From my Winter cocoon to yours, I felt guided to share a little message of self awareness as we continue to journey through some powerful days of strong energetic shifts.

While the start of the year may feel like a call to get moving on things, Nature reminds us to take our time and trust that all things important will actually get done without our needing to force it.

Slowing down and touching in with yourself is ever more important with the massive energies streaming through.

On top of that, we just experienced a planetary alignment on Saturday the 25th – or “planetary parade” as it is called – where six planets (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) were close together in an arc. A planetary alignment isn’t rare, but having six visible planets aligning, is. And on February 28th we’ll have seven planets aligning when Mercury joins the six.

So, indeed there is Cosmic movement affecting Earth changes, and our being of both natures, ensures going through our own transformational experiences.

In fact, many will experience these changes in a variety of ways, relative to each, and may include health resets while your physical body is integrating the upgrades necessary for moving into these new times.

This is why it is of great importance to heed your body’s intelligence and take care of what it is asking for. As humans, our bodies will go through adjustments in order to be able to integrate the higher levels of light and energy streaming in.

I’ve heard from many who have recently been going through some major health messaging in order to support what will be in the highest good to move forward. From multiple head hits to temporarily debilitating illness, severe viruses, surprise physical health findings, and challenging fatigue…there’s a theme of physical body nurturing being a focal point.

What may appear like a health crisis is the body’s way of bestowing a blessing in the form of a wise message from the higher self to help course correct us and/or heed the importance of supporting the integration of new energy like we’ve never experienced before.

At the same time I’m hearing from others who are deepening into this Winter womb within and honoring and moving through transitional shifts and new life with extra rich, cocreative presence and weaving.

Some of the messaging includes slowing down, resting, heeding personal needs, listening and observing with curiosity, approaching things in new ways, and surrendering outmoded patterns that work against your vibrancy.

I’ve also heard from several people about completely losing their voices, which indicates to me a new, essence-based voice is preparing to come through for greater roles of leadership, creative expression, connection, and elevated resonance in alignment with the Cosmic frequencies now ready to emerge.

So, if you find yourself receiving a physical tap on the shoulder to slow down, embrace the changes, and breathe into the possibility, it may be of great benefit to pay attention to the messaging so that you can consciously partner in the dance of your potential that is rebirthing.

In many ways we are each wombing our own new selves – being mother and father to the incredible consciousness awaiting to emerge.

Perhaps that’s why I keep finding nests and my nest mobile grows.

I now have thirteen bird nests that join the wasp nests and partial beehives that I’ve found on the forest floor.

The idea of weaving my own womb of creation into being excites me and feels like such a gift to be able to do so consciously.

Personally I’ve felt a lot of relief alongside a revving up, as I’ve been transitioning things. It’s interesting to experience how even a way of life I loved can feel so good to release because a new way feels much more inviting. Things are happening with greater ease and fuller embodied empowerment.

In the meantime, Winter rolls on and we were excited to receive a snowstorm on Saturday – same day as the planetary alignment – that brought us a fresh six plus inches here, but much more at the top of our go-to ski mountain.

It was so otherworldly beautiful on the slopes after the snowfall.

One of my favorite landscapes to be surrounded by – especially the crystalline flocked tree beings.

More snow looks to be coming as we transition into February, so our heavier snow may come later as I was feeling. Crossing fingers, toes, and wings that that will be the case and continue.

In the meantime, slowing down and shifting gears is something the season invites.

Savoring moments and stretching experience into timelessness has been key to me.

Some of the things I’ve been doing is lingering in bed in the morning, making big hearty breakfasts, baking more, watching the birds while slowly sipping a latte in the morning, ending my days early to just snuggle in a blanket on the couch and watch an evening movie or series, enjoying the infrared sauna and indoor exercise routines, catching up on finishing artsy creations that have been on my list of wants, deepening with my crystals and crystal skulls, tending to my inner garden (literally and metaphorically), reviewing some favorite book passages and enjoying some magickal new fun ones, brainstorming ideas for my new projects, writing out and finessing my plans and daily routines to implement as the new norm, and planning trips. We’ve also started spending more overnights with the family since the babies departed, and have several more upcoming, which involve fun and board games from our childhood.

At the same time, I also recognize the blessings of what I’m able to do and the gift of feeling relaxed, while others go through contrasting experiences. From this space I am able to send support, however, and recognize how we all balance each other out as one collective community in times of need.

Gratitude is a mainstay in my life.

I wanted to leave you with this photo of a pink whale cloud swimming across the sunset a couple of nights ago and this message I channeled for The Speakers last year, which was part of one of my Talks With Crystal Skulls videos I shared back in April of 2024 – Episode 7 Crystal Skulls as Vessels for Direct Communication.

It was brought to my attention by someone just recently who shared, “The message from The Speakers in Episode 7 moved me deeply, thank you. It was the exact thing I needed to hear with everything going on.”

I decided to transcribe it here, in case it speaks to you too:

“Like the stars twinkle across the night sky, this – our welcoming of illuminated pulse to be with you once again. We feel your frustration and concern about the many ways in which your world is unwrapping the thickness that’s been shoveled upon you. You find it hard to breathe at times, from below the rubble of fallen trials that crumble by their own undoing. We cannot do the undigging for you, but assure you there are those of you close to surfacing. And when you do, the breath you take will feel like the first, as it will be in fact from the air of another era you have awakened. Of course we don’t know time, as you think it to be, so these words are only from the you who operates in this space to understand. Take the many hands that reach deep into the soil of the past, for the you of the future is one of these many hands who has walked the path before. While the two of you meet, you realize you had nothing to fear for this is not a trek of unknown spaces. It is one of familiar faces and the many celebrating rights of passage your true breath awakens. Once merged, your strength will surpass that of anyone who would rather hold you back. Listen to the calling under night’s watch of falling into the weightlessness of astral travels. What you call sleep, we would say is buoyancy of spirit and therefore these in between hours are necessary to receive that which cannot enter your day to day…at least not yet. Tend to your physical, even though it will not be the same, for you need its temple to incubate the ark of truth within unfurling. Do not be fooled or thrown off course by anything you see in coming days that tries to leach to pieces crumbling within. Stay the course. Stand together. Follow the true pulse that never asks of you anything, but to be. No matter who, the true voice is one that does not reign you in, nor cause you fear, nor takes away your pulse to tone by choice of heart’s will. Let these words, and what’s between, sink into the marrow of your existence here. Look to the starlit sky when in doubt and the twinkle will be a wink to your quandary.”

And if you’re interested in any new crystal companions to support these times we’re in, there’s eight lapis lazuli cosmic eggs remaining – I updated the listing with new videos and photos to make it easier and to show off their beauty and natural portals. I’ve continued to add some new, amazing Tahoe Quartz and Sierra Smoky/Citrines periodically. I share the Tahoe Quartz both on this website and in my Instagram stories as they guide me to, so many have been spoken for recently even before announcing here, including some of the first giant guardian releases and several other personal releases I didn’t know would be moving on. I can’t remember now which pieces in the listings are new additions, but there’s still several special ones available (some I’m especially surprised haven’t been homed yet) and I’m feeling like I may share a post upcoming about the energy of these crystals some more.

Lapis Lazuli Cosmic Eggs & Tahoe Quartz/Sierra Smoky

Wishing you an innovative and empowered Aquarius New Moon and Chinese Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake tomorrow!

This year feels extra fertile, exciting, and feral. There’s a sense of unknown adventure and uncharted maps to navigate by True Heart’s North. Having just entered Aquarius season yesterday, I’m feeling the extra liberating vibes that come through grounding into the essence of who we each are so that authenticity illuminates.

We’re also nearing the Chinese Lunar New Year, which will be on January 29th. This ignites the year of the Wood Snake.

Themes for the Wood Snake include strategic evolution, resiliency, adaptability, wisdom, intuition, creativity, fertility, longevity, and shedding your way to renewal on deeper levels. This is a complete transformation that will come to us all individually and collectively by way of moment-to-moment opportunities for shedding away all the build-up we’ve been shouldering out of acceptance with discomfort. The shedding could look messy for a while, as the old skin of years gone by peel away layer by layer. How far we each want to shed is up to us. Some may shed one or two layers and others may undo them all. Sometimes we’re invited into more shedding than we thought we may want, but highest good is always at work even if we don’t realize it.

Transformational beginnings can be a welcome part of every single day this year with the mysterious and ingenious Wood Snake by our side.

2025 is a number 9 year for the collective, numerologically speaking, and so there is the energy of completion, methodical growth, and compassionate connections that lead to enlightened paths. It’s a year for introspection before action and being in resonance with universal wisdom for greater good. A number nine year carries the potential for long-term achievement.

The Wood Snake urges us to be more present with conscious awareness so that we align with divine timing to embrace the perfect moments that offer greatest results and minimize energetic output.

Snakes are silent creatures of great alchemy, but this comes with a need for balance and deeper listening so that opportunities aren’t missed, while hidden challenges are avoided.

For me, I’ll be moving forward steadily with my intentions and plan to keep focused, consistent, and committed to the new unearthed energy from my personal closure I invoked pre to this new year.

Our amaryllis plant ended up budding four more giant blooms on the second pod, bringing us to nine total beauties for the season – pretty cool mirroring of our number nine year we’ve entered. The first pod of five has already passed, but the second pod is still going strong. Once they are done I will try my hand at keeping the plant going, too, and seeing if I can get it to regenerate for next season. It’s a first time I’ll be trying, so we’ll see how it goes.

The birds continue to stick around and the doves continue finding sanctuary around our home.

Here you can see them tucked in under the sage bush and cedar tree just outside our bedroom. There were eight total – five showing in the photos.

Winter has been more like very early Spring so far.

After the initial storms blew in, we’ve had sunny days with very brisk temperatures and melt-off at lower levels, with no precipitation all of January so far, although this Saturday a storm is predicted.

This has made hiking still possible if not venturing too high up where the thicker snow accumulations are.

Perhaps we’ll have a later Winter, like last year.

And the snow will stick around into early Summer.

Everything changes on a dime so things move quickly and unpredictably.

For now we’re embracing what is and enjoying the gifts to be grateful for.

On Thursday’s hike by the lake I found this beautiful and quite large nest I’ll be adding to my growing nest mobile.

That followed this Northern Flicker’s wing coming to me as a beautiful gift as well.

The all orange side is the under wing and the black, orange and spotted side is the outer wing.

I get renewal, transformation, fire and phoenix energy, which all feels aligned with the Snake year. And that liberation energy is again resounding that I began this post with.

We keep finding naturally wood carved seahorses when out on hikes – I think we’ve seen about five so far. They mirror the wood carved giant seahorse we have in our home on the fireplace mantle, which you can see highlighted by the rainbow sun rays to the right in this photo from Christmas time.

These patient and safe navigators of the deep sea of emotions and subconscious-made-conscious, are magickal way showers.

Sign posts continue to guide the journey like a treasure map of course alignment.

And then on Saturday afternoon, it was bobcat that showed up again as we made our way home from a hike. This is now the third encounter we’ve had with bobcat – the first, young one showing up on our deck outside our bedroom, the second (whom I believe was a blynx – bobcat/lynx hybrid) in Yosemite as the shapeshifting dimensional walker, and now a third.

This one was quick, so no photos possible, but deliberate in timing and out in the light of day, once again.

A large bobcat jumped out from the brush and forest on our right, as we were driving down the road. The bobcat proceeded to run across the street in front of us and then jumped into the brush on the left, disappearing altogether.

I know we were meant to see this being and I find that each time the bobcats show up has been at pivotal energy shifts that are important.

We are in a year of significant transformation.

I feel that what ever we decide to individually and collectively focus our energy on can create impactful ripples for the years to come.

Be discerning with your energy and commitments.

And continue to nurture your needs to keep things in balance.

I’ve been riding my own journey with cautious reflection about each choice I’m presented with.

While we can also choose again, I want to choose with fullest awareness as opposed to choosing blindly as a predictable knee-jerk reaction.

This is a new energetic landscape for us to cocreate in.

May we create with greater consciousness and alignment.

Quick Crystal Update:

There was only one remaining crystal, but I just added four more listings recently. I listed a couple without an announcement, but one of those pieces was discovered and homed already. I then added two more listings, so there are currently four options to find your energetic match for anyone who may be looking for a crystal partner. This includes two truly special, one-of-a-kind singing skulls, lapis lazuli cosmic eggs since many of you love this stone as much as I do, and the enchanted spirit/faery quartz. There is a blue theme going on because that is one of the key energies that channels through to me to share. I encourage exploration of descriptions along with photos and videos, unless you just already know. I also added several newbie Tahoe Quartz & Sierra Smoky/Citrine listings and updated some with new videos as well. And again, for these personal finds I’m donating proceeds to rescue rabbits. So grateful for all that I’ve been able to send in already – thank you! Other than Tahoe Quartz, I do not foresee listing anymore crystals or crystal skulls in the near future, as no one else has shared a desire to move forward or even hinted at that.

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

The brilliant stillness is so alive and potent.

I love that about Winter.

Her landscapes stir something within me that is so incredibly enlivening. 

Blankets of white, frozen lakes, stark trees, snow beings awaiting the kiss of enchantment, an empty bench that desires reflection…they all invite the emergence of spirit to feel most welcome in the realms of embodiment.

The energy of water communicates powerfully through Winter’s domain and mirrors both the oceans between land here on Earth and the Cosmic waters between the worlds of beyond.

Winter invites extra inward nurturing and places value on that which is not always seen, but is still deeply felt. This, in part, is the louder quiet I feel, while deepening and listening is happening on new levels. The watery realms are those that call for feeling and emanating that which is felt within, without. 

In the stillness I am empowered because everything becomes crystal clear. To walk in the presence of silent being speaks volumes and radiates in emboldened ways.

This place of stillness is also a powerful way to tune in with yourself and how you feel guided to join your heart and intentions toward the things unfolding all over the world that tug at the heart.

There are many spots on the globe going through drastic experiences right now and as I shared with a dear friend, for me deepening into gratitude and holding peace as an anchor is how I feel called. During these kinds of tragedies, which for me is also akin to losing our fur babies, I’ve found myself in a space of embrace.

It’s hard to explain. I feel many things that transmute as I walk through the fire with others to help get them to the other side, but it comes from a place of strength and peace. I stand in and radiate my inner light even more, and give in ways that inner guidance aligns me to for the highest good and intention, discerning as I go along and honoring my energetic boundaries, which then reveals the true strength I have to share most compassionately.

Sending continued prayers, healing and supportive energy to all in need.

I join with many of you who also work in the ways you feel guided to offer lifelines for collective renewal.

Our cells know the secrets of renewal.

We each have an incredible storage house of wisdom within the very cells of our embodiment. Each cell is like a library unto its own with volumes of intelligence to impart about the Great Mystery of consciousness.

Knowledge awaits you in other portions of your being and it’s not just by exploring your dream state, but also by exploring your waking reality in courageously conscious ways.

To live more consciously is to be more present and curious – to awaken from cruise control that’s been programmed into your acceptance.

Stepping into empowerment can be about releasing all that doesn’t serve your highest good anymore so that who you really are can step forth from the shadows.

This is a process of unraveling what and who you aren’t to reveal your true nature.

To radiate your frequency is exquisite shine.

This isn’t about trying to fit an idea of beautiful. Radiating is embodying the eternal beauty of unique life force energy that you are as spirit in body, instead of trying to become something.

You may need to learn how to find peace with the in between, as Nature does so brilliantly – the space that is unfolding as you refine these things within yourself. We’re so conditioned to only honor and see as success some end result. While all the while, we miss the beauty of the spirit unfurling human wings.

It’s about surrender.

Discover peace and gifts in each phase, emotion, and experience…for they reflect you’re being alive.

Learn each day to fall in love with your life a little bit more by deepening into each little thing you do and experience as a miracle to even have opportunity to feel and know.

Savoring the human experience enriches the time you do have here and highlights the meaningful things that matter.

And cultivating more connection, harmony, community, and enriching bonds cultivates greater compassion and shared power toward change.

The above and below photos (we took two so that Dave could be in one of them) are from our first Meetup of the new year we hosted this weekend of old and new friends. Dave and I started it when we moved back to Lake Tahoe and is the way we’ve cultivated rich friendships and continue to build connection.

Personal Updates:

The 8th and 9th brought a couple of extraordinary gifts to both Dave and I together and to each of us individually. Things we put intentional energy toward came into being in miraculous ways. Huge gratitude poured through us and I also have to say that it was both massively empowering and relieving to witness and experience the trust I have devoted into the energetic work and committed belief.

I mention the days this took place, as perhaps collectively there was significance for others as well in similar ways, to include a balancing of energies that unfolds for collective anchoring in needed times.

For example, I learned that one of my dearest soul family friends did an incredible Supergrid at Whaleshead in Oregon with Tahoe quartz I sent him, along with a very special star being connected to Astrid that also moved on to him on one of these days. He had some big activations and clicks lock in with this and told me about it just minutes after things manifested here. We knew our grids were interlocked together and spreading waves of new energy across the collective. We’ve been working for years together on anchoring grids and energies across the globe with others.

This continues to take place with so many of us – realizing that the things we’ve been called to do and have worked toward, are being mirrored by others, and the reasons we felt guided to do them are starting to provide answers for why we felt called to them in the first place, while simultaneously are starting to take effect.

Here at home we’re also experiencing not only the large flock of doves I mentioned in the last post, but our house has basically become a bird sanctuary – increasing by the day. We literally have like a hundred birds that have for some reason all made our house their heart home too. We watch in awe the varieties each morning bustling around in large groups, as well as fly overhead. We had a big family of woodpeckers yesterday, along with doves, Steller’s Jay, chickadees, nutcrackers, and others all surrounding the house. Dave went out on the deck and fifty plus different birds took off in all directions. We have ravens, geese, hawks, and owls hanging out or doing flyby’s. Something’s up.

But regardless of what exactly that is, there’s always a sense of peace and so much that I recognize as blessings and messengers in disguise.

The enormity of gratitude that fills my heart is bigger than the word gratitude holds.

And I let that feeling seep through the tapestry, alchemically.

Today’s Cancer Full Wolf Moon feels aligned for today’s message and also to share a personal update that affects offerings.

But first, here’s a look at the soft baby pink and blue sky surrounding the glowing, nearly Full Moon last evening.

We were greeted by this beautiful sight after exiting the church where we enjoyed a local Baroque symphony performance. Being that this Moon highlights the emotional landscape, I thought the colors were a gentle reflection of how we can be with ourselves and others more during heightened periods of feeling.

Reminders for this Moon, but also in general may include:

We have opportunities to respond to things differently and not get swept up in the triggers.

Emotional security is cultivated from the inside out.

Ego can use a gentle hug and deep breath.

Patience and conscious harmony are helpful to practice while feelings can get stirred.

Circling back now to the personal update, as I surmised and dropped inklings about at the end of my last post, my timeline has shifted since that share.

So much so that I’ve had extra time to initiate some of my intentions for this new cycle, including more fun baking and creative cooking again – like these vegan blueberry, gluten free and only sweetened by monk fruit scones you see below.

Originally my cut off date for taking new registrations on any offerings was 2/26 – the doorway of endings and beginnings in my personal cycle. However, things have changed quite a bit and while there’s still 44 days until then, I’m needing to close the date sooner.

I am at my personal max of registrations, which includes those of you who have shared intention to register. If any of the latter of these don’t end up committing, then I would be open to accommodating a new request. But I can’t make any promises and I figure if there had been a strong desire, then I would have already heard of intentions.

I feel peace in putting things to closure and am honoring my own boundaries right now, which will assist me in showing up stronger and transitioning things more quickly as well.

As I finished writing that – no joke – three big, healthy coyotes that looked like wolves bolted through our back forest like I’ve never seen before.

Once you commit to something and align yourself to match the vibration of it, things rapidly move and change.

I’m so grateful to everyone who has put your trust in me to walk with you along these paths now and all the years leading up to now. It’s been an honor.

And in closure of updates for today, there are just two remaining crystal beauties from the last release and some of the Tahoe quartz as well. This includes a potent golden avian dragon quartz and magickal spirit quartz (aka faery quartz) that work well with current energetic landscapes we are navigating.

Crystals may be the only thing I continue to offer for a while when and if they guide me to. Keep an eye out, as these drop when inspired and I do sense a few may hit in the next week or two. You can keep updated at this link, as I spontaneously upload even before I announce things: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Watching the colors of sunset emerge from a hole in the sky between the majestic peaks and dark purple gray clouds above the lake through the trees, I see fuchsia, magenta, gold, and tangerine all dancing together. They do so with individual brilliance and joyously as a unified celebration.

They send a message of vibrational resonance to my heart, reflecting the importance of embodying the energy you desire for this year and onward, as these frequencies will act as your alignment navigator.

What are you feeling called to walk with?

What are you here for?

Questions like these may seem daunting if you feel overwhelmed with stimulus that fogs your thoughts and emotions, if you feel inadequate and like the answer must be something extravagant to be meaningful, or if you’ve never really sat down to ask yourself what moves you in the first place.

Where it may have seemed like you were building and in limbo for so long in previous years, the new is here now for the embracing. Grabbing hold of the energy stream you want to ride will take you out of inertia.

Maybe it’s time for a new mantra.

Perhaps something as simple as “I allow myself to receive” can begin the rewiring.

Spring may be the official renewal season, but Winter and this first month of the year can cultivate and lay the groundwork for what you do in fact want to start seeing bloom.

Regardless of it being a new year, it’s always a great time to touch in with yourself and see how you’re feeling about things, what you do and don’t like, and what intentions and visions you’d enjoy experiencing.

Is this the year you follow your truest heart calling?

Is this the month, day, or moment you click in a brand new commitment to some step toward one of your goals?

Maybe it’s simply the year you shift one or more limiting perspectives to more expansive ones, or create more balance between how much you give and receive if one outweighs the other.

What would you like to lean more into?

Committing to listening more to your intuition?

Allowing yourself to rest and just be?

Slowing down and going more within?

Stretching outward more and accepting invitations or extending some?

Celebrating your unique, magickal self?

Expressing gratitude more?

Immersing more in playfulness and imagination?

Just a couple of days ago I was doing my usual singing and talking to myself with made up stories that induce laughter. Dave looked up and said with a laugh, “You’re like a 3 year old little girl just going on and about things that make no sense to anyone else for no reason at all.” He continued to laugh, finding it amusing and endearing he added.

I said to him, “Well, then I know I’m in my essence because this behavior hasn’t changed from when I was actually 3 years old. I was doing the exact thing then. Sitting in my room playing with my stuffed animals and toys, creating an imaginary world, while talking and singing out loud, giggling, and completely in my joy, all on my own. In fact, my parents thought it was so cute then as well, that they have recordings they made of me amusing myself that they have still to this day.”

One of my intentions is to strengthen this connection I have to who I really am and one of my commitments is to my essence.

Where I might have in the past felt judged, or judged myself about this, or perhaps thought I should tone it down when around others, I’ve now amplified even more and plan to continue to.

I’ve said to Dave on other occasions recently, “I sure do have fun and am happy. And in a world that doesn’t always have a lot of that being expressed or where so many other emotions or fears are flying around, I’m grateful to be the way I am.”

I feel the more we brave up and support each other to brave up to being exactly who we came here to be, the more this will spread into a new natural conditioning of essence excitement across the globe!

And for me, this isn’t just about amplifying my playful always-inner child, but amplifying the gifts and powers I suppressed or kept at bay for various reasons over the course of my life. No more subduing.

Something that may speak to you as well for this new cycle might be to create a personal practice that you commit to implementing daily this year.

Of course, it’s great to be flexible and gentle with yourself when it comes to goals, but it’s also supportive to create ways to engage yourself more so you do actually want to do, and enjoy doing, the practice you put in place.

Sometimes you just don’t know how much you’ll enjoy something until you actually start doing it. It’s easy to create a story around things and then play out what you fear. But it actually is just as easy to create a different story and play out what you want. It takes a little momentum and practice to make something stick, too, as well as make something become your new natural.

Nothing you do now came overnight. Whether you do something you don’t like or like, it all took practice and conditioning to get there. And so, it takes the same to get somewhere else.

This doesn’t have to be hard. Make it fun. But I assure you that once you do it just a few times and start feeling the truth of it in real time experience, rather than think about the story of it you made up, you will be happy you started and grateful you didn’t put energy into the worry or fear.

Start now…start over. You’re beginning from a place of experience. Probably many years of it and you can definitely find your process for successes there. Maybe you’ve just been amplifying the challenges or places that didn’t go the way you want more, rather than realizing how much you have actually accomplished.

This is one way to start making changes. Amplify the perspective that sees what you have created in your life. Become your own cheerleader to replace the voices of those who may have tried to pull you down. Take back your energy and take back control of your life.

You aren’t actually starting from a blank slate. You have tons of experience to pull from. Highlight those areas and utilize the process that made those things work.

You have so many answers locked within you. Letting them out is a form of self value. You have much to be proud of and so much innate wisdom that just needs your desire to interpret it.

Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t always easy, but remember that you learned some of these comforts as a form of coping with, or making up for, things you didn’t like – not just purely because you wanted them.

Curiosity around things can lead you to answers, but of course that too, is a choice. And where ever you find yourself choosing, is perfect and unfolds an equally perfect experience. You need only to make new choices if you commit to a desire you have to change something.

It can be powerful to simply ask yourself, “What do I need?”

Sometimes we’re afraid to state what it is we really want. Now is a great opportunity to vulnerably ask yourself this question and speak it out loud. Once you voice your feelings, they are no longer operating subconsciously. When triggers take place, they are many times an invitation to say how you really feel and to compassionately voice your truth. When something is heard, then it can be addressed and guides you to the root of things.

Good communication isn’t just about communicating with others better, but communicating with ourselves more clearly as well.

Again, everything unfolds perfectly and in divine timing. So, there’s no need to judge where ever you find yourself along the journey.

Experience is experience. How you interpret it, makes the only difference for you.

For me, I’m choosing different experiences moving forward. This starts with creating an organic list of things I want to focus more on. Some of these things may be altogether new, some may be a strengthening and increasing of frequency for something I already do, or it may be resurrecting a deep seeded passion and soul purpose.

This will then evolve into a baseline framework for my days to look at ways I can implement all the things I want to do and how feasible that feels. It may start out looking more structured, but I’ll be sure to implement ways to be creative and allow my personal need of flow, while also honoring the self discipline I know works well for me. Eventually, something that seems carved out and constructed will become a new natural and not seem rigid like it might at the beginning. Some things just take some finessing for a bit to find the right balance that works well for all of our needs.

This is something I implement with clients who work with me more regularly. We work at finding the way to bridge where they are to their goal in bite sized morsels that feel more natural in progression because not everyone can just jump the fence.

I do some of both with myself – some finessing and some fence jumping.

I’ll go first with sharing how I started my process to help jump-start ideas for you. There’s no right or wrong way with this.

I haven’t detailed or organized my intentions yet for daily implementation (which eventually will include more specifics and timelines, as well as may simplify or shift what is written here), but here are examples of things I have on my organic, brainstorming list I’m exploring right now that came up as important in some way for me. It’s a way to just flow ideas of what comes to me without filtering and then from here I can then start to define what this means and how it looks for me, as there are ways that things can be incorporated and broken down more:

Engaging all of my gifts and amplifying my essence, more friend and family time, balancing giving and receiving even more, strengthening boundaries, carving out creative anything time, more time cultivating my unique spiritual practices, focus energy into personal projects, more daily exercise, more infrared sauna and massage chair time, more nothing just being time, incorporating some liquid fasting alongside regular intermittent fasting lifestyle, more creative cooking and baking, more backpacking, travel and cultural immersions.

Perhaps you might start with a brainstorming of stuff that pops up as things you just feel called to more, want more of, or that you feel would be more supportive and is your joy or path.

You don’t need to know yet how this looks, or if all of these will actually make your final list, but just allowing yourself to flow with what comes up is the key. You may even find that there’s a way to do something that integrates several things on your list, or that after writing your thoughts out you realize something different, or that what you wrote was merely wanting your attention to shift a perspective about.

I simplified mine as a list of short ideas that I do personal exploration around after, but you could journal more about them and see what feelings and ideas come through with just inviting your desires to share themselves.

It’s a way to invite your heart into your day more and the inner voice that doesn’t always get heard.

We enjoyed a different New Year’s Eve than we have in the past. We’re usually in bed as the change of years take place and haven’t gone out in years to do anything.

This year, good friends of ours invited us over for a fun meal of vegan raclettes, followed by checking out the festivities at the ski resort at their end of the lake, and if we wanted to not drive home, to then stay over.

We embraced the invitation and added more to the mix of the evening’s engagements, even though we’re usually more comfortable snuggled at home. The additions included the idea of a Tarot reading for each other and sound healing bath to end the night.

None of us thought we’d actually stay up until midnight, as we’re all early-to-bedders, but in fact we did, as that’s how the energy of the organic flow of everything unfolded naturally.

The meal was delicious and the ski resort events were actually fun. We loved the idea that they ended at 6pm, getting us back home early and not having to be out at midnight.

It included a snowcat parade, followed by skiers with lights parade, and ending with a really spectacular half hour fireworks display.

We spent half the time inside the lodge enjoying drinks and chocolate, then bundled up to take in the sparkle of colors over the snowy landscape.

It was mellow and easy to get in and out of.

We returned to their home, enjoyed dessert and hot drinks, and proceeded with some really insightful Tarot readings for each of our year ahead that we all supported one another with, and followed that with two of our group working the crystal bowls our friends have and other instruments I brought – a chakra bowl, tingsha bells, Tibetan bowl, and a Peruvian medicine rattle.

We ended up hitting midnight, then went straight off to bed.

We stretched our own usual comfort zones to do something that sounded fun, intentionally aligned, and connective and we ended up having a great time. That included an incredible breakfast spread our friends made for us to kick off the first day of the year.

Even though we were only thirty-five minutes from home, it was a real treat and a great way to savor enriching experiences, people in our lives, and shift the energy into a new direction for the year.

I also waited until the new year to start my skiing.

Dave had gone skiing seven times on his own, where I honored my feeling of hanging back to complete work I’m tying up and just not feeling it yet since the snow wasn’t the way I like it, nor the crowds gone from the holidays.

I then picked up two days of skiing right after our biggest snow storm yet, which in fact did make skiing conditions optimal for my first time out.

One of those days was just with Dave and the next one was with other friends of ours.

I am grateful for our friends who are so accommodating to my own pace, cheer me on, and simply enjoy being with us and sharing the day even though they and Dave are all excellent skiers.

The day shared with friends was mellow with slopes clear of crowds and ended with snow falling and misty white covering the views.

But on our way down the mountain on the lift, Nature parted her cloud veils and gifted us a beautiful rainbow over the lake, smack center of our shared chair with all four of us watching the show. Rainbows are continuously showing up, heralding a theme of new life in progress and coming out of the storms.

Trusting and honoring my feelings proved successful in aligning me with what I like most and making the experiences enjoyable.

Oh, and I actually forgot my ski pass on the second day with our friends, which I didn’t realize until after the attendant scanned everyone’s passes. Somehow when they scanned for passes, I went undetected, or in fact registered even without one, as I actually heard the scanner click four times.

New year, new magickal energies in motion!

In between the two skiing days we opted for a variation and did a longer 6.5 mile hike down in the valley where the terrain shifts from high desert brush, to stone outcroppings, to forest, with sweeping views of the valley ranches and majestic Sierras all around us.

Nature shifts moment to moment, season to season, and from one area to the next with micro and macro worlds all intertwined. She reflects our own divine nature to change as well. We may not all be mutable signs like I happen to be (Pisces), but we have the innate capacity to evolve by our nature of being and the life force that moves through us continuously.

Leaning a little bit more into feeling the energy, rather than trying to control it, can help to align with where the moment wants to take us. Greater ease comes with cultivating this kind of trust and brings us into experience of the highest good unfolding.

It may take some rewiring to fine tune yourself back to your natural essence, but the nature of you will reward your efforts tenfold when you embrace the wisdom there. You can’t see the results from where you stand, but with a little gentle assurance and nudge, you will find your courage growing and the excitement of a new adventure of greater essence to be enriching.

I’d like to end with something pretty special to us that has happened here at our home that Dave and I have been in awe of every day.

We have discovered that a colony of mountain mourning doves has christened our home with their presence and in fact seem to have claimed it as theirs as well. There’s a large collective of these sweet, plump songbird doves that constantly come to our house since Winter began and sit on our deck bannisters, on the deck floor itself, on our window sills, trees, on the ground around the house, or under the eaves of our roof next to our house.

At times I’ve seen about thirty of them. Other times they are in smaller groups of eight or ten. Sometimes as a pair, but usually not alone.

They especially warm up to the house or in our trees when snow storms come.

We find it extraordinarily magickal and feel their presence to be such a gift.

They feel to be messengers of spiritual protection, peace, and love surrounding us in a very big way and I sense they’ve been sent to us for the purpose of celebrating the wholeness of life cycles we’ve moved through – perhaps even from our sweet companions who have transitioned.

They also speak to me of collective guardianship watching over us in these shifting times and especially as Earth is going through so much change we’re seeing and hearing about across the globe. A message of hope.  

Their presence acts as reinforcement of peaceful mourning closure to an old way of life with renewal on hand of a new one. There’s a feeling of purity and grace they bring, as well as such gentle comfort. To know they have chosen our home as their comfort too, is a powerful heart reflection.

I shared a photo in a previous post of one of the doves from a pair that was nestled by our window in the snow storm.

Today I share these – one in a tree covered in a blanket of snow to keep warm during a storm (actually the first time one was by themselves) – and the others of a group of eight all fluffed out in the early morning briskness on the bannisters of our deck.

We noted how they kept vigilance by facing outward in all directions, while nestled into their perches.

We’re grateful for their energy here and love that we have families of so many little ones who have made this their home and gifted us sweetness to cherish long after our babies started the next part of their journey.

I am holding their message of promise and renewal, as we join hearts toward all those in need right now.

There is so much promise and hope in the air.

What eyes do you intend to see this year through?

February 26th is just forty-nine days away and I’m on track – perhaps even will finish early – with my putting closure on everything I intended. For now, I’m still honoring that date as the last day for any registrations in terms of Intuitive Guidance Sessions or Reiki Certification Training. So, if you have intentions around this please let me know, as there’s a chance I could end things earlier.

I added one new year crystal skull star child who is a really special being, along with a golden avian dragon if you love them as much as I do, and a rare peach spirit quartz on Boekenhout jasper matrix that are available along with one, unique Tahoe quartz merging several types of crystals all growing together, to the ones that remain. Crystals & Crystal Skulls

I hope your year is feeling the winds of promising change and your heart continues to open wider.

And if you’re feeling the blossoming forth of new parts within you, too, you may love seeing my giant amaryllis plant.

My parent’s gave us this plant at Thanksgiving to enjoy the blooms through the holidays and Winter. The plant grew two tall stalks with a pod at each end. The first pod opened into five beautiful flowers and the second pod is now just beginning to reveal the next generation of blossoms. I’m curious to see how many there will be.

Amaryllis embody the messages of strength, determination, resiliency, potential, and radiant beauty. Their trumpet shape seeming to announce brilliant achievement at hand or yet to come.

With a new year and such powerfully different energies kicking off, my giant amaryllis feel resonant with undercurrents and speak to incredible possibilities blooming even under Winter’s blanket. My indoor garden is such a joy and feeds constant hope and excitement.

What does that for you?