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.
The Presence of the Divine is the vibrant, light-filled color and beauty of the seen and unseen worlds of the Divine, brought to life on canvas through the visionary sight of Katherine Skaggs, intuitive artist and shamanic practitioner, as well as artist of the Mythical Goddess Tarot.
Angels, Goddesses, the Christ, the Buddha, the Shaman, all exist in the world of Katherine Skaggs, vibrant, alive and Divine Presences offering healing, guidance and beauty to all who partake. Stand in front of any painting and receive an infusion of light healing energy beyond the beauty your eyes see. Be reminded of the expansiveness of the Divine within every brush stroke, and within every breath you take as you breathe in each image. A must see experience.
Katherine began her first visionary, divine art paintings in the mid-1990s, inspired by the works of Susan Seddon Boulet and Alex Grey. It was a merging of Katherine’s spiritual life and her lifelong path as an artist and energy healer that unveiled her true purpose and love. In 2003, Mother Mary came to Katherine Skaggs, telling her to paint her presence and take her into the world to bring healing and the light of love to all who would gaze upon her. Since that time, many beings of light, of the Divine have inspired Katherine’s imagery on canvas, as well as her guidance as an intuitive, mystic artist, teacher and writer.
After a trip to Rome on a “Conversations with the Goddess” tour in 2006, Katherine came home with the message from mystic, crone, artisan Lydia Ruyle, that it is time for each of us to re-member to tell “Her-Story.” Immediately upon arriving in Fort Collins, Katherine contacted her dear soul sister, author Sage Holloway, who had told Katherine many years earlier (early 1990s) that they should create a Divine Feminine tarot deck. From 2006 to 2008, Katherine painted 78 paintings for the Mythical Goddess Tarot, with the inspiration of, and collaboration with Sage’s wisdom and vision. With each Goddess came complete downloads of their essence and frequency, offering healing and illumination to all who partake. This body of work is a core part of the Presence of the Divine Show, offering the healing of the Divine Mother to all.
Katherine Skaggs is also a painter of Souls, able to “see” the essence of each person beyond their human expression, connecting to their Divine light. Katherine reveals each person in vibrant color, symbol and imagery on canvas, with channeled guidance of their true essence, revealing soul truth and purpose, healing personality and human life experience. Each session results in a multidimensional soul portal with healing, soul guidance and illumination of one’s soul essence.
Join visionary artist and author of the Mythical Goddess Tarot, Katherine Skaggs for her talk Conversations with Goddesses at Full Bloomed Lotus during the Hindu celebration Navaratri, or Celebration of the Divine Mother. You will be educated and entertained by Katherine's authentic, down to earth, style of speaking and teaching. You will be invited into the world of the Goddess through Katherine's mystical experiences that have unfolded with the Goddess since 2003, and through the portals of each painting of the Goddesses hanging at Full Bloomed Lotus studio.
From Mother Mary's guidance and light to Lakshmi's loving abundant nurturing, and Crow Woman's dark mystical nourishment, you will learn more about the love and beauty of each goddess, her message, her healing energy and her light that invites us all to have hope and courage for our futures unfolding.
Katherine will lead you into an experience with the goddess through guided meditation and shamanic journey. It is time to enliven the Divine Feminine within each of our consciousness, whether male or female.
Katherine began her first visionary, divine art paintings in the mid-1990s, inspired by the works of Susan Seddon Boulet and Alex Grey. It was a merging of Katherine’s spiritual life and her lifelong path as an artist and energy healer that unveiled her true purpose and love. In 2003, Mother Mary came to Katherine Skaggs, telling her to paint her presence and take her into the world to bring healing and the light of love to all who would gaze upon her. Since that time, many beings of light, of the Divine have inspired Katherine’s imagery on canvas, as well as her guidance as an intuitive, mystic artist, teacher and writer.
After a trip to Rome on a “Conversations with the Goddess” tour in 2006, Katherine came home with the message from mystic, crone, artisan Lydia Ruyle, that it is time for each of us to re-member to tell “Her-Story.” Immediately upon arriving in Fort Collins, Katherine contacted her dear soul sister, author Sage Holloway, who had told Katherine many years earlier (early 1990s) that they should create a Divine Feminine tarot deck. From 2006 to 2008, Katherine painted 78 paintings for the Mythical Goddess Tarot, with the inspiration of, and collaboration with Sage’s wisdom and vision. With each Goddess came complete downloads of their essence and frequency, offering healing and illumination to all who partake. This body of work is a core part of the Presence of the Divine Show, offering the healing of the Divine Mother to all.
Katherine Skaggs is also a painter of Souls, able to “see” the essence of each person beyond their human expression, connecting to their Divine light. Katherine reveals each person in vibrant color, symbol and imagery on canvas, with channeled guidance of their true essence, revealing soul truth and purpose, healing personality and human life experience. Each session results in a multidimensional soul portal with healing, soul guidance and illumination of one’s soul essence.
It was October 2004 when I finally honored my inner calling to more fully use my creative talents and abilities that I have had since birth. With the encouragement and assistance of my dear friend and most talented artisan Shiloh McCloud, I entered into a visualization to help me reconnect with my deep inner calling and creative juices. After only 20 or so minutes in a guided visualization, I entered my unused art studio and began painting again … after a hiatus of more than seven years. Not only did I begin painting again, but I also began using a new medium consisting of more brilliant colors than I had used before. These paints were vibrant, alive, intense pigments beyond what I had ever imagined in the past … including metallic pigments … taking my creativity to a new dimension … literally!
My first soul portrait was actually a creative process that wasn't initially focused on creating a portrait. Yet, it ultimately led to my own soul portrait … an intuitive self-portrait. Through several different sessions I worked on one canvas and laid down a series of patterns, shapes and colors.
Not having a particular vision for what was supposed to unfold on the canvas, I followed my inner voices and promptings. I didn’t even know it was going to be my own soul portrait when I began.
First, I painted the canvas entirely black. Next, as I began to experiment with my new and exciting paints, I painted a series of spirals covering the surface of the canvas… first using one pigment, then taking an entirely different pigment and blending it into the original spiral of pigment directly on the canvas. It was like chanting a mantra over and over, one spiral at a time, different pigments asking me to use them. I reached for each color based on intuition, not intellect. (more…)
