Here's my latest interview with the lovely and talented Annalee Jackofsky, upstate New York yogini, librarian, musician, spiritual healer and reiki master. We talk about how I got started as an intuitive and artist, the Lefty Oracle deck, inspiration, spirit animals, and upcoming projects.
My Familiar is a Purple Kitty #CroneClub
Look at you is available here.
The reason I love painting so much is because the whole process is a mystery. Often I only begin to understand the painting after I engage in dialogue about it!
This painting is now in dialogue with you. It's about you.
If you want to borrow purple kitty as your familiar or friend please do. I've had her on my altar for some time now and so far she's my favorite altar kitty from the Crone Club. I'm minus a kitty right now myself so I'll just have to make do with my painted kitties instead.
About the Crone Club: I honour myself as a Gen X Crone. I create Crone Club Charms as a release, a surrender, a choice, to love myself, to be strong, divine, sexy, whole and holy with humour and grace as we face the darkness together. pssssst.....read more here.
Look at you (Sag Full Moon) #CroneClub
Look at you is available here.
Inspired by this juicy Full Moon in Sag I got my groove back (finally) and painted this Moon Goddess Purple Kat Luv. The words that randomly appeared came from "Soul's Perfection" by Sylvia Browne (a book that connects me with my blood mother). "Look at you" are the words that appeared. What does this mean for you? That's what I find interesting...
I honour myself as Crone. I create Crone Club Charms as a release, a surrender, a choice, to love myself, to be strong, divine, sexy, whole and holy with humour and grace as we face the darkness together. pssssst.....learn more about the Crone Club here.
Hecate's Magick #CroneClub
If ever I feel freaked what do I do? As a crone I of course call upon a Crone Goddess, such as Hecate for protection and to help me clear and cleanse my space. This is powerful magick. I know and respect that and I don't mess around. I await any visions and guidance or signs and I pay attention. When Hecate's work is done I thank Her and bid Her farewell.
Side Note: It's a bit intense to work with Hecate (this was my first time) and things really did amplify but I felt much better armed with Her inky black/starry night protective cloak around me.
The painting above is a Crone Club Charm I channeled/painted during my time with Hecate.
About the Crone Club: I honour myself as Crone. I create Crone Club Charms as a release, a surrender, a choice, to love myself, to be strong, divine, sexy, whole and holy with humour and grace as we face the darkness together.
Take a Chance this Sagittarius Full Moon
It's almost the Full Moon in Sagittarius and in the spirit of that fiery, Amazonian Goddess, Artemis, ruler of Sag I will take a chance and share my feelings below. Delve more deeply into the energy at hand by communing with Artemis plus some Lefty Oracle guidance to help bring all your dreams to fruition because that's what Full Moon's are for no matter how challenging it may be.
Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy Crabbe, artist + soul reader
Channeled for the Full Moon in Sagittarius. May 29, 2018 at 7:19 a.m. Pacific Time
Full Moon Musings in Sagittarius
To begin I go into trance as a I sit within my sacred, protected circle and I pull a Lefty Oracle card and ask the question: "How can I help others and myself this Full Moon?" This is what comes to me verbatim (unedited) as I write it down.
Sometimes I find words more and more circuitous and i ask myself, "Do I have any worthwhile words to share?" I've been working with Goddess Hecate lately and all the freezers around me aren't working. Hmmm...frozen emotions? Unbroken emotions ...feelings emerging, feelings breaking out...words...just words, that don't capture what I'm feeling because most often I don't want to share my feelings. They are private. But here in this space I want to be of service so I share what I can with you.
When life hands you razor blades, what do you do? I make art, of course and I slice away unwanted and un-needed elements, to get down to bone...truths, or at least happy putty. (At this point, I'm debating whether to share any of this!)
But I will ask, that you find a friend you can trust and open your heart, in whatever way you can. If you're alone, share your heart with the trees, online, on paper, with your gods. I share mine every day by painting my Crone Club Charms and then sharing my favorites and a few words with my Crone Club. This brings me immense happiness, pleasure and joy, like nothing else.
Full Moon Lefty Oracle: Demon*
Mantra: I transform.
Affirmation: I journey into the dark to discover inner truths.
Element: Spirit
Song
Be brave dear Soul,
face your fright.
open the door,
welcome the light.
If this card appears in a reading expect the unexpected! There is a trickster in your midst. Maybe it’s you? Not a mean trickster, but a true trickster; one who shifts your reality and helps you see things from a new perspective. Perhaps you’ve become complacent, or lazy, or overly self satisfied, and are no longer seeing the big picture because you’re too caught up in small details and worries. This WILL change soon so get ready to open your eyes wide and see the world in a whole new way.
In my own life I do my best to see negative, challenging experiences on a deeper level and I ask questions, such as, “What is the teaching in this? What is being mirrored back to me about myself? What changes need to happen now?”
*Excerpted from the Lefty Oracle Deck and 92 page Guidebook.
Read my latest Lefty deck interview here: Seeds of Shakti
Read a recent review of the Lefty deck here: Tree Talker
Sagittarius Goddess ~ Artemis*
Artemis, Artemis,
Goddess of the wood
You are bows and arrows, death and birth
Midnight revels and pregnant mirth.
Wild woman, child, hunter of beast,
We find our true self when we dance at your feast.
Artemis is the virgin moon-goddess roaming the forest with her band of nymphs, bearing the bow and quiver, avoiding men and killing any male who looks upon her. She was also known as the many-breasted Artemis of Ephesus, a symbol of fecundity. As the warlike Artemis she is said to have been the special goddess of the Amazons.
I Paint Sagittarius
Channeling Sagittarian energy allowed me to trust in life and to leap before looking knowing that I am safe. When I seek truth I know Sag energy. Sag teaches us how to uplift our spirit, teach others, and carry the truth within opening us all to other realities. We must heal the artist, the creator, and the dreamer within. To create is to release ourselves into the flow of life. We trust that in freely expressing ourselves that we are doing it for everyone, because we realize that each one of us is a Creator.
The Quest Begins:
- Seek new horizons
- Explore worlds without maps
- Quest!
- Be outrageous
- Look to the future
- Seek freedom from all oppression
*Excerpted from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook.
About Kathy Crabbe
Kathy Crabbe is a soul reader, artist, writer and teacher who has devoted her life to exploring spirituality and creativity with passion and integrity. Kathy empowers soul-seekers to live the life of their dreams through soul readings, classes, inspirational art and online resources infused with a rich background in the arts. Kathy's work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Art for the Soul and San Diego Women’s History Museum. She teaches "Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul" at Wise Woman University, and has taught previously at Mt. San Jacinto College and HGTV along with starting a writer’s group and artist’s mixer in her town. She lives and works in Temecula, California with her two dogs and architect husband in an adobe style home they built themselves.