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The Mythical Goddess Series - Installment II of the Journey to Healing with the Goddess Posted On 12-03-2007 , 8:44 PM The Ascension Goddess Just having fun The Ascension Goddess' journey into form and presence came after over several weeks this past year. I was teaching a class on Intuitive Painting: A Journey through the Chakras. I had finished teaching the first class of seven, which works with the root or base chakra. We had left over red and black paint, so I encouraged two assistants of mine who stayed after class to grab the extra paint, some boards, and have at it with some expressive painting. Just let come through what wanted to express... Get your mind out of it and play, let the paint and Spirit tell you what to do. When I got the red and black onto the board, I thought, "Hmmm, you are interesting. I wonder if I will keep you and who you will become." And that was it until two weeks later. I set the board aside with just the red and black paint and forgot about it for a while. Two weeks later I was teaching the 3rd chakra class and was just sitting and holding space while my students painted. Inwardly I heard and was directed to pick up the board I had put the red and black on two weeks earlier. I normally don't paint during class. But I always follow my guidance, so I pulled the board out from a stack of paintings and began to paint. First the turquoise came forth. I was very aware that each stroke and color was being directed from my inner guides. I enjoyed a fluid experience of one stroke after the next, guided where to put the color and how it was to look. The yellow came next and I easily followed my guidance. Then my guides said, "White." And I said, "White?" Now mind you, I never argue with my guides or question where I am told or shown where to put color or how to put it there. Yet, this was an interesting conversation where I questioned! They said, "White!" and again, I said, "White??" Then as I held my brush near the paint on the pallette, my hand moved as if it were nudged into the white and through the yellow... My eyes got a little big as this occurred, as nothing like this had happened before... yet, I also usually just do what my guidance tells me to do in this intuitive painting journey too. And with that nudge I stroked the white and yellow onto the canvas very gingerly where I was guided to put it. And with the last stroke of my guidance, I pulled away to admire what had been created and was in awe. I said, "Who are you?!" And, "What is your name?" I didn't get her name, but I did get the sense of awe she had. I knew she would tell me a story somehow and that it was very important. I knew she had a lot to say and that she was very powerful and transformative. The next day I showed Sage the painting and Sage said, "She is the Ascension Goddess, and she is the Crone of Earth in the deck." I said, "Really?" I just love it when I am guided to paint something without an agenda and then that it actually is part of the Mythical Goddess Tarot. That is sheer guidance from Spirit and I am pleased! The Channeling; The Message and Teaching And, within a day the story came. I was teaching a class in Greeley at the time and had a scheduled soul portrait in Greeley several hours before class. I had a feeling my client was a no show, and sure enough, she never came at the time scheduled. So, I went to the park to have a break, to reflect and journal and center myself before class. And that is when the Ascension Goddess came to talk to me. As I began to journal, I felt and heard the Ascension Goddess announce herself and begin to tell me all about who she was and what she was about. I immediately understood the perfection of the cancelation of my client so I could have this conversation! The Ascension Goddess told me she was a collective consciousness of many beings (like Abraham), expressing as a warrior goddess of power and change. She told me that she brings Light through Fire and transformation. She heals with Fire. The heat of transformation. She is a healing wise woman of God/Gold...  She represents the tribes, the bird clan of the North and the Northern Lights off this Earth. We are of the Pleiades and are the fire planet, the sun planet of transformation. The red and green are rays of healing; the yellow and white tools to the light body for ascension. We come to heal the bridge of the heart to the root to humans, to infuse a shift at a dna level. These colors vibrate at a frequency healing of heart, soul and body. It is time for soul passion and truth to pierce the mind and body of man through the divine feminine presence. It is time for the Heaven's energies to vibrate into the Earth plane in a manner that shifts and breaks old patterns. The red is necessary for the intensity needed to break through the old patterns of habit. The turquiose teal brings gentleness with strength. It is the wisdom of the soul heart infusing the red passion ray. The yellow and white enforce the wisdom and frequency of the Christ Light. The dots in the painting are aboriginal frequencies and true Earth dwellers who live within the planet. IN IT! They are multi-dimensional beings of Light, wise beyond our knowledge. The dots are points of consciousness from other star systems of knowledge. They provide portals to this dimensional consciousness. And yes, the turquiose dot in the lower left is a master teacher and healer portal - Being of Light, grateful for its presence in this work. Wrapping it up - Portals to Higher Consciousness How to connect to the paintings and heal your life So dear friends, if you have taken time to enjoy this installment of the Journey, I hope you know this is very amazing work. Each painting is a gateway and portal to higher consciousness and remembering of who we truly are. We are amazing beings of Light and Love, God-Sparks on their journey home to Love. They are here to help us remember our true essence and give us guidance in living our lives in love and healing our souls. I feel very blessed to know they walk beside me and guide me so I can use my gifts to help others find more peace and love and joy. Each one is here for you to work with too. If you haven't yet, try meditating with one of the images who you are attracted to. Create an altar and put a small card on the altar. Focus on the imagery, open your heart and ask assistance on your daily journey. Pray and ask for love and the guidance to expand in your life and every cell of your being. Then be quiet and listen. Be patience and become curious where and when you will see the answers appear in your life... They will appear! Believe!! We all have access to these higher frequency energies and need to move our attention to our hearts, and to opening them to love. We must learn to focus our thoughts on God/Goddess/Spirit... whatever your language for the Divine Source of our creation, focus upon it and know that you are being guided and loved upon your journey here. Call upon that Divine Source and let it heal you, let it shift the old fear thoughts, sadness, depression, hopelessness... etc., by simply asking, praying, demanding, and breathing in the Divine Mother into your heart. She is here to heal us and help us heal our planet. We are in a time where there is help. These paintings are expressions of that Divine Mother energy and are portals to its birth on this planet. Thank you for all you do, for your interest in this work, and for being who you are. You are a beautiful being of light and love. You are remembering. You are love. That is the biggest message here. Learn to love yourself every thought and moment, fill yourself up and then give it away to others. Be of service to your highest self by becoming a divine expression of love in every thought and action. That is all there is to do. Love. Many blessings and much love and light, Katherine Comments (2)
The Mythical Goddess Series - Installment I of the Journey to Healing with the Goddess Posted On 11-10-2007 , 7:54 PM It has been a while since I have written in this blog. So this is my commitment to begin a conversation on the healing power of the Mythical Goddess Series. I want to share my experiences that I have had in painting this incredible deck and the progress we are making in its completion and in securing its publication. I hope to engage a conversation with those of you who come to read this, to invite you to peruse the gallery of tarot cards we have online in my gallery pages, and to perhaps even buy an altar card or two and work with the images so you can experience their power and move your consciousness to greater Love and embodiment of these benevolent beings of Love and healing. It seems I am finding an interesting path of healing as I continue to birth the Mythical Goddess Series, both for myself and for others who are working with the paintings or altar cards. I began this journey in September 2007 when I called my friend Sage Holloway and said it is time that we begin to work on this goddess tarot deck. And so we began meeting. And from these meetings we have given birth to the Mythical Goddess Tarot Deck... or at least 55 images of the 78 required to publish a full deck... hmmm, we aren't playing with a full deck just yet! We began with the structure of the tarot as our guide to bringing forth archetypal energies. We began working with the four elements in the lower arcana and with the energy of the Divine Feminine to direct our visionary work and inquiry of Spirit. Sage is a seasoned intuitive tarot reader, and I a visionary artist who has been around the tarot... yet, we have both undergone a transformation as we have engaged consciously with invoking each of these archetypes and energies into our lives to work with. I am doing more than illustrating a tarot deck. I am consciously engaging with the energies of the archetypes of the different goddesses, the focus of their energies within the structure of the tarot, and what wisdom they offer us in finding our path and experience of the Divine Feminine. Thus, I am having an experience in embodying their energy and wisdom. They are healing me in my own conscious mind, as well as life experience. They have held me when I have come apart in relationship, and they have told me over and over that I am never alone. They have reminded me that Love is the only answer and that we must learn to focus on Love as the answer. When in pain I have called to them to guide me through the pain and to bring me relief. And they have always been there to hold me. They are more real than some people in my life, showing up with Infinite Love and compassion... for the human's journey is one of waking up and remembering that we are not this illusion or dream that has fear in it. We are the love. We just live in a state of forgetfulness most of the time! With each goddess I paint, I feel more shift and love in my own life. The love is within me they tell me. It has always been there. As a human I have not always felt this because I forgot my true origins were Love. That is what the return of the Divine Feminine is about, opening to receive Love at the deepest of levels. Each goddess is an embodiment of some aspect of that Love's expression. The lower arcana of the deck represents our walk in life as humans. It is the mundane journey. The four suits are represented by the four elements. The Seas suit is water and our emotional body. The Wind is air and the mind. The Earth is the earth and our physical experience. The Fire is transformation into Spirit. Each suit has duality, as we also have duality in our human experiences. I began by painting the Seas suit as I learned to work with the structure of the tarot as my container for this journey. So I began working with the emotions, which is a good place for me. I am a Pisces and this suit is literally my strong suit AND my downfall in this life. As I began to work with the visioning of each card, I began to work with the qualities of each card and it brought me opportunities to embrace the duality in my life, of deep love, and later of entire depletion. I pretty much embodied the meaning of each card and painting as I worked with its energies. That is great on the positive part, but wasn't much fun when I painted depletion and got really sick afterwards. I had some healing to do there and I went right into the journey. Yet, in the long run I engaged in my experience so I could call in the higher frequencies of the major arcana goddesses. The major arcana represents the Divine, thus is the Divine Feminine. The Goddesses of many cultures represent the 22 cards of this part of the deck. In January 2007 I began to bring forth the first goddesses through my intuitive painting process. My first birth was Lakshmi. I had been painting diligently on the tarot deck and was in a major shift dealing with grief at a deep level in my life. I was praying for great assistance in knowing I was supported in all areas of my life, and was focusing a great deal on my financial support at the time as I evolved my own business as an artist and healer through my art. So on a Sunday I decided just to paint without any agendas as I was tired of having to show up and paint for a specific reason. My healing comes often from showing up at a blank canvas to allow the inspiration and Spirit to just show up in form. On that day I went into my home studio and asked, "What?" And I was guided to pull a 36x36 inch canvas from my closet. As I looked at that canvas, I opened myself up as I do in my process and basically asked, "Show me, what?" I began to feel color and put one color after another onto the canvas in a conversation with my inner guidance. Once one color was down I would either feel or hear what color was next. I fluidly moved from color to color, shape to shape, knowing as soon as one stroke was done what came next. I was having a wonderful conversation. It went on all day. At the end of the day I picked up the phone to call Sage and tell her that I painted a Hindu Goddess but I wasn't sure who she was... perhaps she would go in the deck. That night I put the canvas on the headboard of my bed and asked for her to bless me. The next day I was off on some errands and encouraged Sage to come over and look at her though I wouldn't be home. Sage let herself into the house and looked in my studio but couldn't find her. She didn't even know what size she was... Sage knew I had another painting she loved in my bedroom, so she ventured in to look at her and turned to see Lakshmi sitting on my head board. I got a phone call later that day with Sage almost yelling into the phone, "YOU ARE SO UNDERSTATED! YOU HAVE PAINTED LAKSHMI, AND YOU GOT EVERY SYMBOL RIGHT!!!" I almost laughed as Sage told me this. I told her it didn't surprise me that I got all her symbols right, because she told me what to do! I just didn't get the name! So this was the beginning it seems of the larger paintings of the major arcana Goddesses being birthed into my life, Sage's life, and now everyone else's lives who are working with them and their awesome energies. It was perfect that Lakshmi came in to work with me at that point. I am so very grateful to her. She is the Wheel of Fortune in the tarot deck and she is all about manifesting heavenly abundance on Earth. And I must say she has blessed me, as I continue on this path I grow abundantly not only financially but also in every other aspect. I have an abundance of love and support around me, and I am learning to allow it in. There has been an abundance of creativity and wisdom that have come with the experience of painting this series. I am called prolific all the time... and I must say, there is never a moment when there isn't an abundance of ideas to birth. I am working on feeling like there is an abundance of time... and I am learning that there is as I learn to balance my life with work and play. Next came Crow Woman, who is Divine Law. She was another experience of a powerful being of Light basically blowing in onto the canvas and revealing herself. She is an amazing shapeshifter and one who reminds us that with Divine Law all balance is brought back to life. We must follow Divine Law first and foremost above man's law, as man's law does not know what true justice is. My sense of it as I continue to work with her is that she is returning us to the mystery and magic of Creation. We must remember at the core of that mystery and magic is Divine Love. And from that place Divine Law expresses. We are all here to return to the knowing of our own origins of Love in creation. We are all here to release and heal our karmic ties and return to Love. There is nothing greater than to release fear and traverse the path to Love. Crow Woman has been an important guide for me since her birth. I know She is doing her best to teach me the power in the mystery of creation, and to trust that all that is mine will come to me if I will only love myself. From that place all returns as I heal my own karma and forgive myself for my part of any disharmony in my life. It is all about remembering Love. Next came Shakti, who represents the Lovers card, which is Ecstatic Union in our deck. Shakti, meaning force, power or energy is the Hindu concept or personification of God's female aspect, sometimes referred to as 'The Divine Mother'. Shakti represents the active, dynamic principles of feminine power. In Shaktism, Shakti is worshiped as the Supreme Being. The way she came to me in my inner vision was to work with the dynamic principle of energy as the kundalini rising, awakening both channels within the body into full enlightenment of all the chakras or energy centers. She basically showed me the Lovers card evolved with the Divine Feminine as the guide was to see the Beloved awakened within the Self, or Ecstatic Union in our own being. This is enlightenment, awakening of all our energy centers. I must say I haven't fully embodied all of Shakti, but I have understood that she is very important to my own journey of loving myself. There is no lover outside of myself that will make me whole. My grief and loss I dealt with in the loss of a relationship was to be addressed by seeing that the pain would go away when I realized the Love was within me, the Beloved lived within me. And so the journey began in greater depth to ask for this healing.... and it is progressing! yeah! It is however an amazing journey in realizing there was much to heal that I was unaware of when my relationship broke up. The healing had to go far beyond the intellect and reasoning mind (the male, left brain, old paradigm), and it had to reach deep into the subconscious and lunar aspect, the divine feminine part of me that was wounded from earlier in this life and many other lifetimes. I had to allow the deeper healing of what was under the surface, at a pure energetic level beyond my conscious fear and ego. I couldn't reason my way through it and I couldn't make it go away just by thinking it away or being a workaholic (one of my own patterns that have made me ill in the past.) I had to break down and be quiet, go within, and let the love the the Divine Mother take me into her bossom to heal. Each painting has given me a direct experience with this unconditional, deep love of the Mother that allows me to be held. The blessings have come as I have worked with these energies to heal myself, knowing there were many layers of healing to occur. Lifetimes. And now there is no better time, as it is the time on the planet to invoke these energies of the Divine Feminine and the Goddess to teach us compassion, self Love, forgiveness and strength in our own gentleness. So Shakti was born as I traversed a very important time where I personally was asking to find my way into the heart of the Beloved that somehow lived within me. I had to find her beyond my mind's concept. I needed to experience her energy. And with that said, I must say that each goddess brings a holographic gateway or portal beyond this time and space dimension. These paintings are the portal. Each one holds a pattern and frequency of energy. Shamans and healers of old have long understood that we can birth energy and frequency, pattern into our world through music, sound, dance, movement and art. Neuroscientists today are observing the changes in the brain that are created when people engage in creating these activities, as well as receiving these activities. Even in viewing art one can experience a feeling of peace... or aggravation depending on the art. Art does heal and science is now proving what shamans and energy healers have known through out time. Music, visual art and movement all move us back to patterns of wholeness that get distorted in our human experience. They heal trauma held in the body and the right side of the brain. Left-brain linear reasoning will only get us so far, usually to a painful awareness that we are struggling with an unhealthy pattern that wants to persist. Art and moving into the right side, intuitive, and creative part of the brain moves energy into the place where trauma or a distorted pattern is held, and the art (i.e., visual, sound or movement) repatterns the energy to a state of harmony, or lack of distortion, to what is considered the original blueprint. The paintings that are being birthed in the Mythical Goddess Series have been intended and evoked as portals to the Divine Feminine and the highest frequency patterns of healing and love. Each one holds its own pattern of that expression. Each one gives us an opportunity to connect to what we need at the time for our own soul's evolution. Just in viewing these images one can connect to the energetic pattern that heals the misinformation in our field of energy that keeps us separate and in conflict. These images anchor in the energy of the Divine Feminine and make it accessible. Now that we have 36 images in altar cards, we are receiving feedback from others regarding the power of working with the imagery. Recently one woman bought all 36 images and picks a card a day to meditate with. She has been writing us about her experiences, with questions and comments to each goddess and what she has meant to her own healing process. I will share some of this at a near future date. Before I close I am being guided to share some very important messages of Love. Please know that you are never alone. You are watched over by angelic beings and many beings who want to help you evolve and grow as a soul. Please pray for love to be the center of your attention. Please call your guides and angels regularly asking for their assistance in healing, in being more joyful and radiant, and in letting go of what is not joy and love. Please forgive what has caused pain and ask for assistance in healing your own soul. These are the greatest practices we can take on in this time to heal the planet. For as we heal we raise our own vibrations, we heal our family lineage and dna, we heal our culture, and ultimately that vibration of love and pattern of the god spark within each of us grows and we experience a paradigm shift. This is how we move into our own enlightenment, one loving thought at a time. Too, if you can, please look at how you can take up the practice of blessing others in your life, even those you don't know. This is a wonderful practice that sends loving thoughts out into the world. We all need blessings. Watch how they return to you in every aspect of your life. Watch how you lighten up when you bless others sincerely from the center of your heart. Don't feel sorry and pity people, bless them and remember that they are souls on a fantastic journey. Bless them and ask for love to be their guides. For now it is time to go rest. Please check in for more installments of this journey, and please take time to post comments and questions to the site. We want your participation and feedback on how and if these images are helping you bring more love into your life, if they are healing, if they are inspiring and if they are somehow contributing to your well-being and how you can manage your life on planet Earth. I will continue to share the inspirational journey, channelings that come with the paintings, and insights for living more easily as a human on this journey. Many, many blessings to each of you! With a heartfelt hug, much love and light, Katherine Comments (6)
Welcome to my Art As Healing blog! Posted On 12-21-2006 , 6:03 PM Art as Healing is my place to tell you a little story about how I have discovered that the process of doing art and the process of viewing positive, healing imagery has the power to heal the mind, body and soul. I have been an artist since I was a child and have studied energy healing and metaphysics for 25 or so years now. I always thought that the artist in me would merge with the healer and metaphysician, but didn’t begin to fully experience of understand that consciously until the past few years when I began to work with an art therapist when dealing with some core issues that had been asked to be healed.  Using my art to heal was a conscious decision and assisted me in bringing imagery from deep within that told the stories of where the rage came from, of where the hurt came from. I became aware of how I was moving energy through all parts of me, releasing energy that caused illness in my body, allowing greater flow of energy for a whole and healthy state of being. As I could bring up the dark or angry or hurt images and stories, I was able to make peace with parts of myself that had been fragmented. From this place I began to understand the experience of soul retrieval through the use of the art.  In our subconscious and unconscious lie many stories of our journeys, our fragmentations as well as our triumphs. Where we have been hurt we will often fragment, or cut off a part of the self. By bringing this part forward through the imagery we can have a conversation more powerful than words can give from our reasoning brain. From our right brain, our creative self, our intuitive self, we can reconnect to the fragmented parts of the self and begin the healing process to our own wholeness. Once we open this conversation through the imagery, we can begin to direct the conversation with positive imagery and self love. Some of the images that came through in my healing process that were very powerful in shifting anger and rage were Dakini Kundalini Mama and The Black Madonna. Later came Joy and Integration. Each piece brings a story from a deep, often archetypal place within, which brings a message for my own personal healing. And as I step back from my own process I see the Universal healing message that is for each of us to embrace. We are all here to share our stories, for we are all connected learning to heal and to expand our consciousness. I invite you to join my blog and share your own experiences, comments, or questions. Comments (2)