I was so excited to find my very first two crocus of the season peeking their sweet lilac heads out from the front bed. They courageously bloom amidst a sea of abundant bulbs that are all reaching with their green stalks and buds to the sun, ready to greet the season of emergence.

I love how resilient and determined they are amidst still-freezing nights – continuing to power on.

Even though we have almost a week of colder weather returning with some snow and moisture pretty much daily, the promise holds strong and reminds me that everything is temporary, resiliency is a superpower innately available, and nothing stops energy from consistently recreating itself.

I’m feeling some assurance that I’ll get to see more blooms before we head off to blossom in new ways ourselves.

And speaking of blooms, I received a surprise, belated birthday package in the mail on the 24th, the day after discovering my crocus Earth stars. It came from a good friend of mine whose business is called “Starship Bloom” that includes such offerings as magickal realism embroidery art.

Not more than a couple of hours after opening the package and finding one of her incredibly beautiful pieces of two coyotes under a Pink Moon (which happens to be what April’s Full Moon is called) with crystals and sparkly beads, a pack of coyotes started howling loudly from very close in the forest out back. We heard them while sitting in the jacuzzi watching the sunset. And then upon going to bed, the pack sang once again to the night sky moon. My friend and I have a lot of intertwined experiences – one of which has been ongoing cosmic coyotes and sighting a pair on the same day. The framed art now sits bedside with a grid of amethyst I have there.

Another of her pieces is headed to me of a spirit bear “The Great White Bear” from the stars walking in the liminal space between Earth and Cosmos. It will balance the left side of my night stand – the perfect companions for dream journeys.

I find it important to support the in between spaces where dreamscapes reveal the truer states of multi-dimensionality that I’m learning to weave more into waking life.

Before this week’s dip in temperatures, we had warm days in the 60’s, which we embraced for our earliest-ever kayaking immersion.

On the 25th we had a successful and gorgeous maiden voyage of our new replacement blow-up kayak.

Our other five plus year old one had a tear we discovered when we tried to do an even earlier paddle and float on the lake during pre-Spring warmth.

This was a beautiful gift to be able to enjoy before we head out too.

And I imagine with the current storm coming in, we may get another day or two of skiing in before we leave, and the ski resort closes, as well.

While things oscillate and may seem unready to anchor one way or another, we always have the opportunity to embrace what is here now and enjoy that rich gift as it is.

It’s been a back and forth see-sawing of weather that mirrors these slower prodding forward days. Everything feeling to point to not rushing ahead, and embracing the moment. But I do see how what might feel like a step backward has been equating to two or three steps ahead after. Like a rubber band, I’m feeling the release about to happen. Weeeeee!

Sometimes the slowing down and being extra present and patient can really help tend to details that create greater resonance and alignment for springing forward.

We’ve been continuing to prep a lot before our travels, which included getting our yard cleaned up. You may recall that I’ve been doing this myself the last couple of years – raking all the pine needles and bagging them, branches, and pine cones from the seasons past.

With our being away during the usual time for this and missing yard waste pickups, we decided to have it done early and get that Spring clean in ahead of schedule. I hadn’t the ability to do it this time, so our people who do snow removal were kind enough to come and they had an opening literally the day before the weather shifted.

Sometimes delegating is important and more productive than trying to do everything yourself.

They did an amazing job and it feels so good to have everything cleared – so fresh! This provides me the opportunity to put my garden statues back out so the fae and forest animals will have their enchanted space even if I’m not there for a while. I’ll do that once this storm front passes.

We plan to get the driplines up and running as well before leaving…so everything should be in place.

It will be fun to see what we return home to in the garden and yard.

One step at a time…we’re getting things ready and prepared without rush. I’ve been embracing a slower pace since my birthday with getting things done without any pressure what so ever and sometimes just doing one bigger project, or portion of one, a day.

It’s been a nice change to slow down and not fill my day with only some of what can be the more stressful kinds of things. I’m making bigger windows of time for relaxing and just being, framing the smaller windows of focuses, as our countdown to departure edges closer.

I’ve been enjoying not having pressures around things and creating calm spaces of flow.

Things do still get done, but as they are meant to rather than by agenda, and this creates greater sense of well-being in the process. This has also allotted me extra time for a few more blogs than I thought I might have ability to share. So, I probably will have time for another before leaving.

It’s been interesting to have deer energy with me a lot since Spring Equinox and the antler and bone finds. It reminds me of my dream last year of finding the spiraling/ascending dream antlers and stag being prominent, followed by a lot of encounters with stag and deer in waking reality.

Well, it continued on the 26th with finding a much longer deer leg bone – interesting the bones have all been legs, as legs represent movement forward and ability to navigate life’s challenges.

I’m sensing a lot of renewal energy from these finds, but also the message of softening, trusting, and being in the flow of alignment with life evolutions instead of resisting or trying to control them.

That speaks to what I’ve been leaning into more and more and feel a greater peacefulness from this.

I wonder if that’s been other’s experience more these days too?

And that energy of inspired beginnings is being supported by today’s Aries New Moon and Solar Eclipse. This is not only a period of taking charge within one’s own life and harnessing what inspires you, but also inspiring others by your own example of visionary leadership and embodiment.

While some may feel less inclined to make major moves, some of you may be ready to leap forward and the energies are right there to help you.

New Moons are great for setting intentions and reflecting upon steps to take toward manifesting things in your life. The Solar Eclipse brings some really transformative energy into the mix and combined with Aries, you could really create a strong momentum of change.

So you could strategize some plans or self-reflect, if in fact you feel you’d like to create something new in your life.

You could also just nestle into the joy of now with fullness of heart gratitude.

And for others, this could herald a time you might want to challenge your comfort zones to move toward greater authenticity or new versions of life experience.

It’s all a choice and perfect however you decide.

Personally, I’ve both been enjoying the present ease of things, but also feel growing excitement for broadened experiences both in exploring more of life and exploring more of my creative potential.

And although we haven’t yet even embarked on our long journey, we’ve already put three backpacking adventures on the calendar (including some with friends and some on our own) and secured permits for those that required one. Two are new hikes/locations and one is a favorite we plan to use as our gateway back into the great outdoor immersions awaiting our arrival home.

So, we’re indeed embracing the Aries spirit for travels and nature expeditions and I’m also accepting the same invitation in my project world by seizing the courageous energies to help get me over the hump of any unfounded fears. I plan to begin some of this while we’re gone, using the inspiration of new experiences to guide the way.

Where in your own life do you feel called to create something new?

Are you comfortable where you are, or are you itching for a little more excitement or wonder in your life?

It’s a great time to feel into your own heart and follow the flow of what you find there.

It will be your own version of peace, joy, and adventure, as we all march to the beat of our own drums.

NOTE: The beautiful ocean jasper is still available for two more days only. On March 31st I’ll be removing the listing in order to finalize shipping on the 1st and won’t offer anything more until I return: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Although tomorrow is officially Spring, we did just get another snow storm the eve before, and on, St. Patrick’s Day bringing another deep layer of magick to the land.

This has been a different Winter season with a lot of Spring-like days in between our white showers, and the birds and small animals never really seemed to do a full hibernation.

But Spring Equinox IS officially upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, which heralds Terra’s awakening.

And it arrives inside a potent transformational window between the Lunar Eclipse of the 13th (powerful releasing energy) and a Solar Eclipse on the 29th (courageous new accelerations).

A new start’s promise is in motion, as the truth that all endings being beginnings is realized.

It’s also another year of blossoming without a bunny by my side, reflecting that the heart does go on and the fertile, creative abundance continues.

It helps that I refuse to give up hope.

I choose to keep believing and believing fuels extra joy in my heart even if everything outside of my heart wants to lean in other directions.

I feel that it does take our wanting to believe, in order to shift our experience.

Belief, rooted in embodied emotions behind it, make all the difference in any area of life.

Our sweet little, still-decorated pine tree at forest’s edge, speaks to me of believing.

The night before St. Patrick’s Day I dreamed I was walking through a grassy knoll and came to an area filled with peacock feathers along the ground. I could see their beautiful patterning and colors peeking through the dirt that partially covered them – perhaps indicating they had been there a while. Someone else may not have noticed them, as they blended well with the ground. I went about gathering them up in my arms, grateful for the gift.

I woke from this dream feeling extra rooted in hope and trust that beautiful things would come to fruition. The fact that I found many peacock feathers also spoke to an abundance of potentials in process of becoming. I also felt their discovery as entering into a new period of heightened change and growth. Brush off the dirt and dust, and begin again in brilliant revealing of essence.

Later, I decided to see if there was additional insights to this dream and found some information on dreaming about finding a peacock feather. The info suggested entering a period of self-discovery of one’s true potential and a reflection of embodied self-love.

And being that peacock feathers also symbolize one’s creative uniqueness, it may also encourage a deepening expression of such with potential to achieve great things with solid self belief.

And there again is that message of believing making a difference.

Spring is the season of rooted belief coming to fruition.

The sprouting forth of new life is a reflection of trust in the nature of ever-evolving cycles.

All things continue to transform, blossom, and renew, even if we can’t see it during the monochromatic landscapes.

The blankets of white may seem suppressive, but in fact are the stimulus void of innovation.

In celebration of the Equinox, here’s a little surprise release to ignite sparks of creative potential and inspired belief.

The last three crystal offerings were homed rather swiftly – the same day I shared them. They really knew where they were needed and their timing, as people found them even without seeing the blog post announcement. It moved me deeply to feel the joy their cocreators felt.

If you missed those three new offerings, I have a surprise for you today.

I have three new, equally special offerings that specifically wanted to wait for a Spring Equinox release. You’ll see why in terms of their transformative energy – especially with the key and needed emotional realm – and creative and colorful vitality mirroring this time period of opportunity between eclipses and beyond: UPDATE: 1 REMAINS

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Again, these will only remain available until March 31st, as I will need to have all shipping done at the start of April. If you’d love to have one of these with you through Spring’s blossoming doorway, that’s the timeframe to keep in mind. Otherwise, if any remain available, they’ll not go out again until July.

May the sweetness of emerging tendrils nourish your heart this season.

I hope the Full Moon Eclipse provided extra clarifying, opening, and perhaps healing support to your life in some way.

If you’ve experienced struggles with movement forward, the Virgo energy of this Moon amplifies how organization, clearing, cleansing, and dealing with details in a grounded way can aid efficiency and adaptability for welcoming in some new things.

Since Spring Equinox is around the corner in several days, it isn’t unusual to feel in alignment with the season’s desire to give things a deep cleanse and make way for the vibrant new growth excited to emerge.

Here, we had another snow storm on the 13th and 14th – the overlap days of the Moon event – that brought in a fresh almost foot and a half of snow where we are and much more up higher.

This snow is a welcome addition to our days, since we’ve had an unusual Winter with long periods of Spring-like weather in between a sprinkling of storms.

But then, this year feels unusual to me in many ways.

Perhaps because the slate does feel completely wiped – like the white blanket that just fell upon the ground here.

The Moon was large and glowed a reddish gold through the forest in the days leading up to the Full illumination.

Its presence and recent days have felt like an alchemical silence lingering in the air. I’ve had a lot of energy through the night.

Last evening, just after 7pm, Frith made a surprise run back and forth across the fresh snow on the upper deck while I was sitting on the couch. That was so unusual, too, but fitting.

I’ve continued to feel really powerful energies around and being drawn into my life, which coincide with that potent medicine of shark in a way. There’s something ritualistic naturally occurring and it feels to be aligned with what lies beyond each new door.

There’s also an excitement stirring with really fresh feelings unearthing that mirror the birthing of new stars within. I’m curious as to how innovation will unfold. And I’m meeting that energy with an action or choice to align in resonance with it.

Do you find yourself wondering and stretching in new ways?

And if not, do you wish to feel the kindling of different curiosities?

I feel like there’s an invitation to us all to try something unusual…mix it up…create new processes…leave behind stress and agendas…immerse so much into the moment that the mind quiets.

What if you did just one new thing today?

What if you woke up saying this is the day I will (fill in the blank)?

We will find it difficult to create our bigger ideals collectively, if we can’t even do one thing different in our own lives today.

Start with a simple shift and work up to more. Soon they’ll become a fun new natural for you.

It begins with a choice.

Just before the snow storm I found this raven wing feather. The iridescent colors are like the transformative changes emerging from the deep void.

I feel raven as a guide into the unknown and illuminating the way through the dark womb of creation and mystery with great intuitive precision.

We DO have all that we need within to navigate this new terrain. The steps will be like braille to our hearts…as we feel our way through revival of our multi-dimensional consciousness.

I’m going to be pretty occupied over the next month, as Dave and I prepare for a rather long journey away for ten weeks beginning mid April. That time might be a bit of a sabbatical in a way, but I am not putting any parameters on it. I have a feeling and vision, but will let the days unfold as is aligned.

I’m not sure how much I’ll post before then, but I’m sure at least a couple of more shares.

In the meantime, I did just list a few new crystal beings here: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

UPDATE: All new offerings have been homed.

You’ll notice that I removed the remaining Tahoe Quartz from that page. I felt the ones left will now become part of grids in the garden here and I will await anymore new ones that this Summer may bring to share with you.

Hope your weekend brings something new your way!

The world is a very interesting field of experience these days, in terms of what is playing out, and it takes more expansive awareness to observe without attachment and charge and to then navigate how we want to take our own place within it all. I sense that many others are also feeling an inner messaging around taking a new path, yet doing so invites a greater trust of the unknown way to do that or where it’s leading.

I was recently corresponding with a friend about how we both feel this doorway is about inviting in utmost faith, but also a space of no stress or pressure, as these are the old ways and everything we do now is about a new way on the spiral of evolution.

I added that I feel called to relinquish all goal-oriented thinking and to simply enjoy the moment of what ever I have chosen to immerse myself in. With fullness of heart brought into each experience, things can organically morph and divine alignment is naturally achieved.

So while that may seem contrary to my strong Capricorn, mountain-climbing energies or entering a #1 year numerologically, it’s actually just tweaking perspective on it and creating a more balanced approach that utilizes the best of the energetic worlds to create a new way to each mountain top.

This has brought a huge relief to me and creates a much more fun approach and experience.

It’s not that I don’t have motivation or intention, it’s just that there’s a shift of process where intention is energy theme based and saturated in joy. Joy then results in the perfect outcome that doesn’t need dictatorship over. There’s still full force of momentum, but with a different kind of directive. When one is fully present in the expression of the moment in a way that engages wholeness of one’s frequency, then everything can be achieved with greater flow and grace and will always be in divine alignment.

This is natural harmony of essence in conscious motion of being.

My recent little family-time getaway ended up being a week’s long mini vacation, as it was extended an extra night. I only just got back home Friday, so am settling into things. It felt like a mini reset in a different terrain that looks out on the mountains we live in.

And when I got home I found my amaryllis plants in a new phase as well.

You may recall that my parents gave us an amaryllis plant on Thanksgiving that grew super tall and produced five blossoms on one pod and four on the other – nine in all. My parent’s plant produced six blossoms on one pod and four on the other – ten in total.

After the blossoms finished their cycle, I only removed the withered flowers and watched how they produced new pods. This was my first time with an amaryllis plant so it was fascinating to observe their evolution and learn about how you can regrow them after the bloom. My parents fully cut the stems and withered flowers, along with the plant and gave me their bulb to see what I could do with theirs too.

Well, I ended up regrowing their plant from just the original bulb they had remaining and the leaves on mine grew crazy long, while the flower pods got larger. I wasn’t sure if they were going to bloom again, but what I discovered when I returned home from the week away was that the pods had burst open to expose all of the dark papery seeds.

I thought that was a cool reflection of the week’s discussions and energetic shifts that took place, as I always have powerful talks with my brother when with him and this time was extra potent given the amount of hours of intentional and deeply explorative exchanges – its own explosive burst of activation.

I plan to prepare the seeds and then plant them. I read that although they germinate within a few weeks to a couple of months that it can take several years for seed grown amaryllis to reach blooming size.

So, we’ll see what evolves. I just thought it symbolically aligned with fresh starts and the seeding of new Earth experiences.

While away there was also another few days of storms that came in, so we were welcomed back home to a snowy fresh blanket of purity once again.

That leads me to some potent dreams that I feel guided to share, as they don’t seem to just be about my own experiences.

On March 1st, the first night at my parent’s house, I had a shark dream and interestingly, the first night back home on March 7th I had another shark dream.

The first one involved very large sharks that looked like bull sharks to me, as they had rounded heads and noses when looking from above, and yet there was a little bit of whale shark essence in terms of their blended personality. Whale sharks are docile giants and bull sharks are aggressive. There was a sense they had some of both, but were an unusual group in that any aggressive potentials were something they kept at bay by choice. These were highly intelligent and advanced sharks.

That dream involved a fleet of these very large sharks that we (me and some other people) were going to be riding, as they were the only ones who knew how to take us somewhere important. We met up with the shark fleets in the water and there were beings helping us to prepare for the journey. The sharks had something similar to a bit in their mouths like horses, with a handle at the top of their heads to be able to hold onto. Then you just straddled their backs in front of their dorsal fin. There was a special mask to place over the eyes and nose, which I understood was to help to see and breathe when the sharks would dive very deep to get where we were headed. I’m not exactly sure where they were taking us – it felt like an important, hidden place – but before the journey began, the shark I was riding starting talking to me telepathically. One of the things he said was that he had something he wanted to give me and then something like a crystal appeared with two other stones. I looked at the crystal and it had a blue eye at the center of it. It was flatter in shape and clear all around the eye. The other two pieces looked similar to ancient petrified wood, but in a rounder stone form. They seemed like keys for the travels ahead. That’s all I remember.

On symbolic levels, this dream journey felt reflective of where I’m at with my personal growth journey. Perhaps finding a way to navigate new or challenging situations with grace and courage…harmony with, acceptance of, or overcoming fears is something I found when looking things up around being with peaceful sharks. Yet it also spoke to me about the new path ahead into the depths of the unconscious and unknown realms to rebuild from the core out, but having the tools/keys to unlock the way and the protection of highly attuned help to guide and assist. I do believe this is true for us as a collective.

The night we returned home, the shark dream was different. In this dream I was braiding my hair into two braids – one on each side of my head. There’s an ancestral and ancient wisdom symbolism to braiding hair. It’s a weaving of knowledge and sacredness into braids, as well as reflects resiliency and interconnectedness. The three strands can stand for mind, body, and spirit and to me are also duality coming together into a third integrated strand of harmonious unity. Doing this act felt preparatory to the experience upcoming.

While I was finishing to braid my hair someone came and said they needed to take me somewhere. I arrived at a facility that was by water’s edge. I quickly learned that the waterways surrounding this place were filled with sharks, separated into different areas, and there was some kind of process where people were being told to carry raw meat to the edges of the sandy areas and wait for the sharks. The sharks would smell the meat and come in fast and take the meat from the people’s hands. Sometimes they were so fast that they would come up onto the sand at full speed like a motorboat beaching itself.

There was something around bravery with this and looking fear in the eye with love…standing there knowing you were calling in a shark and that they would be coming at you and taking the meat from your hand, and trusting that you would be okay and only the meat would be taken and not your arm or more. And yet this experience could be different for each person, as I sensed something was based around your purity of heart and how well you understood the principles and dynamics at work. It reminds me a lot about sacred rituals in ancient times where training like this was implemented for alchemical mastery. How one embodies vibrations and learns to master the Cosmic laws, foretells how they will experience the world around them. It can also signify the difference between cause and effect and knowing how to vibrationally align oneself with the experience of choice. So, this dream was initiatory in feeling and highly attuned with deep trust and conscious awareness.

Sharks are one of the most ancient and evolutionary groups of animals on the planet that have been around over 450 million years and were the first vertebrate predators. I do have a couple of fossilized shark’s teeth a friend sent me that she found, and that are now part of my second crystal grid.

And I just realized that recently I was drawn to get a pendant that combined a couple of small raw stones – green tourmaline and aquamarine – with a larger fossilized Megalodon shark’s tooth. Megalodon sharks lived between 3.6 to over 20 millions years ago. This pendant supports transforming fear into love and is a shield and guide on one’s journeys. The elements of the pendant were integrated to “narrate a story of travel, protection, and joy, harmoniously unified in conscious design and intention.”

There’s always a reason we feel drawn to certain things. At the time I felt very connected to the protective power and strength of these ancient sharks and for what I felt to be embarking on. I wanted to intentionally invoke that power in my life, as I felt it would be needed. I can see now that they are working with me to support the next level of my journey I was ready for and calling in.

Anyway, these bookended shark dreams feel very significant in terms of rebooting experiences and I sense, like with the other animal spirit guides featuring prominently these days, and the messengers who are speaking through them, that we have many powerful comrades to help navigate the new realms we are evolving into. Many of them are unexpected, but are showing us new and integral ways that are important to understand and implement.

The sharks speak to our ability to adapt to life’s challenges with precision, courage, strength, primal power, and resiliency. They teach us how to rule the deep watery realms of emotions, shadows, and the subconscious that are outflowing fast and furious these days, so that we may transmute these and recognize and embody our innate power and highest potential. These are the realms calling our attention now and are the most challenging to work through because they don’t make sense to the mind. You can’t simply logic them out. For this reason, the mental realm is far easier to grasp. The feeling and unspoken realms are where integrated mastery lies.

The shark collective encourages us to unwaveringly believe in ourselves and unleash these origin forces we have ability to harness. They seem to be saying that there’s an untapped power locked within that is ready to rise and as we meet change with fearless flexibility, we can learn to navigate the incoming currents of uncertainty with confident grace and become our own unstoppable, creative force of unification.

We have a Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse upcoming on March 13th PST and 14th EST. Despite the challenges and struggles collectively unfolding, dreams and intuitive guidance keep pointing to so much potential and the ability to align ourselves more consciously with the changes.

Grounded innocence is The Fool’s card wisdom and superpower. It’s not blindness, but the ability to see beyond what the mind and ego fears. The willingness to take new risks and shift your way of reacting to others who prefer you to join or take a side, can lead to creating new doorways for us all.

Can you tell I’m in an extra silly state of mind?

If you look up the meaning of bibbidi-bobbidi-boo you’ll see it defined as a “light-hearted magickal incantation” to transform someone or something, and of course we know they were the magickal words used and sung by the faery godmother in Cinderella that mean basically the same as abra cadabra. For what ever reason – probably because I was feeling to make things light and fun – these words came to mind right away when I felt called to share this message today and it perfectly chimed in with rhyme for this life’s Earth year age I just turned.

Whether you’re a fan or not of Disney’s Cinderella, I bet many of you still know that song like I do and, at the least, feel the words to be a silly sweet way to integrate magick into our lives with lightness and joy and to experience transformation as enchantment.

It’s, again, about perspective and having a willingness to soften our hold on ideas and beliefs that may be limiting our capacity to enjoy the gifts of life we do have and our instant ability to transform them.

Shifts, miracles, and changes can happen just like that – add snap of a finger!

My birthday felt like this for me – light and joyous and yet also fully transformative in a very magickal way. One moment I was on one side of a door, and the very next I was on the other. It was as if someone waved a wand and invoked a little bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.

And they did – me, that is.

This came as a result of my partnering in the dance of alignment. I leaned into and swam with the waves of energy I felt rolling through, rather than crossing my arms and trying to anchor my feet on the bottomless ground and getting thrown around in the waves trying, or struggling to swim the other direction against the current.

I also did it by invoking my conscious cocreating ability with the cause, rather than believing I was the effect of someone else’s doing.

Magick is what magick does.

You are the magick realizing itself in every unfurling moment.

Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo is conscious being – instant and miraculous it can be.

I’ve felt strongly guided not to do anything new until after the fresh cycle kicked in and to just stay focused on endings. Slow and steady without missing any details. And by doing this, I did wake up on my birthday feeling completely different and I started seeing everything in a new light that felt easier, more fluid, and extra freeing – providing me even more possibilities I found myself open to.

And just like that a new cycle ignited, and another year of Earth walking began.

Fifty-two, here’s looking at you!

Having the energy of the 27th’s Pisces New Moon building up (the day after my birthday) amplified all of these feelings personally for me. Yet, I’m sure many of you have also been feeling these energies too, and maybe even a boost in terms of connection with your dreams and feeling they are worth putting conscious efforts toward. And if not feeling these things yet, you may notice an increase in desire around things you want and wondering more about their possibility.

Let your mind wander and imagine. This is the path to manifesting – visualizing and allowing your creative power to fill your cells with resonance for attracting the like to that which you envision and feel.

There’s been a sense of relief in the days leading up to this doorway. The build-up anchored in a knowing of how I would like the next phase of life to feel like. The way it looks doesn’t matter as much. As long as I keep sight on, and embody the essence of, how I want to experience the feeling of life, then I know the perfect reflections of that will unfold.

We’ve had Spring-like weather here all week – in the 50’s – so we’ve been able to go on hikes.

This is the first time since living here that we have such warm temperatures and that we haven’t been immersed in snow at the house on my Winter birthday. And although I love Winter wonderlands, this feels like a reflection of vibrant new birthing with my #1 year cycle activating – shaking things up a bit!

Interestingly, three days before my birthday we went on a hike and found a nest! Yep, another one – that makes fourteen.

Not long after the nest find, we pulled up to the grocery store and Dave went in to get something quick. As soon as he left, I watched a very large hawk swoop down to the creek in front of me, feet first with a splash. I’ve not seen that before. The hawk then flew up to a tree branch and perched there for a couple of minutes before taking off.

I thought both were pretty cool things to experience in symbolism right before my birthday.

I baked myself a cake after this hike, find, and sighting, since I knew we’d be out all day on my actual birthday. I made a simple vegan vanilla cake with vanilla icing (my fav) – but a super healthy version. The cake had no oil or butter – apple sauce instead – and I used monkfruit sweetener instead of sugar. There were basically only eight ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, apple sauce, water, distilled white vinegar, and monkfruit. And the icing was made with only soaked cashews, soy milk, vanilla, and monkfruit sweetener too. It turned out yummy and with the strawberry slices on top it was actually very much like a strawberry shortcake – my favorite throughout my childhood. I decorated it simply and voila!

For the actual day of my birthday, we planned on a special hike. It was what I wanted to do for my own kind of celebration. Originally some friends of ours had wanted to do something with us to celebrate and so we invited them along. I wondered about how that would unfold, as we’ve only done this hike one other time before on Spring Equinox three years ago. It was a very sacred kind of time.

Well, the day before my birthday our friends had to cancel and instead we made plans to meet up with them for a late lunch celebration afterward.

It was obvious that for this particular day we were meant to go ourselves.

Being that it was such a sunny, warm day it made it possible to get down to the high desert and enjoy what would there be a 60+ degree day.

My birthday choice was a hike where I could do one of my favorite things…rock and crystal hounding …see what All That Is had in store for me.

We had a beautiful day with perfect weather, not a soul around, and incredible gifts to discover – some of which felt to be placed like Easter egg treasures to find.

Even Dave had a great time exploring and finding gifts and we both enjoyed the different scenery and warm desert wind carrying so many whispers.

We felt like we were being watched from the canyon walls.

Petrified wood, agate, jasper, chalcedony, selenite, and a whole variety of mineral and crystal amazingness around every corner, including volcanic beauties along with the incredible terrain and sights to take in.

I don’t know what all of the specimens are that we found, but honestly I don’t much care as I just love their beauty and energy.

It’s such a gift to find things myself and know that no one else has touched them but me.

Just look at some of these!

The really special finds of the day were petrified agatized wood, which I have never found. We also found some petrified wood with chalcedony and some that are white opalized.

Talk about abundant ancient earthen energy.

These are 2 million years old.

The area used to have an ancient lake from the Pleistocene period.

I just love the energies of this area – so raw, wild, and full of ancient and ancestral wisdom.

The petrified wood, in particular, feels perfect for the rebirthing of a new Earth experience because the life force flowing through them carries cellular frequencies of what’s necessary for growth, renewal, and knowledge to learn from, rebuild, and strengthen resiliency.

I feel that the ancient Earth and Cosmic rich energies are key right now and this is why so many different kinds of crystals and stones are being unearthed and discovered at this time from new locations and sacred spots on Earth.

And speaking of Easter eggs and rebirth, just look at what we found!

An abandoned fully in-tact egg.

That really felt symbolic to find on my birthday and to hold in the palm of my hand.

It was a great day!

And the energies have continued to feel fertile.

It felt SO good to have the sun touch my skin and receive a nice rosy glow in Winter.

It was a perfect T kind of day!

Yay!

In the meantime, we continue to hear the calls of coyotes and experience nightly beautiful and varied colored sunsets through the forest out back.

And during the last few weeks I’ve had a couple more odd things go on with systems within my computer, which we both cleaned out and gave reboots to, but definitely reflect the same thing I’ve been doing – out with the old and in with the new. I didn’t need a whole new computer – just needed to refresh the inner workings to clarify the path ahead.

There’s no need to rush into things right now, as we’re still in a period of restoring and recalibrating with slow, but stead momentum. And it’s better not to, since energies are moving fast. Tending to the details that create balance will help nurture a more sustainable progression when things are ready to leap.

You might ask yourself, how do you want to show up in the world and embody the energies streaming in that would also be the butterfly kisses to your own heart?

Be curious as to where your inner voice is calling you to lean into more. These whispers or loud calls, which ever the case may be for you, are indication of alignment readjustments that will do your body, heart, and soul good in the coming days, months, and years.

Like our beautiful Earth, we too are undergoing a massive shift. She’s not the only one revealing her true feelings through the waves of weather or deconstructing changes she expresses.

We all could use a good nurturing purge to rebalance and recreate.

I used to share Lee Harris’ monthly Energy Forecasts, but since I don’t anymore I did want to share a few things he said in his last one that stood out.

He reiterated the message I shared above calling it “the slow lane is the fast lane right now” and that many may still be in a recovery or rest period in order to learn new and enduring ways of showing up in this also very new world. So it’s okay if you’re in recovery mode…keep up the step-by-step and know that this will lead to jumps later.

He also spoke about “dimension jumping” which feels accurate for me too. I’ve continued to have a lot of moving in and out very quickly between dimensional experiences and many times knowing that I’m in a parallel reality and snap back if someone calls to me. I know that’s others experiences as well. There’s nothing wrong with you if you are going through these shake-ups of reality shifts. It’s going to become more seamless as time goes on.

I absolutely loved him stating how “boundaries reflect alignment“. What a perfect way to explain why boundaries are so necessary in knowing clearly your yes’s and no’s. This isn’t selfishness. This is resonance and dancing in alignment with the collective.

And the last key note I wanted to share from his March Energy Update was his expressing that a widespread experience will be happening around your latent gifts lighting up suddenly. He stated these as “either talents or abilities you used to possess, but had been long forgotten, or past life gifts that you didn’t know you had, but are so effortless when they appear in your life”. And he went on to add that these would happen very easily. There will be “no thought involved or teaching necessary…it will be sudden and surprising and maybe even shocking” how these gifts come out-of-the blue in being experienced.

I felt a huge a-ha when I heard him say that, as it was something that’s been coming to me strongly in the last months especially, that I could feel this would be happening and how easily it would appear. It came in snippets of parallel experiences I saw and could feel it with all of me even though I didn’t know how.

Yes, the time is now and in the coming months, more and more of us will experience these sudden openings of our innate gifts lighting up on the board. It will seem miraculous – like a bibbidi-bobbidi-boo wave of the wand, but it of course was always who you were. This will especially take place in the psychic/intuitive realms for many.

There are a lot of things to be excited about and that give rise to more hope.

Don’t be afraid to keep believing and immersing in imaginative curiosity.

What if?

And indeed it will be.

Ending Notes:

I’m going to be away a bunch over the next several months and so commences some of the upcoming shifts in how I spend my energy and time. I haven’t yet a clear idea how things will evolve here on my blog, but I’ll get a better picture of that as I keep moving forward into the new. One step at a time.

I will be immersed in a little family getaway starting today through Thursday while Dave is on a ski trip with some friends.

Dave and I will be leaving for a long trip together, soon too. I’ll update things on that as the time approaches and I get a better handle on how things are going to look on my end with my focuses.