Hello friends! I can’t believe it’s been nearly three months since last I touched in here with you. That’s a quarter of a year! Time both moves like a flash and hovers as the eternal present. The collective threads running through us have been carried in my heart regardless, as I move through life experiencing nothing as separate.

I feel a bit like a turtle peaking out of my otherworld shell right now, though. Things feel familiar, but more like a resonance that a footprint left behind where I’m now making new ones over.

Returning home is always a sweet landing, no matter how much I enjoy where I travel off to and explore. I find that there’s always a bittersweetness to each experience coming to an end, yet I feel we maxed out everything we could have while away that we wanted, and didn’t know we wanted, to encounter. I’m so grateful that we were always guided and supported along the way.

I may do a short reflection of meaningful highlights from our European journey, but either way, today I mostly want to touch in and share how the rich experience feels on the other end of it now, since now is where we are. Some of it may also align with the journey you’ve been on the last three months.

There were a lot of themes to our trip that I made a mental note of: the Ocean, deep Earth roots, lineage and core integration and reclaiming, balance and center between extreme opposites, peace in chaos, manifesting untouched individual realities, divine alignment, joie de vivre, anchoring deeper spirituality, and beauty that transcends time.

Oh, and yes there were a lot of rabbits that showed up everywhere I turned (both real-life and in artistic form) like a sweet nod from my dear ones in the stars.

There were also treasure finds galore in the most unusual of places like cities – colored sea glass, old tiles, sea shells, incredible rocks, minerals, and fossils, unusual feathers, and even bones. And among several keynotes that kept showing up, Mary Magdalene was getting my attention.

I also had an extremely heart-opening and deeply expansive experience in a beautiful church called Basilica of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption near the beginning of our trip. I feel it set the tone for things. It took place during an incredible light show that lit up every single architectural detail of the inner chamber with 360 degree video-mapping set to music (both recorded and live with an amazing choir) and historical story. Lighting included journeying through the cosmos. There was something that cracked open in me with the way the visuals and music resounded within – like a keycode for me personally. No one else I saw or that went with us had the same response. One particular soloist’s voice in the choir touched a chord in me as well. It was a cosmic experience of origins that was accessed. I became very spiritually emotional from my core and continued to be the rest of that night and the next morning. Not in any saddened way…the tears were of a beauty and activated opening that was beyond words and could only be expressed as a release of exalted emotion.

There was so much incredible art, architecture, ancient sites, music, culture, and culinary delights that filled our days, along with stunning and surreal naturescapes that echoed the resonance of the man-made beauty. It was a feast for the senses and a journey of remembrance.

And now, returning home feels enhanced, like the next curve on the spiral. Being here feels like a whole different reality, although familiar.

Synchronously, things indeed physically shifted while we were away, as I discovered how everything went wild in my garden and our forest backyard right off the deck is flourishing and abundantly happy.

The whole area of the forest where they took out the trees for fire prevention is now completely filled in like a meadow of lushness and I even see that more of the wildflower seeds we threw out there are now blooming. The plants up close to the deck are huge and vibrant and a few perennials I had planted when we moved in that would hide out most years, are also blossoming.

Several of the trees on our property are also flourishing like never before. I particularly noted our cherry blossom and maple trees that are thick with the most new foliage and limbs I’ve ever seen. In fact, we had to prune the limbs of the cherry blossom tree because they stretched across the stairway to the deck, making it challenging to get down.

But it was my garden that was really something.

The pathways are filled with wildflower plants (including 3 foot tall ones getting ready to bloom in the front of the above photo) bursting through the stone blocks and everywhere I turn, including the quartz spiral. Just an abundant amount of new plants and wildflowers growing out of nowhere. There’s even one wildflower plant that has grown as tall as me. Hard to see in the photo, but the lavender colored flowers, top left of the photo below, crown this beanstalk plant.

And to match the plants-gone-wild, there’s bustling forest creatures of every size and variety

running and playing all about – chipmunks, squirrels, hummingbirds, doves, Steller’s jays, chickadees, woodpeckers, hawks, ravens, butterflies, bumblebees, and lizards…..including a new rabbit friend.

This is not Frith, nor Hyzenthlay.

This is a young bunny that I feel to be female. She has cute, molting fur that highlights her growing stage while she stakes claim to her realm.

The name Foxglove came to me immediately.

This I feel was inspired both because of her sitting in the planters near my beloved foxgloves while munching on my other plants and because of the abundance of wild foxgloves I kept seeing especially in the last week of our trip that tickled my faery heart. The symbolism associated with foxglove flowers feels particularly fitting for her too.

Foxglove is the most consistently present wild rabbit I’ve experienced here.

She showed up on the first morning we were back and has returned every single morning and evening since.

She’s very curious and also very confident.

I can tell she has established her routines and claimed her realm.

She also has an air of mystery and hidden merging of duality within her – a bit elusive, but also very anchored.

Might she be Frith’s and/or Hyzenthlay’s daughter?

A new generation has begun and all of this wild flourishing feels reflective of my experience.

The last week of our trip was particularly accentuated with rabbit presence to send us off, which made Foxglove’s appearance to be a seamless golden thread of the magick we were experiencing.

This rabbit abundance included a dream of my dear Nestor (twin soul in rabbit body, now in the stars). I haven’t dreamed of Nestor in ages, but when I do I really take note. It made sense that she showed up at the end of the trip where I was in a very heart-healing, enchanted land connected to her and me. One part of the dream involved her talking to me, as she often does. She showed me the photo of her that I have where there’s an upside down triangle design in the fur on her third eye and at one part of the exchange she pointed up and said “look at the sky” and there I saw three very large golden stars aligned and blinking.

I’ve been unwrapping the whole dream since, but her showing up when and as she did feels to have reflected what I sensed had opened for me.

Since being home, the days have been full. I like to get settled in quickly, as that makes me feel ready to move forward with new things. Alongside resituating and catching up, I’ve also found myself in a new creative mode in the kitchen.

We loaded up on veggies and fruit on our return grocery run and I’ve been making a new creative, but simple dish every single day since we’ve been back including a new smoothie concoction each morning. I’d been in kind of a repetitive place with staple things I used to make before our trip, as time was tighter. But now I’m having the desire to switch things up and making even lighter, creative whole food dishes – both raw and cooked.

The colorful kitchen time has been balanced out with colorful garden time.

I got a first batch of new babies that I already planted. That was part one of my big garden project.

We returned home to everything being great at the house – just wild as I mentioned – except for 4 of my potted bushes having died. We had them since we moved in, so it felt like they had a good life. We don’t know for sure why this happened, as the driplines were working. It may have been because of swings in temperatures, as we heard there was a cold front and even snow that came in at Solstice. Or, it could be that these four – since they’ve been here since the start of our life in the house – reflected the change in me/us and a chapter or cycle coming to closure.

So, I found four new beauties to replace them, which my getting them was its own magickal story and for under the wholesale cost. This includes two Dwarf Alberta Spruce and two Dwarf Mountain Pine. I then did a big reconfiguration, consolidation, and cleanup of pots on the deck and added some new colorful perennial beauties.

I still have a lot of garden work to do for part two, as I will need to clean up the stone pathway and beds, as well as prune, and I am going to plant these four new rose bushes I just picked up yesterday to add to the garden.

I’m on the fence with the pathway cleanup because my wild heart loves the look and feel of wildflowers pushing through everywhere. But I also know that this can eventually ruin the pathway.

I’m going to feel it all out with timing, and perhaps might leave some or all until they bloom. There’s some giant plants with big buds I can’t bear to remove before they make their debut.

Plus, this flourishing feels connected to my own and that needs to be nurtured at the moment.

So, we’ll see how it all unfolds.

For now, the forest creatures are loving it and it feels very Fae. In fact, I sense they had a hand in things, creating how they wanted to enjoy things for a while.

We’ve also made space amidst our return anchoring to take a walk or do a hike each day, to say hello to our mountain home we love.

Our first evening back was especially lovely while we walked our shorter mile loop in the forest behind the house as the sun was setting.

There we discovered that the lupine that lines the creek is also prolific this year and quite tall.

We only had one other year when they were really abundant and tall, but the last few years had been sparse.

This, along with a bustling and lush forest, and finding a nest in one of our trees that sits behind our bedroom window, all felt again like reflections of the expansive birthing I felt take place on this trip.

As I told Dave near the end of our adventures away about the way the land we were in reflected such resonance for me, “my spirit is wild and free, and takes joy in breathing in the raw vastness.”

I savor my freedom and nature solitude as nourishment that allows me to show up in other ways. It’s not just a like or preference, but a must like the air I breathe.

Moving energy through the body is so beneficial, especially in these times. So, even while our days are full right now, we make a habit of having physical activity of some kind to be a given part of our daily go-to’s.

With all of the overabundance of feelings building and running through the collective, some form of physical movement can really help to assist the feelings and thoughts to continue flowing through, rather than staying stuck and building up toxically. Grief, anger, anxiety, fear, overwhelm, overthinking, over worrying…this all needs a healthy outlet or it can turn and explode on you and everyone/everything around you.

Reminding yourself that you can create your own reality and direct your own focus, regardless of what others are experiencing or doing, is a powerful tool you can implement and it does in fact work. This showed up in actuality for our time away too, creating a parallel world for us to move alongside in.

Everything isn’t black and white alone, although that’s what a majority of the world scene seems focused on. Being honest with yourself about where you are attached, can offer you insight to why certain feelings and experiences seem to dominate your day in place of ones you might otherwise prefer.

There is much unknown gray area worth investing an open heart to exploring, which in turn starts to shift your reality and align you with different experiences.

You must believe it and then you see it.

How have you been experiencing the energies recently?

I sense it’s been intense and discouraging for some, and I sense that others are feeling a freshness and support with changes and new focuses, even amidst the heaviness we are all aware of and/or experiencing in some relative form or another. This contrast I think is going to continue to be a thing increasingly, but doesn’t have to increasingly be a thing that debilitates or holds you back, nor separates you from the love that unites within your heart.

I’ve spoken with a few people who have shared that recent astrological and cosmic shifts have been very peaceful for them amidst world chaos. This has echoed my own experience of “peace within chaos” that feels essential to me to continue to nurture.

In fact the May 26th Gemini New Moon ignited something big for me. Literally, on that day, I started writing without planning it – I noted the date stamp later. We’d been busy with family and friends before that and the energy and nudge for writing synchronously was not showing up, as I was thinking it might. Literally after all of that died down, something key appeared in my life and I received the inspiration for a new direction. It literally awaited the ability to fully focus in my own space to receive the next clue. A long walk and the ocean were conduits for the message and flow.

So rather than return to my previous writing project that has been on hold, I was shown to begin a new one and it moved forward with ease once I said, “yes” to that. Instead of holding tight to an idea of having to complete my first project just because I had that idea, I remained flexible and aligned with the current energy stream flowing on a new, but connected path.

It’s kind of like arriving at the next level of the spiral.

This has felt exciting and joyous for me. I will continue in this vein and my first writing project will return when it feels ready. I feel that when we can remain flexible in our ideas, it really lends to greater ease and joy whether that’s a project, intention, or even a mindset about something.

So, this is my current focus – a new writing direction, picking back up on a collaborative project that was ignited at the end of last year, but also put on hold to be in greater alignment, seasonal projects around the house and garden, and enjoying Summer in Tahoe. I’m keeping an ear out for any other whispers along the way too, as I feel my crystal friends have much in store to guide me with – especially with a lot of shifts with them as well to mirror collective needs. This may involve a surprise release to share with you.

Meanwhile, we’ve been enjoying several days of mystery-filled afternoon mountain thunderstorms and an hour or two of rain, continued ocean-inspired lattes, alpine life, and emerging wildflowers and wild thimbleberries.

I don’t ever experience any issues with time adjustments from traveling and living in another time zone for a while. My body literally morphs into what ever time zone I’m in and sleeps with nature’s cycles of the area – not manmade time restrictions. So, my settling in is more about getting back to things – or better yet, getting on to new things.

I’m still enjoying quiet time, a lot more so because we had a lot of immersive city and abundant people time while away. One of the valuable things about being gone so long is that it provided the ability to balance high explorative activity with immersive just living and nature relaxing, rather than everything being go-go-go. Yet, I still got way more than my usual share or desire of city life and right now being bubbled feels good.

Dave mentioned that this was perhaps our next biggest life shifting experience together after our Magick Bus RV life. It definitely ignited a lot of new energy and directions for us, in many more ways than I’m sharing.

We did get to celebrate our anniversary and Summer Solstice while away. I hope that everyone received a boost of invigoration in some area of your life to match the vibrant blooming potentials our Sun emits across the land. We can use these solar frequencies and codes streaming in for beneficial things. So keep your feelers out for little nudges.

Perhaps some of the reflections and takeaways I’ve shared of my own experiences may ring in with you in resonance too.

Maybe you find some new ideas or flashes of inspiration coming in. Maybe you’re in the midst of growth in some facet of your life, even if that’s a step toward a goal you’ve had or an invitation that now feels good to embrace.

It’s an opportune time to be more open to those things that spark greater peace, joy, and/or ease in your life. There’s reason ideas come…they do lead to something fresh if you’re curious enough to play in the field of potential with them.

Wishing everyone in the U.S. a Happy 4th of July.

We’re going to be laying low here and plan to head out on our first Summer backpacking trip this weekend to our favorite go-to spot where peace and joy always finds us. I sense a new collective of crystals awaiting too. We’re excited to ignite the backpacking season and have two more planned this month.

Do what lights up your heart in any area and way that you can and it changes the tone of your day, while drawing in more similar resonance in other experiences.

You can shift your current trajectory at any moment and when you do, it makes it easier for others to ride similar waves of our collective ocean.