by Jessie Cross | Oct 14, 2025 | Plant Medicine, Ritual
The Breath of Autumn: When Smoke Speaks As the air cools and the veil begins to thin, folks naturally turn toward the language of smoke. It’s an ancient, swirling bridge between the seen and unseen. Smoke is the breath of the offering, the transformation of...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 3, 2025 | Kitchen Witchery, Plant Medicine
Preservation as Spellwork Every jar in a witch’s pantry is more than food storage. It’s a spell sealed with heat, sugar, honey, vinegar, or salt. Our ancestors knew this well—preserving was survival, but it was also ceremony. What went into the jar was more than...
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 30, 2025 | Aura Guide, Energy Medicine, Plant Medicine
Energetic Materia Magica for Seasonal Protection: Why We Need Energetic Wards Your aura is way more than just a luminous halo poets and mystics describe. It’s your energetic skin, the living boundary between your inner world and the environment. Just as our...
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 23, 2025 | Autumn Equinox, Celebrations, Crystals, Plant Medicine
As the sun balances on the threshold between light and dark, the equinox arrives like a breath between heartbeats. It’s poised, potent, and brimming with magic. Whether it’s the spring equinox’s invitation to rebirth or the autumn equinox’s call to release and...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 17, 2025 | Harvest Festivals, Plant Medicine
As summer fades and the air begins to cool, the orchard enters its most introspective season. Apples ripen, pears soften, figs split open at the seams, each fruit carrying more than nourishment. According to the ancient Doctrine of Signatures, nature marks plants with...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 12, 2025 | Harvest Festivals, Plant Medicine
Bread is so much more than food. It’s the body of the grain, the warmth of fire, and the breath of spirit…all brought together by the magic of human hands. I mean, in a sense, what’s more alchemical? Since ancient times, baking bread has been an act...
by Jessie Cross | Sep 5, 2025 | Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Lughnasadh, Plant Medicine, Samhain
Few symbols capture the seasonal essence of Autumn as vividly as pumpkins and gourds. From carved jack-o’-lanterns glowing on porches to dried ornamental gourds hanging in kitchen windows, these hollow fruits have long carried deep layers of meaning. They’re...
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 | Aug 8, 2025 | Celebrations, Harvest Festivals, Lughnasadh, Plant Medicine
The Harvest Season is a time to gather, give thanks, and honor the sacred cycles that sustain life. Among the most potent symbols and tools of this season are grains, fruits, and seeds. These plant allies embody the energies of nourishment, potential, and...
by Jessie Cross | Jun 18, 2025 | Plant Medicine, Summer Solstice
Summer Herbs to Nourish Body, Mind, and Spirit Oh my goodness, what a delicious time of year! I drink herbal tea (hot and iced) all year—not just in the cold months. I put these brews together to align with the summer solstice, though really, they’re amazing...
by Jessie Cross | Apr 17, 2025 | Meditation, Plant Medicine
Why Connect with the Spirit of Teasel? Teasel isn’t a plant that whispers. It stands tall, spiny, and sovereign. It’s unmistakable in the landscape and unforgettable in its energetic medicine. Underneath its armored appearance lies a deep intelligence....
by Jessie Cross | Apr 17, 2025 | Plant Medicine
Just set up some teasel root tincture today, and thought I would take a deep dive into the herb for you. After our move this winter, it’s exactly the medicine I need right now. On top of all the amazing physical medicine this plant offers, energetically, it...
by Jessie Cross | Apr 7, 2025 | Elemental Magic, 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...
