by Jessie Cross | Nov 4, 2025 | The Descent
The Season of Nightfall As the days shorten and the nights stretch long, the world seems to fold inward. It’s the great exhale. The dark season, spanning from Samhain to Yule, is nature’s invitation to dream more deeply. Our waking hours dim, our inner light...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 3, 2025 | Ritual, The Descent, Winter Solstice (Yule)
Practical rituals, mindset shifts, and magical practices to align with the dark half of the year The weeks between Samhain and Yule form a liminal bridge. They’re not quite the end, not quite the beginning. The harvest has been gathered. The veil has thinned....
by Jessie Cross | Nov 3, 2025 | Elemental Magic, The Descent
From the last embers of Samhain to the first fires of Yule, November belongs to the element of Fire. The air in November holds a particular kind of stillness. It’s dense, cool, and faintly scented with woodsmoke. Across much of the Northern Hemisphere, chimneys...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 2, 2025 | Lunar, November: Beaver Moon, The Descent
The Many Names of November’s Full Moon The full moon of November goes by many names. Most commonly, it’s called the Beaver Moon, a name rooted in survival. It harkens back to when Indigenous peoples and early settlers set traps and gathered pelts before the rivers...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 2, 2025 | Grounding, Ritual, The Descent
The Quiet Enchantment of November November is a spell whispered in shades of gray and gold. The last of the leaves tumble down, the air smells of smoke and soil, and the world begins to soften under longer nights. This isn’t a month of grand gestures. It’s a...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 1, 2025 | Full Moon Meanings, Grounding, Lunar, November: Beaver Moon, Shadow Work, The Descent
A Portal for Grief, Shadow Work, Grounding, and Renewal The November Full Moon, known traditionally as the Beaver Moon, rises as a luminous threshold between autumn’s fading warmth and winter’s inward stillness. Spiritually, this moon invites you to slow down, feel...
by Jessie Cross | Nov 1, 2025 | Grounding, Samhain, The Descent
The Morning After the Mystery: Ritual decompression, energy integration, and spiritual aftercare Samhain’s candles have burned low, the offerings are cold, but…you still feel it. The air hums with leftover magic, dreams may feel strange, and your body wants...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 26, 2025 | Baba Yaga, Dieties + Spirits, Hecate, Samhain, The Descent
The Dark Feminine Rises As the year wanes and the sun’s path lowers toward the horizon, the Crone steps forward—ancient, unflinching, and wise. At Samhain, when the veil thins and the last harvest is gathered, she stands at the gate between worlds…the boundary...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 18, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Samhain, The Descent
As the veil thins and the air itself seems to shimmer with memory, we find ourselves walking along invisible borders. They’re the tender, liminal spaces where the living and the ancestral intertwine. These are the ancestral thresholds. The spaces between worlds,...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 15, 2025 | Aura Guide, Elemental Magic, 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 11, 2025 | Celebrations, Samhain, The Descent
Why your energy drops in fall: A spiritual look at autumn fatigue, emotional waves, and energetic transformation. As the air sharpens and dusk arrives earlier each day, something subtle begins to stir inside us. We feel it in our bones—the slowing, the soft ache, the...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 11, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Ritual, The Descent
Every year, as the sun wanes and the nights grow long, a subtle hush descends upon the Earth. The air thickens with memory. Dreams sharpen. Animals grow quiet. Candles seem to burn with more purpose. You can feel it — the strange shimmer in the atmosphere that...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 29, 2025 | Aura Guide, Energy Medicine, The Descent
Autumn is the season of thresholds. The light begins to tilt, shadows lengthen, and you’re ushered into a time of descent. As the natural world slows down, your own energy field—your aura—shifts with it. You may feel more sensitive, introspective, and attuned to...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 21, 2025 | Autumn Equinox, Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Lunar, The Descent
The autumn equinox is a threshold moment in the year. It’s a brief pause when day and night stand in perfect balance before the scales tip toward the dark. For many, this season is rich with symbolism. It’s a time of harvest, gratitude, letting go, and...
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....
