareness can provide a gentle form of change instead of experiencing harder, unconscious hits. Either way is just fine. It all simply points to our having a choice in how we would like to walk the journey and speaks to how brilliant our body wisdom and inner knowing really are.

There is beautiful sacredness in these shorter days, longer nights, and darker pathways up ahead that can birth amazingness from the womb of creation when we embrace it.

It’s easy to accept being accustomed to discomfort because it is known and you’ve learned a coping mechanism. Change only seems hard at first to step out of the habitual nature you develop around coping, but in fact the greatest ease and comfort lies in being aligned and authentic. The same habitual nature you’ve developed for dis-ease and unwanted experiences can be applied to ease and desired experiences. It took time to learn to accept comfort with discomfort. It can actually be quicker to learn true comfort once you experience how easy and amazing it feels and how much more energy you will have for your courage to change. The choice to do so and the first step will seem hardest, but with encouragement and celebration of each movement forward, you’ll soon develop an authentic system for sustained and aligned comfort.

We will continue to see false foundations crumble all around us, as they were never built upon solid strength and truth. The cleansing process we are going through individually and collectively may seem messy right now, but when you create an anchor to your essence, you won’t float far away from the strength of this center.

Once again this Equinox brings the ending of one cycle to the beginning of another. We are constantly in recreating mode and that includes ebbs and flows, and moving in and out of the sacredness within both light and dark.

This is a magickal time of thinning veils and revealing truths that step out from the in between.

It’s a true sacred reset enhanced with glorious color therapies of gold, burnt sienna, maroon, aubergine, brick, persimmon orange, and warm acorn to nurture warmth and inspiration through the transitions.

Bringing greater consciousness to your experience, thoughts, feelings, and actions will assist you in harvesting the pinnacle of things to invest in your best life yet.

Allow the old to fall away with the decaying parts of Nature that easily release in the wind. Watch as the remnants become part of the restructuring of the ground from which new springs forth, as it transmutes with the spark of life meant to live the next days out. All things reshape themselves naturally when we let go without judgment. It’s the process of alchemy inherent to our destined wholeness we carry in conscious being.

All things birth from the abyss of potent nothingness – the masterful liquid, deep sable ink of the Cosmos that in fact embodies the brilliant spark of the All. Let this be a time of listening to the body’s rhythms – that inner hum that orchestrates miracles we take for granted with each breath.

Recent weeks have felt like a natural preparation in my world for this transitional time period where I’m finally feeling ready to take a plunge that’s been hovering in my spirit stratosphere.

It’s always a little bittersweet to watch the seasons of experience end and begin, but everything starts to melt into each other over time and the contrasts dissipate into fluidity.

We’ve had the time of our lives this Summer made possible by the gift of our furry companions being part of and enhancing everything in the wider expanse of conscious awareness.

As I mentioned in my last post, a lot of Astrid’s presence has been experienced in these days leading up to important markers for her and with these Moon and Equinox doorways. She’s been reminding me of a promise that is time to make good on, while knowing she’ll be right by my side with the others to support the process.

We also had a chance to embrace these cyclical transitions and reflect upon the next phase of our lives with our dearest friends that visited all last week.

It was an extremely rich period that was bookended by sentinel waymakers who held space for our journeys of deepening heart and soul-led lives.

If you have been following a while, you’ll remember KC and Clint (aka Bean and Happy) from past posts and the adventures we’ve been sharing with them since our star paths aligned. I won’t go into all details of our time together, but some of the highlights feel worthy of mention and reflect how one can continue to keep the inner child alive no matter how many years fly by.

The day they arrived, we ignited our coming back together filling our tummies with yummies while sharing conversation on our back forest deck. Time together is always like we’ve never been apart, picking right back up again with seamless and always playful flow between us.

It was then that a golden coated baby bear wandered along the trail that lines the trees. Clint caught glimpse of this jewel of the forest, calling our attention to turn around.

We never caught sight of momma bear, but figured she mustn’t be far, as this little one was quite small and likely barely a year old. She/he moved quickly about the bushes that revealed how tiny this cub was – disappearing when behind them or with only hints of sunlit fur framing the leaves.

I saw this little one stand up on hind legs for a moment to sniff in the curiosities floating in the air and hanging on towering tree arms reaching toward her/his nose.

The only two photos captured were this top one by KC where you can see just the golden coat outlining this sweet soul. And the bottom one I captured where the cub moved out of the light and a bit more of his backside peeks through the bushes.

It was a special experience and truly marked the essence of our week – being in childlike wonder and joy throughout our adventures and also highlighting messages that came through in a potent, shared Faery Oracle deck reading on one of our last evenings together.

And the last long morning we shared before their early start back home the next day, it was wild rabbit who graced us with her/his energy.

Again, this was a young one – not Frith, although Frithesque, so perhaps one of his offspring now growing up.

Fellow bun mom, KC, and I watched this little one move about our deck and hop in and out of my potted plants to feast on bunny delicacies.

Peek-a-boo! I see you!

All around this sweet bunny love, and each day, we’d watch a family of little chipmunks zipping about the lower and upper deck areas, my garden, the meditation spiral, and yard.

Playing, seasonal feasting, chasing one another, and engaging in sibling shenanigans they were. There was a lot of child energy dancing all around and within us.

Our week was full of daily adventures, physical activities, delicious vegan food, and relaxing nights of connection sometimes accompanied by vegan hot chocolates and golden mylk drinks, a movie, tarot readings, or simply good conversation.

Each morning Dave would make us fun themed lattes for the child at heart, and I’d prep us all a different vegan breakfast feast to fuel our day – from stuffed waffles filled with chick’n filets and smoked tempeh bacon and veggie cheezy omelets, to hearty mountain skillet pancakes of white and dark chocolate chips and banana to savory tofu scrambles. We was good to go! We also never left home without tons of yummy snacks in our packs and then enjoyed the amazing vegan offerings of some of our favorite local restaurants.

This group definitely loves their food and we know the importance of fueling up for all the physical activities we all love to do.

These activities included some of everything – like a box of chocolates to choose from for sure.

Several attempts in the past had not worked out for our friends to make their annual trip here, but Uni was helping us to hit all the marks for this one, gifting us perfect weather for every activity we chose and all things just flowing with ease.

Our first day’s immersion together was a full day of kayaking on the crystalline waters followed by beaching it for a while on two different beaches.

It was a gorgeous day and the water conditions were absolutely perfect for paddling the few miles we journeyed.

We did more mileage than usual, as the experience was just too amazing not to embrace the most of.

For us, it doesn’t get any better than this.

I can’t get enough of Tahoe waters rich in all shades of Caribbean blues.

This alpine lake was once an inland sea over 100 million years ago.

The ancient energies run deep and Lemurian essence can be felt in the crystalline liquid silk, the ancient stones formed by volcanic activity that birthed the mountains all around, as well as can be felt in the giant mother crystal that is held within its hidden depths.

It truly is pure magick to be held in Tahoe’s powerfully nurturing and transformative energies that run deeper in experience than the five senses alone.

This is the day when “skull” energy started showing up as a theme for our group.

The first appearance was this reflection in the water that we found at the beach we paddled to.

You can see the natural markings on the stone created a perfect skull face looking back at us while Bean and I were rock and quartz hounding along the shoreline.

The second took place back at our main beach where we started from and returned to for lunch and relaxing.

Two of the cutest little girls – sisters – were playing in the water in front of us. KC complimented the youngest of the two on her mini kayak. She didn’t hear, but her older sister did and told her younger one while thanking KC. Moments after, this little girl we now knew was named “Winter” walked up to KC and said “thank you” and handed her a special rock gift she wanted her to have. We were floored by her sweet faery ways.

Later when we returned home, KC was looking over the rock and called me over. There was the tiniest of perfectly and naturally etched-in-black skulls on one side of it. Winter knew!

The next day winds picked up making it a perfect hiking day to a new destination for all of us to Grass Lake. We started the journey from Lily Lake and wound our way up and up through varied terrain.

The wind made the sun-exposed climb up very comfortable and along the way KC and I were exploring all the magickal finds including faery balls containing one star seed inside, quartz, rainbow colored metamorphic rock, and quartz infused metamorphic rock, as well as me finding some feathers, other Autumn items for Magick Rabbits, and the first Amanita Muscaria surprise in Tahoe this year.

It was just the cap of one, but this definitely was Astrid-linked since I’d been talking about her and KC and Clint have been very connected with her throughout her life as well.

Skull energy kept knocking too. This time it was Dave who pointed up to the rock wall mountain facing us on the hike and where he’d noticed the most perfectly carved giant skull peering down on us.

It was haunting in a good way. This skull kept watch over us the entire way up half of the trail.

We kept being taken back to our love for the Goonies through the things we kept seeing and experiencing – and of course because we are forever Goonies at heart ourselves.

It was another great day of mixing things up so that we were always using different muscles and tickling different senses alive.

Next up a full day of biking.

Our friends have e-bikes and we have regular mountain bikes.

So, we thought it would be fun, and a way to keep us all at an even pace, to rent pedal assist e-bikes too.

This would also make the thirty nine mile ride one where we could talk and have a bit more leisure.

We biked from Meek’s Bay all the way to Palisades enjoying rides through forests and along the lake, river, and meadows.

With the four of us there is never a day that goes by without laughs, playing, and luxuriating in embodiment from the inner child out.

And yet our hearts also run deep, so explorative conversations come easily especially when we’re also surrounded by nature who reflects this embodiment of dichotomies so well.

That day happened to be their twenty-six year wedding anniversary and we just happened to have a reservation at a restaurant in one of the casinos that has a vegan menu.

Shifting gears, we got dressed in fun attire, shared a meal by Gordon Ramsay of Hell’s Kitchen that included this smokin’ Coconut 3-Ways (Coconut Sorbet, Mango Passion Fruit Gelee, Coconut Croutons) dessert on dried ice, and then had a little fun in the casino.

The boy’s tried their hand at poker while we went off to the slots. Not something I ever do except at times like these, but makes for fun with friends with all the flashing lights, colors, playful characters, bells ringing, and cheer dances to keep the wins a-comin’. Bean and I use our faery senses to choose where to go and when to move on.

We both got enchanted by the faery slot machine and we kid you not, she wouldn’t let us leave.

In fact, when we did, another faery slot popped up where we both swore we never saw her. Needless to say, there were no big wins of the night, but there weren’t any large losses – only win-wins of giggles, silliness, and faery friendship bonds that never break.

We all opted for a lower key physical day next, which included a short hike to find giant Sugar Pine cones for Bean, mini golf, followed by lunch, and Tarot readings.

It was definitely a Magic Carpet Ride for us, with tons of laughs, 28 enchanted holes to take a swing at, and even ended with both KC and I winning little prizes from the indoor game arcade!

There were so many fun holes that reflected things we love and to match the rainbow joy of our hearts.

Including giant, colorful mushrooms galore to match my mushroom and butterfly outfit and all the magick mushrooms I keep finding!

We played as teams split boys versus girls. KC and I were team Holey Rabbits!

And we all in fact hit one or more hole-in-ones. It was a super close game, but the Holey Rabbits did in fact come out 1 point ahead!

Even with all the rainbow bloopers. Practice makes perfect!

Weeeeee!

A great day ended with food coma from delicious vegan Mexican food.

That evening we had the greatest connecting and team support time together. I got the nudge we should each pull cards from the Faery Oracle deck to help us with the theme for the next leg of our life path. They were dead-on and we nurtured each other with the messages and guidance for the road ahead. We’ll be cheering each other on and on and on into the days to come. These were very revealing, helpful, and exciting since they reveal where our highest potentials and heart callings point.

Our last full day was once again the perfect temperature for an end-of-Summer beach day.

And that’s literally what we did.

We beached…all…day…long, enjoying the delicious vegan options at the beachside restaurant they bring right to your blanket and umbrella.

Eight hours of sun, sand, water, good food, friends (three of our locals also popped in), and even KC’s cousins came up from Reno to join the celebrations.

A week well lived.

And truly that’s what life, for me is all about. How well I can live each day with joy, peace, and highest thriving.

As I said, and will continue to repeat…I live to outlive myself.

Farewells, even if just for now, are always hard. But the week did come to an end, which marked the beginning of course of new adventures on the horizon.

After big hugs and waves, Dave and I did our five mile roundtrip walk to the beach and back from the house. This day would have been Astrid’s tenth birthday – 9/15 – and I wondered what she might have in store.

As we walked through the forest I said out loud to Dave, “Maybe I’ll find a mushroom or feathers, or a special stone. Let’s see what shows up! It’s Astrid’s special day so she’ll send something through.”

And in usual magick rabbit style, something did. A few something’s in fact, but her signature Amanita Muscaria mushroom was the icing on the cake.

I took us to the magick mushroom trail where last year I had found so many there after Astrid’s transition. This year we’d seen none in Tahoe. Only the one cap I mentioned finding when exploring with Bean. The other bunch were in Yosemite, as I shared in my last post, although still in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range that we live in.

But on Astrid’s birthday, right on the side of the magick mushroom trail, there it was. One full enchanted Amanita Muscaria – it was pale in color and already drying, but it was there and meant just for me.

Happy Rebirth indeed!

Before the mushroom I found eleven bird gifts including Steller’s Jay and Ptarmigan feathers.

And after the mushroom we saw a momma ptarmigan with two tiny chicks, which is unusual at this time of year. They have babies in Spring and early Summer so this was a rare sighting following along the lines of magick mushrooms appearing.

This also felt like rebirthing energy inherent in the cyclical times, despite what it seems. Endings always give way to beginnings. I do in fact have two parts of my path rising from the ashes right now – so I imagine that while these two little chicks will be facing cold and Winter soon, they have the resiliency to make it through. Soon they and mom will turn pure white to match the snow blankets that will cradle us here in potent cocooning.

This day – Astrid’s Earth birthday and the departure of our friends – also brought in a swift sweep of drastic weather shifts including winds of change, temperatures rapidly dropping twenty degrees, and cleansing rains across the land.

Literally everything was in divine alignment with our plans to provide the perfect window for our week together and the perfect window we needed after to get things done around the house, plus reflect upon all the potent things we opened up before the cold winds, clouds, thunderstorms, and rain moved in.

There always seems to be this incubation period between resets where things go through a very pronounced clearing to prepare a fresh slate.

We’ve had some really cozy and beautiful in between days since then, as mountain weather shifted. The lighting in the garden at sunset and dawn has felt like the golden hour and even howling coyotes have accentuated that feeling too.

And sunsets have been filling the sky with colors between the trees along with mystical clouds appearing like a second mountain range above the other reality below them.

Temperatures have now picked back up after that window of change blew in for five days and we’ve returned to the 70’s with that coming-home-Autumn feeling in the air to welcome a new season in.

Part of that welcoming was me purchasing two bags full of 185 new bulbs yesterday including tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, and alliums. I’ll be planting them this Fall after I do my seasonal prep to get everyone ready for their long Winter’s nap.

I’ve been excited for today, though, as we are headed out on a crystal expedition with our friends to a new spot I learned about since we came back to Tahoe, but never went. It will be a perfect way to prepare energies for Autumn Equinox tomorrow. I am curious what wonders and gifts await me there.

For now, I reminisce about the amazing year this has been for rock and crystal hounding, finding nature treasures in general, incredible encounters, experiences, openings, and connections, and simply basking in my explorative heart’s, forever-child wonder.

To add to the beautiful nature and crystalline energies of seasonal celebrations, I have two new collections to offer from my heart to yours.

You can view the second small Magick Rabbit collection that includes 5 bunnies featuring Summer’s End to Pre-Autumn vibes here:

Magick Rabbits

And a mini crystalline release of 1 special skull and 2 crystals (with a 3rd crystal I’m taking names with interest on a list for now) here:

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

FYI: We might be away on a different camping immersion next week and if so, shipping will resume the 27th – 30th. But I’ll try to get what I can out this Monday, if possible.

Intuitive Guidance Sessions have been extra fun lately and the team work of partnership is on fire with alignment and readiness. If you would like to team up together, I’ll be offering the specials through end of the year. And just a heads up that many of the offerings may not be continuing on into 2025, so if you have something you’ve been hesitant to work on this is a little Uni nudge and hint.

Intuitive Guidance Sessions

Shares will be taking a turn after today, as will my focuses, and even my website while I reset and revamp over the coming Autumn into Winter months.

Magickal Autumn Equinox Wishes to all!