Aries New Moon Soul Reading (I Will Survive and Thrive)

Spring has Sprung AND it’s the fiery, impulsive New Moon in ARIES on April 11.

So, get ready to give yourself a soul reading by picking-a-card from one of my 4 hand painted oracle decks pictured above. The reveal is below. First, take a few relaxed breaths and then make a wish.

By the way, both Spring and the New Moon are THE BEST TIME to set your intentions for the moonth (and the year) ahead. At the bottom of this post you’ll also find a 13 minute video filmed in an incredible succulent/cactus garden in bloom near my home in Temecula, California.

“I Will Survive and Thrive” is the affirmation of the month so say it loud and say it proud.

New Moon in Aries Soul Reading

Card 1: Ande was ready for any adventure (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Mantra: I am brave.
Affirmation: I am ready for any adventure.
Element: Fire

Ande was ready for any adventure (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Song
I am strong, brave, and ready;
a warrior in heart, mind and body.

I am prepared, excited, and lucky;
armed with knowledge,
grounded and guided by intuition.

Whatever happens
I will survive AND thrive.
I am blessed
and oh, so grateful 
for being alive.

If this card appears in a reading get ready for an adventure! It may be external or internal; in the mundane world or in the magical realms. You are prepared, your mind clear, and your heart steady. If you don’t yet know the destination or when you’ll arrive that is okay too. It will be revealed in time. Trust that you ARE on the right path and that you will be guided. Signposts will appear along the way. Trust is required as well as surrender. So be present and enjoy the journey.

In my own life I have used this card to help a loved one pass over to the Other Side. She was adventurous so this card appealed to her and helped her trust the blessings of her final journey.

Creative Journal Prompt
Imagine that you’re heading out next week for the adventure of a lifetime; what will you pack? Describe.

Card 2: Sagittarius Goddess (Goddess Zodiac Power Deck)

Sagittarius Goddess by Kathy Crabbe (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Sagittarius Affirmations

• I stretch my horizons to envision the big big picture

• I see the glorious possibilities in everything

• I am free of all restrictions

• I inhale optimism, courage and speed

• I trust in life

• I am lucky

• My courage protects me and my sisters and brothers

Card 3: Flying Fish (Elfin Ally Oracle Deck)

Flying Fish by Kathy Crabbe (Elfin Ally Oracle Deck

Keyword: Free
Meaning: Your heart is free to follow your delight.
Reversed: Things are taking way too long and your patience is wearing thin.

Affirmation: I am daring.
Astrology: Cancer, Moon, Neptune, Pisces
Element: Water

Medicine: Your secrets reveal a way forward.

Lore: On air or in water, she could swim with Flying Fish, her ally, by her side. Sunshine and blue depths healed her inside so that she could dream, dance, and splash her cares away.

She was a dreamer AND a doer and Flying Fish led the way: to sunnier shores, where magic and lovers danced and swayed.

Card 4: Cowslip Cat (Cat Herbal Oracle Deck)

Cowslip Cat by Kathy Crabbe (Cat Herbal Oracle Deck)

“My spirit opens, I am beloved.”

Cowslip or ‘Fairy Cup’ is a favorite of old herbals and a plant of the working people dedicated to Freya. Helpful in banishing depression especially after the death of a loved one. Use in funereal wreaths and talismans to contact spirits. Also in Beltane love potions, for friendship, abundance, direction and finding hidden treasures.

Astrology: Aries, Leo, Venus
Deity: Freya
Element: Water
Healing: Nervous system, lungs

Kathy Crabbe
Soul Reader + Artist

If you are seeking inspiration and spiritual guidance you may want to consider a soul reading, past life reading, astro report or ancestral/spirit guide reading for further insight. All readings are here.

I work solely with oracle cards from my own hand painted decks. I teach and contribute to the Creative Cronies Moon Diary, California Women’s Museum, Witches and Pagans/Sage Woman Magazine and Wise Woman School.

Spring Water Wise Garden Walk & Meditation (Temecula, CA)

Aries New Moon (Pick-a-Card) + Tips To Get Through These Challenging Times

Dear Moon Muser,
We will get through these challenging times with a little help from our friends.

You've probably been listening to a lot of talking heads these days to stay abreast of the news, but I'm asking that instead you take a break and go within, but deeper than I've ever asked you to before; past the fear, the worry, the anxiety - to the stillness and calm that is our core and lies within each of us.

You may have been reading this blog for the past 20 years or for the first time today, but this is what I teach: How to awaken, access and trust your intuition. Like a muscle, we need to work it, again and again - this builds trust.

Intuition needs nature and quiet. Even just a tiny amount - a bit of dirt, a small houseplant, a glimpse of sky and stars and a moment to yourself to go within.

This blog offers you just that so use it to work your intuition.

As usual I've pulled some oracle cards from my own hand painted decks for this New Moon so you can go within, ask a question (or not) then pick a card and scroll down for the reveal. I'm also sharing my own personal interpretation of the cards (before even looking at them) along with Tips To Help You Through This Time (things that work for me).

Time to take a breath, go within and pick-a-card. The reveal is below.

Card 1: Capricorn (Zodiac Goddess Power deck)

Capricorn Meditation: Focus your energies to allow creation.

Capricorn Affirmations

• I am self-disciplined, logical, persistent and efficient

• I am strong and I will endure

• I am ambitious, responsible and secure

• I am grounded and compassionate

• I am a success in everything I do

Card 2: Carolee (Lefty Oracle deck)

Mantra: I am free.
Affirmation: I dare to be free.
Element: Earth

If this card appears in a reading you are more than ready to forge ahead. You are brave and you are going for it; nothing or no one can stand in your way. Simple.

In my own life this card also speaks of raw, naked ambition and flaunting it without shame or fear. It’s a feminist card, a fighter card, a power card. Blessed Be.

Card 3: Spider Monkey (Elfin Ally Oracle deck)

Keyword: Curious
Meaning: You’re tapped into many little secrets floating around you.
Reversed: Your mind is playing tricks on you.
Affirmation: I am agile.
Astrology: Gemini, Mercury
Element: Air
Medicine: You teach us how to be agile female leaders.

Card 4: This Beauty is Killing Me (Lefty Oracle deck)

Mantra: I am empowered
Affirmation: I am beautiful in my own way.
Element: Fire

When this card appears in a reading it’s time to seriously look at how you might be damaging yourself, your health, your life. Wearing high heels, for example is extremely harmful to your feet and back and will cause pain for you at some point in your life. Are you hurting others or being hurt? Are you vulnerable? Do you need protection and education around protecting yourself, your loved ones, your home, or the natural world around you? This card is simply pointing out the price you are paying for so called ‘beauty’. Is it worth it?

In my own life here in Southern California I look around at all the plastic surgeries and there are A LOT. But what can I do? I can accept me and put myself proudly out there to share my idea of what beauty means at middle age. It’s silver hair, extra weight and wrinkles that add to my beauty, not take away from it. I have survived AND thrived and beauty IS middle aged and wrinkled. So deal with it.

My Overall Interpretation:

• Use these cards to find the sweet stillness within and to be with that stillness to renew and recharge.

• Ground, ground, ground - be with Mama Earth.

• Let your intuition guide you regularly.

• Listen to the birds and BE IN their song.

My Personal Tips To Get You Through These Challenging Times

1. Less news, more nature. I’m taking every other day off from the news.

2. Call an old friend (or email/skype/facetime).

3. Create more, read more.

4. Be kind.

5. Get organized - spring cleaning, anyone?

6. Listen to wise woman herbalist, Susun Weed’s latest podcasts for a different perspective on the covid19 virus plus listen to callers ask questions (you can call in too!) This helped to calm and relax me.

7. Go within to find inner strength, gratitude and to call upon a higher power, your gods/goddesses, spirit guides or universal energy.

8. Ask health care workers and elderly neighbors what you can do to be of assistance.

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About Kathy Crabbe

Artist, writer, teacher and soul guide, Kathy Crabbe invokes faerie goddess spirituality to heal, make whole and holy. She is Mother of the Lefty Oracle and Elfin Ally Oracle decks. She’s also sort of ambidextrous. Her work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Sawdust Art Festival and the Women’s Museum of California. Kathy writes a moon column for Witches and Pagans, is a member of Hey Grrrl Collective in Temecula, and mentors at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.

Aries New Moon Raven Oracle: Guided By Magic (April 5)

Here on the blog, I’m sharing a spirit animal painting and message from my Elfin Ally Oracle Deck picked especially for the New Moon. Enjoy!

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Raven Keyword: Wise
Meaning: Although saddened by the times your will is true and guided by magick.
Reversed: A dark omen portends gloom, so stay inside!

From the Elfin Ally Oracle Deck
by Kathy Crabbe
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With Luv and Sparkly Blessings,
Kathy Crabbe, (April 5, 2019)

How to make a simple oracle card spread for the Aries New Moon

I recently connected with Kristen on Instagram. She is a talented multi-oracle deck creator and intuitive reader who was inspired by my Aries New Moon Reading to create an oracle spread of her own using decks she created herself. Coming soon will be Kristen's AMAZINGLY detailed and helpful article about how to make your own oracle deck so stay tuned! To receive my new moon readings monthly you can sign up here: New Moon Museletter.

New Moon in Aries Spread by Kristen

Over the Moon Oracle Card Creatrix Kristen

This week, I've been chatting with Kathy Crabbe about making oracle cards, and I noticed she had a wonderful blog post on the Aries new moon. So, I decided to make a simple spread based on her post: How To Get Inspired and Fight To Win This Aries New Moon.

Card 1: What do you want more than anything? Card 2: How to get it (by tapping into your Aries Fire). Card 3: Affirmation to support your goal.

Here's my reading:

Kristen's Aries New Moon Oracle Spread

Card 1: Knight of Wands. This card represents a departure which I'll be making very soon to live in a different part of the country. It also signifies the freedom and adventure I'm hoping this move will help me regain. I'm eager to start over and live life to the fullest.

Card 2: Have Fun. I get this card a lot as an admonishment because I'm always so busy working, creating, and trying to stay afloat. But this card shows that adding more fun to my days will help me live life to the fullest.

Card 3: I am joyous. Love this card! And it ties in nicely with the positive energy of the other two cards.

The decks used in this reading were the Tarot Everywhere deck, Oracle Everywhere deck and I AM Cards. They are all available for sale through my Printerstudio shopspace HERE

Over the Moon Oracle Card Creatrix Kristen

About Kristen

Kristen is a divination junkie and the creator of more than ten tarot and oracle decks. She instructs the online playing card divination course, Your Future Is In The Cards, and runs the blog Over the Moon.

How to Get Inspired and Fight to Win this Aries New Moon

It's the New Moon in Aries on April 7 and I sat down to meditate in advance so that I could channel messages for you while in a deep trance-state meditation surrounded by the Aries energy I had created to decorate my altar. I turned to my Goddess Zodiac Book for altar suggestions such as gemstones, plants, foods etc. which you can read about below and see pictured above.

Aries New Moon Inspiration Journal Prompt ~ A Dance with Grasshopper

What is it you WANT more than anything? Write it down in your Moon Musing Journal. Now take that desire into your heart and pray for guidance. Write down what you receive.

If you're having a tough time doing this exercise then try to allow all your doubts and fears to simply flow in and out of you...release and let go. Next, envision a grasshopper extending his arm out to you for a dance. As you follow the steps and dance to the tune, let your body lead you and see what comes. Thank your grasshopper guide and move on - wake up - come back. If you feel like sharing any messages you receive please feel free to share below.

Lefty Oracle Card Guidance ~ Is this worth fighting for?

I also turned to my Lefty Oracle Deck which will soon be released for purchase as a 52-card deck and guidebook - yehhh! This is a 16 year journey for me and I'm happy to say that it's finally going to happen. I'm working steadily on the writing that will accompany each card and I will be sharing it starting today in conjunction with the New Moon.

The Lefty Oracle card I chose to represent the energy of the Aries New Moon is a Fire Element card called "Is this worth fighting for?" Her/His story is included in the back of the prints I've just released in my Etsy Shop.

Is this worth fighting for? (Lefty Oracle Art) by Kathy Crabbe

Is this worth fighting for by Kathy Crabbe

Aries New Moon Altar Ideas*

Aries – The Ram

• Time of Year – Spring, March 21 - April 19
• Quality – Cardinal
• Element – Fire
• Ruler – Mars
• Anatomy – Head
• Natural sign of – 1st House
• Opposite sign – Libra
• Color – Red
• Gemstones – Amethyst, diamond, fire opal, garnet
• Plant/Tree: Dandelion, Thistle, Aloe, Holly, Mustard
• Herb/Spice: Broom, Cayenne Pepper, Garlic
• Food: Onion, Peppers, Radish, Rhubarb
• Animal Spirit: Ram, Red Hawk
• Tarot Cards – The Emperor, The Empress
• Goddesses – Amazons, Fuji, Kali, Sekhmet, Valkyries

Aries Affirmations

• I embody spring fire
• I am true to my path and my inner convictions
• I am erotic and independent
• I am a primal, revolutionary rebel
• I am adventurous, assertive and courageous
• I am the Divine Warrior
• I remember who I truly am even if it bothers others

Tap Into Your Aries Fire

• - Take on any challenge
• - Start a project
• - Assert your rights
• - Get creative
• - Feel power, strength and vitality come alive within you

*Excerpted from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook available here.

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Kathy Crabbe Creative Soul Guide in Temecula Wine Country, California

About Kathy: Kathy Crabbe has been an artist forever and a soul reader since awakening her intuitive gifts at age forty after five years painting with her non-dominant left hand. This awoke her intuition in a big way. In 2008 she created a Lefty Oracle deck and started giving intuitive soul readings that have touched many lives in profound and playful ways. Kathy lives in sunny Southern California with her pet muses and architect husband in an adobe home they built themselves. Learn more here.

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