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04/16/2026

New Moon Ritual Kits are now available at Essence Edge.

Tomorrow we have an Aries 🔥 New Moon!

Ritual is how humans have always said… I am paying attention. I am present at this threshold. I am willing to move through it with intention rather than letting it pass unconsciously.

Each kit includes a handmade seed paper scroll (Earth Moon Magic) with a key charm, a locally made white beeswax candle, a jar of cinnamon, a clear quartz tumble, and an incense stick.

Every item was chosen with intention and each kit includes an info sheet explaining what the new moon actually is, why ritual matters, and how to use everything inside.

The new moon is the moment the Sun and Moon align in the sky, the real biological and astronomical reset point humans have marked for thousands of years.

Tuesday - Friday 11-6 & Sat 11-5

04/16/2026

The New Moon Your Ancestors Actually Used

I put together a video on this, link below. What follows is the history behind it that I didn’t have time to get into.

So there’s a ritual that circulates pretty heavily in spiritual and witchcraft communities on the first of every month. You’ve probably seen it… blowing cinnamon through your front door for abundance, cleansing your space, setting intentions for the new cycle. But what most people doing that ritual were never told is that the first of the month marks nothing in the sky. Nothing.

But to understand why that date means nothing astronomically, we have to look at where our calendar actually came from. Because most people have never questioned it. We just inherited it.

The Gregorian calendar is a solar administrative calendar. Its months are bureaucratic divisions, they were built to run governments, collect taxes, schedule commerce. The 1st is a counting artifact. It is not a threshold. So where did the idea of monthly reset rituals actually come from?

Before the Gregorian calendar dominated the world, virtually every civilization tracked time through lunisolar systems, calendars that followed both the sun and the moon. The month began at the new moon because that was the actual observable reset point, the sky confirmed it and the body already knew it.

The Hebrew calendar still operates this way. Rosh Chodesh (the new moon in Hebrew) carries ritual significance precisely because the sky marks it and not because someone decided it did. The Islamic calendar is lunar, the Vedic Panchanga system is lunisolar. The Babylonian calendar, which heavily influenced later Western timekeeping, began each month at the first visible crescent after the new moon.

This wasn’t superstition to them It was an attunement. The human body tracks light cycles, lunar cycles, seasonal shifts. Circadian and circalunar rhythms governed human physiology for hundreds of thousands of years before anyone invented an administrative calendar. Your body was doing this long before anyone told it to.

So when the Gregorian calendar got imposed across colonized populations and enforced through commerce, taxation, legal systems, religious scheduling, something got severed. The collective entrainment to the Gregorian 1st isn’t organic consensus but a compliance that calcified into habit and got inherited as normal.

Most people never questioned it because it was handed to them as just the way time works.
And here’s the question I really want you to sit with. That charge you feel around January 1st or the first of any month… where is it actually coming from?

Millions of people treating a date as a threshold does create real charge, I’m not dismissing that. But that charge was built from the suppression of an earlier biological system, one your body still runs on. Think… Charge built from genuine alignment with biological and astronomical rhythm has a different quality than charge built from enforced synchronization.

Tomorrow there’s a new moon in Aries, the sky is actually marking a threshold. Your body already knows it and you may have already been feeling it building. The new moon isn’t a window someone assigns you. It’s something you can feel if you slow down enough to get quiet.

The question isn’t which ritual to perform or whether you’re doing it at the right hour. The real question is, can you feel when the window is right for you?

That’s what your ancestors were actually doing. Not following a transmitted rule but listening to something real.

New Moon, Abundance, Time & Truth

04/16/2026

Tomorrow we have a new moon in Aries and right now the sky has one of the more striking lineups I’ve seen in a long time.

Saturn, Neptune, Mercury, Chiron, the Moon, and the Sun are all stacked in Aries simultaneously. Think All of that fire, all in one place, the day before a new moon, in a Fire Horse year.

Aries is where fire originates and It’s not a fire that builds something, it’s fire at the ignition point or the very beginning of a THING. I think collectively we are being asked a question that a lot of us have been avoiding for a very long time.

Who do you want to be? What do you actually want? What are you willing to allow in your life going forward?

Those may sound like simple questions but they aren’t when you really sit with them. Because answering them honestly requires you to stop looking backward. So many of us when faced with genuine choice reach for the past. Not because the past was good, but because it’s known it’s shaped your identity even when identity was built on trauma & pain. And familiar pain is easier to hold than unfamiliar freedom.

This is how cycles repeat, not because people are broken, but because the question of who you actually are without the old story, without the old role, without the familiar weight, is one of the most uncomfortable places a human being can stand.

Tomorrow’s new moon is an invitation, but invitations require a response.

What’s yours?

Tonya 🤍

04/09/2026

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04/09/2026

Amethyst is pure magic in crystal form 💜✨

I’m here at the shop today until 6…stop by and say hi, and feel the energy of these beautiful pieces for yourself✨. Twyla

02/22/2026

🪶 Minnesota Rebel Loon

There’s something about winters in Minnesota. The resilience, The quiet strength… The way we endure… and still rise.

I brought in a small batch of “Minnesota Rebel Loon” hoodies and stickers, and after giving my Patreon community early access, I’m now opening them up publicly. This design blends our state bird with a symbol that has come to represent unity and resilience for many Minnesotans. It felt fitting for this season.

✨ They are available online now through Monday at midnight.

✨ After that, remaining inventory will move to the shop floor.

✨ Patreon members, your discount code is posted over on Patreon.

I only ordered a limited first run, and at this point I’m not sure I’ll be able to restock once they’re gone.

Available Sizes:
Hoodies: S–2XL
Stickers available as well.

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/products/xn-minnesota-strong-396m44427e

Thank you all for continuing to support small, local, and heart-led business. Truly.

🤍 Tonya

02/20/2026

🪐Saturn & Neptune Conjunct… A Quiet Turning Point

Today Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries.

That may not mean much on the surface, but energetically this marks the beginning of a long cycle, one that blends structure with spirit, discipline with vision, reality with intuition.

I’ve been sitting with what this means not just personally, but collectively… especially for the community we’ve built here.

For years spirituality has been loud, fast, aesthetic and reactive. But this feels different, this feels like the end of performative mysticism and the beginning of embodied practice.

Saturn asks: Are you willing to commit to what you believe? While Neptune asks: Are you willing to release the illusions around it?

Together in Aries, the sign of initiation… this isn’t about consuming more spiritual content, but about becoming it. I sense that over the next year we’ll see a shift: Less urgency, Less crisis-driven seeking, Less outsourcing authority. More self-initiation, more responsibility and more grounded embodiment.

If you’ve felt quieter lately… more reflective… more discerning about what you engage with it’s not random. There’s a maturation happening in the collective field. And in this space, that means: We refine, We simplify and We deepen.

Not everything dissolves in chaos, sometimes what dissolves is excess… And what remains is truer. I don’t see this as contraction, I see it as distillation. The question isn’t “What new thing should I add?” The question feels more like:
“What is essential?”

Saturn builds what lasts, Neptune dissolves what was imagined. Where they meet, something real is formed and I believe we’re stepping into that now.

If you’re feeling this shift too, I’d love to hear what’s coming up for you.

What feels more grounded?
What feels less necessary?
What are you ready to embody rather than just explore?

This is a subtle turning point but subtle does not mean small. I’ve posted a more in-depth reflection on Patreon regarding this transit.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/151258060?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

If this transit stirred something in you, if you’re feeling the closing of an old identity cycle or sensing the beginning of something new but can’t quite name it yet this is exactly the kind of threshold I hold space for in my Who You’re Becoming: 2026 Chart-Based Readings.

It’s a grounded, personalized look at your natal chart, your current transits, and how this larger Saturn-Neptune shift is unfolding specifically for you.

If you feel called to explore your own 36-year arc, to understand where early Aries sits in your chart, what chapter is closing, and what is asking to be built with intention the space is there.

You can read more about the offering here:

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/products/xn----who-youre-becoming-a-2026-chart-based-reading-4t73ak2091o

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02/14/2026

✨ 12 Universal Laws & Your Birth Chart ✨
A 6-Week Journey into Cosmic Alignment with Twyla

There are patterns that shape our lives long before we learn the language for them.

Beyond astrology trends.
Beyond manifestation buzzwords.
Beyond what’s currently popular.

There are Universal Laws, timeless principles like Attraction, Vibration, Rhythm, Action, Cause & Effect that have always been at work.

Beginning Wednesday, March 4th at 6:00pm, Twyla will be guiding a 6-week immersive journey exploring how these 12 Universal Laws live inside your unique astrology birth chart.

This isn’t theory.

This is about seeing:
• Why certain patterns repeat
• Why specific challenges activate you
• Where your natural flow already exists
• And how to consciously align instead of pushing against life

Over 6 weeks (2 Laws per class), you’ll explore how each Universal Law weaves through your houses and planets with reflection, discussion, journaling, and grounded integration practices.

If the group feels called to go deeper, the journey may expand into a 12-session experience, focusing on one Law at a time.

🌙 This class includes:

• Live teaching + group discussion
• Your personal birth chart as our guide
• Worksheets + journaling prompts
• Affirmations + crystal correspondences
• Practical tools to shift stuck energy

This circle is for those who:

✨ Want astrology to feel practical, not abstract
✨ Are ready to move beyond surface-level manifestation teachings
✨ Desire deeper self-awareness and alignment
✨ Feel called to understand the “why” behind their patterns

When you understand where these Laws live in your chart, you stop fighting yourself.

You begin working with the current.

✨ Energy Exchange: $222.22
✨ Held in the Essence Edge Classroom
✨ Limited seating for depth and connection

If you feel the nudge, trust it.

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/products/xn---12-universal-laws--your-birth-chart--8b92adb

The Universe has been speaking through your chart all along. 🌌

02/14/2026

🧶✨ Beginner Knitting Class ✨🧶

There’s something about knitting that slows everything down.

Two needles.
A single strand of yarn.
And the quiet rhythm of stitch after stitch forming beneath your hands.

Twyla & Liz will be hosting a Beginner Knitting Class at Essence Edge, created especially for those who’ve always wanted to learn but never have or tried once and felt overwhelmed.

This is a gentle, supportive, hands-on class.
No prior experience needed.

You’ll learn:

• How to hold your needles comfortably
• How to cast on stitches
• The foundational knit stitch
• How to recognize your stitches
• Simple ways to manage tension and avoid frustration

✨ This isn’t about rushing into a complicated project. It’s about building confidence and understanding the rhythm of knitting.

Your class fee includes:

🧵 1 skein of yarn
🧵 A pair of knitting needles
🧵 Beginner patterns to take home so you can continue practicing

Knitting is grounding. Meditative. Timeless.
And there’s something beautiful about learning a skill that has been passed down through generations of hands.

✨ Class Fee: $45
✨ Held in the Essence Edge Classroom
✨ Space is limited to keep it cozy and personal

If you’ve been feeling called to slow down, create, and learn something new, this is your sign. 🤍

Click the link below to register 💜👇🏽

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/products/xn---beginner-knitting-class--4v32yza1169b1a

02/10/2026

Lately I’ve been noticing a pattern in conversations, in the shop, and in my own reflections. So many people have done so much to try and feel better… Sessions, Tools, Practices, Modalities and Years of genuinely trying. And yet the pain, the anxiety, the anger… it still lingers.

I don’t think this means anything has failed. And I don’t think it means anyone has done it “wrong.” I wonder if many of us were simply never taught the difference between relief and healing.

Relief can feel like progress… It softens the edges, It gives us a break, It helps us function again.

Healing, though, asks something quieter. It asks us to stay, to feel, to be with what arises when nothing is fixing or changing it. That’s not easy. And it’s not something most of us were shown how to do, especially in a world that rewards movement, productivity, and “doing the work.”

This isn’t about abandoning tools or practices, they can be beautiful supports. It’s about noticing how we’re using them.nAre they helping us be more present? Or helping us avoid what’s asking to be felt?

I don’t have answers wrapped up in a bow. Just a question I’ve been sitting with: What might shift if healing didn’t look like searching for the next thing but learning how to be with ourselves, exactly as we are?

For those who feel this tug, I’ve been holding a deeper reflection on this in Patreon a longer teaching for those who want to sit with it more slowly, in a quieter space.

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