The Night Before Solstice (Crone Denial NO More!)

I got sick for a day, probably because I burnt out on marketing, so I'm throwing it all out the window for Solstice...letting go...ahhhh. As I sit in my hot tub and feel the weight lifting I relax fully and completely into Goddess; into me.  Funny thing is, when I do this two great ideas come to me.

1. I need to focus on ME and that's okay; in my art and my writing.
2. There isn't much out there for the CRONE online. It's Millennial dominated (and Gen X) and I am the bridge.

I was born in 1965 so I am the very first of my generation (Gen X) to turn fifty. I understand the computer and am comfortable there and I can share all I do with other CRONES.

Strangely enough,  I was at a store yesterday (bargain shopping, of course) with my buddy; a fellow artist and crone, and the checkout lady asked if I wanted the Senior Discount. "What?!" I said..."NO! I'm not a senior yet". My friend, Terri Stiles Alkayali who is, inquired what qualified one as a senior and then gladly took the 20% discount. Later, she laughed, saying I was in CRONE DENIAL. I love that term. Did she make it up? Anyway, here's to the CRONE and yes, I celebrate CRONE-DOM with my beautiful grey hair. I'm fifty and proud of it. ***Blessed Be***

About Kathy

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 Goddess-a-Day for 365 days and posting all works in-progress on Instagram at http://instagram.com/kathycrabbeart

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Summer Solstice Fairy Blessings & Beverages

Happy Solstice to all! Summer is the season of fire; healing fire; a time to work on Fire Magick; to purify and burn away the old, so that like the phoenix we can return stronger than ever. Solstice means "standstill" and refers to the way that the sun appears to rise and set in the same place for a few days around June 20 and 21. People in Europe traditionally lit bonfires to celebrate the sun at its height of power and to beg that it not withdraw into winter's darkness. Fires ritually strengthened the sun to help ripen fruits and grain and it protected humans and livestock from insect-borne disease.

  The Lords of Shadow

Where the water whispers mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray.

Fiona MacLeod

Summer Solstice Ingredients to make a Tasty Tipple

• Rose, marigolds, geranium, hyacinth, nasturtium, violets and other summer blossoms (for decoration)
• Fire herbs: allspice, basil, bay, clove, dill, fennel, ginger, nutmeg, peppermint
• Flavourings: cashew nut, lime, orange, pomegranate, pineapple, walnut
• Any beverage which is bright red or golden yellow in colour
• Prepare beverage at noon, when the sun is most powerful

Resource Guide A Witches Brew by Patricia Telesco Kindling the Celtic Spirit by Mara Freeman

Kathy Crabbe, Kattern is grace under pressure, 2003, mixed media on paper, 8x10”. 

Creative Soul Suggestion: You have a choice; to be truly alive in each and every second or to die a bit with each breath. You choose.