Witchy Musings on Life, Love, Money & Art Making

New Moon in Aries/Solar Eclipse Musings

I am going to play with the intuitive ideas given to me as channeled through my paintings of 2023. I’m going to devote myself even more to my friends, family, fun and love. I am not going to get hung up on $ but I will enjoy the process of art-making and see where it takes me.

New Moon in Taurus/Mercury Retrograde Musings

During this past Waning Moon I let go of struggle and applying to art and writing opportunities. I wanted FREEDOM to create without the desire for anything but the creative act.

I am working magickally to get my work out into the world as a radical act of healing service.

“The earth of writing [where] we must work to the point of becoming the earth.”

— Hélène Cixous, French writer, playwright and literary critic, born 1937

Detail of Princess Glitter Confetti Blessings by Kathy Crabbe, Gouache on paper.

New Painting - Intention/Spell

To go deep within the work to heal as Witch, Shaman, Fey, Warrior. To fight with words like Blake and Yeats. Art as chant with words as spells bound into a Grimoire.

Dream

In the doing I honour myself as Witch. I will create no matter what, THAT is all that matters.

The work I do is completely outside of the sanctified status quo art world and academic world.

So mote it be.

Kathy Crabbe

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About Kathy Crabbe

The awakening of my intuitive gifts came at age 40 when, creatively blocked, I switched to my non-dominant left hand which inspired my right brain, leading to the creation of the Lefty Oracle deck and becoming a professional soul reader.

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.