How To Develop Your Intuition, Heal with the Fairies + Origin of Tarot

WHAT ARE TAROT CARDS?

Moon Card Visconti-Sforza Tarot

Moon Card in the Visconti-Sforza Tarot

The Tarot is an ancient Western occult psychological and philosophical system consisting of 78 cards divided into the Major and Minor Arcana. The 22 cards of the Major Arcana represent in archetypal symbols wo/man’s journey through life. The remaining 56 cards, which are the forerunners of our contemporary playing cards consist of 16 Court Cards and 40 number cards divided into four suits.

Because the Tarot relies on the universal language of symbolism, its influence has, over several centuries, spread throughout the world unrestricted by language barriers or semantics. And, since symbolism is also the language of the unconscious, the use of the Tarot tends to activate the intuitive mind or right-brain center.

THE FIRST TAROT DECK

No one knows for sure where or when the Tarot first appeared. The earliest deck still in existence is the Visconti-Sforza Tarot Deck dated approximately 1432. Tarot cards are believed to be of many different origins: from hermetic sciences; Goddess times, from Egypt, spread by the gypsies, related to religious history, or created by philosophers. With this varied history numbers of avid participants throughout the centuries have been believers in the use of Tarot Cards in divination.

HOW ARE ORACLE CARDS DIFFERENT FROM TAROT?

Oracle card decs do not follow the same system as the Tarot but work instead with the system devised by their creator. Unlike the Tarot there may be no suits, court cards or major or minor arcana cards and the deck can have any number of cards within it.

Soul reading cards by Kathy Crabbe

Soul reading cards by Kathy Crabbe

SELF PUBLISHED ORACLE DECKS

I work with my own hand painted oracle card decks for giving soul readings. These decks, like the Tarot can be used for divination, to read the akashic records, or for past, present or future visions.

  • The Lefty Oracle Card Deck (52 cards) features The Leftys; guides, mentors and friends drawn entirely with my non-dominant left hand.

  • The Zodiac Goddess Power Deck (32 cards) features Goddesses for each of the astrological signs and was originally painted for my book titled The Zodiac Goddess Playbook.

  • The Cat Herbal Deck (36 cards) features cat herbal watercolors, each associated with a particular magical herb or flower. Magickal herbal healing advice is included with each reading

  • The Elfin Ally Oracle deck (72 cards) is a spirit animal deck with a thick guidebook filled with animal medicine and lore.

ABOUT THE “CLAIRS”

According to Loyd Auerbach, in his book ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists, (Warner Books, 1986), receptive ESP consists of precognition, knowledge of the future, retrocognition, knowledge of the past, and the “clairs.”

- Clairaudience is psychic hearing.

- Clairvoyance is psychic seeing and not, as many people mistakenly think, the ability to see into the future or into the past.

- Clairaroma is smelling.

- Clairgustus, tasting

- Clairsentience, a bodily sensation or the sense of touch, not the ability to feels others’ emotions intensely. People who have this ability are called empaths.

DEVELOP YOUR INTUITION

Healing crystals and stones

Healing crystals and stones

My personal 6th sense is visual, auditory, and feeling based. I’ve kept a dream journal since I was 13 years old and recommend that you also do this to further develop your intuition. Be aware that if you do mediumship readings you may feel their feelings, perhaps even how the ancestor died so keep all senses on the alert and learn how to set good boundaries beforehand with the help of a teacher or mentor. Be aware that a reading is never set in stone and that a client’s free will is always the final determinant.

WHY GET A SOUL READING?

I find that soul readings can help shift the energy and offers insight and guidance. I use chakra balancing, crystals, herbal messages, Goddess myths, astrology, meditations, and affirmations to promote healing.

A soul reading can help a client push through fear and clear energetic blockages plus can help them acknowledge, value and develop their own creative and intuitive powers. Very often the ancestors will step in and offer loving guidance and pertinent advice. Hearing from a loved one who has passed away can be an incredibly moving experience plus the advice is often much needed.

MY FAVORITE FAIRY STORY

My favorite paranormal experience involves the wildflower fairies of Southern California and a Native American Spirit Guide who lived near my home on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum. Scattered around my property beginning in late Spring, are a multitude of seed pods belonging to the wild cucumber plant; (otherwise known as Big Root or marah fabaceus which has a spine covered melon filled with nut-like seeds.)

wild cucumber

wild cucumber

I spend a lot of time in nature acquainting myself the flora and fauna in hopes of meeting with the local nature spirits (elementals). The fairies never appeared to me in 3D but instead shimmered and sparked out of the corner of my eye, almost like a dream vision loaded with information!

INDIGENOUS HEALING LORE: DEATH WISH

During my time spent with the wild cucumber plant I was in contact with a very sad and withdrawn young Native American woman who had shut herself away from the world. She seemed to be very connected with the wild cucumber plant. I later looked up the Native American herbal healing lore associated with this plant and discovered that:

Earth Goddess poem by Kathy Crabbe

“According to oral history, either this plant’s seeds or the root (or both) were once used to put an end to human lives. Here, so it’s said, was a suicide plant for Indians consumed by the death wish.”

I was astonished that the Spirit of this indigenous woman was in contact with me so I wished her well and blessed the land for allowing me to have this vision.

About Kathy Crabbe

Kathy Crabbe

Kathy Crabbe inspires others to live their dreams. In 2000 Kathy was bored and blocked creatively so she switched to her left hand. This awakened her intuitive right brain in a holistic way and inspired her to create a Lefty Oracle Deck and become a professional soul reader.

Kathy lives and works near Temecula, California on the traditional land of the Payómkawichum and in the 1000 Islands, Ontario, Canada on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories with her wee doggy Djinn Djinn and architect husband Mark in an adobe style home and lakeside cottage they built themselves.

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How to be Present, Innovative and Make a Difference in the World

Creativity and spirituality are intertwined…

Creativity is...

Live Fully and With Grace by Kathy Crabbe

Live Fully and With Grace by Kathy Crabbe

For me, being creative means constantly challenging myself to explore new frontiers, develop skills, play, dream and live fully in the present. Creativity helps one be present and in the moment. When you’re creating you’re not in your head. Taking action can get you going and feels intense and amazing.

How can being creative make a difference in the world?

Art, artists and all creative beings can teach people that there is a greater purpose in life beyond just surviving: there is the possibility of creating something so beautiful, thought provoking, intelligent, funny, magical that one can touch people on a soul level and change their life. The world can become a better place for everyone in the process; people can come together in peace and love to appreciate all the arts. Art can help us care about life, make it worth living, and make it worth fighting for the things that matters.

Art reminds us that we have a soul.

Art reminds us to laugh at ourselves.

Art shakes us out of our complacency.

Art wakes us up to our potential.

Ar reminds us to live each moment in the present.

Art is life.

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Margaret Atwood

Creative People I admire and why

Margaret Atwood: brilliant, edgy, biting wit, environmentalist, great writer working with integrity, makes me laugh and wince.

Maude (from the movie 'Harold and Maude'): great fighting spirit, passionate, young at heart, amazing home (a railway car), feisty, daring and loving.

Contemporary Japanese woodblock printmakers: their art is abstract, nature based, simplified, textural, primitive looking, graphic, bold yet subtle, beautiful use of color. Artists: Shiko Munakata, Naoko Matsubara

Success is...

- Knowing there are new frontiers to explore every day - being alone with one’s thoughts and creating - helping others through sharing, loving, kindness, compassion and insight .

Integrity is...

- Making a difference in people's lives through creating, writing and sharing with heart, soul, intuition, passion and intelligence.

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My Story

I have always been involved in the creative arts: painting, drawing, making music, writing, journaling, dancing and have pursued these passions with much intensity and focus, often preferring my own company to anyone else. Being creative opened a door for me into the world of imagination.

At thirteen I began a dream journal which helped me connect with other worlds and realms of consciousness. I learned how to trust and request dream guidance for the important questions in my life.

In my early twenties I was guided towards meditation to further my spiritual quest and found a class led by a wonderful teacher called 'Om' who had been trained by the guru, Sri Chinmoy. I continue to practice meditation along with yoga, dream journaling and creative expression and this forms the basis of my intuitive and spiritual development. Because I have learned how to access and trust my inner voice and visions I am able to connect with the Divines.

Kathy Crabbe in Laguna Beach

Kathy Crabbe in Laguna Beach

Shortly after moving to Southern California (Laguna Beach) at age thirty I experienced a Rebirthing session during which I envisioned an entire business scheme for my LuLu Design artwork to be sold as cards, prints, clothing and originals. Soon after I discovered the perfect medium, silk painting and within one year I had been in over fifteen art fairs selling my work. I was also accepted into Laguna Beach's Sawdust Art Festival where I showed my work for eight years. Each year my husband would build a two story booth for the two month long (10 am - 10 pm) show involving over 200 artists - what an incredibly fun, successful, beautiful creative community that was!

During this time I continued to celebrate the seasons with sacred circles, ritual, tarot, dreamwork and meditation and my visions increased. Laguna Beach is also a mecca for astrologers, another passion of mine so I had the chance to study firsthand with many wonderful astrologers such as Steven Forrest, Jeffrey Wolf Green, Donna Cunningham, and privately with Patty Davidson.

Capricorn Goddess by Kathy Crabbe

Capricorn Goddess by Kathy Crabbe

I also spent an intensely creative month creating, painting and writing a Goddess Zodiac Playbook based upon channeled meditations for each of the zodiac signs in combination with the moon. As the moon entered each zodiac sign where it stayed for two days I created a sacred circle filled with all the symbols, foods and colors associated with that sign. I researched goddess lore for each sign (which wasn't easy to since most astrology books were not goddess oriented), meditated, wrote and channeled the energy of that sign which turned out to be an incredibly powerful experience! Then I would paint this energy as Goddesses. I also included poetry, stories and myth into the book and then gathered together a circle to experience the book firsthand - it was truly created to be an interactive experience.

In early 2000 I started drawing and painting exclusively with my non-dominant left hand, also known as the intuitive hand because it's controlled by the intuitive right brain (if you're right handed that is) and for five years drew only with my left hand. Because I had recently moved to an isolated spot in the countryside I had no friends for the first five years and so the 'Lefties' were born and I discovered over 500 new 'friends'!

During this time I turned forty and Uranus Opposition kicked in to help push me to really, really stretch and grow. I realized that I had absorbed and learned all I could (I felt very full!) and that I MUST share it by giving psychic readings using my art. It was the Lefties who suggested in a dream that I turn them into Lefty 'Tarot' cards and give psychic readings online (along with encouragement from my husband, favorite psychic and a wonderful life coach) and so the next day I did just that! I started offering free mini readings in the Etsy forum where I had previously set up a shop selling my artwork and I ended up giving 100's of free readings, learning a ton in the process!

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Giving Psychic Readings at Karma Boutique, San Diego

I also started giving psychic readings at a local new age store, but soon discovered that distance readings (where I never met the client face-to-face) worked better for everyone because there were no distractions preventing me from connecting and channeling the Divine. When I give readings I always prepare myself through yoga, meditation, flute playing and with crystals so that I can become as clear, still and focused as possible. I receive clairvoyant visions, and sometimes smells, words and feeling sensations in my body which I immediately write down in my spiral note pad which rests at my side. I am usually guided towards specific crystals and oracle cards (I only work with cards of my own design). More about my technique can be found here.

It's been a lifelong journey of discovery, creation and intuitive, spiritual awakening so to be able to share it with you and connect others of like mind is a gift I will always be grateful for. We, each and every one of us have within us, the seeds to be intuitive, creative beings, for truly, we are all one.

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