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My Full Moon Altar with Lefty Oracle Card, Juliette Has Wings
Juliette's Song
'One day...' was my mantra.
‘One day I will fly.’
But ‘one day’ never arrived until I stopped, cold turkey.
I stopped trying and wishing and striving so hard that it hurt.
And I turned my attention to a star; so bright yet sooo far away.
I told my star everything, then fell asleep.
That night I grew wings and my star wasn’t so far away anymore.
Full Moon in Cancer: January 12, 2016 at 3:34 am Pacific Time
“Alice lives here now”…from my self painted Lefty Moon Deck: Just let go and be…be grounded & be safe in the arms of Mother Earth and Father Sky …let go let go let go …creative soul readings at www.KathyCrabbe.com
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Kathy Crabbe inspires soul-seekers to discover their innate gifts and talents through intuitive, creative expression in safe, relaxed and playful environments. She has been an artist forever and a Creative Soul Guide since awakening her own intuitive gifts at age forty.
Kathy lives in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muses, Abby the shaggy black dog and Djinn Djinn, the small scruffy one in an adobe home they built themselves. Kathy is painting a Lefty-a-Day for 365 days and posting all works in-progress on Instagram at http://instagram.com/kathycrabbeart
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ABOUT KATHY CRABBE
Kathy Crabbe is an internationally recognized artist and Creative Soul Guide who explores universal and timeless themes such as spirituality, healing, humor and love through her work.
Kathy's art and guidance radiates healing energy that connects us with our soul’s essence; like meditation it guides us toward the infinite source of love and wisdom that we each hold within.
“By sharing my art and my creative life in as many ways as possible I hope to inspire and offer resources to others who seek to awaken, connect and heal their own creative soul.”
Lately I've been investigating aliens and monsters and no, not due to any premonitions of doom, but because I believe they have something to teach us about ourself, the "other", alienation and our shadows. I'm reading a fascinating new book by Jefferey J. Kripal and here are my favorite bits so far:
The mythical themes and paranormal currents of popular culture are generally transmitted through two modes intimately working together: words and images...In the spirit of the conclusion of my last book, where I suggested that we think of an "author of the impossible" as someone who can bring online both sides of the brain, I have transmitted my ideas here through one left-brain-dominant mode (writing) and one right-brain-dominant mode (graphic art).
Rene Warcollier (author of Mind to Mind publ. 1948) who was first awakened to the subject (of the secret life of popular culture) by his own telepathic dreams, believed that telepathic communications most likely reveal a from of psychical operation that employs paranormal processes, predates the acquisition of language, and reveals the very "substratum of thought" in what he called "word-pictures." As Warcollier demonstrated through a series of drawings and his own text. condensed, telepathically communicated word-pictures are often creatively expanded on, exaggerated, and added to by the recipient's imagination until they become words and pictures, and finally stories - in essence, minimyths.
In order (for Alan Moore, creator of the self-conscious occult comic, Promethea) to recreate the sefirot or spheres of consciousness in his art, he first attempted to actualize each sphere in himself through a magical practice, an actualization that he then recreated as the comic. It was in this way that the pages of Promethea became "meditational tools" and potential "triggers fro altered states of consciousness," and the comic itself has become a spiritual tool." Reading is magic.
The closer we approach such a prime moment, singularity, or Omega Point, the more we will realize - with John Keel, I would add - that "the vague mythological beings of the past that have focused into the aliens of the present will son become ourselves as we become the very time travelers whose shadows haunt all our history, including the present, In effect, we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.
Indeed, whatever they are, the visitors are likely "responsible for much paranormal phenomena, ranging from the appearance of gods, angels, fairies, ghosts, and miraculous beings to the landing of UFO's in the backyards of America". They may be extraterrestrials, "managing the evolution of the human mind," or they "may represent the presence of mind on another level of being". The key for (Whitley) Strieber is that we cease being so passive and admit that we do not know what or who the visitors are. In other words, we must stop kneeling before the gods, quit "hiding in our beliefs," and begin actively, even aggressively exploring "a real relationship" with the visitors, whoever or whatever they are. Put a bit differently, we must "demythologize" them and evolve past "the level of superstition and confusion that has in the past blocked us from perceiving the visitors correctly" How, after all, can we recognize ourselves if we keep projecting those selves into what are essentially religious cartoons? When will we realize that we ourselves are our own authors?
Excerpted from Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Nothing can hold us back now. We are Women of the Shadows, free to know, intuit and dream the darkness - to heal, empower and blaze our trails, phosphorescence and moonlight guide the way. Chiron, Medusa, Hekate, Pythias, and Lilith we accept and allow Her wisdom to light our way. Into the shadows we grow, our fear night-blooming, making us strong, powerful, magical. We are women at one with the void, the wolves at our heels, we lead the way.
"For no special reason I am leaving you for awhile tonight I'm flying far above you Still love you You made things right." ~ From the song "Candlebright" by Stevie Nicks
If you are interested in Moon Collaging along with a supportive group of Moon Sisters then please join me in Term 2 of Awaken the Divine Feminine.
Divine Moon Muser, Elizabeth M. has posted her Waning Moon Collage on her blog - Peace, Joy & Creativity.
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