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You see, the sacred cauldron of possibility is here. The expansive potentiality of the darkness, with undetermined timelines swirling, the dreamscape weaving itself into a shapes yet unknown. This is the time between death and birth. A sometimes uncomfortable time, when the old has died and the new is yet to be born, we get the privilege of sitting with the unknown. Feeling. Sensing. Listening. Opening to what might be, but not grasping or knowing the next action quite yet.

The darkness is here. Samhain has officially opened, and we have been claimed. Claimed by the dark mother who wraps us in her cloak of love, inviting us to rest. Inviting us to dream. Inviting us to take refuge from the blaring light of striving, and rest in the descent. Surrender into the unraveling. Surrender into the death of the year.

Although Samhain officially lands on November 6th this year, marking the official halfway point between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Samhain is not just a day but a season of time that opens us up to the thinning of veils between physical and energetic, the material and spiritual. Can you feel it upon us already?

Summer Solstice the time of year when the light reigns most fully, gracing our days with its longest presence. It is a 3 day portal where the sun appears to be stationary in the sky before initiating the gradual descent towards Winter. We receive more light right now. Which means we can often see things more clearly, or have something illuminated that once was hidden. Often this means aspects of our shadow emerge: parts of us hungry to be seen, but may have hidden away in fea

Beltane historically honors eros. Honors the lovers. Honors how love, desire, sensuality, and pleasure help sing the world awake towards the climax of Summer Solstice. How reveling in beauty is just as important as honoring the harder aspects of life we’re facing right now, the grief, pain, the shock, the fear. How if we don’t, in fact, honor pleasure, we cannot know the full depths of Life.

Cottonwood is a medicine of regeneration and renewal. Both topically and internally, the medicine helps our cells regenerate, making them a

The deep, dark, still point of the year is less than 1 week away. Can you feel its gentle grasp, drawing you downwards, inwards? ​ It is...

We’re now in the deep, black waters of the dying year, in the last weeks of our journey towards the darkness. ​ This is the final stretch...

Can you feel that we’ve entered into the "Season of the Witch?" As if on cue when the sun moved into Scorpio, this past Tuesday I began...

Here we are, upon the season of death. The season that helps us reckon with the truth that we all must face. The truth of endings. The...