I haven’t written since November 28th, so today I’m sharing a mix of supportive thoughts, messages, recent experiences, surprise crystal release, and of course warm Winter Solstice and Christmas wishes.

As the year steadily rolls on to the end of the 2024 block, many continue to have diverse experiences and everything in between. While challenges may have presented themselves increasingly this year, tons of growth has been sprouting in equal measure. It’s the way of wholeness. Never one thing happening without the other. Where we focus and how we perceive it all makes the difference.

Events are not predestined.

Every single moment you each have power to change or to change your relationship to it, which in turn creates a different experience for you.

And every action changes all other actions.

Remember that and the power of your choices and actions that support those choices. Something only becomes predestined, if you self-fulfill the prophecy by giving up “conscious” free will to navigate by your own guidelines.

You can easily be swayed, if you aren’t checking in with how YOU actually feel about things and just run away on a story stream someone else feeds you.

Your ability to explore different perspectives, allows you to see and create different probabilities that reflect resonance for YOU to align with. Your experience can be completely different than everyone else’s around you…simply by your conscious will and choices to change.

If this all sounds repetitive, that’s because it is. Some things we may need to keep hearing over and over and from different perspectives, in order to hit that click shift within us at the perfect timing when we’re ready. Until then, we can embrace that where ever we are is perfect, as well. We only need to get somewhere else if we don’t like where we currently are.

We are each presented opportunity, daily, to expand our own sense of identity and purpose.

Purpose is not necessarily some grandiose idea either. It can be the purpose of loving, playing, visionarying, exploring, building, connecting, thinking, caring, feeling, nurturing, and simply experiencing.

We are unlimited creative beings and there’s no part of us that does not embody creativity at its most powerful presence.

And when you reach into other ways and worlds of seeing things, beyond the scope of what other’s would prefer your possibility box to be bound in, you are able to make this moment’s life focus far richer and meaningful.

Make creativity your touchstone for vibrant living.

Or love…

Or peace…

Or compassion…

Or beauty…

Or wonder…

Or what ever ignites a spark to be more of who YOU want to be and how YOU want to show up, create, and experience your world.

Find a touchstone to your blooming heart.

The heart is the gateway to the next level of evolution we have entered.

Even with the type of offerings I’ve provided over the years, one thing has remained a touchstone for me in my work – liberation.

To empower personal choice and highlight how to see that amidst the confusing voices that deter aligning with individual expression is important to me.

I have no intention to have people use me as a crutch. Things I share are to help others to understand and know themselves better and to assist in reassessing their reality, and change it if necessary to align with their own desires and well being.

A word that has kept popping up these days is “elevated”.

We’ve had some uncanny experiences around seeing this service van recently in our area, always showing up right in front of our car. In fact, one day we left the house in the morning and it pulled out in front of us, likely headed to a job. And on the way home later in the evening, it pulled out in front of us again, after finishing the day’s work, to head back at the same time we were. And several other incidents of this van showing up always right in front of us.

I mention it because the company name on the van in bold large letters is “ELEVATED.”

To me it seems to emphasize and speak about rising above things, being able to hover over the clouds where the bigger picture is much more clear and not distorted by the noise of the evolving, temporary parts moving around.

Elevated also points to joyful and elated feelings or thoughts – so nurturing a lightness about things to keep one afloat and flowing along with more ease and grace.

Elevated supports us to reach higher and a great way to do that is to embrace what is while also allowing your tendrils to rise to the Sun to see what other adventures might want to bloom.

And elevated also speaks to me of “next level,” which is a phrase that keeps popping up especially around crystals – in particular the raw quartz I found here in Tahoe – and how we are ascending on the spiral of conscious life.

The day of two “Elevated” appearances, we were leaving for the last of Dave’s eye surgeries – his own upgrade in visual perspective.

That morning, not long after seeing the van, we had a very deliberate encounter with a stag again, which right away took me to my stag dream that focused on the very elaborate, spiraling upward crown of antlers, and encountering several on our recent Yosemite trip.

I was driving, since Dave couldn’t yet with his eye process, and while we were winding down the highway from the mountains to the valley, something caught my attention.

My own hawk eyes spotted a deer coming down the mountain slope on the left, far in advance. I had this feeling that the deer, which I now realized was a large stag, was going to cross the highway – and he did.

I had already slowed down and pointed him out to Dave. The stag descended the slope and started across the other side of the highway, as one other car had just passed. He then leapt across the center divider onto our side just as I had come to a full stop. With a springy gait he moved gracefully on air directly in front of our car (turning briefly toward us) and then proceeded to bound across the rest of the highway with one more giant leap over the side railing down the slope to the right.

Our timing was aligned and it was evident this meeting was meant to be. Deer are crepuscular like rabbits, being most active at dawn and dusk. This was late morning full sunlight. Not totally out of character, but being that we hardly ever see deer around here because they move about discreetly, it was divinely timed.

An invitation and activation of new and transformational paths and adventures of creativity, great hope, and potential unfolding.

They are messengers from other realms and being a stag there are great heights to all endeavors coming to fruition, including deepening of intuition and renewal, abundance and opportunity – again that “elevated” theme message being reflected in the large, crown of reaching-for-the-stars, antlers.

That I saw the stag ahead, speaks of foresight and presence.

Then slowing down to embrace the beauty right here and now.

Paying attention to signs and synchronicities.

Trusting inner senses and intuition.

Listening to all that comes through from the connection with Nature.

Stepping outside comfort zones.

Bounding toward dreams with full heart embrace.

Seeing and creating beauty, being gentle with self and others, and cultivating alignment for graceful living.

Protection and blessings all around, including those that love us sending us watchful care.

Trusting the journey.

Great messages for us all I think.

Bear also continues to grace my life…it’s wild how much bear is with me and I feel we’ve become one.

On Thanksgiving, we went over to our friend’s house to bring and share a meal with him since he’s on his own with his sweet dog. We learned that as we were just turning on his street, a big bear had just made his way off into the forest. That night we were serenaded by packs of coyotes out back – our bedtime lullaby.

On December 8th we heard about a bear running across the ski slope we often ski at our local resort just a few days ago, and collided with a snowboarder. Both were apparently fine, although I hope the bear didn’t sustain any undetected injuries from the hard hit. I watched the video caught by the snowboarder’s friend and the snowboarder kept on snow boarding and was completely okay, even fist pumping his friend later, they said. There’s been several bears running across this particular slope in the last couple of years – once happening just right after Dave and I had done that run and were returning on the lift to do it again. You better believe I’ll be watching for those bears on the slopes, as I don’t want to hurt them. They seem to either enjoy the high energy of people swishing down the slopes and want to be part of it, or there’s simply a meeting of meaning for their trying to get across the snowy forest.

But whether or not in waking life, bears are my constant companions. After a morning of coyotes yipping like hyenas across the back forest, I had ANOTHER dream on the 7th with two bears in it – the night before the snowboarder/bear collision. I actually don’t share every bear dream, or dream for that matter that takes place, but even with the ones I do share, you can see how bears just keep on being with me. Not sure if my dream, in part, had something to do with the bounding bear on the slopes the next day.

They were very playful in energy in this dream. They seemed to be engaged in foraging and just out and about enjoying life. I was by a tree where they were going about this and I was trying not to get in their way, but they were very keen on wanting to be near me. Then at a different point in the dream I was running through the forest to get to something. I was not running away from the bears, but running toward something with great vigor and excitement. I noticed that one of the bears started to follow me. She bound rapidly behind me at my feet and was just as excited. In fact, she nudged me in the butt, to push me on while I ran and she even gave it a lick! And we continued running together quickly toward this “thing,” as she urged me on with joy.

Sunsets have continued to also joyously splash beautiful color arrays across the sky – the most frequent amount of stunning displays back-to-back I’ve seen.

We experienced a big earthquake on the 9th – a 6.8 – about an hour and a half from here that shook the house and rolled quite a while. This followed several quakes in Northern California on the 5th, including a 7.0, that spawned a tsunami warning. We didn’t feel any of those, although my family in Reno said they did a bit. And on the 16th another 3.5 about a half hour away we did feel.

A lot of change is shaking up on the scene and many signs of new energies are simultaneously showing up.

We had a big day of more messengers on the 10th that started off with seeing 15 large red tailed hawks on our way to a hike, a peregrine falcon fly over on the hike, and a bald eagle fly over after the hike. And during the hike, I had the tiniest of mice run across the tips of my toes on the trail and then make her way under some twigs to a hole. No one else saw her until she was huddled in her hiding place before going off into the hole, so I know she had been waiting for and was meant for me. Mice are continuing to also be a potent theme for me over the years since the sweet and miraculous Fiver graced my life with his presence upon our returning to Tahoe to reside here again.

We’ve had very frosty nights and mornings filling the hiking trails with beautiful sights even though we hadn’t more snow fall for a bit.

That helped make hikes still possible, and finding messenger gifts along the way, with little to no snow paths at lower elevations.

It’s kept the snow at higher elevations holding and creating beautiful formations to enjoy, though, as you can see in these photos.

Oh the wonder of it all!

Snow and ice fascinates me and lights my inner child wildly. I just love the crystalline Wonderland of Winter. Perhaps it’s because I’m a Winter and Water baby, but moreso I feel it’s because I believe.

I believe in the magick of it all.

I dream endlessly.

And I hope with all of my heart.

May these photos of crystalline structures we discovered covering the sides of the trail on a recent hike, awaken your wondrous nature too!

But we did get more snow to keep the wonder going…this last Wednesday through Saturday in fact, snow continued each day with the most arriving between Friday and Saturday evening.

We got about eight to ten inches at our elevation by Saturday night – more up above. It continued to snow Monday as well, adding another inch or two.

The heavy Friday to Saturday snow made for a cozy weekend that even our dove friends wanted to snuggle in for. We had a pair of doves nestling in under our deck pergola. One was on the ground and this one was cuddling up to our living room windowsill to keep warm.

The day before, while we were out clearing fallen pine cones from our yard, I came upon a flock of about thirty small birds that were all snuggling up against the side of our house. They all took off when we both startled each other.

But back to Saturday’s snow storm that also made for the perfect conditions for a Full Moon snow shoe out back. In fact, we ended up snow shoeing twice in one day – early during snow fall and after snow fall at night.

This was the landscape in the late morning.

And this was the landscape at night.

For the first time, all the conditions were so perfect.

Dave looked outside and the whole forest was lit up from the high Moon over our house.

The Gemini Full Moon would be at around 1am and it was just before 8pm when he called me to the window. We decided to take advantage of the storm that had stopped, and the natural light guiding the way.

We were so glad we did because it was perfect. The snowy forest was all aglow and everything looked like a faerytale with trees about to lean in and whisper in our ears.

You don’t often get the Full Moon so high, fresh snow that just stopped a couple of hours before, a still night, clear, starlit sky, and silence.

We did our one mile loop through the forest and over the creeks and it was pure enchantment.

So surreal, quiet, and full of magick.

We had the whole illuminated night to ourselves, while everyone else was nestled inside their homes lit up like gingerbread cottages along the edge of the forest.

And yet we were warm too, as the night was calm and our layers were the perfect addition to the joy and wonder kindling our inner fires of delight.

Another affirming nudge to seize the moment, as these kinds of things don’t come all the time and can pass you by.

You only every really have this very moment.

We were so glad we went, rather than deciding it was a lot of effort after already being tucked in for the night. Amazing things do ask of us to meet them halfway.

So, if something calls to your heart, don’t wait too long to make a choice about it.

We heard the call of the wild under the illumination of the Full Moon and off we went.

We’ve been embracing a lot of that kind of calling these days and are grateful for the experiences we met. We have more upcoming this new year that we’re excited for too.

A lot of my time has been like this lately. Many things calling and finding my rhythm within it all.

We have been experiencing full days and have more on the way through end of the year. My guess is I’ll likely get in at least one more post before 2025 rolls in.

But I’ve also been getting in long nights of sleep, knowing the good it does my body to replenish and restore during those deep hours of night travels and peaceful surrender.

Winter Solstice is just around the corner – one of my favorite times of year.

Winter brings us Great Bear Spirit’s wisdom of hibernating in the luxurious domain of the soul. More time indoors, with loved ones and in sacred intention, weaving stories and crafts as the creators that we are, immersed in ritual, resting, and receiving – cultivating the ingredients of more alchemy yet to come.

So, if you’re feeling more inward, quiet, or simply needing to feel your way through things right now, it’s all part of the natural cycle of energy streaming through. Our higher selves know exactly what we need so leaning into those feelings will help sprout the perfect next steps when they’re ready.

As Christmas and Solstice near, I’ve had my soul family nearer and memories strong. All of the dear ones who embodied rabbits in my life have been around extra. Christmas Eve brings thoughts of Joy whose birthday falls on that day (my sweet angel bunny who always smelled like baby powder). And, of course, Astrid and I shared some beautiful Winter Wonderlands together, including my favorite Solstice magick photo of us below.

Never is there greater enhancement of childlike wonder to be experienced, as the sights, sounds, smells, feels, and memories brought to heart at this time of year for me.

And I hope to continue making beautiful memories with the plans upcoming.

We have Dave’s mom visiting, gatherings and outings with friends including a visit to some hot springs we’ve been wanting to do for the first time, our yearly events – Spirit of the Season holiday concert with the Reno Phil and Messiah and holiday favorites show with our local symphony, skiing, snow shoeing, and spending two nights with my family over Christmas Eve and Christmas.

This year we decorated two Christmas trees – one inside and one outside.

I got us a new, small tree that I absolutely love.

My ornaments outgrew my older mini tree so I donated it and got a flocked two and a half foot tree, which I’ve always wanted and it perfectly fit my beloved ornaments to a “T”.

I strung the lights and put it on a stand that I use for one of my plants by the window and it made me so happy.

We did some light decorations around the fireplace too.

And then we decided to decorate this one little tree that sits just behind our house about ten feet from the back deck so that the forest animals and faeries could enjoy it too.

It’s always looked to us like the perfect little Christmas tree and so this year she got her own decorations.

We strung silver beads, golden astrological symbol ornaments, and a few other little bits of sweetness on her and we all were happy – she and weeeee!

We can see her from our back windows and it makes me smile.

Ever since her new transformation, sunsets have been gracing her presence.

And she dances in sweet joy of her fresh snow gown, not long after being adorned.

She’s now in full Winter attire, beautifully matching her flocked sister indoors.

And she even got to dance with the prince all through the night underneath the Full Moon.

So many warm fuzzies floating around and I just love being able to share it with you because that warmth and joy we can each expand within our hearts, helps to expand the same in other’s too.

It’s all about connection.

I also love seeing and hearing about all the creativity, beauty, kindness, wonder, and miracles that happen around the world. It fuels my hopes and dreams and unites us in that beautiful Aquarian community of visionary heart weaving that makes my Jupiter and Venus in Aquarius smile wide!

One of my Christmas wishes for everyone is that you can each experience the one thing that nurtures your inner hope seed and rekindles a zest for sharing your inner light with others.

I have many other wishes too, but I’ll save them for Santa.

May Winter Solstice illuminate wonder and this Yuletide season bring heart expansion.

You are loved.

I’ll leave you with this fun video I just stumbled upon from our first Winter back to Tahoe to live again in 2016 upon returning from our Magick Bus RV life for the nearly two years before that. It’s when we were living in our treehouse up at the very top of the mountain at over 7300 elevation and the year we moved back was an historical snow year – until just two years ago. I happened to look out our vista windows and saw this bear enjoying the snow. It makes me giggle with delight. And it seems to have been a foreshadowing of the bear joy igniting in my life, following many encounters with black and grizzly bears during our road life times that followed the biggest bear adventure in Alaska surrounded by hundreds of grizzlies – I may repost all of that another time.

Enjoy!

I have a really special surprise, end of 2024 release of crystal friends offered with special discounts to include Tahoe Quartz that can be found below at the link. I will let you explore these incredible beauties for yourself in the video shares you’ll find there.

I’ll be donating any sales of Tahoe Quartz through this release to rescue rabbits in honor of my dear ones.

If you’re on Instagram, you’ll have seen that last week I did a raw Tahoe quartz Story Sale release of individual pieces and some grid sets I hand collected out in the alpine wild. It’s far too hard to do the amount of individual pieces I had to share on my website, so I chose that route to be able to get these potent ones out to more people more easily, which feels important. These crystals don’t try to fight for attention. You either see them or not, is how they feel. I’ve added a bunch of pieces and sets at the link too. Again, these are extremely pure, high vibed, next level crystals that only I have touched. I did some info session videos on Instagram to share a bit about them. If you missed those, I have the info bullet-pointed at the link below as well.

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

I also did a Live Sale on Friday the 13th – 12/13 – with Mody Ra. We featured the incredible new red Hatshepsut material from the tomb grounds of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. If you missed that, there are still some pieces remaining that you can find in the two-part live videos on his IG page, or you can reach out to me to get info to you. Mody is also doing a huge end of the year 40% off sale on the Abu Simbel large skulls – biggest discount ever offered. There are 9 skulls of 12 left.

As we near year’s end, I just wanted to remind anyone who was interested in Intuitive Guidance Session offerings that registration for these will close on 2/26/25. This doesn’t mean that your sessions need to end that day, but that claiming your sessions must be done before that date.

This means that if you want to purchase a package, this needs to be done before that date, but you can use your sessions as needed. A great time to think ahead on personal goals, as session packages are still discounted to be of support. Details at link below.

Intuitive Guidance Sessions

The same goes for the online Reiki Certification Training courses. Registrations are open through 2/26/25. All levels 1, 2, & 3 Master Teacher are available at the link below.

Reiki Certification Training

I have two other online courses – Everyday Reiki: Integrating your skills naturally for daily empowerment and Transcending Duality: Exploring boundless potentials as we create a new reality. These are also available and very now-aligned in helping to make your practices a more natural part of your life and to help navigate these times. These are found below.

Empowerment Series