Scorpio New Moon Goddess

New Moon in Scorpio Blessings to You! Here’s a Scorpio Goddess to help you connect with the deep and magickal power of the moment ‘cause i painted Her during this New Moon and remember to set your New Moon intentions for the month ahead knowing that its Lunar Samhain as well which heightens the potency of your new moon wishes ie. Its the Celtic New Year!

The Scoop: Since beginning year two Advanced Training in Celtic Faerie Shamanism with Francesca De Grandis, I’ve felt the power building. I’ve also gone back to marketing and business; something I took a break from over the summer to focus on my abstract watercolor landscape series. I’m also honing in on business staples (but from an artist’s perspective) such as my mission, purpose, target market and unique value proposition thanks to watching and learning from Ann Rea’s one page biz plan and free videos. I’m also ready for a complete website revamp since I’m not too happy with how my WordPress site is functioning on a cell phone. I’m debating between two platforms: SquareSpace or Shopify so that I can finally sell artwork directly from my website.

Here’s a sampling of some of my latest Goddess inspired paintings which were created with both my right and left hands. Why? Because I wouldn’t want to get ‘too perfect’ or precious with my work so I like to shake things up by using both hands and uniting my brain, so to speak.

More Goddess Goodness

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living 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

Finding your voice, speaking your truth: New Moon in Leo

Dear Creative Soul,

Thanks for your patience since I haven't sent out a Museletter since July 1.  I've been busy painting watercolors outside (plein air) where it's been an incredible summer here in Southern California; not too hot (until yesterday) and kinda monsoonal which makes for some amazing cloud formations and of course, incredible sunsets!

This New Moon is all about finding our voice and speaking our truth.

I'd like to reference this quote from The View From the Studio Door: How Artists Find Their Way In An Uncertain World by Ted Orland:

"At its best, contemporary art provides a stunning display of the range of freedom, diversity and pure creativity of the human mind. At it's worst we're left with art that offers only imagination without vision, goals without values, individuality without character."

Painting daily for the 365 Day Challenge (The 52 Project) has brought all of this questioning to the surface and I find that I'm expressing a very pagan viewpoint through my art. I'm expressing my values as a pagan; a nature worshipper, and my vision; to be at one with nature; not above or below, but at one. This centers me and gives my life purpose.

I paint and sketch in nature; that's my charge, my spark. Then I take those sketches/paintings home and I create new, more abstracted paintings by taking them to their core simplicity; their essence.  Which is exactly what I do in my Creative Soul Readings; I get to the meat, the juice, the depths. That's what matters.

Now, your turn: what's beyond your:

• imagination
• goals
• individuality

It's time to go deeper within and this New Moon in Leo is the perfect time to find out who you are especially with Venus retrograding here while conjuncting the Sun. Venus, ruler of love and beauty and relationships retrogrades every 8 years, so take a look back to see what you were doing 7-8 years ago - does it relate to what's happening now? What relationships, patterns, loves, are popping up again? Where does Venus retrograde touch your chart? (it's in Leo during this retrograde.)

By the way, it's a big year for me; I'm turning 50 on September 7th and I'll be celebrating by canoeing in cottage country with my dearest love and partner - ahhh, sweet blisssssss!

New Moon in Leo Altar Suggestions from my Zodiac Goddess Playbook

• Leo – The Lion
• Time of Year – Summer, July 23 – August 23
• Quality – Fixed
• Element – Fire
• Planetary Ruler – The Sun
• Anatomy – Heart, spine
• Natural Sign of – 5^th House
• Color – Gold, orange, scarlet
• Gemstone – Amber, diamond, ruby
• Tarot Card – Strength
• Goddesses – Amaterasu, Bast, Cybele, Hestia, Ishtar, Sekhmet, Tara, Vesta

Leo Affirmations

• I am special and loved
• My heart is open
• I am awake and in tune with my spiritual self
• My inner child is alive and well
• I am a creative being bursting with joy
• I am one with the Sun
• I am generous and loving

Upcoming Events

San Clemente Art Fair When: August 15,16, 10-5 pm Where: San Clemente Community Center Grounds, I'm in space C9 Website

Creative Soul Readings at Learning Light Foundation When: 2nd Saturdays, 10-5 Where: 1212 E. Lincoln Ave, Anaheim, California

Temecula Artist's Circle Support Group When: 4th Sunday of the month, 11 - 1 pm Where: Ryan Bros Coffee, Temecula, California Private Facebook Group

Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass ~ Leo Moon Term Where: Susun Weed's Wise Woman University eClass

Links

• Creative Soul Readings
• Past Life Readings
• Astrology Reports
• Kathy's Books
• LuLu in Laguna Art
• Instagram: daily art pix
• Tumblr: art blog

Where's the Moon? New Moon in Leo, August 14, 7:53 am, Pacific Time

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Sparkly Blessings! Love, Kathy Crabbe

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. Learn more here.

New Moon in Gemini: Curiouser & Curiouser

I'm really excited about this New Moon. It's in Gemini for starters; a great place for explorers, visionaries, communicators, teachers. So let's focus all our intentions this month on being guided and being guides; spiritual guides and spirit guides.

As part of The 52 Project, a 52 week art journaling experiment I'm participating in (we're in the 6th week) I'm painting a lefty-a-day (a non dominant hand drawing) and I'm freeing myself from focusing on the 'biz of art'.

So, what IS my focus? Yes, art, but what is my art trying to COMMUNICATE?

Who am I? Who are you? Apart from your work, your interests, etc.

I AM DIVINE. YOU ARE DIVINE.

In the end, nothing else matters, right?

I am allowing myself to be GUIDED for these 52 weeks and let me tell you, it ain't easy, even as a professional creative soul guide.

Gemini Moon isn't necessarily about going too deep, that's more Scorpionic territory, but it is about opening your mind and your spirit to the unexpected. Get CURIOUS! Break up your routine. Play!

Sounds frivolous, you say? Maybe so, but play IS sacred. Letting loose joggles our cells around just enough to let the big stuff, the important stuff in, so when we're ready, we can explore it in more depth.

Today I'm heading out to wine-tasting with a bunch of Millenials in a limo including three Geminis so the Gemini pump will be primed for Tuesday's New Moon. For a hoot, I'll post pix on my Instagram at http://Instagram.com/LeftyCrab

For a fabulous New Moon intention technique please click here and start your month off with a pop.

Gemini New Moon Altar Suggestions from my Zodiac Goddess Playbook

Gemini – The Twins Time of Year – Spring, Summer Solstice, May 21-June 21 Quality – Mutable Element – Air Planetary Ruler – Mercury Anatomy – Arms, hands, lungs, respiratory/nervous system, shoulders Natural Sign of – 3rd House Color – Pale green, silver, yellow Gemstone – Agate, aquamarine, beryl Tarot Card – The Lovers Goddesses – Feng P’O P’O, Iris, Hina, Tatsuta Hime (The Wind)

Gemini Meditation Lighten up that heavy load, Release your baggage centuries old, The philosopher within Wants to sing!

Gemini Affirmations • I am adaptable and inventive • I am curious and on the move • I have a radically open mind • I am a dancing, rainbow spirit • I communicate well and teach that skill to others • I let go easily and quickly

Find your Gemini wings - Seek the unexpected - Flood your senses with stimuli - Let your curiosity keep you on the move - Weave social networks - Juggle tasks and cross-pollinate ideas

Upcoming Events with Kathy

Creative Soul Readings at Learning Light Foundation When: 2nd Saturdays, 10-5 Where: 1212 E. Lincoln Ave, Anaheim, CA

Creative Soul Readings at Karma Boutique When: June 27, Saturday, 11-5 Where: 4242 Camino Del Rio N. #19, San Diego, CA

Temecula Artist's Circle Support Group When: June 28, Sunday, 11 - 1 pm (4th Sunday of the month) Where: Ryan Bros Coffee, Temecula, California New Private Facebook Group

Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass ~ Gemini Moon Term When: 1 week before the New Moon each month Where: Susun Weed's Wise Woman University

  Links

• Creative Soul Readings
• Past Life Readings
• Astrology Reports
• Goddess Zodiac Playbook
• Inspirational Art by Kathy
• The 52 Project weekly posts/art

Where's the Moon? New Moon in Gemini, June 16, 7:05 am, Pacific Time

About Kathy & the Leftys

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muses, Abby the big, 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 (The 52 Project) and posting all works in-progress daily on Instagram and weekly here.

New Moon in Taurus: A Mind Changing Meditation

So, as I started to meditate for this New Moon in Taurus I suddenly stopped because the paints and my Leftys were calling to me louder than words and so I listened and this is what emerged.

Taurus New Moon Lefty in Progress by Kathy Crabbe

Taurus New Moon Lefty in Progress by Kathy Crabbe

Taurus New Moon Lefty by Kathy Crabbe

Now that she's sitting on my altar I can begin my meditation and New Moon Reading and I invite you to come along.

I have no great words of wisdom...I do have clouds after a rain with a blue sky peeking through and several tousle headed birds shaking off the rain that we so desperately need here in not-so-sunny SoCal and rays of light shining through my windows and silence, precious as rain. I have love and laughter and friends and family to share them with and a big, shaggy, black dog to take on long walks. I have tears and sorrow too, for I am human. I have mentors and books and a forest, both elfin and Northern.

Celebrate the Taurus energy of this New Moon by appreciating all that you DO have and all that is yours to protect and care for especially in the Natural World.

We are blessed indeed to be here on Planet Earth, but She needs our help. What part are you playing in this vital task?

I recently started reading "Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark On Our Brains" by neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield (published 2015) and I am finding it overly negative so am not sure I can finish it, but this part really resonated:

The less children play outdoors, the less they learn to cope with the risks and challenges they will go on to face as adults...Sometimes, even quite regularly, you might be bored. But it was that very state of understimulation that impelled you to draw a picture, make up a game, or go outside to play. The point I want to stress is that you were the driver and you would be in control of your own inner world, your own private reality. But now the screen can be the driver...You are now a passive recipient. ~ Susan Greenfield

I do believe the above to be true and I have to question whether this next quotation from Charles de Lint's book "Eyes Like Leaves" will even apply to us anymore if our brains are being re-wired through too many hours of screen time.

(paraphrased to make it female-centric) A wise woman follows her deepest instincts - that is the first lesson of the Birch. ~ Charles de Lint

Be Wise friends, be open and tell your kids stories instead.

Taurus New Moon Altar Suggestions from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook

• Time of Year – Spring turns into summer, May Day, April 20 - May 20

• Quality – Fixed

• Element – Earth

• Planetary Ruler – Venus

• Anatomy – Neck, throat

• Natural Sign of – 2nd House

• Color – Earth colors, green, pink

• Gemstone – Chrysocolla, green emerald, moss agate

• Tarot Card – Hierophant

• Goddesses – Demeter, Flora, Gaia, Hathor, Hera, Nokomis, Olwen, Rhea

Taurus Meditation

I am of the earth, Gaia feeds me, I worship her body as I worship my own.

Taurus Affirmations

• I am practical, sensible and earthy

• I am sensual and loyal

• I am grounded and fulfilled in the arms of Mama Earth

• I am creative and persistent

• I grow deep roots

• I am slowing down and enjoying myself

• I take time to pamper and nurture myself

• I indulge my senses on a regular basis

NEW! Lefty Talisman Paintings to accompany your Creative Soul Reading

NEW! Phone Readings

NEW! Follow along on Instagram

Ongling Events

Classes

*Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass at Susun Weed's Wise Woman University

Daily Moon Vibes private FB Group

Protection: Lefty Talisman by Kathy Crabbe

Links

• Creative Soul Readings

• Past Life Readings

• Astrology Reports

• Lefty Talismans

• Goddess Zodiac Playbook by Kathy Crabbe

• Instagram: each day Kathy documents one Lefty a Day (in progress) as part of Riverside Art Museum's "The 52 Project" which equals 365 Days of Leftys - woohoo! This project is open to all and includes an opportunity to submit a proposal for a museum exhibit!

Where's the Moon?

New Moon in Taurus at 9:13 pm PDT, May 17 (Sunday)

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muse, Abby the shaggy black dog in an adobe home they built themselves.

Kathy giving Creative Soul Readings at Learning Light Foundation in Anaheim, CA

Why honesty matters in business AND in life

It's the Aries New Moon coming up; the baby moon, the self-ish, self-less Moon I AM moon with a focus on ME and on YOU and on Spring (or Fall) and on moving forward fearlessly, plan or no plan. As for ME, I've been re-structuring EVERYTHING in relation to my biz; sorting out what's important and what to let go of; sorting out my branding (another word for soul-work) and my products on offer: artwork, services, and classes and circles and blog...the list goes on.

Why should MY story matter to you? Why read on?

Because words matter. I matter.  And part of my community service IS this blog and the honesty with which it's written, so maybe it's the Honesty Cliff I'm jumping off this Aries New Moon. What about you? Wanna leap with me?

I'm gonna be honest when I say that my Lefty art comes FIRST in my biz. They lead the way. They also guide my Creative Soul Readings (my other focus) and they had their big debut as a unified whole this month as well - yahoo!

Okay, so...honesty.

I am 100% obsessed with my Leftys. I've had an on/off love affair with them since 2000 when they first appeared. They are pretty much all I talk about; that and my in-person readings.

Who are they? And why should you care?!

I DON'T KNOW - you tell me.

They were born when my right hand grew bored with drawing and painting and so my left hand gave it a whirl and LIKED IT. They helped birth my heightened intuition which forced me to start giving intuitive readings along with many other adventures like appearing on stage in Hollywood with my hero Michelle Shocked as she sang my favorite song in the background, "When I grow up I want to be an old woman".

The Leftys are awkward and weird and imperfect and charming and loveable and beautiful and tricksters, yes, TRICKSTERS.

They don't fit into a homogenized world. They stand out and they stand up for themselves and for others of their ilk.

The Leftys mean something special and different to everyone who encounters them. That's why, in creative soul readings I ask the client to interpret the Lefty card they choose without my help. That's why the Leftys were born - to empower folks to believe in themselves.

So, anyway...that's what I've come up with so far and if you like what I'm saying and you like the Leftys please support them and me and YOU by commenting on my blog or better yet, by buying a Lefty card, print or original for your Mom this Mother's Day. Here are a few choices I thought you might like. All Leftys are available in my shop.

For Mermaid Mamas

For Moon Mamas

For Strong Mamas

For Shopping Mamas

For Witchey Mamas

For Mamas with Big Hearts

For Mama Stars

For Sexy Mamas

Leftys are available for purchase in my shop:

Lefty Cards Lefty Prints Lefty Mermaids Lefty Originals

To sum things up as to why honesty DOES matter in business AND in life; because as a client/customer and business owner it is honesty that builds trust and trust builds relationships and that's what a business and a life is built upon. Make sense?

Upcoming Events

The Leftys and I will be at Heather Pilapil's Gallery Opening When: April 18, Saturday, 5 - 9 pm Where: 27371 Jefferson Ave, Ste. U - directions

Artist's Circle Support Group When: May, date TBA Where: Ryan Bros Coffee, Temecula - directions RSVP for Mayat Meetups

Creative Soul Readings at Learning Light Foundation When: 2nd Saturdays, 10-5 Where: 1212 E. Lincoln Ave, Anaheim, CA - directions

Creative Soul Readings at Karma Boutique When: April 25, Saturday, 11-5 Where: 4242 Camino Del Rio N. #19, San Diego, CA - directions

Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass ~ Aries Moon When: 1 week before the New Moon each month Where: Wise Woman University

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