Kathy Crabbe, mixed media, 7 x 10 inches.
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Spirit Guide Reading for Sandi
How a Spirit Guide Reading works: Spirit Guides are wise teachers and guardians from another dimension that advise and protect us. They are dis-incarnate spirits (ie. animal totems, angels, nature spirits) that can act as spiritual counselors or protectors for us, during our time of need. I will also provide you with suggestions and techniques for connecting to your guides on your own.
My preferred mode of intuitive reading is via distance. This allows me to focus on you, your spirit and your guides in a focused way clear of distractions. Your reading involves preparations such as meditation and yoga and I will often pull healing stones, runes and cards from my four self-designed and painted oracle card decks, but unlike a tarot reading I will not actually look at them until after your reading is finished. The cards, runes and healing stones are tools that will help you absorb your reading in practical ways.
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Spirit Guide Reading for Sandi
(shared with kind permission from Sandi)
Yellow Calcite Point
To begin your reading I surround us with a sphere of Yellow Calcite.
Then a fairy calls out; a practical fairy – the five senses are important to you.
Encelia Fairy by Kathy Crabbe
Fairy Herbal Guidance: Encelia Fairy
Your energy state right now is Questing.
Encelia (also historically known as Copal Encelia) was commonly burned as incense in Northern Mexico. The act of burning Copal along with the accompanying holy language brings about two aspects of the Mayan world view; firstly the smoke creates connections with deities and ancestors and secondly it initiates a series of transformative processes that characterize the Mayan religious and cosmologic beliefs. Copal is symbolically perceived to be the same as blood, a sacred substance that is also considered to be an effective medicine for many illnesses. Copal is the ‘food of the gods’ since gods do not eat as mortals do, but instead gain sustenance from the smoke of the incense. In Mexico Copal is often added to love and purification incenses.
Guinevere appears next with long blonde locks…your energy is also attuned to ancient fairytales and Celtic lore.
We hold hands (on an energetic level) so I can read your energy.
I sense again your grounded-ness.
Brandberg Enhydro
To call upon your Spirit Guides I get some help from a lovely crystal called a Rose Brandberg Enhydro Harlequin Dow.
Your Guides are a bit shy at first; it takes some time for them to show themselves.
One is Welsh and tiny requiring silence and patience to show up. This being has small moth wings and carries a glimmering Fairy Essence and loves you so dearly. She is dark haired and her name sounds like Estela. She comes to your shoulder then hovers around you giving advice about food, relationships and subject matter you’re currently discussing…’aprons’!
She has a sense of humour, is playful and jokingly says, “Watch your back HAHA”. She even pokes you occasionally to alert you or wake you up to certain things.
Next, a giant appears (compared to Estela) with horns. He is a warrior god and a protector, but very gentle, not aggressive. “Just call me ‘Green Man’”.
And then a motherly figure appears in a white and yellow ruffled apron by the name of Martha. She helps to calm you and to keep you from jumping into anything too hastily.
You will not usually be aware of her because she stays in the background (possibly she is an ancestor).
“Have fun” she says and directs me to pull a Creative Soul Card for you.
Creative Soul Card Guidance: Gloria
Gloria by Kathy Crabbe
Stick with it is the advice I get. Finances? It will work out.
Martha calls the Green Man ‘Jack’ and nods to him for more ‘challenging’ info to share with you so I pull a tarot card from my Greenwood deck.
Tarot Wisdom ~ Page of Stones ~ the Wren: New possibilities requiring money and security risks. Who is bringing you financial info? Affirmation: I trust in the information my body gives me and am learning to hear how it speaks to me.
Fairy Estela did not lie when she said ‘watch your back’. it’s time to tie up loose ends. Don’t let anyone stop you from your task (your work) and your mission. “Like who”, I can hear you ask. I see a friend; tall and dressed in pale yellow with long, straight blonde hair. She can be a ‘downer’ and not helpful for your growth.
Estela says that you shine in these areas:
- Healing
- Working hands-on with clients
- Attracting new clients
And she says quietly….pssssst…’Jack is a worrywart!’
I also hear you asking: “What can I do to improve?”
Is there a Kevin in your life?
He is a grounding influence.
How about ‘Star Baths?’
Your Guides are also aware of over-saturating you with too much information!
So, to get down to the essence, the moonlit elixir of clarity we meet your next Guide.
His name is ‘Michael’ and he is a professional type who appears in a brown suit.
Next, all of your Guides gather in a circle (btw, Jack doesn’t approve of Michael).
Martha sets down the bowl that she is drying in the center of the circle and it sings (a singing bowl).
You just relax and listen and float in the sound waves; a place you very much like to be; very healing.
Around you is a circle of support ~ in the real world ~ people in businesses like yours ~ also brick and mortar places of healing.
It will happen…(but when?)
Carla has heart by Kathy Crabbe
Creative Soul Guidance: Carla has heart
Things will fall into place (almost effortlessly). Stand your ground and continue to facilitate positive action and thought and feel (envision) the fecundity of this, as if preparing to give birth. Journal this vision regularly ~ create it within. So Be It.
To end your reading Sandi, I surround you with peace, love and understanding.
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Sandi’s Comments:
Thanks again for this reading. It's funny, I have read it over and over and each time I find something different popping out at me.
First, i want to say I love the way you put this together. I, to date, have not met my own guides/angels and so to read about them is super fun! If you have any creative advise on how I can connect with them, I am all ears. I have tried to meditate, but unfortunately, my mind is "ON" all the time. I am surprised I am able to fall asleep at night. I can quiet it down for short periods and lord knows I try daily.
Estella was right on the money with Healing, working hands on w/ clients and attracting new clients.
"Star Baths"? Not sure, although it could be this online class I am taking about Moon Phases and part of that is a bathing ritual. Could be, huh?
LOVE Sound Therapy healing!!! I have been to a few sessions with bowls. Beautiful!
Would love to know if you have any additional insight on these few things.
Thanks so much again for such a rewarding experience.
With Love & Light, Sandi Meegan (Portland, CT, Reiki Practitioner)
Guiding Your Creative Soul
Kathy Crabbe is a Creative Soul Guide, artist, author and educator who has devoted her life to exploring spirituality and creativity with passion and integrity. Kathy empowers soul-seekers to live the life of their dreams through online resources, inspirational art, Divine Feminine eClasses, eBooks, and Creative Soul Readings infused with a rich background in the arts.
Destined for Greatness
Kathy Crabbe, mixed media, 7 x 10 inches.
Prints and cards are available. Email Kathy to find out if the original is still available.
Juicy Alive! Your Creative Soul cards make me feel like I'm not alone. They restore something in me...make me feel sane again. ~ T. Bolen, 2013
Yes folks I am back to drawing Creative Soul cards (aka 'lefties) again. What was the inspiration? Well, visiting a friend and having her tell me with great passion and conviction that I needed to carry on and create more Creative Souls so that they can get out there and do their stuff. Over the years the 'lefties' have inspired me and so many others!
This time it felt like re-visiting old friends, but seeing them in a new light; a more truthful and gentle light where flaws and wrinkles are okay because we've been through so much together; tough times and thrills and tears and we have survived and even thrived. We can be real and that's what matters.
Lefty cards and prints are available for purchase in my Etsy Shop.
Kathy Crabbe is a Creative Soul Guide, artist, author and educator who has devoted her life to exploring spirituality and creativity with passion and integrity. Kathy empowers soul-seekers to live the life of their dreams through online resources, inspirational art, Divine Feminine eClasses, eBooks, and Creative Soul Readings infused with a rich background in the arts.
Summer Solstice Fairy Blessings & Beverages
Happy Solstice to all!
Summer is the season of fire; healing fire; a time to work on Fire Magick; to purify and burn away the old, so that like the phoenix we can return stronger than ever. Solstice means "standstill" and refers to the way that the sun appears to rise and set in the same place for a few days around June 20 and 21. People in Europe traditionally lit bonfires to celebrate the sun at its height of power and to beg that it not withdraw into winter's darkness. Fires ritually strengthened the sun to help ripen fruits and grain and it protected humans and livestock from insect-borne disease.
The Lords of Shadow
Where the water whispers mid the shadowy rowan-trees I have heard the Hidden People like the hum of swarming bees: And when the moon has risen and the brown burn glisters grey I have seen the Green Host marching in laughing disarray.
Fiona MacLeod
Summer Solstice Ingredients to make a Tasty Tipple
- Rose, marigolds, geranium, hyacinth, nasturtium, violets and other summer blossoms (for decoration)
- Fire herbs: allspice, basil, bay, clove, dill, fennel, ginger, nutmeg, peppermint
- Flavourings: cashew nut, lime, orange, pomegranate, pineapple, walnut
- Any beverage which is bright red or golden yellow in colour
- Prepare beverage at noon, when the sun is most powerful
Resource Guide A Witches Brew by Patricia Telesco Kindling the Celtic Spirit by Mara Freeman
Kathy Crabbe, Kattern is grace under pressure, 2003, mixed media on paper, 8x10”.
Creative Soul Suggestion: You have a choice; to be truly alive in each and every second or to die a bit with each breath. You choose.
What is Your Gift?
Kathy Crabbe, Ande was ready for any adventure, 2003, mixed media on paper, 8x10”.
This blog post has been a long time in coming folks, so thank you for caring. There have been many tears, many goodbyes and much love and prayers shared with family and friends in the last two months, but as Denis says, "life goes on" and so it does, and so too does this blog.
I said goodbye to my birth mother Sally (I'm adopted) and to my Grandad (her father) over the last couple of months and I also spoke at my Grandad's Celebration of Life.
But, my news is, that my newest project is to be dedicated to Sally. It is both new and old; a project near and dear to my heart since it's infancy in 2000. As you may have guessed from the artwork above, my newest project involves the 'lefties' as they are affectionately known, or more formally as the Creative Soul Cards.
These cards meant a whole lot to Sally and me and to Sal's New Moon group of best friends. One Christmas I presented Sal with a New Moon Kit based upon my New Moon Class and we meditated, pulled cards and shared intentions at the New Moon during that visit. Afterwards Sal started her own New Moon Circle with several good female friends. The 'lefty' cards were a big part of this.
At Sal's Memorial I met up with these friends and we cried and talked a lot about Sally. Her friends told me how much this spiritual group meant to Sal during her last months and how much the Creative Soul Cards touched all their hearts and encouraged them to write and share their hopes, dreams and intentions with each other every month.
So, I'd like to dedicate these Creative Soul Cards to you, dear mum and I will continue to teach this class and share these cards with others just as you shared yourself with us by showing us what love is and how to be in love. That was your gift and this is my gift to you.
So, stay tuned folks, I'm working on getting this Creative Soul Deck published along with a guidebook. It will probably accompany my class which I currently teach online but would like to teach in person next.
P.S. The Creative Soul Card pictured above, "Ande was ready for any adventure" was one of the last cards I pulled for Sally and so it was fitting that Ande turned up today for my first "Lefty" post. And, just like Ande, Sal was ready for any adventure and I trust she's on her next big adventure right now.
Sally & Denis