Jane's Book Review of The Zodiac Goddess Playbook by Kathy Crabbe

Cancer Moon Goddess by Kathy Crabbe

I’d like to share a review of my Zodiac Goddess Playbook by Creative Director and Coach for women, Jane Dutra-Salemi. Enjoy!

Archetypes are powerful. These ancient symbols are supportive and healing. They help us to create change in our lives. They allow us to embody qualities we need to support us through transitional times. They make it possible for us to see the bigger picture in life situations and provide meaning and understanding for our emotions so that we can begin to know ourselves in deeper and more meaningful ways.

Archetypes are what first drew me to this book. The Zodiac Goddess Playbook by Kathy Crabbe is a fun little book that uses the archetypes of the goddesses to help us understand the 12 signs of the zodiac.

Kathy provides correspondences, affirmations, and meditations for each of the 12 featured goddesses. I appreciated all the information, but I also liked the fact that if any of the goddesses presented did not resonate with me, I had a lovely starting point for my own goddess study to use for that particular zodiac sign.

Visually, this book is very colorful. Each chapter represents one goddess/zodiac sign with accompanying artwork. If you are an artist, this book will intrigue you, as there is an article highlighting each of the contributing artists. It was interesting to read their shared stories.

If you are like me and have had trouble in the past following the moon cycles through the zodiac signs and remembering what each sign means, this is a fun way to do it. By having a goddess symbolize each zodiac sign, I am easily able to feel into that sign’s aspects and qualities. Taking an unfamiliar topic (the zodiac) and pairing with a familiar one (goddesses) was just what I needed to close the gap for me.

I also liked the “playbook” aspect of this book. Since it is an e-book I felt totally comfortable printing it out and making notes and comments on the pages, making it totally mine. I also feel that each person using the book will have a different experience with it. This book is great for personal discovery and could also be a fun tool to use within a group.

To purchase the book and check out Kathy’s other interesting offerings, please see her website. The Zodiac Goddess Playbook by Kathy Crabbe is $9.95 and available through her website: https://www.kathycrabbe.com/books/zodiac-goddess-playbook

About Jane Dutra-Salemi
Jane has a passion for connection and community. She’s a joyfully supportive “Girl Friday” acting as a Creative Director and Coach for women seeking to add these two blessings into their lives and sacred businesses. She is a Traditional Naturopath, Ayurveda student, and 9 Moons Lunar Priestess who believes that the power of Sisterhood and Community serve to nourish us all. Jane can be reached at createsacredcommunity@gmail.com

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Zodiac Goddess Playbook
Zodiac Goddess Playbook
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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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