As our take-off fast approaches and the Libra Full Moon is almost completely illuminated, I wanted to take the time to touch in with some reflections before heading out.

The upcoming Full Pink Moon reminds us about the importance of cultivating the balance within and how nurturing and nourishing inner peace, as well as resonant relationships, can help us to realign our energy.

Anchoring greater conscious awareness around ways we can express ourselves more authentically and inspire others to also honor their unique purpose, can uplift and empower everyone more in terms of embracing and realizing dreams.

Perhaps you might take note on where you lean into things and connections genuinely, and where you feel compelled by habit or force. Tune into your energy levels with greater curiosity.

Do you notice when you feel depleted and when you feel recharged?

It’s a beautiful thing when you honor highest good growth, which can lead to more space for optimal blooming.

Let soulful harmony light a creative spark in your life to help navigate your inner compass on journeys of the heart.

How do you navigate the balance between honoring boundaries while celebrating uniqueness?

Learning the dance between both shining brighter, individually, and lifting each other up is a valuable skill.

This Moon, and the overall energetic landscape, offer us opportunities to walk with more awareness around how we are choosing to create our experience each moment of every day in terms of the way we relate to self and other.

As we continue to weave our threads through the world tapestry unfolding before us, we have many options to how we want to respond, participate, or simply show up – each choice adding layers of new colors to the overall image.

Staying aware of where and how fear controls us versus how it provides opportunity to reflect, release, and realign, may be beneficial.

I’m constantly reminded by Nature, how the laws of this realm are set up and how we have diverted away from alignment with that to try to outwit the magick that already is.

Perhaps it’s a quest for some to attain access to the Cosmic potentials forgotten upon embodiment, but in that search, get lost in false promises and distracting indulgences that feed on fears along the way.

Untie the fear-based ropes pulling you along, and you learn to float upon higher-frequency currents.

We often try to squeeze more tightly to our grip on something, afraid that we’re going to lose it or never experience or have another opportunity again. The truth is, when we gently let go of what no longer serves us, we demonstrate our abundance and create the space that allows for something even better to show up.

When we honor and trust our authentic feelings, we support our innate value and build our sense of worthiness.

Let us lean into the beauty of our beingness and recognize that growth takes many forms and needn’t be some loud display in order to have validity.

Nature demonstrates this beautifully for us.

I constantly keep an eye on what unfolds around me in the natural landscapes because I find that the perfect guidance and answers come through the experiences I partner with there.

Two weekends ago we had a surprise, big Spring storm for a few days that brought our most amazing snow yet, adding over two feet.

This provided us a full week of amazing skiing, just when we thought the season was over.

We skied every day in fresh powder and optimal conditions, which was a ton of exercise and made for the good kind of sore muscles and full exertion that provide extra sound sleep and more desire to slow down and enjoy a cup of vegan hot chocolate with pink, peppermint marshmallows on top.

When you embrace each moment’s unfolding without attachment to, or expectations about, how it needs to look, you create greater capacity to experience things as gifts with wonder and excitement when surprises show up.

Not only did we get to have a fantastic week of unexpected Spring skiing in optimal conditions before leaving our mountain home for a while, but I had opportunity to up my ski game and have lots of fun on harder runs in my perfect kind of conditions, ski with friends, and seize the invitation to venture out to a different ski resort we never go to at the north end of the lake – North Star.

And that’s where I braved my first and only black diamond run on my own this year, which wouldn’t have likely happened had we not received optimal snow and gone to North Star, as I only take those leaps when all elements within and without converge to alchemize hesitations.

The raven approved too, as this one kept doing a fly over, as I looked at the sign to make my choice.

And all the while, I did it in T-style with a helmet full of sticker magick at my crown and making Dave both laugh and feel happy for me, as he watched me having fun getting through harder runs and deeper snow without fear.

He’s always wished for me to experience the joy of skiing even though I’m still continually learning and growing with the process.

Dave went ahead a few times to catch brief videos near the end of the run on our first day out during the earlier part of the storm while it was still snowing.

This is my favorite clip that captures the essence of the fun we were having. You can hear me yell out, “hi love!” and then as I swish by, a louder, “hi my love!” followed by my own giggles and Dave giggles between breaths from his skiing fast up ahead to surprise video me.

It was sweet to hear him say he was proud of me, but more importantly I was proud of myself.

Skiing is where I fully tune into my body and intuition to feel how I’m doing that day, and each run. I also feel out conditions and have my senses on high to take in what’s all around me. It’s a great practice of being fully present and “on,” since for someone like me where skiing isn’t second nature, I’m all about safety. And safety on the slopes equates to how I’m feeling, combined with what I’m sensing all around me – in alignment or out of alignment. If the latter, I’m done. Or, I figure out if there’s something I need to adjust in order to flow better.

It’s a great lesson that I extend into all areas of life. It just so happens that the more extreme natural elements and ski experiences heighten this for me as a lesson of life.

Nature teaches.

Skiing has also created a space and process for me to really strengthen my self trust, which feels ultra key these days.

In addition, the surprise storm provided opportunity to enjoy one last glimpse of snowy enchantment before fully saying goodbye to Winter, since we had a very mild one this year.

I love flocked trees against baby blue skies, or even just peeking through the mountain-top mists.

That’s why I got the new flocked mini Christmas tree for us this year too.

This last hoorah of snow also provided mornings of finding magickal tracks left behind by Frith in the flower garden and to see the snow stars peeking through the spiral meditation garden before the thicker blankets covered them fully.

You can see them glowing through the ground as the evening light grew darker – as above, so below.

Our amazing white wonderland was bookended by Spring warmth and so we’re back again to kayaking, walks, lower elevation hikes, and bike rides – just like that.

And that’s what the last two-week-send-off before heading out also enhanced – we’ve been able to maximize a variety of home-based activities we love.

Mountain weather can swing rapidly, which is part of what I love about alpine living besides the high elevation and slow-paced quiet.

I relish in the surprise and variation that keeps you in the embrace, joy, and gratitude of what each moment brings.

I’m grateful for those unexpected shifts that accentuate the value of now.

As Spring melt-off reveals moist new growth we’ve also been enjoying a plentitude of frog serenades to accompany our forest walks along the pathways pre and post surprise storm. It adds extra delight to the experience.

For some reason, this year there seems to be a lot of them and their musical communication feels like a transformational bridge between cycles and realms.

During the last several days I’ve noticed an uptick in rebirth energy, new perspectives, and deep purification showing up in messages and literal symbolism.

I feel that a cleanse in the very depths and core of things is much needed and some powerful allies are showing up that address the darker crevices that have been hidden or unearthed until now.

Last Saturday, as the weather started to make its shift back to Spring, I was out on the lower deck by the spiral meditation space and I heard an approach. I looked in front of me and Frith sat there bravely and with purpose, just gazing at me.

He was only about eight feet away and I knew this meeting had been planned.

I stayed where I was and we sat together for a good ten minutes connecting.

I love his little white mustache!

And his curious nature.

I felt an energetic exchange take place and of course Astrid’s presence near as well, since she and Frith were connected. It was interesting also because later that day I was going to be doing an online Reiki Initiation Attunement for levels 1 & 2 for someone – one of the last calendared as part of my completion. Astrid attuned Frith to Reiki and I felt him wanting to partner with me like she used to.

He moves energy through his nose, just like Astrid and my other bunny companions.

Frith has become such an endearing presence for me.

And of course rabbits embody rebirthing energy and new beginnings.

After my time with Frith, we headed off to an eye appointment follow-up for Dave and to pick up my new glasses.

These are my first progressives and they definitely take some getting used to and figure out just the right spot for the three types of vision – near, midway, and distant. I do like the symbolism of shifting your eye position in order to create the right circumstances for clarity – there’s that perspective emphasis again that makes a profound difference.

I’m not wearing them that often yet, so it may take even more adjustment time, but I do already feel like they were meant for me and I’m curious about growing into these new eyes and what that all will bring forth.

They’re an aqua and gold tortoise framing the eyes and have sparkle and electric blue arms on each side.

The frames actually match my eyes, which I hadn’t made connection to when we ordered them, until I saw them on in the light, as my eyes are an aqua color with gold around the black pupils at center. So they feel like an extension to my own eyes literally.

The next day we went on a walk on one of our favorite long paths that winds through the forest and came upon a sweet dead vole. I’m always moved so deeply to find each dear creature and find myself in awe of the tiniest of Nature’s miracle details like the whiskers, beaver-like teeth, long claws for digging, round little ears, pink wispy tail, and plush velvety fur.

Things we may otherwise never see up close.

Dave dug me a hole and I got some rocks to help carry the precious one to his burial, as I do with all the wild animals I find on my path.

Voles also have links with rebirthing energy, but also are about balance, grounding, embracing change, resiliency, and deep inner exploration. As above, so below is reflected in their living both above and below the Earth, teaching us to cultivate and maintain harmony between the physical and spiritual, so that we don’t cut ourselves off of connection to either.

Both rabbits and voles create vast burrow systems in the darker depths of womb soil, unafraid of the hidden crevices they so masterfully navigate.

But the cycles of transmutation and sacred transcendence of time didn’t stop there.

Two days later, now just three days ago, I noticed the first blossoms reaching for the light in the beds out front. This took place right after finding a perfect dead chipmunk lying across our driveway. It appeared that this little one just peacefully transitioned there of natural causes. Again, I was taken in by the precious and miraculous details of every creature great or small and was moved by the angelic presence in this one draped over her Earth Mother until her last breath.

Dave dug me a hole, again, and I got gloves to pick up and bury the sweetheart.

Then I returned to transmute the bitter into sweet with focus on the colorful flowers just across from where the chipmunk came to rest.

The first were these sweet crocus that showed up on the same day Frith did, actually.

And now hyacinths and daffodils join, with so so many more faery flowers still to come including much more of the same plus lupine, tulip, and allium varieties.

I’m excited that I’m getting to experience some before we leave – all in different stages of growth -and likely there’ll be quite a bit more, as I can see a lot of buds and new plant babies, even though I won’t see the super bloom this year.

It still makes me happy to know that all of the bulbs I planted have taken, and that each year so many more plant babies will break through from one world to the next and continue to rise. Yay!

That same day I noticed the leaders of the blossom bunch bravely blooming, we headed to one of our new favorite hike/bike areas where I found the deer antler on Spring Equinox. I hiked, while Dave biked it on this day.

I’d just been messaging with my friend Mody in Egypt because he was showing me a new skull in process that he was carving. It is carved in a rare new ancient black stone and had a sacred winged scarab at the crown.

Literally right after I saw the skull a black and red beetle appeared on the path in front of me. I bent down to get a photo, as I’d never seen one like this before. I then stood up and when I looked back down, the beetle was gone.

About two minutes later, this black beetle appeared and then disappeared into some green brush.

And then within the next half hour I found one large deer bone after another in different locations – totaling three.

Then just yesterday we returned to the same hike, as we’ve had a lot of appointments down in the valley lately and make the most of our trips by adding in hiking or biking and a stop at our new favorite lunch spot.

I love going down there at this time of year because all of the flowering trees are in full bloom.

It was a beautiful day with some cloud coverage, but in the high 70’s and again I hiked and explored while Dave biked.

I was immediately greeted by a magickal little mushroom.

There was a warm wind moving the clouds across the sky that created some relief from what would have been some strong sun rays.

The sage was so lush and fragrant that I asked if I could have a few stems from different plants to bring back home to enjoy and the plant spirits said, “yes.”

I also came upon the first bitterbrush bush I’ve seen starting to blossom.

I love their little yellow flowers and their scent that both Dave and I feel reminds us of cinnamon when they’re in full bloom.

Just before this hike Mody had shared his completed “Scarab Queen” black skull, which made me feel that this would have influence on what I might find again.

And it did.

Another very large bone.

Regeneration and purification messages were amplified through the activation of seeing the scarab skull, once again.

I don’t know what things will look like from moment to moment, but I take comfort in knowing there’s a rhythm to it all.

It’s the unification of duality, simultaneously experienced that cracks the code.

I don’t need to understand it with only my mind, nor explain it only in words…the unspoken lies before me and within me, everywhere I turn and tune in.

And it’s happening…and it will continue to weave like the sacred web of Grandmother Spider who holds the secrets of Great Mystery in her whispers of transparent threads.

Sacredness is a delicate balance that lives between breaths and heartbeats that you can never hold. It’s the glimmer between knowing and unknowing that briefly touches the breeze like the passing of consciousness from spirit to flesh and back again.

I peer across the forest right now at a sky full of light glowing through the trees – is it a golden sunset or a golden dawn?

Sacred illumination is exquisite irrelevance.

The interconnectedness of everything is taken for granted, as we try to dissect the parts. And in doing so we lose sight of the sacredness within all that becomes a fleeting experience only for moments of intentional surrender.

Perhaps there IS a method to the madness.

Where ever we find ourselves, may we know that place as the marrow of life.

I hope the crevices illuminate more for us all and that the coming Full Moon, cosmic shifts, and days ahead lend a hand in greater unveiling.

This will be my last post before heading off.

I’ll be away for ten plus weeks, since I’m writing this ahead of leaving, and don’t know how or when I might pop up. For now, I have no plan but to immerse in the moment and new adventure of each day.

We’ll see where it leads.

I’ll either return in July or I may unexpectedly emerge with some inspirational urge to share something brief before that. In either event, know I’ll be staying connected through all that I experience even if we don’t touch in, in the usual ways.

I’m grateful for all of you and send warmth and strength for anything you may be, or will be, navigating.

In creative love and magick…may all possibilities be open to you.