New Testimonial

'Bird Woman', Oil on Canvas, 60x48, Collection of Artist (Katherine Treffinger)

Testimonial:
"Katherine's fantastic sense of humor, humanity, humility, and faith are an amazing
cocktail that allows her healing work to be completely non-judgmental, empowering,
and deeply compassionate. Her pitch-perfect insights always ring true for me and her
work always feels so gentle, organic, and respectful...it feels like she waters and shines
on the seeds that are already waiting to thrive. Katherine and her powerful work have
assisted me in making some of the biggest transformations of my life. I am beyond
grateful for her!" 

Caitlin Ecklund

Prosperity Sessions- Readiness

"Preparation", Collage on board, 22.5x15, $125
If you are interested in purchasing this collage please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

For 5 months, with few exceptions, I have been
sitting down every morning for approximately one
hour to do prosperity healings for a changing group
of individuals. 'Changing' has a double meaning here,
as the people involved have come and gone and
many have stayed. The people who are involved are
changing, as are their lives. Some have seen many
manifestations occur in relation to their intentions.
Most of those involved have experienced a quality
of life shift happen and/or deep internal transformations.
I am extremely grateful not only to be able to participate
in these changes, but to have witnessed deep changes
in my own life in relation to my prosperity, inner
stillness, peace and contentment and a complete
transformation in my partnership.

To those involved in these sessions I am grateful. If
you have not experienced manifestations yet, please
trust that internally you are being readied, that
externally a new reality is being put into place.
Many times a huge amount of momentum went into
creating the old reality and it takes momentum to
create a new shift.

Love is at work in your life, Love is loving you
and Love's omniscience knows exactly how to
bring your deepest desires to fulfillment.
Peace and patience be with us.

The following are quotes that came out of these
sessions:
4/11/11
"Transformation is afoot. If your intention has
not yet manifested be patient. Your being is in
the process of becoming a match with your desire.
Open to Grace."

4/10/11
"In the ups and downs of life there is a fulcrum,
a point of stillness, a place of peace from whence
a lovely contentment emerges. Reach for it and
it will come."

4/9/11
"Laughter is Divine music and creates miracles and
healings beyond our knowing. Don't you think?"

4/8/11
"Planting seeds of gratitude we live a life full of blessings"

4/7/11
"Today as we embrace all that life has to offer and
greet others with enthusiasm and a smile we create
magic in our lives and others'."

4/6/11
"My fellow magicians, expect magic and we will create it.
Just wave that sparkle around."

4/5/11
"We are shining stars. Together as a group, through our
meditations, prayers & sparkle, we create a constellation
of consciousness that is creating reality."

3/27/11
"In connecting with the stillness within we connect with
all that is. From there all is possible in manifest reality."


3/26/11
"The light within is strong. Turn it on by
knowing the truth of our beingness. Then
sparkle is the norm."

3/25/11

"Divine grace, harmony and prosperity is
the only true power at work in our lives. If
we take our minds off circumstances and onto
this truth magic happens."

Prosperity session 21

"True Harvest", Collage on poster board, 22.5x15, $125

Dec. 3, 2010
"The Group intention: We are being awakened to the truth of
our Divine prosperity and it is being made manifest now."

Dec. 4, 2010

It seems preparing for the harvest is not always a pleasant
task as old parts of your life may need clearing away. Right
now some serious soul searching is being catalyzed by this
work for me and causing some very difficult decisions to be
made. As difficult as this is I am excited for the new life to
follow. Alas, I can't skip this step to get there, so hold me
in your prayers if you so feel inclined.

Prosperity Sessions 7

"The Partnership", Collage on posterboard, 22.5x15, $125

Nov. 16, 2010
"In recognizing our Divinity we walk in harmony, grace, infinite
abundance, balance and we are absolutely safe. Divine love is the
truth of who we are."

Nov.17, 2010

When I first began this project I was thinking money prosperity.
With so much concern in the world about economies, personal and
global I was thinking that healing would be the focus to take. What
has happened has been a surprise. As the intentions come in I am
noticing that few of them have anything to do with money. As the
people involved are reporting the effects I am seeing healings taking
place, especially with relationships. There is a sense of contentment
spreading. Money is happening, that is definitely one of the results,
but the profound changes are more internal changes that are effecting
the external, making quality of life changes. Partnering with the Divine
always seems to have surprises in store.

I am offering this healing work to anyone interested in being included.
Please email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com with your name
and email. Also, please email to me one intention if you would like.
I will then include the intention in the session. I will email when I am
beginning the session so you can join if you care to. The message will be
posted the next day on this blog and in the email I send you.

Prosperity Sessions 6

Nov.15, 2010
"Consider the lilies how they grow; they toil not, they spin not, and
yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as
one of these." Jesus

Nov.16, 2010
This lovely dancer is Catherine Herrmann, a member of our group.
Yesterday was her birthday. In my world that means it still is, for
birthdays go on for a while. So, Happiest of birthdays Catherine!

I asked Catherine to tell me what her experience is as a result of
being a part of the prosperity sessions. Her response:

"I've been releasing judgment really fast. So fast that my surroundings,
the people in my physical life here, and I, are having an interesting time
keeping up with the changes that I Love...The sessions have helped me
have much more grace with myself and others.. this constantly is
surprising me and I'll be like "WOW! nice job!" In the past it's been much
more self masochistic. I"m allowing my self to feel so much more freely
in each moment, thus RESPECTING and loving the beauty that I am
and Others are (in the past it's been one or the other getting the respect).
In this I've started noticing how much power I contain, specifically noticing
the Divine Feminine in me, and I am starting to Love being response-able
for that with ease (as yesterdays link was "no need to carry any burden).
I speak to my feelings telling them they are loved and can voice themselves
and have let the laughter and tears know that they are always welcome
and I will honor them. My movement, yoga dance and relationships are
becoming more honest and clear and spontaneous :). I'm Happy to be here
and start this 27th year :) Love, Catherine
Thank you Katherine for who you are.
Thank you Catherine for who you are and for contributing your energy
to the group.

Prosperity Sessions 5/ Breakthrough

"Breakthrough", Collage on poster board, 22.5x15, $125

Nov. 14, 2010
"There is no burden we need to carry, nothing we need to figure out
Just hand it all over, whatever it is, to the Divine. Take into the
stillness and let it go."

Nov. 15, 2010
I am loving these sessions. I wake up in the morning excited that it is
almost time to do another session. The energy that is coming through
is fabulous, and I spend a whole hour meditating and praying and love
being there. It is a wonderful group of people. I have no idea what most
of them are doing while I am doing the session as nothing is required in
order to participate. One person I know is meditating with me. She sent
me an email about her experience. This is why I do this.

"Since the prosperity sessions have begun, I have been enjoying some
miraculous shifts in my life. One of the most important, and the change
I am so deeply grateful for, is a major shift in my relationship. Almost a
month ago, things came to a breaking point, and then very rapidly shifted
into great harmony. I have finally shifted into myself in a way that has at
last made me available to myself and him, and us. The numbness I had felt
in all of my relationships is healed, and the connectedness is growing. This
has been such a huge rift in my life that has caused me (and others) a lot
of suffering, and I am just in such awe of the possibilities and space that
have been created as a result of finally being able to inhabit my first chakra.
This is a shift and a homecoming I have dreamed of for years. Pleased as
punch! " anonymous

Prosperity Sessions 2

"The Gathering" Sold

I was thinking about the process of change yesterday. As I have
been doing these prosperity sessions for about an hour each morning
for the last month I wondered about the unfolding in my life. The
change has been both potent and unexpected. The transformation has
been both internal and external, both good feeling and uncomfortable.
My home life has come into an unexpected harmony. My car broke
down. I feel wonderful much of the time. A friendship changed to
one of much more distance. My finances went into a temporary void
and in the future there is payment for a large painting and an inheritance,
both of which manifested during this time.

I thought about the planets and how they go retrograde and as
they start to go back into forward motion they are first stationary
direct. I feel that the parts of me that have been moving in the wrong
direction have been corrected and now I am in stationary direct.
The other way I thought about it, since I have been with out a car
all week, is if you realize you are going the wrong direction in a car,
you slow down, maybe even stop before doing a u-turn and then
acceleration has a momentum to it. Momentum, I guess that is the
big point, change needs momentum for manifestation. Patience and
faith are part of the process, believing in the unseen the un-manifest.
This is the most important time, for as change and abundance boil in
the alchemical pot there is a void. The void must be filled with positive
expectancy in order to vibrate energetically a match to the birth that is
on its' way.

More daily quotes from the sessions:

Nov. 3, 2010
"The source of abundance, no matter how you define it, is the Divine.
Enter the stillness, where in dwells our Divinity, with our intentions
and hand them over. Peace"

Nov. 4, 2010
" Our true nature is our Divinity, the one creative force of all that is.
We harness this force by feeling, which creates an energy which must
manifest likeness."

Nov. 5, 2010
"What would limitless feel like?!?!?!?!? Practice conscious sparkle today."

Nov. 7, 2010 (I requested intentions from participants and started
working with them.)
"Your intentions are powerful. They've been heard and the Divine
Matrix is now adjusting in response. Our job is to be present with excited
anticipation. Feel as if!"

Nov. 8, 2010
"As Divine beings we are creative forces. Through focus and feeling we
create our reality. We can take any negativity and pivot to and focus on
the desire behind the negativity."

Nov. 9, 2010
Before starting:
"Good things are happening in this group. I like to think the more it
happens within (the group) the farther it will spread outward."
After:
"Look at what brings you joy today and follow that feeling. All else,
we want or need, will follow us down that path. Give radiance to others.
Sparkle power!"

Nov. 10, 2010
"Divine Grace is our sufficiency in all things. Quiet the mind, listen to
the stillness, for there dwells Omniscience. That certainly beats figuring
it out!"

Nov. 11, 2010
"The Divine Mother, Mary, visited us today with her ever present
unconditional love, abundant providing and healing of all wounds.
Then she sent us out to play."

Spiritual Healing

"Zao's Garden', Oil on canvas, 48"x36", $2600
If you are interested in purchasing this painting please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

Recently I have experienced a considerable opening in my
healing work and find that I am bringing through a much
more powerful transmission of healing and receiving of
information. I have also found that there is very little if
any difference whether I am working in person or from a
distance. I do laying on of hands, with this touch I am
clearing, unblocking, aligning and balancing the energetic
and light bodies, bringing these systems into more
embodiment of the physical. Everything is energy and thus
all healing can take place through working on this level.
When I do a distance healing I close my eyes and the
person's energetic body is right with me. Some of my
clearest information about a person comes through when I
am doing this work.

I am very intrigued by what 'healing' looks like in different
instances. It is all transformative, which does not surprise
me as that has always been my 'medicine', sometimes
people experience an instant healing, sometimes they wake
up the next day filled with the emotions that lie at the core
of the disharmony they are experiencing. That makes sense
to me as the 'pain body' (Eckhart Tolle's term) is an
energetic body and will be matched by the manifest body.
There is no healing the manifest without bringing the
energetic into balance first. I have heard that according to
'Hands of Light'author Barbara Brennan the body can take
3 months to make a shift in response to a healing in the
ethereal body. I was wondering if the length of time has
anything to do with the momentum it takes to create the
'problem', for example an injury takes little momentum
where as cancer takes years and tremendous momentum.
Then there is the level of realization and the willingness to
release into a higher vibration.

I think of all manifestations of 'disease' and 'injury' as gifts
through which we can transform and free ourselves if we
use them. I might not have ever found it on the spiritual
path if I had not contracted Hepatitis many years ago. I
most likely would not have had this recent opening had I
not seriously broken my ankle. It is still a grand teacher.
I am not saying we need to have something happen to
move us forward, but if something does and we open to
its' lessons rather than falling prey to victim thinking we
have an incredible possibility to become freer.

Deep Sea Diving

"Deep Sea Diving" Oil on canvas, 36"x48", $2200

I am sorry I have been so negligent of this blog of late, I have
been doing some personal deep sea diving. I am going through
a lot right now as I am trying to get free of something in my life
and it is all encompassing. I am digging down to the depths of my
being, swimming through the quagmire, digging in the mud, all
while sitting on my couch. I wish I could do it and paint but this
time it is not to be, so I sit in my studio and stare at my painting.

Wednesday I am going to Portland to do some art supply shopping
so I think I will be absent the rest of this week.

When I get through this I am certain I will be refreshed and ready
to post with a new fervor.

Happy Solstice!

More Transformation

"The Transformation", Collage on posterboard, 22.5"x15", $125
If you are interested in purchasing this collage please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

The last few days I have been at it again, stripping away
the masks. I was depressed and there were no stories
running around in my head. It was a new phenomena. As
I think I said in an earlier blog post my mind has quieted
lately and that has been a joy. But here I was, depressed
and quiet. Weird. I stopped every time I wanted to make
a story of the depression and just hung with the silence.
Then my friend Tara recommended I sit and ask what the
depression wanted to teach me. What a strange experience
that was. I sat and wrote and felt like I was channeling. In
fact the voices of my ancestors, the female side of my lineage,
were talking to me, telling me their fears for me. They were
close to old fears of mine so they were easy to take on. The
other strange thing that happened was that as soon as I realized
I was being projected on (I mean, supposedly) the depression
completely lifted, gone. Wow. Now that is to me all the validation
I needed that I was on the right track. Cool. You never know
what stripping away the masks is going to look like.

Gestation

"Gestation" Collage on poster board, 20.5"x15", $125
If you are interested in buying this collage please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

On September 6, 2009 I fell climbing on Mt. Fanny,
the mountain I live at the base of. I caught the edge
of my shoe and fell sideways. My ankle dislocated
breaking both bones on either side. I had to be rescued
and when I did get to the emergency room the doctor
said it was the worst break he had ever seen. I had
reconstructive surgery. For months I had to stay still
with my foot raised. Today as I write this I still sit with
my foot up. I am on the mend.

I do not tell this story because I feel attached to the drama.
Quite the opposite. In my cosmology this is a dream and
everything happens as part of the dream story. A seed
was planted that day. Nothing would be the same as I had
a new reality gestating in my psyche. June 6th will be 9
months from the fall. The birth is almost at hand and I feel
the shift taking place both internally and externally. My
mind has quieted, I have started doing spiritual counseling
and hands on healing after a long 'break'. As I take up this
work again I see a vast shift in the clarity of what is coming
through. My relationship to the information and energy is
direct and clear. I have succeeded in getting out of the way.
The last painting I did felt as close as I have ever been to
creating a visual of the voice of my soul. There are other
changes that are unfolding that I am not ready to speak of
yet. In the long run I am very grateful already for the
awakening that happened as a result of the 'accident' on
September 6th. And the birth time hasn't even arrived!

Bustin' Out

"Pollination", Oil on canvas, 48x36, $2200
If you are interested in purchasing this painting please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

Today I am very aware of a pressure that has been
building in me for months. I am bustin' at the seams
of my life. I need more room on the planet, more
adventure, more expression, more co-creative
playmates. It reminds me of a friend of mine who
was having contractions, readying for birth and
she was on her knees in pain and started to crawl
out of the house crying that she did not want to do
this anymore. I said to her Barb, wherever you
go you take you with you. I am ready for the birth.
I know I can't crawl out of the door, but I am ready
to hold the new birth of the next stage of my life.

There that is my intention. I have put it out in the
world. This is part of my ritual for change.

Transformation

"Coyote" Original in collection of Joe Burull
Giclee prints available 24x18 $150, 30x22 $250
If you are interested in purchasing a print please
email me at katherine@katherinetreffinger.com

"So often we try to alter circumstances to suit
ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which
is what they are meant to do" Mother Maribel

Change is one of the aspects in life I cherish the
most. I am talking about deep transformational
change. Freeing change. It's a good thing because
transformation seems to be my power totem.

In the shamanic traditions there is the belief that
the shaman's power/gift walks with him/her.
Wherever they go that power goes and whatever
comes in contact with it is effected by it. This might
be one of the reasons the shaman was often feared as
well as revered. I bring this up as a context, I am
certainly not about to claim to be a shaman. But,
I do have a power that walks with me, and it is
transformation.

I can't tell you how many jobs or galleries I have
had where the place has been reconstructed or
closed down during or right after my employment
or representation. Once the effect has taken place
it is as if the Universe no longer needs me there
and I am moved on.

Let's just say I know a thing or two about change.

Many people fear change, they may want to
change their situation but they don't like real
change. But what they don't realize is that we
need our external mirrors. This is a dream
remember? So the external is the internal.
Change the internal, the external changes itself.
Don't change the internal, the external will work
its' darndest to wake you up.

I know that our internal workings can be one of
our biggest mysteries. How do we access that
mystery so we can change? One way is through
interpretation of the living dream. If something
transpires that disturbs you, instead of going into
a reactive mode, sit down and write the situation
down. Now treat it as you might a dream you had
last night. Everything in a dream is you and so you
start with the first component of the dream and say
"I am the...whatever"...and then describe the qualities
of the component, realizing those qualities are
describing some aspect of your inner world.
I have been consistently amazed by the revealing
and liberating results of this exercise.