CAT Philosophy

In order to offer Energy Work, I must first have to define it. But before it can be define it, I must understand what I want to do. What is the drive, the “moral imperative,” the modus operandi?

I’ve made several different iterations of shop sites, media platforms and websites, each time rewriting my narrative as I go. The ultimate end isn’t that I’m shifting in a soup trying to figure out a new persona for each venue, it’s that I’m finally at a point where I can clarify what I’m doing.

The necessity to create has been with me as far back as I remember – early childhood, a toddler if you will. This is an era where my parents’ records played on the sound system that had an oscilloscope and large speakers, that would push the sound waves through your body. I could see the music as a kaleidoscope of geometric patterns in my mind. Today I know that these patterns are found not only in nature at large, but in cymatics – the study of sound bubble structures.

In my family, we read early, we wrote early, and we drew pictures early. I find it (pun glasses) full circle that my grandma started us off tracing bottle and jar caps to make various circles, and then as an adult, I found myself tracing circles again in the pursuit of sacred geometry.

And when I was younger I was not unknown to the world of spirit. I woke up one morning at four years old knowing that our first dog had gotten run over and died. I dreamed my grandma after she passed; I saw my great-grandmother at my great aunt’s house shortly before auntie died of cancer. It was only in my late 30s that I realized that great grandma had gone five years before that, so I must have been wholly looking at a ghost. We even hunted one visiting entity that turned mischievous with the cardboard Ghostbusters equipment that my brother made – successfully banishing it. I did rain dances in the back yard, a propos of nothing.

But public schooling and early adulting did not sit well with my neurodivergent brain, and I think some of my burnout had a lot to do with detaching from the supernatural side of life. In order to not take myself so seriously I turned to tarot. I thought I could solve my problems and it would be easy to make some money until I got customers for my art. Neither of those things is entirely true, but tarot did help me judge my intuition less. Furthermore, I’ve realized that any material thing like cards, or charms, or incense are only there as a security blanket for what we can already do on our own. They aren’t magic. We are magic; we just have to look at our problems from another perspective to solve them.

Artwork is manifestation. It is the very essence of pulling your thought forms into the 3-D. Any artist can tell you they hate what they just spent forty hours on and it doesn’t look like it did in their head. It’s only a tribute to the greatest and best song in the world. Every artist is trying to express an image, a feeling, or a concept when they create something. But then anyone experiences this art can either connect to that message, or more often they find their own. We don’t really know what Leonardo daVinci thought while taking ten or more years to paint the Mona Lisa, yet we seem to be eternally captivated by this small masterpiece.

A piece of art generally takes time and effort – energy – to create. If the 3-D meatspace really is holographic, then everything we do is energy, and working this energy to create art is by definition energy work. How much effort goes into a theatre production: the writing, the choreography, the rehearsal, the props, the costumes, the makeup, the wear and tear on human bodies? How much effort goes into four years or more of university and decades of practice before you put dollars (energy) into art supplies or musical equipment? All so human beings can express themselves to themselves and those around them.

I find that divination is very similar. It’s like an equation that is the same as the one for making art but run in reverse, so now I have to solve for X if Y equals where is your job or cat or love interest or life purpose. The art says this is brown cow, and the tarot says “how now, brown cow?”

All that being said, Energy Work is to make change to the flow of information, to put effort into changing something within. One of the goals of being incarnate is to make your thought forms manifest in the 3-D. When we bring intention to what we create it’s not that we exert control, but that we are in alignment with both meatspace reality and the non-corporeal dimensionality, i.e. spirit world. This is illustrated in more detail in my Energy Report – see below.

To conclude, I want to point out that Energy Work can be as simple as cleaning a room, but can be giving yourself a makeover, wearing crystals, patches, t-shirts, or stickers with certain shapes or colors, can be what you’re eating and drinking, can be going to couples therapy, can be meditating on your inner child. It looks different for everyone. For me it has a lot to do with material expression – visual art. This is why I offer my work to others. It’s not useful for me to create compulsively if it does nothing. I can help people … to help themselves. And that’s worth the frustration of a drawing not coming out how I want it (humor intended).

-Theresa