As I return back to civilization and a more regular daily routine, I find myself reflecting on the last two weeks with all the potent symbolism and themes that were loudly singing amidst the music of life.

I’m soaking up the Summer sun rays and enjoying the sweet simplicity of my garden’s auric joy.

So much has spoken to a message of “embracing the now” and how we can “turn the mundane into magick”.

I, and those with me, also noticed an increase with instant manifestation happening. Unbelievably amazing how the spoken word brought forth a direct and exact result within seconds or minutes.

Did anyone else experience a rev up of energy since July’s New Moon?

On top of these, there was an incredible flow of animal messengers that carried their powerful wisdom and reflections of what our days and months ahead would hold.

On the day after my last blog – July 24th’s Leo New Moon – a streak of snake energy began big time, accompanied by an Astrid and magickal rabbits dream.

First it was a garter snake crossing the trail at the beginning of a hike Dave and I did that day. The snake wasn’t bothered by us, just sitting there watching, and then slowly moved across the path. And on the way back, a more rare alligator lizard shimmied across the trail – not far off from where the snake had been on the way up.

I’ll skip the details of the dream, but what I loved was their appearance, mirroring a cosmic family.

The rabbits were called “lavender eye rabbits” in the dream, although their eyes were more of a very deep purply azure in the shape of really large almonds. One rabbit was white and two others were agouti coated similar to Astrid.

The next morning a new baby wild rabbit appeared right after confirmation of a very exciting, upcoming experience. I didn’t get baby’s name until later on August 3rd though.

Then our friends Happy and Bean arrived – now two Sundays ago – and the adventures began.

This included a coyote sighting from our back deck on our first evening together at the house. Last time they were here it was a young bear.

Coyote felt perfect to ignite our trip, ringing in the playfulness, adaptability, and balance our time together would be saturated with.

He appeared to be molting, which mirrored the “shedding of layers” all of the upcoming snakes would represent for the changes we all talked about in our lives.

Messages of embracing big shifts to what we thought were our plans had all come to us each, individually.

We set out the next morning for a five day backpacking journey that took us through both familiar and brand new terrain in the backcountry here.

We drove to our starting point and left the car there, with plans to come out at another end and Uber back once we completed it all.

It ended up being a thirty plus mile trek with 8700 cumulative feet of elevation gain.

We usually take it pretty easy on our backpacking, and just do the longer miles on the way in and out.

Dave and I usually just do three day trips here and in Yosemite.

We also did a four day trip with our friends in the Grand Canyon several years back.

This time we extended it out to five – the most we can comfortably accommodate foodwise with our bear cannisters.

This time we all wanted to explore more – mirroring all of our intentions in life to expand into new directions overall – and while we still didn’t do anything extreme like some hardcore hikers who do the whole Tahoe Rim Trail or Pacific Coast Trail in one big sweep, we still did more than normal while also keeping balanced.

Day 1 was 7 miles

Day 2 we stay stationed to relax and immerse with only a 2 mile day hike

Day 3 we did 10 miles

Day 4 we did 5+ miles

Day 5 we did 6+ miles

All of this equaling 30+ miles with a lot of ups and down, which adds up to that 8700 feet of elevation overall.

It was breathtaking, awe-inspiring, raw, wild, adventurous, exciting, hilarious, challenging, and had us all honing our different skills to support the team.

I wasn’t expecting to, but I ended up being lead hiker the entire trip, keeping us all paced at a nice turtle-like rate good for both the heart and enjoying all the surprises along the way.

That is, until I went into rabbit mode for the miles we needed to get through super fast on our longest day, to avoid the mosquitos that the previous night’s rain (and all of the afternoon thunder storms of the previous week) had stirred up.

That day left me and Bean delirious with laughter to get to our campsite after doing more strenuous miles than we thought – well, the girls actually had mapped out the correct mileage and we agreed we should likely keep in charge of what we each know well lol!

I was also cultivating and honing my tracker instincts as “Pocahontas – Pokey” to help keep an eye on the trail, especially on all of the new sections we’ve never done and when trails were hard to see in the more wild areas.

This was the wildest portions of trails back here we’ve experienced, but we had a great team of very prepared and experienced hikers. Our friends also had satellite phone access if necessary for emergencies.

We did have maps and all that too, but instincts are also important on hikes like these and we worked so well together when we needed each other.

The adventure was a huge success on all levels with SO much beauty, raw magnificence, and amazingness to explore. Many river crossings were involved and views to take your breath away around every corner. It was also full of laughter, connection, comradery, joy, and sharing.

It’s really hard to express what these experiences are like, but the memories you make are priceless.

It’s not something for everyone, as it does take one being open to relinquishing a lot of the things in life you become accustomed to enjoying or feeling that you need. Yet, we also really make the most of the experience and have created our own version of backpacking joys.

Yet, there’s this freeness and wild abandon that exceeds in ever-giving pleasure to experience.

Feeling the fresh air on your skin and in your lungs.

Sleeping under the stars and living closely with nature.

Knowing you don’t need all of the things you think you do.

Being in tune with the elements and deepening your instincts, strength, adaptability, resiliency, and intuition, as well as cooperation.

Experiencing your senses on high and feeling the freshness of truly being alive.

Having the sun awaken your aura, the water revitalize you, the dirt remind you of your nature, realizing that the animals and plants speak the same language as you, seeing how the stars do mirror the beats of your heart – all of this clicks a switch and suddenly everything starts to make sense.

The mundane becomes magickal.

And you realize how important it truly is to embrace the now.

Life doesn’t wait for us to put everything into some idea of a perfect place.

Life goes on and so much is happening beyond the stories you hear on television, social media, in the papers, or even through secondhand gossip.

When I’m out in nature like this, I hone in on the now moment with ever-increased attunement.

We saw three garter snakes on our adventure – two on the first day’s hike in, including one crossing the rocks and one swimming in an enchanted lily pond we stumbled upon and have never seen in this area.

Then another on a later day. That first day we also found what appeared to be bear cub tracks right by the surprise lily pond.

We saw three frogs including a larger one, medium sized, and a tiny baby tree frog across the days.

We had three bald eagle sightings, which is unheard of in these parts. This all took place on our first evening. Two caught our attention at the same time when we heard their screeching call to each other and saw two come together in the sky above us and then both go off in different and opposite directions. Later, before sunset, another one came flying over again.

On our amazing hike up and down the pass, we discovered the most giant mushroom any of us had seen. We stopped to photo it with one of our traveling companion guardians (Sasquatch) who protected us along the way.

Here’s some of our other friends.

We had a falcon cross over us when we reached a beautiful meadow where what looked to us like an “Eye of Horus” cloud had formed in the sky at that moment.

We had an osprey fly over the lake of our second destination campsite.

I had a three inch common desert centipede scare the heebie-jeebies out of me when I discovered it in the hood of my rain jacket I was folding to put away! It gave everyone a scare when they heard me scream, although they said my scream sounded like a half giggle! We got that guy out into the forest rapidly and were on high alert after that. Centipede energy in the symbolic crown (hood) – hmmm!

We had a hummingbird come at the group out of nowhere on the last day when we stopped for a break under the shade of some trees of a rocky climb we were on. The courageous little one just stopped midair to say high and acknowledge us, hovering, then sitting on a branch without wings flapping a million miles a second, and then disappeared.

And all along the way we saw tons of butterflies, moths, dragonflies, bumblebees, fish, spunky chipmunks, little birds, and ducks.

I also found several perfect natural seahorse carvings mirroring the one we have in our living room, plus many more creatures and beings alive all around us, etched by Nature’s hand, including magnificent Ents (ancient tree beings)!

Not to mention, an array of gorgeous flowers blooming everywhere along the way!

Summer was buzzing and so were we.

You can’t help but to feel the electricity of life force and you easily forget that anything else exists or matters.

As mentioned, along the way, we experienced incredible, instant manifestations also.

Too many stories to tell on that, but let’s just say wow!

Our individual energies were complimentary, but by the end were synergized even more than they already were.

It all pointed to how we can unite and become more powerful together when sharing our individual and unique gifts as a means to strengthening the whole.

And this continued in reflection upon returning to civilization – a hard thing to do I might say, after you’ve been so peacefully in tune with nature’s cycles.

We called for an Uber at the end of our journey, in a more remote area and wouldn’t you know that the perfect driver met our call and vibe.

It was the best ride ever from such a great soul with a relaxed, joyful, flowing, and embracive energy.

He also just happened to have crystal and orgone pyramids on his dashboard, along with the grooviest music playing the entire forty-five minute ride.

His pyramids mirrored the myriad of pyramid formations of mountains and stones along our five day journey.

We celebrated our homecoming with a walk along the Lake Tahoe, as we waited for our favorite Thai restaurant to open for us to enjoy a feast.

We then settled in for a relaxing evening back home, being greeted by our resident red-tailed hawk out back, sitting atop a tree watching over us – as if to say, “Well done!”

This was bookended by my new wild baby rabbit showing up the next morning to greet us home.

To integrate things, we decided to enjoy a beach day after that and our mutual friends joined who just moved back to Nevada in Reno. We piled in a car and off we went.

And it was the perfect way to soak it all in and relax after an invigorating physical experience that lets you know what being human is all about.

On the morning our dear friends got back on the road to head home, Finn popped out again.

That is the name that immediately came to me, creating a trinity of “F”amily to the rabbits here – elder Frith, adolescent Foxglove, and baby Finn.

But the animal connections didn’t stop there.

The next day, Monday the 4th, Dave and I decided to do our bike/hike trails – one where he bikes and hike.

It happens to host the site of one of my secret crystal places (smoky quartz that is) and oh did it gift me again with some of the largest I’ve ever found there, along with beautiful formed and etched pieces from very light to super dark and saturated smokies.

I actually felt called to turn back earlier than usual, in part because I had no more room to carry anything in my tiny, overflowing hipsack.

I discovered there was reason for this, as it put me in timely position to save a giant rubber boa.

We don’t often see rubber boas, as they are more rare to sight than the garter snakes. We’ve seen about four in total since living here and this one made five.

I got near a turn in the trail when I noticed the long shimmery olive green girl jutting out nearly half way into the trail. She wasn’t moving and I thought at first she might be dead. I looked closer and nudged her slightly with my finger and saw her tail slightly move. Phew!

What was incredible was that she was untouched, and seemingly had gone unnoticed. At least three people had been ahead of me on my way back on the trail. Not to mention countless others before that. I let them pass, as I was going slower so as not to drop my stash of crystals. None of them had stopped to see her likely because she looked like a branch.

I became worried, as she seemed to have been sunning herself and just resting, while not only hikers went by, but more scary was all the bikes going by and that I could hear coming. I couldn’t get her to move with the little nudge, so I decided to stand right next to her left side at the edge of the trail, to protect her. I heard many people coming on bikes and hiking.

Again, incredulously, nobody looked down to see her. That was my hope in standing there, along with making sure people went around her, but thought they might stop. Instead, they just looked at me and said “hi” and went on their ways. Phew again!

Once I knew the coast was clear, I then went down to her again and talked to her. This time I rubbed her gently from midway on her back to her tail – oh how I love the feel of snakes! – and she seemed “tickled” by that. She began to finally move more forward and I told her to hurry! I heard people coming around again. I gave her one last tail touch and off she went, slithering beautifully away through the brush and under a log to safety.

If I hadn’t been there, I think she would have been run over while she was asleep sunbathing, or harassed by people who may have had a different way of interacting with her.

I’d never seen a rubber boa as large as her. She was nearly three feet long and about an inch and a half thick. Rubber boas are harmless and not venomous – and actually are known to be gentle and one of the most docile species of snakes. I really love them and seeing this large beauty really punctuated the snake experiences of the week, as well as underscoring the energies of peace, resiliency, and connection with Mother Earth.

I read that rubber boas also symbolize “protection, transformation, and adaptability due to their unique defensive posture and secretive nature.” They curl up when they feel threatened and may give off a musky odor.

I feel this magnificent being was a pillar of our collective experience in how these times really need us to learn to be more like her.

Peace within chaos.

In tune with Nature.

Resilient to rapid changes.

Protective without violence, in knowing oneself and anchoring embodied self-awareness and harmonious connection.

My wild rabbit family continues to appear daily and sometimes a couple of times a day. I was so in awe when this morning, this one stepped out – I believe it’s Foxglove – after Finn had traipsed across the deck last evening before bed. I know Foxglove by her notch in one ear, but couldn’t fully make it out.

She was sitting camouflaged in the shade when she miraculously caught my eye and I started talking to her…then she hopped into the sunlight.

This all took place after another part of the exciting upcoming development lit up this morning.

Just look at her glow!

Like a wink from the Cosmos.

Step into the brilliance of your embodied authenticity and don’t be afraid to bring all parts of you to light. You are whole and complete as you are.

Everything is magick depending on your perspective and how you want to dance with all of it.

The every day is incredulous when you realize all that we take for granted.

I hope you find some morsel of nourishment from today’s share, for the spaces within you that yearn to be fed.

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A little heads up that the remaining crystal beings listed are now on a special Sale through the 8/8 Lion’s Gate. I was guided to offer 33% and 22% off the pieces until then, if they call, in order to help them get homed and doing their work. The time is now.

Two of the pieces were temporarily on hold/claimed right before I left, but released while I was away. I also had a few messages asking about the Paypal option being removed temporarily. I’m still in the process of getting things changed there, which is going to take a while, but am able to open this option up for this sale. So, if you were preferring that, you’ll find that available when viewing the page and these incredible deals:

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