How to Make Your Spring Altar Come Alive

My Spring altar with a pic of my shamanic mentor Francesca De Grandis

If you're looking for inspiration to decorate your spring or fall altar then look no further! Each month at the New and Full Moon I post suggestions for your altar to go along with the zodiac sign of the Moon such as: gemstones, goddesses, foods, herbs, tarot cards, colors, affirmations and creative prompts.

Feel free to take my material and use it to dress up your altar so that your Moon Meditation is an especially blessed event. I hope that the wildflowers below, picked from the sunny Southern California hillside behind my home inspire you as much as they do me! Blessed Be.

At each New and Full Moon I also include a Lefty card from my Lefty Oracle Deck. The Deck is divided into the elements of nature: earth/air/fire/water and of course Spirit. I channel a short, inspirational message specifically for that moon and include a Lefty Affirmation. I encourage you to try out non-dominant hand drawing to stimulate your brain and help you focus and center. Here's what an art therapist has to say about drawing with both hands ie. bi-lateral hand drawing:

“In the case of bilateral drawing, there is an assumption that because both hands are engaged that both hemispheres of the brain are stimulated…I believe bilateral drawing, guided by a helping professional, is helpful simply as a method of self-regulation...Making marks or gestures on paper with both hands simultaneously also creates an attention shift away from the distressing sensations in the body to a different, action-oriented and self-empowered focus. It capitalizes on embodied, self-soothing experiences ...and takes advantage of the power of “drawing on both sides” to alter one’s own internal rhythms for self-regulation and well-being.” ~ Cathy Malchiodi, PhD, Art Therapist

Lefty Oracle Deck by Kathy Crabbe

Lefty Oracle Card Spread for a Soul Reading by Kathy Crabbe 2

Lefty Oracle Card Spread for a Soul Reading by Kathy Crabbe

To dither or not to dither, that is the question (from the Lefty Oracle Deck) by Kathy Crabbe

Miss Talitha spider-sister (Lefty Oracle Deck) by Kathy Crabbe

I call wrinkles 'god-points' and so far I'm winning (Lefty Oracle Card) by Kathy Crabbe

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Kathy Crabbe Creative Soul Guide in Temecula Wine Country, California

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe has been an artist forever and a soul reader since awakening her intuitive gifts at age forty.

Kathy lives in sunny Southern California with her architect husband and pet muses, Abby the shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn, the small scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves.

To order a Soul Reading please click here.

Revelation and Hope! How to Have a Dreamy New Moon in Pisces + a RAFFLE!

Gonna Fly Piscean New Moon Altar

As we sink deep, deep, deep into the Piscean Mysteries at this New Moon in Pisces on March 8, 5:54 pm pacific time, we seek wisdom, healing and joy. We ask our inner self what it is we most need to know right now to move forward with integrity and conscience. If that is simply to remain still, then ask for integrity and conscience to do just that.

During your Pisces meditation extend your mind out into the universe for Pisces Magick is far-reaching. Pray or request guidance from the Divine or from your higher power or self. If you feel so inspired please take some time and make notes so you can enter my New Moon Raffle below!

During my New Moon meditation and channeling session I was guided to let go of my Lefty Original "Gonna Fly" (see above) along with her/his story and let me tell you that IS a big deal for me. I have over 1000 Lefty originals and I've never ever wanted to do this, but now I am finally ready to let go. This original will be offered FIRST to my museletter subscribers - you can sign up below. I am also creating hand signed prints and I just now stocked them  in my Etsy Shop - woohoo! I will also open a Society6 store so I can offer you iphone cases, pillows, t-shirts and cards.

That is MY big revelation. Now, what is yours? Did you receive any guidance from your higher self, higher power, the Divine? Answer back in the comments below or just email me and if I get enough responses I'll spotlight you in a group blog post with pictures and links and other fun stuff so we can get to know you. If you're a Museletter Subscriber I will also enter you in a raffle for a hand signed print of "Gonna Fly" along with a 3 Month Astrology TimeLine Report. Please share this raffle with your friends using the image below along with a link to this blog post. I'll announce the winner at the next Full Moon.

Gonna Fly's Message: Deep blessings are yours if you can open to divine knowing-ness for HOPE is light-footed and bright and soft like a warm touch on a cold night Be crafty and Be Wise my friends

Sparkly Blessings! Kathy Crabbe

New Moon in Pisces Raffle by Kathy Crabbe

Create A Pisces New Moon Altar*

• Time of Year – Winter to spring
• Quality – Mutable
• Element – Water
• Ruler – Neptune
• Anatomy – Feet, lymph system
• Natural sign of – 12th house
• Opposite sign – Virgo
• Color – Sea green, turquoise, lavender
• Gemstone – Aquamarine, chrysolite, moonstone
• Tarot card – The moon
• Goddesses – Atanu, Dahud, Nix, Oto, Ran

Pisces Affirmations

• I believe
• I relax in solitude
• I am a mystic of the spirit realm
• I create to my heart’s content
• I open my heart to other’s realities
• My dreams, visions and intuition guide me
• I am the mermaid

 Take Time for Dreams

• Pamper yourself, just because
• Take time to empathize with a friend in need
• Meditate, relax, recharge and space out
• Honour your feelings within sacred space
• Attune to the music of the spheres
• Listen and accept your intuitive, psychic, mystical side

*altar tips are from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook

My little helper surrounded my New Moon crystal energy

Kathy Crabbe Creative Soul Guide in Temecula Wine Country, California

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe has been an artist forever and a Creative Soul Guide since awakening her intuitive gifts at age forty.

Kathy lives in sunny SoCal with her architect husband and pet muses, Abby the shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn, the small scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves. Kathy shares behind-the-scenes glimpses into her work and life on Instagram at http://instagram.com/kathycrabbeart

To order a Creative Soul Reading please click here.

Finding the Power Within ~ Aries Super Full Moon

It's the Aries Full Moon on Oct. 8th and it's gonna be intense so, as usual I've channeled a Creative Soul Challenge based upon a card chosen from my Creative Soul Deck along with a Gemstone Healing Song to be sung by the light of the full moon. I've also channeled a Creative Soul Body Challenge which I'll be sharing with my Creative Soul Circle; my Facebook group that you are welcome to join. Full Moon in Aries ~ October 8, 2014 ~ 3:50 am Pacific time

Creative Soul Challenge ~ How to find the power within

Whether we have power, are seeking power or are power-less; we all have the power of choice. Will we choose life or death? And if death chooses us, do we choose to die gracefully or kicking and screaming; resisting every step of the way?

No path or choice is inherently right or wrong; it's your choice. So how can you be of service to others who are making hard choices?

This Aries Full Moon we are being challenged to examine one hard choice we've had to make that felt out of our control and to ask ourselves: "Why did it feel that way?"

Let yourself meditate upon this choice for a while before responding. Then write out a strong affirmative statement proclaiming all you've learned and been blessed with due to making this hard choice.

Full Moon in Aries Healing Gemstone: Fire Opal

Song of the Fire Opal

My love is in bloom

for You for You

I pray to La Lune

for You for You

I sing this tune

for You for You

My breath, my heart, my soul, my gifts

for You for You

I am transfixed

for You for You

transformed

for You for You

Blessed to Be

for You for You

just me

more me

me me meeeeeeeeee...

Take a look now at the intentions you set at the New Moon (Sept. 23). How have they blossomed? If you didn't set intentions, what is coming to fruition for you right now?

With this Full Moon occulting (very very close to) Uranus and trining Uranus, Mars and Jupiter along with a Lunar Eclipse and Mercury Retrograde, we are stripping away facades, going deep within and seeking inner truths about ourselves and our creative fire.

How can "Fin", this month's Full Moon card assist you with that? Ask Fin right now.

Creative Soul Card: Fin

Fin's Song

This is the end, my friend

This Tall Tale ends here

with you

You, who are brave and true

You

who stand tall and true

You

who chooses to be true

to you, you, you.

Creative Soul Suggestions for your Circle from my Goddess Zodiac Book

• Element: fire
• Color: red
• Gemstone: amethyst, diamond, fire opal, garnet
• Plant/Tree: aloe, dandelion, holly, mustard, thistle
• Herb/Spice: broom, cayenne pepper, garlic
• Food: onion, pepper, radish, rhubarb
• Animal Spirit: ram, red hawk
• Tarot Card: Empress, Emperor
• Goddess: Amazon, Fuji, Kali, Sekhmet, Valkyries

If you like what you see here please consider taking my upcoming Creative Soul Class which will meet online and in-person at the New and Full Moon.

Purchase my Goddess Zodiac ebook here.

Purchase Creative Soul Cards and Prints here.

About Kathy Crabbe

I am a Canadian born, self taught intuitive artist and creative soul guide currently living in a desert valley of Southern California surrounded by ancient oaks and an elfin forest. I live in a home created by my husband that we share with our cat and dog muses, Spartacus and Abby. I’ve been drawing since age two and offering creative soul guidance since 2008.

Spirit Guide Reading for Sandi

How a Spirit Guide Reading works: Spirit Guides are wise teachers and guardians from another dimension that advise and protect us. They are dis-incarnate spirits (ie. animal totems, angels, nature spirits) that can act as spiritual counselors or protectors for us, during our time of need. I will also provide you with suggestions and techniques for connecting to your guides on your own.

My preferred mode of intuitive reading is via distance. This allows me to focus on you, your spirit and your guides in a focused way clear of distractions. Your reading involves preparations such as meditation and yoga and I will often pull healing stones, runes and cards from my four self-designed and painted oracle card decks, but unlike a tarot reading I will not actually look at them until after your reading is finished. The cards, runes and healing stones are tools that will help you absorb your reading in practical ways.

You can purchase a Spirit Guide Reading here.

Spirit Guide Reading for Sandi

(shared with kind permission from Sandi)

Yellow Calcite Point

To begin your reading I surround us with a sphere of Yellow Calcite.

Then a fairy calls out; a practical fairy – the five senses are important to you.

Encelia Fairy by Kathy Crabbe

Fairy Herbal Guidance: Encelia Fairy

Your energy state right now is Questing.

Encelia (also historically known as Copal Encelia) was commonly burned as incense in Northern Mexico. The act of burning Copal along with the accompanying holy language brings about two aspects of the Mayan world view; firstly the smoke creates connections with deities and ancestors and secondly it initiates a series of transformative processes that characterize the Mayan religious and cosmologic beliefs.  Copal is symbolically  perceived to be the same as blood, a sacred substance that is also considered to be an effective medicine for many illnesses. Copal is the ‘food of the gods’ since gods do not eat as mortals do, but instead gain sustenance from the smoke of the incense. In Mexico Copal is often added to love and purification incenses.

Guinevere appears next with long blonde locks…your energy is also attuned to ancient fairytales and Celtic lore.

We hold hands (on an energetic level) so I can read your energy.

I sense again your grounded-ness.

Brandberg Enhydro

To call upon your Spirit Guides I get some help from a lovely crystal called a Rose Brandberg Enhydro Harlequin Dow.

Your Guides are a bit shy at first; it takes some time for them to show themselves.

One is Welsh and tiny requiring silence and patience to show up. This being has small moth wings and carries a glimmering Fairy Essence and loves you so dearly. She is dark haired and her name sounds like Estela.  She comes to your shoulder then hovers around you giving advice about food, relationships and subject matter you’re currently discussing…’aprons’!

She has a sense of humour, is playful and jokingly says, “Watch your back HAHA”. She even pokes you occasionally to alert you or wake you up to certain things.

Next, a giant appears (compared to Estela) with horns. He is a warrior god and a protector, but very gentle, not aggressive. “Just call me ‘Green Man’”.

And then a motherly figure appears in a white and yellow ruffled apron by the name of Martha. She helps to calm you and to keep you from jumping into anything too hastily.

You will not usually be aware of her because she stays in the background (possibly she is an ancestor).

“Have fun” she says and directs me to pull a Creative Soul Card for you.

Creative Soul Card Guidance: Gloria

Gloria by Kathy Crabbe

Stick with it is the advice I get. Finances? It will work out.

Martha calls the Green Man ‘Jack’ and nods to him for more ‘challenging’ info to share with you so I pull a tarot card from my Greenwood deck.

Tarot Wisdom ~ Page of Stones ~ the Wren: New possibilities requiring money and security risks. Who is bringing you financial info? Affirmation: I trust in the information my body gives me and am learning to hear how it speaks to me.

Fairy Estela did not lie when she said ‘watch your back’.  it’s time to tie up loose ends. Don’t let anyone stop you from your task (your work) and your mission. “Like who”, I can hear you ask.  I see a friend; tall and dressed in pale yellow with long, straight blonde hair.  She can be a ‘downer’ and not helpful for your growth.

Estela says that you shine in these areas:

• Healing
• Working hands-on with clients
• Attracting new clients

And she says quietly….pssssst…’Jack is a worrywart!’

I also hear you asking: “What can I do to improve?”

Is there a Kevin in your life?

He is a grounding influence.

How about ‘Star Baths?’

Your Guides are also aware of over-saturating you with too much information!

So, to get down to the essence, the moonlit elixir of clarity we meet your next Guide.

His name is ‘Michael’ and he is a professional type who appears in a brown suit.

Next, all of your Guides gather in a circle (btw, Jack doesn’t approve of Michael).

Martha sets down the bowl that she is drying in the center of the circle and it sings (a singing bowl).

You just relax and listen and float in the sound waves; a place you very much like to be; very healing.

Around you is a circle of support ~ in the real world ~ people in businesses like yours ~ also brick and mortar places of healing.

It will happen…(but when?)

Carla has heart by Kathy Crabbe

Creative Soul Guidance: Carla has heart

Things will fall into place (almost effortlessly). Stand your ground and continue to facilitate positive action and thought and feel (envision) the fecundity of this, as if preparing to give birth. Journal this vision regularly ~ create it within. So Be It.

To end your reading Sandi, I surround you with peace, love and understanding.

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Sandi’s Comments: 

Thanks again for this reading. It's funny, I have read it over and over and each time I find something different popping out at me.

First, i want to say I love the way you put this together. I, to date, have not met my own guides/angels and so to read about them is super fun! If you have any creative advise on how I can connect with them, I am all ears. I have tried to meditate, but unfortunately, my mind is "ON" all the time. I am surprised I am able to fall asleep at night. I can quiet it down for short periods and lord knows I try daily.

Estella was right on the money with Healing, working hands on w/ clients and attracting new clients.

"Star Baths"? Not sure, although it could be this online class I am taking about Moon Phases and part of that is a bathing ritual. Could be, huh?

LOVE Sound Therapy healing!!! I have been to a few sessions with bowls. Beautiful!

Would love to know if you have any additional insight on these few things.

Thanks so much again for such a rewarding experience.

With Love & Light, Sandi Meegan (Portland, CT, Reiki Practitioner)

Guiding Your Creative Soul

Kathy Crabbe is a Creative Soul Guide, artist, author and educator who has devoted her life to exploring spirituality and creativity with passion and integrity. Kathy empowers soul-seekers to live the life of their dreams through online resources, inspirational art, Divine Feminine eClasses, eBooks, and Creative Soul Readings infused with a rich background in the arts.

Cancer New Moon Musings

Cancer New Moon & Solar Eclipse July 1, 2011 1:54 am pdt

The Well is empty so what do I do, I grab a 'lefty' aka Creative Soul Card (see below) and a moonstone and I dream.

I float without words, formlessly without intention, action or purpose; i don't need them, i am guided. My life is full (i have several who will miss me when i'm gone). i have nothing to give you, just my heart which you may carve up as you wish.

When words go, poetry appears; a language for the birds (no twitter jokes, please). I do have ONE wish though, that you are open to change, seek knowledge, get off your damn cell phones and worship Nature as your Mother. That's all I have to say (for now).