October Alchemy of Fear and Faith
10/25/26 Blog! Namaste Divine Shine of Faith in Action!
As we are in this last week of October ~ Bat Week! ~ here are a few of the meditation explorations and invitations I have been dancing with this month. In addition to a few written thoughts, this has been an active cycle of vlogging over the last few weeks with multiple shares around some major healing and activating with this sacred mother vortex energy of Mount Shasta. The picture above was taken from my bed 1 morning this week and the picture below was up the mountain at Panther Meadows a few weeks ago.

And! There is a re-start of a final 11 Saturdays of Soul Playhouse offerings found here. Should you choose to peruse, the current vlogs are here and there is a Vlog section (2014-2026) linked up in the Leaping Literacy Library @ famlit.tv

Hanging out with Bat in this week's Soul Playhouse offering!

So! Here we are in the Season of the Witch with Samhain and Halloween at week's end. A season of fall color glory and for many, a fascination with the gory! While Samhain is rooted in the earth cycles and ancestor remembrances, Halloween has a large focus on fun with fear along with costuming and trick or treating for candy.

For this sacred moment, whenever that is for you, ~ thank you, I believe in the gift of your presence here now in the circle of time ~ let us hocus pocus focus on the alchemy of fear and faith.

In any given moment, we are choosing some level of Love or fear and most likely, there is some alchemical mix. We set ourselves in Spirit through our practices; prayer, mindfulness, reverence, sacred awareness, healing therapies and modalities, etc. There are so many blessed tools we can utilize to help open our spiritual eyes. We are designed to connect and detect our inner Grace Positioning System much like Bat's echolocation navigation. We affirm and live the power of our Faith over fear everytime we choose thoughts, actions, feelings of Love, kindness, compassion, forgiveness ... and all the other virtues of goodness that reveal the best of us. As Bat reminds us, our inner guidance is always calling!

There are 2 other layers and levels of alchemy that I want to speak of; both have a strong undercurrent of unconscious, stored, and trapped energies. The energetic activations I have had through the mountain and my Spirit team this month, are definitely buzzing in me physically. I was also guided and gifted energy work that released stored traumas in my body temple which has accelerated the humming even more. Because we are vibrational beings, stuck emotions hold us in fear frequencies and hold us back from atuning with greater Love expressed. The freedom that comes in the release is ahmazing and truly a beautiful, natural cycle!
If this resonates with you, set your intention for more release, ask your angels, guides, or the Source Creator of your being to help you let go of anything you are ready and capable of to release now. Trust the process of divine timing and stay actively engaged over the unfolding of time. Use a gentle whisper to center and recenter with your intentions and new embodying realities. Be in nature as often as you can, breathing in her cycles of all stages of life. Here is yet another vlog that is the full segment of something shared in this week's Bat Soul Playhouse. It is a conversation at the Ancestor Altar about stages of life with flower blooms and how they show us so much of ourselves.

Ancestor Altar: Dried Blooms
Let us also look to these pain patterns in our collective humanity. So many layers of hidden dysfunction and what can be said to be the worst of us have been rising up to be seen and alchemized. Sexual abuse and victimization of women, racism and demonization of percieved 'other'based on skin color, culture, religion, patriarcal power abuses with disregard for law and justice, gun violence taking innocent lives where safety should have protected them, all come down to FEAR. In this nation, our founding principles and democracy are under real threat and yet, the rising awareness and increasingly spoken truth of the colonization, genocide, and slavery practices that are also foundational to our story as a country cannot be denied. We all must find a way to bring a greater Love to our neighbors and way of life to diminish the fear. We the people are ever invited to look into the shadows of history and the present moments to shine our light on truth and co-create the true freedom for all, that we each and all seek. Freedom is our birthright. Releasing the chains of pain sets us all free to vibrate and experience more Love! How we do that, what we create and co-create, moment by moment is up to us. The freer we are from pain, the more we can flow. Our Creator delights in all the ways we express the Love we are made of ~ from miniscule to mighty!

For my part, I continue to act on my callings in miniscule ways that sometimes feel mighty. I still have some of the same unfinished business reported here in recent months with ongoing invitations to hocus pocus focus as well as to commit, recommit or release. The newest Om HomETV for Intuition featuring Bat is currently on the Featured Bat page @ ETV in the Library:

As much as I love the magic of creating online, the incredible, fast changing landscape of AI, is a reality I don't align with. It is easy to feel my simple Library offerings are either irrelevent or at risk of being gobbled up. Yet faith in how Spirit flows through me and my Library center me in Love and action, overriding the fear.

That said, I have also been pondering the all important in person connection circles that perpetuate Love and our higher hearts. I missed the ol Feathers of Freedom Camp so much this summer! I vistited Thunder Mountain in September and was gifted a glorious sunset glow on her face. I went to the old Camp where we held our Circle of Love for so many years. It has been closed for 5 summers now and in obvious decay. Unlike the flower blooms, I did not see the beauty of this phase and I pray someone can restore this cherished spot! As for me and Feathers Camp ... my recent energetic activation has me seeing and believing again. As always, I will keep opening to Spirit knowing and flowing in moments of YES, Love blessed and expressed. Releasing fear as I can to live more Love.
Whatever Love is calling you, Sacred Shine, may you find ways to alchemize, realize, and ever align with the Divine you truly be. Thank you for BEing here! Namaste, Love!

10/18/26
~ October Vlog! :) ~ More October Vlogs below! ~

I recently laid on a picnic table at Ski Bowl, as high up Mount Shasta as you can drive ... under a sky of transcendent stars and celestial life ... alone in this place, I cried and the sound echoed all around me and through me as I experienced a vastness, expansion, and oneness that has no words. It activated in me a vibration that is still humming ...
Fear and Faith Alchemy: Stargazing Alone On The Mountain
10/5/26
September Segue into October

Vlog 1 w/ Equinox, Squirrel, and Sand
Vlog 1 w/ Equinox and just Squirrel ~ Shorter

Vlog 2 on Mount Shasta w/ Songs, Serendipity, Surprised Guests, and Witch Wisdom
Vlog 2 on Mount Shasta w/ Songs, Shorter!

9/8/26
Happy International Literacy Day!
Summer Surrender Into September

Namaste Shine of Divine Design!
I greet you on this Transformational Tuesday after Labor Day; a day that for many of us (still) signals the end of summer. Perhaps it is just a habit since long ago, when i was growing up, school started after Labor Day and those days are long gone! Fall Equinox is 2 weeks from today so accordingly with that ancient tradition, we have 2 more weeks of summer! The vlog I shared here in this space a few days ago had the backdrop of mama Mount Shasta freshly blanketed with snow which definitely felt like a turn of the season!

Oh how I love this mountain and Mother Nature! Of course, we have many ways we measure time and season to help give ourselves a sense of purpose and reason. Labor Day was yesterday; first established in 1882 with a rise of rebellion against horrific working conditions. I spent a chunk of the day working on puppet scripts and songs to rehearse with my puppet buddy, Kim for our return to Mount Shasta Library Storytime this week. I have spent many hours for the monthly volunteer gig over the last year. Blessed in my own playhouse with a spectacular mountain view and a groovy creative vibe, it is a labor of Love. What a long way away from deadly sweatshops et al of yesteryear. So blessed! I have the puppets, instruments and dino hats for the littles ready to go library play in the morning. ROAR for early literacy! The 60th International Literacy Day is today and it was founded for awareness and action towards global literacy. At that time, literacy basically meant reading and writing. Now there are 7 areas of literacy named as key for 21st century living; Globalization/Multi-Cultural, Social, Media, Financial, Cyber/Digital, Eco/Environment, Arts/Creativity. Of course, i would add Spiritual to the list of Literacies because knowing our own hearts and deeper levels of Spirit in and through us as well as holding more understanding and compassion for all paths of faith/religion, is also a key for our humanity's evolutionary healing and well-being.

Newly produced Compassion in Action Om HomETV playing below!

This moment is a great time to speak of the work I have been doing here for spiritual family literacy. The upcoming date of 2/7/2027 will be the 20 year anniversary for the New Thought Families website. It was birthed as I was spiritually parenting mijo Jeremiah who turned 7 that month. And it came about as an extension of my FUNdamental literacy work with Laurie's Stories which went online in 1999 (!). I speak to my personal journey in the vlog as well as the summer turned surrender, and ultimately compassion in action as acceptance and celebration for the ongoing process of production. As Abraham-Hicks says, "You can't get it wrong and you'll never get it done." Life is a never-ending evolution so thereby there are endless opportunities to 'get it right'! For my part, I continue to align with my divine shine to do what's mine yet am increasingly aware of the impracticalities of trying to serve so many areas of my Literacy Library all by myself ~ well, never alone, 'It is not i but the Spirit within me that doeth the work'. Still, the video work alone would be better served by at least 1 more set of hands and eyes and then there's the 4 websites ...! Let's just say, behind the curtain is way more than meets the eye from structural foundations to visionary implementations! So it is for all of us, and the many labors of Love we engage in on the daily. Some questions regarding my life's work and heart callings that may also serve you:
1. Is this heart calling/life work coming from unconditional Love or is this my wounded heart needing healing in another way? Or both?!
2. Am I called to this in a fresh way today or out of old habit?
3. Is there something(s) I can release to free up energy?
4. Who am I serving with these offerings? How and why?
5. How is my vibrationship with my life and spiritual callings?
6. What natural progression/evolution is calling me to next steps?
7. Who can I partner with for the highest good of all?

Ah, yes friend, we always do well to check our vibrationship in any given moment. And while we can be well served by our magnificent mind in asking questions, looking at humanity's history and embracing our potentialities, it is our Spirit that is ever ready to guide us higher. As I spoke of in this month's vlog, Wayne Dyer said (and wrote a book of the same title), "There is a spiritual solution to every problem." However you term 'problem', aka challenge, etc., our higher being and celestial team of angels and ancestors is always cheering us on to grow and glow! When we align with the shine of our divine design, we do shine! Our happy place is indeed spiritual solution! And perhaps the best revolution!

In the picture above I am in my studio circle where I do feel so lit up. I took many 'calls' there for the SoulPlay House series and for the new Om HomETV series for children and families. I *thought* Soul Playhouse was for spiritual, playful adults and after a year of production with little to no engagement, I truthfully don't know who it was meant to serve. Yet! I totally trust Spirit and all the happy moments of vibrationship i have experienced along the way. And of course, i know that ALL we do is an evolution and part of the spiritual revolution SOULution if we flow it that way! Aho!
Playful Presence of Love Blessed Expressed!

The ambitious 13 week schedule I had set here for the summer quickly got off calendar yet stayed somewhat on track. 11 of 11 Soul Playhouse shows happened, mostly posting on their scheduled Saturdays. 8 of the 13 new Om HomETV shows are complete and the other 5 have most of their pieces/segments ready to be put together. 8 Spirit ABC pages are redone and published with another 8 well underway. In retrospect, if that was my sole or main focus of the summer, it was possible yet as I talk of in the vlog, Feature Creature Teacher Octopus has been showing me alot of wisdom from her 9 brains and 3 hearts! The Feature Creature Teacher section of Leaping Literacy Library has free streaming ETV videos with the downloadable powerpoint celebrations and printable Ask and Affirm Cards in the Member Library linking up. Rabbit, Rainbow and Seed downloadables are on the Free Shelf for the rest of September! All of the resources are coming together at the pace of grace in the Library in support of spiritual family literacy. There are home spiritual practices and curriculum also being combined as I weave threads from working with youth and families in Unity churches and the masters degree I did decades ago in curriculum design for early reading fluency. Our lives are a web of intersecting threads!

Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta

September's interfaith calendar is full of intersecting threads with many cultural traditions for Equinox (9/22) worldwide. The 21st is International Peace Day.
Join us for a visit to Mount Shasta's Peace Garden!

Today begins the 8 day Jain Festival, Paryushana Parva which has it's own threads of literacy with sacred card and letter writing and exchange within families. This weekend Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year begins and Sunday is Grandparent's Day.

Tomorrow eve, the 33rd Unity World Day of Prayer begins.
The theme for this year's worldwide 24 hour prayer vigil is Love is Alive and the affirmtion is,
Love leads me. Faith steadies me. Prayer carries me forward.

I will be joining in Love, faith and prayer as I bake up some yummies and drive them down to see my old ladies in Latrobe for luncheon on Thursday. And so it is we live our prayers in the flow.

Panther Meadows, Mount Shasta

Thank you friend for being here as a divine design intersecting thread of Love and care in this moment. I truly appreciate you sharing in my journey! I hope you found something useful for your own steps, mindfulness, heartbeats, prayers. I see, know and affirm the shine of your divine design. Namaste Light of Love!

9/4/26
Summer Surrender Into September Vlog

Namaste Divine Presence of Love Expressed!

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