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 29, 2025 | Scorpio Season, Shadow Work
The Descent Begins: Scorpio Season and the Power of Shadow Every year, as the veil between worlds thins and the light wanes, the Sun moves into Scorpio. Scorpio is the sign of transformation, mystery, and rebirth. The days grow shorter, the nights stretch longer, and...
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 27, 2025 | Samhain, Shadow Work
The Descent Into the Self: Why Samhain Calls Us Inward Samhain has always marked more than the death of summer. It is the soul’s invitation to descend. Into silence, mystery, and the unseen corners of our own psyche. When the harvest is gathered and the fields lie...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 27, 2025 | Grounding, Samhain
When the Veil is Thinnest Samhain arrives like a soft exhale from the spirit world. It’s a liminal threshold where the dead whisper, shadows shimmer, and intuition heightens. Between October’s last breath and November’s first frost, the veil between worlds...
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 | Ritual, Samhain, Tarot
The Veil’s Whisper: Why Samhain Is the Diviner’s Holy Night When the wheel turns toward Samhain, the air itself feels alive with quiet knowledge. The harvest is stored, the fields go still, and the light wanes. Across cultures, Samhain is a turning point—October’s...
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 23, 2025 | Lunar, New Moons
When the sky goes dark and the Moon disappears from sight, the world exhales. The bright chatter of lunar light fades, leaving behind a profound quiet. It’s a silence that hums beneath the surface of things. This is the New Moon, a time of inward gaze, of seeds...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 23, 2025 | Lunar, New Moons
The new moon is a pause between breaths. It’s an invisible hinge between endings and beginnings. When the sky goes dark, it’s easy to think “nothing’s happening.” But beneath the quiet surface, the cosmos hums with potential. Seeds split open in darkness. Dreams...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 22, 2025 | Full Moon Meanings, Lunar, New Moons
The Moon as a Mirror of Becoming For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve read the moon like a living manuscript. It’s a luminous diary of birth, growth, fullness, and surrender. Ancient people planted crops, planned rituals, and marked the...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 21, 2025 | Lunar, New Moons
The Quiet Between Cycles Every month, the Moon disappears. For a few sacred nights, her face turns inward, cloaked in shadow. The sky empties. The tides hush. The world exhales. This is the New Moon Portal. It’s a metaphysical threshold between endings and...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 21, 2025 | Astrology, Lunar, New Moons
Before the first silver thread of light returns to the sky, there is silence. The New Moon is a threshold between cycles, the pause before creation. Across cultures and centuries, this lunation has marked beginnings both ordinary and mystical…the planting of...
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 19, 2025 | Elemental, Samhain
When autumn arrives, the air itself seems to speak. Leaves rustle like whispers between worlds, winds pick up around corners carrying scents of woodsmoke and rain, and suddenly there’s motion everywhere…the restless breath of the season. Wind is the invisible...
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 17, 2025 | Ritual
The Power of the Vessel Many acts of magic begin with containment. A spell jar. A chalice. A cauldron. A locket over the heart. Each of these objects performs the same sacred function. To hold, to shape, to give form to what is otherwise invisible. In magic, the...
