Divine Inspirations

Greetings and best wishes and blessings during this 2022 Winter time. The image that holds the energy of this blog space is of the Egyptian Goddess Bast that I envisioned back in 2003 after I had returned from Egypt.  She was the last of the 13 images of the particular Egyptian pantheon group I produced and presented in my exhibition at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose California, 2004.   Many folks had suggested I do a collection of 22 paintings for a tarot deck.  And that would have been grand on one level if I was guided to do so.   At the time in my life I was on a journey of personal discovery and I entrusted my travel to the guidance of the universe and to the tutelage of the particular archetype that wanted to be embodied in my life at the time. Each god/goddess that I produced beckoned to me to their particular initiatory experience.  It was only after I experienced their story in my own life was I able to bring them forth into the w...

Smith River, CA -Wild River Del Norte County (Del Norte County has the most wild rivers in all of CA) I think back to the summer of 2019 when Marcus and I took a kayak trip down the Smith River in Smith River CA.  We live minutes to Jedediah Smith National Forest and we could not pass up a July trip right in our backyard.  So we joined a group of visitors and foresters and kayaked down the Smith River.  All I can say is it was outstanding.  Crystal Clear waters, quiet, and the smell of pine with real live visions of eagles and bears.  The genuine stuff that a veritable river (one that has never been dammed) offers to our planet; to all peoples, mineral, plant, animal and humans.  What a gift.  As I reflect on that trip and sit in my literal backyard with my residential racoon, squirrels, slugs, a myriad of birds, occasional bear, cougar and ancient trees;  I am so honored and filled with gratitude that I am in presence with the aliveness of place....

Adjusting to a Renewed Focus Jedediah Smith Redwood Forest  When I started this blog back in 2019 I was so inspired by so many folks online sharing their ideas and wisdom that I felt compelled to feature gifted folk that I knew and I felt through this blog as well as on my Divine Inspirations Podcast that were awesome as well.  I am so grateful I did because it has been such a joy to connect and to reconnect to amazing creative and beautiful people.  However, during the covid19 experience I had a lot of time to reflect. In fact I was already in a reflection mode during the crest of covid mandated restrictions.  I had over extended myself during the year and was beginning to feel its toll.  Now that I have had approximately a year and a half to myself along with the privilege to have the love of my baby boy Doxie Auggie at my side as well as the quiet moments with my best friend and husband Marcus, I've become much more private.  Perhaps thats the rebel in ...

Bandon Crab Encounter Winter Blessings are upon us. Ironically, I find winter as special as all the other seasons.  I enjoy seasonal change as it keeps me out of complacency. I find myself presently in the midst of wintertime in the reflection of my personal astrology.  As soon as winter sets in (winter Solstice) I come face to face with the opposite of my sun sign Cancer.  So for most of us that follow the western zodiac, Cancer is the cardinal zodiac sign that heralds in the Summer season and is determined by the day you were born (from June 21 through July 22).  However, we look at ourselves most deeply when we are facing our counter personality (our hidden teacher) and the opposite sign of our sun sign (soul astrological signature).  For me, it is the zodiac sign of Capricorn (December 22, to January 19) that has brought us into the present winter experience. I used to dread the winter experience because things were too much in my face.  I had to ...

Autumn Bridge Autumnal Blessings to us all during such a significant time of year. Autumnal Blessings means what? A time of plenty?  Halloween? Making time to get together with those we care and love?  A change of Season? The Holiday journey? Preparing to spend most of our money?  Richer food? etc. etc. As an Indigenous astrologer, it is paying more and more attention to the Earth and its peoples and what is connected to them, us, Her. When I think of autumn, I always envision a bridge because I feel it is the one season that asks us to take a journey into some more intense changes in our lives, be it physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual.  The elementals during a season change affect us on all levels. For Autumn we are facing a change that for most of us would prefer the other way around, from winter to spring. We actually don't even look for a bridge from winter to spring, we just start to want to fly into it. However, from Autumn ...

Scott Frazier's Antelope Santee Dolls Blessings to you as we begin our descent out of the summer, yet still holding onto its joy and abundant message of love. As I mentioned in a previous blog encounter I was born in the summer and for some reason this year, this summer has been the most amazing summer of my life. Perhaps it is because I have returned to the sea and I am very content in my home here.  In addition to building friendships with wonderful people who just seem to fit into my world, and I in theirs. I have been lax in preparing this blog as so many life-changing events have blessed my life this summer.  The most important is my daughter returning back into my life from an absence of 10 years. So we have been connecting almost every day through emails.  I look so forward to hearing from her each day and including her in my life again. I would love to share the amazing metaphysical, magical, miracle that reunited us. But first you must be interested in it, ...

Auggie sends blessings at his favorite place. It's Summer Solstice! Blessings upon us as we move into a new season and experience. It really was head-on with this Solstice entrance.  Meaning... whenever a new season comes upon us, I sense it immediately and it comes with the wind.  I do believe in the saying, "Winds of Change".  Every season comes with the wind, and usually, it comes early.  At least that is how I feel it. However, this morning it came spot on!  I went out to walk Auggie on our typical path and jaunt, and my hair actually blew straight up.   I had an appointment today in Brookings Oregon, and after I brought Auggie to Harris Beach for a walk/run.  It was extremely windy with most folks wearing their hoodies.  Auggie being so low to the ground was getting some sand in his eyes so I carried him back. Summer, It's here, and the wind wants us to really pay attention. The summer is special to me because it is the time of ...