Tania Marie

Today’s Capricorn Full Moon has me reflecting a lot on the energy of the mountains and how they reflect to us a quiet strength and persevering resiliency. They rise in majesty and declare an unwavering integrity toward responsible stewardship of the land they oversee. Wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and challenging, yet there’s a comfort in their presence the way they take charge so naturally of their realm.

Shift they will over time, but time it does take to carve each crevice – they wear these wrinkles with grace and honor of all that has gone before and fear not what may come.

Onward they stand, rise, and form anew, bridging heaven and earth with a staircase to climb to greater heights and envision new perspectives.

May we learn from the mountains and deepen into their guidance during this Moon’s illumination.

While I still reflect on our time away, it’s been nurturing to settle into alpine life again and immerse in the mountain energy I call home. For someone with a Capricorn North Node, Ascendent, and Mars placement it’s a very resonant place to be and soothes in ways only a match of essence can.

We opted for a quiet 4th of July weekend celebration, with hiking and backpacking to be away from the more crowded time of year when people like to come up to enjoy Lake Tahoe. I’ve especially been wanting silence and low-key, craving the majesty and grace of the mountains.

In many ways, the energy has mirrored this Full Moon – feeling like solid earthing and upgrading of structures and motivations toward new visions are ready to solidify.

Does anyone else feel similarly?

We have some house and garden improvement projects in motion – the latter being something I’m working in as I have time around the rest of life and what feels more pressing at the moment. We did get the rose bushes in, which are happily blooming, and all the rest are buzzing with so much life. There’s still a lot to cleanup in the garden and I may add a few last plants.

The pollinators of all varieties – bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are loving things. I’ve seen SO many bees on the deck plants all at once – like a little colony all working away together.

Are things in your life starting to bloom and buzz?

And I’m happy to report that many wild rabbit friend sightings continue. In fact, Frith showed up in a most endearing way on the day we returned from backpacking. We watched him from the upstairs window, as he played with a very chubby lizard – likely pregnant. They were in a dance of tag back and forth.

Frith chased the lizard into the bushes then the lizard popped back out on the pathway stones, and this went on back and forth for a few minutes.

This surprised us both to witness, as we’ve never seen anything like it before. It was like watching Thumper in a Disney clip or something – so cute!

Then Frith ran off into my garden to explore the new rose bushes right after we planted them, and nibbled on a rose bud!

I also had another smaller bunny visit and the continued Foxglove appearances.

Here she is eyeing me yesterday from under the garden bench.

So there’s quite a little family of them making the garden their home. Yay!

The abundance of bunnies feels indicative of a very fertile landscape before us and what is possible.

How might you embrace a bit more of your creative vitality and share your uniqueness in relative ways to you?

Cleaning out and organizing my closet is in motion again. Not surprising really, since big experiences promote personal changes and certain things will and will not resonate in terms of outward reflection of more “now” inward alignment.

We were watching temperatures and weather for when to leave to go backpacking since we could do so last minute if needed, and ended up on a favorite hike instead on the 4th.

This ended up falling in the window of the wild irises blooming.

So although I missed some of my spring flowers, we were gifted with seeing the last wave of irises at the top of the mountain.

There’s only a small time period to catch this that shifts between end of June and start of July.

This hike also surprised me with a handful of petrified wood.

I’ve only found one lone piece, twice before on this hike. I wondered, but did not think so many pieces would show up, especially since this area isn’t known for this. But unusual things do happen these days and a cluster of them all just caught my eye on this beautiful day.

Have you also discovered that surprising or seeming impossible things have been possible?

That night we hiked up with our folding chairs to a spot in our forest not far from the house that Dave had discovered. It has a view of the lake. Here we sat and watched the big fireworks display in the solitude of our own creation.

It felt like a way to be in the world, but not of it.

Do you also feel this to be a big part of your experience these days, where you’re in a suspended space having a parallel, but different unfolding?

We were glad we waited to go backpacking, as that night had a low dip in temperature and would have been quite frigid at the higher elevation of our destination in mind.

The next morning we were off, however, and enjoyed two nights and three days at our favorite campsite I’d sent energy to hold for us.

In fact, when we arrived I was floored to find several gifts on the ground where we put up our tent, including this incredible cabochon.

Can you believe it?!

I ended up having two full crystal adventure days – 5 hours each – of seeing what beauties were wanting my attention this year. I made a promise to myself only to bring home smaller pieces, as I’d really been challenged to my limits last year, plus my spiral was complete. So, I had to say I’m sorry to many that called out, opting to just spend time with them and receive instead. You can imagine how high vibed I am after these crystal immersions.

I left with a perfect amount – only adding 8 extra pounds to my gear. But more importantly, I was gifted the call of some truly unique ones, including several perfect points. I may share them another time or on my IG if you’re on there.

The group included clear quartz, very dark and light smokies, a variety of shades of citrines, included and mixed quartz…tons of etchings, many still with form intact, starbrary galore, and rainbow explosions everywhere.

I only ever take home who says to come and never dig or disrupt things. They are laying out or partially covered, but call with a wink when the sunlight sparks upon them.

Dave came with me the second day for the first time, to see what it was all about. I took him to the spot I marked as where I left off the previous day. Within five minutes he found his first fully formed crystal point and said, “I’m done!” LOL! That day was exceptionally special in terms of finds, sparked by the two of us together. We even found nearly twin sized points at almost the same time.

I’ve been coming to understand this area more and more, energetically. Through my explorations and examining and tuning into the land, crystals, and clusters along the steep slopes.

This is very ancient earth where volcanos, glaciers, and massive lightning over the ages has formed, impacted, struck, and lent potent energy to everything within and on the mountain. It’s super rare to find fully intact crystals because of the massive elements that have created and infused the area over time – at least, without digging up the mountain.

This, to me, makes these special in the way they have all self healed and adapted with the most unusual new growth patterns, along with maintaining their original footprint and core. At the high altitude they are close to the stars and of course bear the imprints of star systems. Many of them are really unique – some may call them the “weirdos” and so pristine in energy.

I feel great honor to be in presence of them.

I touch or hold many that I don’t take, as well, because they call out.

Many of the big mommas gift me babies.

I receive so much during the timeless hours there. It’s truly an experience of deep respect during my time with them.

There are clusters I found of the ones I call “ice” crystals that used to belong to gigantic clear, pure crystals. These got blasted by cosmic and earth strikes including lightning and impacts. Many look like diamond flower chunks of absolute pristineness and are filled with rainbows galore. I may offer some of these if of interest, as they felt the most to want to be shared collectively for now.

You can let me know in the comments if you’d like me to offer these and I’ll put together some photos and videos as a listing if so, when I share a small crystal release.

I continue to want to learn more about these mystery crystals that have only made themselves known since last summer. And since I only bring home a limited amount and there are also very few of specific kinds, I feel many of them need to still be explored and/or are meant to be personals for now.

What fun I had though under the direct alpine sunshine above the lake and close to the stars.

It is very soul-enriching and body-nourishing.

Sleep was good!

This is a fully invested, happy body and spirit after two days of crystal journeys in my personal paradise.

I took the selfie on my return hike back to camp.

The rest of the week we’ve enjoyed our first Tahoe beach day back where I was greeted by a ladybug on my leg and a curious chipmunk on my toes.

We also explored a nearly eight mile hike in new terrain of the Desolation Wilderness with some friends.

This hike offered beautiful, rugged terrain, wildflowers and lots of ponds, waterfalls, and lakes.

I’ll share several windows into the landscape so you can breathe in the energy.

Peek-a-boo! Look at this cutie spying on me while I sat breathing in the landscape myself.

Some amazing veins in the rocks here!

There are several lakes in this area and the terrain is kind of like a moonscape.

And will finish things off on this evening’s Full Moon with a “Music on the Beach” event.

I’d say it’s been a nourishing week back and while it’s been a short time since our long trip away, it now seems like ages ago. I carry all that was experienced and integrated within, yet it seems like another lifetime.

Besides bunny friends, mice and voles were on high this weekend. I found this precious mouse on our wild iris hike and couldn’t help but take a photo of how sweetly he appeared to be sleeping peacefully and clutching a leaf as he journeyed to the beyond.

Dave and I each separately were visited by voles on our backpacking trip too. I had one come to me at water’s edge where I cleansed my new crystal friends in the high alpine lake.

I always give them a bath in this lake before carrying them home – AND throw many of them into the water too. I feel they guide me to want to be there, to add to the energy vortex with amplified intention.

Gridding is on high for many these days. I have so many grids in my office too. It’s a way many of us are intentionally connecting across the globe for the highest good.

What ways do you feel called to move focus to new ideas and invest a greater commitment to follow through on things?

Have you been procrastinating out of fear of your own potential?

May we all be kinder to self and others, knowing that the journey is not easy for any of us and yet our mutual compassion and desire to unite in heart-bridging ways can help rise each other up when we may need it the most.

Every now is a pivot point – not just for self, but in the evolution of humanity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But it was my garden that was really something.

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

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

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

This is not Frith, nor Hyzenthlay.

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

The name Foxglove came to me immediately.

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

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

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

She’s very curious and also very confident.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So, we’ll see how it all unfolds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You must believe it and then you see it.

How have you been experiencing the energies recently?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature demonstrates this beautifully for us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nature teaches.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love his little white mustache!

And his curious nature.

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

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

Frith has become such an endearing presence for me.

And of course rabbits embody rebirthing energy and new beginnings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things we may otherwise never see up close.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was immediately greeted by a magickal little mushroom.

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

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

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

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

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

And it did.

Another very large bone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sacred illumination is exquisite irrelevance.

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

Perhaps there IS a method to the madness.

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

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

This will be my last post before heading off.

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

We’ll see where it leads.

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

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

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

I was so excited to find my very first two crocus of the season peeking their sweet lilac heads out from the front bed. They courageously bloom amidst a sea of abundant bulbs that are all reaching with their green stalks and buds to the sun, ready to greet the season of emergence.

I love how resilient and determined they are amidst still-freezing nights – continuing to power on.

Even though we have almost a week of colder weather returning with some snow and moisture pretty much daily, the promise holds strong and reminds me that everything is temporary, resiliency is a superpower innately available, and nothing stops energy from consistently recreating itself.

I’m feeling some assurance that I’ll get to see more blooms before we head off to blossom in new ways ourselves.

And speaking of blooms, I received a surprise, belated birthday package in the mail on the 24th, the day after discovering my crocus Earth stars. It came from a good friend of mine whose business is called “Starship Bloom” that includes such offerings as magickal realism embroidery art.

Not more than a couple of hours after opening the package and finding one of her incredibly beautiful pieces of two coyotes under a Pink Moon (which happens to be what April’s Full Moon is called) with crystals and sparkly beads, a pack of coyotes started howling loudly from very close in the forest out back. We heard them while sitting in the jacuzzi watching the sunset. And then upon going to bed, the pack sang once again to the night sky moon. My friend and I have a lot of intertwined experiences – one of which has been ongoing cosmic coyotes and sighting a pair on the same day. The framed art now sits bedside with a grid of amethyst I have there.

Another of her pieces is headed to me of a spirit bear “The Great White Bear” from the stars walking in the liminal space between Earth and Cosmos. It will balance the left side of my night stand – the perfect companions for dream journeys.

I find it important to support the in between spaces where dreamscapes reveal the truer states of multi-dimensionality that I’m learning to weave more into waking life.

Before this week’s dip in temperatures, we had warm days in the 60’s, which we embraced for our earliest-ever kayaking immersion.

On the 25th we had a successful and gorgeous maiden voyage of our new replacement blow-up kayak.

Our other five plus year old one had a tear we discovered when we tried to do an even earlier paddle and float on the lake during pre-Spring warmth.

This was a beautiful gift to be able to enjoy before we head out too.

And I imagine with the current storm coming in, we may get another day or two of skiing in before we leave, and the ski resort closes, as well.

While things oscillate and may seem unready to anchor one way or another, we always have the opportunity to embrace what is here now and enjoy that rich gift as it is.

It’s been a back and forth see-sawing of weather that mirrors these slower prodding forward days. Everything feeling to point to not rushing ahead, and embracing the moment. But I do see how what might feel like a step backward has been equating to two or three steps ahead after. Like a rubber band, I’m feeling the release about to happen. Weeeeee!

Sometimes the slowing down and being extra present and patient can really help tend to details that create greater resonance and alignment for springing forward.

We’ve been continuing to prep a lot before our travels, which included getting our yard cleaned up. You may recall that I’ve been doing this myself the last couple of years – raking all the pine needles and bagging them, branches, and pine cones from the seasons past.

With our being away during the usual time for this and missing yard waste pickups, we decided to have it done early and get that Spring clean in ahead of schedule. I hadn’t the ability to do it this time, so our people who do snow removal were kind enough to come and they had an opening literally the day before the weather shifted.

Sometimes delegating is important and more productive than trying to do everything yourself.

They did an amazing job and it feels so good to have everything cleared – so fresh! This provides me the opportunity to put my garden statues back out so the fae and forest animals will have their enchanted space even if I’m not there for a while. I’ll do that once this storm front passes.

We plan to get the driplines up and running as well before leaving…so everything should be in place.

It will be fun to see what we return home to in the garden and yard.

One step at a time…we’re getting things ready and prepared without rush. I’ve been embracing a slower pace since my birthday with getting things done without any pressure what so ever and sometimes just doing one bigger project, or portion of one, a day.

It’s been a nice change to slow down and not fill my day with only some of what can be the more stressful kinds of things. I’m making bigger windows of time for relaxing and just being, framing the smaller windows of focuses, as our countdown to departure edges closer.

I’ve been enjoying not having pressures around things and creating calm spaces of flow.

Things do still get done, but as they are meant to rather than by agenda, and this creates greater sense of well-being in the process. This has also allotted me extra time for a few more blogs than I thought I might have ability to share. So, I probably will have time for another before leaving.

It’s been interesting to have deer energy with me a lot since Spring Equinox and the antler and bone finds. It reminds me of my dream last year of finding the spiraling/ascending dream antlers and stag being prominent, followed by a lot of encounters with stag and deer in waking reality.

Well, it continued on the 26th with finding a much longer deer leg bone – interesting the bones have all been legs, as legs represent movement forward and ability to navigate life’s challenges.

I’m sensing a lot of renewal energy from these finds, but also the message of softening, trusting, and being in the flow of alignment with life evolutions instead of resisting or trying to control them.

That speaks to what I’ve been leaning into more and more and feel a greater peacefulness from this.

I wonder if that’s been other’s experience more these days too?

And that energy of inspired beginnings is being supported by today’s Aries New Moon and Solar Eclipse. This is not only a period of taking charge within one’s own life and harnessing what inspires you, but also inspiring others by your own example of visionary leadership and embodiment.

While some may feel less inclined to make major moves, some of you may be ready to leap forward and the energies are right there to help you.

New Moons are great for setting intentions and reflecting upon steps to take toward manifesting things in your life. The Solar Eclipse brings some really transformative energy into the mix and combined with Aries, you could really create a strong momentum of change.

So you could strategize some plans or self-reflect, if in fact you feel you’d like to create something new in your life.

You could also just nestle into the joy of now with fullness of heart gratitude.

And for others, this could herald a time you might want to challenge your comfort zones to move toward greater authenticity or new versions of life experience.

It’s all a choice and perfect however you decide.

Personally, I’ve both been enjoying the present ease of things, but also feel growing excitement for broadened experiences both in exploring more of life and exploring more of my creative potential.

And although we haven’t yet even embarked on our long journey, we’ve already put three backpacking adventures on the calendar (including some with friends and some on our own) and secured permits for those that required one. Two are new hikes/locations and one is a favorite we plan to use as our gateway back into the great outdoor immersions awaiting our arrival home.

So, we’re indeed embracing the Aries spirit for travels and nature expeditions and I’m also accepting the same invitation in my project world by seizing the courageous energies to help get me over the hump of any unfounded fears. I plan to begin some of this while we’re gone, using the inspiration of new experiences to guide the way.

Where in your own life do you feel called to create something new?

Are you comfortable where you are, or are you itching for a little more excitement or wonder in your life?

It’s a great time to feel into your own heart and follow the flow of what you find there.

It will be your own version of peace, joy, and adventure, as we all march to the beat of our own drums.

NOTE: The beautiful ocean jasper is still available for two more days only. On March 31st I’ll be removing the listing in order to finalize shipping on the 1st and won’t offer anything more until I return: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Although tomorrow is officially Spring, we did just get another snow storm the eve before, and on, St. Patrick’s Day bringing another deep layer of magick to the land.

This has been a different Winter season with a lot of Spring-like days in between our white showers, and the birds and small animals never really seemed to do a full hibernation.

But Spring Equinox IS officially upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, which heralds Terra’s awakening.

And it arrives inside a potent transformational window between the Lunar Eclipse of the 13th (powerful releasing energy) and a Solar Eclipse on the 29th (courageous new accelerations).

A new start’s promise is in motion, as the truth that all endings being beginnings is realized.

It’s also another year of blossoming without a bunny by my side, reflecting that the heart does go on and the fertile, creative abundance continues.

It helps that I refuse to give up hope.

I choose to keep believing and believing fuels extra joy in my heart even if everything outside of my heart wants to lean in other directions.

I feel that it does take our wanting to believe, in order to shift our experience.

Belief, rooted in embodied emotions behind it, make all the difference in any area of life.

Our sweet little, still-decorated pine tree at forest’s edge, speaks to me of believing.

The night before St. Patrick’s Day I dreamed I was walking through a grassy knoll and came to an area filled with peacock feathers along the ground. I could see their beautiful patterning and colors peeking through the dirt that partially covered them – perhaps indicating they had been there a while. Someone else may not have noticed them, as they blended well with the ground. I went about gathering them up in my arms, grateful for the gift.

I woke from this dream feeling extra rooted in hope and trust that beautiful things would come to fruition. The fact that I found many peacock feathers also spoke to an abundance of potentials in process of becoming. I also felt their discovery as entering into a new period of heightened change and growth. Brush off the dirt and dust, and begin again in brilliant revealing of essence.

Later, I decided to see if there was additional insights to this dream and found some information on dreaming about finding a peacock feather. The info suggested entering a period of self-discovery of one’s true potential and a reflection of embodied self-love.

And being that peacock feathers also symbolize one’s creative uniqueness, it may also encourage a deepening expression of such with potential to achieve great things with solid self belief.

And there again is that message of believing making a difference.

Spring is the season of rooted belief coming to fruition.

The sprouting forth of new life is a reflection of trust in the nature of ever-evolving cycles.

All things continue to transform, blossom, and renew, even if we can’t see it during the monochromatic landscapes.

The blankets of white may seem suppressive, but in fact are the stimulus void of innovation.

In celebration of the Equinox, here’s a little surprise release to ignite sparks of creative potential and inspired belief.

The last three crystal offerings were homed rather swiftly – the same day I shared them. They really knew where they were needed and their timing, as people found them even without seeing the blog post announcement. It moved me deeply to feel the joy their cocreators felt.

If you missed those three new offerings, I have a surprise for you today.

I have three new, equally special offerings that specifically wanted to wait for a Spring Equinox release. You’ll see why in terms of their transformative energy – especially with the key and needed emotional realm – and creative and colorful vitality mirroring this time period of opportunity between eclipses and beyond: UPDATE: 1 REMAINS

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Again, these will only remain available until March 31st, as I will need to have all shipping done at the start of April. If you’d love to have one of these with you through Spring’s blossoming doorway, that’s the timeframe to keep in mind. Otherwise, if any remain available, they’ll not go out again until July.

May the sweetness of emerging tendrils nourish your heart this season.

I hope the Full Moon Eclipse provided extra clarifying, opening, and perhaps healing support to your life in some way.

If you’ve experienced struggles with movement forward, the Virgo energy of this Moon amplifies how organization, clearing, cleansing, and dealing with details in a grounded way can aid efficiency and adaptability for welcoming in some new things.

Since Spring Equinox is around the corner in several days, it isn’t unusual to feel in alignment with the season’s desire to give things a deep cleanse and make way for the vibrant new growth excited to emerge.

Here, we had another snow storm on the 13th and 14th – the overlap days of the Moon event – that brought in a fresh almost foot and a half of snow where we are and much more up higher.

This snow is a welcome addition to our days, since we’ve had an unusual Winter with long periods of Spring-like weather in between a sprinkling of storms.

But then, this year feels unusual to me in many ways.

Perhaps because the slate does feel completely wiped – like the white blanket that just fell upon the ground here.

The Moon was large and glowed a reddish gold through the forest in the days leading up to the Full illumination.

Its presence and recent days have felt like an alchemical silence lingering in the air. I’ve had a lot of energy through the night.

Last evening, just after 7pm, Frith made a surprise run back and forth across the fresh snow on the upper deck while I was sitting on the couch. That was so unusual, too, but fitting.

I’ve continued to feel really powerful energies around and being drawn into my life, which coincide with that potent medicine of shark in a way. There’s something ritualistic naturally occurring and it feels to be aligned with what lies beyond each new door.

There’s also an excitement stirring with really fresh feelings unearthing that mirror the birthing of new stars within. I’m curious as to how innovation will unfold. And I’m meeting that energy with an action or choice to align in resonance with it.

Do you find yourself wondering and stretching in new ways?

And if not, do you wish to feel the kindling of different curiosities?

I feel like there’s an invitation to us all to try something unusual…mix it up…create new processes…leave behind stress and agendas…immerse so much into the moment that the mind quiets.

What if you did just one new thing today?

What if you woke up saying this is the day I will (fill in the blank)?

We will find it difficult to create our bigger ideals collectively, if we can’t even do one thing different in our own lives today.

Start with a simple shift and work up to more. Soon they’ll become a fun new natural for you.

It begins with a choice.

Just before the snow storm I found this raven wing feather. The iridescent colors are like the transformative changes emerging from the deep void.

I feel raven as a guide into the unknown and illuminating the way through the dark womb of creation and mystery with great intuitive precision.

We DO have all that we need within to navigate this new terrain. The steps will be like braille to our hearts…as we feel our way through revival of our multi-dimensional consciousness.

I’m going to be pretty occupied over the next month, as Dave and I prepare for a rather long journey away for ten weeks beginning mid April. That time might be a bit of a sabbatical in a way, but I am not putting any parameters on it. I have a feeling and vision, but will let the days unfold as is aligned.

I’m not sure how much I’ll post before then, but I’m sure at least a couple of more shares.

In the meantime, I did just list a few new crystal beings here: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

UPDATE: All new offerings have been homed.

You’ll notice that I removed the remaining Tahoe Quartz from that page. I felt the ones left will now become part of grids in the garden here and I will await anymore new ones that this Summer may bring to share with you.

Hope your weekend brings something new your way!

The world is a very interesting field of experience these days, in terms of what is playing out, and it takes more expansive awareness to observe without attachment and charge and to then navigate how we want to take our own place within it all. I sense that many others are also feeling an inner messaging around taking a new path, yet doing so invites a greater trust of the unknown way to do that or where it’s leading.

I was recently corresponding with a friend about how we both feel this doorway is about inviting in utmost faith, but also a space of no stress or pressure, as these are the old ways and everything we do now is about a new way on the spiral of evolution.

I added that I feel called to relinquish all goal-oriented thinking and to simply enjoy the moment of what ever I have chosen to immerse myself in. With fullness of heart brought into each experience, things can organically morph and divine alignment is naturally achieved.

So while that may seem contrary to my strong Capricorn, mountain-climbing energies or entering a #1 year numerologically, it’s actually just tweaking perspective on it and creating a more balanced approach that utilizes the best of the energetic worlds to create a new way to each mountain top.

This has brought a huge relief to me and creates a much more fun approach and experience.

It’s not that I don’t have motivation or intention, it’s just that there’s a shift of process where intention is energy theme based and saturated in joy. Joy then results in the perfect outcome that doesn’t need dictatorship over. There’s still full force of momentum, but with a different kind of directive. When one is fully present in the expression of the moment in a way that engages wholeness of one’s frequency, then everything can be achieved with greater flow and grace and will always be in divine alignment.

This is natural harmony of essence in conscious motion of being.

My recent little family-time getaway ended up being a week’s long mini vacation, as it was extended an extra night. I only just got back home Friday, so am settling into things. It felt like a mini reset in a different terrain that looks out on the mountains we live in.

And when I got home I found my amaryllis plants in a new phase as well.

You may recall that my parents gave us an amaryllis plant on Thanksgiving that grew super tall and produced five blossoms on one pod and four on the other – nine in all. My parent’s plant produced six blossoms on one pod and four on the other – ten in total.

After the blossoms finished their cycle, I only removed the withered flowers and watched how they produced new pods. This was my first time with an amaryllis plant so it was fascinating to observe their evolution and learn about how you can regrow them after the bloom. My parents fully cut the stems and withered flowers, along with the plant and gave me their bulb to see what I could do with theirs too.

Well, I ended up regrowing their plant from just the original bulb they had remaining and the leaves on mine grew crazy long, while the flower pods got larger. I wasn’t sure if they were going to bloom again, but what I discovered when I returned home from the week away was that the pods had burst open to expose all of the dark papery seeds.

I thought that was a cool reflection of the week’s discussions and energetic shifts that took place, as I always have powerful talks with my brother when with him and this time was extra potent given the amount of hours of intentional and deeply explorative exchanges – its own explosive burst of activation.

I plan to prepare the seeds and then plant them. I read that although they germinate within a few weeks to a couple of months that it can take several years for seed grown amaryllis to reach blooming size.

So, we’ll see what evolves. I just thought it symbolically aligned with fresh starts and the seeding of new Earth experiences.

While away there was also another few days of storms that came in, so we were welcomed back home to a snowy fresh blanket of purity once again.

That leads me to some potent dreams that I feel guided to share, as they don’t seem to just be about my own experiences.

On March 1st, the first night at my parent’s house, I had a shark dream and interestingly, the first night back home on March 7th I had another shark dream.

The first one involved very large sharks that looked like bull sharks to me, as they had rounded heads and noses when looking from above, and yet there was a little bit of whale shark essence in terms of their blended personality. Whale sharks are docile giants and bull sharks are aggressive. There was a sense they had some of both, but were an unusual group in that any aggressive potentials were something they kept at bay by choice. These were highly intelligent and advanced sharks.

That dream involved a fleet of these very large sharks that we (me and some other people) were going to be riding, as they were the only ones who knew how to take us somewhere important. We met up with the shark fleets in the water and there were beings helping us to prepare for the journey. The sharks had something similar to a bit in their mouths like horses, with a handle at the top of their heads to be able to hold onto. Then you just straddled their backs in front of their dorsal fin. There was a special mask to place over the eyes and nose, which I understood was to help to see and breathe when the sharks would dive very deep to get where we were headed. I’m not exactly sure where they were taking us – it felt like an important, hidden place – but before the journey began, the shark I was riding starting talking to me telepathically. One of the things he said was that he had something he wanted to give me and then something like a crystal appeared with two other stones. I looked at the crystal and it had a blue eye at the center of it. It was flatter in shape and clear all around the eye. The other two pieces looked similar to ancient petrified wood, but in a rounder stone form. They seemed like keys for the travels ahead. That’s all I remember.

On symbolic levels, this dream journey felt reflective of where I’m at with my personal growth journey. Perhaps finding a way to navigate new or challenging situations with grace and courage…harmony with, acceptance of, or overcoming fears is something I found when looking things up around being with peaceful sharks. Yet it also spoke to me about the new path ahead into the depths of the unconscious and unknown realms to rebuild from the core out, but having the tools/keys to unlock the way and the protection of highly attuned help to guide and assist. I do believe this is true for us as a collective.

The night we returned home, the shark dream was different. In this dream I was braiding my hair into two braids – one on each side of my head. There’s an ancestral and ancient wisdom symbolism to braiding hair. It’s a weaving of knowledge and sacredness into braids, as well as reflects resiliency and interconnectedness. The three strands can stand for mind, body, and spirit and to me are also duality coming together into a third integrated strand of harmonious unity. Doing this act felt preparatory to the experience upcoming.

While I was finishing to braid my hair someone came and said they needed to take me somewhere. I arrived at a facility that was by water’s edge. I quickly learned that the waterways surrounding this place were filled with sharks, separated into different areas, and there was some kind of process where people were being told to carry raw meat to the edges of the sandy areas and wait for the sharks. The sharks would smell the meat and come in fast and take the meat from the people’s hands. Sometimes they were so fast that they would come up onto the sand at full speed like a motorboat beaching itself.

There was something around bravery with this and looking fear in the eye with love…standing there knowing you were calling in a shark and that they would be coming at you and taking the meat from your hand, and trusting that you would be okay and only the meat would be taken and not your arm or more. And yet this experience could be different for each person, as I sensed something was based around your purity of heart and how well you understood the principles and dynamics at work. It reminds me a lot about sacred rituals in ancient times where training like this was implemented for alchemical mastery. How one embodies vibrations and learns to master the Cosmic laws, foretells how they will experience the world around them. It can also signify the difference between cause and effect and knowing how to vibrationally align oneself with the experience of choice. So, this dream was initiatory in feeling and highly attuned with deep trust and conscious awareness.

Sharks are one of the most ancient and evolutionary groups of animals on the planet that have been around over 450 million years and were the first vertebrate predators. I do have a couple of fossilized shark’s teeth a friend sent me that she found, and that are now part of my second crystal grid.

And I just realized that recently I was drawn to get a pendant that combined a couple of small raw stones – green tourmaline and aquamarine – with a larger fossilized Megalodon shark’s tooth. Megalodon sharks lived between 3.6 to over 20 millions years ago. This pendant supports transforming fear into love and is a shield and guide on one’s journeys. The elements of the pendant were integrated to “narrate a story of travel, protection, and joy, harmoniously unified in conscious design and intention.”

There’s always a reason we feel drawn to certain things. At the time I felt very connected to the protective power and strength of these ancient sharks and for what I felt to be embarking on. I wanted to intentionally invoke that power in my life, as I felt it would be needed. I can see now that they are working with me to support the next level of my journey I was ready for and calling in.

Anyway, these bookended shark dreams feel very significant in terms of rebooting experiences and I sense, like with the other animal spirit guides featuring prominently these days, and the messengers who are speaking through them, that we have many powerful comrades to help navigate the new realms we are evolving into. Many of them are unexpected, but are showing us new and integral ways that are important to understand and implement.

The sharks speak to our ability to adapt to life’s challenges with precision, courage, strength, primal power, and resiliency. They teach us how to rule the deep watery realms of emotions, shadows, and the subconscious that are outflowing fast and furious these days, so that we may transmute these and recognize and embody our innate power and highest potential. These are the realms calling our attention now and are the most challenging to work through because they don’t make sense to the mind. You can’t simply logic them out. For this reason, the mental realm is far easier to grasp. The feeling and unspoken realms are where integrated mastery lies.

The shark collective encourages us to unwaveringly believe in ourselves and unleash these origin forces we have ability to harness. They seem to be saying that there’s an untapped power locked within that is ready to rise and as we meet change with fearless flexibility, we can learn to navigate the incoming currents of uncertainty with confident grace and become our own unstoppable, creative force of unification.

We have a Virgo Full Moon Lunar Eclipse upcoming on March 13th PST and 14th EST. Despite the challenges and struggles collectively unfolding, dreams and intuitive guidance keep pointing to so much potential and the ability to align ourselves more consciously with the changes.

Grounded innocence is The Fool’s card wisdom and superpower. It’s not blindness, but the ability to see beyond what the mind and ego fears. The willingness to take new risks and shift your way of reacting to others who prefer you to join or take a side, can lead to creating new doorways for us all.

Can you tell I’m in an extra silly state of mind?

If you look up the meaning of bibbidi-bobbidi-boo you’ll see it defined as a “light-hearted magickal incantation” to transform someone or something, and of course we know they were the magickal words used and sung by the faery godmother in Cinderella that mean basically the same as abra cadabra. For what ever reason – probably because I was feeling to make things light and fun – these words came to mind right away when I felt called to share this message today and it perfectly chimed in with rhyme for this life’s Earth year age I just turned.

Whether you’re a fan or not of Disney’s Cinderella, I bet many of you still know that song like I do and, at the least, feel the words to be a silly sweet way to integrate magick into our lives with lightness and joy and to experience transformation as enchantment.

It’s, again, about perspective and having a willingness to soften our hold on ideas and beliefs that may be limiting our capacity to enjoy the gifts of life we do have and our instant ability to transform them.

Shifts, miracles, and changes can happen just like that – add snap of a finger!

My birthday felt like this for me – light and joyous and yet also fully transformative in a very magickal way. One moment I was on one side of a door, and the very next I was on the other. It was as if someone waved a wand and invoked a little bibbidi-bobbidi-boo.

And they did – me, that is.

This came as a result of my partnering in the dance of alignment. I leaned into and swam with the waves of energy I felt rolling through, rather than crossing my arms and trying to anchor my feet on the bottomless ground and getting thrown around in the waves trying, or struggling to swim the other direction against the current.

I also did it by invoking my conscious cocreating ability with the cause, rather than believing I was the effect of someone else’s doing.

Magick is what magick does.

You are the magick realizing itself in every unfurling moment.

Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo is conscious being – instant and miraculous it can be.

I’ve felt strongly guided not to do anything new until after the fresh cycle kicked in and to just stay focused on endings. Slow and steady without missing any details. And by doing this, I did wake up on my birthday feeling completely different and I started seeing everything in a new light that felt easier, more fluid, and extra freeing – providing me even more possibilities I found myself open to.

And just like that a new cycle ignited, and another year of Earth walking began.

Fifty-two, here’s looking at you!

Having the energy of the 27th’s Pisces New Moon building up (the day after my birthday) amplified all of these feelings personally for me. Yet, I’m sure many of you have also been feeling these energies too, and maybe even a boost in terms of connection with your dreams and feeling they are worth putting conscious efforts toward. And if not feeling these things yet, you may notice an increase in desire around things you want and wondering more about their possibility.

Let your mind wander and imagine. This is the path to manifesting – visualizing and allowing your creative power to fill your cells with resonance for attracting the like to that which you envision and feel.

There’s been a sense of relief in the days leading up to this doorway. The build-up anchored in a knowing of how I would like the next phase of life to feel like. The way it looks doesn’t matter as much. As long as I keep sight on, and embody the essence of, how I want to experience the feeling of life, then I know the perfect reflections of that will unfold.

We’ve had Spring-like weather here all week – in the 50’s – so we’ve been able to go on hikes.

This is the first time since living here that we have such warm temperatures and that we haven’t been immersed in snow at the house on my Winter birthday. And although I love Winter wonderlands, this feels like a reflection of vibrant new birthing with my #1 year cycle activating – shaking things up a bit!

Interestingly, three days before my birthday we went on a hike and found a nest! Yep, another one – that makes fourteen.

Not long after the nest find, we pulled up to the grocery store and Dave went in to get something quick. As soon as he left, I watched a very large hawk swoop down to the creek in front of me, feet first with a splash. I’ve not seen that before. The hawk then flew up to a tree branch and perched there for a couple of minutes before taking off.

I thought both were pretty cool things to experience in symbolism right before my birthday.

I baked myself a cake after this hike, find, and sighting, since I knew we’d be out all day on my actual birthday. I made a simple vegan vanilla cake with vanilla icing (my fav) – but a super healthy version. The cake had no oil or butter – apple sauce instead – and I used monkfruit sweetener instead of sugar. There were basically only eight ingredients – flour, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla, apple sauce, water, distilled white vinegar, and monkfruit. And the icing was made with only soaked cashews, soy milk, vanilla, and monkfruit sweetener too. It turned out yummy and with the strawberry slices on top it was actually very much like a strawberry shortcake – my favorite throughout my childhood. I decorated it simply and voila!

For the actual day of my birthday, we planned on a special hike. It was what I wanted to do for my own kind of celebration. Originally some friends of ours had wanted to do something with us to celebrate and so we invited them along. I wondered about how that would unfold, as we’ve only done this hike one other time before on Spring Equinox three years ago. It was a very sacred kind of time.

Well, the day before my birthday our friends had to cancel and instead we made plans to meet up with them for a late lunch celebration afterward.

It was obvious that for this particular day we were meant to go ourselves.

Being that it was such a sunny, warm day it made it possible to get down to the high desert and enjoy what would there be a 60+ degree day.

My birthday choice was a hike where I could do one of my favorite things…rock and crystal hounding …see what All That Is had in store for me.

We had a beautiful day with perfect weather, not a soul around, and incredible gifts to discover – some of which felt to be placed like Easter egg treasures to find.

Even Dave had a great time exploring and finding gifts and we both enjoyed the different scenery and warm desert wind carrying so many whispers.

We felt like we were being watched from the canyon walls.

Petrified wood, agate, jasper, chalcedony, selenite, and a whole variety of mineral and crystal amazingness around every corner, including volcanic beauties along with the incredible terrain and sights to take in.

I don’t know what all of the specimens are that we found, but honestly I don’t much care as I just love their beauty and energy.

It’s such a gift to find things myself and know that no one else has touched them but me.

Just look at some of these!

The really special finds of the day were petrified agatized wood, which I have never found. We also found some petrified wood with chalcedony and some that are white opalized.

Talk about abundant ancient earthen energy.

These are 2 million years old.

The area used to have an ancient lake from the Pleistocene period.

I just love the energies of this area – so raw, wild, and full of ancient and ancestral wisdom.

The petrified wood, in particular, feels perfect for the rebirthing of a new Earth experience because the life force flowing through them carries cellular frequencies of what’s necessary for growth, renewal, and knowledge to learn from, rebuild, and strengthen resiliency.

I feel that the ancient Earth and Cosmic rich energies are key right now and this is why so many different kinds of crystals and stones are being unearthed and discovered at this time from new locations and sacred spots on Earth.

And speaking of Easter eggs and rebirth, just look at what we found!

An abandoned fully in-tact egg.

That really felt symbolic to find on my birthday and to hold in the palm of my hand.

It was a great day!

And the energies have continued to feel fertile.

It felt SO good to have the sun touch my skin and receive a nice rosy glow in Winter.

It was a perfect T kind of day!

Yay!

In the meantime, we continue to hear the calls of coyotes and experience nightly beautiful and varied colored sunsets through the forest out back.

And during the last few weeks I’ve had a couple more odd things go on with systems within my computer, which we both cleaned out and gave reboots to, but definitely reflect the same thing I’ve been doing – out with the old and in with the new. I didn’t need a whole new computer – just needed to refresh the inner workings to clarify the path ahead.

There’s no need to rush into things right now, as we’re still in a period of restoring and recalibrating with slow, but stead momentum. And it’s better not to, since energies are moving fast. Tending to the details that create balance will help nurture a more sustainable progression when things are ready to leap.

You might ask yourself, how do you want to show up in the world and embody the energies streaming in that would also be the butterfly kisses to your own heart?

Be curious as to where your inner voice is calling you to lean into more. These whispers or loud calls, which ever the case may be for you, are indication of alignment readjustments that will do your body, heart, and soul good in the coming days, months, and years.

Like our beautiful Earth, we too are undergoing a massive shift. She’s not the only one revealing her true feelings through the waves of weather or deconstructing changes she expresses.

We all could use a good nurturing purge to rebalance and recreate.

I used to share Lee Harris’ monthly Energy Forecasts, but since I don’t anymore I did want to share a few things he said in his last one that stood out.

He reiterated the message I shared above calling it “the slow lane is the fast lane right now” and that many may still be in a recovery or rest period in order to learn new and enduring ways of showing up in this also very new world. So it’s okay if you’re in recovery mode…keep up the step-by-step and know that this will lead to jumps later.

He also spoke about “dimension jumping” which feels accurate for me too. I’ve continued to have a lot of moving in and out very quickly between dimensional experiences and many times knowing that I’m in a parallel reality and snap back if someone calls to me. I know that’s others experiences as well. There’s nothing wrong with you if you are going through these shake-ups of reality shifts. It’s going to become more seamless as time goes on.

I absolutely loved him stating how “boundaries reflect alignment“. What a perfect way to explain why boundaries are so necessary in knowing clearly your yes’s and no’s. This isn’t selfishness. This is resonance and dancing in alignment with the collective.

And the last key note I wanted to share from his March Energy Update was his expressing that a widespread experience will be happening around your latent gifts lighting up suddenly. He stated these as “either talents or abilities you used to possess, but had been long forgotten, or past life gifts that you didn’t know you had, but are so effortless when they appear in your life”. And he went on to add that these would happen very easily. There will be “no thought involved or teaching necessary…it will be sudden and surprising and maybe even shocking” how these gifts come out-of-the blue in being experienced.

I felt a huge a-ha when I heard him say that, as it was something that’s been coming to me strongly in the last months especially, that I could feel this would be happening and how easily it would appear. It came in snippets of parallel experiences I saw and could feel it with all of me even though I didn’t know how.

Yes, the time is now and in the coming months, more and more of us will experience these sudden openings of our innate gifts lighting up on the board. It will seem miraculous – like a bibbidi-bobbidi-boo wave of the wand, but it of course was always who you were. This will especially take place in the psychic/intuitive realms for many.

There are a lot of things to be excited about and that give rise to more hope.

Don’t be afraid to keep believing and immersing in imaginative curiosity.

What if?

And indeed it will be.

Ending Notes:

I’m going to be away a bunch over the next several months and so commences some of the upcoming shifts in how I spend my energy and time. I haven’t yet a clear idea how things will evolve here on my blog, but I’ll get a better picture of that as I keep moving forward into the new. One step at a time.

I will be immersed in a little family getaway starting today through Thursday while Dave is on a ski trip with some friends.

Dave and I will be leaving for a long trip together, soon too. I’ll update things on that as the time approaches and I get a better handle on how things are going to look on my end with my focuses.