A Tribute to Art-Lover Sue Blanche

Temecula and surrounding area have lost a true art loving soul this past week by the name of Sue Blanche. Sue was my friend and a tireless volunteer at Temecula’s Grace Mellman Library, in charge of the monthly rotating art exhibit at the Rotunda Gallery. Sue was a loyal friend of the arts and a huge proponent of artists who challenged the status quo through their often marginalized, edgy, risk-taking art. What a sad day for our community.

The Path of Spiritual Consciousness by Kathy Crabbe, 9x10inches, Watercolor on paper.

Sue encouraged me to exhibit my Oracle Deck Zodiac Goddesses twice and my Faerieality series just last month. Afterwards we attended the First Friday Art Walk at Temecula’s only gallery, The Merc where we met almost every single artist exhibiting outdoors at the monthly Art Nights. It was a splendid evening and I’m so happy that this was my last memory of Sue; out in the community amongst the artists helping them connect with other artists and patrons and providing them with hope and a chance to shine! Sue shared her desire to find interesting artists to exhibit at the library and I shared my Facebook Group for local creatives: The Temecula Artist’s Circle.

Sue championed artists who no one else would take a chance on here especially if their work didn’t fit the realistic, representative artistic mold that is popular in this conservative, Christian fundamentalist town where showing even classically rendered nudes is a no-no.

Sue is a rare and beautiful soul and she will be greatly missed. Please feel free to share your memories of Sue below in the Comments Section. If there is to be a service for Sue I’ll share it here once I have the details.

Kathy Crabbe

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Bust OUT of Internet Addiction & Call for Witchy Crones

Happy Endings by Kathy Crabbe, Mixed media on paper, 2023.

Internet addiction makes it easy NOT to go within - not to trust our intuition - not to grow - but to be consumers instead. It is miraculous to have empty space: unfilled, boredom, to do less and not to fill it with stuff we don’t want or need and in turn we are left emptier and less fulfilled than ever.

Come
into Your Own:
Crone Time Space Dream Field.

It’s time to accept my role as Witch and Elder. To give that the sanctity and honour I deserve. To honour myself first. It’s not about money, it’s about being honoured.

CALL TO WITCHY CRONES:

I’m working on a new project and would love to hear your magickal stories, poems, creations of turning sixty! Email me.

Kathy Crabbe

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About Kathy Crabbe
Feel Kathy’s healing energy guide you with a gentle touch. You ARE in alignment with your soul’s purpose. As a professional seer Kathy provides you with a safe and encouraging space to shine light upon your hidden gifts and talents in tune with your spirit guides and the divines.

Kathy Crabbe offers soul readings using her own hand painted oracle card decks both virtually and in person.

Full Moon in Virgo Titania

Titania

I am the faithful one
But do not tie me down
I will destroy you
So be careful
don’t teach or preach
this may not be for you
What little I have is yours
Be careful, be careful
Take only what you need
For I am the Chosen One
and so are you.

Channeled by Kathy Crabbe, March 3, 2023

Titania by Kathy Crabbe

How To Give Your Intuition A Work Out (Pisces New Moon)

It’s time again to set your intentions for the New Moon. In Pisces this Moon brings us watery, blissful, spiritual vibes so take advantage of this moon-ey time to get some much needed rest (it IS the dark time of the moon so you may feel low-energy) and to be creatively blissed out through ritual, love, crafting, baking, making art, music or even just sitting in nature in meditation.

I turned to my one of my artistic mentors (who is deceased) by the name of Leonora Carrington and practiced the ancient technique of Bibliomancy which means I randomly (intuitively) chose a few words of hers (from her short stories) to guide the direction of this New Moon blog. The results of my experiment indicated that you may have a real need right now for more spiritual inspiration. I also want to tie that thought in to my newest painting “Bellona” from my upcoming Faerieality Oracle Deck.

Bellona Hand Signed Print

$20.00

Bellona is a Bibliomantically inspired painting. The quote that inspired her came from The Book of Shadows by Phyllis Curott.

“Bellona sliced another opening between the worlds and again she spoke the archaic yet stirring words, this time declared as a warrior’s challenge.”

— The Book of Shadows by Phyllis Curott

Bellona’s “domain included the entire arena of conflict, diplomatic as well as military. Even her name shows her importance, for the Latin word for war, bellum, derives from her name.” (quotation from The Book of Goddesses & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan)

This technique of Bibliomancy puts intuition via chance into high gear and helps one trust one’s intuition even more. You can too, it takes practice and working out one’s intuition, like a muscle, to encourage it to grow stronger.

Bellona (detail) by Kathy Crabbe (Faerieality Oracle Series)

I also wanted to acknowledge the heart-broken this past Valentine’s Day. The pressure of this day may be too much for those in trauma from any kind of heart-break, loss, abandonment, bereavement or sorrow.

I heart you, I hear you. Bellona, warrior Goddess stands by you as your protector “In the names of Sekmet and Horus. So mote it be.”

Pisces Oracle from the Zodiac Goddess Power Deck

Pisces by Kathy Crabbe (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Pisces Meditation

To feel love is pure warmth, wholeness, open-ness, selfless-ness, shameless, guiltless joy – that is love.

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

I Paint Pisces

During the Pisces Meditation I questioned Love. Love is everything from pain to pleasure and I needed to listen and love myself first before I could love anyone else.  But how do we know if love is true? Love is warm, whole, open and selfless. Love is shameless, guiltless joy. Later that night I had a dream where Love poured through me unlike anything I’d ever felt before.

My Pisces painting flowed magically and gracefully onto the illustration board and I felt Her energy calm, serene, peaceful and knowing.

Allow Piscean energy into your life by letting love in. Share your creations because you know they are coming from a place of love. Love IS everything.

About Kathy Crabbe
Feel Kathy’s healing energy guide you with a gentle touch. You ARE in alignment with your soul’s purpose. As a professional seer Kathy provides you with a safe and encouraging space to shine light upon your hidden gifts and talents in tune with your spirit guides and the divines.

Kathy Crabbe offers soul readings, psychic-mediumship, past life readings and astrology reports using her own hand painted oracle card decks both virtually and in person in Temecula, California and the Thousand Islands, Canada.

Bibliomancy & the Creation of a Painting

Dear Moon Muser,

I am immersed again in daily painting and in a world I'm creating called Faerieality. A world of bibliomancy, chance and intuition, of color and light, black and white, oh and especially of sage greens and hot pinks, of mushrooms and prehistoric horses, of jellyfish that look like tacos and fairies riding octopi.

While glum skies, rain and freezing cold threaten outside I visit and play in the internal, eternal realms of Faerieality which will one day become an oracle deck, wheeee!

If you'd like to play with me in Faerieality please enjoy the first painting I've released this year from the new and upcoming oracle deck.

The Once & Future Goddess

The book that inspired this painting is titled "The Once & Future Goddess" by Elinor Gadon, copyright 1989 and the quote from the painting

Here is the quotation that inspired the piece:

"Not all neo-pagans identify with Wicca. Some name themselves Druids after the ancient Celtic practice; others worship..."

Rights Included by Kathy Crabbe (Faerieality Series)

Bibliomancy

Using the ancient art of Bibliomancy I randomy (intuitively) choose a phrase from one of the books in my collection (I'm actually going through my entire book collection for this series) and write it down. This becomes the inspiration for the painting.

I then begin the painting using my non dominant left hand because that is how I connect with the divine most easily - its is as yet untried territory, the unknown and I can access it more easily with the left hand because this hand is still awake to the mysteries, moreso than my know-it-all right hand.

I paint the figure first. BUT I wait and wait for the words from the book and the spirits, gods, goddesses to guide me and I don't create until I have the get-go from them, in the form of images, colors, lines, shapes. 

In this piece I turned to a reference book of nudes for the body. I again randomly chose a nude and made that the body of this creature.

I continue to be led by the words and my guides for each step of the painting. When it is done I turn to the book again and randomly choose words that become the title and that I then collage into the piece.

About Kathy Crabbe: I have been called by Spirit to live a creative life and to be of service, both through my artwork and my intuitive guidance.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe
Temecula, California