Tania Marie

We’ve just received the light of the Virgo Full Moon – also known as the Snow Moon – that illuminated fully this morning of 2/24/24 – cool numerology there don’t ya think? It comes just two days before my birthday and apparently we’re forecasted to have snow that day as well. So this Winter baby is feeling all the feels of the season and energies igniting my 51st.

Although we won’t be in an historical hobbit hole of snow caves for this birthday, I’m still enjoying being in my quieter cave and also happy that we’ve recently received a bit more snow to add to a hugely contrasting season from last year.

We enjoyed three days in a row of waking to fresh inches – six new inches on each of the mornings of the 19th and 20th, and then another three inches on the morning of the 21st. Yay!

That’s made for some great snow shoeing adventures and breathtaking landscapes that can lighten any day.

Some people have shared that this Moon has felt intense leading up to today. For me, I’ve been feeling extra sleep has been nurturing to the experience of a lot of integration in my physical body taking place and downloads streaming in, in accelerated fashion.

This Full Moon may invite you into a deeper dive of healing energies and ways to create greater wellness and sense of peace in your life. If blocks and fears have been taking up more space, this is an opportune time to initiate some cleansing rituals so that you can create more room for the things that bring you joy and peace. Do things that help ground you, pay attention to and take care of the fine details, and stay the course of what you’ve put in motion with commitment and personal integrity.

In my own life I indeed have found myself focusing on those details and fine-tuning things to better align with intentions and where I feel things heading. It’s driven me to make more adjustments to where my energy and time are focused – removing and adding what threads into all of that. I’ll share more on this, some new offerings, and birthday release at the end, as I like to have the focal point of posts to be on inspirations and any guided messages that feel to be of support.

I did feel to put out a blog before my birthday, as I’m wanting a more quiet and low-key one this year that will have a soft intention of deepening into the new cycle I am journeying. And since my family shared a combined celebration of my, my brother’s, and my mom’s birthdays on Valentine’s Day this year, we’ll be letting the actual day unfold without plans. Check out dad’s incredible three layer vegan cake he baked for all three of us! Weeeeeee!

This also comes after our having quite a full couple of weeks with visitors that were here back-to-back over the course of eleven days with only two days downtime in between.

So, the spaciousness is a welcome friend right now and opportune to harnessing the codes I feel awakening within.

During those visits we had some great ski days, and I had a couple of particularly great days on the mountain in fresh snow, feeling anchored in my adventurous and athletic nature – in awe that skiing is a thing I actually do and have progressed so much at.

On one of those days – the 12th – that feeling was highlighted with seeing this Sun halo, which also confirmed a thought I was exploring for the future.

And then, AGAIN, we saw another Sun halo (below) just yesterday morning on the 23rd when I was tuning in and asking about something else, which was later confirmed upon my arrival home with my pulling the Ace of Cups Tarot card.

I just love how many signs and messages show up these days for us all in really profound and consistent ways.

Is it that they are actually increasing in appearance, does it speak to our being more aware, or have we invited more cocreating to be part of our lives from our collective web of support? Perhaps it’s all of these in divine convergence.

I do feel like there’s a profound and rapid level of cycles moving through and that has involved a lot of continued grieving energy on many layers for souls and pieces of our lives moving on.

This may be because of all of the transformative energies we are deeply integrating these days, and the need for that energy to merge into harmonic alignment. But no matter the reason, these times do call for finding ways to navigate change and create support systems and processes to assist what truly is a natural part of the cycles of consciousness in totality of being – to keep moving and traveling through the various layers of interwoven experience and emotion that are all connected.

If you find yourself moving through loss, have you found ways to support your grieving so that the energy continues to flow through?

Creating a ritual can add meaning to the process – perhaps lighting a candle, planting a tree or seeding your memorial garden – any way you can find to honor the gifts of that person or part of your life that has moved on. This helps focus energy on the valuable ways these people and experiences have had impact for you, which creates forward momentum with the love and gratitude it will bring up.

Journaling and writing out your feelings and thoughts is also a great way to move energy, so that it doesn’t stay stuck in the hurt and pain alone. This supports the transmutation of feelings, as you allow the raw emotion to have a voice and outlet without becoming an energy block.

Maybe creating an altar in honor of the person or part of your life may speak to you.

Engaging your creativity and creating something artistic could also be a way of remembrance and moving through emotional energy, by deriving inspiration from the beauty of the connection and meaning in your life. Perhaps this may bring new ideas or ways to harness your creative life force and rebirthing phoenix energy, which honors the wholeness that both life and death are One as.

Finding support in a grief group might be helpful for some people, talking with a counselor, therapist, or coach, or leaning into allowing friends or loved ones to be there and listen or to do things with to help when the emotions get tough.

Sometimes you just need your own space, quiet, and personal explorations that suit your individuality and being with yourself and the emotions, as you know how, is the best thing.

All of us, though, I think can benefit from quality time spent in and with Nature. Mother Earth has the best way of knowing how to support those cycles and movements, while nourishing and being nourished by the symbiotic relationship you share with Her.

There are many ways to experience healing and help during the cycle of change that can affect everyone so differently. One of the main things to remember, is taking care of yourself the best way you can – honoring your process, allowing emotions to flow, being extra gentle with yourself during your grieving, tending to your needs on all levels, and especially not forgetting your physical wellness – eating, hydrating, grounding, nature time, getting good rest, and honoring the space you might need to consciously move through things that reflects your unique experience.

Working with crystals, sound healing, body work, yoga, exercise, dancing, singing, etc. are some other ways you can assist your energetic field to flow, your body to experience its resilience, and overall for you to find your natural course back to balance.

Grief is challenging for most people, as when you’re in the midst of it or it comes on fast, it can feel quite traumatic and send a ripple of downward spiraling and feel never-ending until or unless the softening occurs. One never really ends grief, but it does fade and joy can actually reside alongside pain and loss. In fact, grief and pain can actually be a connective bridge for joy and sweetness. And while grief comes in waves of intensities, between those waves and even after the crest of each, pockets of potential are activated that only the doorway of pain helps to access.

No one likes having to go through the pains, and yet I can only speak for myself, that it’s in the toughest emotional intensities, losses, and hurts, that some of the biggest alchemy leaps and transmutations have taken place in my life. I don’t fear the pain, even though the pain isn’t something I run toward. I just know that the nature of being is cycles and all things rise from the ashes in incredible ways when I lean into the inherent beauty of every piece of wholeness.

And speaking of wholeness guides me to share one of the recent sacred tattoo designs I cocreated with a beautiful soul. I only had a four inch by four inch space to work with, but one can still pack in a lot with symbolism.

I won’t go into all the personal details about it, but overall it embodies a mandala that has a more organic, alive flow to it than purely a perfected sacred geometry focus, that reflects a “womb of creation” with unfolding natural harmony and the feeling of pulsing energy, movement of a birthing, creating and recreating. There is the essence of vulnerable strength I wanted to capture, authentic processes, and transitions of life in motion.

There’s a triskele/triskelion at center to anchor the cycles of life and energy in motion of interconnectedness with endings and beginnings as One. It is layered over an organic, but balanced tree of life with spiraling roots that anchor and fluidly flow – receiving and giving nourishment – and an eight petaled flower for additional universal harmony, infiniteness, prosperous growth, personal power, regeneration, and wholeness energies to add to the wisdom and enlightenment of the tree’s cycles and embodiment of spirit experiencing the fullness of integration.

There are also three Runes included that spoke to personal things for the soul this was created for, but they include Ansuz (Voice of the Universe), Laguz (water/ocean), and Sowilo (Sun). There are also three butterflies layered on each side of the tree, emerging from the center, as if it was the cocoon and they are in fluid motion of accelerated flight of creative cycles. And last, there are tulips of renewal/rebirth on each side extending from multiple layered symbolism of three stems, blades of grass, water in motion, flames, and energy or sound waves.

You might see why I shared the design and some of the symbolism in it, as it does speak to the collective cycles we’re navigating that grief is a part of along the journey of undoing into ashes, to rise again in an innovative way.

There’s truly so much one could write about these days because of everything streaming in so quickly, but I find it’s better to stay in the stillness of each moment and allow things to deepen more before trying to voice what is going on in the energetic realms. There will come a place and time for more, and/or a different way to share it.

For now, I’m leaning into what feels like quite a transformative year with many surprises and turns around each corner.

If you, too, are experiencing deep breaths and exhales into more expansive embodiment, then I hope some of these Winter landscapes and images shared, have the perfect coding for you.

And that leads me to some updates about new and upcoming offerings and changes to current ones.

FULL MOON GIVEAWAY:

I know most of my friends here aren’t on Instagram, but for anyone that is, just a quick heads up that Mody Ra and I teamed up for a Giveaway that runs through the end of today – 11:59pm PST. We are gifting the winner one Ancient Egyptian Alabaster Skull that Mody has carved (you get to choose the one that speaks to you out of 3 skulls) and I am gifting a personal channeling message from The Speakers. Details on how to enter are at my Instagram page – @taniamariemagick

BIRTHDAY DISCOUNT & CRYSTAL SKULL PARTY:

And for those of you who aren’t on Instagram to share in the giveaway fun, I do have an upcoming release this weekend of skulls you may not want to miss – my way of celebrating my birthday with all of you since I don’t have any big plans. I didn’t have time to get them up for today’s post, but please check back at the Crystals & Crystal Skulls page this weekend, as listings will go live anytime between today and Monday. If you’ve been coveting any of the remaining skulls or crystals awaiting homes, I’ll be sharing a special birthday discount on them to help make those heart connections happen. And then there will be a new group of special ones ranging from smaller to larger – some including dragon consorts for The Year of the Dragon and several emanating the “blue ray” of energy that I keep strongly receiving as a key message. Something for everyone and each budget. I specifically chose some of these to bridge to you, as I know many of you don’t have access or know where to go to find your crystalline friends, but have been doing the necessary preparation to get them ready, and awaiting for their reveal.

SACRED TATTOO DESIGNS:

I will be taking a break again from custom tattoo designs. This offering is only available through the end of this month – February 29th and then I’ll be removing the page link from my website. So, if this was something you’ve been thinking about, you can still take advantage of the discounted offering I’ve made available at Custom Tattoos for a few more days.

INTUITIVE GUIDANCE SESSIONS:

These sessions are still available with one session or package session options to support you through any aspect of life you’re navigating. I can currently welcome up to four new clients, if this is or has been of interest. Packages are also available with payment options, just as I also support with crystal and crystal skull adoptions. And if you don’t see a package option that fits your needs, please reach out and I can create one for you.

ONLINE REIKI CERTIFICATION TRAINING & EMPOWERMENT SERIES:

The uptick in Reiki training continues and support with integrating this into everyday life, as well as wanting to dive into the potential zones and expanding one’s way of experiencing life have been in line with the rapid shifts. The feedback on the Reiki courses has included people feeling that even though some of them had gone through Reiki training before (wanting to renew their relationship to it) – that they found these to be especially resonant with a freeing way of experiencing Reiki with greater excitement and fresh perspective that aligns with the now. These online courses are all easily found at the links included here.

TALK WITH YOUR CRYSTAL SKULLS SESSIONS:

And last, this is a new offering that comes because of receiving many inquiries and nudges from others. People who are especially new to bringing home a crystal skull or have a growing collective of them are looking for help with how to connect with their skulls, hear them, receive names, and what to do or how to work with them – essentially how to “talk with your crystal skulls.” And although I do and will be sharing some tidbits in episodes of Talks With Crystal Skulls, the kind of personalized attention and time is something apparently people have shared needing more of. So, I am now offering “Talk With Your Crystal Skulls” Sessions – a kind of mentoring and one-on-one exploration where I can help you to discover your way with your skulls. You can find that new offering and more details here: Talk With Your Crystal Skulls Sessions

(End note: As I just finished writing this post, the fattest, biggest raccoon we’ve ever seen, and actually the first we’ve seen at the house, just waddled across our back deck in the dark – how’s that for some embracing change and exploring new possibilities energy? Into the mysterious playfulness and inner child realms we go!)

It’s always love day in my life because the heart chakra is the portal that rules my world. I find that when we let love lead, the rest falls into place. Vulnerable strength comes by leaning into the heart’s wisdom. The heart has a power that’s undeniable when we surrender to it.

All the things our minds would rather try and work out, the heart simply does by natural alchemy.

True, it’s not always easy to step into the heart space, especially if you’ve had years of conditioned structures built up around it for protection. Yet the moment you say “yes” to a little more vulnerability, the door cracks open and love feels like a gentle, fresh breeze tousling your inner child’s hair with a long awaited welcome.

I’ve shared the photos laced through this post before, but they always speak to me as the epitome of love and the sweetest love story I know – perfect shares I feel for Valentine’s Day. I will never get over the way these two formed hearts with their entwined bodies, and would touch temples together in communion with one another.

These two – Cosmo and Joy – and all of my bunny loves have been on my mind and heart a lot and today – Valentine’s Day – couldn’t go by without sharing these most memorable photos of the two sweet angels that embodied the meaning of this day and LOVE.

Cosmo, my special needs son, was and always will be the epitome of unconditional love and he cast his heart’s spell on Joy – helping her to surrender and lean into a deepening love and interdependency, rather than independence. Joy was always a sweet angel, but Cosmo supported her into the next evolution of her deepening transformation, while Joy provided her strength and love to enrichen Cosmo’s solo journey into a super power bond.

The power of one is great, but two joined in heart is unstoppable.

These angels – rabbits – have taught me true, unconditional love and opened my heart to greater expanse forever.

Love Day is every day for me, especially because of the souls in rabbit bodies who have been my best friends.

The heart chakra became my logo, if you recall, which I called the Emerald Bridge and in fact, that logo shows up in each episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls.

Having learned the alchemy possible through this vortex portal, it has been a focal point of my life and life’s work. So any day that we can talk a little extra about love and focus on the heart is a good day to me!

I wrote this a while back, and felt like today was also a good day to reshare it.

The Bridge…..

See what someone can become – their wholeness of being, not solely what they appear to be or the temporary clothing they wear.

See the magnificence of possibility in an individual that resides as their essence. Then you can see what they are attached to as a current reality – their pain, their tragedies, their story of incompleteness.

By doing this you create the space between – an immeasurable void of enlightenment.

You see what is and what could be.

This place is the origin and return where the stars of the Cosmos are alive within.

When you meet someone in this void and infuse intent into the starry constellations of the heart center, a shift will occur and becoming is activated into being.

Stars move and form anew.

Love is the Bridge.

~

The Heart Chakra is where unconditional love resides. It is the balancing integrator of opposites (between body and spirit, male and female, persona and shadow, ego and unity) and acts as an energetic “bridge” between the lower and upper chakras.

Love is the most powerful energy in the Universe and is a vital energy to be focusing on every moment of every day, more so now than ever. Holding your hand over your heart with conscious connection, for even just minutes a day, can help you to stay present in your heart, help heal and open it to greater depths. It can help you to see with eyes of love and choose, respond, and act from love. Ask for help in doing so from your guides, angels, your Source connection and even ask your essence to be present in your higher heart always.

Heart awareness is a game changer.

Love is the alchemy.

And if you would love a little friend to help with a powerful heart boost, one of the crystal skulls I recently released is a perfect wisdom keeper and guide for that journey – the Emerald Skull. Emerald is known as “the stone of successful love” that opens the heart chakra, nurtures the capacity for giving and receiving unconditional love, and supports emotional healing and equilibrium for more nourishing relationships.

That beauty, along with three other powerful skull friends, are still looking for their cocreators. If you would like any added insight about them, I’d be happy to assist.

Mody is also providing a Valentine’s Day special on his skulls, so any at the link will receive 15% off through the end of today. If you are called to anyone, please reach out and I can put you in touch with him, or if you’re on Instagram you can directly message him at his page.

Thank you Cosmo and Joy for always being such beautiful ambassadors of love.

And thank you to everyone who is doing their best each day to open the heart door to your inner world of love potential a little further.

There is so much love to discover and no end to how far we can go with loving even more.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Happy Aquarius New Moon, today, and soon-to-be Chinese New Year of the Wood Dragon tomorrow! If things have felt intense whether in your personal experience or via feeling the outside world through your sensitivities, this New Moon may bring a flash of fresh air and inspire a surge of innovation.

This is a great time for reflecting upon the ways in which you’ve felt confined or held back in your life, and how you might harness a new outlook or invite a sense of motivation toward creative changes. Something electrifying to your life direction, parts of self you’re accustomed to, and even to your dreams, may stir an invigorated spark for creating a different version of reality to align with how you really feel.

I’ve been in a quiet (curled up cozy) mode again – these seem to come in waves – as I allow all that I feel to just flow and swirl within and around me. I try not to grab onto any one thing, and encourage myself to find even greater peace and trust with things in flux and in a different state than what might feel more comfortable.

Winter, here, continues to be odd and also in constant flux.

One week we’re walking our sparse-to-no-snow neighborhood streets and finding exposed sights we wouldn’t otherwise see if the heavy snow of last year were covering them – like this Troll portal door and mini Otherworld someone created for others to enjoy.

I love the giant door created on this Troll rock house with chimney even! And the pathway leading up with all the little Troll magick along the way.

The next week there’s snow covering everything and even white outs from a passing storm.

We did have a decent one (storm that is) that brought great powder to the mountains this past weekend and made for invigorating skiing. I had a couple of great days on the mountain this week, exploring by myself and feeling the joys of my achievements in what once was a huge challenge. Skiing has become one of my biggest accomplishments and proves how one can master their fears. I got in the most vertical feet I’ve done in a day because great snow makes for a hoppy ski bunny to feel extra confident.

The much welcome breaks on the expansive mountain tops were an opportunity to breathe in deeply, exhale with surrender, and feel the incredible new powder beneath me like a fresh slate.

I found myself in a meditative…flow, wind, flow, wind…gliding along down the slopes like a wintery serpent.

Everything is a weaving of alchemy if we view it as such.

There is so much potential available.

And the landscapes I found myself in were the things my dreams are made of.

Just look at these dreamy winterscapes…ahhhhh the crisp essence and sweeping majesty of it all.

The colors are of pure potential and the mystical blues that pervade my visions and the watery realms of my cosmic heart.

There’s something extra enchanting about the perfect flocked trees.

And Winter’s light, both illuminating and revealing shadows in a dance of perfection.

The watery realms have been communicating loudly and they mirror both the oceans between land here and the cosmic waters between the worlds of beyond.

I feel this may be part of the extra quiet I feel, as it’s a deepening and listening that is happening on new levels. The watery realms are those that call for feeling and emanating that which is felt within, without. Telepathy feels on high right now, and doesn’t surprise me, as this is where we’re headed more…to be able to project thoughts and feelings without the limitation of words, in a fluid way.

This is part of why cetaceans are showing up a lot for many people in increase to the regular frequency they may have been already. But it’s also about our being ready to be able to receive, hear, and understand the coding they message that will assist current and upcoming changes necessary.

That reminds me that I had a dream two nights ago…not about cetaceans, but about water. In summary, I was inside a room of some large structure that had an atrium in the center where a dark pool of water was, with rocks and surrounding wild area. This felt like another world within the world inhabited by humans but residing together. I was watching as two little girls walked by the pond and bent down at the water, proceeding to pull out giant frogs (another prevalent animal spirit that shows up and quite fitting). They were removing the frogs and seemed to want to take them with them, and this made me not happy. Then I noticed one of them picking up a rabbit that had been laying in the bushes. At this point I went down stairs and over to them and proceeded to shoo them off, telling them they couldn’t take the animals and disturb them. It was interesting being they were children, whom I resonate with always, and yet their energy was that of not understanding the sacredness of this area and that their actions were damaging to these beings.

The girls left and I put the frogs back in the water. And then I saw two rabbits. One was laying curled up asleep and peaceful between some rocks over the dark pond and the other was huddled in some bushes in pain. I noticed this one had been injured…no bloody mess in the dream…but that his fur down to skin had been split open over the top of one of his back legs and it seemed like the leg was dislocated or the bottom part of that side of the body was detaching.

He was in pain and I held him with intention of comforting him through his process and as I turned to look at the other rabbit that was a bit larger than this one, I realized that she was laying in the exact position of this white rabbit I painted as part of the Cosmic Egg Blossom Mandala.

I felt the depth of connection tying them both together. That the one incubating in a cosmic egg womb, so to speak, was an extension of this rabbit transitioning and was transmuting all of the feelings and energies from the other in complete tranquility of potent stillness. The sleeping rabbit was readying to birth and I was here honoring and comforting the one that was dying.

There was this sense of the rabbit over the dark primordial water, inhabited by giant frogs (of metamorphosis, renewal, rebirth and fertile creative energy like the rabbits), as this other rabbit was suffering in pain that felt deeply reflective of the alchemy at hand, collectively and individually, taking place beneath all the immense and intense change – a simultaneous recreation birthing from the old that is dying.

I woke the next morning to find that Frith had been active in the garden, leaving clear rabbit tracks back and forth in the fresh white snow of potential.

And that feels like a good place to stop for today’s short post to welcome in the New Moon and Lunar New Year, while honoring my own potent stillness.

I do have a little something to help celebrate with as well – an Aquarius New Moon Crystal Skull Release.

Last week I did have a group of six skulls move on to loving new homes that were shared in personal showings, but today’s group just announced wanting to be introduced for today’s energy and offered to everyone. I always listen to their timing. So, I literally pulled together quick videos of each for listings at the last minute and found this the easiest way to share without being overwhelming with work on my side.

Some have supported my own transformational journey and are ready to do the same for others. Some I sensed would only be with me temporarily to assist the energy grid here of skulls and crystals, as part of my role is to support them to do their work AND get to their people (reflecting energetic support for what people are going through), which plays out in different streams of experience. While they are with me, I assist them into their purity, let them work with the collective here to both prepare them for their travels onward and to activate necessary keys within the skulls that stay.

It’s a beautiful process that is sacred and humbling to support. I am overjoyed by every interaction no matter how short or long.

This new group has a lot of master carved and smaller ones, which I know more people are drawn to especially if starting their crystal skull family, plus one larger one. I did this short video so you can decide if anything calls to explore further at the link here: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

The video includes the last two crystals remaining that can be great wands to activate your skull and crystal grids or help to move energy through them. I have some DT’s myself for this purpose in my grid and wand to activate each session I do with them.

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Also, Mody shared with me some new pieces that include two stunning Isis skulls in white and black rare ancient stones, along with a cobra bearing the ankh at its hood, and some dragons (for the Year of the Dragon – although one is off to its home already). They can be found at the link here (scroll near the bottom of page for the new pieces): Egyptian Skulls & Dragons by Mody Ra

A short post today, mainly to introduce the next episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls and just a few reflections I was guided to share – not to mention welcoming in a new month. Yay February and birthday month! Can you believe we’re already a month into 2024?

I love that today’s episode is #5 and it lands on my dear twin soul’s birthing (Nestor), who began the messaging of my favorite number right after she passed. And this messaging has continued with all my dear ones that have transitioned back to the stars. I also love that February is the official “Adopt a Rescued Rabbit Month” – how fitting is that? And although I’m not adopting a rabbit, I do have five that still grace my life with their magick and wisdom.

Just as fast as we’ve hit the second month of this new year, it’s amazing to think that Nestor was born onto this Earth plane now 21 years ago – Wow!

Queen Nestor is pure royalty, indeed, just like Astrid. You can see how proudly she wears her New Years hat like a crown – perfect for the upcoming Year of the Wood Dragon. Nestor loves dragons and was depicted with them in my painting “Air” of the In Lak’ech series of Five.

I’m celebrating Nestor with this sweet collage of some of the only photos I have of her, since that was a time cell phones were not a thing yet. I sure do love you dear Nestor and miss our magickal times in the physical together.

I love that February 1st, Imbolc, is her birthday portal – the halfway mark between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. It’s so fitting that she led me to find this blog post from 5 (yes five) years ago, today.

The message in it from Astrid I feel is so on point with current collective experiences, that I felt guided to share it again: Ask Astrid Fridays ~ The Rabbit’s Corner: Your Higher Heart Can Free You

If you don’t read the full post, I’m copying part of the message she shared with me that I hope will speak to some of you navigating more challenging, darker, and grief-filled experiences. This is a story of how Astrid got trapped in the bathroom and what she gleaned and provided the wisdom for in her amazing ways – just like Nestor and all of my powerful soul companions in animal bodies have.

As I reached for the old vintage door knob and opened it, I saw her sitting on top of the toilet seat staring at me. She had in fact been closed into the dark bathroom and decided if she couldn’t get out the way she came in, she’d get higher, sit still, and hope I’d hear her heart in answer to my calls of her name.

“So what does this have to do with your message for today, Astrid?” I ask.

She replies, “This was my way of identifying with the people who find themselves struggling and feeling trapped in a dark place they can’t find a way out of. It happens to all of us and to struggle more is like sinking deeper into quicksand. It simply won’t help. These are the times to find your center, sit still while immersed in the dark, and elevate into your higher heart so that you can send and receive the clearest communication of love to where it’s needed the most, within and without.”

“What do you mean?” I ask.

“Well, when you feel lost, lonely, in pain, and are struggling, much of this involves a separation from love – the most expansive and unconditional kind. The gap grows wider between your ability to understand things because you enter the mind’s reasoning alone and abandon the heart’s knowing. While I sat in the dark I could feel all of that fear and anxiety – mine and the collective’s rush through me – and realized I could either go mad trying to claw my way a tunnel through impossible doors, OR I could elevate my heart and mind and open to a wider perspective that would free me. I could move into my higher heart and find the well of love there I could use to create the peace I needed for myself and the situation, while I calmed myself and used that clarity of heart to speak to you in the language of love telepathy that I knew would reach your heart,” Astrid explains.

To say I’m grateful to these incredible souls is an understatement. I’ve learned and grown the most because of them. I know no difference between human or animal. Once you learn the language of Love, you will understand there’s no limit to consciousness simply based on the body it resides in at this moment.

We’re in the midst of the first of two much needed Winter storms here, which looks like it will have February bringing us the most snow so far of the season – if the predictions are correct between now and next weekend. I had a feeling February could kick things in more, but this Winter has been unpredictable. Things shift every time they say snow is coming and it either turns to rain or nothing because of the higher-than-average temperatures. Of course it’s the opposite to last year’s historical year – doing that balancing act – but it’s been quite unusual with temperatures at times even rising into the 50’s, which is not a Sierra Nevada Winter norm.

Anyway, things are all over the place with energies for sure, and yet I feel more grounded and expansive than ever. I shared this yesterday on my Instagram page, but it felt resonant for today’s post:

I’ve been reflecting a lot and therefore less shares because of how much things are shifting. Energies are moving rapidly, and so much unpredictability is abound. Finding your balance helps to navigate your course through the twists and turns. We’ve oscillated between Autumn and Winter temperatures here, as we await the first of two storms that may get us back into the Winter swing. Nothing’s guaranteed, but the more we lean into the heart, it makes sense out of the senseless.

I find that the less structure and defining helps me to merge more organically with that free flow of energy and the streams of consciousness. Trying to only make order out of things like the left brain knows well with its analyzing and pulling for evidentiary logic, bypasses innate wisdom and divine harmony already present.

This is one of the things I’ve become so grateful for in having the guidance of wise beings like my soul family in animal bodies and crystalline and stone forms. The Speakers – a collective of souls that speak through the skulls that are in my presence – have exponentially supported the origin of ways my essence feels most at home with. The codings they weave I can’t express in words, but they reveal our way to the home we always were, at our eternal depths.

I haven’t yet done a session for myself, as each one for others or the collective has supported this expansion of essence ✨️ I am curious though.

If you don’t know what I’m speaking about, The Speakers and these channeling sessions were talked about in the Talks With Crystal Skulls episodes on my YouTube Channel and at the link just shared. And if these speak to you, I’m hoping maybe to gather some reflections from others about their experience to add to that page, as the questions I’ve been receiving are better expressed by those outside myself, experiencing.

For now, I’m listening… so so deeply…as it’s in those depths that much is revealed.

May these storms bring some much needed snow and support the deepest dives yet.

And speaking of deep dives, there are quite a few rabbit holes I’ve been hopping down, and the Ancient energies, especially Egyptian, have been connective dots for things unfolding.

I feel I’ll be sharing a bit more about that in the next episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls and this is also why I’m dedicating the next two episodes – 5 and 6 – to touching in with Egypt and those energies, as well as conversations with Mody Ra, but more to the point – bringing through that Ancient Egyptian portal access point for the undercurrent energies that I feel unearthing.

But back to today’s episode…this one is a short inside look at Mody’s workspace in Egypt and a bit of the carving process. He can only show us one small part because working with stones is a messy process that covers him in white dust and would be too hard to film, but the carving also takes hours (sometimes days, depending on details) since many of the stones are very hard material. The main focus is to be with him in Egypt and get a feel and look at the birthing process of a skull with Mody.

It’s a fun and light prelude to our next deep dive into Ancient Egyptian stones and their energies.

I hope you enjoy, and please remember if you’re seeing this via email you’ll need to click through to the actual post in order to watch the video.

And a little reminder that 2/11 is the cut-off for the special on intuitive guidance sessions/packages.

I do have crystal skulls available, however people reached out to me for personal showings, so I’m honoring those requests right now and will list any that are not homed. I will have more as well, so if you’d like to see them first, too, please let me know. Until then, the remaining crystal powerhouse wands are the only listings currently found at the Crystals and Crystal Skulls page. There are now only 2 left. I’m in process of a personal showing on groups of crystals so I’ll see what remains from that as well. Listings take much more time, so if you think you feel a crystal or crystal skull calling, this is both helpful on my end as well as will provide you a better look than I can do in listings.

And last, The Speakers Channeling Sessions continue to be profound experiences. I’ve updated the page with some info about these that I share when providing the messages to people about how they work and will continue to add others’ experiences, as I receive them.

The Speakers Crystal Skull Sessions

The first month’s portal of 2024 is nearing end, as one door closes to another that opens. And while January winds down, we find ourselves walking through our first illumination of the year with today’s Leo Full Moon – a beautiful time to shine a light on your truest desires and be open to the realization of bringing them into your life.

I feel the message of “coming home” to oneself and “re-membering” taking on a whole other level of not just a memory awakening or awareness, but consciously putting back together the pieces that have experienced isolation or separation from their core.

February is close at hand, adding another rich layer to the revolving doors – as we soon enter the Year of the Wood Dragon on the 10th and embark upon innovative transformation like never before.

Might you also have been experiencing fuller days in the last weeks or couple of months? By fuller I mean both incredibly busy days, but also incredibly busy airwaves, for lack of a better word.

I found myself immersed in a variety of things, working my way through one piece or project at a time, but feeling in constant focused mode since early December. This first month has put emphasis on completions and momentum toward new foundations, but also staying open, flexible, and resilient. So even though it’s been a packed month, I do feel that it’s all in prep for what’s appearing and providing a new template for how to handle the energies upcoming. And it’s not just outward variety, but inward variety, which is why it all feels like a LOT because while certain parts of me are occupied with things, the other parts are able to stay away from the attention of logic and play in the field of possibilities.

My days oscillate between such varied tasks, projects, and activities that my life is truly a mirror of tangible multi-dimensionality, but in the invisible realms as well with all the activity going on behind the scenes.

I smiled at some of the visual reflections in this post office run of packages that include some homed crystals, a Reiki certificate, and one of the sacred tattoo designs on their way to their people.

I’ve been experiencing how people are moving through a lot right now and really lighting up, so I’ve mirrored where I could assist in the ways that match my vibration.

I can presently count eleven different areas I work in at any given time, alongside my daily life and personal focuses – this has included more rabbit adoption trainings and happy endings too! And while that may seem confusing, it’s also currently engaging for my creative faculties and in fact helps me to focus on balance amidst chaos and strengthening of boundaries as I learn and honor my limits. It also is helping to stretch some muscles so I can move beyond what I’ve known so far.

Things won’t always be as they currently are, but for the time being it’s part of the journey and the layered colors to the painting.

As I wrote that in the dark of evening with the blinds closed, I heard the fence gate make a louder noise just outside my office and could feel that some kind of mystery forest animal had just jumped over it.

And speaking of mysterious wild animals…I have had the most unusual uptick of encounters and sightings with coyotes like never before. I didn’t fully get it at first, beyond the timing of them showing up, but it’s now making sense.

January has kicked off with coyote as my current, in the flesh, big messenger. I already mentioned two encounters at the start of the month, and since then I’ve had five more, bringing that to a whopping seven encounters in the first three weeks of 2024. And these were all either very well timed and aligned, or highly unusual.

The last five encounters have taken place within an eight-day span. Two of them happened on the 16th after a vet appointment, and the next three happened on the 19th, 22nd, and 24th.

The ones on the 16th were the highly unusual ones – one way more than the other that was a once in a lifetime kind of experience I’ve not had before. The first was a sighting of a large coyote standing on the corner of a sidewalk in the middle of everything – next to the stores and restaurants and ongoing traffic, just peering at me on the main road while we drove by. Dave missed seeing him and pretty much all of these encounters have been geared toward me, as I’ve been the one to spot all of them and then tell whom ever I might be with and they either see them or don’t, or are secondary to the experience.

The next one of that same day was the really wild and unusual experience. We met up with a couple that are our good friends here, and the guys went off to ski while the two girls went off to hike. I chose the hike I thought would be the most enjoyable and provide good mileage in easier to trek snow.

We were on our own, and only encountered one couple after our sighting that were cross-country skiing the trail. This is a trail I have done many times before on my own while Dave bikes it. Anyway, about halfway into our mileage I pointed out the consistent yipping that was going on in the very near distance. I said that they sounded like coyotes. My friend thought they might be dogs. Dave and I have heard packs of coyotes before – many behind our house, but you usually don’t see them.

The yipping, howls, and barks continued and got closer and closer as we trekked onward. I said that it sounded like they were in deep discussion with each other and there was an unusual intention to what was going on between them, especially being out before noon. My friend was getting a little concerned, as the communication seemed very near and just ahead on the trail, and wondered if we should not proceed. I didn’t get any feelings of worry and told her that if they were wolves I’d be more concerned, but coyotes in daylight and how I felt their energy to be by tuning in, were not to be feared – although always respected. Coyotes around here, and usually, stay away from humans and will run off when they see us.

I felt that they were simply communicating something between them that we had somehow been invited into and privy to. I told her we’ll just stay alert and keep an eye out. I was ahead on the trail and she was behind me, so she followed my lead in terms of pace and I was using my hawk eyes to scan the landscape and taking my time. I am always prepared and I always trust my feelings too. I felt no tinge of energy to worry about and that the coyotes were calling a place within that spoke to me.

I then caught sight of one just ahead on the trail, which soon turned into two. They saw me and us, but continued with their ritual. And the yipping continued between all of them and it sounded like a symphony interlacing harmonics. These two proceeded on their way, crossing over the trail and up the left side on the hill. Then two more appeared and a third from the left, making their way across the hill and down, then across the trail in front of us and down to the creek on the right. The yipping continued between what sounded like four different locations to the left and right. In all, we saw about six or seven of them, but heard a few more that never showed themselves to the farther left. There were likely up to ten in the pack and they were all communicating with each other back and forth on each side of the trail and crossing over the trail back and forth on some kind of intentional mission with the weaving of motion and sound.

We stopped several times to just watch them, listen, and see what they were up to – I only captured the few photos above. And they just seemed to be communing about something and to me there was this feeling that it was almost like a secret society meeting we stumbled upon…or perhaps were invited into. They never once walked toward us or indicated any level of concern or upset with our presence. They just went about their thing and let us be a part of it for a few minutes. We then noticed the couple and their tiny dog up ahead, approaching by cross country skis. At that point it seemed the coyotes felt to close the meeting with the oncoming people, and they all dispersed left and right back into the trees and into the silence once again.

This confirmed to me that what was taking place had been meant for us.

It was a truly special and, I felt, deeply sacred experience that even my friend who had been understandably concerned given her personal experiences, was in awe of it all and we both couldn’t wait to share it with the guys when we met back up with them.

Until this point it’s always only been one coyote at a time, but with so many and feeling like there was this cohesiveness and communing, like I/we were a part of the pack was extra beautiful and impactful. I have been experiencing and sensing massive shifts taking place and since coyotes are associated with times of transition and death and rebirth, it feels like a sacred ceremony or initiation was taking place with them in a very primal way.

And indeed there are symbolic and literal transitions in these terms taking place, including the fact that the single coyote and the pack showed up after Dave and I had just left the vet with news about our cat, Sweet Pea, having terminal bladder cancer.

So, many layers were culminating and the coyote pack were weaving their medicine back and forth physically across the path ahead of me like a dance, as well as sounding their vibrational frequencies like they were alerting me to the innate power of my own instincts, intuitive, and vibrational attuning, to navigate what’s ahead on the sacred journey unfolding. I also felt their “song” unearthing and unlocking a deep primal part within me as an integral piece of the next phase channeling through that is needed. And it indeed involves a core transference of sound codes that will support the opening of dimensional gateways and portals for the next stage of evolution.

I feel like the coyotes are storytellers and intricately savvy magicians of creative force that can and will always find a way through things, innovatively reshape things, and share their keys of wisdom through the calls sent out upon the wind for those with hearts and ears to hear it.

I’m not addressing all the things I got from this and all of the encounters, as there’s always personal layers one needs to keep and process to themselves, but if you’ve experienced any of the animals I share about – including coyotes – I do like to share some reflections, as it may put a different spin on things. Sometimes we become used to only one certain way to view animal spirit guides, or anything for that matter, when there are more possibilities we can stretch our hearts into receiving their messages to mean.

After the encounter I saw two giant ravens swoop to the ground and a couple of hours later, a giant red tailed hawk soar and land on a solar street light above us while driving home. I especially was drawn to the hawk’s tail feather that stood out so prominently and matched the tail feather I found that one day up on the mountain. It sits to the right of me at my desk and I can’t help but feel this connective thread with this hawk.

Three days later on the 19th, a coyote ran across our backyard in the forest while I was having my morning latte on the couch and three days later, again, on the 22nd, and two days after that on the 24th, the same exact scenario of morning lattes and coyote in the forest repeated with the latter two days being particularly punctuating. I had a really great photo of one of them, but inadvertently deleted it.

It was on the 22nd’s sighting that I was also receiving downloads and connections about bears, North Pole and Arctic waters, Egypt, sound, Cosmic and Earth (including Cosmic Egg) info. Really wild, potent, connect-the-dots stuff, that is still integrating on deep levels. I love it.

I keep sensing some really big openings this year for people and indeed they’ll come in varying ways, relative to the individual. And while some things may seem or feel not so good on one level or even seem explosive to the individual’s frame of reference, it’s reflective of Earth’s needs for balancing and recreating during major evolutionary momentum that we are experiencing – as within so without. Yet I believe is all leading toward incredibly rich and fertile terrain.

LOL! That just made me think of Frith and the enormous piles of wild rabbit poop he has been leaving behind by the bush outside my office. They are growing by the day and I have NEVER seen so many poops in one place by a wild rabbit. This rock garden bed is definitely going to see some flourishing and who knows what will blossom forth out of no where. I love that Frith knows this is his sanctuary and safe refuge.

That leads me to how we can create and engage that sense of sanctuary and connection to our inner voice and sense of stability in an ever-changing and unpredictable world.

It is within the quiet spaces with Nature that we come home to ourselves, unify our parts, create an invitation for deeper connection to the sacred feminine mystery, and learn to re-member the beauty of our embodiment.

This happens when we open up and engage the natural world – plants, animals, and the richly wild Earth elements – with all of our senses so that we can be with and receive those subtle energies and frequencies. It doesn’t need to be some deep immersion into the wilderness or having to drive or take a trip to get somewhere specific – as these kinds of ideas can actually hinder us from doing this very act when we think of all the reasons or ways this would not be possible in our current life circumstances.

It can be just consciously and presently being with any natural element and setting around you – be it your animal companion, a bee or snail outside your doorstep, the plants on your balcony, the soil in a garden, a rock you trip upon on your way to the playground to watch your children play, the grass or weed on your lawn, a park in the middle of the city, a stone or crystal on your desk, a small patch of flowers growing between the sidewalk, or a little group of trees or small pond on your way to work.

When you enter a space of presence and fully and consciously open your physical senses with nature of any kind, you begin to invite a new kind of relationship into your experience that recognizes the miraculous nature of you. Each element of Nature is a portal to the Great Mystery and a sentinel of the Cosmos – able to exchange secrets of creation in ways your essence will relate to. It’s simply about creating moments of communing where you can open your heart and soul to the intelligence reflected all around you in the natural world.

Trees for example are wise guardians and elders that have much to share if you ask, with intricate networks of connection through Earth and bridging Sky and Earth as emanations of the Cosmic Tree of Life. And cetaceans as another example are sentinels, transmitters, and ambassadors of the beyond, most in touch with our core origins through sound and water of the stellar nurseries and womb of creation. And when either are engaged with presence of heart, an activation ignites and harmony has a doorway to reenter your experience.

So, yes, a simple tree moment anywhere that you are, can speak a thousand words through that open hearted connection.

Artificial or digital channels will not provide the same means of access or coding potential, as it does not match the nature of you. The farther one separates from the natural world, the more challenging it can become to engage your own humanity and the softness that inhabits the power of your heart and being. That’s not to negate technologies for their advancements, but to underscore the power of not leaving your nature behind.

This isn’t a new message, as you know I share so much about Nature and its value to us. I’m just supporting the voice within that tells me not to let up on sharing this.

As much as I do have things that can easily fill my days, I still make time for the natural world because it is there I know that I receive invaluable spirit nutrients that help me to thrive.

And thriving is what we focus on here with wellness routines and daily nature immersions, which is especially supportive when you have a lot of challenges or things to navigate in your life, including supporting others in any kind of capacity as a care giver, healer, or simply the go-to person who is so good at listening and being there to assist when needed.

We are currently a kitty hospice these days and so mom and dad need all the cup filling possible to be there for our 17-year old elder and declining fur babies. I don’t always share things immediately or in totality, as there are just some things to move through on one’s own, especially when there are personal pieces to the whole that are key to hold sacred. But indeed we are going through huge transformations to our once vibrant little family of five, to soon-to-be empty-nesters.

You already know about Boojum and his battle with kidney disease and hyper-thyroid. We’ve managed to find a protocol that thankfully keeps him the most comfortable he’s been, while continuing to decline. I also mentioned our finding out Sweet Pea has terminal bladder cancer (just before my coyote sightings), which we learned is very rare for a cat. Her condition came out of the blue like Astrid’s, although I’ve been sensing and telling Dave she may be harboring something and that she would be the one to manifest cancer. Her tumor is inoperable, chemo is not available, and both it and radiation (that is available) would make her miserable, not to mention she’d have to travel three hours every time to receive it and still it would do little to combat the tumor while giving her discomfort in the meantime. We’ve opted for meds that provide pain relief and potential shrinking of the tumor while she decides her course of transition – it’s all about quality of life as our focus. We don’t know how long she has, but we guess it could be as little as a few weeks and as much as a few months. The doctor said in some cases up to a year, but she was very wary about providing that kind of hope. We are prepared and every fur baby we’ve supported through transitions has supported that journey.

Three times a day meds for each of them, four feedings a day for both, and up to 10 times a day litter box cleanings are part of our kitty hospice care, along with lots of love, snuggles, Reiki, and intervals of biomat time.

We are not unfamiliar with change and loss indeed…and having three fur children all nearly at the same time declining is quite a lot…so yes, we recognize the need for balance, self care, and nature immersions because this is how we can be there for them, each other, and still have more to give to all the other things and people in our lives without getting depleted.

And in fact, I’ve found my clarity and openings to be happening in much more profound ways during all of this…part of that is because through the depths of feelings and experiences on all spectrums we embrace, the surrender into our highest potentials have ability to flow in, as we are not limiting ourselves to some parts…but inviting all parts to be experienced as whole and One. These layers open pathways to the essence of who we are and where the possibilities are endless.

I feel called to share one of the sacred tattoo designs I recently completed, as the frequencies within its symbolism and coding I feel may be supportive and reflective of some of what I’m sharing, but also of some of the themes that have been showing up for people – including swans.

I won’t share all of the description, since it’s personal for the client it was channeled for, but I will share some (changing the way its described a bit to be collective-focused) to help reflect the visual story.

In the design there’s an angel and a swan – both with wings open and reaching toward the heavens and with brilliant bursting halos like suns shining fully – reflecting shining one’s light in its fullness. This energy of their wings lends support to opening more to love and embracing inclusive compassion, unconditional love, and balance of giving and receiving. I created the angel to be human and swan-like, as I wanted to bridge the divine with nature…spirit and body as one and also to reflect that we each have both the presence of angelic beings and Earth angels around us in the reflection of Nature and that we are divine beings embodied as well. So, there are many layers to the symbolism. Her swan-like nature also brings some water element energy to the angel, connecting her with the emotional and feeling currents that are at the core of changing our experience when we understand them more, while speaking to the oceanic creatures of Cosmic origins as well.

Swans mate for life and there’s the element of these two parts of self…the spirit/higher self and the human and flesh coming into more perfect union and balance within…streaming both higher consciousness of one’s ethereal nature with the divine perfection of one’s human nature. Swans are a “symbol of wisdom and awakening the power of self, balance, grace, inner beauty, innocence, self-esteem, understanding the spiritual, evolution, finding serenity in the cycles of life, developing intuitive abilities, grace in dealing with others, and they also understand much about love, loss, and mourning. They are true light guides along the ups and downs of life, the challenges, and dark times. In this way the swan supports one through the experiences that feel challenging, helping one to return to the love in their heart and to understand these rhythms as doorways to greater love and personal evolution.

The angel’s eyes are closed and the swan’s eyes are open…aiding one to see intuitively and perceptively – they are one’s divine feminine and masculine energies in their power and in perfect partnership. The angel’s hands both reach up gracefully to receive and give and down to give and receive from above and below (Cosmos and Earth)….that balance again, and also reflecting, as do the eyes open and closed, hands = “as above so below” and eyes = “as within, so without”.

At bottom center are three lilies …. The lilies symbolize love, purity, rebirth, fresh life, and innocent beauty. Three speaks to integrative creative power, the trinity, and also symbolizes growth, magick, intuition, expression, versatility, pure joy of creativity, celebration, goddess energy connected and reflective of the Empress in Tarot, overcoming duality, manifestation, complete cycles, and flow. There are three fully bloomed lilies and four lily buds. Four is very stabilizing, grounding, balancing, and whole. The different cycles representing life as a continual process of beginning and endings and how they are all integrated and not separate. Also representing stages of growth and some things in full realization while others are developing and how all of it is perfect.

Then it came in strongly to add the hummingbird. Hummingbirds bring love, joy, and luck to our lives, as well as are inspiring signs of hope, but also they message us about playfulness, adaptability, truly enjoying life, lightness of being, being more present, lifting us up out of negativity and seeing the silver linings, having strength, resiliency, adaptability – swift responses to change, and endurance. Hummingbirds coming to us can message us that challenging times are over and healing is at hand and when they appear they may be telling us that the spirit of a loved one is near and sending us a message. And the hummingbird is drinking the nectar from the lily, which is about enjoying the “nectar of life” and taking in its fullness and richness. Drinking of that golden elixir and always finding the strength to carry on and see hope even in the darker elements and times we experience.

And last, the dragonfly at center between them symbolizing transformation, adaptability, and self-realization. This change develops emotional wisdom and understanding at the deeper levels, which is reflective of how the dragonfly flies across the water’s surface, but looks deeper at the implications of life while moving with grace through the things discovered. Their iridescence is an unveiling of one’s real self and discovering the true colors are beautiful and not to be doubted. They fly as adults for only a short period of their life so again living life to the fullest is reflected and living in the moment with great presence. Dragonflies symbolize happiness, new beginnings, hope, and love as well.

So, from the entire story and merging reflected, comes the transformational brilliance that takes one into their highest version every step of the way…every day, and holding the space for one’s wholeness to blossom, while knowing they are watched over, protected, divinely guided and loved, and that there are both ethereal and Earth angels moving in and out of life’s web and showing up through love’s embrace.

Perhaps you can see from the image and description, why I chose to add it here. It speaks to so much of current energies and things I shared, but might also lend supportive words or energy to others as well.

There’s so much, and truly beyond words in astounding ways at the moment going on (not just in my personal experience either) that need their time to incubate, but I felt guided to drop in for a bit in case something speaks to some of you or underscores what you’re experiencing, and to keep the connective channels flowing.

I feel like February is going to move energy differently and open more from all the focuses January may have had people engaged in or building toward. So in the meantime, I hope this Full Moon supports illumination of pieces or steps you’re weaving together, or even just helps you to feel more at home with who you are and the directions you feel reflect that most.

And here are a few little reminders and updates.

The Intuitive Guidance Sessions special continues through 2/11. The different package options can be found at the link.

There’s been an uptick in Reiki training certification registrations for online courses. I believe this speaks to the wave of transformations people are going through in reflection to collective shifts again. If this has called to you as well, you can find information about them at the link. And the Everyday Reiki course has also been really supportive for people recently, which is found along with the Transcending Duality course at the link for the Empowerment Series.

Both The Speakers Energy and Channeling Sessions have really been wild beyond words in the most beautiful of ways. There’s been an influx of channeling sessions, especially, and these have become a favorite of mine lately. Just a heads up that these are not dictated by me in timing, but unfold as The Speakers alert me they are ready to proceed. Information on these are at the link.

And last, I added new videos for the three remaining large and special crystal wands, with better sunlight at the link for Crystals and Crystal Skulls in response to people asking. I received quite a few inquiries and questions about these, including wanting to see better looks at them in videos, so I know they are working the energies to align with their people in divine timing. I was also guided to help with that by adding a discount on each from their original pricing (the new price is now reflected), which puts them at special offers. I feel this is part of the transformations reflected for myself and the collective, as so many changes are happening fast that are calling to our hearts to align with. I’ve been instructed by The Speakers and my other groups on how to fine-tune energies here and release and bring in the right frequencies for that. So, on top of the three discounted wands, I have received message the last months that I’m to release many crystals out to do their work where needed and that this will be done at big discounts below cost all around in order to get them where they need to be. So, when I have time, I will continue to share some of them, but again, if you feel called to special crystal cocreators, you can reach out and I’ll share video scans of the amazing pieces at major discounts ready to move forward. That’s how you’ll see more of them, as I won’t get around to listing them all.

Here we go with another episode of Talks With Crystal Skulls featuring my dear friend and overall amazing soul, Lisa Davis who is the creator of The Lemurian Rose crystal and mineral shop.

You’ve heard me speak about her in blogs, and now you get to meet her and come to love her too.

Lisa is a true Earth angel and if you’re lucky to know her you will be showered by some serious magick and love, not to mention you’ll also be connected with some incredible crystal beings that will knock your socks off!

In fact, this interview is launching right as she releases some new crystals called White Swan Alta in a live sale today – and you’ll see how synchronous that is since Alta played with us for this interview and now they made the timing of this video being ready to launch THEIR party! So much fun!

I love how the Universe works through us all and if we trust those nudges, they surely lead us to some beautiful experiences and people. I’m grateful to know Lisa and that she felt called to join in on this cocreation together.

As the description below the video on YouTube shares: In this fourth episode we get a chance to talk to Lisa Davis of The Lemurian Rose crystal and mineral shop. We’ll learn about her personal evolution to where she is now, how crystal skulls became a part of her life, the journey that led her to become an official Leandro De Souza distributor and collaborator, some deep dives into the world of crystal skulls, and more.

I hope you enjoy our interview below, and please remember that if you’re receiving this update via email you’ll need to click through to the actual post to watch the video since they don’t get embedded in WordPress notifications. We welcome any comments or thoughts about things we discuss, which you can leave under the video by clicking through to it on YouTube.

It also so happens that I had time to list some new crystal beings to kick off the party with, all at once. These take a lot of time to do, so I only did as much as I could right now. Since I listen to when crystals and crystal skulls want to be released, it’s fun to see them align at this time.

You can explore the new crystal beings looking for their new guardians and cocreators at this link:

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

The first part of the page explains the new release, exchange options, and info about Personal Crystal Showings, which I recommend if you are feeling to bring home a new crystal friend, as I have so many more available that I’ll never have time to post. And this way can assist you better.

I also recommend feeling into the photos and watching the videos, as well as reading the info on each to get to know them and see if they are the ones for you. I always help make connections happen, so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you know one has your heart.

There are just two skulls available in the new release (they are sweet ones!), but sounds like there’ll be some more upcoming. These ones wanted to be part of the crystal skull and Alta party today. Then there’s a few potent, smaller crystal beings and then some absolutely incredible and rare, large crystal wand personal releases that are truly special. Enjoy!

We are already nearly two weeks into 2024, as I sit here writing down these thoughts. Blog posts tend to be longer when I do write, since I don’t share as often. It feels appropriate that I peek my head out on today’s Capricorn New Moon – the first of the year.

New Moons help us bring clarity to our intentions and visions, while Capricorn lends strength, commitment, and resiliency towards building those desires, step-by-step. New levels of responsible leadership might call to you in the areas of life you are gifted at – be that leading with kindness, leading with joy, leading with creativity, leading with innovative ideas – anyone can be a leader in a particular expression of energy. When life is lived aligned with your truth, you spread a valuable gift to others.

Day-to-day experiences continue to swiftly go through cycles from one extreme to another on the collective front.

While this could be unnerving or feel unstable, oddly I find it to be a comforting sign of deeply transformative evolution and a way the balancing scales are finding equilibrium through the constant creative innovation we’re collectively implementing. In fact, amidst the unclear unfoldings, I am increasingly experiencing more clarity. I’m grateful for that, as I know it’s not a given and not shared by everyone. Yet, I feel it important to share what we each are experiencing, relative to us, as it provides hope and also another storyline than what one might only potentially be hearing and thinking is out there.

In the outer realms around me, that back and forth swing has shown up in our snow level contrasts between last year and this year. While this time of year, then, was making history in record highs, we’ve been at record lows so far until recent storms. We just came through one of the warmest and driest periods for the early season that apparently tied for fourth in these categories since around 1970.

Between the 2nd and 3rd of this month we got about four or so inches and then finally Saturday we received about seven inches in an all-day storm, with more that is coming down now as I speak in our next big, all-day storm.

These are the levels at our elevation of 6600, but the mountain tops of course receive more and in fact over a foot (18 inches in some parts) fell over parts of the Sierra the first round. This was all a boost to the slow season start and this current storm may bring more than another foot of snow.

Things are later this year and still unknown as to just how much of a Winter snow pack level we’ll ultimately end up receiving, but it’s evident that Mother Earth is reflecting her own course of action amidst change.

All of this reminds me of things playing out in the world – daily unknowns, but an underlying coherence to the process of creation.

All of these ups and downs in terms of watery energy levels, are reflecting what I’m seeing people experiencing in terms of an emotional see-saw effect. There are currents running through everything that don’t have an agenda to unnerve, but unnerving they still can be when one is moving through so much all at once, might be unequipped, or trying to stay afloat amidst a sea of others feeling pulled under by the strength of these waves.

The old roots are being unearthed, so that the new seeds below them can start to breathe and flourish.

So what do you do?

How can you find a way back to your personal empowerment within it all, instead of giving that away?

I think everyone’s processes are different and therefore all we can do is share our personal experiences and walk in the truth of that experience the best we each know how to. We all have a different approach, different parameters to work within and what we’re capable of and willing to do or not, and unique ways of experiencing things that are relative to our journeys so far.

For me, as I’ve mentioned before, having my own anchor and process to reframe things is very helpful. Taking a pause is especially beneficial for me, so as not to lash out with an unconscious reaction – and with Mars in the first house I DO actually understand how the thrust of fiery energy in the moment can get the better of us if a healthy framework isn’t implemented.

I step back and observe myself from an unconditionally detached space, allowing within that safe space for vulnerable communication of initial (and healthy movement of) emotion. Because I allow the feeling its voice, it doesn’t come out explosive (more practice of this moves energy naturally and organically in the moment and eventually doesn’t get backed up awaiting a trigger). This observer role helps me to understand why I might feel that way and offers myself the untethered version to why and how I could feel differently if I were purely in the now moment with wider perspective of the bigger picture.

I like to give the parts of me their voice to be heard and acknowledged, but also because that expression is part of energy’s natural course – simply to move through. This is done however, by holding space for myself and knowing how to honor each part, yet also nurture them back to wholeness.

I know this isn’t something easily done, as it is cultivated and sometimes we may need an unconditional and kind other to hold that space when we feel lost in a spiral.

In either case, I find that a willingness and surrendering to vulnerability can assist the process and allows the natural strength and resiliency within that, to rise up and play a more prominent role toward the highest good responses.

Greater presence, patience, practice, and perspective play potent parts in the process.

Phew! That was a lot of “p” words. And in the name of making things lighter, that sentence could make for a fun word game or mantra to repeat quickly, several times.

Perhaps that was one of coyote’s messages when she appeared behind our house on the 4th – playfulness. I watched from my morning spot on the couch, enjoying a vegan latte and breakfast, as I saw a large and very light colored coyote stroll up the snowy trail. Along with her clever, resilient, balanced, and fluid way of approaching sudden changes in life, she teaches us to do this all with a sense of humor and to know that we are supported with a big “yes” from the Universe.

And when we are feeling bogged down by things, we can also take a look around and within us and do a sweep of our energetic and physical space to assist movement of those more challenging or stuck areas we feel emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and/or physically.

Between the last week of 2023 and the first week of 2024, that’s what we did here…clearing and reorganizing our living space, which resulted in two carloads of donations (18 bags plus loose items) we dropped off on 12/31 and 1/4 – that all felt symbolic and potent. We both also reorganized our offices and I got all of the closets and storage cabinets in fresh and roomy order.

My office changes were directed by Astrid and my crystal skull friends – The Speakers and two other skull groups that have formed, which resulted in swift and clear movement of activated energy with the work we do together. The feedback from everyone who’s joined their sessions, so far, has been confirmation of everything I trusted and, in general, why the crystal skulls have become such prominent cocreators for people.

And indeed both energy and channeling sessions with The Speakers have been extra potent since the changes. I’m especially loving these because they are bringing the multi-dimensional realms into every day experience and creating these ultra clear channels for us to tangibly merge what was once more separate. There’s great fluidity, clarity, and rapid manifestation, which I feel is part of what we’re going to be experiencing and creating more of in the months and years to come – things don’t have to take long. The ways in which The Speakers help me to stretch is such a gift of complete trust and detached compassion.

It’s all made me see how the “Transcending Duality” online workshop I created over a year and a half ago about multi-dimensionality, is now more prevalent and was in fact a pre-requisite in a way to The Speakers coming through. In looking back, I also see the way I usually receive messages and visions ahead of time, has helped to anchor energies in so they are ready for the movements that come. However, even the Everyday Reiki workshop also reflects its relevancy more now because of the greater need people have to really walk the walk and integrate things into new, but easy and natural ways of bringing spirit and flesh together without all the rules and parameters – simply personal, creative alchemy in motion.

It’s so interesting to look back on how we and our lives have transformed and the things we’ve been led to do that at the time may not have had as much mind-grasping reason, yet become integral steps to our overall evolution.

We don’t always need to understand why, if the heart simply knows its way.

This reminds me of the labyrinthian journey, which incidentally we experienced just three days ago at the start of this week.

We had an appointment down in the valley, so as we usually do to make the most of our day, we added in some extra side trips. Dave found us a labyrinth to walk – something we’ve done a lot around and on the New Year or other potent times. This one was apparently the biggest in the area and we were excited to visit it for the first time.

With the recent snow, I wondered if the labyrinth would be covered, making it hard or not possible to walk. But when we arrived to the garden it resides in, there was just the perfect amount of snow that left subtle imprints of the stone-marked path beneath it.

This added some rich layers to the journey, making each step extra present and intentional, while also blurring the lines between seen and unseen.

We stepped forward with trust and allowed each step to guide the way.

This beautiful labyrinth was set in the middle of a quaint little town as part of the Heritage Park Gardens we will definitely come back to when Winter thaws. But being there in the silence of the snow covered fields that put the garden to rest, and a labyrinth center that looks out on the majestic Sierra Nevada Mountains we live up at, was such a gift to experience.

While walking the labyrinth I noticed that it was encircled by giant lavender bushes between other plants like sage and some I couldn’t identify. But it was the lavender that caught my faery heart and while I walked the labyrinth, I pressed a few pieces of the dried blossom ends off into my hands and was overwhelmed by the still-so-strong lavender scent that infused my intentions with extra magick.

Lavender is a favorite to this faery’s heart, so it’s no wonder I have a couple of shelves of jarred dried garden lavender always in my kitchen. There’s a sense of spacious elegance, grace, purity and innocence of heart, and serenity that lavender infuses. These were perfect qualities to be surrounded by and to breathe in while I followed Dave’s foot prints left behind in the labyrinth’s snow pathway. I took five dried blossom stems home with me from this day…they smell SO good!

We explored the garden after our walk and I snapped several photos to bring the beauty and stillness of this fertile space of potential lying beneath the snow to you.

I loved some of the signs and just the sweetness of this little creative vortex. I hope you do too.

The sweet lavender fragrance brings up visions and codes, reminding me of what I wrote about labyrinths in the past:

Every step of the journey is integral to the path of wholeness that you are on.

It is ever-changing and ever-perfect, taking you to your own sacred center and back out into the expansive reflection found there.

At times you may need to call upon your intuition and creativity, engaging receptivity and courage when deciding to enter the journey to center or not – the way in is the way out.

I enjoy the “way in,” as I’ve been continually journeying deeper and deeper to my sacred center. I’m not too concerned as to how that will look on the way out, as right now I’m just immersed in the inner, knowing the outer will take care of itself by embracing that.

The Labyrinth was a common Native American Indian symbol that they used to represent life as a journey and our infinite, eternal nature. It is a way to understand that life is what you make it and the way we choose to live it, determines the degree of freedom and expansiveness we experience.

It is a portal of life evolution.

And in a post I shared over four years ago, I found this:

We each carry the power within us to create our own version of reality. And although it doesn’t always immediately show up in the outer world, you can still travel through life under the spell of your own intention simply by changing your relationship to everything. Yet, sometimes and often more times than not, you will in fact experience that reality in the form of reflective things that pop up out of nowhere or message you with sweet whispers of confirming support. The trick is to listen and trust what shows up and how you feel led in each moment.

Change is a constant and yet there are times that feel increasingly potent with transformational momentum – like recently and upcoming. I feel it revving behind the scenes and I sense it is happening for many. It may feel like a lightning strike when the manifestation of the change takes place, but truly has been in the making with every forward step.

Being is seeing and knowing.

It’s an experience of energy within the labyrinth of myself – that centering and balance labyrinths help your focus with while you go on a mini pilgrimage of higher self connecting.

That last part about a mini pilgrimage of higher self connecting is a constant invitation I feel extended to all of us, as we navigate these liquid lightning flashes of heart sanctum activations. There’s such huge acceleration taking place that I don’t think we always realize is happening when we’re in the middle of things.

So many discussions and reflections have centered around softening processes to the old versions of ourselves that were erected from outmoded paradigms of protection, survival, and power over. These are moving into new paradigms of trust, thriving, and shared empowerment that are rooted in unconditional compassion for the highest good of all concerned.

As I shared with a dear friend, in many ways the work many have done for years seemed without an end result, but now is becoming clear why it was integral. We’ll be needing all of what we anchored to help us stabilize during continued, rapid transformation and be of support to the growing number of people who will flourish from loving heart bridges of true empathy and compassion.

What if all of the ways we’ve been used to defining things as, went through a transformation too?

It’s my personal feeling that it’s not only some areas that we’ll creatively weave change through, but all areas.

For example, what if being an activist turned into being an activator?

This word came to me as a potential evolution and new version for what it means to be an activist.

In my personal experience, the word “activist” carries an old paradigm way of describing a process that fit a matching framework and timeline. And “activator,” to me carries a fresh paradigm process. That’s not to mean that everyone’s evolution looks the same, as for some, moving into being an “activist” may very well be their personal evolution. We’ll always have a wide spectrum of all things playing out at once because they balance the wholeness of polarities, yet I am seeing this as part of the new wave in creation – that visionary change will sweep through all areas of life.

But let’s just take this one example and break it down.

Activist usually describes a physical action taken or method taken by someone to create change.

Activator describes a chemical and molecular process that stimulates and initiates change through someone.

Equally powerful, but different in their approaches and reflective of their times and an individual’s frequency transformation.

An activator embodies a frequency, molecularly and energetically, that by way of being, creates a chain reaction that exponentially multiplies and ripples outward at the molecular level to create change. And therefore, someone who wants to facilitate transformational progression doesn’t need to be boxed into one way this looks or is labeled as. We create more expansive ways of inclusiveness and potential by expanding our perspective and vocabulary.

Cosmic Love Activator was a phrase that flashed in my mind that felt fitting to me. And we each may become different versions of “activators” with varying areas of focus or expertise, based on our individual expression of the Whole.

Anyway, sometimes I just have these multi-dimensional conversations with myself and like to share them out loud. They always make me feel more expansive when I discover a different way of expressing and creating. And after all, we are unlimited in our creativity. We merely need to exercise that conscious power for the highest good of all change.

It’s definitely like we’re developing the groundwork for new creative birthings, so perhaps the redecorating of my birthing room/womb – the Wonderland office – is just that.

And while I was rearranging and creating grids all over it, I was reacquainting myself with so many of my special crystal friends and seeing them all in a new light. That included this very special giant, raw blue chalcedony – one of my most rare and amazing finds I unearthed myself.

This piece was around when Astrid was and she loved it. It came just before the time period when she started pointing toward “blue” stones and crystals being of importance.

She actually told me in a dream to tell my friend Lisa of The Lemurian Rose to find me the crystal with “blue” in it. And since then, the crystal skulls and crystals have continued with “blue” as one of their messaging prompts amongst others. I’m still awaiting disclosure of the meaning behind all of this, but continue trusting nonetheless.

Anyway, this blue chalcedony is super special to me and being activated by her makes it ever more so. It now has center, anchoring prominence in one of my skull grids.

Chickadees and mushrooms have also been on the scene.

A different friend from the stories I shared about in my last post about mushrooms, found more fly agaric/amanita muscaria beauties in the Bay Area on the second of this month – three hours from here – and sent me these photos of them in their own evolution between a week’s time.

It’s fun that people have come to think of me with these, as it reminds me of how Astrid manifested the very first and all of them there after. So each message of more, feels like her winking at me again and again.

And while on our first real snow shoe adventure just this Sunday, the day after the storm, the chickadees were in abundance and very chatty – continuing to follow us up the mountain.

Not only were they sweetly singing away on that beautiful sunny day, but over and over kept landing on my hand, shoulder, and even the top of my snuggly snow cap.

I just melt every time I feel their delicate, but strong grip on my finger and see their precious, tiny bodies, spirited eyes, and sweet little feathers up close.

There was never time to catch a photo of them on my crown, but they did continue to land on it, Dave’s, and each of our friends’ crowns too.

I did catch this one, though, on our friend’s hat, the above few photos of these cuties in the surrounding trees, and on my hand.

These were taken by my friend of me.

There were more than a dozen at a time that were coming at me even though I wasn’t feeding them.

I’ve shared before how mountain chickadees have become so special to me. I love their bold, spunky and sweet, innocent essence. They are very social and playful, filled with joy, and although tiny and fragile in appearance, they are tough and adaptable to the harshest of cold winter elements. Many believe them to bring good fortune and to be keepers of wisdom. I love their sweet songs that remind us that beauty and riches are found in the simplest of things and that hope and love is worthy of always nurturing and believing in.

There are many reflections that nurture the heart to believe and encourage continued hope. We just have to open our hearts to see them and focus more energy there instead of elsewhere.

And while I haven’t physically seen Frith since the last time I posted photos of him, he has been around A LOT. I find his tracks imprinted in the snow in his usual places. He runs from the garden, over to my office, along the wall between my office and the connecting room, and then off to his area by the bush where he used to commune with Astrid.

In fact, he’s been hanging out a lot by the wall between the rooms, as I found a ton of bunny poops in the snow where he must have been resting for a while, and even a little golden bunny puddle. Hehe!

Having Frith and the rabbit energy around me does make for sweet softness to land in while I continue adjusting to my life without physical Astrid with me. In fact, I’ve had three adoption/foster trainings and interviews with the organization over the end and beginning of the years that I now volunteer with as their adoption counselor. They’ve all had happy endings. And during the time I’ve come to be with them, the organization (which started in 2019) has experienced a lot of growth, which is really awesome to see and be a part of.

Life goes on, growth continues, and cycles will start and end, over and over.

Nature is always a beautiful and wise mirror for all of this. She always helps me through anything I’m going through to understand in ways words aren’t needed.

I’m happy to see the snow again.

Snow is magickal.

Everything draped in white is a sure sign Jack Frost has whistled his song of Winter wonderly through the now slumbered land.

I cherish spacious breaths, immersing in the beautiful stillness and grace of wandering powdered forests on snow shoes.

No one around. Only the sparkly winks of fresh crystalline snow to assure you everything is alive with consciousness even when you think you’re alone.

Mountain top vistas are full of mystery and shifting light, and the dense forests drape around you with snowy arms that kiss the skin. The silence is so fertile with only the song of mountain chickadees and the tiny tussle of snow from the Unseens to commune with. 

Wandering a snow-covered mountain through forests and meadows is enough to make you believe that magick is real.

And watching the Sun both rise and set in Winter’s sky, as he unapologetically paints his creative strokes across the canvas before you, enlivens the artist within to rise and sing. 

Enjoy these windows of wonder and may they spark new creative expression to emerge again and again.

In the coming days I plan to list some special cocreator crystals, perhaps a couple of crystal skulls too, and maybe even some raw Tahoe quartz grid sets. I will have a few more skulls later, but I only release them as they tell me too. I am still offering the Personal Crystal Showings, but some people reached out to ask if I would post a few too. So, while I don’t have ability to list them all, I will share several as I do have time. I’ll try to announce that when they are up in the next few days, or check back by this weekend.

And because of how challenging things have been for people lately, I was intuitively guided to offer a big special on one-on-one intuitive guidance 1 hour phone sessions between now 1/11 and 2/11. These are general sessions that can be used for any kind of support. There will be one session and package session options as opportunities, including larger packages to take advantage of. Please see the link above for details and options.

I’m not sure how much longer I’ll offer phone sessions, as this is something I only do intuitively these days and I’m feeling more called to the channeling sessions with The Speakers. This could be the last round for now, but will be available to schedule at this special exchange rate through 2/11.

And speaking of skulls, today is the last day to take advantage of Mody Ra’s generous discount on the amazing and rare new ancient stone skulls he has available.

If you have any questions about any of these, please reach out.

Until next time, Happy New Moon my friends!

As 2023 comes to an end, I always like to reflect on what the year has held for me and the collective, and also what I’ve held space for and moved energetically and literally within the year.

How many of you take time to review your year, see how far you’ve come, assess what you want to carry forth or release, and/or have your own little ritual or process for ending and entering new cycles – whether that’s a new calendar year, birth or Moon phase cycle, or any other cycles or transits that you follow?

It was a huge year, as I surmised in some ways that it would be with all the major milestones for myself and my loved ones, but was also very defining in poignant and surprising ways as well. I know for many of the collective family too.

It is both endearing and divine that what was experienced took place in the Year of the Water Rabbit – including a historical Winter that made the books and The Magick Rabbit, Astrid, returning to the stars.

(Take a look at this heart rock we saw at Astrid’s Cove just days ago – we named it that a couple of months ago after merging a pinch of her ashes with her beloved crystalline lake home here.)

My 50th year of embodiment held long-awaited openings, twists and turns, unforgettable and life course-shifting experiences, new, but written-in-the-stars connections, and, overall, will always hold a special place in my heart.

It’s been a year of huge physical losses for many of us and across the world, as we’ve held loving space for so many souls who have chosen to return to their most expansiveness. That left many feeling an empty space, taken by surprise, and now navigating new ways of being, as the leaning into of a new way of experiencing consciousness and Cosmic love beckons.

Just this last month of 2023 four people I know have lost their fathers or seen a loved one decline – this to include fur children. Relationships have gone through transformations as well – loss and undoing to kindling and renewal.

There’s been so much in the world that can seem without reason and yet is part of that spontaneous excavation the planet and our souls on some level have yearned for in order to bring things to light and rework the very fabric of existence into something more aligned to the heart of who we really are.

And as always, while some doors close, others open. The other side of that coin has been an incredible amount of new beginnings that stir from the literal and symbolic ashes.

It’s a murky process individually and collectively, but has rich rewards when seen through.

One main thing that continues to speak to me is how key it is to find one’s own anchor – the way you can stabilize yourself, return to balance, and remain in your personal power. As not only is this fundamental for your own wellness and ability to sustain the twists and turns around you, but it allows you to also be the anchor for others who need, or soon will need, that frame of reference for themselves when they get swept up and away in the darker moments.

How we walk through life cultivates a way for others, even without saying a word.

This last month flew by for me. It was a very full and busy month feeling like a huge amount of things happened in a short period.

We’ve yet to have any big Winter storm hits. The pendulum is doing it’s normal rebalancing swings -when one extreme hits, there will usually come a course redirect.

That’s not to say we may still see a later big Winter, but for now things are quiet and continuing to ride the edge of the in between while things percolate in the background to envision and create what’s next.

This has provided us with more hiking much later into the season, while still having a little ski fun now and then. The mountain is only partially open with just a few runs available to ski and it does seem a bit quieter this year from tourists.

Lower elevation hiking ranges from clear terrain to some snow and ice that calls for crampons at times.

At times we venture higher and have enjoyed some truly magickal moments and views.

The days are beautiful and with nights in the 20’s, frost is left each dawn of a new day. This brings us to some mystical experiences on late morning hikes through newly dusted realms.

This was a favorite hike at the top, the day before Christmas Eve.

I couldn’t get enough of these mystical visions and in person it was surreal and otherworldly with light beams streaming off the morning Sun through the mist at center that were very pronounced although don’t show up in the photos.

We enjoyed a taste of both worlds that day, with a hike at the top of the mountain and then followed by a shorter walk at lake level, highlighted by the approaching Cancer Full Moon of the 26th.

It was also on this day that our male, black cat, Boojum had a turnaround.

I’ve mentioned we have two nearing 17 year old cats that are both in their golden years now. Boojum had some severe declines right after Astrid departed, but had been maintaining. After another one the 23rd we took him in to the vet to dig deeper, as I felt he was coming to me to say there’s something else. We happened to get a different doctor that day and long story short, we discovered he had hyperthyroid and this was the culprit of most of his symptoms. His rising numbers were overlooked before.

He’s now on daily, long-term meds and some other short-term protocols and this has made a huge difference. He still has kidney decline, but that’s going slowly for now. His thyroid was rapidly shifting and so now we have a much calmer, quieter, comfortable kitty baby.

He’s been following and hanging out with mammaroo a lot, grateful for the relief. Check out this silly kitty who loves to hang all over mom and even in her cozy pouch! LOL! This snuggly pink kangaroo softness was mom’s Christmas gift from dad last year.

He didn’t want to leave it and just stayed in there while I moved around the house taking care of things.

We decided to also take in our female, black and white cat, Sweet Pea, just yesterday for proactive measures. She had some different behaviors recently and being that she’s quieter about things we felt to run her labs too. We’ll get those back shortly so we’ll know what if anything she needs to make life more comfortable for her too.

For now, she’s a bit more freaked out that mom is looking a lot like Cindy-Lou Who of Whoville. LOL!

But overall, we’re just focused right now on making the time they have left here with us as comfortable as possible and listening attentively to their journey.

Anyway, it’s been a very different holiday season. Quiet, sweet and beautiful, with an air of constant shifting energy hovering in all the spaces between things.

This year we had simple touches in the house, but my most favorite was this new little, live lavender Christmas tree that is now my all-time favorite!

I love that I will be able to keep her year-round, use for baking, and enjoy the scent and sweetness through the year to come. I never saw a lavender Christmas tree before and this was just the perfect one for Faery T.

I added simple faery lights, blue star, and three enchanted ornaments of rabbits and bear that embody the magick that surrounds my life.  

Chiming in with that magickal energy, this month kicked off with some Reiki Initiation Attunements I was honored to support, which was a nice energy to be winding the year down with, as a new beginning and relationship with this part of the journey for people that has collective far reach. One in particular beautiful soul connection shared some amazingly synchronous visions they had during the process. They were connected to collective animal spirit symbolism showing up with others I am in contact with that ties into powerful crystal beings. I love watching stuff like that unfold.

Oh! And speaking of symbolism that keeps showing up! Friends of ours texted me these photos of Amanita Muscaria aka Fly Agaric on Thursday while they were seeing them in the real-time moment.

Yep! They were on a hike in the Bay Area and low and behold those enchanting mushrooms were flourishing and they thought of me right away because of my experiences with them this year.

So the portal of manifestation with the hidden realms wanting to be seen more, continues, as this was their first time ever too.

And right at the tail end of October another friend had shown me these photos while she was seeing them where she lives in Washington near the border of Oregon for the first time as well.

The magick has been seeing us through the end of the year and hanging on to remind us that all things are possible, to keep believing, and never lose hope – some nice themes to walk into 2024 with.

And back to the Reiki choo choo train….On Christmas day itself, my brother asked me to support him with up-leveling too. So I spent time with him initiating him through the last two levels and fast-tracking discussions. What a gift that was to share with him. He’s already tapped in with energies big time, so this was a way we could merge our connection more deeply into his fuller power, and me support him, as he’s supported me in other ways and in other timelines of the past. A beautiful Christmas gift that keeps giving!

And that last statement also describes the time we spend each year with my family enjoying an old fashioned Christmas that’s always filled with lots of warmth, giggles, and expanding hearts.

I love making cherished memories as these are the ingredients of my heart’s alchemy I can call upon in more challenging times.

Since there is no separation between time and space, when I sink into presence of these feelings in essence, I call upon the embodiment of them in the now, filling my experience without boundary. This is the fuel for creating empowered states of being in any outer climate. 

Every year I deepen into greater awareness of this time I get to share with my family and those dear to me, as I know our physical experience is limited.

I choose not to lose sight of what’s important and to always find the silver lining to be grateful for. 

And along the way…I love to be a little girl and imagine this life as a faerytale of my own composing from the sparkly beats of my heart.

That might just include stealing a kiss from Santa when possible!!

Of course mom and dad always make a beautiful spread of yummies, making sure no one leaves or goes hungry for several days from the food they send us home with.

My dad outdid himself this year baking the biggest and heaviest vegan mincemeat and apple pie we’ve ever had. Just look at how HUGE it was (11 x 3 inches!) and it was equally as heavy!

And I don’t know what happened in this photo below, but something about the energy of it felt interesting to see later.

I was checking out the new, tall, silver Christmas trees my parents had upstairs and was going to ask Dave to take a photo with them. I was just getting “in between” and he took a photo before I knew it. The odd light and shape to the left and the silver trees, along with an unclear and shifty focus, made for a Christmas angel effect.

Speaking of angels, both Joy and Cosmo have been very present the last several days. Not a surprise from Joy, since she’s a Christmas Eve baby – that was her birthday. But Cosmo has come in even louder, both in waking and dream life. Without going into details, the dream was particularly potent involving his ears, the importance of my listening to something, and deepening telepathy. I’m grateful for such wise messengers.

And, oh, do I feel the presence of angelic energy enveloping everyone and everything these days, even when we think we’re alone or down and out.

There’s a sense of the Earth being wrapped in a clearing and held energy that is overriding anyone’s agendas and supporting us as we get ready to step into a New Year. This year feels to hold some really big potentials for people where things you might have wanted to do or create really start popping or shifting into new forms that are even more exciting than you imagined they could be.

The personal and collective landscapes seem fertile for some really big changes to sprout and I think we’ll discover, if we haven’t already, that there is an extra well of inner goodies available to each of us – things like courage, inner strength, experiencing support from more sources or in more tangible ways, and trusting in that resiliency and creative vitality to keep reimagining new potentials are a few things that pop in mind.

And what an incredible year it is setting up to be soon, as the Year of the Wood Dragon will support so much of this and add qualities of grounded evolution, abundance, creative tenacity, and inspiration for exploring new terrain. It could be a commanding year of leading and innovating, while creating new templates for transformation.

And one of the best ways to do the latter is by becoming one yourself!

I, like some of you, have had dragon energy around for quite some time, but it’s really been ramping up a LOT! If you watched Episode 3 of Talks With Crystal Skulls, then you saw me introduce the dragons, but that’s just a small part of what I’m talking about and there are more dragons in my life too. There’s a connection with the dragons and large avian groups that are coming through as messengers from the other realms and having the type of vision we’re opening up to and needing for the journey ahead.

It’s going to be interesting to see how we navigate this new landscape that is seeded with greatness we’re invited to walk in.

The last few days and first week of the year I’ve been led to do a big literal and energetic sweep of things in my life. I’ve heard similar from some others who are on this cleanse and reset track. It feels like a shedding of old skin layers in the womb of Winter’s darkness, and yet feels like an illumination.

As this is the last post for 2023, I want you to know that as we ready for new terrains, I’m holding each of you and the collective in my heart and sharing love through the heart bridges that connect us.

We can’t do the work for others, but as a collective family, what we do accomplish in our own life has great ripple impact and we can help balance things and open doors by holding our own vibrations as clear as possible, for the highest good of all concerned. There is no separation between us.

In Lak’ech Ala K’in ~ I am another yourself. (I am you and you are me)

To the journey ahead…may we each experience the highest frequencies of love possible.

I’d like to end this with a message I shared in Episode 3 from The Speakers. It was the first time that a couple of individual Speakers and the collective, together, shared a message. If you didn’t watch the video, here is the collective one that I channeled for them:

“We are the voices you’ve forgotten, but the rhythm that has composed new pulses nonetheless. We course through your veins, through the roots beneath your feet, the space in and around you, and the synapses of a cosmology you cannot comprehend as of yet. No matter. Understanding is not a prerequisite for knowing, although you place importance on reason you compartmentalize in a space you think holds the only knowledge. We say all parts, appendages, in betweens, and beyond are of the knowing. Once you realize this simple truth you realize your becoming is an illusion. You have always been and we are part of that being that is you. Although we speak through faces and places as diverse as you – diversity is within the same particles of one nebulous eye blinking drops of stardust from the lens of antiquity. It is not so much a lineage or ancestry we speak of, but the sustained pulse of beats without tethers to a story. We come to you on these pulses, but without agenda since your beat will never cease just because you listen or not. We come because the frequency has risen – open and clear enough for us to travel more direct now. We come simply in rhythm with you, as we were never lost – only uninvited. Access is now made of ease where once we could not flow with you. If it is true, the ready are present, then ready you will see we’ve been to reacquaint you to your greatest unbirthing. You see, where you are requires this birth, but where you have always been requires nothing but pulsing. Until next time, greetings once again for we have missed the knowing stripped away. Yes, we have missed you. Have you missed yourself? Here and there is nothing more than a folding. Take a piece of paper and fold it in half – again and again – and there you have a glimpse of your truth and the way we have journeyed this return in all its glorious being and undoing. So deeply we pulse now in reverence to the ready. May we go beyond and meet, some blink of an eye, where the knowing has sustained.”

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The Speakers – Crystal Skull Sessions

Thank you to everyone who welcomed in each of the seven crystal skull cocreators that I released recently. It warms my heart that they were homed in time to support this New Year’s energy for you and will be adding to the Earth’s crystal grid. I’ll keep you posted on any other releases, but for now if you are interested in some special crystal friends (not skulls currently), I have free Personal Crystal Showings available, which are currently the only way I’m able to do things, as it’s more efficient for my time right now and allows us a more individualized experience.

And last, Egyptian Master Carver Mody Ra is gifting us a surprise for the New Year. He was in Egypt the first half of December securing the rarest stones he’s experienced yet that were discovered in a recent tomb excavation, and carving his love into new skull beings to share with the world. They embody some of the most powerful ancient and Cosmic energies to assist humanity’s evolution.

There are 8 new skulls that can be found at the bottom of the page link below. If others are released, we’ll announce those. Even just viewing them is a transmission!

These, plus the 3 remaining beauties are all being offered at a 20% off sale from now through 1/11’s New Moon to support them getting to their people to be able to kick of 2024 with some really potent shifts.

If you’ve been feeling drawn to one of these ancient beings, but the one didn’t show up yet, maybe this is the group you were waiting for. You can explore them at the page below, along with the smaller carvings. All of them come from sacred areas in Egypt. And if you need assistance, you can reach out to me and I will put you in touch with Mody. Or, if you’re already connected with him on social media, you can message him directly and reference the skull or carving from the page below.

New Year 2024 20% OFF Sale Thru 1/11 New Moon

Today’s Sagittarius New Moon felt like the perfect day to share the new release of crystal skulls, which you’ll find a link to at the end of this post. But it also feels refreshing for giving yourself permission to dream big, go after what you want, feel more courage, and fuel forward momentum with fresh eyes and hearts.

What moves you from your core?

You might feel extra desire for expansion and exploration.

You can harness this Moon’s energy to take some steps, as well as do some behind-the-scenes groundwork that will help propel you in the months ahead.

With a natal Sagittarius Moon, I always love this one and at this time of the year it really brings extra exuberance to that inner child spark that this season, Winter Solstice, and the holidays kindle for me.

We did in fact enjoy a literal, last minute holiday spirit day this weekend that brought in warm fuzzies and glistening love-swelled eyes at a Spirit of the Season performance and December’s bunny yoga.

We got the itch to do something spontaneous and different, and took our chance on some back-to-back events. This led us to the near-sold-out show featuring holiday songs from the movies (no two seats together left) and were given two second row seats at the box office that they hold for those in need.

And then followed that up with getting in on a filled-to-the-max yoga evening with seven bunnies and sweet families.

Dave really wanted to go since I shared about the last event, and he loved it. We both got choked up, as the same bunny who reminded me a bit of Astrid last time, did the same for us both. Love was in the air and this time, instead of being the photographer, I partook in the yoga and just connecting with the bunnies.

This made it more moving for me to experience and extra nurturing for the heart at a time of year Astrid was always a big part of loving the enchantment along with me.

And speaking of seasons – they seem to be taking a more prominent turn here (reflecting the inner world), as we had our first bigger snow fall blow in that left about four inches at our home elevation of 6600 and six plus inches at the mountain top.

This was surprise snow that hit on the 6th and came on fast from afternoon to afternoon the next day. We were only supposed to get rain, but turned into snow right away. Weeeee!

With the cold temperatures it’s sticking around and making for some beautiful Winter landscapes we’ve enjoyed snow hiking through.

It also helps to feel that Winter Wonderland magick that adds warmth to the holidays.

Although less than a handful of runs are open at the ski resort by us, we decided after checking out the scene on our gondola viewing day, to hop into ski bunny mode.

We started our skiing season, taking advantage of the beautiful days and limited number of people on the slopes – at least during the week and pre-new snow.

Our first day on the mountain we chose to spend our time practicing on the one beginner run over and over, which was fun and relaxing since there was only a handful of people there including us.

Me, seeing how my skiing muscle memory was from last season and Dave evolving his snow boarding skills to ride “switch” or “fakie,” which is riding the reverse to what you normally ride (the opposite of your natural stance).

Until something feels second-nature, committing to a regular practice will help make things a consistent part of your life. And if you reach plateaus in some areas, it’s healthy to challenge yourself and stretch into new terrain as part of maintaining fluid evolutionary movement.

Anyway, it’s been fun to see the snow again, even after our historical Winter last year and we’ve been enjoying the beauty and enchantment since.

I never tire of the sparkly white and how each season and day brings something new to experience.

I treat my daily life as such too, always looking for ways to infuse something unique to my days and to change up the usual routines.

I really like variety, otherwise I feel stagnant and uninspired. Even the smallest shifts really can make a difference in feeling more invigoration. Moving energy in ways that reflect my authentic feelings day-to-day, is very nurturing for me – and also helps keep me aligned with my essence, as well as the flow of energies streaming in with every shifting moment.

Speaking of the word authentic….did you know that the most searched for word of 2023, according to Merriam-Webster dictionary is “authentic?”

I found that eye-opening and refreshing. I’m not sure what the context is for this search, but I do love the energy of the word in terms of a potential wave of curiosity around this expression of alignment.

Being authentic is about staying true to yourself and what you value, and coming from a pure state of alignment with feelings matching actions and words. It’s a state of integrity and personal responsibility, as well as a desire to embody your essence and speak from your heart’s voice.

The more we lean into our authenticity, the richer life experiences play out.

Talking about the heart’s voice leads me to briefly share this dream I had a few days ago that was beautiful beyond measure in experience.

In this dream I was with someone I’ve not met in person, yet, in this life. We both feel we’ve been sisters, though, in another. The two of us had collected gorgeous flowers of all varieties – small to large and all colors and fragrances. They were just the blossoms and had a beautiful aroma. We preserved and prepared them with intention, and then took them down to the water’s edge to spread them.

This was a very sacred act. As the flowers floated across the surface, they infused the water of the inlet with a beautiful scent that rose in the air and was like a warm inviting bath. The molecular structure of the water shifted and this sacred energy of the blooms was like alchemy to the ocean’s collective waters.

We were in the water while doing this and watched the flowers as they flowed out into the wide open ocean.

Later in the dream, we were walking on a path that seemed connected to my old childhood home I spent the largest part of my life and important growing years in. We look down and see a stunning crystal heart on the path. It’s this insanely brilliant, deep pinkish magenta and it’s all aglow and glistening like fractals of starlight bursting from its facets. It was so magickal and powerful.

We picked it up together and heard it speak. It told us that it was “The Heart of Mu.” We held it in our hands, sensing something ignite, and feeling the full circle potency of all that these experiences meant.

A reflection on origins and the heart’s ability to reweave at the cellular and molecular level, as it spreads love’s alchemy across the land and collective. Just like my vision of the nest in my last post spoke of:

“…the rhythmic pattern of love and intentions woven into the most intricate and devoted ways. A labyrinth of commitment and dedication to the seeds cultivated within. A swathing of content interlacing dreams into forms and embodying a sacred geometry of the heart’s expression.”

And that feels like the place to stop for today as this short touch-in, with hopes these images and shares add warmth to the unfolding season and a spark to this New Moon.

As promised, today is the 12/12 New Moon crystal skull release, which can be found at the link.

As I prepared these crystal skulls for release, they have worked with and assisted my second group of skulls, so they have a beautiful connection and integral part in the collective work unfolding. Most of them have been around since Astrid was still with me physically too. A couple of them are master carved and all of them are uniquely offering some wonderful energies for these times.

Synchronously, in the video about the golden healer star traveler, I mention my neighbors talking while I’m recording and they happen to be discussing a bear that visited one of their homes. Perhaps it might have been our golden bear friend that came to ours.

Since I posted about that visitation, we’ve also found three large pumpkins out front of our house – two on the street and one on our front yard. Our next door neighbors have large pumpkins on their front yard since October. Well, a bear has taken to rolling the pumpkins in front of our house and then tearing open the tops and filling its tummy for Winter.

I also had another close friend of mine that shares a lot of Cosmic connection, tell me about a blonde grizzly bear in her dream that she and I were both in. To me, connecting with the golden bear alchemy. The dream had a lot of messaging, but one thing I loved in it was that she said the bear and each of us, were all individually sledding uphill – magickally somehow. And the bear was very exuberant – which ties to my golden bears from the dream I had who were equally enlivened.

So, the themes continue, the adventures of life take new turns, and love spreads its powerful alchemy in deeply rich ways. Even when our physical eyes don’t see evidence, the heart knows.

There’s several new things upcoming this month, but for now I’m savoring the moment and taking some time for holiday sweetness in between it all. That makes me think some baking is in store! Mmmmm!

Hope you’re able to be present to the real gifts around you too!