Brigid's Day Blessings!

Just a quick note from my rainy day desk in Temecula, California to wish you all a Blessed Brigid's Day.

Celebrated on Feb. 1-2 by Pagans, Witches and Brigit devotees, She is the Goddess of Smithcraft, Healing and Poetry and can help us protect and access our pure potential. This Festival or Sabbat also known as Imbolc (Oimelc) is one of the four great Celtic fire festivals or "gateways into the seasons of the turning year."

Bride or Brigit, often called 'Mary of the Gael' or 'Great Mother of the Celts' brings us the inspiration we need during the dark days of Winters to divine our futures and to find light within the darkness. She is the source of oracles. 

You will find Brigid's Fire continually burning in Kildare, Ireland as it was in pre-Christian times.This sacred flame was suppressed in the sixteenth century but was relit in 1993.

Brigid by Kathy Crabbe

Brigid

Brigid's reign as sacred muse
spans centuries timeless truth
Priestess or nun
tending her fire
Brigid's power
always inspires.

Brigid’s Myth

Brigid is one of the few early goddesses to survive intact through the Christian era. Brigid means 'bright one' as symbolized by fire. She is worshiped as a Triple Goddess by the Celtic Irish, called Brigantia in England, Bride in Scotland and Brigandu in Celtic France. In her ancient form as carrier of the cauldron she was ruler of smithcraft, poetry, inspiration, healing and medicine. The Christian Saint Bridget is often invoked as both muse and healer in continuation of her ancient rites and her rituals were preserved for more than 1000 years after she ceased to be called a goddess. Today little is left of the ancient Celtic legends describing her.

The painting and poetry of Brigid is from my Zodiac Goddess Power Deck which can be ordered here.

About Kathy Crabbe

Initiated in Third Road Faerie Witch Tradition, Kathy Crabbe has created five oracle decks that combine with her astrological soul readings to inspire and heal your moon-guided witchy heart. Kathy divides her time between Southern California and the 1000 Islands, Canada travelling by caravan to faerie cottages built by her beloved and herself.

Kathy’s 2024 Predictions

Solstice Reading with the Lefty Oracle

🔮 Lefty Oracle Reading for the Solstice 🔮

Lefty Oracle Card: Nambia, pleasantly present
Mantra: I relax.
Affirmation: I am at peace with myself.

Blessings to all for a peaceful and meditative Solstice.

Solstice Time/Date: Sun enters Capricorn at 7:27 pm PST.

Nambia’s Song
I am
at peace
with
myself.

I rest.
I float
untethered.
Pleasantly
present.

When this card appears in a reading you definitely need a break. Take some time for rest and relaxation, to shed your worries, get pampered and have some fun. This is not a time to crack down and get busy. You’ll achieve far more later by taking it easy now. Figure out an easy way to charge your batteries and make time for YOU.

In my own life, I love to simply just sit in nature, breathe in the smells and enjoy the sights; not thinking or doing anything, just being.

Creative Journal Challenge
Do you ever find yourself overburdened with too many ideas and projects and not enough time or energy to do them? Then it’s definitely time for a Nambia-break!  All that striving, doing and over-achieving can be a heavy burden which could lead to health problems, so watch it!  You probably just need a break and some time to re-focus and recapture the original passion that got you started.

You also need to stop doing whatever it is that isn’t 100% connected with the Divine/God/Universe/Source. List three things that may be keeping you from connecting with the Divine.

Now, take a moment to relax, get comfortable and take a couple deep breaths, letting all the tension and stress drain from your body into the earth.  It’s time to feel out what it is that you ARE doing that DOES connect you with Source or to take a closer look at one thing you are doing that could be more in alignment with Source. For the next few minutes allow yourself to open to all the limitless possibilities that suggest themselves to you. For added guidance, focus on the Nambia card and the affirmation.

If you miss a day or take weekends off, don’t beat yourself up. It won’t do you any good; just trust that you will get back on track as soon as you can, and keep reminding yourself that it’s easy to focus and be pleasantly present.

Expressive Body Movement Challenge
Take a moment to breathe deeply and relax your body, letting all stress and strain drain into the earth. Then imagine yourself floating a few inches above the ground (just like Nambia) – whatever feels comfortable.  Allow yourself to rest and relax without an agenda, timetable or purpose…just BE until all your earthly troubles, ties or concerns have disappeared. When ready come back to Earth – refreshed and relaxed – you’ve just taken a mini vacation!

Non Dominant Hand Exercise
Take some time to draw your oracle card or use a page in your journal to sum up all you’ve learned in this challenge along with an affirmation using your non dominant hand. Then write out your “Daily Structure” and place it and your hand drawn card and affirmation in a prominent position in your work space so that you will see it every day. I tacked mine to the wall above my drawing table.

I painted this deck entirely with my non-dominant left hand and it has been my primary deck for giving soul readings since 2007. The newly updated deck now has the meaning on the back of each card and it comes with a 92-page guidebook filled with creative prompts, games, magick and fun to heal and guide you, the groups you belong to and teach, and your inner child.

Lefty Oracle Video

Purchase the Newly Updated 2023 Lefty Oracle Deck Here

Lefty Oracle Deck + 92 Page Guidebook

$50.00

About Kathy Crabbe
Feel Kathy’s healing energy guide you with a gentle touch. You ARE in alignment with your soul’s purpose. As a professional seer Kathy provides you with a safe and encouraging space to shine light upon your hidden gifts and talents in tune with your spirit guides and the divines.

Kathy Crabbe offers soul readings using her own hand painted oracle card decks both virtually and in person.

It's Brigid's Day! Let's SING and DANCE!

Dear Moon Muser,

I am a shaman and witch. You are my tribe.

This Brigid's Day lets:

• Check your white privilege at the door

• Dance with Mama Moon

• Sing Hallelujah together with me in harmonee

All together, let's raise some energee!

We will rise to the occasion O' Brigid, as will Papa Sun returning again.

In Power & Solidaritee,
Kathy Crabbe
Soul Reader & Artist

February 2 is Brigid's Day (Imbolc). Brigid is an Irish Fire Goddess of healing, smithcraft and poetree and we as pagans and witches honour Her today by lighting a candle to celebrate this half way point between Winter & Spring as the Sun grows stronger every day and the days grow longer.

psssttt...I had THE MOST AMAZING dream this morning and had to share bits of it today above for the Lion's Portal Opening (2/2/22) and for Brigid.

My Totem Animals (many of which communicated with me via dreams):
White Wolf
Coyote
Sting Ray
Moose
Ostrich
Blank Panther
Tiger
Wolverine
Black Widow

My Herbal Spirits:
Nettle
Poppy

Grizzly spying into a Wolverine’s Hole (From the Smithsonian website)

About Kathy Crabbe
I am proud to be an artist and soul reader, in business since 1993. I love my work and hope you've enjoyed coming along for the ride and allowing me to be of service to you through all the creative, healing work I do. Thank you.

The awakening of my intuitive gifts came at age 40 when I found myself creatively blocked so I switched to my left hand which awakened my right brain and inspired me to create a Lefty Oracle Deck and become a professional soul reader. I have since published 4 oracle decks with the Fairy Herbal Oracle deck coming in 2022.

I live in Southern California and soon in the 1000 Islands, Canada for half the year with my pooch and partner in homes we’ve built ourselves.

Scorpio Season: Halloween Collection Special Event

As the Witch's New Year approaches I am enjoying the coolness, the pumpkins, the absolute sense of magick and anticipation in the crisp fall air as the dark time of the year approaches. I've been painting bats and witch hats and flying cats on broomsticks in preparation for upcoming art shows. Soon, I'll carve my pumpkin, celebrate my husband's birthday on the 30th and dress up at Samhain as the person I want to be in the coming year. I will start my year with a toast to my birth mother on the other side as I picture her always in a goddess-green dress enjoying the company of her beloved. I'll raise a toast to all the dear departed that are looking out for us as the veil thins. Wishing you all sweet dreams and blessings in the coming year.

Featured in the Halloween Collection

Hecate, 8x8 matted Original by Kathy Crabbe

54 Series

I painted 54 goddesses 54 days before turning 54 on Sept. 7, 2019. "We need the goddess because she breaks stereotypes of the feminine and thus frees women from the limitations of that stereotype. Women can be strong and beautiful, feminine and wise teachers, mothers and participants in culture...the goddess completes the image of the god and brings wholeness." (Rita M. Gross)

Bearberry Cat by Kathy Crabbe from the Cat Herbal Oracle Deck

Cat Herbals

Most of these watercolor paintings are from my 36-card Cat Herbal Oracle Deck. This deck and the artwork within will attune you to the healing, spiritual powers of the herbs and kitties. They were inspired by my feline friends and time spent in nature communing with the plant spirits and faeries of Southern California’s inland valleys..

Elfin Ally Oracle Deck Art

Inspired by Forest, Lake and Loon,
Fiery Heat, Coyote Calls, and Starry Nights

My Elfin Ally paintings are inspired by the wild creatures of my childhood home in Ontario, Canada in the Frontenac Arch Biosphere of Ontario, Canada, where five forest regions merge, creating a tremendous wildlife diversity and close to my childhood summer home, and my heart. It is located on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories.

In my late 20’s I moved to California and now find inspiration in the desert wine region and elfin forests of Temecula on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum where I learned to appreciate the searing sun, Santa Ana winds, starry nights, and El Nino winters of a desert life.

In 2019 I published these paintings as the Elfin Ally Oracle Deck: a 72 card spirit animal deck with oracles and keywords on the back of each card along with a 62 page guidebook. We all need magickal tools to help us deal with this often crazy world. May this deck be one of yours.

Faerieality Mixed Media Paintings

The Faerieality Series is painted with gouache and watercolor on Montréal-made paper (the city of my conception). Each painting is inspired by an intuitively chosen section of a book that I felt had ‘faerie energy’. I also intuitively chose a few words to collage into each piece.

I work within the field of Spiritual Automatism. This is a method of art-making in which the artist suppresses conscious control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway. Early 20th-century Dadaists, such as Hans Arp and made some use of this method through chance operations

Goddess Witchy Art

Devotional Art for your home and hearth to inspire and bless your magical life by Kathy Crabbe.

Goddesses are the love of my life and each one of these paintings carries that energy and Divine Spirit.

My Sawdust Festival Art Booth, Laguna Beach

LuLu in Laguna Silk Art

The LuLu in Laguna series was inspired by 8 years living in mermaidalicious Laguna Beach, California with my 4-legged friends: Squeaky, Pin, and Bubbie. Below is a photo of my art booth at the Sawdust Art Festival. Each year we’d build a different booth and often there would be a ladder to a second floor as well - great for taking naps! The paintings in this Libra New Moon Collection are some of my favorites and very best selling images that are finally being released as originals.

Nude Alien Paintings 2021

Expanding perception and exploring consciousness via the power of chance and portals into chaos realms. By painting ‘otherness’ expressed via nude, non binary aliens I share my lived experience of being supernaturally gifted in the way I make these paintings. Each element of the painting is randomly (intuitively) chosen from 6 different sources. All these elements invite chance into the painting opening portals into chaos and deep play similar to the way my neurodivergent brain experiences the world.

Zodiac Goddess Power Deck Art

I felt it was important to portray the signs of the zodiac from a female perspective to balance out the predominantly male/god influences within society. We must awaken goddess energy right now for the sake of Mama Gaia, Mother Earth and our species. Much of this artwork can be found in my Zodiac Goddess Playbook and Zodiac Goddess Power deck.

Wood Art Paintings, Jewelry & Objects

I paint with acrylics and acrylic gouache on reclaimed pine board, vintage finds and on California oak and sugar bush collected from my Temecula, California property on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum.

I am a bridge between this world and Faerie. Art is in my blood going back generations. I paint to survive guided by talismans: a white feather, being ‘on-the-road’, the Czech folk art of my mother’s family and my cartoonist grandfather who speaks to me from Beyond inspiring me to keep it light.

About Scorpio

Scorpio Goddess Brigid by Kathy Crabbe (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Scorpio the Scorpion, Phoenix & Eagle

 Time of Year – October 21 - November 21
Quality – Fixed
Element – Water
Planetary Ruler – Pluto
Anatomy – Sex organs
Natural Sign of – 8th House
Color – Blood red, maroon
Gemstone – Malachite, opal, topaz
Tarot Card – Death

Scorpio Goddesses: Brigid, Hecate, Morgan, Selkhet

Scorpio Power Animals: Alligator, Anteater, Bat, Caterpillar, Chipmunk, Crow, Dragon, Dragonfly, Duck, Flamingo, Heron, Moth, Mouse, Owl, Raven, Sandpiper, Snake, Swan, Turtle, White Egret

Scorpio Herbs: Bearberry, Heather, Hops, Wormwood

Scorpio Meditation
Forever beauty we dance and spin,
ride our chariot, harness the wind,
find divine balance within.

Scorpio Affirmations

• I am motivated, resourceful and determined

• I risk honesty

• I transcend earthly concerns and soar to new heights

• I am magnetic and mysterious

• I am Phoenix Rising

• I have no fear of death

*excerpted from the Zodiac Goddess Power Deck

Solstice Herbs to Celebrate Summer

Happy Solstice!

This morning after ritual with my tribe I pulled a Cat Herbal from the new oracle deck and Hyssop showed up!

Feeling so blessed, lucky and joyful to belong to a coven of witches and to be studying with such an amazing witch teacher: Francesca de Grandis.

Solstice is for singing and dancing and worshiping Papa Sun and the magick is especially powerful when we come together as a group.

I encourage you to make tribe, start a coven, or just find a friend or two to celebrate the solstices and equinoxes with because it’s so darn fun, and rich, and beautiful and healing. Blessed BEE!

Hyssop by Kathy Crabbe (Cat Herbal Oracle Deck)

Hyssop Wisdom for the Summer Solstice

Affirmation: “I have a choice.”

A traditional holy herb used to cleanse, protect and purify. Associated with dragons, kundalini and fire magic to help one gain focus and direction if feeling extreme emotions, fear and compulsion. Use for cleansing auras, hands on healing and to consecrate magickal tools and sacred spaces.

Astrology: Cancer, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Sagittarius
Deity: Tabiti-Vesta, Tiamat
Element: Fire
Healing: For the lungs and liver

About Kathy Crabbe

As a soul reader, astrologer and oracle deck maker the work I do touches many souls on a deep level. I offer sanctuary, solace and inspiration to soul seekers awakening and exploring hidden depths and other worlds. I provide a safe space and encouragement to assist my clients in shining light upon their gifts in tune with spirit and the divines.