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 Magic, 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 Magic, 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...
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 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 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 | Oct 9, 2025 | Celebrations, Ritual, Samhain
From fog scrying to doorway blessings, explore hands-on ways to work with October’s liminal energy If Threshold Magic and the Veil Between Worlds: Exploring Liminal Energy in October explored the philosophy of the in-between, this companion guide is your invitation to...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 7, 2025 | Astrology, Harvest Festivals, Lunar, October: Harvest Moon
The Moon as Mirror of the Soul Every year, the Harvest Moon glows larger and lower than any other. It’s a moon of revelation, a luminous threshold between effort and reward, between the visible world of harvest and the unseen world of spirit. This full moon doesn’t...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 7, 2025 | Harvest Festivals, Lunar, October: Harvest Moon
Use the Harvest Moon to clear unwanted, lingering energy in your field The Harvest Moon glows like a lantern above ripened fields, illuminating every stalk, seed, and shadow that has grown since spring. It’s not just a moon of beauty. It’s a mirror. Under its silvery...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 5, 2025 | Harvest Festivals, Lunar, October: Harvest Moon
Honoring the sacred energies that emerge with the harvest and the waning light As the wheel of the year turns toward the waning light, the fields are heavy under the weight of their own abundance. The Harvest Moon rises—round, luminous, and patient—spilling her light...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 5, 2025 | Lunar, October: Harvest Moon, Ritual
The Season of Letting Go Autumn begins as a slow unwinding. The air cools, the trees loosen their hold on green, and the earth exhales after months of summer heat. We feel this descent in our own bodies too. It’s a pull to turn inward, to shed what we no longer...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 4, 2025 | Animal Medicine, Lunar, October: Harvest Moon
As the Harvest Moon rises—large, low, and golden over the horizon—it carries with it a strange magic. Shadows grow long, the air is crisp, and the world hangs for a moment between abundance and descent. This is the moon that lights the threshing fields, the moon that...
by Jessie Cross | Oct 4, 2025 | Astrology, Lunar, October: Harvest Moon
The Harvest Moon is a Moon of Thresholds Every autumn, the Harvest full moon rises brighter and closer to Earth’s heart than most. This moon—always the full moon nearest to the autumn equinox—carries with it a strange and luminous charge. Unlike other moons that fall...
