Kathy Crabbe at Sawdust Art Festival 1996
Shortly after moving to Southern California (Laguna Beach) at age thirty I experienced a rebirthing session during which I envisioned an entire business scheme for my new venture, LuLu Design that involved selling and marketing my artwork as cards, prints, clothing, earrings and originals. Soon after I discovered silk painting, the perfect medium and within one year I had attended fifteen art shows where I presented and sold my work. I was also accepted into Laguna Beach's Sawdust Art Festival where I showed my work for eight years. My architect, builder husband built me a two story booth every year for this two month long (10 am - 10 pm) 35 year old renowned art show with over 200 artists participating. What an incredible, fun, successful, beautiful, creative 60's inspired community that is!
Astrology
During this time I continued to celebrate the seasons with sacred circles, ritual, tarot, dream work and meditation and my visions increased. Laguna Beach is a mecca for astrologers, another passion of mine so I had the chance to study firsthand with Steven Forrest, Jeffrey Wolf Green, Donna Cunningham and privately with Patty Davidson.
Goddess Book
I also spent an intensely creative month creating, painting and writing a Goddess Zodiac Playbook based upon channeled meditations for each of the zodiac signs in combination with the moon. As the moon entered each zodiac sign where it stayed for two days I created a sacred circle filled with all the symbols, foods and colors associated with that sign. I researched goddess lore for each sign, meditated, wrote, painted and channeled the energy of the sign - an incredibly powerful experience! I also included poetry, stories and myths into the book and then gathered together a circle of friends to experience it - the book truly was created to be an interactive experience.
Kathy Crabbe onstage with Michelle Shocked, Hollywood, California
Left Hand Drawing
In early 2000 I started drawing and painting exclusively with my non-dominant left hand, also known asthe intuitive hand because it is guided by the more emotional, intuitive right hemisphere of the brain.
I drew more than 500 Lefties over a five year period and discovered that my intuitive, psychic abilities were increasing to the point where I had to share these gifts by offering intuitive readings with the Lefties as oracle cards.
Turning 40
During this time of increased intuitive development I turned forty and Uranus Opposition kicked in to help push me to really, really stretch and grow. I realized that I had absorbed and learned all I could for now and that I MUST share it by giving psychic readings incorporating my art. It was the Lefties who suggested in a dream that I turn them into Lefty 'Tarot' cards and give psychic readings online along with encouragement from my life coach. The very next day I started offering free mini readings in the Etsy forum where previously I had set up shop selling my art. This was a great way to learn how the internet worked in regards to giving readings and 100's of free readings were gifted to get the ball rolling.
Psychic Readings
I started offering psychic readings at a local new age store, but soon discovered that distance readings where I never met my client face-to-face were more effective because it allowed me to connect and channel the Divine without distraction. To prepare for each reading I practice yoga, meditation, flute playing and crystal healing to become as clear and focused as possible.
I receive clairvoyant visions and sometimes smells, words and feeling sensations in my body which I immediately write down.
I am also guided towards specific healing crystals and oracle cards (of my own design). More about my technique can be found here and you can read what clients are saying about their readings here.
It's been a lifelong journey of discovery, creation and intuitive, spiritual awakening so to be able to share with you and connect others of like mind is a gift I will always be grateful for. We, each and every one of us, have within us the seeds to be intuitive, creative beings, for truly, we are all one.
Wise Woman Radio Interview: I'm interviewed by Susun Weed, founder of the Wise Woman University.
Blog Talk Radio Interview: Ghostbuster Jamie & I chat about past lives, spirits and developing intuition.
More about my background and training here.
Creativity and spirituality are one and the same!
Creativity is...For me, being creative means constantly challenging myself to explore new frontiers, develop skills, play, dream and live fully in the present.
How can being creative make a difference in the world?
Kathy Crabbe, The Mermaid's Angel, 2004, silk dyes on silk, 8x10”.
Art, artists and all creative beings can teach people that there is a greater purpose in life beyond just surviving: there is the possibility of creating something so beautiful, though provoking, intelligent, funny, magical that one can touch people on a soul level and change their life. The world can become a better place for everyone in the process; people can come together in peace and love to appreciate all the arts. Expressing our creative, intuitive, spiritual nature can help us truly care about life, make it worth living, and make it worth fighting for the things that matters.
Art reminds us that we have a soul.
Art reminds us to laugh at ourselves.
Art shakes us out of our complacency.
Art wakes us up to our potential.
Art reminds us to live each moment in the present.
Creativity is life.
People I admire and why
Margaret Atwood, Author & Poet: I love her brilliant, edgy, biting wit and her environmentalism. She's a great writer working with integrity, who makes me laugh and wince.
Maude from the movie 'Harold and Maude': she has such a great fighting spirit, is passionate, young at heart, has an amazing home (a railway car), and is feisty, daring and loving.
Contemporary Japanese woodblock printmakers: their art is abstract, nature based, simplified, textural, primitive looking, graphic, bold yet subtle, with a beautiful use of color. Artists: Shiko Munakata, Naoko Matsubara
Integrity is...
Making a difference in people's lives through creating, writing and sharing with heart, soul, intuition, passion and intelligence.
What does all this mean for you?
It means that you can count on me to be there for you 110%.
It means that you are here for a reason because there are no accidents.
How can I help you?
Empower Yourself! Soul Readings - one-on-one psychic-intuitive-mediumship sessions with me, personally.
Share! Divine Feminine Classes - monthly sessions to help you tune into the moon at Wise Woman University.
Joy! - Inspirational Art for your soul: mermaids, fairies, cats, dogs, goddesses.
Learn more about my psychic background and spiritual training here.