Taurus New Moon: I Am Safe and Protected

Dear Moon Muser,
The hardest thing for me right now is just to keep going, knowing I am but one voice, one squeak, one noise, but also one great symphony when joined with your voice. Not in fear, but in LOVE.

To be not afraid, to be heard, and to sing our song of hope, for a future that feels very unknown and scary right now. May all that I do help to guide, heal and delight you.

For my New Moon Reading this month I'm doing it differently. I'm spreading out all three of my hand painted oracle decks, closing my eyes and asking the gods to help me choose.

New Moon Reading

Be a child with me.
Drop away pretenses, false ego.

Protect yourself
(as a child would)
(as a young person would)
(as an adult would).

Observe those defenses.

Ask your body what it needs right now.
Be in that dream for a bit.
Safe and protected.

Now look at the card I pulled above.
What is it saying? What are you feeling, thinking?

Next, thank the cards, the Divines, yourself for BEING you and for allowing your safety to feel good - without fear.

Blessed Be.
So mote it be.

Check out this wee healing video I made for the New Moon. (You may want to turn on the sound.)

For me feeling safe and protected is to dream of being in nature, safe, without my glasses, playing, with my brother too, in the water, the forest, the floating dock, in the air, on water skis, swimming, floating, diving.

When I look at the card “Mummy” I am alone, at peace, dreaming.

Taurus-New-Moon-Altar by Kathy Crabbe

Aries New Moon (Pick-a-Card) + Tips To Get Through These Challenging Times

Dear Moon Muser,
We will get through these challenging times with a little help from our friends.

You've probably been listening to a lot of talking heads these days to stay abreast of the news, but I'm asking that instead you take a break and go within, but deeper than I've ever asked you to before; past the fear, the worry, the anxiety - to the stillness and calm that is our core and lies within each of us.

You may have been reading this blog for the past 20 years or for the first time today, but this is what I teach: How to awaken, access and trust your intuition. Like a muscle, we need to work it, again and again - this builds trust.

Intuition needs nature and quiet. Even just a tiny amount - a bit of dirt, a small houseplant, a glimpse of sky and stars and a moment to yourself to go within.

This blog offers you just that so use it to work your intuition.

As usual I've pulled some oracle cards from my own hand painted decks for this New Moon so you can go within, ask a question (or not) then pick a card and scroll down for the reveal. I'm also sharing my own personal interpretation of the cards (before even looking at them) along with Tips To Help You Through This Time (things that work for me).

Time to take a breath, go within and pick-a-card. The reveal is below.

Card 1: Capricorn (Zodiac Goddess Power deck)

Capricorn Meditation: Focus your energies to allow creation.

Capricorn Affirmations

• I am self-disciplined, logical, persistent and efficient

• I am strong and I will endure

• I am ambitious, responsible and secure

• I am grounded and compassionate

• I am a success in everything I do

Card 2: Carolee (Lefty Oracle deck)

Mantra: I am free.
Affirmation: I dare to be free.
Element: Earth

If this card appears in a reading you are more than ready to forge ahead. You are brave and you are going for it; nothing or no one can stand in your way. Simple.

In my own life this card also speaks of raw, naked ambition and flaunting it without shame or fear. It’s a feminist card, a fighter card, a power card. Blessed Be.

Card 3: Spider Monkey (Elfin Ally Oracle deck)

Keyword: Curious
Meaning: You’re tapped into many little secrets floating around you.
Reversed: Your mind is playing tricks on you.
Affirmation: I am agile.
Astrology: Gemini, Mercury
Element: Air
Medicine: You teach us how to be agile female leaders.

Card 4: This Beauty is Killing Me (Lefty Oracle deck)

Mantra: I am empowered
Affirmation: I am beautiful in my own way.
Element: Fire

When this card appears in a reading it’s time to seriously look at how you might be damaging yourself, your health, your life. Wearing high heels, for example is extremely harmful to your feet and back and will cause pain for you at some point in your life. Are you hurting others or being hurt? Are you vulnerable? Do you need protection and education around protecting yourself, your loved ones, your home, or the natural world around you? This card is simply pointing out the price you are paying for so called ‘beauty’. Is it worth it?

In my own life here in Southern California I look around at all the plastic surgeries and there are A LOT. But what can I do? I can accept me and put myself proudly out there to share my idea of what beauty means at middle age. It’s silver hair, extra weight and wrinkles that add to my beauty, not take away from it. I have survived AND thrived and beauty IS middle aged and wrinkled. So deal with it.

My Overall Interpretation:

• Use these cards to find the sweet stillness within and to be with that stillness to renew and recharge.

• Ground, ground, ground - be with Mama Earth.

• Let your intuition guide you regularly.

• Listen to the birds and BE IN their song.

My Personal Tips To Get You Through These Challenging Times

1. Less news, more nature. I’m taking every other day off from the news.

2. Call an old friend (or email/skype/facetime).

3. Create more, read more.

4. Be kind.

5. Get organized - spring cleaning, anyone?

6. Listen to wise woman herbalist, Susun Weed’s latest podcasts for a different perspective on the covid19 virus plus listen to callers ask questions (you can call in too!) This helped to calm and relax me.

7. Go within to find inner strength, gratitude and to call upon a higher power, your gods/goddesses, spirit guides or universal energy.

8. Ask health care workers and elderly neighbors what you can do to be of assistance.

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About Kathy Crabbe

Artist, writer, teacher and soul guide, Kathy Crabbe invokes faerie goddess spirituality to heal, make whole and holy. She is Mother of the Lefty Oracle and Elfin Ally Oracle decks. She’s also sort of ambidextrous. Her work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Sawdust Art Festival and the Women’s Museum of California. Kathy writes a moon column for Witches and Pagans, is a member of Hey Grrrl Collective in Temecula, and mentors at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.

Pisces New Moon Reading: Find Protection & Truth

Dear Moon Muser,
There is alot going on OUT THERE.
Stay within this New Moon(th).
Be guided by Light.
Find solace in the dark.
We are nearing the change
(Spring Equinox-N. hemisphere + Fall Equinox-S. hemisphere.)
Never forget who you are.
Count your blessings.
(Be Corny)
...and sing.
You are everything
and nothing.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy Crabbe
Intuitive Artist, Astrologer, Soul Reader

New Moon in Pisces Reading

Card 1: Circe (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Circe or ‘witch’ was a fate spinner and a weaver of the destinies of men. She was called ‘The Goddess who commanded all the lights of heaven’ by Pliny an ancient philosopher. Circe lived as a witch and a weaver in a little stone cottage by the sea where she concocted magical herbal potions to ensnare sailors shipwrecked near her shores, turning the nastiest ones into swine.

Cancer Affirmations

• I care deeply for others

• I see the wounded child within us all

• I teach others how to care and wash their wounds

• I am sensitive and receptive

• I am safe and protected

• My home is my heart

Card 2: Whooping Swan (Elfin Ally Oracle Deck)

Keyword: Sublime
Meaning: Make peace with your enemy(s) for you will outlast them all.
Reversed: You are too caught up in petty squabbles to notice a shining opportunity.

Affirmation: I am true to myself, bringing winged bliss and beauty into the world.
Astrology: Aquarius, Neptune, Pisces, Pluto, Saturn, Venus
Element: Air, Earth, Water
Medicine: To live by example, and leave this earthly plane in a triumph of song.

Card 3: Behold (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Mantra: I delight.
Affirmation: Dare I eat the fruit of my delight?
Element: Spirit

If this card appears in a reading it’s time to plunge into the dark and pull out hope. Whatever stressful conundrum you’re currently in, know that you HAVE the resources and inner strength and power to find a solution and gain clarity. You CAN pull it off. It may require some dirty work, so buckle down and get your hands dirty. There is a decent prize at the end of it all and it’s definitely worth fighting for. If you’re hesitant or un-sure of what to do next then think like a cat, independently. Think for yourself; trust yourself. Call upon your intuition and the Divine or your higher power. You CAN do this; it’s just a matter of time before all will be sorted out and you can once again move forward.

Coming Soon: The Zodiac Goddess Power Deck - learn more here.

About Kathy Crabbe

Kathy Crabbe has been an artist forever and a soul reader since awakening her intuitive gifts at age forty after five years painting with her non dominant left hand. This awakened her intuition in a big way. In 2008 she created a Lefty Oracle deck and started giving intuitive soul readings. Her second deck, The Elfin Ally Oracle was published in 2019 and a third deck is planned for release in Spring, 2020. Kathy lives in sunny Southern California with her two dogs and architect husband in an adobe style home they built themselves.

Click here for Kathy’s Readings and Oracle Decks.

Aquarius New Moon: THIS is Your Sustenance

Dear Moon Muser, Let’s meet in the middle. This spiritual time is for you. To celebrate Mama Moon and yourself. NOW is the time. Be gentle, and begin. This is your sustenance. Be gentle. Be light. Float here for a bit in this space with me and our Moon Musing family. You are safe here and always welcome. The cards featured are from my own self published oracle decks. Look for the new Zodiac Goddess Power Deck to be released in Spring, 2020.

Time now to go deep.
Relax.
Take some breaths.
Choose a card above then scroll down for the REVEAL.

Aquarius New Moon Reading by Kathy Crabbe

Card 1: Gemini Goddess - Tatsuta Hime (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Tatsuta-Hime is a Japanese Goddess and a weaver. Every autumn she wove a beautiful, multi-colored tapestry and then transformed herself into The Wind blowing her own work to shreds.

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

Card 2: Polar Bear - Bear Power (Elfin Ally Oracle Deck)

Keyword: Spicy
Meaning: Your family or tribe take precedence right now.
Reversed: You feel left out in the cold and long for warmth.

Affirmation: I am guided by sun and star, love and light eternal.
Astrology: Saturn
Element: Earth

Medicine: In the depths of winter, your snowy heart melts away all resistance revealing a crystalline truth.

Card 3: Carolee (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Mantra: I am free.
Affirmation: I dare to be free.
Element: Earth

Song
I am moon.
I am stars.
I am sun.
I am earth.

YOU, with your lies and false promises
will NEVER crush me.

I AM WOMAN

fierce,
gentle,
proud,
defiant.

I AM YOU.

If this card appears in a reading you are more than ready to forge ahead. You are brave and you are going for it; nothing or no one can stand in your way. Simple.

In my own life this card also speaks of raw, naked ambition and flaunting it without shame or fear. It’s a feminist card, a fighter card, a power card. Blessed Be.

About Kathy Crabbe

Artist, writer, teacher and soul guide, Kathy Crabbe invokes faerie goddess spirituality to heal, make whole and holy. She is Mother of the Lefty Oracle and Elfin Ally Oracle decks. She’s also sort of ambidextrous. Her work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Sawdust Art Festival and the Women’s Museum of California. Kathy writes a moon column for Witches and Pagans and is a mentor at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.

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New Moon in Capricorn Oracle Reading (Pick-a-Card)

Enjoy this 3 card spread and pick-a-card to find out what's in store for you in the moonth (or year) ahead. Cards are from my self published decks: Lefty Oracle deck, Elfin Ally Oracle deck and coming soon, the Goddess Zodiac Power deck (Spring, 2020).

Time now to go deep.
Relax.
Take some breaths.
Choose a card above then scroll down for the REVEAL.

Capricorn New Moon Reading by Kathy Crabbe

Card 1: Aquarius (Zodiac Goddess Power Deck)

Aquarian Meditation

Aquarius is the knowledge that all we do effects humanity.
We are humanity. We are love.
A new vision is birthed from the old.

Aquarius Affirmations

• I seek out unusual people and experiences.

• I overstep my boundaries to create the unusual and manifest my dreams.

• I teach unconditional love.

• I believe in the limitless possibilities of life.

• I am called to the circle where I tend the web of community.

• I am a force for change.

Change Begins With You

- See the interdependence of all life forms in an unbroken web of consciousness
- Feel hope and freedom as you dream of the future
- Know that the earth is alive
- Teach us how to care ethically
- Spread goddess consciousness wherever you go
- Walk your talk

Card 2: Black Duck (Elfin Ally Oracle Deck)

Keyword: Fierce
Meaning: Your daring-ness is quietly impressive and will take you where you need to go.
Reversed: Don’t be too quiet for too long.

Affirmation: I hear you.
Astrology: Aquarius, Moon, Neptune, Pisces, Pluto
Element: Air, Water

Medicine: Your call awakens the Divine within.

Lore: Despite her late start in life, she was simply, fantastic and with Black Duck as her ally she would find and refine the DELIGHT that beat in tune with her heart.

Card 3: Nambia, pleasantly present (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Mantra: I relax.
Affirmation: I am pleasantly present and focused upon one project, and only one project at a time.
Element: Air

Song
I am
at peace
with
myself.

I rest.
I float
untethered.
Pleasantly
present.

When this card appears in a reading you definitely need a break. Take some time for rest and relaxation, to shed your worries, get pampered and have some fun. This is not a time to crack down and get busy. You’ll achieve far more later by taking it easy now. Figure out an easy way to charge your batteries and make time for YOU.

In my own life, I love to simply just sit in nature, breathe in the smells and enjoy the sights; not thinking or doing anything, just being.

About Kathy Crabbe

Artist, writer, teacher and soul guide, Kathy Crabbe invokes faerie goddess spirituality to heal, make whole and holy. She is Mother of the Lefty Oracle and Elfin Ally Oracle decks. She’s also sort of ambidextrous. Her work has appeared in We’Moon Datebook, Sage Woman Magazine, Sawdust Art Festival and the Women’s Museum of California. Kathy writes a moon column for Witches and Pagans and is a mentor at Wise Woman University where she teaches a Divine Feminine eClass.

p.s. Thank you for all your support this year. I'm thrilled to be a part of your life and hope that I provide the inspiration and healing you need to soar or swim or walk this path with peace and joy in your heart.

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