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01/15/2026

Tonight we gathered in circle…hands busy, conversations flowing, energy soft and present.

My mom taught a crochet class here at the shop, and it was such a beautiful reminder of what happens when people come together to create. New faces, shared learning, quiet laughter, and that familiar feeling of being held by community.

There is something deeply grounding about sitting in circle, working with our hands, learning a skill that has been passed down through generations. Threads weaving, stories weaving, energy weaving.

This year, we’re leaning into this more.
More creative classes.
More opportunities to gather.
More spaces where making becomes ritual and creativity becomes connection.

The act of creating together is its own kind of magic and we’re just getting started.

✨🧶✨

01/14/2026

🧿✨🪄Weaving our magic 🪄✨🧿

For a long time, so much of our magic lived only in thought. In healing conversations. In understanding. In holding space. And many of us felt our creativity go quiet.

This year feels different.

There’s a remembering happening a return to hands-on magic, to making, to crafting beauty with intention. To weaving energy back into things that can be touched, used, shared, and lived with.

Creation itself is ceremony. The act of making is a ritual. What you create carries your energy forward long after your hands have set it down.

If you’ve felt the spark return… you’re not alone.
This isn’t coincidence. It’s a collective remembering.

✨🕯️✨

01/13/2026

🌱🕯️ Seasonal Ritual Boxes | Imbolc 🕯️🌱

As we move toward Imbolc, the quiet return of light we’re preparing to open pre-orders for our first Witch’s Wheel of the Year Ritual Box.

These ritual boxes are seasonal offerings, created in rhythm with the land, the Grandmother Moon, and the turning year. Each one is curated as a way to slow down and tend the season, rather than rushing past it.

Boxes may include a small selection of:

• ritual or altar tools
• seasonal herbs or teas
• intentionally crafted candles
• earth-based symbols
• reflection or ritual cards

They are meant to be used intuitively and personally, in your own way.

🕯️ Because these offerings are assembled with care, quantities are intentionally small.
Patreon members receive first access for each sabbat.

Patreon members can find full details on pre-order launch day/time posted on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/148148121?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

More will be shared soon. For now, this is simply an invitation to pause… and notice what is beginning to stir. 🌱

🕯️🪄

01/13/2026

🌙✨ Using the Astrology Planners In the In-Between ✨🌙

January isn’t asking for pressure. It’s asking for orientation.

With us still in the final stretch of the Year of the Snake, this week is less about initiating something new and more about learning how to read what your body and energy are actually responding to.

🌙This is where the Astrology Planners become especially useful.

Not as productivity tools.
Not as “new year motivation.”
But as navigation tools.

Instead of asking “What should I be doing right now?”

They help you ask:

• What is this week actually supporting?
• Where am I being asked to pause, integrate, or soften?
• When is movement aligned and when is rest intelligent?

🌓 The planners are designed to help you:

• track lunar phases and planetary shifts as context, not commands
• notice recurring patterns in energy, mood, and focus
• understand why some weeks resist structure
• work with timing instead of pushing against it

They don’t ask you to plan the entire year.
They help you locate yourself honestly within it.

If January has felt quiet, slow, or foggy, these planners offer a way to stay grounded without forcing clarity too soon and without bypassing what still needs to be integrated.

✨ Available now at Essence Edge
✨ Colors: Midnight Velvet, Deep Moss, White & Black
✨ Limited quantity

This is not about getting ahead. It’s about arriving present.

01/13/2026

A Grief I Can’t Ignore

I’ve been sitting with a deep sadness the past few days. Not just about what’s happening in our state, or even in our own town but about the way people are speaking about it. About the ease with which human lives are reduced to talking points. About how quickly compassion disappears when fear, politics, or ideology take the wheel.

Reading the comments from people in our own communities has been heartbreaking.

Celebrating death.
Mocking grief.
Justifying dehumanization.
Shrugging at children being traumatized.

And what unsettles me most is how often it’s wrapped in the language of righteousness even Christianity. I grew up Christian. I know the teachings many claim to stand on: love your neighbor, care for the vulnerable, welcome the stranger, protect children, act with humility. So when I see people who identify as “Christian” openly mocking suffering, dismissing fear, or reducing entire groups of people to “deserving” or “undeserving,” something inside me breaks a little.

This isn’t about politics.
This isn’t about left vs. right.
This is about humanity.

It’s about the dangerous normalization of cruelty. It’s about how easy it has become to speak about real people mothers, children, elders, Native communities, immigrants, citizens as if they are abstractions instead of lives. And I think we need to be honest about something uncomfortable: When we say things like “If they did nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear,” or “Just let them do their jobs,” we ignore the countless documented stories of people who did nothing wrong and were still harmed, detained, separated, or traumatized. We ignore how power operates. We ignore history. We ignore lived experience.

Awareness matters.
Nuance matters.
Listening matters.

We are living in a time where fear is being fed, and fear makes people forget their values. It makes people choose obedience over empathy, certainty over curiosity, punishment over care. But we are not powerless. We can choose to pause before commenting. We can choose to ask harder questions. We can choose to see the humanity in people we don’t understand. We can choose to remember that laws and systems are not sacred, human life is.

If your faith teaches love, let it show up in how you speak. If your values include dignity, let them apply to everyone. If you believe in justice, let it be rooted in compassion, not cruelty.

This post isn’t meant to shame. It’s an invitation to wake up. To look beyond slogans. To look beyond comment sections. To look at what’s really happening and how we are becoming in response. Because the loss of empathy doesn’t happen all at once. It happens comment by comment. Laugh by laugh. Justification by justification.

And that’s something we should all be deeply concerned about.

01/13/2026

🐍🔥 We’re Still in the In-Between

(An Energetic Check-In for This Week)

Even though the calendar says mid-January, energetically we are not in a new cycle yet.

We are still moving through the Year of the Snake, and we don’t shift fully into the Year of the Fire Horse until February.

That matters.

Because the Snake doesn’t rush.
It sheds.
It integrates.
It finishes what hasn’t been metabolized yet.

And this week especially carries that message.

If you’ve been feeling:

• exhausted without a clear reason
• unmotivated by things that used to excite you
• emotionally tender or easily overstimulated
• resistant to structure, schedules, or pressure

You’re not “failing” January.

Your nervous system is responding appropriately to an energy that is asking for integration, not acceleration.

🔥 The Fire Horse is coming, but not yet.
And if we try to move like it’s already here, we don’t get freedom… we get burnout.

This is why so many people feel like they should be doing more right now, but their bodies are saying no.

That’s not laziness.
That’s biology.

For years, cyclical and energy-aware living was framed as a beautiful idea. Now it’s clear it’s a necessity.

Headaches.
Rage.
Burnout.
Dissociation.
Creative collapse.

These aren’t personal failures, they’re feedback from bodies being asked to operate in ways they were never designed to sustain.

This isn’t “woo-woo” spirituality. It’s not bypassing. It’s not manifesting harder through exhaustion.

It’s grounded, somatic truth:

Some days are not for output.
Some weeks are for dismantling.
Some seasons are for quiet, rest, and recalibration.

And honoring that doesn’t make life unproductive, it makes it functional.

I shared a much deeper breakdown of this week’s energy, the Snake….Horse transition, and how to actually work with it (instead of against your body) over on Patreon.

🌿 If you’ve been feeling off, heavy, foggy, or tired you’re not broken. You’re responding honestly.

👉 Full weekly energy update + deeper context on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/148084523?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

01/08/2026

👁️ When the Body Speaks, It’s Time to Listen

Lately something has become very clear to me and once seen, it can’t be unseen.

Cyclical, energy-based living isn’t a “nice idea” anymore. It isn’t aesthetic. And it isn’t optional.

The nervous system, the economy, and the collective psyche are all breaking under linear demand.

Headaches.
Burnout.
Rage.
Dissociation.
Creative collapse.

These aren’t personal failures. They’re biological feedback. Our bodies are responding exactly as designed to systems that demand constant output from beings who are inherently cyclical.

What’s shifting now matters. This isn’t about “raising your vibration” or thinking positively through exhaustion.

It’s grounded, inconvenient truth:

✔️Some days are not for output
✔️Some weeks are for dismantling
✔️Some months are for grief or integration
✔️Some seasons are meant to be quiet

Honoring that doesn’t make life less productive.
It makes it functional.

I wrote more about this today from a place of lived integration not theory, not bypassing and shared it inside my Patreon space.

If this resonates, know this: You’re not broken.
You’re responding intelligently to an unsustainable rhythm.

Something older and wiser is remembering how to live through us.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/147764053?utm_campaign=postshare_creator

01/08/2026

✨🔥 Working With Fire 🔥✨

There is something ancient about pouring candles. Long before candles were décor, they were tools, ways to mark time, call in intention, hold prayer, and tend the unseen.

Over the past weeks, I’ve been quietly pouring a new line of candles here at Essence Edge each one crafted with intention, patience, and respect for the Element of Fire.

These candles are being created for a few different purposes, all rooted in ritual rather than rush.

🕯 The Witch’s Wheel of the Year – Ritual Boxes

Each seasonal ritual box will include a candle aligned with the energy of that point on the Wheel, crafted to support reflection, release, tending, and return as the year turns.

More info on the Launch date of the first Imbolc Ritual boxes coming mid January!

🕯 Altar & Spell Candles

I’m also creating a dedicated line of altar and spell candles, meant to be worked with slowly, intentionally, and in relationship. These are not “one-size-fits-all” candles, but tools for grounding intention, focus, and embodied ritual.

🕯 Smudge Candle Collaboration

And something I’m especially excited to share,
a collaborative smudge candle created with Earth Moon Magick 🌙

This candle is an extension of Kari’s beloved smudge spray a signature blend that so many of you already know and love (and that sells out almost as soon as it’s restocked). I’m taking her familiar, trusted scent and translating it into candle form, allowing the essence of her work to be experienced through flame.

Blending the intention of traditional smoke cleansing with the steadiness of fire, this smudge candle is meant for moments when smoke isn’t accessible or when a gentler, more continuous form of clearing feels right.

🔥 Why Fire?

Fire is transformation. It consumes, illuminates, warms, and reveals.

In candle magic, fire carries intention into motion. It is the element of will, action, devotion, and change but also of presence. A candle asks you to sit. To witness. To stay.

Every candle poured here is made with that understanding:

• fire as a living element
• wax as a vessel
• flame as a messenger

More will be shared soon as these offerings make their way into the shop and upcoming ritual boxes. ✨🔥

01/07/2026

Hello, my name is Gen, and I’m the one behind Sacred Roots Trail. I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself.

I created this space for a few reasons. One is my deep love for connection and my desire to share the lessons and insights I’ve gathered through my own lived experiences.

I’m also a wife, a mom to two kids, and have four fur babies. A big reason this work and journey began for me was a desire to be better for my children and my family. I wanted to show up with more presence, patience, and trust in myself instead of living in constant overwhelm or self-pressure.

Another reason is that writing has become one of the ways I slow down and process what I’ve been through. It helps me listen more closely, reflect honestly, and understand myself on a deeper level.
This space is where that reflection lives. It’s real, thoughtful, and rooted in experience rather than perfection.

From time to time, I also share ways to work with me for those who feel called. There’s no pressure or urgency. Just an invitation to explore when and if it feels right for you.

I’m really glad you’re here ✨️💜

01/07/2026

🌿 Sacred Roots: Beginning to Listen 🌿

Join Gen this Saturday!

🌀January 10th | 6:00 p.m.

So many of us move through life living in our heads thinking, analyzing, fixing while the body quietly carries everything beneath the surface. Over time, this can leave us feeling disconnected, tense, or burned out without quite knowing why.

Sacred Roots: Beginning to Listen is a gentle invitation to come back into the body in a safe, accessible way.

✨In this class, Gen will guide you through:

• Exploring what it means to observe and feel the body without judgment
• Learning to listen without trying to fix, push, or change anything
• Gentle practices that support grounding, awareness, and choice
• Allowing the body to lead at its own pace

This is not a class about releasing, forcing, or “doing it right.” It’s about slowing down enough to notice. To listen. To begin building trust with your body’s own wisdom.

If you’re feeling called to reconnect, soften, and come home to yourself this space is for you.

✨Instructor: Gen
📍 Essence Edge
💫 Cost: $55.55

Here is your gentle invitation to begin listening. 🌱

https://sacredrootstrail.as.me/schedule/819672ee/?appointmentTypeIds%5B%5D=87193321

Schedule your appointment online Sacred Roots Trail

01/05/2026

🌾✨ St. Brigid’s Crosses & The First Turn of the Wheel ✨🌾

As we prepare to launch our first Witch’s Wheel of the Year ritual boxes, I’ve found myself returning to something very old.

I’ve begun making St. Brigid’s crosses by hand, a tradition rooted in ancient seasonal rites, hearth blessings, and threshold protection.

Historically, these crosses were woven from rushes or reeds, gathered near water at the turning of the season. They were hung in homes, above doorways, or near the hearth to bless the year ahead with protection, fertility, and right relationship with the land.

But as I sat with this practice, and looked out over our cold snow covered land I felt called to work with wheat instead.

🌾 Why wheat?

Wheat carries the energy of sustenance, devotion, and continuity. It is the plant of the hearth, the one that feeds, nourishes, and sustains life through patience and care.

Wheat must be planted, tended, harvested, dried, and transformed before it can nourish anyone. Nothing about it is rushed. Nothing is wasted.

By choosing wheat, these crosses become more than protection charms, they become blessings of provision, reminders that what is tended with care will sustain us.

They hold the magic of:

* sacred labor
* ancestral hands
* nourishment through change
* cycles of death, transformation, and renewal

Each cross is imperfect by design, woven slowly, intentionally, by human hands. These are working talismans, not decorations.

As the Wheel turns toward Imbolc, this felt like the right beginning:

a blessing for the home, the hearth, the work we are building, and the year ahead.

These wheat St. Brigid’s crosses will be included in our first Witch’s Wheel of the Year ritual boxes, marking the opening of a living, seasonal practice we’ll be walking together.

May what we tend this year be fed. May what we release become nourishment. May the hearth be warm, protected, and alive.

Tonya 🌾🕯️
Essence Edge