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 | Lunar, November: Beaver Moon
The Weight of the November Moon Every full moon has a pulse—a frequency that ripples through your emotions and body. But the November Full Moon, traditionally called the Beaver Moon, carries a unique density. It doesn’t shimmer like August’s Sturgeon Moon or spark...
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 31, 2025 | Journal Prompts, Samhain, Shadow Work
Samhain is the hinge of the year—the place where one door soft-closes and another opens quietly. Crops are in. The light is thinning. The veil is thin enough to hear what you may have been too busy to notice. This isn’t just an ending. It’s a threshold. In the...
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 | Journal Prompts, 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...
