Faerieality

I am a self taught artist intuitively inspired by a shamanic exploration of seen and unseen worlds. I combine unconventional methods like non dominant hand drawing, random word collage, and dreams to help ne lose my bearing and move forward with only a glimmer of faerie dust to lead the way.

The Faerieality Series is painted with gouache and watercolor on Montreal-made paper. Each painting is inspired by an intuitively chosen section of a book that I felt had ‘faerie energy’. After the painting was done I then intuitively chose a few words to collage into the piece.

About the Originals: Each original is a gouache and mixed media painting measuring 6x6 inches (15.2x15.2 cm) and is adhered to an 8x8 inch acid free mat, ready-to-frame (frame not included).

• Signed and dated by the artist

• Includes certificate of authenticity

• The artwork will be packaged in a clear sleeve and shipped flat in a sturdy cardboard mailer

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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.

Forgotten Victorian artist, spiritualist and medium, Georgiana Houghton is also an inspiration.

Paintings from the Faerieality Series

“Noise and Silence - wind in the trees, thunder, flowing water, falling leaves, rain, animal voices, bird song - we live amid a teeming polyphony of natural sounds.”

Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

“Day darken! Frogs say
By day…bring light!
Light! They cry
By night. Old Grumblers!”

Haiku Harvest

“How will you know when these other aspects of self begin to show themselves?…You may be sitting one day and find all of a sudden that upon blinking your eyes you are sitting in a different room. That is getting hit over the head with a two-by-four.”

Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light

“To see Schafer’s opera The Princess of Stars, for instance, the audience must arrive at a lake in the middle of the night, and find their way to the embankment. At 5:00 a.m., precisely the performance begins with the appearance of the presenter in a canoe. Actors and dancers can be heard, chanting in an unknown language from other canoes at the center of the lake, while the musicians and singers are hidden in the surrounding trees.”

Suzi Gablick, The Re-Enchantment of Art

“Weaving boundaries
staking out home turf overnight
with a web of soft imperative.”

Georgia A. Popoff, Coaxing Nectar from Longing

“Whenever you feel you need a break, take a walk and enjoy the wonders of nature all around you. If you open your eyes you cannot fail to see them. All of that helps to keep your vibrations raised.”

The Findhorn Community, The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation.

About the Artist - 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 and is a mentor at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.

Earth Day, the Nuclear Reality and Multidimensional Consciousness by Guest Astrologer, Emily Trinkaus

Next month (May, 2011) in the Creative Soul Circle I have Astrologer, Emily Trinkaus as my special guest. She will be participating in our Q & A Group so if you want to talk with her personally please sign up below. Sign up is free for the Circle, but access to the private Q&A Group is $19 a month or $144 annually, which includes my Q&A Group, a Moon Musing Group and the Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass plus lots of other goodies! Join the Creative Soul Circle.

*Every month in our Circle I will be featuring a new guest; in June I’ll be featuring Susan Rodio, Mystical Artist. You can view the entire year’s line up of special guests here. Earth Day, the Nuclear Reality and Multidimensional Consciousness by Emily Trinkaus, Astrologer

"Our suggestion is to not be frightened by these changes that are upon you, but recognize them as breaks in the walls of a prison that have been erected around you. Step through the cracks into your freedom. You are creator gods and goddesses." - Tom Kenyon/the Hathors, Increasing Intensity of the Chaotic Node

Just over a year ago, the BP oil catastrophe and subsequent dumping of toxic "dispersants" in the Gulf of Mexico was named the worst eco-disaster of our lifetimes. Now, as we celebrate another Earth Day, and are still just beginning to understand the effects of oil and Corexit in the Gulf and beyond (See Dahr Jamail's BP Anniversary), we're faced with an escalating nuclear crisis, birthed in Japan but quickly becoming a global issue.

Radiation is flooding into the atmosphere, into the ocean, into our bodies -- invisible, uncontainable and deadly. Long-time anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott, in a recent press conference on Fukishima, basically says that the plutonium being released is enough to poison the entire planet (thank you, Robert Phoenix, for this link).

Echoing the US government's cover-up of the environmental impact in the Gulf, the Japanese government has ordered their media not to report the reality of radiation dangers in order to "avoid panic." The EU and US have responded by upping the "safe" radiation levels permitted in food and water (see Radiation Spreads Worldwide).

Denial, although a popular choice among world "leaders," is probably not the most productive response. Radiation is the new reality on planet Earth, and we are going to have to adapt and learn how to respond to it very quickly. The nuclear war we grew up fearing (we who grew up in the 80s, that is) is happening, we're in it, and while the Japanese are on the front lines (again), no one is immune.

Uranus in Aries (as of March 11th) signifies rapidly changing and chaotic times in which we have to activate our Warrior natures in order to survive, and to be effective agents of transformation.

I'm just now really starting to get what Barbara Hand Clow means when she says, "Our ability to access multidimensional consciousness will be a basic survival skill as we approach the mysterious end-date of the Mayan calendar" (Alchemy of Nine Dimensions).

As long as we respond to the nuclear crisis solely from a third-dimensional perspective -- that of material reality, linear space and time -- the situation is hopeless. In this mindset, it's easy to fall into unconsciousness, escapism, depression, self-pity, addiction and denial -- the shadow expression of Neptune in Pisces.

But the higher potential of Neptune in Pisces is increased access to the invisible realm of spirits and ancestors, the dreamtime, multidimensional consciousness. From this expanded awareness, new possibilities open up, new approaches to seemingly impossible situations.

The Hathors (via Tom Kenyon) say: "However bleak a situation may appear to you, we wish to convey clearly this message: you are the co-creator of your reality. Move upward in consciousness, even if those around you move downward.... [Y]ou will have to find the center path, the narrow passage that leads upward." (Increasing Intensity)

In their latest message, Medicines of Light, they address the radiation crisis, and give directions for making your own "medicines of light," stressing that this is something that anybody can do -- no special powers needed. They say, "Even if you are left with nothing but the tools of your own consciousness, you can protect and heal yourself."

Some of the people I consider authentic and useful leaders in this time have helped me understand what multidimensional consciousness is, and how to move into this new reality. Many can be found on the amazing Conscious Media Network: Eric Pearl on the Reconnection, Barbara Marciniak on the Pleiadians, Bruce Lipton on Spontaneous Evolution, David Icke on the Moon Matrix, and Christine Page on 2012 and the Galactic Center. (CMN has a free 3-day trial subscription, FYI).

Accessing higher dimensions is not about floating up out of our bodies and off the planet. The higher dimensions can only be effectively navigated if we are grounded in our bodies and rooted to the Earth.

We just entered the Taurus season on April 20th -- in the Northern Hemisphere, this is the lushness of spring, Mother Earth in her full flowering of fertility, sensuality and abundance. This is a time for renewing our love, appreciation and gratitude for the planet and for our own bodies.

Also on April 20th, Venus -- Taurus's ruler and therefore this season's presiding deity -- moved into Aries the Warrior. The entry point to embodiment and Earth connection is the heart. Venus in Aries is the warrior of the heart, courageously opening to the world with vulnerability, authenticity and compassion.

As Sacred Activist Andrew Harvey writes in Heart Yoga: "Only intense and deep mystical love, strength, and passion, combined with a commitment to sustained transformative action, can now preserve the planet. This fusion of body and soul enables people to find the luminous energy, calm, and power that they will need in order to become Sacred Activists and give birth to a new world."

More About Emily

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I fell in love with astrology when I was 13 and read Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs. Suddenly the world made sense! I’ve been a passionate student of the cosmic science ever since. The more I learn, the more I’m humbled by its elegance, power and profound mystery. I started giving readings professionally in 1999.

I also have a background in creative arts – writing, painting and movement – and founded Portland Women Writers. I love working with other artists and writers to offer support for breaking through blocks and increasing access to the creative flow.