by Jessie Cross | Feb 12, 2024 | Fermentation
This post will teach you how to make my easy lacto-fermented pickle recipe at home. These pickles are loaded with gut-friendly probiotics — and packed with flavor. You can make them in just about a week from start to finish. Once you get into a pickle-making...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 4, 2023 | Fermentation, Plant Medicine
Fermented honey is ancient medicine and magic that you can make today. In your own kitchen. With just a few ingredients. This Onion Fermented Honey is one of my go-to cough and sore throat home remedies. (Check out my Dragon’s Breath Fermented Chili Honey, which...
by Jessie Cross | Jun 27, 2023 | Fermentation, Plant Medicine
🌶️🍯Dragon’s Breath Fermented Chili Honey recipe!🌶️🍯 It sounds silly, but Summer Solstice is when I start to make medicine for the Fall and Winter. I like to harness and preserve the power of the Sun when it’s at its peak, and make plant medicine to warm up during the...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 7, 2025 | Fermentation, Kitchen Witchery
When the Kitchen Becomes an Alchemical Temple Every bubbling jar, every sourdough starter, every tang of vinegar rising from a crock is a whisper from the unseen world. Fermentation is an ancient art that bridges the scientific and the sacred. It’s a process...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 15, 2025 | Aura Guide, Elemental, Energy Medicine, The Descent
As the light thins and the air sharpens, your body and energy field responds long before the first frost. The aura—the subtle atmosphere that surrounds and interpenetrates the body—changes color, density, and rhythm with the seasons. Fall, with its amber light and...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 2, 2025 | Kitchen Witchery, Plant Medicine
Food as Frequency So, every meal is so much more than survival calories. It’s a conversation between your body and your subtle field. Long before nutrition labels and dietary fads, healers and mystics understood food as vibration. A ripe peach carried not just...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 1, 2025 | Fermentation, Kitchen Witchery, Plant Medicine, Ritual
Returning to the Old Ways All around the world, people are feeling a pull back to their roots. The fast pace of modern life, with its screens, shortcuts, and drama, has left many longing for the slow, grounding rhythm of soil, hearth, and home. There’s a deep desire...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 27, 2025 | Animal Medicine, Kitchen Witchery, Plant Medicine
So, honey is one of the most enchanting substances on Earth. This golden nectar is created through the tireless labor of bees, imbued with the essence of flowers, and has been revered since ancient times as both food and medicine. In the metaphysical and shamanic...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 9, 2025 | Animal Medicine, Harvest Festivals, The Descent
“Slowly is holy,” has always been one of my favorite bits of wisdom. It always bubbles up top of mind when I need the medicine most. (Like right now.) So, in keeping with that, it’s no wonder that fall has always been one of my favorite seasons....
by Jessie Cross | Sep 4, 2025 | Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Plant Medicine
Ecstasy and Surrender in the Harvest One of my strongest childhood memories is the smell of ripening grapes in the very late days of summer at my next door neighbor’s house. If I close my eyes, I can still smell them. Heady. Musty. Sweet. So, as the sun dips...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 3, 2025 | Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Kitchen Witchery, Plant Medicine
The apple is no ordinary fruit. Crisp and fragrant, with skin like shining enamel and flesh like white gold, it hides ancient magic in its core. From Eden’s garden to the cauldrons of witches, from love spells to Samhain feasts, the apple has long been a symbol of...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 3, 2025 | Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Plant Medicine
Holding Time, Holding Spirit This topic is so near and dear to my heart! So, in a world governed by seasons, survival has always depended on the ability to preserve. Long before refrigeration or vacuum-sealed pouches, our ancestors developed ways to prolong the life...
by Jessie Cross | Apr 7, 2025 | Elemental, Energy Medicine, Grounding, Plant Medicine
You Are What You Eat: The Kitchen As Your Cauldron Crazy times right now, ya? How can you shake off some of that energetic chaos and congestion and feel more grounded and balanced? It doesn’t have to be complicated. Like with most things, here’s my...
by Jessie Cross | Mar 19, 2025 | Plant Medicine, Spring Equinox
What better way to embrace the energy of spring than by incorporating the season’s vibrant, nutrient-dense vegetables into your diet? Here are my top 10 healing spring veggies. Spring vegetables are full of health benefits, packed with vitamins, minerals, and...
by Jessie Cross | Jun 20, 2024 | Celebrations, Ritual
The Summer Solstice is the longest day and shortest night of the year. In this post, you’ll learn: What is the Summer Solstice The metaphysical properties of the Sun How to work with the energy of the Sun 5 ways to celebrate the Summer Solstice What is the...
