Tania Marie

The brilliant stillness is so alive and potent.

I love that about Winter.

Her landscapes stir something within me that is so incredibly enlivening. 

Blankets of white, frozen lakes, stark trees, snow beings awaiting the kiss of enchantment, an empty bench that desires reflection…they all invite the emergence of spirit to feel most welcome in the realms of embodiment.

The energy of water communicates powerfully through Winter’s domain and mirrors both the oceans between land here on Earth and the Cosmic waters between the worlds of beyond.

Winter invites extra inward nurturing and places value on that which is not always seen, but is still deeply felt. This, in part, is the louder quiet I feel, while deepening and listening is happening on new levels. The watery realms are those that call for feeling and emanating that which is felt within, without. 

In the stillness I am empowered because everything becomes crystal clear. To walk in the presence of silent being speaks volumes and radiates in emboldened ways.

This place of stillness is also a powerful way to tune in with yourself and how you feel guided to join your heart and intentions toward the things unfolding all over the world that tug at the heart.

There are many spots on the globe going through drastic experiences right now and as I shared with a dear friend, for me deepening into gratitude and holding peace as an anchor is how I feel called. During these kinds of tragedies, which for me is also akin to losing our fur babies, I’ve found myself in a space of embrace.

It’s hard to explain. I feel many things that transmute as I walk through the fire with others to help get them to the other side, but it comes from a place of strength and peace. I stand in and radiate my inner light even more, and give in ways that inner guidance aligns me to for the highest good and intention, discerning as I go along and honoring my energetic boundaries, which then reveals the true strength I have to share most compassionately.

Sending continued prayers, healing and supportive energy to all in need.

I join with many of you who also work in the ways you feel guided to offer lifelines for collective renewal.

Our cells know the secrets of renewal.

We each have an incredible storage house of wisdom within the very cells of our embodiment. Each cell is like a library unto its own with volumes of intelligence to impart about the Great Mystery of consciousness.

Knowledge awaits you in other portions of your being and it’s not just by exploring your dream state, but also by exploring your waking reality in courageously conscious ways.

To live more consciously is to be more present and curious – to awaken from cruise control that’s been programmed into your acceptance.

Stepping into empowerment can be about releasing all that doesn’t serve your highest good anymore so that who you really are can step forth from the shadows.

This is a process of unraveling what and who you aren’t to reveal your true nature.

To radiate your frequency is exquisite shine.

This isn’t about trying to fit an idea of beautiful. Radiating is embodying the eternal beauty of unique life force energy that you are as spirit in body, instead of trying to become something.

You may need to learn how to find peace with the in between, as Nature does so brilliantly – the space that is unfolding as you refine these things within yourself. We’re so conditioned to only honor and see as success some end result. While all the while, we miss the beauty of the spirit unfurling human wings.

It’s about surrender.

Discover peace and gifts in each phase, emotion, and experience…for they reflect you’re being alive.

Learn each day to fall in love with your life a little bit more by deepening into each little thing you do and experience as a miracle to even have opportunity to feel and know.

Savoring the human experience enriches the time you do have here and highlights the meaningful things that matter.

And cultivating more connection, harmony, community, and enriching bonds cultivates greater compassion and shared power toward change.

The above and below photos (we took two so that Dave could be in one of them) are from our first Meetup of the new year we hosted this weekend of old and new friends. Dave and I started it when we moved back to Lake Tahoe and is the way we’ve cultivated rich friendships and continue to build connection.

Personal Updates:

The 8th and 9th brought a couple of extraordinary gifts to both Dave and I together and to each of us individually. Things we put intentional energy toward came into being in miraculous ways. Huge gratitude poured through us and I also have to say that it was both massively empowering and relieving to witness and experience the trust I have devoted into the energetic work and committed belief.

I mention the days this took place, as perhaps collectively there was significance for others as well in similar ways, to include a balancing of energies that unfolds for collective anchoring in needed times.

For example, I learned that one of my dearest soul family friends did an incredible Supergrid at Whaleshead in Oregon with Tahoe quartz I sent him, along with a very special star being connected to Astrid that also moved on to him on one of these days. He had some big activations and clicks lock in with this and told me about it just minutes after things manifested here. We knew our grids were interlocked together and spreading waves of new energy across the collective. We’ve been working for years together on anchoring grids and energies across the globe with others.

This continues to take place with so many of us – realizing that the things we’ve been called to do and have worked toward, are being mirrored by others, and the reasons we felt guided to do them are starting to provide answers for why we felt called to them in the first place, while simultaneously are starting to take effect.

Here at home we’re also experiencing not only the large flock of doves I mentioned in the last post, but our house has basically become a bird sanctuary – increasing by the day. We literally have like a hundred birds that have for some reason all made our house their heart home too. We watch in awe the varieties each morning bustling around in large groups, as well as fly overhead. We had a big family of woodpeckers yesterday, along with doves, Steller’s Jay, chickadees, nutcrackers, and others all surrounding the house. Dave went out on the deck and fifty plus different birds took off in all directions. We have ravens, geese, hawks, and owls hanging out or doing flyby’s. Something’s up.

But regardless of what exactly that is, there’s always a sense of peace and so much that I recognize as blessings and messengers in disguise.

The enormity of gratitude that fills my heart is bigger than the word gratitude holds.

And I let that feeling seep through the tapestry, alchemically.

Today’s Cancer Full Wolf Moon feels aligned for today’s message and also to share a personal update that affects offerings.

But first, here’s a look at the soft baby pink and blue sky surrounding the glowing, nearly Full Moon last evening.

We were greeted by this beautiful sight after exiting the church where we enjoyed a local Baroque symphony performance. Being that this Moon highlights the emotional landscape, I thought the colors were a gentle reflection of how we can be with ourselves and others more during heightened periods of feeling.

Reminders for this Moon, but also in general may include:

We have opportunities to respond to things differently and not get swept up in the triggers.

Emotional security is cultivated from the inside out.

Ego can use a gentle hug and deep breath.

Patience and conscious harmony are helpful to practice while feelings can get stirred.

Circling back now to the personal update, as I surmised and dropped inklings about at the end of my last post, my timeline has shifted since that share.

So much so that I’ve had extra time to initiate some of my intentions for this new cycle, including more fun baking and creative cooking again – like these vegan blueberry, gluten free and only sweetened by monk fruit scones you see below.

Originally my cut off date for taking new registrations on any offerings was 2/26 – the doorway of endings and beginnings in my personal cycle. However, things have changed quite a bit and while there’s still 44 days until then, I’m needing to close the date sooner.

I am at my personal max of registrations, which includes those of you who have shared intention to register. If any of the latter of these don’t end up committing, then I would be open to accommodating a new request. But I can’t make any promises and I figure if there had been a strong desire, then I would have already heard of intentions.

I feel peace in putting things to closure and am honoring my own boundaries right now, which will assist me in showing up stronger and transitioning things more quickly as well.

As I finished writing that – no joke – three big, healthy coyotes that looked like wolves bolted through our back forest like I’ve never seen before.

Once you commit to something and align yourself to match the vibration of it, things rapidly move and change.

I’m so grateful to everyone who has put your trust in me to walk with you along these paths now and all the years leading up to now. It’s been an honor.

And in closure of updates for today, there are just two remaining crystal beauties from the last release and some of the Tahoe quartz as well. This includes a potent golden avian dragon quartz and magickal spirit quartz (aka faery quartz) that work well with current energetic landscapes we are navigating.

Crystals may be the only thing I continue to offer for a while when and if they guide me to. Keep an eye out, as these drop when inspired and I do sense a few may hit in the next week or two. You can keep updated at this link, as I spontaneously upload even before I announce things: Crystals & Crystal Skulls

Watching the colors of sunset emerge from a hole in the sky between the majestic peaks and dark purple gray clouds above the lake through the trees, I see fuchsia, magenta, gold, and tangerine all dancing together. They do so with individual brilliance and joyously as a unified celebration.

They send a message of vibrational resonance to my heart, reflecting the importance of embodying the energy you desire for this year and onward, as these frequencies will act as your alignment navigator.

What are you feeling called to walk with?

What are you here for?

Questions like these may seem daunting if you feel overwhelmed with stimulus that fogs your thoughts and emotions, if you feel inadequate and like the answer must be something extravagant to be meaningful, or if you’ve never really sat down to ask yourself what moves you in the first place.

Where it may have seemed like you were building and in limbo for so long in previous years, the new is here now for the embracing. Grabbing hold of the energy stream you want to ride will take you out of inertia.

Maybe it’s time for a new mantra.

Perhaps something as simple as “I allow myself to receive” can begin the rewiring.

Spring may be the official renewal season, but Winter and this first month of the year can cultivate and lay the groundwork for what you do in fact want to start seeing bloom.

Regardless of it being a new year, it’s always a great time to touch in with yourself and see how you’re feeling about things, what you do and don’t like, and what intentions and visions you’d enjoy experiencing.

Is this the year you follow your truest heart calling?

Is this the month, day, or moment you click in a brand new commitment to some step toward one of your goals?

Maybe it’s simply the year you shift one or more limiting perspectives to more expansive ones, or create more balance between how much you give and receive if one outweighs the other.

What would you like to lean more into?

Committing to listening more to your intuition?

Allowing yourself to rest and just be?

Slowing down and going more within?

Stretching outward more and accepting invitations or extending some?

Celebrating your unique, magickal self?

Expressing gratitude more?

Immersing more in playfulness and imagination?

Just a couple of days ago I was doing my usual singing and talking to myself with made up stories that induce laughter. Dave looked up and said with a laugh, “You’re like a 3 year old little girl just going on and about things that make no sense to anyone else for no reason at all.” He continued to laugh, finding it amusing and endearing he added.

I said to him, “Well, then I know I’m in my essence because this behavior hasn’t changed from when I was actually 3 years old. I was doing the exact thing then. Sitting in my room playing with my stuffed animals and toys, creating an imaginary world, while talking and singing out loud, giggling, and completely in my joy, all on my own. In fact, my parents thought it was so cute then as well, that they have recordings they made of me amusing myself that they have still to this day.”

One of my intentions is to strengthen this connection I have to who I really am and one of my commitments is to my essence.

Where I might have in the past felt judged, or judged myself about this, or perhaps thought I should tone it down when around others, I’ve now amplified even more and plan to continue to.

I’ve said to Dave on other occasions recently, “I sure do have fun and am happy. And in a world that doesn’t always have a lot of that being expressed or where so many other emotions or fears are flying around, I’m grateful to be the way I am.”

I feel the more we brave up and support each other to brave up to being exactly who we came here to be, the more this will spread into a new natural conditioning of essence excitement across the globe!

And for me, this isn’t just about amplifying my playful always-inner child, but amplifying the gifts and powers I suppressed or kept at bay for various reasons over the course of my life. No more subduing.

Something that may speak to you as well for this new cycle might be to create a personal practice that you commit to implementing daily this year.

Of course, it’s great to be flexible and gentle with yourself when it comes to goals, but it’s also supportive to create ways to engage yourself more so you do actually want to do, and enjoy doing, the practice you put in place.

Sometimes you just don’t know how much you’ll enjoy something until you actually start doing it. It’s easy to create a story around things and then play out what you fear. But it actually is just as easy to create a different story and play out what you want. It takes a little momentum and practice to make something stick, too, as well as make something become your new natural.

Nothing you do now came overnight. Whether you do something you don’t like or like, it all took practice and conditioning to get there. And so, it takes the same to get somewhere else.

This doesn’t have to be hard. Make it fun. But I assure you that once you do it just a few times and start feeling the truth of it in real time experience, rather than think about the story of it you made up, you will be happy you started and grateful you didn’t put energy into the worry or fear.

Start now…start over. You’re beginning from a place of experience. Probably many years of it and you can definitely find your process for successes there. Maybe you’ve just been amplifying the challenges or places that didn’t go the way you want more, rather than realizing how much you have actually accomplished.

This is one way to start making changes. Amplify the perspective that sees what you have created in your life. Become your own cheerleader to replace the voices of those who may have tried to pull you down. Take back your energy and take back control of your life.

You aren’t actually starting from a blank slate. You have tons of experience to pull from. Highlight those areas and utilize the process that made those things work.

You have so many answers locked within you. Letting them out is a form of self value. You have much to be proud of and so much innate wisdom that just needs your desire to interpret it.

Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t always easy, but remember that you learned some of these comforts as a form of coping with, or making up for, things you didn’t like – not just purely because you wanted them.

Curiosity around things can lead you to answers, but of course that too, is a choice. And where ever you find yourself choosing, is perfect and unfolds an equally perfect experience. You need only to make new choices if you commit to a desire you have to change something.

It can be powerful to simply ask yourself, “What do I need?”

Sometimes we’re afraid to state what it is we really want. Now is a great opportunity to vulnerably ask yourself this question and speak it out loud. Once you voice your feelings, they are no longer operating subconsciously. When triggers take place, they are many times an invitation to say how you really feel and to compassionately voice your truth. When something is heard, then it can be addressed and guides you to the root of things.

Good communication isn’t just about communicating with others better, but communicating with ourselves more clearly as well.

Again, everything unfolds perfectly and in divine timing. So, there’s no need to judge where ever you find yourself along the journey.

Experience is experience. How you interpret it, makes the only difference for you.

For me, I’m choosing different experiences moving forward. This starts with creating an organic list of things I want to focus more on. Some of these things may be altogether new, some may be a strengthening and increasing of frequency for something I already do, or it may be resurrecting a deep seeded passion and soul purpose.

This will then evolve into a baseline framework for my days to look at ways I can implement all the things I want to do and how feasible that feels. It may start out looking more structured, but I’ll be sure to implement ways to be creative and allow my personal need of flow, while also honoring the self discipline I know works well for me. Eventually, something that seems carved out and constructed will become a new natural and not seem rigid like it might at the beginning. Some things just take some finessing for a bit to find the right balance that works well for all of our needs.

This is something I implement with clients who work with me more regularly. We work at finding the way to bridge where they are to their goal in bite sized morsels that feel more natural in progression because not everyone can just jump the fence.

I do some of both with myself – some finessing and some fence jumping.

I’ll go first with sharing how I started my process to help jump-start ideas for you. There’s no right or wrong way with this.

I haven’t detailed or organized my intentions yet for daily implementation (which eventually will include more specifics and timelines, as well as may simplify or shift what is written here), but here are examples of things I have on my organic, brainstorming list I’m exploring right now that came up as important in some way for me. It’s a way to just flow ideas of what comes to me without filtering and then from here I can then start to define what this means and how it looks for me, as there are ways that things can be incorporated and broken down more:

Engaging all of my gifts and amplifying my essence, more friend and family time, balancing giving and receiving even more, strengthening boundaries, carving out creative anything time, more time cultivating my unique spiritual practices, focus energy into personal projects, more daily exercise, more infrared sauna and massage chair time, more nothing just being time, incorporating some liquid fasting alongside regular intermittent fasting lifestyle, more creative cooking and baking, more backpacking, travel and cultural immersions.

Perhaps you might start with a brainstorming of stuff that pops up as things you just feel called to more, want more of, or that you feel would be more supportive and is your joy or path.

You don’t need to know yet how this looks, or if all of these will actually make your final list, but just allowing yourself to flow with what comes up is the key. You may even find that there’s a way to do something that integrates several things on your list, or that after writing your thoughts out you realize something different, or that what you wrote was merely wanting your attention to shift a perspective about.

I simplified mine as a list of short ideas that I do personal exploration around after, but you could journal more about them and see what feelings and ideas come through with just inviting your desires to share themselves.

It’s a way to invite your heart into your day more and the inner voice that doesn’t always get heard.

We enjoyed a different New Year’s Eve than we have in the past. We’re usually in bed as the change of years take place and haven’t gone out in years to do anything.

This year, good friends of ours invited us over for a fun meal of vegan raclettes, followed by checking out the festivities at the ski resort at their end of the lake, and if we wanted to not drive home, to then stay over.

We embraced the invitation and added more to the mix of the evening’s engagements, even though we’re usually more comfortable snuggled at home. The additions included the idea of a Tarot reading for each other and sound healing bath to end the night.

None of us thought we’d actually stay up until midnight, as we’re all early-to-bedders, but in fact we did, as that’s how the energy of the organic flow of everything unfolded naturally.

The meal was delicious and the ski resort events were actually fun. We loved the idea that they ended at 6pm, getting us back home early and not having to be out at midnight.

It included a snowcat parade, followed by skiers with lights parade, and ending with a really spectacular half hour fireworks display.

We spent half the time inside the lodge enjoying drinks and chocolate, then bundled up to take in the sparkle of colors over the snowy landscape.

It was mellow and easy to get in and out of.

We returned to their home, enjoyed dessert and hot drinks, and proceeded with some really insightful Tarot readings for each of our year ahead that we all supported one another with, and followed that with two of our group working the crystal bowls our friends have and other instruments I brought – a chakra bowl, tingsha bells, Tibetan bowl, and a Peruvian medicine rattle.

We ended up hitting midnight, then went straight off to bed.

We stretched our own usual comfort zones to do something that sounded fun, intentionally aligned, and connective and we ended up having a great time. That included an incredible breakfast spread our friends made for us to kick off the first day of the year.

Even though we were only thirty-five minutes from home, it was a real treat and a great way to savor enriching experiences, people in our lives, and shift the energy into a new direction for the year.

I also waited until the new year to start my skiing.

Dave had gone skiing seven times on his own, where I honored my feeling of hanging back to complete work I’m tying up and just not feeling it yet since the snow wasn’t the way I like it, nor the crowds gone from the holidays.

I then picked up two days of skiing right after our biggest snow storm yet, which in fact did make skiing conditions optimal for my first time out.

One of those days was just with Dave and the next one was with other friends of ours.

I am grateful for our friends who are so accommodating to my own pace, cheer me on, and simply enjoy being with us and sharing the day even though they and Dave are all excellent skiers.

The day shared with friends was mellow with slopes clear of crowds and ended with snow falling and misty white covering the views.

But on our way down the mountain on the lift, Nature parted her cloud veils and gifted us a beautiful rainbow over the lake, smack center of our shared chair with all four of us watching the show. Rainbows are continuously showing up, heralding a theme of new life in progress and coming out of the storms.

Trusting and honoring my feelings proved successful in aligning me with what I like most and making the experiences enjoyable.

Oh, and I actually forgot my ski pass on the second day with our friends, which I didn’t realize until after the attendant scanned everyone’s passes. Somehow when they scanned for passes, I went undetected, or in fact registered even without one, as I actually heard the scanner click four times.

New year, new magickal energies in motion!

In between the two skiing days we opted for a variation and did a longer 6.5 mile hike down in the valley where the terrain shifts from high desert brush, to stone outcroppings, to forest, with sweeping views of the valley ranches and majestic Sierras all around us.

Nature shifts moment to moment, season to season, and from one area to the next with micro and macro worlds all intertwined. She reflects our own divine nature to change as well. We may not all be mutable signs like I happen to be (Pisces), but we have the innate capacity to evolve by our nature of being and the life force that moves through us continuously.

Leaning a little bit more into feeling the energy, rather than trying to control it, can help to align with where the moment wants to take us. Greater ease comes with cultivating this kind of trust and brings us into experience of the highest good unfolding.

It may take some rewiring to fine tune yourself back to your natural essence, but the nature of you will reward your efforts tenfold when you embrace the wisdom there. You can’t see the results from where you stand, but with a little gentle assurance and nudge, you will find your courage growing and the excitement of a new adventure of greater essence to be enriching.

I’d like to end with something pretty special to us that has happened here at our home that Dave and I have been in awe of every day.

We have discovered that a colony of mountain mourning doves has christened our home with their presence and in fact seem to have claimed it as theirs as well. There’s a large collective of these sweet, plump songbird doves that constantly come to our house since Winter began and sit on our deck bannisters, on the deck floor itself, on our window sills, trees, on the ground around the house, or under the eaves of our roof next to our house.

At times I’ve seen about thirty of them. Other times they are in smaller groups of eight or ten. Sometimes as a pair, but usually not alone.

They especially warm up to the house or in our trees when snow storms come.

We find it extraordinarily magickal and feel their presence to be such a gift.

They feel to be messengers of spiritual protection, peace, and love surrounding us in a very big way and I sense they’ve been sent to us for the purpose of celebrating the wholeness of life cycles we’ve moved through – perhaps even from our sweet companions who have transitioned.

They also speak to me of collective guardianship watching over us in these shifting times and especially as Earth is going through so much change we’re seeing and hearing about across the globe. A message of hope.  

Their presence acts as reinforcement of peaceful mourning closure to an old way of life with renewal on hand of a new one. There’s a feeling of purity and grace they bring, as well as such gentle comfort. To know they have chosen our home as their comfort too, is a powerful heart reflection.

I shared a photo in a previous post of one of the doves from a pair that was nestled by our window in the snow storm.

Today I share these – one in a tree covered in a blanket of snow to keep warm during a storm (actually the first time one was by themselves) – and the others of a group of eight all fluffed out in the early morning briskness on the bannisters of our deck.

We noted how they kept vigilance by facing outward in all directions, while nestled into their perches.

We’re grateful for their energy here and love that we have families of so many little ones who have made this their home and gifted us sweetness to cherish long after our babies started the next part of their journey.

I am holding their message of promise and renewal, as we join hearts toward all those in need right now.

There is so much promise and hope in the air.

What eyes do you intend to see this year through?

February 26th is just forty-nine days away and I’m on track – perhaps even will finish early – with my putting closure on everything I intended. For now, I’m still honoring that date as the last day for any registrations in terms of Intuitive Guidance Sessions or Reiki Certification Training. So, if you have intentions around this please let me know, as there’s a chance I could end things earlier.

I added one new year crystal skull star child who is a really special being, along with a golden avian dragon if you love them as much as I do, and a rare peach spirit quartz on Boekenhout jasper matrix that are available along with one, unique Tahoe quartz merging several types of crystals all growing together, to the ones that remain. Crystals & Crystal Skulls

I hope your year is feeling the winds of promising change and your heart continues to open wider.

And if you’re feeling the blossoming forth of new parts within you, too, you may love seeing my giant amaryllis plant.

My parent’s gave us this plant at Thanksgiving to enjoy the blooms through the holidays and Winter. The plant grew two tall stalks with a pod at each end. The first pod opened into five beautiful flowers and the second pod is now just beginning to reveal the next generation of blossoms. I’m curious to see how many there will be.

Amaryllis embody the messages of strength, determination, resiliency, potential, and radiant beauty. Their trumpet shape seeming to announce brilliant achievement at hand or yet to come.

With a new year and such powerfully different energies kicking off, my giant amaryllis feel resonant with undercurrents and speak to incredible possibilities blooming even under Winter’s blanket. My indoor garden is such a joy and feeds constant hope and excitement.

What does that for you?

As we wind down to say farewell to yet another year, it can be a powerful ritual to reflect upon the takeaways and gifts from the past twelve months and previous years, even.

For many it was another tough and challenging year, but with challenges we also have opportunity for growth.

Losses come with gains and emotional depths expand our breadth of compassion and creative expression.

Even death is not an end. It’s a transformation into a new form and way.

While many things may feel final and gut wrenching to the core, these experiences are doorways to embrace more.

The final New Moon of 2024 is today and it’s in the sign of Capricorn making it an opportune time for looking at the habits and patterns you would like to release that drain you of your energy and life force – making it hard or impossible to invest energy into the things you really do want to focus on. This is a time for making room for new experiences and releasing yourself from any type of unhealthy bondage.

It’s also a great time to declare making an idea or desire you’ve long been coveting, into a committed intention for follow-through. Capricorn assists the building and anchoring of goals, yet asks for initiating greater responsibility, courage, and dedication.

Reimagining has been a word that keeps popping up for me in theme for this new cycle. Perhaps it might speak to you too. It’s about envisioning and forming fresh and creative ideas about the way things could be.

And reinventing has accompanied this, where I take the new ideas and visions and begin the implementation of steps to completely transform one or more parts of life.

Everyone will have a different version of what this means for them. For some it might be a different way of feeling about something or doing something that feels hard or scary because you know it will do you good to get over that hump, and for others it might be a whole new life transition. Perhaps it’s even as simple as asking for help, where normally you take everything on yourself to your own demise, or tell yourself it’s not that important because you’ve become accustomed to just dealing with the way things are. One small and timely change or cracking open of the door can be a game changer.

However this translates for you, the energies support momentum toward manifesting a desired goal.

So, what calls to you or has been nudging you over and over?

Maybe this is a year you finally decide to do what you’ve always dreamed of, no matter how scary it might seem now. The energies support big changes and courageous hearts to envision a better future.

For myself, as I’ve already shared, I have a whole new focus and life vision I’m/we’re (Dave and I) putting into motion, which includes both professional and personal aspects. And I intend to do the things I have wanted to with a courageous heart and no more excuses.

Tying up and winding down things to make space for it all has been a process, but feels really good. Saying “no” and “yes” has felt even better these days and will continue to, as I draw more lines and show up bigger for my desires.

For me, the new year kicks off on my birthday in February, since that ignites a #1 year personally. However, Dave and I are already putting in motion plans for bigger lifestyle experiences.

There are a lot of things that go into making changes for sure, but if you just focus on one step at a time, it’s not so overwhelming.

I make an overall list of my big goals and then I make an accompanying list of the steps needed to achieve them, which I then cross off as I complete them. The immediate step list makes things less overwhelming and more digestible. Some things I leave open-ended in time and others I have a date in mind.

I’ve learned that for some things in my life, if I don’t make a hard line on things I may become lax on it. So, I allow myself the space where I know things need more creative flow and I tighten up where I know tough love actually helps me.

Learn what works for you and your process.

You might feel called to create a more formal ritual for this New Moon end-of-year closure. Or, you can simply follow what ever the day inspires.

Sometimes speaking your intents out loud or even sharing them with someone else, can help to make them more official. It’s not really about just doing this kind of thing at the end of the year, but you can make rituals and intentions part of your daily life adventures.

I’ll be sharing more about the big shifts taking place in the coming year as they unfold, but for now I’ll share a walk as seen through the windows of my soul since last I wrote, interlaced with thoughts and messages each experience brought through that might speak to you as themes for the year to come.

The first being the themes of Kindness and Tenderness.

On the 18th we took a walk by the lake, near sunset and Nature’s reflections all around me spoke of these words to my heart.

You can feel the essence and meaning of these words in the landscape and color frequencies emanating from the sunset while breathing in the tenderness.

It doesn’t take much to make an impact. Small acts of kindness go along way – even farther than you’ll ever know, nor need to.

A simple smile, hello, or telling someone they’re beautiful or that you appreciate them can change the course of that person’s life just when they need it most.

You might never know how your little bit of heartfelt compassion will affect someone, but doing something “just because” is where the most value is.

Only the ego needs to understand the result.

The higher self and heart already know the intrinsic value that goes without mention.

May these seeds of love and hope kindle within us all and may we all be reminded that even the smallest acts of kindness can be life changing.

We never know what even just an acknowledgement or thank you can do for someone at the perfect moment, right?

Remembering to view each other in reflection of connection helps us open our hearts even more.

That same night we found bear poop in front of our garage, which felt both like a profound blessing and sign that bear guardian has marked our home with protection. It felt also like bear is infusing vitality and courage into the changes we’re embracing for our life ahead – particularly for me with the new I’m embarking upon.

The next morning coyote was hanging out for ten minutes tracking something in the snow just behind our house.

We watched from the window, as this messenger continues to grace our lives like bear.

In fact, coyotes have been on a huge uptick, as that same night a pack was so close to the house loudly yipping and howling in a fog that came up in the late afternoon. This fog covered the lake fully and was completely immersing everything by the time we got home in the early evening and into the night. The fog lingered well into the first part of the next day as well. There was definitely a Cosmic component to the messengers and the energy lingering in the air.

This followed an uncanny tire incident that both myself and a close friend of mine, who is part of some of the upcoming changes, had on the very same day, just an hour or two apart in different states. Both of us got a nail in our tire. All was fine, safe, and worked out easily for us both. A sign of adapting, becoming even more resilient, and taking things slow to make sure all is in alignment.

We both continued to have coyote experiences following that, and wild turkey encounters (I’ll share later) all at the same time too. These indicating a storyline of messages being sent from Cosmic connections we share on the bigger picture of it all.

And the nights and mornings following, coyotes would continue to wake me up with their howling in the wee hours of the night behind the house and in the morning while having breakfast. This continued on Winter Solstice with them greeting us upon returning home that day from our outings, the next morning, and on the 23rd concluded with two coyotes crossing our path while hiking with Dave’s mom, at the same time a pack was howling from across the lake we were walking by in the middle of the day.

My friend and I have concluded that there’s a portal by me that is connected with cosmic energies streaming through the coyotes as messengers that mirror a hand stitching project she just created of two coyotes.

Art coming to life.

I know not everyone sees or experiences animals or other things in the same way as I do, but I share stuff like this and how it ties in or my personal take-aways, as it might resonate with how and when you have similar kinds of experiences. In this way, receiving your own guidance, message, or confirmation that you might otherwise overlook. Especially if you’ve been wondering about something in your life or even asked for an answer or inspiration.

You receive messages in a variety of ways. Not just the way you think or want it to come. But you are being supported and answered always.

A series of rainbows were also prevalent for us – the most we’ve seen all at once in a long time.

The first igniting the morning of Winter Solstice, followed by a double rainbow that same afternoon that grew in intensity and size while we drove home. Dave snapped this next one through my window as the driver. As we turned on the highway we ended up with the double rainbows right in front of us and filling the sky.

And a couple more rainbows followed, leading up to Christmas.

The intense double one, which I didn’t capture in its fullest because I was driving, reminded me literally of the kind of rainbow you’d follow to a pot of gold at the end of it that a lucky leprechaun might lead you to.

That was the image I got, at least. And it did feel like a promise to our collective future.

The day after Solstice we visited a hot springs in the alpine valley that we never have before, about an hour and a half from our home.

The grounds were wild and beautiful with paths through the forest to get to the pools and views of the valley to enjoy.

The facility that is also a small hotel was quaint and cozy, inviting us in to unwind for the day.

It was a really great way to anchor in the shift of seasons and that bear energy of luxuriating in the sacred domain of the soul.

Winter ignites a peaceful withdrawal into the sacred spaces within.

It’s a space of listening, not resisting.

Where you follow the inner rhythms and embrace the loud stillness that beckons you to reimagine your world.

This is a time and place of tender keeping to surrender to the gentle unfolding of your truth to emerge.

At the hot springs we immersed in relaxing and letting go of everything else, but being in the nurturing waters and brisk, clean air.

I especially enjoyed the cycles of moving between the 112 degree pool and the 43 degree tub under the silent Temple Dome. I was the only one of us who was able to fully immerse in the cold water and be in it for any longer period. I sat in it for thirty to forty-five second slow counts at a time. It was invigorating and became almost addictive in feeling. I would match my thoughts and body to be one with the water with slow breath and embrace. Then return to the hot pool.

There was a warm pool of about 98 to 100 degrees that we spent the longer runs in on floaties, just relaxing and talking.

The rest of our day was spent walking the grounds, enjoying a delicious vegan meal in the onsite restaurant of miso mushroom soups and vegan grilled cheese sandwiches, followed by lounging by the old fashioned wood stove enjoying tea and home made vegan biscotti our friends made.

This is when wild turkey greeted us and tied into my other friend’s sighting on the day of the tire incident. Wild turkeys ran by while she waited for her tire to be fixed, and she sent me a video of them asking if we had wild turkeys here. I told her that we did not where we live, however I heard that there may be some in the valleys, but we’ve never actually seen them.

That is, until she brought it up after her sighting on that very portal connective day we shared.

At the hot springs grounds, I was surprised by the sound of gobbles from the biggest flock of wild turkeys we’ve ever seen.

There were at least thirty, if not more, traipsing through the forest near our path. It was truly a sight.

They continued on down the path and at one point they were running and sounded like they were giggling and squealing. I’ve never heard this sound they were making, but the whole joy of it made me laugh out loud.

Abundance, connection, harvest of gifts for prosperity, and a new, joyous “voice” come to mind.

I always love and feel extra gratitude for the reflections and confirmations that show up all around.

While the season has started off really slow so far, with snow only coming in spurts and melting pretty quickly at lower altitudes, it’s still felt cozy with temperatures brisk and rain coming more than the white drops of snowflakes.

This has enabled us to keep hiking and taking walks, whereas in previous years we’d be skiing and snow shoeing a lot more already.

We were away for two nights at my family’s house over Christmas Eve and Christmas, after Dave’s mom left. We enjoyed our visit with her, got in some time on our own, and then immersed in family warmth for the holiday.

I know not everyone celebrates Christmas, but however you immerse in this time of year, I hope we can all always unite through the boundlessness of love in our hearts, honor the sacredness of all life, and the wondrous expression of our conscious creative spontaneity.

The days we spent with my family were full of love, laughter, inner child joy, and reflections upon the gifts of life that come from the value of our ability to experience, express, and to feel the myriad of possibilities.

We took walks between meals, ate lots of yummies, and stayed up very late playing board games and poker with It’s a Wonderful Life, Babes in Toyland (Laurel & Hardy’s classic with March of the Wooden Soldiers in it), and Christmas with Andrea Bocelli and Friends playing in the background, and enjoyed extended morning sleep.

It was a nice change not having anything to do but relax in the sparkly, enchanted domain that would make Santa envious.

From our hearth home to yours, I hope that the beauty and warmth shared in these photos penetrate to the percolating seeds of your vitality to blossom forth in grandest potential.

You are the splendor realizing your brilliance never faded. You simply may have forgotten that droplets of stardust run through your veins.

Cultivation of heart deepening reflects truly being alive.

Moments and days are fleeting, but one deeply experienced expression can be the wind that makes your heart and soul soar long after.

May we find more ways to nurture beauty in the world and our daily experiences, see the silver linings of things, and especially create connective bridges that merge our hearts’ capacities to love, laugh, play, and believe more.

And may these windows of creative and loving intentions woven into our shared holiday tapestry touch a place in your heart from mine.

This shirt (above) I got as a Christmas gift from faery sis Laura feels like a perfect match for the energy I’m feeling about the coming year.

It reflects the Sun Tarot card and incidentally synched up with my gift to self, which was a Sun Tarot card necklace in the classic Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot style. I always make sure to mention Pamela Colman Smith, the artist behind this deck, as “Pixie” (her nickname) was nearly lost in history until more recent years. She holds a special meaning and place in my heart that means even more to me now than ever.

I’ll let you Google or explore the meaning of the Sun card at the link I’ve added, if you don’t already know, but I think you can surmise simply from the feeling of the image, especially on the pendant of the infant child riding a white horse, displaying a flowing red banner under the Sun ,and surrounded by sunflowers.

And now I’ll leave you with this image, created in playful “T” style hopefully to bring giggles to your heart, as I am forever going to invoke my inner child to share silliness with others in hopes that we can all take ourselves less seriously and laugh our worries away.

This is how I’m inviting the New Year in…with a strong hand hold on opportunities that the new energetic landscape offers and a firm commitment to not being left behind of the adventures that await the open-hearted! I’m not about to let the fun pass me by!

I don’t know where we’re headed for sure, but I’m in!

Are you?!

Hold on to your hats and glasses folks, cuz this here’s the wildest sleigh ride in the West!

Weeeeeeeeeee!

Magickal and fun wishes for a fresh year ahead!

A new chapter awaits you to author its story.

And if you’re still feeling out for a new crystal friend to kick off the year with, there are several special Tahoe Quartz still awaiting a home – again the Tahoe quartz have only been touched by me and proceeds will be donated to rescue rabbits.

Thank you to everyone who’s dancing in the energies with our crystal collective to create ripple effects of new experiences!

See you in 2025!

I haven’t written since November 28th, so today I’m sharing a mix of supportive thoughts, messages, recent experiences, surprise crystal release, and of course warm Winter Solstice and Christmas wishes.

As the year steadily rolls on to the end of the 2024 block, many continue to have diverse experiences and everything in between. While challenges may have presented themselves increasingly this year, tons of growth has been sprouting in equal measure. It’s the way of wholeness. Never one thing happening without the other. Where we focus and how we perceive it all makes the difference.

Events are not predestined.

Every single moment you each have power to change or to change your relationship to it, which in turn creates a different experience for you.

And every action changes all other actions.

Remember that and the power of your choices and actions that support those choices. Something only becomes predestined, if you self-fulfill the prophecy by giving up “conscious” free will to navigate by your own guidelines.

You can easily be swayed, if you aren’t checking in with how YOU actually feel about things and just run away on a story stream someone else feeds you.

Your ability to explore different perspectives, allows you to see and create different probabilities that reflect resonance for YOU to align with. Your experience can be completely different than everyone else’s around you…simply by your conscious will and choices to change.

If this all sounds repetitive, that’s because it is. Some things we may need to keep hearing over and over and from different perspectives, in order to hit that click shift within us at the perfect timing when we’re ready. Until then, we can embrace that where ever we are is perfect, as well. We only need to get somewhere else if we don’t like where we currently are.

We are each presented opportunity, daily, to expand our own sense of identity and purpose.

Purpose is not necessarily some grandiose idea either. It can be the purpose of loving, playing, visionarying, exploring, building, connecting, thinking, caring, feeling, nurturing, and simply experiencing.

We are unlimited creative beings and there’s no part of us that does not embody creativity at its most powerful presence.

And when you reach into other ways and worlds of seeing things, beyond the scope of what other’s would prefer your possibility box to be bound in, you are able to make this moment’s life focus far richer and meaningful.

Make creativity your touchstone for vibrant living.

Or love…

Or peace…

Or compassion…

Or beauty…

Or wonder…

Or what ever ignites a spark to be more of who YOU want to be and how YOU want to show up, create, and experience your world.

Find a touchstone to your blooming heart.

The heart is the gateway to the next level of evolution we have entered.

Even with the type of offerings I’ve provided over the years, one thing has remained a touchstone for me in my work – liberation.

To empower personal choice and highlight how to see that amidst the confusing voices that deter aligning with individual expression is important to me.

I have no intention to have people use me as a crutch. Things I share are to help others to understand and know themselves better and to assist in reassessing their reality, and change it if necessary to align with their own desires and well being.

A word that has kept popping up these days is “elevated”.

We’ve had some uncanny experiences around seeing this service van recently in our area, always showing up right in front of our car. In fact, one day we left the house in the morning and it pulled out in front of us, likely headed to a job. And on the way home later in the evening, it pulled out in front of us again, after finishing the day’s work, to head back at the same time we were. And several other incidents of this van showing up always right in front of us.

I mention it because the company name on the van in bold large letters is “ELEVATED.”

To me it seems to emphasize and speak about rising above things, being able to hover over the clouds where the bigger picture is much more clear and not distorted by the noise of the evolving, temporary parts moving around.

Elevated also points to joyful and elated feelings or thoughts – so nurturing a lightness about things to keep one afloat and flowing along with more ease and grace.

Elevated supports us to reach higher and a great way to do that is to embrace what is while also allowing your tendrils to rise to the Sun to see what other adventures might want to bloom.

And elevated also speaks to me of “next level,” which is a phrase that keeps popping up especially around crystals – in particular the raw quartz I found here in Tahoe – and how we are ascending on the spiral of conscious life.

The day of two “Elevated” appearances, we were leaving for the last of Dave’s eye surgeries – his own upgrade in visual perspective.

That morning, not long after seeing the van, we had a very deliberate encounter with a stag again, which right away took me to my stag dream that focused on the very elaborate, spiraling upward crown of antlers, and encountering several on our recent Yosemite trip.

I was driving, since Dave couldn’t yet with his eye process, and while we were winding down the highway from the mountains to the valley, something caught my attention.

My own hawk eyes spotted a deer coming down the mountain slope on the left, far in advance. I had this feeling that the deer, which I now realized was a large stag, was going to cross the highway – and he did.

I had already slowed down and pointed him out to Dave. The stag descended the slope and started across the other side of the highway, as one other car had just passed. He then leapt across the center divider onto our side just as I had come to a full stop. With a springy gait he moved gracefully on air directly in front of our car (turning briefly toward us) and then proceeded to bound across the rest of the highway with one more giant leap over the side railing down the slope to the right.

Our timing was aligned and it was evident this meeting was meant to be. Deer are crepuscular like rabbits, being most active at dawn and dusk. This was late morning full sunlight. Not totally out of character, but being that we hardly ever see deer around here because they move about discreetly, it was divinely timed.

An invitation and activation of new and transformational paths and adventures of creativity, great hope, and potential unfolding.

They are messengers from other realms and being a stag there are great heights to all endeavors coming to fruition, including deepening of intuition and renewal, abundance and opportunity – again that “elevated” theme message being reflected in the large, crown of reaching-for-the-stars, antlers.

That I saw the stag ahead, speaks of foresight and presence.

Then slowing down to embrace the beauty right here and now.

Paying attention to signs and synchronicities.

Trusting inner senses and intuition.

Listening to all that comes through from the connection with Nature.

Stepping outside comfort zones.

Bounding toward dreams with full heart embrace.

Seeing and creating beauty, being gentle with self and others, and cultivating alignment for graceful living.

Protection and blessings all around, including those that love us sending us watchful care.

Trusting the journey.

Great messages for us all I think.

Bear also continues to grace my life…it’s wild how much bear is with me and I feel we’ve become one.

On Thanksgiving, we went over to our friend’s house to bring and share a meal with him since he’s on his own with his sweet dog. We learned that as we were just turning on his street, a big bear had just made his way off into the forest. That night we were serenaded by packs of coyotes out back – our bedtime lullaby.

On December 8th we heard about a bear running across the ski slope we often ski at our local resort just a few days ago, and collided with a snowboarder. Both were apparently fine, although I hope the bear didn’t sustain any undetected injuries from the hard hit. I watched the video caught by the snowboarder’s friend and the snowboarder kept on snow boarding and was completely okay, even fist pumping his friend later, they said. There’s been several bears running across this particular slope in the last couple of years – once happening just right after Dave and I had done that run and were returning on the lift to do it again. You better believe I’ll be watching for those bears on the slopes, as I don’t want to hurt them. They seem to either enjoy the high energy of people swishing down the slopes and want to be part of it, or there’s simply a meeting of meaning for their trying to get across the snowy forest.

But whether or not in waking life, bears are my constant companions. After a morning of coyotes yipping like hyenas across the back forest, I had ANOTHER dream on the 7th with two bears in it – the night before the snowboarder/bear collision. I actually don’t share every bear dream, or dream for that matter that takes place, but even with the ones I do share, you can see how bears just keep on being with me. Not sure if my dream, in part, had something to do with the bounding bear on the slopes the next day.

They were very playful in energy in this dream. They seemed to be engaged in foraging and just out and about enjoying life. I was by a tree where they were going about this and I was trying not to get in their way, but they were very keen on wanting to be near me. Then at a different point in the dream I was running through the forest to get to something. I was not running away from the bears, but running toward something with great vigor and excitement. I noticed that one of the bears started to follow me. She bound rapidly behind me at my feet and was just as excited. In fact, she nudged me in the butt, to push me on while I ran and she even gave it a lick! And we continued running together quickly toward this “thing,” as she urged me on with joy.

Sunsets have continued to also joyously splash beautiful color arrays across the sky – the most frequent amount of stunning displays back-to-back I’ve seen.

We experienced a big earthquake on the 9th – a 6.8 – about an hour and a half from here that shook the house and rolled quite a while. This followed several quakes in Northern California on the 5th, including a 7.0, that spawned a tsunami warning. We didn’t feel any of those, although my family in Reno said they did a bit. And on the 16th another 3.5 about a half hour away we did feel.

A lot of change is shaking up on the scene and many signs of new energies are simultaneously showing up.

We had a big day of more messengers on the 10th that started off with seeing 15 large red tailed hawks on our way to a hike, a peregrine falcon fly over on the hike, and a bald eagle fly over after the hike. And during the hike, I had the tiniest of mice run across the tips of my toes on the trail and then make her way under some twigs to a hole. No one else saw her until she was huddled in her hiding place before going off into the hole, so I know she had been waiting for and was meant for me. Mice are continuing to also be a potent theme for me over the years since the sweet and miraculous Fiver graced my life with his presence upon our returning to Tahoe to reside here again.

We’ve had very frosty nights and mornings filling the hiking trails with beautiful sights even though we hadn’t more snow fall for a bit.

That helped make hikes still possible, and finding messenger gifts along the way, with little to no snow paths at lower elevations.

It’s kept the snow at higher elevations holding and creating beautiful formations to enjoy, though, as you can see in these photos.

Oh the wonder of it all!

Snow and ice fascinates me and lights my inner child wildly. I just love the crystalline Wonderland of Winter. Perhaps it’s because I’m a Winter and Water baby, but moreso I feel it’s because I believe.

I believe in the magick of it all.

I dream endlessly.

And I hope with all of my heart.

May these photos of crystalline structures we discovered covering the sides of the trail on a recent hike, awaken your wondrous nature too!

But we did get more snow to keep the wonder going…this last Wednesday through Saturday in fact, snow continued each day with the most arriving between Friday and Saturday evening.

We got about eight to ten inches at our elevation by Saturday night – more up above. It continued to snow Monday as well, adding another inch or two.

The heavy Friday to Saturday snow made for a cozy weekend that even our dove friends wanted to snuggle in for. We had a pair of doves nestling in under our deck pergola. One was on the ground and this one was cuddling up to our living room windowsill to keep warm.

The day before, while we were out clearing fallen pine cones from our yard, I came upon a flock of about thirty small birds that were all snuggling up against the side of our house. They all took off when we both startled each other.

But back to Saturday’s snow storm that also made for the perfect conditions for a Full Moon snow shoe out back. In fact, we ended up snow shoeing twice in one day – early during snow fall and after snow fall at night.

This was the landscape in the late morning.

And this was the landscape at night.

For the first time, all the conditions were so perfect.

Dave looked outside and the whole forest was lit up from the high Moon over our house.

The Gemini Full Moon would be at around 1am and it was just before 8pm when he called me to the window. We decided to take advantage of the storm that had stopped, and the natural light guiding the way.

We were so glad we did because it was perfect. The snowy forest was all aglow and everything looked like a faerytale with trees about to lean in and whisper in our ears.

You don’t often get the Full Moon so high, fresh snow that just stopped a couple of hours before, a still night, clear, starlit sky, and silence.

We did our one mile loop through the forest and over the creeks and it was pure enchantment.

So surreal, quiet, and full of magick.

We had the whole illuminated night to ourselves, while everyone else was nestled inside their homes lit up like gingerbread cottages along the edge of the forest.

And yet we were warm too, as the night was calm and our layers were the perfect addition to the joy and wonder kindling our inner fires of delight.

Another affirming nudge to seize the moment, as these kinds of things don’t come all the time and can pass you by.

You only every really have this very moment.

We were so glad we went, rather than deciding it was a lot of effort after already being tucked in for the night. Amazing things do ask of us to meet them halfway.

So, if something calls to your heart, don’t wait too long to make a choice about it.

We heard the call of the wild under the illumination of the Full Moon and off we went.

We’ve been embracing a lot of that kind of calling these days and are grateful for the experiences we met. We have more upcoming this new year that we’re excited for too.

A lot of my time has been like this lately. Many things calling and finding my rhythm within it all.

We have been experiencing full days and have more on the way through end of the year. My guess is I’ll likely get in at least one more post before 2025 rolls in.

But I’ve also been getting in long nights of sleep, knowing the good it does my body to replenish and restore during those deep hours of night travels and peaceful surrender.

Winter Solstice is just around the corner – one of my favorite times of year.

Winter brings us Great Bear Spirit’s wisdom of hibernating in the luxurious domain of the soul. More time indoors, with loved ones and in sacred intention, weaving stories and crafts as the creators that we are, immersed in ritual, resting, and receiving – cultivating the ingredients of more alchemy yet to come.

So, if you’re feeling more inward, quiet, or simply needing to feel your way through things right now, it’s all part of the natural cycle of energy streaming through. Our higher selves know exactly what we need so leaning into those feelings will help sprout the perfect next steps when they’re ready.

As Christmas and Solstice near, I’ve had my soul family nearer and memories strong. All of the dear ones who embodied rabbits in my life have been around extra. Christmas Eve brings thoughts of Joy whose birthday falls on that day (my sweet angel bunny who always smelled like baby powder). And, of course, Astrid and I shared some beautiful Winter Wonderlands together, including my favorite Solstice magick photo of us below.

Never is there greater enhancement of childlike wonder to be experienced, as the sights, sounds, smells, feels, and memories brought to heart at this time of year for me.

And I hope to continue making beautiful memories with the plans upcoming.

We have Dave’s mom visiting, gatherings and outings with friends including a visit to some hot springs we’ve been wanting to do for the first time, our yearly events – Spirit of the Season holiday concert with the Reno Phil and Messiah and holiday favorites show with our local symphony, skiing, snow shoeing, and spending two nights with my family over Christmas Eve and Christmas.

This year we decorated two Christmas trees – one inside and one outside.

I got us a new, small tree that I absolutely love.

My ornaments outgrew my older mini tree so I donated it and got a flocked two and a half foot tree, which I’ve always wanted and it perfectly fit my beloved ornaments to a “T”.

I strung the lights and put it on a stand that I use for one of my plants by the window and it made me so happy.

We did some light decorations around the fireplace too.

And then we decided to decorate this one little tree that sits just behind our house about ten feet from the back deck so that the forest animals and faeries could enjoy it too.

It’s always looked to us like the perfect little Christmas tree and so this year she got her own decorations.

We strung silver beads, golden astrological symbol ornaments, and a few other little bits of sweetness on her and we all were happy – she and weeeee!

We can see her from our back windows and it makes me smile.

Ever since her new transformation, sunsets have been gracing her presence.

And she dances in sweet joy of her fresh snow gown, not long after being adorned.

She’s now in full Winter attire, beautifully matching her flocked sister indoors.

And she even got to dance with the prince all through the night underneath the Full Moon.

So many warm fuzzies floating around and I just love being able to share it with you because that warmth and joy we can each expand within our hearts, helps to expand the same in other’s too.

It’s all about connection.

I also love seeing and hearing about all the creativity, beauty, kindness, wonder, and miracles that happen around the world. It fuels my hopes and dreams and unites us in that beautiful Aquarian community of visionary heart weaving that makes my Jupiter and Venus in Aquarius smile wide!

One of my Christmas wishes for everyone is that you can each experience the one thing that nurtures your inner hope seed and rekindles a zest for sharing your inner light with others.

I have many other wishes too, but I’ll save them for Santa.

May Winter Solstice illuminate wonder and this Yuletide season bring heart expansion.

You are loved.

I’ll leave you with this fun video I just stumbled upon from our first Winter back to Tahoe to live again in 2016 upon returning from our Magick Bus RV life for the nearly two years before that. It’s when we were living in our treehouse up at the very top of the mountain at over 7300 elevation and the year we moved back was an historical snow year – until just two years ago. I happened to look out our vista windows and saw this bear enjoying the snow. It makes me giggle with delight. And it seems to have been a foreshadowing of the bear joy igniting in my life, following many encounters with black and grizzly bears during our road life times that followed the biggest bear adventure in Alaska surrounded by hundreds of grizzlies – I may repost all of that another time.

Enjoy!

I have a really special surprise, end of 2024 release of crystal friends offered with special discounts to include Tahoe Quartz that can be found below at the link. I will let you explore these incredible beauties for yourself in the video shares you’ll find there.

I’ll be donating any sales of Tahoe Quartz through this release to rescue rabbits in honor of my dear ones.

If you’re on Instagram, you’ll have seen that last week I did a raw Tahoe quartz Story Sale release of individual pieces and some grid sets I hand collected out in the alpine wild. It’s far too hard to do the amount of individual pieces I had to share on my website, so I chose that route to be able to get these potent ones out to more people more easily, which feels important. These crystals don’t try to fight for attention. You either see them or not, is how they feel. I’ve added a bunch of pieces and sets at the link too. Again, these are extremely pure, high vibed, next level crystals that only I have touched. I did some info session videos on Instagram to share a bit about them. If you missed those, I have the info bullet-pointed at the link below as well.

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

I also did a Live Sale on Friday the 13th – 12/13 – with Mody Ra. We featured the incredible new red Hatshepsut material from the tomb grounds of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. If you missed that, there are still some pieces remaining that you can find in the two-part live videos on his IG page, or you can reach out to me to get info to you. Mody is also doing a huge end of the year 40% off sale on the Abu Simbel large skulls – biggest discount ever offered. There are 9 skulls of 12 left.

As we near year’s end, I just wanted to remind anyone who was interested in Intuitive Guidance Session offerings that registration for these will close on 2/26/25. This doesn’t mean that your sessions need to end that day, but that claiming your sessions must be done before that date.

This means that if you want to purchase a package, this needs to be done before that date, but you can use your sessions as needed. A great time to think ahead on personal goals, as session packages are still discounted to be of support. Details at link below.

Intuitive Guidance Sessions

The same goes for the online Reiki Certification Training courses. Registrations are open through 2/26/25. All levels 1, 2, & 3 Master Teacher are available at the link below.

Reiki Certification Training

I have two other online courses – Everyday Reiki: Integrating your skills naturally for daily empowerment and Transcending Duality: Exploring boundless potentials as we create a new reality. These are also available and very now-aligned in helping to make your practices a more natural part of your life and to help navigate these times. These are found below.

Empowerment Series

I continue to believe that our strength lies in the nature of our own personal reality.

To me, there’s no more powerful anchoring of consciousness than when we embody the awareness of our own. Everything else becomes easier to understand and navigate through the lens of our individual beliefs, thoughts, and chosen actions brought to light.

Exercises both in physical AND mind expansion challenges uplevel our vitality.

This spaciousness of self awareness via the cellular intelligence that throbs for our attention in every inch of our body, paves the way for a heightened state of being that is more multi-dimensionally connected than we know.

It never ceases to amaze me how much more seamless ideas and experiences become, the more I drop into an acceptance of daily extraordinary as my nature of being.

The more I have no need to explain or understand things, the more I just know – or, better yet, the more I mirror Nature’s flow as the nature of my own.

When I’m in a heightened state of me – forming my awareness and stretching into my consciousness – the more I recognize where strength lies.

It is within the reality I am cocreating.

All others are simply not mine, although I can see how those realities that are fed can permeate the ones lesser nourished. Everything becomes a segue for drawing in what we may not have consciousness around for ourselves, as of yet.

Now, it is the reality I write that is extending golden thread bridges, rather than the others sneaking tendrils into the lesser known parts I once carried within self.

We have an extraordinary opportunity as humans in this particular focus of what we call “time,” to harness great abilities of creative manifestation. There is more intelligence in one cell of our bodies than we consciously entertain as a whole human form as of yet.

It is my hope that we all continue to breathe into that intelligence with spontaneous hearts and minds that are eager to activate creative potential.

It doesn’t come overnight, however it CAN be easier and quicker than we think. Like any change, dream, or goal we may want to achieve, it takes a desire and commitment to walk in consciousness of being.

Last week, we immersed ourselves in a very personally enriching and nourishing, unplugged time away. We, again, were called back to Yosemite – a trip we had planned for a few months.

This time our base would be a cabin in the main part of Yosemite Valley. We’ve only been entering and exploring the east entrance and side up until now. This time we entered through the main, west entrance to explore an area I never have. Dave has been to this area twice before in his earlier years, but for me it would be a daily Christmas morning adventure.

With three inches of enchanting snow hitting our mountain home and much more on the passes, the day before our travels, we had no other choice but to go through the west side entrance anyway, as the pass was closed. It is longer by a half an hour to our destination than if the east entrance had been open.

We were so glad we went, despite some snow and potentially more upcoming, as we were just totally enraptured by even more enchantment we discovered was waiting our golden-hour arrival.

Between Winter’s surprise mixed with Autumn’s stronghold, it was the most beautiful canvas that felt painted just for us.

Everything was like stepping onto the finest of oil paintings from the masters with every single leaf and tiny bit of frost, perfectly placed in the right shadow and light.

Not only did we get to see the vibrant colors of season’s end still lingering in the towering and voluptuous trees, but we timed it just right to also experience leaf-laden landscapes of Bigleaf Maples and Oaks, lining the trails like a carpet of gold rolled out for special guests.

Every moment of our time away truly earned the word, divine, but it was all also extremely nurturing on every level.

Everything was so extraordinarily beautiful and magickal that I couldn’t not share as many of the enchanted windows into the soul of this space and time.

In fact, the photos I snap are my heart’s way of imparting the feelings and energy as an expression of storytelling even before the words come to share, because this is how I experience things – as a whole tapestry snapshot of knowing. It’s only later that I softly pull at the threads to transcribe pages of the book.

As always, for anyone who prefers not to read, the photos I feel provide a story and essence that can be absorbed, nonetheless.

So I hope you’ll enjoy the photo journal of imagination-come-to-life vistas and find yourself swept into a wondrous world of possibility and creative adventure.

We spent our full days immersed in long hikes winding up and through awe-inspiring terrain seeing a lot of the main points of interest that a good majority of people who enter Yosemite would be drawn to.

Unlike our previous immersions, Dave wanted to share these highlights he’d only done himself before he knew me. Whereas, we usually explore the lesser known areas.

However, our timing of this trip was perfect, as it was the less touristy window so the huge Summer crowds were not around – making the experience of viewing the more known areas much more pleasant.

It all also was very pre-holiday warm and inviting.

A perfect way for us to have our own little festive getaway before the main holiday season officially commences.

It was perfect, as it also allowed us time to enjoy the cozy village, our cabin in the woods, long mornings and evenings of good food, warmth, relaxing, fireplaces, reading (which I hardly ever do), and a LOT of sleep.

All of these things were the perfect balance to an extraordinary amount of exercise – especially so on our first day when we found ourselves doing ten miles of super strenuous climbing and descending of 4700 cumulative feet of elevation.

Much of this was going up and down huge rock steps and getting over some icy areas.

It was all worth it for the sights and views, yet even with our amount of daily exercise we were still sore – in a good way. It also made for some really good, deep sleep.

We saw three of the main waterfalls – Vernal, Nevada, and Bridalveil – during this trip.

We also had great, and sometimes unusual, views of El Capitan, Half Dome, and Cathedral Rocks along our treks. We caught sight of some of the courageous climbers taking on El Capitan, as well as the giant heart etched into his center.

The weather shifts offered us a perfect blend of mystical and fantastical to the sky and landscapes.

The dance and bending of light, along with dustings of snow, frost strewn meadows and leaves, crunchy to padded paths, vibrant green moss and giant mushroom collectives, huge golden maple leaf surprises, spirit-etched bark and wood, faery portals, dense and lush forests, rolling rivers and creeks, cascading waterfalls, varied rocks and towering majesties all around, enveloped us in magical realism at its best.

We explored three beautiful hikes that offered the best of everything we could have hoped for.

Our two other hiking days involved seven and seven and a half mile long eye-candy and soul nourishing explorations with 3100 and 2100 cumulative elevation feet of climbing.

So, yes, we did indeed get tons of physical exercise for the body in that was balanced by tons of relaxing and rest – a perfect harmony experience to heighten wellness of being.

To say that our senses were in overstimulation of wonder and delight is an understatement.

We could walk to nearly everything from our cabin.

We even explored a couple of the other main lodge areas, including the famous Ahwahnee Hotel just to see what everything was like.

We also took a look at their menus, as we always like to see what kind of vegan options are offered.

Yosemite Valley Lodge had a Starbucks with this beautiful mural in it, which I smiled at seeing because our first night I dreamed of two yearling bears in our bed that synchronously had a moon and bear bedspread on it. I also happened to choose a bear pendant with tiny blooming dried flowers in it to wear for this entire trip.

Bear spirit continues to be a guiding force in my life for sure!

And that leads to the animals…We were greeted by two giant ravens that mirrored the raven clad flannel shirt I brought with me, when we arrived. They even hopped ahead of us and jumped atop our cabin roof when we made our way to it.

From then on, ravens would be a constant companion to days and walks.

Their giant and knowing presence was a welcome friend.

That first night we were also welcomed back by packs of coyotes howling, the minute our heads hit the pillows. It made me remember the first nights on our previous two camping and backpacking trips in Yosemite. Nights were a serenade of coyote lullabies that rocked me to sleep and made me feel at home in the wild Great Mystery of it all.

On our second’s day hike my hawk eye caught sight of a tiny mouse hidden in the leaves to the side of the trail. Dave couldn’t believe I saw it, given the amount of leaves, moss, rocks, and extraordinary amount of visual stimulation there was all around us to take in.

She was the most perfect and sweet little one that appeared to have naturally transitioned while traversing the forest floor. She still clung to the leaves beneath her and Mother Earth cradled her in a leaf curled around the top of her body. I peeled back the tender blanket of love to take in her full sweetness.

It felt like she had just transitioned either that day or the night before.

I always know that I’m led to find these dear ones in order to give them sacred burial and receive their gifts.

Life is indeed fragile and precious and change can be peaceful and full of promise. Abundant positive changes are upcoming if we don’t lose sight of the process being part of the whole. Pay attention to the little details in your immediate now, as you shape the future and rewrite the past from this fertile space.

Dave helped dig a hole so I could bury her.

Our third day, which so happened to be on the potent Taurus Full Moon – then really kicked things up a notch, as we journeyed across a long hobbit path that looped around a now dry bed where the seasonal Mirror Lake usually sits.

This was the most mysterious of days, as the weather shifted, creating the feeling of wandering through Middle Earth the whole way.

I actually found a small roundish and sparkly gray quartz on this hike, which felt perfect as the Middle Way.

Every trail had varied terrain to enjoy and we spent most of our time in silence, taking it all in. We were alone for most of the hike until we crossed a bridge over what was still flowing of the water, which would normally have filled Mirror Lake.

As we rounded the loop on this day, an elder couple greeted us with smiles from the opposite direction. I instantly felt something about them. They stopped to ask us what wildlife we’d seen so far. We mentioned only seeing a variety of birds and spunky squirrels.

They then said, “Well, just a little way back, we saw a bobcat. This bobcat was curled up sleeping near the trail, on a rock, and didn’t pay any mind to us being right there. It was quite extraordinary.”

Their story felt deliberate and was interesting to us, as not long before seeing them we’d seen two young women, following a couple of single men hikers. None of them seemed in anyway to have noticed anything and in fact were absorbed in other things.

We departed from our brief stop to hear what this couple was so eager to share with us and continued on with our senses heightened.

I just knew we were going to see this bobcat and in fact we did.

As we got to a wider section of the trail, I noted a group of four people ahead who had stopped on the trail to watch what I now saw was moving to our right.

Again, the group being there felt deliberately placed, as if to ensure we saw this amazing creature.

I immediately locked eyes on this extraordinary, giant, wild cat and spoke to Dave to ensure he was seeing him too.

He moved with intention and pause, but not because of our presence or being on the hunt. There was just a deep thoughtfulness to every move that seemed to stretch and distort time.

Dave walked closer and met up with the people who proceeded to talk to him briefly about the cat.

I didn’t pay much attention, as my eyes and focus were completely glued on this mysterious figure before me.

I kept snapping photos, as he moved slowly across the golden Autumn landscape before us and came to sit or stand in stillness several times.

After a minute or two, the people continued on, leaving Dave and I alone with this wild cat.

No one else came the rest of the time we were engaged with him – just the two groups of people framing his position very intentionally for us.

We watched in near disbelief at the size of this cat – he was huge!

Photos do not give context to just how big, but we thought he was at least 50 pounds if not more. We’d never seen a bobcat this size and in fact, we questioned if it was a bobcat or lynx for quite some time. We confirmed later by the markings on his tail that it must be a bobcat.

And to add to size, he moved unusually slow, deliberate, and had no concern that we were just twenty feet away, at most. Every time his face would turn to meet with my own, I gasped and felt that this was not an ordinary wild animal. There was another essence behind his face that was so humanlike and expressive – not to mention, otherworldly.

His face reminded me of a druid, high priest, or even an introspective Santa Claus, with the large, full gray beard of distinction and depth of expression.

He was definitely an elder, ancient soul with vision into the beyond.

There was an understated, silent eloquence in his presence that spoke volumes.

But it was almost as if he was wearing a mask that covered his human form. And that body was so massive, with thick, plush fur, and there was a very pensive state to his walk with very drawn-out pauses. He embodied a humbled and gentle strength and wisdom.

We were there for ten or fifteen minutes watching (it’s hard to tell as it felt so timeless) in this bubble created just for us, while he slowly moved from log to log. The first one he approached, he placed his front paws upon and stood there with his body erect and standing on his back legs alone for several minutes. In this way, he was on two legs like a human peering over and beyond.

Only his ears moved slightly to take in sounds, but there was no concern to us being there. We began to feel like he was an elder bobcat that may be close to transitioning. I also felt like he had slipped through the veils and perhaps was engaged in a different reality or parallel world we could not see. There was a shape shifting and shamanic quality to him. It was all very very strange in a wonderful way to be witnessing.

He then hopped up on the log and sat with his back to us.

It is here he stayed for the rest of the time we watched him and didn’t move an inch. Except for his ear that now and then turned to tune in, he was unaffected by our stare to his back.

I decided to move to the right to see if I could look at his face again.

When I got to my stopping point I noted he slowly turned his head and looked at me.

His eyes seemed off in another world or experience. As I mentioned, he didn’t feel totally in his body – perhaps getting ready to leave it – perhaps more accustomed to the realm he came through from.

I think both.

His look was eerily familiar and warm, although distant. In many ways, I oddly felt like I was seeing a “mirror” of myself in that face, which was strangely comforting. After all, this was a trail around Mirror Lake.

There was a lot that took place in this space the three of us shared on a trail that held several portals I felt. But it was only with me that this being did look straight in, and through, the eyes. I wondered about a fragment of my multi-dimensional self meeting up with me. Or, something else altogether, but it felt like a necessary communion and merging ground where seamless experiences of the extraordinary are becoming ordinary. I knew the importance of imparting what came through.

This being also spoke to me of Father Time, transcending life and death. His presence did indeed impart the continuity of consciousness and that it is a force beyond boundaries. He had slipped through the veils – this “time traveler” to remind us of the balance, harmony, and cycles of life that exist beyond the scope of our focus. Greater experiences are not far out of reach anymore, yet we must be willing to dance in that potential and not allow the fragments of others’ projections to taint our own abilities to see beyond the illusions. Parallel probabilities are something we choose to empower and there is no limit to the potentials we can create. Remember your multi-dimensionality exists whether you embrace it or not. Now is an invitation to live that more consciously.

We decided to leave him alone, as he continued to just sit with his back to us and drift his powerful gaze off into the nothingness.

A wet snow began to fall and continued on and off throughout the ending of our hike.

This was our last full day and it had an unusually fantastic and intriguing ending.

That afternoon back at the cabin, Dave took a short nap while I read my book. I was immersed in expansive thoughts my reading was taking me on when I heard scrambling on top of the roof. I felt it must be a squirrel. I then heard it come down the wall and scurry across the bottom of each window – about four or five – until it got to the one behind where I laid. I never saw the squirrel, but it had to be one.

Then the scurrying sped up and stopped. I then heard a tapping and felt a vibration to the right of me – the opposite direction of where said squirrel had gone off to.

A minute or so after, Dave woke up and as he did I looked across his shoulder and out the window to see a squirrel peering directly at me from the limb of the tree there. My gaze was immediately locked in there, as if our two souls magnetized a bullseye. Again, very deliberately engaging me and all of these incidences really wanting my attention.

I felt very sensory alert and ultra connected to everything.

Not long after, we headed off to the dining hall for our meal – half we brought with us and a vegan pizza we picked up at the window outside.

Right before we were ready to leave, an elder woman came round by our table and was frantic. She was talking with the employees and telling them about her lost cell phone. She, her older daughter, and several employees had all been looking for the phone in the corner of the room where she had been sitting. Dave got up and asked if he could help by calling her phone to see if we could hear where it was ringing from. Her daughter went on to say that that wouldn’t work because her mother is partially deaf and has special hearing aids that are connected to her phone and when it rings, it rings in her ears alone.

This went on – the frantic worry the woman had and employees, as well as Dave searching for the phone. One of the employees was now engaged in alerting the main desk. I remained silent and observed.

We were about to leave when I said to Dave, “I think I’ll go look for the phone just in case. I wasn’t going to, but I feel I should.”

I got up and walked over to the area she said it could only be. I bent down to look under the third chair of one of the tables there and immediately reached out and brought up her cell phone. This all took place in about five seconds.

I said out loud, “I found it.”

Dave asked, “Where was it?”

I told him and said, “It’s almost as if it materialized just for me to find or only I was meant to see it. As how could everyone else have overlooked it? It wasn’t hidden.” He agreed.

I brought it over to the daughter, as the woman had stepped away with one of the employees. She thanked me profusely and said her mother would be so grateful. Right then her mother walked up and her daughter handed her the phone, telling her I found it. The woman was beyond relieved and happy, so much so she asked if she could hug me. Of course I said yes.

Her hug was long and tight and she was beside herself with gratitude. She said, “Everything that’s important to me is in there – all my friends and family’s numbers, my doctor information, and critical things. You saved my vacation, as I was completely distraught.”

We all understood and agreed that it was a stressful thing to go through. Then we joked how it’s amazing the attachment we have with our phones these days and she agreed too.

We gathered our things and we made our way out. She called out “thank you so much!” again.

I had Dave snap a photo of me with the two large bears that greet you at the door.

It felt like the perfect way to end our evening and pre-holiday adventure, held in the arms of my beloved bears that keep guiding me through the spaces of expansion and snuggle with me in dream time.

Having bears appear – my dream, the bedspread, the ones in the Starbucks, and these, all felt comforting to the seamless magickal realism unfolding.

When we stepped outside, a giant raven stepped right up to me.

I can’t explain it fully, what this time away was for me, but I came away feeling extra expansive, highly attuned to things, and experiencing a natural, conscious alignment and merging of wholeness.

Life in these wild spaces becomes extra seamless to me, as if they are a training ground for the rest of my experiences where ever I am.

Yes, that’s it. These nature immersions have become my spaces of instruction, experimentation, and vision quests to receive that which is integral for the coming days.

The best kind of “schooling” for me, as I like things to be natural and a walking adventure or treasure map journey. Things are so easy for me in this way to be engaged and experience the grace of my essence to flourish.

It’s this kind of simplicity I love sharing and bridging with others to bring the complex into a state of knowing and being. Nature helps quiet the ego mind that wants to find comprehension, so the heart and soul can reflect the knowing.

There’s no need to explain here.

We packed up the next morning and began our journey back home.

Yosemite had yet more magick for us, as I noted the enchanted meadows of frost from the night before’s moisture that also added more snow to the mountain tops.

I stopped briefly to snap a few photos of the stillness hanging in the air and coating the ground that spoke volumes.

My stopping, ended up aligning us with seeing a buck shortly after.

I was driving, so I stopped the car, again, to watch his beautiful self walk by.

The buck turned into a buck and doe.

Then two bucks and a doe.

We watched the three of them move about.

The first buck making his way to the creek below where the doe headed first.

Then the two of them engaging each other.

Then the third buck emerging and joining them down below as well.

It was a beautiful sight on this brisk morning filled with Winter’s sparkling approach and the somberness of a closing season.

After watching and snapping some photos to etch all the frequencies into an image I can recall, while I reflected on my stag dream not long before our trip, I moved the car slowly passed the threesome and continued on through the winding majesty of Yosemite to the exit.

Along the fresh snow drive through the park and just outside of it, we ended up seeing a total of eleven deer – three bucks, seven does, and one fawn.

We also saw a beautiful, bushy tailed coyote run across the road in front of us, to head off into the forest.

But the twelfth and last deer made a powerful impact.

It was a perfect, beautiful stag lying dead on the side of the road. My dream of the perfect, dead stag who’s incredible headdress of ascending and woven antlers were gifted to me, came back to mind again.

So many transitions between worlds and experiences, and yet peace is always surrounding all of it and bringing us into a heightened state of awareness and conscious, creative evolution.

May we all find greater peace and creative impetus during the continued transitions we are experiencing as a collective and individually.

And may this photo journal of my time in Yosemite be a guide of inspiration and spaciousness for pause and reflection along the journey.

Perhaps revealing and underscoring the natural state of creative power you hold in your hands to embolden greater realities.

The pink and violet sunset that greeted us back home reflected the softness of my heart petals floating like a sea anemone within the vast Cosmic ocean.

Here’s to already blooming potentials!

As a surprise, you will find new crystal friends have just been released at the page below and they are truly special reflections of the energies to support much of this. They include one of my favorites – singing skulls – plus twin/divine partner energies in a couple of the listings. I think you will love them!

The release also includes the next level of raw quartz Tahoe/ Sierra Nevada finds I discovered with my own heart guidance and hands. Next level means larger and/or increasingly unique, etched (many with starbrary), elestial, formed, included, and rainbow filled. I will have 5 bundles of 22 crystals to kick things off. 2 that you can choose from or 3 intuitively chosen bundles. These are truly beautiful!

These raw and natural quartz hold a lot of wonderful now energy that wants to go out into the world, which is why I was led to so many to be able to share! They have a lot of wisdom and keys to the new realities we’re creating, held in those etchings. I hope you will explore each one with great presence and awe.

Details also at the link along with the last 4 of the first bundles. With Christmas around the corner, these could make great gifts too.

And here’s an update on the beautiful Leandro skull – this special one was claimed before I headed out, but for unexpected reasons the person had to let her go. I can only believe that that means she is more strongly connecting to someone else. She’s quite fine tuned like her rutile inclusions amplify. Due to that taking place during the 11% special, I’m extending the discount. Like with others in the past, this is one of those beings that I see is working with shifting a lot of energy within her cocreator before going home. If you feel that soul is you, you may contact me to explore bringing her home. 

Our crystal friends are Nature and Cosmos’ gifts to assist us in these potentials. My life has received quite an uptick with the grids of crystals that have formed to open the pathways I am journeying. Perhaps you’re experiencing this seamless evolution yourself with your growing crystal family.

Crystals and Crystal Skulls

Each day continues to be a winding road with unknowns around the bend.

So finding your inner peace anchor and path to personal alchemy is going to go a long way in helping you to navigate the twists and turns with greater equanimity.

While I prepare to head out again, I thought I’d share the way I experienced the energetic field over the last week and some of my personal perspectives on how to stay focused and bring idea into creation.

We experienced some more snow on the night of the New Moon and the following eve as well, and it’s been a welcome refresh to the energy of things, as the white sparkles of purity coat the winding down of a season.

The mountain tops continue to hold a white crown, as night temperatures remain in a brisk below-freezing state of Winter-readiness.

I had an extremely full five days following the New Moon while Dave was away on a yearly guy’s trip that included overnight fun with my family. It was a warm visit with mom, dad, and bro, that included morning shenanigans of the quail collective (there are 21!) that lives in their backyard, and their resident hawk.

These are just a few of them as they started to emerge from their morning bush bed.

I could also see my mountain home from my room, covered in the New Moon snow before heading back home into it.

The top of the mountain was hidden behind a cloud.

Once I returned, I then set out on a mission of many “getting ‘er” done hours of nonstop projects I wanted to complete – and did!

One of which was “Project Magick Mushroom” where I intended to repurpose saved tree cuttings from our forest backyard, that they removed last year for fire prevention and defensible space clearing. I had a vision of creating mushroom tables/toadstools out of them and finally got around to this. Dave helped out, before he left, by evening out the stumps for me and cutting rounds from a stump I chose for their perfect size. We did this together and then he used wood screws to get the tops on securely for me.

Even before they were painted they were simply perfect to me. I was so excited.

During my “T” time weekend, I finalized the vision puttying the screws, doing just a light sand, as I wanted them to have a natural, imperfect and rustic feel as much as possible, and then spraying them with a clear coat before painting them.

I then went about creating my Magick Mushroom look in the Amanita Muscaria colors I’ve found since Astrid returned to the stars over the last two late Summers and Autumns.

I love them!

They are now in my Wonderland office and currently holding crystal grids upon them, that will likely shift over time.

And speaking of grids, I completed a big organization, clearing, and gridding of this Wonderland space in the late afternoon of Tuesday the 5th. That’s been such a long time coming, to-do intention on my list and I found the timing of completion being very potent and uncanny.

Part of how I did this – completing things, that is – was by staying focused and not inviting in the outside energies to murky things or distract me.

I find that the most efficient use of my energy is to create, rather than talk about things or allow thoughts of worry or confusion to run circles in my mind. I feel into what my heart wants and I make an intention to match any step toward. Then I set out to bring these things to life, even if that means something like creating a clear, stable, and beautiful space that creates well being.

It feels SO GOOD!

The energy in my important nucleus of the home space is clear, fresh, stabilizing, and VERY POWERFUL. It’s always an invigorating thing to organize, clean, and rearrange/redecorate your space and home. It makes a huge difference!

I celebrated this completion, and all of the others I got done, with two big energy channelings I focused and poured my heart into, inviting all of the crystals and support in to join the funneled intentions.

Literally upon finishing, I jumped in the car and headed down to “The Biggest Little City” – Reno – from my mountain nest to do some errands, visit my family again, and pick up Dave at the airport.

On the drive down I saw five very large hawks sitting on light posts peering down at me. And a last, sixth hawk swooped in and flew alongside my car at the same pace, also looking upon me. Hawks have always been one of my main guides, appearing as sentinels from the other realms at very key moments. They always speak to me of alignment and confirmation that things are in divine harmony and being watched over. 

The sky canvas began to show hints of soft pink and peach at first. This came right after the last hawk flew next to me. And it very quickly began to evolve into a cauldron of gorgeous color spells speaking a vibrational message with each emergence.

Many winged beings appeared in the colorful clouds.

I clearly see a large owl swooping down upon the land in the next three photos. (You can also see her in the above photo, center of the arch).

Do you see her face? It’s so vivid to me.

Her full embodiment and spread wings soaring across the sky in orange kissed vibrant pink.

If you can imagine, the colors were even more beautiful and rich than these photos I shared. And the crescent moon glowed like a Cosmic lullaby humming soft tendrils of starlight serenity to my heart. 

Tuesday evening’s sunset was a spectacular display that reflected for me the creative brilliance of our potentials individually and collectively to forge new realities AND a reminder that the bigger picture is unfolding in divine order behind the scenes.

No matter what is around us, what we think we are seeing, or told in any way, things are not as they seem and can shift in an instant. There’s divine unfolding to things and processes that even the highest of alchemy goes through to become the golden threads of new life.

“Anchor deeply into your heart’s truth and spread its creative love in all the ways you brilliantly have the unique way to do. All is in divine order.”

This was the message.

I’ve also received some potent messaging in recent dreams again. These two, for example, came on the night of the 7th.

The first dream was of a large stag. His perfectly preserved, but dead body was laying before me. He had very elaborate, tall, woven, and ascending antlers going up rather than spread wide – more like a headdress and elongated vessel. I felt very drawn to it and a broken piece that looked like a woven little nest of intricate antlers from the middle that didn’t take away from the main antlers, was given to me. Not long after, I was gifted the whole set of antlers that grew as one unit. This came after my wishing I could have the full piece…and so I was given the whole.  

A bear dream followed. It took place in a partially snowed landscape. Everything is very peaceful and almost joyous like people walking around at a festive time of year. A man was carrying a dead animal.. like a dog or coyote. I wasn’t sure how this happened. He was walking away with it. There were people all around these wooded areas near a town. Suddenly I look up and notice a large bear is dropping from the sky. He/she feels to be descending intentionally and dropping from the Cosmos, but is coming toward us. I’m not sure where he/she will land. Nobody knows, but people start running. My thought is once the bear hits the ground he’ll/she’ll move very quickly in one direction or another. I didn’t feel threatened, but rather a very intentional reason he was coming to Earth and had a very clear directive/mission for this. I know he’ll/she’ll land safely on all fours so it’s evident this bear has otherworldly powers. People run and hide. I try to get out from being directly under the bear’s landing. The bear lands a bit away and I’ve already made it to a crater-like area in the Earth resembling the Moon’s surface, but etched in snow. I am taking cover away from the center of things so that I can observe. The bear lands and takes off toward the man with the bloody dead animal. I instantly understand the messaging.

Synchronously and uncannily, the morning after this dream a very close, Cosmically connected friend of mine – the only person I’ve experienced having nearly the same dream experiences with and that we’ve both received very clear messaging and remote viewing about each other over the years, shares a nearly exact dream, energy, and messaging as this bear dream on the same exact night. Her bear comes out of the constellation and floats as stars and fur, coming down like a blizzard and then arrives on Earth and walks through the peaceful snow, as she asks him/her what he/she’s come for.

We both received clearly the bear in our dreams descends from Ursa Major – she and I have strong ties with bear – and that the bear’s arrival is to support humanity.

We have a lot of support coming in from everywhere for these creative and evolutionary years ahead.

This last week was a bit more mellow for me, although I continue to work through my list and am enjoying checking things off one-by-one.

I’m keeping very focused and funneling my energy to preserve the integrity of it and build the inner realm’s strength to emanate more strongly.

Now more than ever, I feel to make moves on the things I’ve felt for quite some time and to implement, build, and create.

To me, things are passed the seeding point and are in various layers of the growth and blooming phases.

This is the creative explosion stage for all that we’ve cultivated over the years and laid dormant, awaiting their moment to sing themselves alive – like the cicada who can take up to seventeen years to emerge.

Everything has been awaiting the moments and one-by-one, we’ll each be lighting up on the world scene as we have hit, or will soon be hitting, our emergence point.

Walks and hikes have been chilly, but fresh and beautiful lately.

In between it all, I never forget how important my time in Nature is and moving my body.

With everything we have in the world on heightened levels of stimulation that can affect the nervous system, seep into our energetic fields, and reek havoc on our well being, immersing yourself in the ultra presence of Nature and the nature of you will bring you back to the really important things.

And when we breathe in organic unfolding, we learn to embrace the same within.

And when we move our bodies, we move through all the guck we don’t realize that we are holding inside.

There’s always just the perfect Nature scene that paints a thousand words of reflective symbolism for me where ever I turn.

I’m loving the merging of seasons and the extra comfort and joy it’s all cozily swaddling me in.

And these are the kinds of things I stay focused on.

How to continue cultivating these feelings, creating the realities I want to experience, focusing on the thoughts and emotions I want to feel, writing the narratives my heart directs, and the way I want to show up, extend a bridge to all contrasts, and merge with others.

The depth of peace and harmony we cultivate within can see us through some kind of anything – truly.

We’re heading out for the week on another and longer adventure.

We’ll be away through the Taurus Full Moon of the 15th, which feels perfect, and I won’t be back to regular routines until Monday the 18th.

I’m continuing to move through my current work commitments and things are progressing well so far.

I feel like the excitement of new that is trickling in already is fueling my energy to keep focused and get things done.

I didn’t sleep as much as I normally do while Dave was away and yet I was fully energized.

In fact, I’m looking at shifting my sleep routine – I’ll leave that for another time, once I see how things develop.

Staying focused on what I want to create in the world is my go-to anchor, as well as amplifying my heart home frequency to keep the lighthouse shining bright and never dimming.

May we all find ways to keep fueling the creative spark and keep doors open to more love.

CRYSTALS & CRYSTAL SKULLS UPDATE & SPECIAL

There are just 6 of the 13 new raw Sierra Nevada and Tahoe crystal bundles still awaiting their homes. I’ve updated them with some new photos, since the first release. I’m surprised bundle #13 still remains.

And the incredible Leandro Magickal Child with rainbows galore and beautiful rutile has still not anchored in someone’s heart yet either. So she’s here too. There’s been several interests, but she hasn’t received her “yes” yet. I sense this one is waiting for a clear declaration to match her essence and clear mission. Her energy is very aligned with the present blooming taking place and the upcoming years of anchored newness. I wasn’t expecting this, but with tomorrow being 11/11 she nudged me to create a special offering to invite that soul in more. Normally a skull like this isn’t one that would be offered with discount, but it’s clear she says “yes” to this and so between now through the Full Moon of the 15th, she will be available at 11% off. This creates a rare opportunity, matching her rare essence, to bring a beauty of her star kind home. All in divine timing and flow, always.

You’ll find her and the 6 bundles at the link below. Info on contacting me about this crystal skull cosmic child are there as well. The discount will be applied to her full value and payments are available.

TAKE ME TO THE SPARKLE & SPECIAL

May your heart be the guide to your inner sanctuary of freedom, connection, comfort, creative expression, and abundant adventure where ever you find yourself.

I’ll see you on the other side of the Full Moon and will return to shares the week of the 18th.

Happy Halloween and Samhain!

It’s indeed a magickal time of the year, rich in lineage and expansive enough to invite you to add your own to it.

However you choose to celebrate this day, it is a special time of year to be conscious of and honor the other side of the veil – the unknown and unseen realms – while tuning into the subtle energies.

I want to share this post from three years ago, which includes a ritual spell of visuals and an inspired channeling I brought through that year, as the message of the words feels extra fitting for the now.

It also shares some ideas on how you might create sacred ritual on this eve, some words about rabbits as familiars to witches and their symbolism, and of course Queen Astrid donning her magickal cosmic witch hat:

Samhain Spells ~ A Cauldron of Metamorphosis

I felt inspired to be a faery nature witch this year.

So I wore my white and black dress with tiny black vines of leaves and black butterflies with yellow spots like eyes, as to me they also mirror kind of a web effect weaving together this transformative energy that is lighting up from the depths and connecting things all together – all of it feeling very reflective of my inner world right now.

And of course topped with my cosmic witchy hat.

Not as fun as dressing up with Astrid, but I know she’s smiling down upon me, as I stand in the same spot she and I used to for our Samhain and Autumn photo shoots.

Samhain is also a time for celebrating the bounty of the Earth and the passing of one phase of life to another.

I will always remember this day as the day my dear, sweet boy, Cosmo, transitioned.

It’s no surprise that he is part of our conversations, silly phrases and love words we like to use in his honor, and that he’s always part of some kind of story we literally make up every single day with him as the star – no joke! Having departed on a time of thinning veils, he made sure we’d never be without him strongly coming through.

I’m grateful to experience his presence, so much so I’ve taken on his persona at times and he giggles through me.

It’s a gift to feel and hear all of our fur babies and cocreative partners that once embodied animal forms by our side.

That, of course, makes me want to share some of the photos Astrid and I took to mark this time of year.

She LOVED wearing all of her hats and crowns and wore them with great pride and honor.

And in honor of the bounty of our Earth Mother passing through her cycles, last week I put everyone to rest in the yards, garden, and on our deck.

I completed all of my Winter prep, which is so important and reflective of the inner work as well being done. I finished that last Wednesday and the next day I planted all of my 205 bulbs to prepare for their Spring 2025 debut.

The bulbs include a variety of tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, crocus, alliums, and calla lilies. It’s always exciting to see what will come up – “The suspense is terrible…I hope it will last” (words of Willy Wonka).

That Wednesday was a full, physical exercise day, as we took advantage of the nice weather to do the big 39 mile bike ride we get in two or three times a year.

We did that in the first part of the day and the late afternoon was the deck and plant cleanup, as well as fixing several drip lines that some little bunny had nibbled through and then shut them down over the weekend for their own Winter’s nap.

We’re looking at 40’s temperatures all this week and most of the next, with nights in the teens and low twenties with snow, even, in the forecast.

In fact, we did actually see snow icing on the mountains above and surrounding us after Sunday night and got some at our elevation Monday night with some more on the way.

It stuck around on the mountain tops and shaded areas, but overall the snow we’ll be seeing now won’t be sticking around quite yet. It’s fun to see and brings on cozy goodness though!

We are actually watching some morning snow fall right now and it’s looking like more headed this way Saturday. An early start to Winter’s kiss.

This week has had a lot of shifts with things, as our last two garden sentinel trees were removed on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (it’s quite a process), which was a big shift of energy at the side yard that I can see from my office sliding doors I used to share a view through with Astrid.

I took a couple of photos of the process – these are after the first tree was taken down and they worked on the second.

I saved a small collection of stumps they cut from them (about 19 I believe) to use for things around the garden and yard so we can have their energy still with us.

The change feels reflective of the old I’m letting go of to make way for the new – bitter sweet at times, and yet much welcome, necessary, and aligned with purpose.

It will be 7 years on 11/25 that we moved into our home with the fur babies all together. And now, one by one, they and our special two guardian elder trees, have all moved on.

And speaking of putting things to rest, I’ve received strong and clear guidance that there will be a clear end to things for me, upcoming.

Over the next four months I will be shifting things over fully to all of my new focuses.

This will provide ample time to make the transitions and phase things out. Originally, I thought this might take place at the start of the year, but because my actual new cycle doesn’t start until my birthday, I received that 2/26/25 will be the end point.

This makes sense because that birthday will ring in as a “one” year in numerology for me – in simple terms, a fresh new start that shifts me out of a “nine” year of endings.

This is a big journey of change into more of what currently reflects who I really am. And that will involve very specific, limited areas I’ll be pouring my time into solely without the same kind of availability I have made of myself.

What this means is that I will be phasing out all current offerings and slowly transitioning my website to reflect this. So, you will see things disappear, as I have time to work on things.

Everything will go. There will be no exceptions, as I am really needing to fully shift gears and am anchoring that as my personal commitment to my own authenticity and truth.

The four months will also give current clients or any people who want to do some work before I put things to sleep, some time to move through the closure of processes and/or get the support and direction you’ve been wanting.

I know I have been able to resurrect things from the past that I stepped away from for months or years, and recycle them through sometimes in new ways, but this feels different. Of course, elements of what I do and am about will always be a part of me and integrated into things, but I need to move on now.

So, I just wanted to share that so you’ll understand why you will see things starting to disappear, and also to give people plenty of a heads up.

This may, as well, reflect to some of you the same things you’ve been feeling about your own journey and commitments to things you’re feeling called to do or have put on hold and know that the time is now.

Walk the walk. Draw the line.

I discovered a giant osprey nest on a big hike and picnic day we did with friends to celebrate Dave’s birthday weekend.

The hidden, large, empty nest spoke to me both of the big piece of life focuses that is being cleared out while new life sprouts wings, and also of this vast womb that is awaiting my placing in of capsule intentions very carefully cultivated for the next cycle that I will be nourishing.

While out walking in our forest backyard the next day amidst the gorgeous colors rising like flames through the trees, I found an owl’s feather in the middle of my talking about all of this.

Owl feathers always show up while I am speaking of key and profound things, and realizations with great clarity. They are very confirming and supportive of cosmic alignment for me. I also get other instant manifestations when I make clear commitments and that took place when we arrived home and I walked back through the door.

We celebrated Dave’s birthday this weekend, which marks a new cycle for him as well. In fact, he follows my cycles.

So, we have four months of overlap in the same numerological year, then I march on forward into the next. But this one feels extra potent for both of us individually and together.

A LOT of changes being implemented and each of us are integrating these in our own ways and blending our gifts together to support one another through the shifts.

We had a small gathering for his celebratory day and made things simple with ordering our favorite Thai food for the meal and I baked the cake.

It’s a vegan marble bundt cake with chocolate ganache dripped over it and I decorated it with simple fun – a kitty (Dave’s favorite) and a maple leaf for Autumn, but all sitting atop a bunny cake platter.

Weeeee!

As promised, I did have the chance to get together the raw clear, smoky and included quartz bundles for anyone interested in working with the energies of these potent crystals I’ve been discovering this year from Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevadas.

I have 13 bundle options available that will arrive in sweet glass holders and mini planters.

You can find them here with information about each bundle, along with the only remaining powerful being from the last release – the incredible crystal skull carved by world renowned Leandro De Souza (I added more photos and info of her, as well as a listing to place a deposit if you know she is yours). It’s exciting to see where she and the bundles will land:

Crystals and Crystal Skulls

Enjoy the Halloween/Samhain and Scorpio New Moon Crystal Release and the powerful energy of this transformative doorway.

Happy New Moon tomorrow!

How have your days been feeling lately?

Do things seem to blur together and feel more like one seamless thread weaving itself without any real ending and beginning?

Are you experiencing an uptick in unusual, synchronous, or miraculous kinds of experiences and having powerful dreams or perhaps remembering dreams for the first time?

Are you feeling more challenged, wary, or discouraged, and anxious?

All of this feels to be a natural part of the unfolding of things right now.

As the cosmic energies stream through in greater quantities and strength, there’s a two-sided coin of opportunity and challenge that are one in the same and dependent upon how we decide to walk with them.

Alchemy is in the very blood that runs through your veins and the very spark of consciousness you carry in the light of your spirit. They are partners in the dance of creation.

Our embodiment is miraculous – not a hindrance, but opportunity for something we can’t experience alone as spirit.

There’s an invitation always sitting on the desk to open.

A friend asked me yesterday, “How do you hold all the wild strangeness that happens? I sometimes feel like I’m going crazy.”

I answered, “I guess it’s a combo of my nature time and staying in my own experience as much as possible.”

And that’s what I continue to do…so the constant weaving feels to be of my own creation.

Being present in Nature and physical movement in the sunshine and gritty rawness, really anchors and integrates, as well as heals, all things for me.

Since the Aries Full Moon of the 17th I’ve had some powerful dreams continuing to be part of my etheric explorations.

Crystals have been a big part of those adventures, in fact. Not just in waking time have I been finding so many and working with, and being surrounded by or having some amazing ones come to me, BUT I am now beginning to dream of finding incredible crystals popping out of the ground too.

We experienced a full day of rain and dropping temperatures the day before the Full Moon, which left snow at the very tops of highest peaks here for us to see on our hike the next day.

We did one of our longer hikes above our house on the Tahoe Rim Trail and during the last forty-five minutes it began to hail with some rain.

There was a beautiful area where the trees were all different shades of orange instead of the usual gold we have been seeing and I just basked in that energy they exuded against the darker sky of the shifting weather that day. It felt like a perfect Halloween invitation.

That night I dreamed of finding incredible, cosmic amethyst crystal massive points and clusters in the ground that water was revealing each time it pulled back from an unseen source. The heads of the crystals peaked out and I just kept picking them up with ease – bunches of them. They were unusual and I knew they’d been seeded there and the time was now.

The next day we hiked where I find the smoky beauties and of course discovered more. They sit under this soaring tree.

There were areas along the trail where frost had kissed the ground – the first time seeing this so far and it was beautiful with the Autumn colors peaking through.

And the golden trees were still dancing between the rays of the sun.

That night I dreamed of finding incredible, perfect and clear giant smoky quartz crystal points. They were etched and pristine and again, they were popping themselves through brush on the ground and I was finding them like an Easter egg hunt, where as some people around me didn’t see them.

On the 19th I hosted the Live with Master Carver Mody Ra from Egypt. In the Live I talked about the new and powerful stone finds a little – some of which host many colors throughout. There was a lot of energy that night coming through…so it was not a huge surprise to have a dream.

The dream involved a rainbow banded snake. Well, two in fact, but the large one seemed most prominent and the first, smaller one was almost an intro to this powerful teacher. I’ve dreamed of snakes a lot, but never a rainbow one, which spoke to an array of transmissions coming through and even to a spirit guide that I’ve known having since my mid twenties.

All of these dreams having meaning to me and reflecting my own personal uptick of things streaming through that I’m integrating, but also cocreatively inviting in because I say, “Yes.”

It’s been beautiful and finally Autumn weather has anchored.

I’m loving the colder temperatures and the beauty that cold nights can reveal in the morning.

As promised, today’s post shares a short announcement that the October 22nd Release is up. I didn’t have time to get the crystal bundle finds together yet, but there are six pieces this go around, which includes four ready-to-claim listings and two serious inquiry listings. All details can be found here:

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

May the energies all around and within you, reveal the beauty of who you really are and the true nature of why you are here.

The Earth experience is a canvas of every possibility for us to feel and every possibility for our spirits to mold in the image of our greatest imagination.

A spark twinkled in the dark, vast abyss of the Cosmos, birthed from a pulse of the All’s imagination.

It ignites a Cosmic eruption of celestial bodies in motion and profound solar activity, sending frequencies throughout the galaxies and inevitably to Earth.

Aurora Borealis ignites extra light codes of awareness and this is felt even from deep within the soil, as she whispers her name to the one who slumbers.

From the darkness, a heartbeat grows and resounds throughout the moist womb.

The cold soft dirt slowly rolls to the left and then to the right, revealing a tiny light that flickers like an electrical current trying to ignite.

The little one cradled in thick darkness and living dust, trusts this is her time and readily awakens with greatest hope guiding her heart.

Aurora finds herself remembering she has purpose gifted to her by the Great Mother Terra and the All’s emissaries that journeyed across many stars. She knows not of anything else but this, nor of anyone else whom she can share her excitement with.

Buried deep within the dirt, she wonders how she’ll ever have the chance to do this great bidding.

And yet the love within her pulses stronger with each passing light code that penetrates the Earth’s atmosphere and finds its way into every crevice – even in a dark hole under the surface.

The invisible and visible rays illuminate a field of potential and Aurora realizes she, too, is made of light and sound and within her nature is the possibility of miraculous and beautiful things, just like the beautiful Aurora Borealis who loved her awake.

She pulls into herself, all the knowledge and power held within eons of etchings she wears as sacred markings upon her body and then emits a hum that emanates as a beautiful song in all directions.

Her vibration is so pure it commands the attention of everything around her and the dirt starts to give way, roots start to push from beneath, and the light from above reaches toward her.

Aurora continues to sing from the depths of All that she Is and everything responds in like with celebration and excitement to bring forth this gift from the womb of slumber.

Again, and again, she hums exquisite grace until suddenly she sees a new world radiating around her.

Her crystalline head peeks out of the Earthen blanket that coddled her for ages.

She knows not how long she had been there, but it didn’t matter. All Aurora felt now was the excitement of sharing what she’s held all this time within her.

She sounded another elated song and was fully thrust upon the surface in all of her glory.

And there she laid, cradled in the dirt that matched the color of her essence, and she waited for what she knew just had to be even more exciting than what she’d experienced so far. Because, after all, she understood the purpose she was created for.

She had no concept of time and simply enjoyed this new place where she could see and feel everything she only knew of, until now, within her – the song of the Moon, Sun, stars, trees, wind, rain, creatures great and small and of all kinds and from all realms, and she even heard the song of humans. They all had their own unique melody that touched and strengthened a part of her, but she knew there would be one that would match hers in a way that would act as a key to unlock a whole other possibility for her to create with them.

While she waited, the reach of her song and what this little one had accomplished started to spread. And soon many others like her, small and large, began to stir from under their own living dust blankets and found their way to surface, or closer to it, through their own ignited songs of remembrance.

Aurora Borealis and the others touched by the Cosmic waves of celestial momentum, sent whispers out to many – of all kinds – not just those within Terra’s womb.

Aurora’s bravery and purity was celebrated as the birth of new hope and the promise of purpose now remembered.

News spread across the globe and more and more awakened, thrilled to merge with the match to their song – because if this feeling was already so incredible, imagine what yet was possible to experience.

Aurora felt a new kind of warmth for the first time and a sweet tear of joy erupted from her core. Her immense heart and courage made Sun extra happy and proud. So he sent a ray of his vitality straight to her soft bed where she laid in the exhilaration of what could be. And her song and his vibrancy created a spark of light at just the right moment.

A human was walking by, with wonder in her heart, feeling like this might be the day for something extraordinary.

And the hope, purity, and belief was a match.

Aurora felt herself newly cradled in the soft flesh of this human’s hand and saw her reflection in the windows of this soul. And it was nothing like she’s ever felt before.

The dawning of a new day and era begins.

Another inspired and short little story, as this is the way my heart’s being guided to express certain things right now.

To accompany the story, these are some of the experience highlights that were part of the impetus for this week’s share. Or, you can scroll to the bottom for updates.

Things continue to heighten to next level – both in regard to experiences, dream journeys, and yes, even crystals and stones. Even though there is so much contrast in the world, I continue to understand how our experiences can be directed by our conscious awareness and embodied intention.

We experienced quite a run of powerful things for many days straight, as you’ll see, which followed a dream right before the sequence of events.

In the dream the continuing theme of bear visitations took place again and laying down next to me in bed, which also keeps happening. But this time I had bear laying next to me on one side and what looked like either a very large coyote or wolf laying next to me on the other side. So, I was basically snuggled in between the fur, softness, and warmth of these two apex predators. This took place on Thursday 10/10 – the night when everyone was seeing the Aurora Borealis, or Northern lights, everywhere. I had not gone out to look that night, as usually it is hard to see things between the density of the forest trees without driving somewhere, but had felt something different.

I learned the next morning that in fact Lake Tahoe also experienced the ability of this sighting, as a neighbor shared a couple of her photos she took of it – saying that you couldn’t see a lot of it with the naked eye except for a pink tone to the sky, but the camera revealed more. Here is one of her photos.

The next day, Friday 10/11 we saw bear while on a six mile hike with some friends visiting the area for several days.

Following that, on Saturday 10/12 a large coyote crossed the trail ahead of us that we were hiking on our own.

On both of these days I found some pocket-sized quartz and feathers.

I found it so interesting that the days following my dream, the animals that were in the dream showed up. But it gets better.

Sunday 10/13 we did another hike with some local friends – a new one climbing high with great vista sights and as I went to snap a photo of the view, a bald eagle soared across the sky. He wanted in the frame, as you can see in the top right section of the photo below. In person, we could clearly see his white head and tail while he flew closer.

After the hike we got home and sat down for lunch and we could hear one of our frog friends on the deck calling out so loudly that his voice penetrated inside, even with all doors and windows closed. And that night I went out to see if anything was visible in the sky anymore and a rabbit ran by along the deck who had also been out in the dark of the night. Although the Northern Lights and comet didn’t show up, the sunset was equally beautiful with similar colors and energy.

Monday 10/14 was a big day of Sierra smoky gifts on my hike along the golden alchemy forest.

They literally were jumping out of the ground for me to find them. The area is just a small pocket maybe 20 feet by 20 feet and each time I paced one way, some would jump out. Then I’d pace back and new ones were there! It was incredible. Truly wow!

And some really spectacular crystals were part of this day, as you can see…including the little crystal, Aurora, whom the story above was written about. She is an amazingly loaded record keeper, scepter-like, and a DT/ET and so much going on she blows my mind.

There’s also a perfect little cluster that has a DT in it, and even the tiniest are so etched and potent. I found so many chunks and at least half of the pieces are all etched and partial crystals that either never fully grew or were Earth separated.

Tuesday 10/15 we did a bike ride. I had this feeling we were going to see something. First it was a large garter snake sunning herself (Dave saw her and I feel she was the same I’ve seen in the exact place before), as we rode past a lake. And on our return path through the forest, it was momma and baby bear rummaging for food, as they crossed the bike trail in front of us.

They were completely absorbed in their foraging and it was a delight to see them going about their natural behaviors together in peace.

Baby bear was in fact golden coated when the sunlight hit her.

Momma was a rich chocolatey brown.

All of this took place during extended Summer temperatures in the low 70’s, until yesterday when Autumn feels finally arrived with an afternoon of rain and twenty degree drops.

During these days we also heard from both our friends and my parents about sightings in the area of wolves. I looked into it and learned that over the past month, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been getting reports on several wolf sightings in an area we hike called Hope Valley – in fact that’s where I found the petrified wood and agate I shared last blog post. They’ve set up cameras and are investigating. Although it’s not officially confirmed yet, there is great likelihood of their presence given all the information coming in.

Apparently there are seven gray wolf packs in California and if this one gets confirmed, it will be the eighth pack and the first to move south of I-80. Gray wolves were once thought to be extinct in the area, but have made an incredible comeback.

Was the other animal lying next to me in my dream a coyote or a wolf?

I was unsure at the time, except that it was one or the other and they were very large. To have both a sighting of a coyote right after and this brought to my attention about the wolves feels connected, nonetheless.

We’ve been more quiet and to ourselves the last two to three weeks doing things around Tahoe and then an upswing of a couple of sets of friends came to town and other local friends were freed up too, so outings and gatherings suddenly came at once within a few days.

In the meantime, while we await the last two of four trees to be removed, all of the garden friends of the Forest Portal have been gathered at the footstep of my office door to honor the days we have left with them and prepare the way for what’s to come. I moved them there for their safety during the removal of the trees.

I continue to complete a lot and am working on organizing and setting up my office over the next few weeks. With all the crystal finds and still awaiting the last collectives to anchor in, it’s been crystals everywhere. I’m anxious to have things settled, as there have been so many moving parts with crystals and skulls wanting outside, inside, moving around, and deciding who will stay or go. I’ve had many of the quartz I found wanting to be outside since Equinox and through all of the Aurora Borealis and other solar activities – many light codes streaming in, indeed!

And speaking of crystals, I’ll leave you with these thoughts and some things to look forward to.

This summer has been a big opening for raw crystal finds out in the wild on our outdoor adventures. So many potent discoveries have been coming to my attention and guiding me to them.  I’m finding that they are literally popping out of the Earth and calling to me, as they are needed at this time with the immense shifts we are cocreating. It seems to be happening all over the world – amazing new crystalline beings and stones are revealing themselves and ready to assist us because we are ready. I’m seeing and hearing this from other people deeply connected to the crystalline realms.

When I say they are literally jumping out of the Earth or slipping through a portal in the moment, this has truly been my experience. Dave has been in awe, too, of what I show him of my finds and has experienced firsthand when I find some of them, even if we just sit down somewhere or walk by and I reach down and say, “Look!”

He said, “Wow they almost seem to pop up just because you’re around.”

I truly feel this alignment portal I’m in with them and it’s like a whole other world that has become my reality – all for a reason.

Every piece I’ve found has been such high and pure energy. Nearly all with rainbows, etchings, portals, and for the first time finding both pure chunks of wonder and fully formed crystals. I’m not even having to go to a mine or dig deep into the Earth. They are waiting there for me to find and actually light up and send out frequencies to get my sixth sense attention. They may not be pristine specimens in comparison to fully formed aesthetics, nor giant in size, but their energy is unquestionable, potent, and pristinely perfect as Earth and Cosmos birthed them. I’m enjoying both working with them individually, gridding my important space, and creating intentional altars with them. 

The energy has been through the roof. 

From clear quartz to all shades of dark to light to citrine smokies, hematite and iron included quartz, rose quartz, golden healer, copper ore, chrysocolla, mica, chlorite, feldspar, and calcite infused, what looks similar to ajoite quartz as well, and so much more. Many have gorgeous metallic (mostly silvery and silvery aqua to sea green). Some of the quartz is a beautiful pale green and blue in color. I’ve even found small pieces of obsidian, mica, and this lovely and colorful jasper that popped up the day coyote crossed the trail. 

I’ve been in awe of the energies and that I’ve been able to find such pieces in their organic essence, which is extra special to me, along with being the only person to touch them.

As I said, they may not be specimens like professional crystal finders discover, but being that these are not hiding from me and literally jumping out of the Earth, I feel the importance and gift of their reveal. They want to work with us. I love their raw, organic essence!

There also feels to be an initiation with each big find, as I have to hike many hard miles and elevation gain to get to some of them, or go through some unusual things, and then carry them out on my back in excess weight that comes in at 46% of my own many times. So they are NOT all easy to access and retrieve, but I sense when they want me to be there for them. Most of the places are only known by me where they are, and usually each time I will prick my finger and drop blood on the ground on a sharp edge of a crystal in order to pass through the initiatory gateway. 

And then there are those that just arrive right where I am, at any moment.

I have been guided to quite a lot and been shown that some are for me and others are to be shared in various ways – one of these ways will be announced in the not too distant future. 

I am feeling to offer some of these raw pieces in the next week, though. Guidance paired with the interest in them from shares has been reflected.

Sometime soon I’ll share more about the energies channeling through the crystals from this vortex of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. For now, I hope you’ve been enjoying their energy from my shares, and the doorway of alchemy that crystals are inviting us into.

I am going to be offering another small crystal release on Tuesday, October 22nd.

I’ll send a reminder on that day, but everything will be up and ready before you receive the email update here:

Crystals & Crystal Skulls

This will include crystals and a skull or two, to include some special, larger and pricier pieces I’ll be open to receiving serious inquiries and interest on – the incredible Snow Rose Queen from the last list I took did find a home- thank you to all who were interested. Included will likely be options to bring home some of the amazing, raw and pure finds from Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevadas. These will be offered as intuitively chosen bundles. Also, some people asked if I had more of the Avian Dragons, and indeed I do and they will also be part of this offering. I love these so much that I brought home all the spectacular ones I could and I am able to release some of them now for others to experience.

If you’re on Instagram and love the Ancient Egyptian energy of stones and carvings from Mody Ra and his finds, he and I will be doing a Live Sale there this Saturday, October 19th at 5pm PST.

The newest material from the wonder of Abu Simbel is astoundingly gorgeous and next level in energy. In the near future I will be sharing about the two pieces Mody created for me from the guidance I received and how they will be facilitating upcoming offerings we are collaborating on. They are created from these new, colorful stones and will work with a third piece he also created that will be coming to me in preparation for all of this as well. A Trinity of Great Mothers preparing the way.

And just a personal share…For me, the energies of unusually included quartz varieties, smokies (from golden citrine to rich chocolate and dark morion and even smoky amethyst), amethyst, and any rays of blue (all shades), gold, purple/violet, deep and dark mysterious grays to blacks, and rich greens are stand outs I am finding to be around a lot and key. Rainbows in the form of actual ones appearing in the crystals and the embodiment of the rainbow light ray of the harmony portal are also highly active right now and important – more on this to come. I’m floored by how crystals of these types and energies are flocking to me.

In other news, I have been very active with Rabbit Adoption Trainings and focused on custom Magick Rabbit orders.

I am taking a break from making any more ready-to-ship bunnies, but if you are looking for a sweet holiday gift, stocking stuffer, or simply a little extra magick infused with the energy of Tahoe’s vortex, I have just 3 ready-to-ship enchanted Magick Rabbits left.

Can’t believe the Merbunny hasn’t been snatched – perhaps she’ll stay with me.

Magick Rabbits

Year’s end is edging closer with more changes in process that include my own need to streamline my focuses come 2025, which means offerings will either end or be highly limited. If you’d like to partner in establishing new foundations and more naturally “you” reflections in your life you desire I’m honored and happy to partner with you. Repatterning does not have to be a difficult thing and can actually be made fun. Alignment, commitment, consistent momentum, and embodiment are key. And if you’d like to do a one session touch-in to do an energetic overview of things, look at a plan of action, and help you refine the new way of life you’re embarking upon we can do that as well to help you to create a well-established new foundation without building upon the old one. The windows of opportunity right now are potent.

Intuitive Guidance Sessions

Aries Full Moon wishes of flow toward new doorways of opportunity and greater channels of integrity led by the heart.