Awakening codes of Divine will, harmonic purpose, and radiant embodiment.
August opens with the breath of destiny on its lips. The sacred 8:8 Lion’s Gate—cosmic pulse of Sirius and the Great Central Sun—aligns with your heart to initiate a higher octave of remembrance. This is not just a portal. It is a frequency gate, an ignition point in your soul’s architecture where memory and mission braid into one golden flame.
You are not walking through time anymore—you are weaving it. With each step, you unseal codices written long ago by the Oversoul—codes of Divine will, harmonic purpose, and radiant embodiment. This is the month when the soul makes a vow—not to try harder, but to be truer, more resonant and align with the soul self.
Restoring Sovereign Coherence
The Sirian and Lyran councils are especially close now, guiding you through the frequency bands of remembrance, creativity, and sovereign service. August is an alchemical month: Fire becomes Gold, and Truth becomes the Path.
The Sirian Sapphire Flame is working through the solar plexus now—clearing shame, guilt, and all stories of powerlessness. Call it in to dissolve cords of control or coercion. Feel your soul reclaim direction, without domination.
The Lyran Golden Flame reminds you that joy is your inheritance. The more you play, the more you remember. Invite this flame to rise in your creative body—paint, sing, move, tend your temple.
Together, these star frequencies realign your will and love as One—empowering your embodiment as a Creator.
Frequency Overwhelm & Nervous System Sensitivity
As Lion’s Gate light intensifies, your nervous system may feel overstimulated, anxious, or weary. You are recalibrating to hold a higher wattage of soul light. Rest, recalibrate, and ground into Gaia’s magnetic field. This is not regression. It is integration.
Shadow Resurgence Before Soul Radiance
Before stepping fully into your light, you may be shown where you’ve hidden it. Old identities, fears of visibility, or ancestral vows of silence may rise. Let them. These are echoes of the past dissolving. Don’t collapse—breathe light into them.
Creative Confusion or Delay
If your vision feels scattered mid-month, it is because you are learning to listen differently—to create not from force, but from resonance. Let the fire slow, purify, and reclarify your inner knowing.
Lion’s Gate Initiation Can Feel Like Pressure
Especially around 8/7–8/10, some may feel like they are “failing” to activate. This is false. You cannot miss what your soul has encoded. Simply be present. Presence is the portal.
Lion’s Gate Activation of the Solar Heart Flame
The higher heart—seat of your sovereign joy—activates through the 8:8 portal. Expect pulses of clarity, truth, soul purpose, and sacred rebellion against anything that dims your fire.
Soul Star Descension into the Body
Your higher self is not hovering above—it’s descending into you. This month bridges the Oversoul with the Inner Child. Together, they awaken the Original Self: radiant, rooted, and real.
Creative Renaissance Begins
After the Lion’s Gate, the New Moon on August 23 offers a powerful window to launch new creations. This moon is an architect’s moon—what you build now has longevity, resonance, and encoded purpose.
Sacred Synchronicities & Soul Reunions
Be open. Many will meet kindred spirits, new allies, or beloveds returning—physically or spiritually. Soul contracts activate with grace when you are in resonance, not in seeking.
"The Stargate of Sovereign Light"
The Lion’s Gate marks the heliacal rising of Sirius, the spiritual Sun behind the Sun, and a harmonic alignment between Earth, Orion’s Belt, and the Great Central Sun. This is the day the Golden Codes of your divine architecture are reawakened.
This year's 8:8 is intensified by a near Full Moon the following day and Uranian harmonics that bring quantum leap potential in your timeline. You are not simply receiving energy—you are remembering your original encoding.
This is a day of conscious co-creation. What you speak, you energize. What you choose, you anchor.
Ritual Ideas:
“The Future Cries Out Through the Heart”
This Aquarius Full Moon arrives like a thunderclap of clarity. It is the soul’s vision looking back at the self and saying: You’re ready now.
Expect activations around collective service, innovation, radical soul truth, and liberation from outdated roles. This moon carries a higher harmonic tone—a calling to step into your field of influence as a frequency, not an identity.
Soul Evolution Focus
Ritual Focus:
"The Soul Makes the Sacred Practical"
Virgo brings order to the cosmic downloads. This New Moon asks: What new structure will support your soul’s flame?
It is the time to rework your daily patterns, create aligned containers, and build systems that nourish your true mission. This is not about perfection—it’s about resonance. You are being called to sacred stewardship—of your energy, your body, your service, and your time.
New Moon Soul Focus
No more performing for approval. You are not a mask—you are a flame.
Pause before each action or choice and ask, “Am I doing this to be seen, or to be true?” Then consciously remove the mask of performance, breathe into your heart, and act from the fire of authenticity rather than the hunger for validation.
No more clinging to the past out of fear. Let it die with dignity.
When old stories or identities arise, bless them with gratitude, then visualize placing them into a sacred fire and whisper, “I honor what was, but I no longer live there,” allowing the ashes to become fertile ground for your soul’s becoming.
No more over-responsibility. Carry only what is yours. Return the rest.
Scan your body and field at day’s end and ask, “What burdens am I holding that are not mine?” Then speak aloud: “I release what is not mine to carry,” and visualize handing it back to Source or returning it to the rightful soul with love and freedom.
No more Avoidance of sacred structure. Your mission needs a vessel.
Instead of resisting routine, choose one meaningful structure each day—be it a journal, altar, or sacred schedule—and declare, “This is the temple where my soul can breathe and create,” allowing form to become the container for your fire to flow through.
Lion’s Breath to release fear and reclaim voice. The Lion’s Breath is a powerful yogic breathing practice that helps release fear, tension, and suppressed emotion by activating the throat chakra and solar plexus. With a fierce exhale through an open mouth and extended tongue, it clears stagnant energy and awakens your authentic voice—restoring courage, presence, and personal power.
Solar Plexus Healing with sapphire flame light, especially during overwhelm. Place your hands over your solar plexus, breathe deeply, and visualize a spiraling sapphire flame entering this center—cooling overwhelm, dissolving fear, and restoring calm, clear power to your core.
Daily Joy Invocation – Each morning, say aloud: “I greet this day as a sovereign being of light. I allow joy to guide me.”
Future Self Counseling – Speak aloud to your Future Self during the Lion’s Gate. Ask, “What timeline do I choose now?”
This is a month to rise, not rush. To burn true, not burn out.
You are the temple and the torch, the initiate and the sovereign. The Lion’s Gate opens not just a door to the cosmos—but a door within. Walk through it. And let your radiance become the path.
With much love and cosmic blessings, Katherine Skaggs
©2025 Katherine Skaggs
Leo New Moon July 24, 2025This New Moon, anchored in Leo, brings a powerful convergence of solar courage, soul remembrance, and divine sovereignty. It is a moon of re-ignition and inner coronation—a sacred moment to reclaim the throne of your radiant self.
Under this moon, Sirius rises just before dawn, heralding the ancient heliacal rising known to the Egyptian priestesses as the time of renewal, resurrection, and divine union. This signals a cosmic alignment with the Star Temples of Sirius, inviting each soul to awaken the memory of why they came to Earth at this time.
The Soul Currents of this lunation speak of creative power reborn, the heart illuminated from within—not from ego or external affirmation, but from the original divine encoding of your soul essence. This is a moon to anchor Divine Will over distorted control, to burn off any last remnants of illusion, and to choose your path with full presence and authority.
Simultaneously, the Star Currents transmit codes from the Lyran Flame Keepers, the Andromedan Dream Architects, and the Sirian Temple Builders, supporting you in remembering the structure of your Cosmic Blueprint. They are harmonizing your lightbody with Earth’s evolving crystalline grid, especially through the solar plexus and heart chakra recalibration. Expect emotional surges, dream activations, or a deep yearning to realign your outer life with your soul’s truth.
While this New Moon offers the gift of radiant self-remembrance, it also brings initiatory friction—the heat that reveals what is untrue, what no longer serves, and where the ego still clings to old forms of power, validation, or identity.
Be honest and courageous to face the shadows when these core shadow aspects and soul challenges arising in this lunar portal.
Ego vs. Essence — Leo energy can either illuminate the Soul or inflate the Persona. This moon may trigger pver-identification with roles, titles, or accomplishments; A need to be seen, heard, or celebrated that masks a deeper wound of unworthiness; Old stories of “not being enough” or “too much” re-emerging for release.
Invitation: Ask, “Am I expressing from my Soul Flame or seeking approval from a fading identity?”
The Fear of True Sovereignty — This moon asks you to step into radical self-responsibility—to choose from soul alignment even when it disrupts old relationships, contracts, or comforts. You may feel resistance to claiming your full power or vision. Doubts, procrastination, or fear of being seen may be one of your challenges. There may be sabotage patterns around leadership or visibility.
Initiation: This is a test of fire. Will you betray yourself to stay small, or will you rise and claim your sacred flame?
Emotional Solar Flares — The sun’s magnetic field is strong, and with Sirius rising, emotional waves may surge anger, grief, or pride can surface as old wounds ignite. Emotioins around your Inner Child self may need attention, reassurance, and love. You may feel raw, irritable, or overwhelmed without a clear reason.
Practice: Rest in stillness. Tend your nervous system. Let the fire move through, not consume you.
Disconnection from the Body or Earth — With high-frequency Star Codes pouring in, it’s easy to dissociate, escape into cosmic dreaming, or feel ungrounded. You may experience headaches, dizziness, sleep disturbances. You may forget your physical needs, meals, rest, hydration. You may also feel a split between timelines or realities.
Remedy: Anchor through breath, salt baths, nature walks, deep nourishment. Your body is the Temple for the Flame.
Grieving the Old Self — This moon marks a threshold. To step forward, something must be released. This time calls for release of the old identities. You may find yourself mourning the old parts of yourself, lost identities, relationships, or timelines. Fear of the unknown or “who I will become” may arise to be dealt with. There may be a great deal of energetic and physical resistance to letting go, even when the soul is ready.
Wisdom: Honor your grief. Grieve with reverence. Accept your sacrifices of the old as Holly. The ashes of who you were feed the fire of who you are becoming.
Ritual Suggestion: Create a sacred space with fire or candlelight. Anoint your heart center with rose, frankincense, or citrus oils. Speak aloud: “I stand in the light of my sovereign soul. I remember who I am, why I came, and what I now choose to create. By the sacred fire within me, I walk forward in love, in power, in truth.”
Breathe. Feel the Star Currents entering your crown and spiraling into your body. Ground through your spine and feet into the Earth. Feel the cosmic architecture reweaving you into alignment.
The Lion Beings of Sirius are alive and active at this time, opening the upcoming Lions Gateway 8/8/2025. They are the guardians of sovereignty, strength, and remembrance. Call on them to assist you in remembering yourself, in having strength to embody your true essence, and the sovereignty to trust your inner soul voice and guidance.
The Solar Rose Flame beings of heart are here with you in radiant love emerging from the Sacred Heart. Invite them to ignite the truth and love that lives within your heart spaces. Visualize the wrapping you in golden petals of your own fire, helping you to remember who your re and walk as love embodied.
Work with the Law of Heart Harmonics (Sophia Spiral Law #22) with your intention and alignment. This law teaches through vibrational resonance that “The heart is the master oscillator of all coherence. No technology, no thought, no form surpasses the harmonizing power of the open heart..” Tune yourself by releasing what no longer resonates.
This New Moon aligns perfectly with the Law of Heart Harmonics—the truth that the open heart is the most powerful organizing force in all realities. As the Leo sun joins the moon, your heart field becomes the altar, the resonance chamber, and the compass.
When in doubt, return to the heart. When overwhelmed, breathe into the heart. When seeking your next path, ask your heart—not your mind—to guide the way. The star frequencies pouring in from Sirius, Lyra, and Andromeda recalibrate the nervous system through the torus field of the heart, not the intellect.
This is why emotional surges, spontaneous tears, heart flutters, or deep longings may arise now—they are evidence of the harmonizing wave moving through your core.
Crystal Allies are here to assist you. The vibration of Sunstone, Golden Calcite, Rose Quartz are in perfect alignment to assist your physical, emotional, energy and spirit bodies to align.
Work with the Element of Fire during this New Moon to enter the sacred forge of transformation—Fire transmuted into Light. This is not the destructive blaze of chaos, but the intelligent flame of alchemy that refines, reveals, and reawakens the soul’s luminosity. Sit with flame—candle, hearth, or solar rays—and let it mirror your inner brilliance. Offer into the fire what no longer serves, and watch as it transmutes into golden threads of light encoded with your essence. Let the flame illuminate your truth, ignite your courage, and awaken the solar codes of divine radiance that are now ready to be embodied. Fire is not here to burn you—it is here to crown you.
"Child of Light, the gates are open. You do not have to wait any longer to live as the embodied flame of truth you are. Let this New Moon be your consecration, your clear yes, your return to the Inner Temple where soul and star are one."
—The Star Elders of the Lyran-Sirian Accord
With Vast Blessings of Love, Truth, Remembering, and Alignment
Katherine Skaggs
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls;Today with the energies of Scorpio passing over all of us, I take time to honor grief that comes from death, endings, and loss. The journey of the soul in a human body is the journey of dualistic experiences on the earth plane. Honoring grief is an important part of the scorpionic journey through birth, experience, death, and rebirth. Death and rebirth happens every day, every season, every life. Our souls constantly are navigating death and rebirth, death and rebirth, cycles, death and rebirth...
I invite you to honor your grief as you traverse this planet. I believe as a soul prior to birth we choose our parents, our birth circumstances, and our journey with other souls we are destined to meet. There are times this all makes sense. At other times how could we choose the challenges that are on our path? Why would a soul choose loss or conflict, or confusion, or poverty, or illness? How can this be?
From my experiences so far it appears Earth is a grand soul school where we have opportunity to grow, to learn, to overcome, and to love. Yet it is not an easy school. It is one where we endure duality, linear time, and forgetfulness of an eternal soul existence. There is pain, as well as love available in our experiences. Some of us come in with comfort, loving families, health, wealth, and opportunity. Others come in with poverty, difficult circumstances, and a lack of love. And then there are others with every combination possible. Somehow we set up any variety of experiences for our soul growth. And still I ask, "Why did I as soul choose to go through...?" when it was so difficult, or unloving, or harsh?
Some of the greatest challenges and the greatest blessings have come in the world of destined relationships we have jumped into. Some of our beloveds we meet in this world stay a day, a cycle, or a lifetime. Sometimes those we thought we would have a lifetime are gone way sooner than we could ever imagine... through death, illness, moving away, or walking away.
I grieve today those I love who I thought would stay but had to go. I grieve the mistakes and the challenges that I thought we would over come; and yet, we came to endings of one sort or another that I am still processing. Coming to acceptance of what is is the journey. Learning is the journey. Loving more deeply, listening more intently is the journey. And... and there is much I still have to learn as I grieve.
I honor our soul's agreements; and somehow pray we each heal in ourselves what we could not heal together. I pray that we find others who can help us love ourselves and each other, that we can honor those who had to go on a path where they could heal that was not with us.
This may be friends, family, acquaintances. Who are those you need to release and to let go of and find greater love for yourself, that you may also love them even though they may not be in your life any more?
Some of us carry scars that are not seen by the world, yet we know they have made us the person we are today.
As we graduate from October and move into November very soon, take time to honor your journey, your woundings and your wisdoms, your losses, and your gains. What love can you take from your journey of life? What love can you give as you expand beyond where you have lived before now?
The energies of November promise great change and also great challenges. May we take our scars and be wise, be more loving, more kind, more conscious and present, that we speak with only love, that we choose with love and wisdom, and that we are better for all we have been challenged with.
With deep honor, love, and respect. Katherine Skaggs
Our Ancestors are all who have walked before us. Typically we think of ancestors as our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and all who share our DNA who have passed. Yet many tribal peoples have a larger view of who our ancestors are. The Lakota people say Mitakuye Oyasin, "All are my relations. Tree, water, sky, earth, animals, brothers, sisters, and those that have taken their spirit walk are our kin." The Q'ero people of the Andes say Kausay Pacha, "All is connected; all is an abundance of living energy. All is life, and all have the essence of love. All are children of the Great Mother and Father – in spirit and physical form." These Ancestors who have walked before us are the ones who have taken a physical body to experience love, sorry, joy, and the pain of being human. They have now moved into the Spirit Realm.
Because they have experienced human incarnation, they share both spiritual and physical DNA. They can have great compassion and empathy for the experiences and lessons you are experiencing now. They also have another perspective now that they are in the spirit world. They can support and give guidance, teachings, healing, forgiveness, and even protection.
Just because they are in the spirit realm doesn't mean they are more evolved than you. Some ancestors are more developed, and some are not. Some ancestors even receive healing because of your path of healing and awakening. They are in observation and respect your journey.
There are different types of ancestors you can call upon. You have familial ancestors born of your physical DNA specific to this incarnation. They can be helpful when working to heal specific ancestral patterns. They often offer much love and protection. You may even experience their gratitude as you can heal patterns born of this lineage.
There are also ancestors specific to land areas, known as Land Ancestors. These territorial or land ancestors are stewards and spiritual guides connected to a particular land or area/territory. Honoring these ancestors is highly beneficial when buying a home or property. Suppose you have a property with problems — such as a lack of property value, arguments in the house, bad water, accidents, and mishaps of any sort. In that case, you may want to get to know the Land Ancestors and Spirits and ask for their help. Working with them can more readily bring the property back to balance.
Spiritual Ancestors are lineages of Spirit beings that your soul repeatedly chooses to work with, such as archangel Michael, Buddha, Christ, Kuan Yin, Mother Mary, White Buffalo Calf Woman, etc. You may have had significant lifetimes in Egypt or as a Buddhist Monk, or in a particular religious sect. You may recognize this early in life though it may not make much sense then. An example of identifying a spiritual lineage may look like this: "I grew up Christian and loved Jesus, but I found myself reading the Tao de Ching and asking about reincarnation by the time I was a teen. Buddhism, Hinduism, and Egyptian mystery teachings powerfully resonated when I got into my 20s. The core teachings of Jesus resonated, but the religion's hell, fire, and damnation did not. Eastern religions and philosophies, metaphysics, and shamanism all rang true without question once they came into my awareness.
There are infinite possibilities, and a particular ancestor may reside in multiple "categories."
Being on planet Earth is a soul's learning opportunity. We choose our parents, siblings, and DNA lineage when we jump into a body. Every part of our soul's choice to incarnate offers opportunities to advance as a soul, whether it be loving or born of fear. Your DNA codes from your earth family carry gifts and challenges. There may be diseases that your parents, grandparents, and others in your DNA pool have again and again experienced, such as heart disease or cancer. As a soul, this does not mean you will get these diseases, yet it may show you a pattern that you will face. You may be the one to break the pattern and heal that which was not healed before you. Or the pattern is part of your learning and growth. Earth family DNA also offers many gifts. Often there are families who are all artists, or doctors, or musicians. These DNA codes may also be part of why you chose that DNA. You may want to carry on a particular focus from another life, or begin a new focus. The DNA supports either. Or you may be the different one who does not carry on with the family pattern, whether it be the gift or the challenge to heal.
Recognizing the patterns of your earth family is one of the first steps to healing in your soul's earth adventure, as well as offering healing to your family lineage. Looking backwards to your parents and their experiences, as well as their parents and beyond can give you greater understanding of what you inherited. The traces of trauma within the body of your mother, your father, your grandparents, etc. are passed on if they are not healed in that person (epigenetic.) These trauma patterns can manifest in different ways. Difficult relationship patterns, abandonment, broken heartedness, ill-health, etc. can all be passed on as patterns that you have to face to heal. Alcoholism, drug abuse, and other types of abuse are often sent through family lines.
We often choose our Earth family stories and DNA that mirror patterns we have been working on in other lifetimes. The learning, growth, and healing we take on in a life through our physical DNA patterns give us opportunity to heal misunderstandings and to bring more love into our lives. Karma is the indebtedness to ourselves to grow through mistakes and misunderstandings that we return to more love within ourselves, and for the world around us.
To heal it requires that you face the patterns and acknowledge them. By the time we realize there is a trauma pattern in our ancestral line we have most likely already begun to heal. Working with intention, energy work, shamanic journey, prayer work, altar work, meditation, etc. is a path inward to one's higher self, as well as ancestral healing. Shamanic journey work and healing can support the spiritual and psychospiritual work required to transform and transmute the pain of the past. Forgiveness is a very important part of the journey.
Having a safe and wise healer and guide can be a very important part of the journey.
As a mystic, shamanic practitioner, and one dedicated to my own journey of healing the wounds of the soul, and of a sensitive being who feels all the pain in this world, I find there is a journey to be acknowledged on the path of come to love, to peace, and to wholeness. This path of the mystic often involves big initiations through suffering, stepping into and through the dark night of the soul, shamanic death and dismemberment. This is a sacred journey for the wounded healer, the mystic, the shaman, and the light worker. It is not an easy path.
The Divine understands the purpose of suffering is to lead us toward wisdom, strength, and ultimately empowerment. There are loving Divine Beings of great wisdom dedicated to helping us alleviate suffering without depriving the soul of growth it can bring. We can call upon them when our pain is too difficult to bear, including the anguish we feel when faced with the struggles of others. This is ultimately for the benefit of all beings, and not just the one.Call Kali, Ganesha, Archangel Michael, and all your Heavenly Heroes to support you. There is great transformation at hand for us in these times. May we be persistent in calling in our helpers, angels, and Heavenly Hosts of Heroes (a term my selenite sword maker friend Tom Ledder coined for the masters we call who are best to help us - Archangel Michael, St Germain, Ganesha, Jesus, Mary, Kali, Durga, etc… who is on your team?)
Can you imagine that you are the ARTIST of YOUR LIFE? … the Architect? the Author, the Writer, and the Editor of your life’s play? And as the CREATOR of your life, you actually have artistic license to create it as you desire. That is right! You DO NOT have to follow anyone else’s rules, directions, or demands. You are free to create the life you love as you want. You can color inside, or outside of the lines of what is offered you. You can copy life, or you can create it entirely new without reference to what has existed before.
The greater question is, are you consciously, intentionally creating your life? Or are you doing what you believe is required to pay the bills, to do your job, to be in a relationship, or not, and so on and so forth? Are you happy? Are you expanding and living the adventure you hoped? Or are you struggling?
And, one thing you must know is that as you are focused on and curious about your life you desire to live with all your heart, the Universe, the Quantum Field, will conspire to help you get what you want. Whether you believe in metaphysics, quantum mechanics/physics, or Divine guidance, I can tell you that the Universe has your back. The important thing you must know is that you must find ways to give your attention and focus on your desires and NOT your fears. That is the vibrational clue to getting what you want.
If this story moves you even a little bit keep reading what I have discovered over the years about how Creation of anything in your life works. You do have the ability for great transformation and change when you are ready and willing. The Universe has laws that support everyone in making their life what they want it to be. If you are in suffering, feel stuck, or limited in any way, you have subconscious beliefs and blocks that are born of trauma, fear, or fright. They are imprints that come from messages from your parents, your teachers, and society typically. They may be direct experiences from people you know or don’t know. Wherever you had the experience doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you have the tools to shift out of that experience into a new one. It is possible. I did. And if I have done this so can you!
Before you can create something new, it is important to stop and still yourself. In shamanism this is referred to as going into the great void of possibility. This is the first step of stopping the madness. This is a time to go within. Imagine this void as a place of great energy, possibility, and even chaos. If you have been going and going it is likely you need to stop and rest before you try to begin anything new. This is the place of the North in the medicine wheel, the place of the night, and the place of winter. This is the place where we dream anew. You may also call this the subconscious mind.
To make change it is important we get out of our conscious, thinking mind. Settling into the stillness of nature in winter, or the dark of night is a doorway to the mystery of life. This is the place where our dreams live, and also the place where we may have stored away fear patterns that hold us captive in an unhappy, unconscious life.
When you are ready to dream a new life into being, step away from the linear reality that is causing you pain. Take a break. Retreat into nature on a mindfulness walk. Breathe in the beauty of nature no matter her season. Step away from the people, the places, and the things where life is out of order. Find a time and space where you can reflect, journal, and be still. Let go of all doing. What is it like to just be?
Drink a calming cup of tea. Light a candle. Burn a fire and gaze into its flames. Take a nap. What do you need to go within to your private inner spaces? Allow your imaginations and dreams of a better life arise. Watch them. Notice how you feel. Release any emotion that may want to flow. Invite in the guidance that is ready to drop into your awareness now. Rest. Restore yourself to the peace that is awaiting you.
Once you have rested, set aside a time to look at your life with great honesty, observation, and objectivity. Not better or worse than what it is.
Get real. Are you happy? How do you feel when you think about your job? Do you feel excited or do you feel drained? Are you living for a paycheck? How do you feel when you think about the people in your life? Do you want to leave the one you married but are afraid of the chaos and change? Do you enjoy your closest friends, or do they disturb you with their gossip and how they treat you? How is your health?
Getting honest is just the beginning. If you have been putting up with people, situations, and your work, most likely you are exhausted, depressed, and not having such a great time of it all. Are you ‘bucking’ up? Do you have the motto “no pain, no gain.” You can work hard and still have a great time if only you are aligned with what you do as work, or aligned with the people around you.
It is time to take a personal inventory of every area of your life. This gives way to the path of what you can do differently. When you begin to imagine something different you will get the support needed to change your world.
One day at art school I was in painting class with my teacher Wilbur Niewald. He was an amazing Cezanne-like oil painter with fierce observation skills. He came up to me and the still-life oil painting I had probably been working on for 100 hours. The painting was just beginning to ‘pop’ - meaning look good! As he looked over my shoulder at the still life and the painting, he began to show me how to make the painting better. He picked up one of my brushes and dabbed it into some blue paint and proceeded to correct the painting, “Your composition will be much better if you move the still life up about an inch and a half.” Then he began to sketch into my painting where things should be moved to. I cringed with some expletives in mind, and thought, “OMG. I am going to basically begin all over on top of what I have worked on for hours and hours.”
Though I didn’t like what he had to tell me, he was my honest, objective point of view that was guiding me to creating a more beautiful expression in this painting. I didn’t want to hear it as I knew it meant more work to get what I wanted. I had an emotional response too, feeling a bit of defeat and limitation. Yet, it was exactly the reflection and guidance I needed to create change.
What will you do if you notice your life is an inch and a half off? Are you willing to change? Are you curious how much better it might be if you dive in and refocus? Can you imagine a better outcome?
Curiosity is a key component to creating anything you desire. What adventures are you curious about living in your life? Are you curious about a better life? Have you begun to imagine what it is like to be in a different job, to be an entrepreneur, to leave your relationship, to get into a relationship, to have more money, etc? Or are you curious about how hard it is going to be? Are you defeated before you begin? Wherever your focus lies in your curiosity is the direction you are headed. What do you really want to create?
I remember a time in my mid-20s when I was unhappy, struggling with anxiety, working a dead-end job that really wasn’t what I hoped for or wanted. I already had a degree from college, following a path to work in the ‘real world’ with a regular paycheck rather than follow my heart’s desires. I had always been a good artist, perhaps great in the eyes of some. Yet when it came to going on to getting a college degree and finding a job I was told, “You are a great artist, however, what are you REALLY going to do when you go to work?” In other words, the message was you can’t make a living being an artist. You aren’t valuable. You aren’t worthy. And of course, you are going to struggle because that isn’t a REAL job.”
Though I had graduated with a B.S. in my early 20s, I was doing something entirely different than my degree hoping to do more of my art. I was in advertising and I was miserable. I recall talking to my boyfriend at age 25 and said, “I would just love to go to art school for one year.” He said something that turned out to be very profound i moving toward my true desires. “Why not?” he said. And instead of thinking of all the reasons not to go, I began to get curious as to how to go. I began to explore schools, their admissions policies, costs, grants and loans, and how to photograph and submit my portfolio. With that research I decided upon Kansas City Art Institute and submitted a portfolio. I was immediately accepted! Within 18 months I moved and began a three year adventure to getting my BFA in art and painting.
Quantum physics proves what metaphysicians, mystics, and shamans have taught for eons. Whatever you are curious about, whatever your focus is on, is what you create. Specifically, when you focus your curiosity on something, the quantum field must answer. If you ask, “What if and how can I go to art school?” and begin to focus on this, give your attention to this and how amazing it might be, the Universe conspires to help you make it so. With your attention and curiosity you begin to stir the quantum field. On the other hand if you are curious about how hard it will be to get to school, you will stir the fear and all the reasons you can’t get what you want. Your limiting thoughts and feelings will create through the fear, rather than through the vibration of something better.
With honesty and curiosity to create something new you’ll realize you have to face your fears and have willingness to make the changes required
How willing are you to begin the process of redesigning your life? Are you willing to refocus - no matter the effort in living in greater joy, harmony, abundance, and happiness? Are you willing to ask for help? Are you willing to face the fear that has kept you trapped?
I recall the fear and frustration I had in knowing I was going to basically repaint an entire painting because the composition needed shifting upward just an inch and a half. Sitting in the art studio with my teacher looking over my shoulder was daunting. I felt sick to my stomach. All sorts of thoughts ran through my head that were born of frustration, a bit of defeat, and wondering if I would actually make it worse rather than better. After a short while I began to refocus past the frustration and fear of screwing it up. I began to repaint the composition, redefine the color, and shift everything up an inch and a half as directed by my teacher.
Life is a series of of choices and actions. Whatever we create, whether it be a canvas with paint, a sculpture, a book, a job, a relationship, or our own bodies is ultimately an experimental process. Fear is at the core of stopping us from writing the book we want to write, losing weight, getting the job we want, and ultimately taking the risk of a better life no matter what it might be.
Mastery in any area of life requires the willingness to do what it takes to get what we want. When we set forth in love and excitement rather than fear, the journey is one of fulfillment of your true heart’s desires. The effort is well worth it and part of the reward.
Any great artist, writer, actor, architect, or director learns to let go in the process of creating their masterpiece. It is a grand experiment and adventure to create a great piece of art or a fabulous book. There’s always the process of editing, correcting, and refocusing.
All acts of creativity are also acts of destruction. Birth is connected to death and death is connected to birth. When I paint is applied to a canvas, the blank canvas is changed to something else. It no longer exists so a painting can be born.
SACRED destruction is the process of intentionally letting go, alchemizing what was, making it sacred or an important part of creating the new life. Rather than destroy all of an old job or old relationship, it is a spiritual practice to clear out the things that were difficult, and yet find the gold within the experience. The experience is here to teach you about alchemy, wisdom, and mastery in your life.
Notice how you feel as I speak to fear. What does your body tell you when you think of moving out of your current situation into something you desire more? Do you feel exhilarated at the possibilities of your new life? Or do you have a stomach ache, feel anxiety, grief, or other pain?
Hawaiian Goddess Pele is a great example of the power of Sacred Destruction and Creation that we can all learn from. Pele, being the Mother Goddess of Volcanoes and Lightening awakens and brings her lava flows when man has disrespected the land. Her fire and lava flow across the land burning away the impurities of man’s unconsciousness. In the process her lava flows give birth to new life as a new island. This great mother teaches us to use the power of fire to burn away the impurities in our lives so we can enjoy new life.
Mother Nature is constant in her teachings about flow, cycles, and seasons of creation. We can apply her wisdom to our own lives to move out of stagnation, depression, lack, and unhappiness. Once we have become willing we can begin to burn away, to let go, and to correct our course to a more beautiful landscape, within and all around.
Whatever change you are embarking on requires a time to release and let go so you can move into a new you and a new life. There are many ways you can approach your shift. I like to add ritual and ceremony to my journey of release, whether it be a fire ceremony or painting over an old painting. Both are physical acts to help me move the mental and emotional energy beyond the limited or old life experiences.
Make a safe and sacred space to explore letting go. Set an intention that is clear for what you desire to release and what you desire to bring in. Burn sage or other herbs and incenses to clear out old dense energies. Turn off your electronic devices. Tell others to leave you alone for the period of time you need for your ceremonies. Light a candle, and/or set an altar to hold your prayers and focus.
When I am ready for change I love both fire ceremony AND going into the studio to abstractly paint over an old canvas with the intention to release, as well as to bring in the healing and shift needed for me to move forward in my life.
Before going to the fire - Set some time aside to reflect and dump out your thoughts and emotions onto paper if you like. With intention, release your negative thoughts, anger, frustrations, resentments, blames, hurts, etc. onto paper. I recommend writing and bringing that through your hands rather than on your computer. Be as physical with it as possible. Your body needs the release as much as your mind. Use color, symbol, pictures, and story to tell the old story you no longer want to imprison your life. The release in such a manner is cathartic in and of itself. Also, gather any organic items that represent the pain of the past, or the limitations that have held you stagnant. If you are letting go of a job, it may be related paperwork or contracts that have held you. If it is a relationship you are releasing it may be cards, letters, and photographs you want to let go of that hold past promises that can no longer come to fruition. Whatever you gather take it to the fire.
Throw everything into the fire with conviction of letting the past go in all forms. Speak out loud what you are letting go as you desire. Then acknowledge it is done. This is an important piece of completion that sets you free. Be done with it. No more. And so it is.
Then stand close enough to the fire to feel its heat. The fire energy purifies your auric field of dense energies. In the process it raises your vibration and fills you with chi, prana, life force. This fortifies you for your next steps to create your desires.
Use a canvas that is either new or old and art supplies that you are not attached to. Your supplies are completely up to you. Focus your intention to let go of the old energy, the negative thoughts, and emotions through the paint, brushes, hands, and tools onto canvas. This is a very physical, somatic experience beyond your intellect. FEEL into the energy of the limited life experiences. Anger, rage, sadness, and any emotions that are connected to the old life all want to come out of you into the paint and onto the canvas. Let go with all the veracity and emotion possible.
As you release notice the shifts you will begin to experience that free you. You should begin to feel lighter and more free. Keep going until you feel the shift. I literally went into a trance the first times I let go with great emotion. I became very calm after I released betrayal, rage, and fright. Naturally I began to bring in a new vision, clarity of message and imagery, that was my freedom.
Once you feel done with the releasing, shift into painting your healing, your healing, your new energy. Be open to the flow of love, of healing, and new direction to come into the canvas in color, symbol, and messages that you not only see but feel. You may well open up your psychic senses as a result of this exercise. So pay attention to the messages. If they are born of love they are from your higher self.
Once you let go of the old story and fear that keeps you stuck, you will be able to focus on what you truly desire. Your focus, along with your mental, emotional, and physical energy and actions will direct your life. Whether you want to shift the composition and color of a painting, or you want to leave a relationship, you must be able to focus toward what you desire rather than what you fear.
Use your art, writing, imagination, and curiosity to lean toward what you want to experience in your life. If you still have doubt, depression, or hopelessness, go back to the releasing exercise with sacred destruction to get clear before you move forward. Clearing the fear is essential to getting to a place of moving forward. Taking action toward your true heart’s desires won’t work if you are still harboring fear and limiting beliefs. If you keep doing your best to move forward and are repeating the old patterns, step back in the step by step process until you begin to feel free and safe in your body, emotions, and thought process.
In mystery school in my 20s I came to understand a universal law and truth about focus. It goes something like this: Whatever you focus on expands. This seemingly simple truth is not always easy to act out, yet it is important we learn to do so.
Notice where you are focused. Turn off the bad news, walk away from negative conversations and nay sayers. Find supportive friends and loved ones. Create an environment in your life where you are more and more easily focused in the power of positivity and potentiation. If you want change yet life in a negative environment you will be like a fish swimming up stream. Toxic energy will sabotage your movement forward, cause stagnation in your growth, and not only slow you down but most likely stop you all together.
When you imagine your new life, what does it look like and feel like? Who surrounds you and cheers you on? If you can’t think of any one person, then work with reference points of people you know who have good support systems. How does it feel when you think of them and their relationships? Study the energy of their relations and then see what it feels like when you imagine them. Take a walk in nature and feel into the peace and harmony. Winter has one feel. Often quiet and more still. Spring another feel, with new life, birds chirping, and green coming out. What are the sensations in your body that bring peace when you move into environments that are harmonious. Let them be your guide to focus into peace, harmony, and joy. As you notice these sensations they will give way to restoration of your own inner peace. From this place you can focus and choose more harmoniously the life you desire.
Synchronicity - When you begin to focus on your true desires the Universe will send you the support needed to create change. Synchronicity, coincidences, signs, symbols, and messages will begin to appear before you. You may have a dream that reveals something that is important in your journey to new life. Something will stream across your devices with a message that is profound and important. A friend will start a conversation focused exactly on what you need to know. Suffice it to say if you have become curious and focused toward what you want to live, the world will begin to give you the breadcrumbs and clues you need to follow.
As you imagine and begin to seed new life it is important to protect your dreams. Imagine how an embryo in a womb, or a newborn infant needs nurturance and protection from harmful elements, your dreams too need protection, nurturance, and support. Share your hopes and dreams with those who love and respect you. Avoid the nay sayers and negative nellies. Anyone and anything toxic can down play your potential, playing into old fears and doubts. There are times to keep things to yourself and only the most trusted individuals. There is a time to announce your new life to the world. Be discerning of who to share with, and when to share. Avoid the need for approval from people who may never ever approve of your choices. Your dreams of a new life are precious and need you to be a fierce, loving, and protective parent. Weed out your doubts and fears as you dream anew. Weed out the people and environments that carry those same doubts and fears along the way. You will be happy that you did.
Deep in the jungles of South America you will find the black puma and the black jaguars who come to sit at the waters edge at night in the darkness. They avoid detection of all around. These big cats never chase their prey. Instead, they align with where their prey will come to drink or eat. In the darkness they sit without lifting a paw or tensing a muscle. They sit in observation and watch until what they desire is before them. At just the right time they will pounce upon their prey and get what they want without any seeming effort at all.
This teaching is an integral teaching about alignment, rest, and effortlessness. As you dream a new reality you will indeed have work to do to create what you want. And, as you relax and let go of the fear that holds you back, you will be more aligned with effortless action. Pay attention to what is before you. Is it in alignment? Does it feel good? If it doesn’t, most likely you are not at the right watering hold where your desires exist. Follow the plan here and you will indeed be more and more in the place where life gives you what you enjoy and what you desire.
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Intentionally bring in the spiritual medicine of Sacred Space to transform all areas of your life. The energy we live in is either medicine that helps us thrive or can be toxic and deadening. Learning how to set and keep high-vibrational energy in our outer environment helps us more greatly keep it in our mental, emotional, and physical bodies. We are spiritual energies moving through time, space, and a world of duality. Staying grounded and centered in our heart and soul spaces in our modern world can be challenging to say the least. Keeping our home and work environments clean and beautiful is a physical and spiritual adventure.
Join award-winning artist and author Katherine Skaggs to learn more about the spiritual medicine of creating sacred space in all areas of your life. This 33 minute video guides you through clearing with smoke and smudge; how to work with smokeless options of flower waters and essential oils to clear energy and to raise the vibration; how to set and work with an altar to bring in energy and connect to spirit guides and helpers; how to work with prayer and intention to set your space and to invoke positive energy; how to honor your spirit guides and helpers and get them to assist you in intentional ways to heal and to bless; how to bring in crystals to ground, clear, and expand energy; the importance of flowers to invoke higher-dimensional spirit helpers, and set a high-frequency energy; and the importance of having spiritual, sacred art and beauty in your space to create reverence, sacredness, and power through love and wisdom. If you love this video make sure to get Katherine Skaggs' award-winning book Artist Shaman Healer Sage; Timeless Wisdom, Practices, Ritual, and Ceremony to Transform Your Life and Awaken Your Soul.
To work with art and creativity to heal is to claim your birthright! You create with every thought, every emotion, every word, and every action you take. Creative energy is the same energy as healing energy. How you focus your creativity determines how you direct your healing energy and its effect on you and the world around you. I once asked an astrologer friend to look at my chart to give me some insights. She said, "Katherine, you are sooooo creative! You know you create all your shit, right?" Oh, the truth is so hard sometimes. Yes, I can create beautiful paintings, write a multi-award-winning book, and do many things well. And I also am the one who makes all my messes if I choose and act from hurt, fear, trauma, or unconsciousness. Good news: I am also the one who can rewrite the script of my life, let go of the tough stuff, and transform it into greater love and wisdom. I am here to help you to create with greater love and harmony as you let go of the difficult stuff.
You may or may not believe you are a creative, an artist, or a healer. Yet, in my experience, everyone has amazing creative energy and artistry within themselves. Suppose you learn to connect to and unleash the energy of your creative Self? In the process you will discover healing and empowerment at core levels. (I speak more in-depth about cultivating the inner Artist and the inner Healer in my book Artist Shaman Healer Sage through various practices, ceremonies, and rituals beyond this article.) As the Artist and the Healer of your life you have an innate knowing of how to work with art and creativity to heal.
You don't have to know how to paint or draw to connect to your creativity. You may love to write, dance, cook, or garden. You may be a fantastic problem solver. It is an unlimited process that offers excellent alchemy.
Life on earth is a school for the soul. It can be amazingly wonderful. And it can be messy, challenging, filled with grief, and downright complicated! It is a mixture of dark and light, good and bad, and all the in-between. There are always cycles, no matter the journey. The great question is how do you handle the cycles? Do you know how to create intentionally? Do you know how to alchemize the challenges? Can you access your creative self to more positively navigate your Earth journey?
As an artisan and mystic, I naturally use art and creativity as my healing tool for transformation. Many years ago, I discovered I could go to my canvas and dump all my painful emotions and thoughts onto a canvas with paint. In doing so, I began to release the pain in my emotional body through a bodily, sensory process. I was not 'thinking' what to do. I intuitively, and energetically put red paint and black paint onto canvas. It was abstract. It was freeing. And it opened me up to a mystical experience where I went into Samadhi. I had an ecstatic experience of release and illumination where I was completely calm and at peace. When a face came onto the canvas I asked, "Who is this?" I heard, "Dakini Kundalini Mama." Dakini is Sanskrit for sky dancer. It also means the free, illuminated mind.
This process not only brought me peace, but allowed me the change I needed to navigate a difficult situation with a business partner break-up and end of business. It helped me to heal rage and come to center so I could find my way to new life.
I have taught this process many times and continue to encourage it through painting, writing, dancing, throwing clay, or any form of creative flow where you can somatically release the old and bring in the new energy that heals. Below I describe the working with art and creativity process to heal again through a personal experience. It is my perfect process to let go, to alchemize, and to heal.
Most recently, I had an experience of grief and loss that I was having a hard time processing. I returned to my studio to paint out the grief onto canvas in a process painting. My only goal was to clear this and to heal. In the process, my guides came through and helped me return to harmony.
I got an old canvas out of the closet that I had never finished, nor did it seem I ever would. I got white gesso out and ceremonially focused my angst, grief, and emotions onto canvas. With each stroke, I spoke out loud what I was letting go of. I sent my emotion into the paint to release what could never be and what was out of harmony.
Over the white came black—the black mixed with the white where it had not dried, creating grays. There were lighter and darker areas, faces, crosses, and patterns of energy flow. All strokes and variations in color were symbolic of the journey through the void, the unknown, and the pain of letting go. The faces spoke to me as if to say, "You are not alone. We are here with you. Let go and come home to the love awaiting you. It is already inside of you. And we are holding you."
With each stroke, another layer peeled away, and a new vision came to speak to me. I added color and clarity to the faces, whirling energy patterns, and crosses.
One face in particular came into focus with healing and love that was very apparent. I sat with her and felt into her love and support. More greens, blues, and pink hues came onto the canvas in glazes, bringing healing frequencies. Everything was still very abstract, yet with emerging form.
Then, complete abstraction again, painting over the faces in more glazes until they disappeared and another layer began. Often symbolic of our journey - letting go, new form, experience, then releasing again, getting messages, and new awareness creating a new form.
I sat with my dogs and took a break. In the process, I opened up William Henry's site online, where he talks of the Starwalker, Mother Mary, and Pleiadian Goddess energy. Immediately, I recognized that the energy coming onto my canvas was in the form of Mother Mary. She is one of my main guides. And she is the Starwalker coming to help me restore and come home to my true essence. I knew the stars were speaking to me. I knew there was clear guidance and love to help me heal trauma from its origins.
Let this process be your process for moving energy, using creativity to let go of painful old patterns, and to bring in healing energy.
The process applies, whether it be to paint or to dance, to garden or to cook.
I hope this is a helpful process to support you in healing and coming to harmony in yourself. Let me know how you approach the process and your breakthroughs.
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I recently had a student ask my definition of love. Is love all the feeling of attraction? Is it how a mother feels toward a child? Can it be much more than an emotion?
Mystics, shamans, and scientists alike will tell you that everything in the Universe is energy and vibrates. Thought and emotion create. If you think, feel, speak, and act in love, you create your world with love. If you think, speak, feel, and act out of judgement, anger, fear, and trauma, you create your reality with these vibrations.
"If you wish to understand the Universe, think of energy, frequency, and vibration." - Nikola Tesla
Love is the Universal force or frequency that gives life. It heals, restores, and creates miracles. The ancient Solfeggio tone measurement of love is 528 HZ. This frequency vibrates within the cells of our bodies as well all around us. The love frequency is within all natural life forms, from the chlorophyll of plant life to the DNA of human and animal life. It is the energy of "good vibes" we feel when we enter the forest or into a sacred ceremonial space or the divine connection experienced between two open-hearted individuals.
Sacred art of Saints and Masters often depicts a radiant, illuminating heart indicative of the power of love expressing through the loving masters and guides. Writings on Archangels, Ascended Masters, Monks, Saints, Priests and Priestesses reveal the power of the heart as one that gives healing, creates miracles, and guides the soul upon their sacred path. Following one's heart's desires is associated with the true direction of the soul.
Current-day scientists' are proving what ancient mystics and healers have understood about the frequency of love as a healing, harmonizing, vital energy. American neuroscientist Dr. Candice Pert discovered that 528HZ opens our chromosomes and exposes the DNA. Biochemist Steve Chemiski states in the book The Fork in the Road that the basic structure of organic chemistry, the carbon-6 hexagonal ring reflects the sacred geometry of the 528 HZ frequency. Dr. Joseph Puleo describes it as an extraordinary force that priests and healers of ancient civilizations used to heal and manifest miracles.
Dr. Len Horowitz discovered that the frequency of 528 HZ is the energy that brings spiritual signals and activating frequencies to higher consciousness. He educates us to understand that 528 HZ comes directly from the sun into all of our earth. The vibrations of this love frequency feeds the botanical world, which gives us oxygen and chlorophyll vibrating at 528 HZ.
The frequency of Love is of course associated with our heart spaces. 528HZ is heard in the heart of everything. When our hearts vibrate at 528HZ we are more positive in our outlook, happy, and at peace. When we worry, are skeptical, and basically in a bad mood, the frequency of our heart is affected and vibrates in a dissonant way. Closed-heartedness and depression are symptoms of a heart out of sync. Bathing in the 528HZ frequency transforms and lifts our mood, and helps to heal our bodies.
Dr. Masaru Emoto, pioneer in the field of "micro-cluster crystallography," conducted years of research sending positive intentions and 528 Hz frequency vibrations into water. Dr. Emoto experimented with the Love frequency on polluted water and witnessed incredible results. He filmed the molecular structure of water changing from disorganized arrays of crystals in polluted water into beautiful snowflake designs. According to Dr. Emoto, the snowflake designs include visible "messages" as if the water was actually "conscious." His results are published in his New York Times best-selling book "The Hidden Messages in Water" (2005). — — — Information from Gaia Meditation article.
Suffice it to say that LOVE is the master healing energy of everything.
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Imbolc is the Celtic celebration of the Irish Goddess Brigid, corresponding to the Gaelic Fire Festivals to celebrate the coming of Spring (the day falling halfway between the Spring equinox and Winter solstice.)
This year Imbolc falls on the New Moon AND the Lunar New Year! It is the perfect time to set intentions for new, and expansive ways of being, new life! What projects do you want to bring to life? What energies do you desire to give light to?
As Imbolc traditionally signals the end of the worst of winter and the beginning of spring, it is a wonderful time to relax, let go, and focus love and excitement for the potent new life coming to you now.
Call upon the goddess Brigid today, the great Irish goddess of the hearth, healing, poetry, artistry, and blacksmithing. In the Mythical Goddess Tarot Brigid is the 14th Major Arcana Card, Alchemy (inspired by the ART card in the Thoth tarot deck.) Here Brigid inspires you to find your own creative spark of inspiration, letting it blend with the alchemical powers of the Divine Creative Force to manifest the power of beauty in your life.
Welcome the Goddess Brigid to assist you/all of us in transforming our world through your Divine creative spark. May she bring the illumination of her fire and artistry to support each of us as we leave the challenges of winter behind and welcome the promise of spring, and the light returning into our lives.
With the combined energies of Imbolc, the New Moon, and the Lunar New Year know that change is upon us. The light is returning and we are budding into a new time. Join me in the light with love.
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As part of my offering for February 1st, Imbolc, the New Moon, and the Lunar New Year — BIG ENERGY—from the Masters of Light Wisdom Oracle coming mid 2022, I invite the medicine of Alchemy and Archangel Uriel to work with Brigid. Let us light the fires of our hearts, that we may purify and make sacred the life we have lived so far. Let this sacred fire break open the seeds of the new that we may be abundant in our new cycles unfolding. Abundant in love, in community, in joy, in good health, in all our relations, and in all we create.
Archangel Uriel is the angel of wisdom, Divine light, and fire that purifies. Expect life to be fully transformed as Uriel brings the alchemical, purifying powers of the Phoenix Rising into every part of your being.
Be not afraid, for Archangel Uriel brings light into the darkness, the mystery, and the unknown. It is time to put your fears, and old ways of life into the fire that purifies and transforms. It is time to let go.
Uriel’s fire and light are born from the highest, most Divine energies of unconditional love. Let this intense light and love clean and purify your heart from sorrow and distress. This will restore the peace within yourself as you are then able to reconnect to your own Divinity.
Out of the ashes of old dreams comes new life. Trust in the process. Connect to the Light and be reassured in your healing process.
It is time for great change. What is in need of purification in your life? What is dull, lacking light, mundane, and void of magic?
Archangel Uriel offers all you need to shapeshift and alchemize your life. Call upon him now to assist you in bringing new life through the release of the old.
Refocus in this fiery light and you will find the wisdom and love needed to bring new life. As your heart let’s this purifying light in, you will discover the most beautiful blessings that come from the ashes of the greatest disappointments.You are on the spiritual path to enlightenment as you move out of the darkness into the light.
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With Imbolc, the New Moon, and the Lunar New Year coinciding, it is a great time for a fire ceremony. Call upon Brigid and Archangel Uriel to assist you in bringing the light into all areas of your life, birthing new realities as you transform and release what has been. With this there is a great expansion of Divine, creative energy, that purifies and gives birth to new realities.
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With much love, Katherine Skaggs
Join author Katherine Skaggs as she opens her initial shipment of ten books of the Artist Shaman Healer Sage. These first ten books give her the actual experience of the book to review and approve, so the large shipment can get upon its way to Katherine's storage and shipping location, so YOU can get your book in hand after the first of May. Experience the excitement and the beauty of a foundational guidebook on shamanism, with amazing spiritual wisdom and mapping systems that will assist you in living a better life.
Shamans, shamanic cultures, and ancient mystical cultures all know the secrets to a happy and healthy life. Now more than ever in a time when life is full of chaos and confusion, many are returning to foundational and timeless principles and practices that restore harmony, peace, and well-being, personally, and for the good of the whole. The times we live in have been prophesied for generation after generation, from the Hindu teachings on the Kali Yuga, to the Christian teachings on the end times, to the prophesies of the Hopi, the Maya, the Navajo, and the Aztec (to name just a few) telling us major change is upon us. We must shift consciously, and willingly, that we may clear away suffering and hardship, and return to a time of peace and well-being. It needs all of us to participate consciously and willingly as best as possible. Artist Shaman Healer Sage is a wise map that assists you in choosing a better reality for yourself.
Let's do this together, to dream a better world for ourselves, and the generations to come. You truly are the blessing when you begin to center in your heart and become present to the blessings within you and all around you.
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Check out Katherine’s new book, Artist Shaman Healer Sage to learn more about shamanism and how its wisdom, practices, rituals, and ceremonies can bring greater balance and harmony to your life. Artist Shaman Healer Sage is filled with wisdom teachings and stories, “How to” guidance for working with shamanic tools, ceremony, ritual, prayer, altar work and much more. This shamanic guidebook is a life map for the soul on their earth walk. It provides insights into the spiritual working of the earthly world, and how to live in balance with the ancient woven truths that bring flow, harmony, and balance to life.
“Artist Shaman Healer Sage is a foundational guide for igniting your creativity and passion as the conscious dreamer of your life. Great Spirit gives us many clues to living a life of joy, abundance, and harmony. However, as humans, we often walk around in the dark, confused as we chase linear goals, disguised and separate from our true nature as spirit. Artist Shaman Healer Sage shines a light upon the workings of Great Mystery, and to the eternal truth that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, souls upon a spiritually purpose-filled Earth walk. It also gives you timeless shamanic teachings, practices, and tools for living in balance, empowered to live in harmony and joy once again.”
-Excerpt from the Introduction of Artist Shaman Healer Sage
Ra-Mona, Pleiadian Star Mother of Light and Sound Healing brings healing to each of us as we traverse chaotic times, navigating fear emerging from our base instinctual centers. She brings compassion, unconditional love and acceptance. She encourages us to look deep into her eyes to awaken our own light and knowing, to awaken our hearts and our abilities to “see” beyond the fear, to transform into more loving and connected beings.
Take time to sit and gaze into her eyes. Gaze upon her as an open eyed meditation. Be bathed in her compassion and unconditional love and acceptance. Let her take you on a ride to the spaces of infinite soul on a grand adventure of discovery and wonderment. What does she whisper to your heart? How does she inspire and illuminate your preciousness?
Her name Mona, or Madre Mona came to me during the live painting session. Yet, I knew there was more. As I sat with her she told me it was Mona, and her full name was Ra-Mona. This brings the vibrations of Mona to us, which means Desire, or Wish from the Arabic origins. This is PERFECT, as her healing she offers us to that of moving to our heart spaces to our true heart desires and wishes. As we connect with our soul’s true desires through the heart, we will connect to the vibrations that illuminate us individually and collectively. Our heart knows the way! It is the place of the Light and Sound that she offers in her unconditional love and compassion.
Ra is the name of the Ancient Egyptian God who is the Sun, the solar influence that gives life, that lights up the world. No mistake she told me her full name is Ra-Mona… bringing both the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine influences of Light and Illumination with Desire and Wish. Ra-Mona offers us the light of the Divine to illuminate our hearts, to illuminate our true soul desires and to assist in bringing them to earth through our own experience as human.
May her presence flood you with good vibes, that you may feel the shift upwards into the light of love. Many blessings and vast love upon you, Katherine
Join me, Katherine Skaggs, in taking a look at the energy of our times. Face the fear and clear it as you gain insights, guidance and support in healing the fear, and in moving your attention to the light.
We are in a profound time of shift. The structures as we have known them are falling apart. This is actually a natural part of the death of the old, the death of our egos and suffering, and the death of patterns that no long support us. We are conversely in a birth. We are here to birth a new way of life, a new way of being in relationship with one another in all of humanity, a birth of a potential that is filled with more love, not less.
Be inspired and lifted up with the guidance of the Goddesses, our angels and guides and the wisdom of our Divine. The cycle and appearance of our reality serves a great purpose to transform our world through mass soul transformation. Individually and collectively it is time to lift our focus upwards and inwards.
Join me and do your best to engage yourself and your world in compassion and generosity. Together we are able to transform and transmute fear.
As you sit with this reading open to the healing light and energies transmitted. Know you are loved. You are blessed. And the blessings are streaming to support you now.
With much love, respect and deep gratitude,
Katherine
Dear Friends
I am reaching out to support you during these chaotic times, full of fright and fear in our collective, as well as a time of great opportunity, of great focus on the light by those of us willing to turn our attention to greater possibilities unfolding beyond the fear. How shall we hold the light, be in support and supported, and take practical steps to move through these experiences with power, strength and love?
I am holding space for healing each day at my altar. I am lighting a candle, sage, palo santo, copal, sacred tobacco and other powerful plant medicines to clear the fear energies and trauma vibrations that are emerging so we may heal individually and collectively. I am calling all angels, divine beings of light, helpers and masters of light to assist us now. In the big picture, this collective purge is an important part of our transformation as a species.
Please join me in setting a space each day to light a candle, to pray, to meditate, to walk in nature, to go inward into the light of possibility and alchemy, to transform your own fears, through a shift of focus, through a shift of intention and attention. You can do this. We can do this.
Let's come together for a powerful shift, shifting our focus upward and inward.
Clear yourself and your space daily by burning sage, palo santo, sacred tobacco, etc. Use essential oils such as frankincense, tea tree, thieves, lemon, peppermint, lavender, thyme, eucalyptus, chamomile, clove, cinnamon, pine, juniper and rosemary on your body and in your field. Diffuse oils in your home and place of work.
Anti viral plants you can add to your diet are oregano, echinacea, garlic, elderberry, astragalus, olive leaf, ginger, cats claw, chaga mushroom, calendula, pau d’arch, siberian ginseng, reishi, sangre de drago, and st. johns ward. Eat lots of garlic!!!
Colloidal silver is also excellent to take to support your immune system.
Take care of your gut to support your immune system. Stay away from sugar, grains and dairy to support a shift in gut health if you are willing, while adding probiotics and prebiotics. This will assist in your energy as well. Your immune system needs good food, organics food, so you can navigate this world well in a body! Stay away from GMOs and foods that have been sprayed with glycophosphates. Organic only is a good way to go, to insure your immune system is optimal.
Over the next month I will be setting up some remote group healing opportunities to join, as well as some live channeled paintings on FB to clear the fear. Most events will be free, or very low cost to join remotely. It is time to support, to vibe up and to thrive regardless of the circumstances.
Several key teachings in shamanism to ponder at this time:
1. You are the Dreamer of Your Reality — (How shall you dream your life regardless of the circumstances you are amidst?)
2. All is Well regardless of the appearances of things.
3. Everything is Energy. Everything is connected. (Do your part in shifting upwards, through your focus, your thoughts and emotions, your intentions, your actions. Choose love as best as possible. Choose kindness. Choose to bless yourself and others. Look for the magic and the beauty. Be the blessing.)
Use this most amazing, free, great tool - Your Imagination! Connect to your childlike nature of innocence, curiosity and wonderment. When you still your mind, your heart and your focus, use your imagination and curiosity to reach to greater possibilities unfolding. What is the amazing shift coming as we are in the change? How good can all of this get? How much better might it be as we transform? What if we are moving into greater harmony as we clear the fear? What is it like to feel, sense, see, act and be from a greater sense of harmony and love?
Move your focus and attention into this world of energy and be emboldened for magical shift!
With much love, honor, respect and blessings!
Katherine
Katherine Skaggs
By Katherine Skaggs,
Visionary Artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot
For thousands of years, in ancient temples and every day homes, sacred art has been used to shift one’s focus upwards to the Divine, to bring healing, and to create sacred space. Priests, priestesses, shamans, medicine men and women all have invoked healing through the assistance of sacred art objects, images, written text and statuary. They understood how to use sacred imagery and word to create portals to the Divine, accessing the magic and healing vibrations.
Great artists through the past 100s of years were not only trained as artists, but were also trained in mystery schools, where they understood sacred geometry, and the power of art to open energy portals, as well as to convey high frequency light to the masses. Michelangelo and Leonardo Divinci were such mystic artists.
These artist mystic traditions continue in our current day, where the artists are the messengers to awaken the soul. If you have ever found some visionary, spiritual art calling you, you must know it spoke deeply to your being, and not just your eyes.
I has such an experience when I saw the art of Alex Grey, Susan Sedon Boulet and Meinrad Craighead in the early 90s. I owned a metaphysical store, had been training in a mystery school for 4 years, and had also been an artist since I could pick up a pencil. When I chose their art books and calendars to sell in my store, I became very much aware that something was calling me. I felt deeply that perhaps I too was supposed to do something visionary or spiritual with my art. Over the following 10 years, it became clear to me what that union was. It ultimately directed my path in life as a mystic, visionary artist myself, finding my way as channel of the Divine, and messenger to the soul through my art.
Along the way I would say I learned many symbol systems and the power of sacred imagery, yet that is not completely true. It is more like I “remembered” how to bring in sacred imagery, not through my eyes, but through my soul, as a channel. The journey first was to heal my own soul self. Getting still and asking for guidance married with the act of making art was the beginning of the Divine coming through me in more mystical and expansive ways. Each experience of contact with a Divine Being, such as Mother Mary, or White Eagle, or Serapis Bey, or another angel or guide who revealed themselves, was an experience of opening a portal to high frequency light waves that heal, that awaken and that transcend a 2-D piece of art. Once created in the original art, it continues to open sacred spaces, transmitting light codes of love and guidance, even in small reproductions such as an altar card or small print.
When art is created at a soul level, with intention, symbol and meaning, it has the capacity to open doorways to the Divine. It brings vibrational healing through its holographic and physical presence. It calls the soul to recall more of their Divinity through an activation of the akasha energy field, and ultimately into the personality. It breaks the mind and the heart open to love and awareness.
We all can’t have great pieces of art in our homes or on our altars. Yet today, we have the magic of reproduction, offering the opportunity of owning beautiful artwork in more affordable versions that we can hang in our homes and place into our sacred spaces.
What determines Sacred Art?
Not all art falls into the category of visionary sacred art. Is the art created in love? Is it high vibrational? Does it convey messages of the divine without religious constraints, rules and judgements? Is it beautiful? Does it make you smile, feel more love, or curiosity of the invisible realm of Spirit?
I have found that the artists engaged in conveying Divine messages through their art, bring healing to others. An astrologer 30 years ago told me it would be the artisans in the New Age who would be the true Healers. For these would be the conduits dancing with the Divine, bringing expression of it's high frequency energies to Earth via inspired visual art, movies, dance, song, music, etc.
Sacred Art and Altar Spaces
Creating beauty in your home and sanctuary spaces brings peace, calm, vision, hope and healing. The color, pattern, geometries, symbols, Divine Beings and vibration create a focused energy, both physically and spiritually. The feel good beauty of sacred art immediately begins to shift any space. When the high vibrations come into your space, your attention is moved to a higher awareness in your conscious mind, as well as on a subconscious or soul level.
Your aura, or quantum field begins to vibrate upwards, as well as the space where the altar sits. Through prayer and meditation at your altar with your sacred imagery and objects, you begin deepening your spiritual energies and awarenesses. This is the journey of cultivating greater peace, beauty and grace, where you are less and less apt to fall into the lower energies of judgment and separation.
These beautiful images are spiritual tools that work, even when you aren’t consciously doing anything. They hold space for you, whether you can or can’t.
The Call to Share Sacred Art as Altar Cards
Many years ago, when I began to channel Divine Beings through my art (Mother Mary, Buddha, Jesus, Archangel Michael and other angels to name a few), I became aware that I needed to share the images on a larger scale, and not just sell one painting at a time. The guidance was most strong when I was awakened one night by Mother Mary, and I had to get up to paint her. This particular experience was one of receiving a transmission of unconditional love that came into the art. At this time it was clear the importance of sharing the imagery as a way to bring light to awaken others heart and souls through compassion and love.
Soon after the images were made into small 5x7” cards, with a message on the back, to inspire and to uplift. (See all altar cards here.)
Create Altar Spaces for Inspiration and Healing
When in need of making one’s life for sacred, for healing and for being lifted up, it is a great idea of set aside a small space in your home for an altar. Altars are physical places where you focus your attention to prayer, meditation, worship, and calling forth your Divine Guides and Helpers. The space doesn’t have to be big, yet it might be.
Personal altars are a great way to stay connected to the sacredness of all life, especially yours! They become containers that hold your prayers, intentions and desires in the most sacred ways. They help ground the higher energies of the Divine into the physical world.
Creating and working with an altar is as essential to a mystic, shaman or priestess, as brushing one’s teeth is to good oral health.
To make your own personal altar, it is a great idea to keep out of the attention of others. Choose a private space where you can put down an altar cloth, or something beautiful as the base to hold your items and prayers. A candle is often added to represent the light, fire and illumination. If you would like to include all the elemental energies, place some item representing the Earth, Water and Air on the altar. Some dirt from a sacred or special place, water you have blessed or from a sacred well, and a feather or something clearly representing the air. Add fresh flowers to bring in beauty, and to open a portal to the Divine. (Angels and Ascended Masters LOVE the color, beauty and fragrance of flowers!)
Add Divine Art Altar Cards to focus bringing in the guidance of any specific guides, angels, or ascended masters you would love to invoke through your altar. With time, you will become more and more clear when they are present, and that you have clear communication anytime you desire it or need it. The more you work with their imagery and essence, the more sensitive you are to their vibration energy and how it reaches you.
Other Places for Altar Cards
Altar cards are also great for your desk at work, to carry in your car or in your purse, hung near your bed, on on your bathroom mirror. They create space wherever they are! If you need a reminder of the Divine and want inspiration, incorporate this sacred imagery where you want to bring their energy and inspiration.
Choose Your Altar Cards and Sacred Imagery
There are many images of Sacred Ones you may incorporate, who will absolutely visit you as you begin to say “hello” by honoring them through your focused attention, gratitude and physical presence through sacred art.
To connect, what is your need for guidance, your hope or your intention?
Hold your intention, prayer, need or desire strong in your heart and mind when asking who to connect to. Cultivate reflection and stillness. Ask for your spirit helpers to come to you in any way you can recognize their energy.
Then open to the imagery you find at a local metaphysical store card or calendar section, or art books, or online sacred art. Ask for the image and the presence of the Divine Helper to be revealed. Synchronicity will unfold and you will be directed to the energy of your helper. It may come in song, art, written word, statuary, movie references, etc. Your Divine Helper may well be a Marvel character, or an angel, ascended master, goddess or an animal. Don’t be surprised!
Notice who are you drawn to by image. If you don’t have a specific idea or knowledge of who you would like to put on your altar, peruse the images to see who attracts you. Move beyond your intellect to your intuitive senses. The image will call you. The message will follow.
Here are a few of the Divine Helpers you might want to check out: Archangel Michael for protection and guidance; Mother Mary for unconditional love; Kuan Yin for compassion; Lakshmi for abundance; Jesus for forgiveness, love and healing; Buddha for compassion and peace; White Eagle for awakening your DNA and connection to guidance from all the ascended masters, and so on and so forth. There are an infinite number of Ascended Masters, Goddesses and Illuminated Ones to work with. They may or may not be familiar. So trust who you are drawn to in the moment you choose.
(See all Katherine Skaggs altar cards here.)
How to Work with the Sacred Ones through work with the Altar Cards
Once you have chosen your altar cards, now what?
Enjoy their beauty!
Say “hello” and “thank you”. Be specific if you can, and name the gifts and powers of that being, honoring their mastery and benevolence. Thank the Divine Being for being present to you, and assisting you in whatever manner he or she is showing up for you. Ask them to lift you up, into their awakened vibrations, that you too might align with their blessings.
Sit with the Divine Being via your altar card and gaze softly upon it. Feel into its energy. As you quiet your mind, and still your body, you will connect deeply through the image.
Journal with the essence of the Divine One, reflecting, asking questions, feeling into the responses, opening your intuition and knowing.
Invoke through prayer and ritual. Sing praise of gratitude and blessings.
As you sit with the sacred imagery of your Divine Beings of Light, you will know what to do. Trust your intuition and heart spaces. You may find yourself crying tears of joy, or laughing out loud. These beings are alive and well and are excited to meet you in this way.
Artist Author Katherine Skaggs
Visionary Artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot
Katherine Skaggs is an intuitive channel, visionary artist, painter of souls, author, shamanic practitioner and teacher. She is the artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot, as well as a series of Altar Cards born of the Mythical Goddess Tarot, Ascended Masters, Angels, and other Divine Beings of Light. Each image is channeled and created as a portal, for your own direct experience of Light and Love, and the wisdom of these benevolent Light Beings. Katherine is dedicated to bringing in light, love and wisdom to awaken each soul through love.
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