by Jessie Cross | Oct 30, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Kitchen Witchery, Samhain
When the Table Becomes an Altar At Samhain, when the final harvest is gathered and the world tilts toward darkness, the simple act of eating together transforms into something sacred. Across cultures and centuries, people have set places for the dead. A cup of wine...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 28, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Día de los Muertos, Samhain
The Veil Opens Wide: Why Día de los Muertos Is a Portal Every year at the turning of October into November, a hush falls over the earth. The light softens, leaves burn to embers, and the air itself seems to shimmer. It’s thin, transparent, alive with memory....
by Jessie Cross | Oct 28, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Día de los Muertos, Samhain
What Is Día de los Muertos? Each year, between October 31 and November 2, families across Mexico and beyond gather to honor the dead in one of the world’s most beautiful and profound celebrations: Día de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. At first glance, outsiders...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 26, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Ritual, Samhain
The Season of Subtle Whispers As the wheel of the year turns toward Samhain, the air itself seems to shimmer. You may feel it in your skin before you name it—a prickle along the neck, a hush between breaths, a sudden knowing that something unseen is near. In the old...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 24, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Samhain
When the Veil Thins and the World Turns Inward Samhain (pronounced SOW-in) arrives like a whisper from the Otherworld—an ancient Celtic festival marking the end of harvest and the beginning of winter. As the last of the crops are gathered and daylight wanes, the old...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 19, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Elemental, Ritual, Samhain, Shadow Work
Fire as Portal and Mirror As autumn deepens and the veil thins, fire and light take on new meaning. The flicker of a single candle can feel like a heartbeat…a bridge between this world and the unseen. In November’s hush, when the ancestors are near and the...
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 12, 2025 | Ancestral Work, Energy Medicine
Every October, something subtle but unmistakable stirs in the air. The world feels closer, dreams turn vivid, and even the skeptics sense a quiet electricity humming beneath the surface. Across cultures, this has always been known as the thinning of the veil—a natural...
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 | Ancestral Work, Ritual, Samhain
Samhain is coming…and the veil is thinning. It’s a season of both harvest and remembrance. When the ancestors walk closer to us, and our intuition heightens. Creating an ancestral altar at this time of year is one of the most profound ways to honor those...
