How to Make Magick Happen with The Magician Tarot Card

I am proud to say that I just finished my Siren Song Tarot Deck! This deck will be a majors-only deck of 22 cards with the meaning on the back, all packaged in a cloth bag. I will also have a chapbook of tarot poetry and coloring book pages as well (most likely in 2025). 

Painting and writing poems for the mermaids has brought so much enchantment, bliss and purpose into my life and I hope they do so for you too.

Below is the last watercolor painting from the deck completed this Monday, "The Magician". Here is her poem and some paraphrased questions from the inspirational Tarot Workbook by Mary Greer.

1-Magician-Mercury

1. What are you focusing on energetically?
2. Are you clear in your purpose?
3. What gifts and skills do you bring to the table?
4. How are you sharing your talents with others?
5. What do you want others to receive, believe or see?

The Mermaid Magician Poem

Let me drown
quickly
beautifully
So I may become
mermaid again.

Carry me to
my Sea Home.
Let me be
brave enough
to swim,
breathe in
dark oxygen
created 12,000 feet under the ocean surface
in the deepest of the deep
waters.

These polymetallic nodules or “battery rocks”
make miracles
keeping us alive
when we plunge
so deep
it feels like we’ll
never return.

The energy really flows by Kathy Crabbe (Siren Song Tarot)

The energy really flows by Kathy Crabbe (Siren Song Tarot)

"The Energy Really Flows", 8.25 x 11 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024. Purchase here.

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.

I Hear the Call of Spirit: How to Connect with the Judgment Tarot Card

This week’s mermaid painting from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot deck depicts the Judgment Card (Pluto) in the Major Arcana. To help you delve more deeply into the meaning of this card here are some questions paraphrased from Mary Greer’s excellent book “Tarot for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation”.

• What is calling to your spirit right now?

• Are you experiencing any realizations or epiphanies transforming your reality?

• Who are what are you connecting with on a soul deep, cellular level?

The Spirit of a Poet by Kathy Crabbe.

I hear the Call of Spirit,
of witches, mermaids, fae;
naturally neurodivergent,
weirdos, outcasts, whistle blowers,
misunderstood, attacked, cancelled.

How do we find each other?
Learn from one another?
Change the world together?

Check out this wee Instagram video of the painting above, filmed amongst the grapes in my Temecula Wine Country home.

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 Neurodivergent Sun Mermaid from my Upcoming Siren Song Tarot Deck

Mer Friends,

I draw, trusting in my Gods to guide me bibliomantically, through chance and synchronicity and I follow up with poetic musings guided by this new Tarot of Mermaids I am working on. I am becoming more honest, more transparent, more vulnerable and stronger the deeper I dive into this project.

To read a snippet of my Sun poem and my response to a Sun Card question posed by Mary K. Greer in her book “Tarot For Yourself” please scroll down - it's not for everyone, only those who are diving deeply alongside me in solidarity with all the Mer-Freedoms we are discovering along the way.

Feel the Threads of Magic Mermaid by Kathy Crabbe, 9x12 in., gouache, watercolor, ink and collage on paper, 2024.

The Mermaid’s Secret (A Snippet)

I followed the rules for too long,
but now I am older,
disbelieving these systems.

To have survived
is something.

To have created
is something.

This wrinkled Mermaid Body is illuminated,
though tempered by your disbelief
in hidden disability…

Sun Card Question: What do you now understand?

By embracing my Neurodivergence I accept my differences.

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.

How to Identify Your Core Strength

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

As the Fool dictates (from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot deck); minutes before sending this out I re-write my entire article. To read the original version including Tarot Tips click here.

I am blessed...to adapt this final line from Byung-Chul Han's book "Psycho-Politics Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power" (a critique of individualism and the pathologies underlying contemporary hyper-individualism) to suit my Mermaids.

Mer Version
The Fool does not exist as a subject - they are more like a mollusc; an existence simply open to light.

The Fool can teach us how to let go of assumptions and be true to our core self.

How?

By opening to our light ~ when do you shine the brightest? This is your core strength; when you feel absorbed and in the flow you know that you are doing your soul's core strength. For me, it's painting, giving readings, dancing, swimming, writing...So yes, you can have many core strengths!

Which of your core strengths is at the top of your list? If you don't know simply open yourself to the light and ask your gods, higher power, ancestors, the Universe for guidance; for a sign, a clue, a symbol, a dream or pull an oracle/tarot card asking: "Show me my top core strength" and then trust in you. You know You best. Just remember you are blessed.

Please note, this philosophy is at the core of all I do as a soul reader, artist and human being.

"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.

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

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe
Artist & Soul Reader

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 Neurodivergent Moon Tarot Card

Sea Friend,

As I sit at my desk/altar penning this I have a lot of questions about fear, death, masking and Neurodivergence which I will attempt to address in the coming weeks with a poem dedicated to this week's Siren Song Tarot Card: The Moon.

With the help of the Hagstone and Hecate necklaces I just received from the Edinburgh Museum of Magick, Fortune-telling & Witchcraft I will attempt to go deep within this Piscean Mystery Moon card's meaning to pull out Mermaid Secrets from the ocean's depths...to listen carefully and to find a way to connect to my true self, beneath the mask and then share it with you, of course.

I am currently working on a 17 week project for a creativity class with my spiritual witch mentor Francesca De Grandis. I will use this time to finish the last six paintings from the Major Arcana of my Siren Song Tarot and then really dig deep to explore these cards that represent all of human experience. I will also include poetry, travel notes, sketches, musings and tarot wisdom during my travels to Canada in late July through October. I plan to have a finished galley for a book by the end of the 17 weeks that will be self published or I will find a publisher for it.

"Move into that Still Place Inside Yourself" by Kathy Crabbe. Tarot Card: Moon, 8.5 x 12 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

"Move into that Still Place Inside Yourself" (detail) by Kathy Crabbe. Tarot Card: Moon, 8.5 x 12 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

This week's newest watercolor features the Moon card from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22-card circular Major Arcana deck.

Upcoming Art Events

Idyllwild Art in the Park
June 8 - 9
10 - 5 pm
54915 Ridgeview Dr (ICC Kid's Playground)
Idyllwild, California
idyllwildartinthepark.com
*I'll have a booth with my Wood Cat Art & decks

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony
Color Exhibit
May 12 - July 5
36701 Highway 79 South
Temecula, California
(951) 302-3837
dorlandartscolony.com

Neuk Perspectives
July 4 - July 28
WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Stockbridge, off Hamilton Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
@waspsstudios
Private view: Wednesday, 3rd July, 2024, 6-8 PM
For more information, including access information, visit: neukcollective.co.uk/exhibition

New Moon Blessings!
Kat Crab
Soul Reader + Artist
*New Moon in Gemini, June 6, 5:38 am PDT*

Idyllwild Art in the Park Booth by Kathy Crabb

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.