Dreaming a Better Tomorrow with the Fool Card

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

I am so tired of the noise...online. I retreat into poetry, watercolor and neurodivergent affirming spaces. I deactivate my Facebook, made my main Instagram private and stop posting on social media. Soon (by late July) I will be on the road to Canada; cottage country, camping along the way in our rooftop tent. I will have my Tarot and my guides, accompanied by my beloved Mark & Djinn Djinn, our tiny, scrappy dog. I will document my journey sending missives to you in my museletter and on my blog enroute. I will accept soul readings as always.

"Fairy Healing Magic for Our Shadow Selves" by Kathy Crabbe, Tarot Card: The Fool, 8 x 11 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

"Fairy Healing Magic for Our Shadow Selves" by Kathy Crabbe, (detail), Tarot Card: The Fool, 8 x 11 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

"Fairy Healing Magic for Our Shadow Selves" by Kathy Crabbe, (detail), Tarot Card: The Fool, 8 x 11 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

This week's newest watercolor & poem features the Fool card from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22-card circular Major Arcana deck. I'm also working on a coloring book with Rae Rose, disabled writer & poet Supreme to accompany the deck.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

Mer-Fool Tarot-Poem

Collect your thoughts
into a big pile
then burn them.
Whatever remains
Faerie
to Sea
to Meri
to bury in the deep
where all dreams
reside

Tarot Tips

Song: I journey in delight.
Upright: child-like, freedom, innocence, path of delight.
Reversed: apathy, hesitation, foolish, ungrounded.
MerMagic: Dreaming, river bath, sacred play. Amethyst, dreaming, flamingo, lotus, opal, oyster, river bathing.
MerSpirits: Galligende, Yemaya

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and divination decks.

Dividing my time between California and Canada I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved, Mark and myself.

My work has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine and have taught at Wise Woman School.

Being Visible with The World Card: A Soul Reading Tarot-Poem

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

Feed your soul
first
and then your body
for your beauty
is bright enough
to lead the way
and you are
loved
beyond measure
always.

This week's siren song and watercolor express the World card in my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22-card circular Major Arcana deck.

Dream Water Tarot Card: "World"(detail) by Kathy Crabbe
8.5x10.5 inches, acrylic gouache, gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.
From the Siren Song Tarot Deck

Trust in your process
for you are guided
The choice is yours.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

Tarot Tips

The World card can help you claim your bliss in tune with universal energy.

MerMagic: Amber, black pearl, coral, fisher floats, mist water, jet, mist water, water snake.

MerSpirits: Cailleach, Nereids, T'ien-Hou, Swan Maidens.

Thoughts About Visibility

Why am I here writing to you? (weekly, for now.) The World card asks this of us: Why are you reading this?

My heart is a billion times present in this moment with you. Sounds corny, maybe? Through my soul I connect back to my ancestors, the goddess worshipers in the caves; painting red hand prints, connecting with the animals, the stories, the seasons. Through my ancestors, burned as witches in Aberdeenshire, Scotland on September 18, 1630 ~ I carry this torch forward, into the now. Through the Holocaust and the denial, through the Neurodivergent PTSD trenches, where we are the hidden junos, I know you are listening.

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and divination decks.

Dividing my time between California and Canada I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved, Mark and myself.

My work has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine and have taught at Wise Woman School.

The Most Precious Gift

This week's siren song & watercolor depicts the Chariot card from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22-card circular Major Arcana deck.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

The Most Precious Gift by Kathy Crabbe (detail), 7 x 10 in., acrylic gouache, gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

The Most Precious Gift

You are beautiful
just as you are.
There is no rush
to be.
There is just you and me
here in the sea
guided, always guided
to be where we need to be.

The Most Precious Gift by Kathy Crabbe (detail), 7 x 10 in., acrylic gouache, gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

Siren Song Tarot Tips

The Chariot card can help you move forward to claim your destiny.
MerMagic: Protection river water moon elixir, chalcedony, frog, oyster, scallop, seahorse.
MerSpirits: Circe, Nereid, Nixie, Tiamat, Yemaya.

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and divination decks.

Dividing my time between California and Canada I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved and myself.

My work has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine and have taught at Wise Woman School.

Social Media Blackout: Why I'm Leaving Social Media

Originally I’d stopped being social on social media in late December of 2023 but continued to cross post from my museletter and website. But after a nasty dream the other night I’ve decided to go whole hog and not post anything at all. My current work (the mermaid watercolors from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot Deck) are way too precious to be exposed to that nasty environment.

My spirit guides loudly proclaimed that I had to GET OFF social media altogether and so I listen.

This blog, my museletter and website will be THE ONLY places you will find me online from now on unless I give an interview or am featured by someone else.

Why?

I no longer want to participate in the degenerative, capitalist model of exploitation that is social media.

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and divination decks.

Dividing my time between California and Canada I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved and myself.

My work has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine and have taught at Wise Woman School.

It's Beltane! SUPERB! Mermaids for Justice Healing Support Blog

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

I rally
again & again
and it's Beltane!
So I stop & I pause
& I gather
my troops (that's you!)
and I sprinkle
the Beltane dew
from this morning's Grape Leaves
upon your tongue
- taste - less -
SUPERB
we are ready
for anything, let's go!

This week's siren song & watercolor depicts the Justice card from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22-card circular Major Arcana deck.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

p.s. dew collected at dawn on Beltane (aka May Day) brings power to beauty rituals and spells.

Listen to the Language of the Future, 9 x 12 in., acrylic gouache, gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

Listen to the Language of the Future (detail), 9 x 12 in., acrylic gouache, gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

About Kathy Crabbe

I channel healing magick through my soul readings and divination decks.

Dividing my time between California and Canada I travel by caravan to mer-faerie cottages built by my beloved and myself.

My work has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We'Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women's Museum of California. I review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine and have taught at Wise Woman School.