Butterfly 🦋 Art 🖼️ Love 💓

On August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Artworks, Astrology, Pisces, Projects, Something altogether different, Transformation29 Comments

My sweet 4 year old made her first painting with me at the play art studio at the Denver Children’s Museum. She did this completely on her own with no help from me!

I did spend hours setting up her shop, however. We had a bit of unexpected travel, and my acupuncture business is still being built. This year has brought us so many unexpected expenses, damage from water and the threat from the hurricane that fortunately didn’t cause harm. I’ve had years of debilitating pain that I am now mostly fully free of—but threats still linger. Back pain according to Louise Hay and many others is associated with money challenges and lack of feeling/being supported. I’ve been trying to help people via astrology consultations, reiki, shamanism, and I have a lot of offerings. It’s a challenge for me to learn how to get the word out. I made such a difference in my own life and I really wish others would receive the gifts I have spent decades cultivating.

Please consider purchasing from HER new shop just for fun. http://www.redbubble.com/people/violetbuster or https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/151264449

I think she’s already a talented painter. I will be posting her other designs as soon as I have more time! I hope that you enjoy!

If you have any good business energy know-how to send me; that’d be great. If I am lacking in talent and expression, please just let me know how I can improve. I’ve invested so much of myself in being able to offer so many services to others. If anyone is interested in any distant Reiki or Shamanic sessions, I’d be happy to help you. This is my best attempt at shameless self-promotion!

Sending blessings out to all of you. You are all appreciated and I only want to build and get the word out. Let me know if you are interested in my offerings, and if you are curious but hesitant, how can I help? I have an empty 2nd house in Pisces so my material interests have always been spiritual in nature.

Rainbow piano

On March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Artworks, Astrology, Projects, Something altogether different, Transformation14 Comments

I was playing with some water color pens for a few minutes while I had some time. I was enjoying making an outline and bringing my emotions into the ink choices.

Probably the most I fun I had was afterwards though. What I noticed is that when I took a photo, the colors didn’t look like they were on the page. What I had to do was to make adjustments in order for it to show up how I was seeing it in real life, on the water color page.

Often times we don’t think about how sometimes it takes a lot of extra “art” work to make something truly depicting the actual and real. We often walk around in society acting like the unedited object is the real object. However this is not often the case. In this respect, it actually takes skill to show the authentic—it takes editing.

We have to strive to bring the actual colors through. We do this spiritually, too. It’s not a ‘given’ that what you see, unfiltered, is the real thing. Filters aren’t always masks—sometimes they reveal and sometimes they allow or make it easier for us to see what’s *really* there.

We can’t erase the filter of the mind; a mind will always exist, because it is the nature of conditioning that our minds exist. Sometimes we just have to change our minds and replace our filters with more updated versions, editing our behaviors is what follows, so that what we get, in the end, is an expression of our true nature. This takes daily practice.

Osprey love 💗

On March 17, 2023 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Astrology, Equinox, Transformation9 Comments

I hadn’t been to my old neighborhood hangout for a while: Lake Murray. Today I had the opportunity to see my very favorite osprey kind. I felt honored that when I asked for showing some wings, I was indulged. 💗

I’m in ceremony for the next couple of days joining in with two different local and online communities to celebrate the vernal equinox, while I’m also having my own inner celebration and communing opportunities with nature and my core world 🌎☘️🍃

Beannacht ☘️

From O’Donohue’s Echoes of Memory

On the day when
the weight deadens
on your shoulders
and you stumble,
may the clay dance
to balance you.

And when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets in to you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green,
and azure blue
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
in the currach of thought
and a stain of ocean
blackens beneath you,
may there come across the waters
a path of yellow moonlight
to bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours.
And so may a slow
wind work these words
of love around you,
an invisible cloak
to mind your life.

☘️

Turn of Season

On March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Aquarius, Aries, Astrology, Equinox, Holidays, Pisces, Taurus, Transformation7 Comments

The beautiful card I got today is Kuan Yin! What did you get when you click to stop the video?

This season, this month, is bringing major changes and openings for all of us. The astrology is thick with sign changes: Sun going into Aries, Venus moving into Taurus, and Pluto will be moving into Aquarius. Saturn just shifted into Pisces. Please share! What are you feeling. How are you experiencing this new energy moving through your lives?

The Vernal equinox comes with unique bird song and green shoots and tendrils erupting from the earth. The earth here is moist and ready for worms and motion. The birds have found more baths due to the recent rain. I reflected back on my poetry book project for this year. I look forward to collating more and writing more. The inspiration I’m arising with is like velvet, soft like bunny’s fur, also gossamer linkages of quickly growing energetic networks of inner mycelium. My own ecosystem matches that of the Earth and the Cosmos. I’m flying through the dimension of space, but traveling easy, calming, with deep breath and purpose. I have a couple of links I want to share down below.

Pick you Goddess ❤ Click on the picture to stop it.

Bumble bees have been shown to unlock a puzzle box when one of the bees on the “bee team” is instructed on how to do it. These educated bees transfer their knowledge to the other bees in their group, showing social collaboration and the transmission of learning from one bee to another. Read more about it here.

I’ve been learning a bit more about the 5th dimension. It’s slightly elusive to me although I might actually be aware of my living out of it, from it–on it? Here is a really neat scientific article about how the future can influence the past. After all, I use this skill in my daily work all the time. More and more evidence points to the realness of my work as I practice what I call the pragmatics of shamanism, journeying, and other soul work that works through multiple dimensions. Many people don’t actually realize that heaps and heaps of scientific articles that show that acupuncture works, let alone shamanistic style healing work. Here’s an interesting article (albeit a small cohort in the study) where TMD was improved through shamanic healing, and those improvements persisted past 9 months after (which was the conclusion of the study’s measure–and doesn’t necessarily mean the improvements didn’t persist further afterward).

I could write more and more on all of this. I suppose I will. 🙂

Happy Easter/Ostara/St. Patrick’s day and all the holidays! Happy Spring!

Wide open

On December 30, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Creative Writing, Something altogether different, Transformation, Vipassana7 Comments

my heart is full of sunsets

the ocean,

and the sound of your name.

it beats like a drum pulsing steadily

upon our bone throne.

my bones amplify the frequency

and house our spirits’ timbre

which transduces across my abdomen

as my lungs rise.

with each breath,

a vacuum is reclaimed.

your mind is full of ponderous wonder

like the craters on the moon, you sink

deep into thought shadows,

your feet and shoes disappearing

altogether

as you try to weight yourself down to

“sink in.”

my eyes are confidants;

as I listen to the stories of lonely

ghosts, I watch their energy quiver.

https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/listening-heartbeat-ocean

the beginning

On December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Capricorn, Creative Writing, Creatrix, Something altogether different, Transformation3 Comments

in the beginning

i’m rising like a landmass

uncarved like Pangea

unbridled like a dragon 🐉

whose fire finds the hero by

skimming along the craggy coastal line

overlooking colors, scanning its domain

yellow warm lay the grasses

pleasant in the sun, combed by the wind

deep green rise the forests

protected humus layered depths

tangling tree fingers spread with skies

fractals finding spaces to replicate

nature’s expanse

this Earth’s anchor is a morphic reminder

that nothing is solid

we are in the center as awareness, golden

flowing molten iron swirling,

balancing aurora flashing green tones

while the amethyst crystal horizon line

guides us into the dusk of

our true and formal beginning: the end.

All that comes with the setting Sun.

Fill it all with color

On December 17, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Transformation9 Comments

When the footprints left behind seem too dark

and filled with mud, snow and sludge,

When the cold is just unrelenting and

the windchill won’t budge.

You can look on to the sun, glinting off

the patches of color and tuffs

and know that, the love of God/Goddess

will show the way.

Commitment is strength inspiring — Fiesta Estrellas (Bonus post: ReBLOGathon)

On November 28, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Transformation7 Comments

In an age of fast development: technology, tv screens, constant-upgrades, new designs, “better,” “more connected,” webbed, and “seamless” living, I am amazed, and I Am inspired by those who commit to their goals. Now, life will throw us off track, time and time again – especially if you have a very strong relationship – for […]
Commitment is strength inspiring — Fiesta Estrellas

This ReBLOG came up on its own on another social media feed. It’s so cool to read these old posts—> I’m still going strong and living my truth. I know that for a fact. The evidence is here. 🙂 I’m also posting this because we have some strong Mars transits coming up. A message like this can be handy.

Unafraid to Stand Alone — Fiesta Estrellas – ReBLOGathon Day28

On November 28, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Creative Writing, Creatrix, Holidays, Transformation2 Comments

In this life, we might be terrified. we might feel alone, though we are not. we must work every day to give ourselves enough space, to be who we are. however we are, “dark” or “light” or the huge gamut spanning between even if not one single person feels that what we offer is valuable, […]
unafraid to stand alone — Fiesta Estrellas

Today’s reblog links back to a poem I wrote, about not being afraid to stand alone. I think this is a good reminder for all of us while the season is all about “coming together.” For so many this season bring a lot of pressure, loneliness, and oftentimes tremendous grief. However for others it’s a time to really express our happiness and our love with our friends, families and everyone in our lives. Truly the holidays are days when most people have off work–even though not all do.

Yesterday I took time for myself to really appreciate the moments in my life. There’s this beautiful quiet descending upon me. It’s far from depression and it feels like inner peace. I’m not even chasing after it either. It’s there when all the chasing runs its course. 🙂

Happy Peppering!

Your Attention, Please?

On November 16, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Creative Writing, Creatrix, Transformation22 Comments

What size am I?

How big is my heart?

What’s the right fit for me, where should

I put my attention?

When you have a lot to give,

isn’t it best to focus on where you

make the greatest contribution?

Don’t waste that precious energy.

I like to ask myself questions out loud.

I’m not afraid of you.

This question asking isn’t just an activity for the young.

I can be open like this, I can be vulnerable: I choose it.

I’m not afraid of the public, nor of sounding less

than brilliant.

I am not here to impress you.

I just want to know where I fit–how to stop wasting my time.

How to make this life 1000000% useful, the biggest impact,

I am the greatest force, leveraged with the right attention.

Attention is everything.

So is relaxing and asking questions

to redirect myself.

So here I am.

Art, poetry and dudes, with Ka Malana — Fiesta Estrellas (reBLOGaton Day15)

On November 15, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Books Published, Something altogether different, Transformation3 Comments

The dudes interviewed me!!!!!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤
Art, poetry and dudes, with Ka Malana — Fiesta Estrellas

Hello Friends! I don’t know what happened to the original post, but I was so so so happy to be interviewed by those snarky little dudes at Shehanne Moore’s Smexy historical romance domain. Honestly, I can’t think of a better honor. I didn’t really have any time to promote my 2017 debut poetry book, Art for Art, at the time when I wrote it. In fact, I don’t think I ever really did get around to promoting it. Promotion is something that a person has to learn to do. It’s an art in and of itself. You know who is an incredible authoress and human, though?! Shehanne Moore

Her dudes have been making me laugh since about 2016-2017 when I started reading her blog. She hosts very interesting authors and artists. She hosts a perfect variety of intriguing and talented authors, and she always supports her clan. Sheyis top-notch for supporting her clan. Reading about her adventures in Dundee has been really fun over the years. There’s always a lot to learn from her because she’s very knowledgeable. She and her husband, Mr. Shey ;), have put on some spectacular plays which she has also shared and written about on her blog throughout the years. She even helped me try out a new genre called historical romance (which she writes well, I might add). For one, I never really read romance, nor history.. but The Unraveling of Lady Fury had me pleasantly surprised. Her heroines aren’t typical–that’s why they are definitely worth the read. Did you hear that Lady Fury went Manga!? My, my my that was all the way back in 2019!!! How cool is that?! Who writes a historical romance and has it go Manga? Shey. The post includes holiday pictures (and it’s almost that time of year again!).

Anyways, thank you for visiting my reBLOGathon celebration month’s daily post. Half-way there! At the end, I will link them all up in one post so that you don’t miss anything–then I will be running around December visiting everyone’s blog like a quick & focused ghost, phantoming my comments upon your page. I will be the ghost of Christmas past, present and future… LOL–and I’ll write in real letters and not just “haunt” you nicely… but comment nicely 😉 Because I love reading your blogs! ❤ I love blogging, and I am celebrating so much, so much, my friends ❤ Until we meet again, tomorrow, I bid thee, good day ::tips hat::

Each year (for a while, maybe since 2019?) I have teamed up with the Cheer Peppers to blog every day of the month in November. Click the link below for their posts. I chose the theme of ReBLOGathon, but they might be posting their own themes or randoms 🙂 Enjoy

November 17, 2013, Taurus Full Moon, Relationships, Art — Fiesta Estrellas (ReBLOGathon_CHEERPEPPERS DAY8)

On November 8, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Abundant Earth, Astrology, Creative Writing, Photography, Something altogether different, Taurus, Transformation8 Comments

Image credits: Candlelight and Wine, by Ralph Hocker, Acrylic ― 11″ x 14″ www.sevenlivelyartists.com/hocker.html ARIADNE, VENUS AND BACCHUS BY TINTORETTO (1518-1594) “Beautiful colors can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist’s talent with patient study and nights without sleep.” ~ Tintoretto (such is the […]
November 17, 2013, Taurus Full Moon, Relationships, Art — Fiesta Estrellas

This is another earlier blog post of my mine. I reached into my archives where I wrote about astrology; this was before I branched out and wrote poetry, and shared my art, and got more social about my life and my journey. I published a book since I was blogged, yay! I like to blog about ALL THE THINGS! New material is coming in 2023–but right now, this is my blog celebration. I teamed up with Cheer Peppers because I wanted to blog for the whole month with a team. I like to share space with people and I’m so glad that you have decided to read my writing, and truly: I am glad you decided to be part of my world. You matter, and I appreciate you!!! ❤ Please enjoy! Another busy back-to-back day today 🙂 I’ll be around to visit you again very soon!

A little bonus today that I’m excited about is that I linked all my Taurus posts to celebrate this Full Moon Eclipse in Taurus we are currently experiencing.

This first one below—> This was my life-changing Kauai experience when I got my spiritual name Ka Malana. It was a short post. I was very busy experiencing it all. I remember the most beautiful New Moon in Taurus ceremony on the beach… just amazing. The order of the blog posts is from oldest to most recent.

Aloha, Mahalo, New Moon in Taurus

The ‘Slow Down’ on Sun in Taurus: Protecting Personal Space

This one I didn’t even get to re-read, but I’m in need of re-reading it, *and* slowing down. Whatever that means! Felicia, our aloe, passed away when we moved South to San Diego…. Felicia never recovered. 😦

New Moon in Taurus: Tap roots run deep

Lost the photo on this one that was originally linked. This is the down-side of using the internet to store our memories…

Taurus moon burst, touching, new

You can really see here where I started to write poetry (in place of astrology?) in addition to astrology 🙂

Rooted Tree Of Taurus Full Moon

Click this for the photo–I also have blogged “some” of my photography in the past. Long time readers of this blog will remember my photography periods. I’m not sure why this link isn’t showing a preview picture of my post.

That full moon was craze balls!

Taste of freedom

This one isn’t about the moon in Taurus. It’s Sun Conjunct Uranus in Taurus.

I hope you are enjoying this celebration!!

Geminizing something New — Fiesta Estrellas (ReBLOGathon Day 6)>>CheerPeppers

On November 6, 2022November 10, 2022 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Astrology, Creative Writing, Creatrix, Gemini, Transformation3 Comments

perhaps only a butterfly lifting lightly moving slightly, touches the edges of the sea… meeting your pulse ((((((( Once divided, no longer unguided all thoughts provided from duality… ))))))) hearing your song rhymes, rhythmically, rapidly randomly, ripplingly figuratively, linkingly mouth moving, easily… ] hearing your name [ word siblings are scattered in new families created, […]
Geminizing something New — Fiesta Estrellas

You have to read my poem at the link above. It turns out it was definitely a foreshadowing. I gave birth to a little Gemini two years later. Well, thanks astrology. 🙂 Happy Peppering 🙂 I will add this to the cauldron of posts I’m stewing here in the month of November.

offering myself

On June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 By Ka Malana - Fiestaestrellas.comIn Meditation, Self Inquiry, Something altogether different, Transformation17 Comments

exploring inertia

while watching myself take pause

maybe just another hour longer

to reduce this feeling

maybe the motivation i’ve pushed for years long now

will eventually grow its own legs, but it still needs pressing…

forward

getting praise for being happy is silly

when the joy fades,

I’m sitting in silence, taking the world in, and it’s sharp

Do you know what people are going through?

where is the talent to express these hard things?

where is the wisdom in my soul to trust THIS expression?

I am not made of roses.

but I do have thorns, little prickly places I don’t want to be touched.

I want to go into THIS challenge

I want to meet THIS darkness.

It is okay.

Guiding back the love into myself,

I trust this space, this time, this darkness.

I can be “outside” in it.

You don’t need to reassure me to hide away to do self care.

This IS self care.

My art is not about explaining myself.

I paint myself in black, and walk into the darkness,

because I want to blend in.

Shining is not for me.

I want to be different, black

but we are all in this together… so I am not alone

and you are different, too. We all are.

**I don’t want to be in the practice of explaining my poems. But, each piece I share is very real for me. Walking into the territory of discomfort is sometimes unexpected, but it happens. We live through our sadness, and pain. Joys can speckle the days with highlights. It’s just something we get used to, trying to live a life of meaning. This is how to put one foot in front of the other. The work we create need not be brilliant or good, and it doesn’t matter how much attention it gets. We all think we ought to find our sparkle and “stay there.” But that is not growth. Growth is in the trenches. It’s in recognizing our inertia. Today I have had a heck of a time with procrastination. And, I’m still there. And, that is okay.