Calling all Warrior Women

Lately I've been connecting more with Goddess as warrior and so my paintings reflect that. I associate warrior Goddesses with the elements of fire and air; turbulent, creative, passionate; women who seek change and truth and revolution. It's time, don't you think? Below you will find a video featuring three warrior Goddesses, one of whom is Tangerine Bolen, Revolution Truth founder and director and a good friend of mine. The words were written by Tangerine and spoken and danced by Rivera Sun, author of The Dandelion Insurrection. Music is by Crowfoot.

Art above is from my Creative Soul Guide series. New: Soul Essence Portraits & Reading.

Kathy Crabbe is a Creative Soul Guide, artist, author and educator 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 online resources, inspirational art, Divine Feminine eClasses, eBooks, and Creative Soul Readings infused with a rich background in the arts.

Giving Thanks

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My good friend Tangerine just posted this on Facebook because today is Thanksgiving and it bears repeating:

I know the madness of millennia, the ways we human beings repeat our patterns ad nauseum - seemingly hellbent on our own, and on this planet's destruction. I know the origins of this day, and how people and cultures everywhere, throughout history, have eradicated entire groups in their blind greed, or in the name of "progress".

And knowing this, fully understanding the darkness that flows through the veins of the human race, and our deep fallibility and seeming inability to truly overcome it, I still choose to hone in on the beauty and grace and profound love we are also able to fund. I choose to focus on what is hopeful about us, no matter what we've done. And that is because I believe in us, I believe in our ability to overcome - even ourselves.

I am thankful for all of you, for the life I have been given, no matter its trials, and for the chance to touch you, to be touched by you, and to face a future we all know asks us to have great courage, great vision, great heart.

And I am thankful for just that, the courage that runs through my veins, the vision that pulses and grows as it alights upon yours, and for a heart both broken and full, one deeply humbled, one threaded through with the greatest, and most unbounded sort of love.

Tangerine Bolen

Thank you to all my friends and family for all your continued support and love - you mean the world to me.

The God of Poets Has Two Hands

My mom calls this one sinister, my best friend, Jen calls it 'almost holy' but whatever happened during the process of creation, I can't really say, it felt channeled and it felt like having my good friend, Tangerine of Revolution Truth visit while I painted helped make it what it is. Astrologically, both my progressed moon and sun are in Scorpio; it's time to cut the bullshit, no? Sinister or holy, what do you think? The Poet Has Come Back (by Margaret Atwood)

The poet has come back to being a poet after decades of being virtuous instead.

Can’t you be both? No. Not in public.

You could, once, back when God was still thundering vengeance

and liked the scent of blood, and hadn’t got around to slippery forgiveness.

Then you could scatter incense and praise, and wear your snake necklace,

and hymn the crushed skulls of your enemies to a pious chorus.

No deferential smiling, no baking of cookies, no I’m a nice person really.

Welcome back, my dear. Time to resume our vigil,

time to unlock the cellar door, time to remind ourselves

that the god of poets has two hands: the dexterous, the sinister.

Hidden Truth

One of my best friends suggested that my newest painting series, Journey Into Intimacy is all about penises and vaginas. If so, than this latest in the series is right on target although that was not my intention when I started it.  But I can say that having one of my best friends, Tangerine Bolen, an academic activist, writer and founder of Revolution Truth stay with me for 10 days really changed my life and exposed me to the hidden, bloated underbelly of the capitalist system over-running our country; we are in a sorry state and we need to wake up. I recommend Pulitzer prize winning author, Chris Hedge's book Death of the Liberal Class and his Truth Dig column to get you going.

All we have, as Vaclav Havel writes, is our own powerlessness. And that powerlessness is our strength. The survival of the (Occupy) movement depends on embracing this powerlessness. It depends on two of our most important assets—utter and complete transparency and a rigid adherence to nonviolence, including respect for private property. This permits us, as Havel puts it in his 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless,” to live in truth. And by living in truth we expose a corrupt corporate state that perpetrates lies and lives in deceit. ~ Chris Hedges, Occupy Draws Strength from the Powerless