The cactus blossom makes things look so easy the way she beautifully rises and unfurls her delicate petals between the harsh cactus spines.

She speaks of resiliency and adaptability in the way she thrives in tough conditions.

Her vulnerability reflects true strength, as she embodies the essence of grace as her reality, rather than anxiety over what could appear as a threatening environment. 

“What if it were easy?” she whispers.

I shared this message before, but it spoke to me again as some guidance for navigating the energies many are going through these days.

Too often we spend time worrying and conjuring up every angle in our heads of the worst case scenario and how hard something will be.

But what if instead we asked, “What would this look and feel like if it were easy?”

And then, imagined a variety of potential scenarios of exactly how wonderfully fluid and magickal that would be, rather than every awful way we normally do.

What if we then moved forward with that embodied emotion and belief?

The reason we stress is because we’re operating on old habits, conditioning, and patterns that are in cruise control rather than taking control of the steering wheel and guiding our lives along the path intentionally with conscious presence to our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and even how our bodies are reacting to those things in each moment.

We often are forcing things, operating on “shoulds”, stretching ourselves thin, doing more than we actually need to be because we “think” we have to, over-complicate situations by worrying, and miss the simple paths because we believe, “Life just COULDN’T be THAT easy!”

As the end of the year comes soon to closure and I know many of you might start thinking on New Year’s resolutions or simply wanting to rewrite your life for the upcoming new year, perhaps you might reflect upon how to rewrite your approach to life and begin a new chapter with you as the author, and the path as one of ease and grace.

This is also the path of alignment where flow transmutes resistance and life force can move freely as is its innate nature to do.

We were wandering through an invigorating, ancient volcanic region a few days ago where this message was inspired by the cactus fields, and the beautiful blossoms spoke their golden alchemy.

The past two weeks while we’ve been away, I’ve noted that root chakra energy has been on high again and the lower chakras partnering in with that dance.

These are areas especially overlooked, as people have desired to climb higher and ascend, leaving behind the “root” of things.

This results as difficulties with manifesting in the fresh realities because a reclaiming and integration of the nature of our physicality has been denied, devalued, or simply forgotten.

These energy themes have been reflected in the landscapes we’ve had opportunity to wander through on hiking breaks in between care taking and very rain days.

Since the first day we left on our road trip and took a day in the Mammoth area to break up the drive, deep Earth energies were speaking to me to work with, within and without.

Some vistas even mirrored the Pyramids of Giza, echoing my journey of reclaiming in Egypt recently.

We’ve wandered through a lot of ancient terrain, including the Mammoth Earthquake Fault and a lot of volcanic regions.

I was gifted several treasures to work with including 30 million year old lava rock, obsidian, agate, and light blue chalcedony to name a few – all being of volcanic origins and rich with the current energies streaming through for awareness and integration.

And we encountered a variety of beautiful creatures, too, that each carried their own potent medicine.

There were a bunch of magickal things around each wild corner to breathe in.

This included stumbling upon a spiral labyrinth that just “happened” to be by a hiking trail, offering us opportunity to anchor in some intentions with my favorite kind of mindfulness practice – a walking meditation.

As I share this post we are traveling back home now.

It was a productive and important couple of weeks helping Dave’s dad and stepmom with many life things.

It also gave us opportunity to spend time with their special “emotional” needs rescue coonhound, Grace, taking her on walks and giving her extra love and play time.

She has a hard time trusting people, as she has deep emotional trauma, so these weeks were taken slowly and with great care.

The connection meant more to me because of this.

This is one of my strengths, so I don’t find it hard to be with the patience and presence it requires.

She and I share a love for stopping to smell all of the roses, clover, and explore any little discoveries along the way too.

She was especially fond of jogging and running with me, instead of walking, since she doesn’t get the chance for that.

I also had time to reveal and connect to some deeply heart based realizations and activations during these weeks, so “elevating the heart” was the medicine for our time away, along with rooting into sacred origins of the primal nature of being.

I can definitely feel in the last month and a half, that return in the most personal of ways – not just as a collective process – but a reclaiming of my original codes.

The dreams that were actually key seeds, are now sprouting.

There is grace within our sacred origins.

The photos laced throughout this post are some of the landscapes we journeyed through on our breaks and in betweens.

And now we’re returning to the alpine realms where sunshiny end-of-Autumn days await us after snow danced there again while we were away.

We return just in time to share a festive Thanksgiving ~ “Gratitude” ~ Day with my family, touch in with some of our friends briefly, do some quick garden Winter prep, unpack and repack, then head out once again.

It will be a quick, few day turnaround indeed before heading out again on a different kind of vacation starting this Sunday the 30th through December 17th.

Then busy holiday times begin. I can’t believe it will be nearly Christmas when I return, and the end to 2025 so near.

I haven’t time for much else in my few days home, so this is why I’m getting this post out now, since I won’t be back until mid December.

Until then, if you missed out on any of the newest crystal friends, I do have a surprise that the pink amethyst star being is back at special offering for this unique one at such a large size. This beauty was released by their claimer for personal reasons and so is now available again. Sometimes this happens and it’s part of highest alignment being honored. I can’t believe she’s still around, though, especially with themes of origins swirling around. The color and sparkle is far more beautiful in person. Perhaps she’ll end up having a new mission here. Time will tell.

For now, you can find her below and if you’ve been challenged with purchasing options, I do have a way to provide Paypal if you prefer or need that. Just send me a message and I can assist. And just a heads up that if she calls and you purchase after 11/27, she won’t ship out until I’m back in mid December. If you purchase on or before 11/27, I can get her out this Friday the 28th.

Pink Amethyst Star Being

Wishing you all a beautiful Gratitude Day, however you are called to spend it.

Let it remind you how this practice of being grateful can be a daily game changer.

Our perspective shapes everything.