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The Altar // Healing & Ceremony is a holistic healing practice, created by Teagan West in Rochester, NY

01/27/2026

NEPTUNE IN ARIES ❤️‍🔥🪞🕯️ 2026-2038 ~ a new cycle begins…

The mystic has lit the match.
We are learning how to play with fire.
How to keep a good flame.
How to be in right relationship with this most powerful elemental; and unlock the divinatory magick that it holds.

We are all becoming firekeepers, in our own rightful ways.

Fire can burn, or it can brighten. It can offer inspiration, or frustration. It can bring rightful rage to outline our boundaries, or it can become overly defensive + reactive. It can be a force for change + transformation, or one of reckless destruction. It all depends on how we wield this flame within.
❤️‍🔥🪞🕯️

Remember — a screen is also a form of fire. What illusions dance behind this smoky mirror? Pay attention, use discernment, be wakeful. Image & vision are the realm of flames — learn to see clearly, this fire divination.

Invocations for each rising sign coming to the altar of stars this week… you know where to find me 🤟

01/25/2026

Friends ~ these are strange times indeed. I have been feeling the call to go ever deeper within, to let myself get very still so I may see clearly.
Discernment is a sword that cuts thru the noise. Our work is in learning how to respond, so that reactivity does not disconnect us from personal agency.

With that, I have found that my own work is deepening. Both in 1:1 and group spaces, there is more of a commanding presence coming through. Our ancestors have left us maps to navigate these times, hidden in the Land & Sky. We are learning how to listen, how to see the path ahead with ancient memory at our back to guide the way.

My books are open for February & March. This work is not meant to feed dissociative & avoidant tendencies — rather, to help us identify resources within ourselves & our lineages that can help us participate more fully. Through relationship, we find ground to stand on & steady our footsteps as we walk the path ahead.

This is a place to speak truth, to see yourself more clearly, and be seen. To grieve, to keen, to laugh, to remember what has always been here, supporting you. To find the pulse of presence, resource, collective support. To identify the tools you have within yourself to navigate whatever may come. To lean back into the support of your Ancestors & listen to their songs. Within them, there are maps to find your way home.

As Neptune enters Aries, I feel the responsibility of becoming the Firekeeper. That if our spiritual cosmologies do not support us in becoming more active participants in whatever is unfolding, they are feeding distraction. This era is one of absolute wakefulness, the warrior that pays attention to every movement. Strike the match, light the dark, carry the torch. We have work to do.

Offerings found in the usual place. Reach out with questions. I love you. We are in this together. ❤️‍🔥🙏🕯️⚡️🌀🧿🪞

01/20/2026

AQUARIUS STELLIUM 💎🪞🕯️

Sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, mars all enter Aquarius this week and cross paths with Pluto as the gatekeeper.

Psychopomping the collective soul
Apocalypsis ~ unveiling of the collective unconscious
Discernment & awareness of what we allow to influence MIND —> reality, & our participation in this moment

Full rant on the Altar of Stars 🌀🧿

01/18/2026

CAPRICORN NEW MOON 🌲⚡️ make a commitment to the future by bringing closure to the past

Cycles completing
Loose threads tied
Resolution as devotion
Trust in yourself

New Moon will be sextile Saturn in Pisces, and trine with Uranus in Ta**us. All at the very last degrees; a culminating moment 💎 make it count

01/14/2026

LAND AS ANCESTOR 🌲 Capricorn’s teachings

Excited to share some insights that I’ve been sitting with in deepening my relationship to the Land and my own Ancestors as original teachers. So much here, this is just barely scratching the surface! 🧿❤️‍🔥🕯️🪽

You can find the full musing on the Altar of Stars, in the usual place 🔗🧿🤟❤️

01/11/2026

CAPRICORN NEW MOON 🌲🕯️🧿 Sunday, Jan 18th @ 2:52pm ET

Sharing this one a bit early as we’re deep in the heart of Capricorn season, integrating those big cazimis from last week. The week ahead lays the foundation, each stepping stone perfectly placed by those that came before us.🕯️🪽

You are an Ancestor. This comes with unavoidable inheritances. Blessings and Burdens, beauty & grief. You have a responsibility to steward it well. How you respond to that call is up to you. 🌲

What kind of Ancestor do you want to be? What legacy do you wish to leave behind?🧿

I speak about all of this & more in-depth on the Altar of Stars, you know where to find me / in the usual place!

Much love, my friends
❤️ T
♑️

01/06/2026

CAPRICORN CAZIMI WEEK 🌲 double whammy!

Get really crystal clear about what you want and draw a boundary around it. Discerning, devoted, clear & committed. 🌀🕯️🪽🦂

01/04/2026

Moments of Real Life Magick. The entrance into this turning of the wheel felt like one big Ritual, sustained for days on end. A prayer answer, a wish granted.

There is no other way I want to live anymore, than this. Spending my waking moments in gratitude for the gift of this life, for all its beauty and pain. Finding better ways, every day, to say THANK YOU.

To be challenged to find gratitude even & especially when things are challenging. That my ability to stay in my heart is not dependent on favorable circumstances. That I can access this especially when I am on my knees.

That is my work. In growing my capacity to hold it all. That is what these times ask for. Not to wait for brighter days to arrive. To love what is here, right now, asking to be respected. To collapse the distance between whatever might be, and what IS.

I am so grateful to have spent the first days of these calendar year in such wild prayer with community. Doing the work of ritual tending to the psyche, so that we may better know our role in mending the collective heart.

Purging the impressions & poisons of colonial conditioning that disconnect us from our sense of creative agency. That power retrieval is where everything becomes possible.

Our work is not in waiting for the next best thing to arrive, but working with the tools we have within, right now. Agency. Resourcefulness. Adaptability. Intention. Discernment. From here, reactivity transforms into receptivity ~ we are learning how to listen.

This year, we are learning how to play with fire. Every one becoming the keeper of their own sovereign flame. Use it wisely. I am with you. ❤️‍🔥🙏🫂🌊🪽⚡️🌀🖤🕯️

12/30/2025

2026 ~ the year of personal agency + power reclamation, which of course requires personal responsibility & SELF TRUST ❤️‍🔥⚔️🦂

The astrology of the year to come is big, powerful + revelatory. Fire + Air fan the flames of change. More at the Altar of Stars each week 🕯️🌊🌀 seek the Lynx for the key to enter ;)

12/28/2025

CROSSING THE THRESHOLD 🕯️ 2026

The circle opens
We are invited to enter
A pool of memory
This great becoming
An ancient impression
Rippling out in every direction
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Friends, wow. The more I sit with the astrology of the year ahead, the more the messages become clear. I feel so moved, so inspired & enlivened by the process underway.

This week on the Altar of Stars, I go very deep into the astrology of the year to come and the auspicious nature of this inaugural Cancer Full Moon that supports us in crossing the threshold. This one is open for all to listen & attune to the currents moving through.

My own astrological research lately has focused on my ancestral homelands of Kemet, and of course the ancestors are already bringing such magick through this deepening. Lots of alignments signaling to me their eager support & participation. Greeting Sopdet as the wheel of time turns anew and weaves us into its great celestial spiral 🌀

Our big group ritual is also open for all to join ~ welcoming you. Key word MOMENTUM. Comment below and I’ll send you the details ❤️

12/27/2025

2026 BIG RITUAL GATHERING 🕯️🪽 an opportunity to gather together and work our magick in the worldwide web to navigate this transition into the new year & beyond!

Comment MOMENTUM for the details!! ❤️

An offering from my heart to yours, welcome all who wish to join us! May it be full of magick & vision! 🌲🧿

12/25/2025

2026 MOODBOARD ❤️‍🔥 as I tune into these Year ahead readings, these are some of the themes that have been coming up LOUD ⚔️🦂🧿

Please enjoy this carousel of silly & tender pep talk moments for us to continuously return to as reminders for the year to come!! 💕

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VAYA Ayurveda + Wellness is a complete holistic healing service, created by Teagan West in Rochester NY.

VAYA aims to create a system of healing tailored to the individual's unique needs. The practice is rooted in Ayurvedic Health Counseling, and supported by various healing tools such as Mindfulness + Meditation, Reiki Healing, and more.

Teagan received her Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification from Kripalu, and is NAMA certified to administer Ayurvedic care. She is also Reiki level 2 certified, as well as trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Therapy. Teagan works to fuse all of these tools together into one complete holistic healing practice, tailored to the individual.

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