Bibliomancy & the Creation of a Painting

Dear Moon Muser,

I am immersed again in daily painting and in a world I'm creating called Faerieality. A world of bibliomancy, chance and intuition, of color and light, black and white, oh and especially of sage greens and hot pinks, of mushrooms and prehistoric horses, of jellyfish that look like tacos and fairies riding octopi.

While glum skies, rain and freezing cold threaten outside I visit and play in the internal, eternal realms of Faerieality which will one day become an oracle deck, wheeee!

If you'd like to play with me in Faerieality please enjoy the first painting I've released this year from the new and upcoming oracle deck.

The Once & Future Goddess

The book that inspired this painting is titled "The Once & Future Goddess" by Elinor Gadon, copyright 1989 and the quote from the painting

Here is the quotation that inspired the piece:

"Not all neo-pagans identify with Wicca. Some name themselves Druids after the ancient Celtic practice; others worship..."

Rights Included by Kathy Crabbe (Faerieality Series)

Bibliomancy

Using the ancient art of Bibliomancy I randomy (intuitively) choose a phrase from one of the books in my collection (I'm actually going through my entire book collection for this series) and write it down. This becomes the inspiration for the painting.

I then begin the painting using my non dominant left hand because that is how I connect with the divine most easily - its is as yet untried territory, the unknown and I can access it more easily with the left hand because this hand is still awake to the mysteries, moreso than my know-it-all right hand.

I paint the figure first. BUT I wait and wait for the words from the book and the spirits, gods, goddesses to guide me and I don't create until I have the get-go from them, in the form of images, colors, lines, shapes. 

In this piece I turned to a reference book of nudes for the body. I again randomly chose a nude and made that the body of this creature.

I continue to be led by the words and my guides for each step of the painting. When it is done I turn to the book again and randomly choose words that become the title and that I then collage into the piece.

About Kathy Crabbe: I have been called by Spirit to live a creative life and to be of service, both through my artwork and my intuitive guidance.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe
Temecula, California

Leo Full Moon Blessings

Dear Moon Muser,

I am immersed again in daily painting and in a world I'm creating called Faerieality. A world of bibliomancy and listening for the voice of the gods and goddesses calling me to them, of color and light, black and white, oh and especially sage green and hot pink, of mushrooms and prehistoric horses, of jellyfish that look like tacos and fairies riding octopi.

While glum skies, rain and freezing cold threaten outside I visit and play in the internal, eternal realms of Faerieality which will one day become an oracle deck, wheeee!

If you'd like to play with me in Faerieality please enjoy the first painting I’ve released this year from the new and upcoming deck. To learn more about the inspiration behind this painting please click here.

Rights Included by Kathy Crabbe (Faerieality Series
Buy a print

Dialing Back on Facebook and Instagram

For the sake of sanity and to not simply be just another cog in the Machine that is Facebook and Instagram (both are owned by META) which is detrimental to all creators I choose not to devote my sacred time to posting very much on these platforms (and I continue not to view their feeds). If you'd like inspiration to follow my lead I suggest these resources as recommended by artist, Julia Bausenhardt.

Video by Julia: Why I quit social media and blog post.

Books:
Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport - Deep Work
Jaron Lanier - Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
Sherry Turkle - Alone Together
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows Documentary: The Great Hack: https://www.thegreathack.com

Articles:
Paul Jarvis - On the Facebook Like button, and why it’s awful: https://pjrvs.com/like/
Social media is a threat to democracy: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019: rb.gy/cllfsx

Rights Included (detail) by Kathy Crabbe (Faerieality Series)

Face Your Demons

I'm also doing shadow work with my dear friend, astrologer Chad Woodward (love his lengthy and wise new and full moon newsletters) and a year long tele-course in 4 parts (so you can join at any time), run by my spiritual mentor, Francesca De Grandis.

This shadow-work involves totally and 100% screaming into your darkest, deepest shadows, and insecurities and whatever you just plain HATE about yourself by fully and totally LOVING IT, ACCEPTING IT and recognizing that your soul NEEDS this experience 100%. This is transformational work and a technique you can learn about in the book Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot.

Word of the Year and a Challenge

My word of the year is Simplicity and it's been sooooo hard for me NOT to complicate things by pursuing new online avenues for sharing my work such as: Patreon, Ko-Fi, another IG and a new website, etc.

With Aries Rising I just love starting things! but this is NOT simplifying my life, is it?

Join With Me

So instead I look to larger groups and organizations to submit my work to: zines, galleries, neurodiverse groups and live in-person events, now that they're back - yay!

For the first four months of this year you can find me and join with me at these virtual and in-person spaces.

March
All month - Faerieality Solo Show - Grace Mellman Library, Temecula
March 11-12 - Yorba Linda Women's Club Art & Craft Fair
April
April 1 - Brea Pet Expo
April 15-16 - Idyllwild Art in the Park

Magickal Women Neurodiverse Artists Group - zoom meetings
Creative Cronies Moon Diary - my art is featured

Demon by Kathy Crabbe (Lefty Oracle Deck)

Full Moon Oracle Card from the Lefty Deck

Demon Affirmation: I journey into the dark to discover inner truths.
Find all oracle decks here.

It seems appropriate that the Demon card cropped up for this Full Moon especially after all the Shadow Work that many of us have been doing. It is essential that we look into these depths instead of running away from them because if we don't they will continue to come back to bite us in the bum, as the saying goes.

About Kathy Crabbe: I have been called by Spirit to live a creative life and to be of service, both through my artwork and my intuitive guidance.

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy 'Kat' Crabbe
Temecula, California

Faerie Magick Awaits 💚 Oracle Deck Pre-Orders End in Less Than 5 Days 💚 BELIEVE!

Dear Ones,

When I encountered the faeries here in Southern California on the land where I live the ancient ones shared their magick with me. As I entered that Other World with eyes glittering, I learned that the land can heal and that we can heal the land even if it’s only for the insects who remain after we all become stardust in the process. I remembered... how to dance with the faeries. Can you feel them too?

I honour the fee folk with this fifth and final (?) oracle deck, the Fairy Herbal and it’s magickal paintings. Both are on special until May 3 at midnite.

Why now? Because Venus, Jupiter, the Moon and Neptune are aligned in the sign of Pisces (a water sign, yes I know and my next deck may just be a Mermaid Tarot). As these planets align again as they did before during the Jupiter, Neptune conjunction of 1856 the Spiritualist movement had just been founded (in 1848) along with the discovery of Neptune and we ask again, “What will the framework of our modern mythology be?” This Jupiter/Neptune conjunction accompanies us on a search for meaning and truth as we search for solace in a traumatic time.

As a former elf (in a past life) and with a current BF elf, I know that faery-land does exist. Believe, O human child…

Yeats
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

About Kathy

As an initiated Celtic Faerie Witch I am blessed to offer spiritual readings both virtually and in person in Temecula, California and the Thousand Islands, Canada.

Seaside Daisy for Love

I don’t know about you, but I could use a little Seaside Daisy love in my life right now and I wanted to share this fairy herbal with you because it was one of the last fairy paintings my mom-in-law picked from the new Fairy Herbal Oracle Deck coming out late April, 2022. And indeed her middle name was Faye (Fee means fairy) and so this new deck is dedicated to her: Dear Virginia of the Fee, you are missed!

Seaside Daisy Affirmation: “I am blessed by love.”

May the first blooms bring joy especially when planted in the garden to attract fairies, spirits and Dryads. Ritually celebrate Goddess Freya by weaving daisies in your hair and placing them on your altar. Sleep with a root under your pillow to bring back an absent lover. Used in love divination and baby blessings by many folk cultures.

Astrology: Cancer, Jupiter, Moon, Taurus, Venus
Deity: Aphrodite, Freya, Ostara
Element: Water
Healing: Treats bruises, fever

About Kathy Crabbe
I am proud to be an artist and soul reader, in business since 1993. I love my work and hope you've enjoyed coming along for the ride and allowing me to be of service to you through all the creative, healing work I do. Thank you.

The awakening of my intuitive gifts came at age 40 when I found myself creatively blocked so I switched to my left hand which awakened my right brain and inspired me to create a Lefty Oracle Deck and become a professional soul reader. I have since published 4 oracle decks with the Fairy Herbal Oracle deck coming in 2022.

I live in Southern California and soon in the 1000 Islands, Canada for half the year with my pooch and partner in homes we’ve built ourselves.

Matilija Poppy Fairy for the Dreamers

To help attune you with the current Waning Moon in Virgo here is Matilija Poppy Fairy from my upcoming Fairy Herbal Oracle Deck.

Matilija Poppy Affirmation: “I dream my way into the dark.”

Ruled by the Moon and worshiped by the women of Crete. Poppy seeds and flowers can be made into love spells, potions and sachets to attract wealth, fertility, aid sleep, induce divinatory dreaming and master invisibility. Persephone gathered three poppies and three wheat sheaves to accompany her into the underworld.

Astrology: Cancer, Leo, Moon
Deity: Demeter, Persephone
Element: Water
Healing: Aids sleep, for pain

Sparkly Blessings!
Kathy Crabbe
Soul Reader + Artist

Libra New Moon Event begins HERE until Oct. 13

About Kathy Crabbe
I am proud to be an artist and soul reader, in business since 1993. I love my work and hope you've enjoyed coming along for the ride and allowing me to be of service to you through all the creative, healing work I do. Thank you.

The awakening of my intuitive gifts came at age 40 when I found myself creatively blocked so I switched to my left hand which awakened my right brain and inspired me to create a Lefty Oracle Deck and become a professional soul reader. I have since published 4 oracle decks with the Fairy Herbal Oracle deck coming in 2022.

I live in Southern California and soon in the 1000 Islands, Canada for half the year with my pooch and partner in homes we’ve built ourselves.