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.

Embracing Differences with the Devil Card

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

Today I am channeling The Devil Mermaid from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot even though my energy is still low after selling my Wood Kitty Art at a Memorial Day art fair in Idyllwild, a lovely small, artsy mountain town in Southerth California near my home. Dogwoods flowered nearby amidst towering Ponderosa Pines, rocky peaks and small seasonal creeks and waterfalls; it smelled delightful!

But, back to the Devil Mermaid and into the dark shadows and murky waters.

As I dive deep into my own Shadow Material 'down to the heart's chambers', I drop the mask...

to embrace difference,
to love my demon.
Then to sleep a 1000 sleeps
Dreamless
as I sink slowly
to the bottom of the lake
I am the Mermaid's Gift.

In this telling I share hope and acceptance. May we all find more of this in our heart's deepest chambers.

Compassion comes through in all my soul readings which I offer as audio recordings based upon your specific questions and issues.

"Down to the Heart's Chambers", Tarot Card: Devil, 6 x 8 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

"Down to the Heart's Chambers" (detail), Tarot Card: Devil, 6 x 8 in., gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

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

Kathy & Mark, Idyllwild Art in the Park, May, 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, 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 Lovers Eclipse Mer-Fairy Support

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

I sit on my porch
soak up the sun
eclipsed (partially) by the moon.

I feel so tiny
that it's easy to become one
with the ALL.

I surround myself with Love
open my pores
feel.

Then share this healing
with Mama Earth, her water, water spirits,
life blood.

I feel in that moment of darkness,
inner womb-moon-ness,
the birds quieten, my crystal hums
and time stops

We are love.

This week's mermaid poem & watercolor depicts the Lovers card from my upcoming Siren Song Tarot, a 22 card circular Major Arcana deck.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

The Fates draw closer
Tarot Card: "Lovers"

The Fates draw closer by Kathy Crabbe, Tarot Card: "Lovers", 9x12 inches., acrylic gouache, watercolor, ink, collage on paper, 2024.

The Fates draw closer by Kathy Crabbe (detail), Tarot Card: "Lovers", 9x12 inches., acrylic 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 teach at Wise Woman School and review divination decks for Witches & Pagans

Isle of Mist Seer Mer-Faerie Support

Dear Mer-Moon Muser,

Moon-Child
There is no time
but NOW
For Love is
the WAY.

This week's mermaid watercolor and poem was just completed and it's from my upcoming 22-card circular Siren Song Tarot deck. Her name is "Isle of Mist Seer" and she will represent The Hanged One in my new Major Arcana deck. She also represents the ancient British Goddess, Sulis of the healing waters. Her shrine can be found in Bath offering a portal to otherworlds and the fae; a holy place filled with healing, magic & mystery.

Sparkly Mer-Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe

Isle of Mist Seer by Kathy Crabbe

Isle of Mist Seer by Kathy Crabbe (detail)

Isle of Mist Seer by Kathy Crabbe (detail 2)

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 art and writing has appeared in Sage Woman Magazine, We’Moon Datebook, Creative Cronies Moon Diary, and the Women’s Museum of California. I teach at Wise Woman School and review divination decks for Witches & Pagans Magazine.