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

02/10/2026

VENUS IN PISCES 🕯️ a lantern through darkness. Our finger on the pulse.

All this beauty growing around all this grief. This is not about bypassing our suffering ~ it is about growing our capacity to stay with. To keep the heart open, as the most courageous thing we could possible do.

Venus will be visible as the evening star, stationing on the lunar new year (Feb 17). A guide through the underworld.
Consider that it is love disguised within all of this discomfort, uncertainty, ache. Love is not passive. It is fierce. It tells the truth. 🙏🕯️🫂💖

02/09/2026

LOVE NOTES 🕯️ VENUS IN PISCES

The Beloved prepares to enter the world’s heart tomorrow, exalted in the immanence of Grace. There is resource here. There is water for you to drink and remember yourself. There is sanctuary.

Sharing this thread of quotes as a sincere love note to you. By some infinite tenderness we are made real. May we not forget the courage it takes to keep the heart open as it breaks. Again and again. To keep choosing this.

I wrote a love letter to the world late at night this weekend. I felt the ache of my Irish ancestors writing through me, their tender hearts speaking truth through my words. I consider myself a romantic because I insist on acknowledging the reality of emotion, this infinite tenderness, even & especially when it feels most difficult to do so. To keep searching around, hands reaching through the dark for others doing the same. Feel my hand, holding yours. Together we will stay connected to the Heart.

Loving you. May you be kind to yourself. May you see the beloved in the eyes of the stranger. May you keep your finger on the pulse of this mysterious rhythm that beats through all things. May it be homecoming. 🙏🖤🥀

02/06/2026

FALLING IN LOVE WITH LINEAGE 🕯️🪞

When we’re loving one another, we’re loving lineage
You are the living embodiment of so much love, so much sacrifice ~ a walking miracle
I believe in repairing relationship with our ancestors so we can remember the gift of loving & being loved by them THROUGH ONE ANOTHER ❤️‍🔥

Spring ancestor circles ~ we have space for you!! Reach out if you’d like to be woven into this romance of remembrance ❤️‍🔥💕🕯️🪞

02/03/2026

A Traveler’s song on this night, a balm for our grievances. Share with me by my beloved 🖤🕯️🪞🌀🧿
Take care of each other, do not lose sight of this

02/01/2026

Sweet hearted kin ~ blessed full moon & imbolc ❤️‍🔥

To be honest — I hate to feel like I’m coming on here to shout into the void amidst so much else going on. Holding it all at once.

As a solo practitioner & business owner it’s been really challenging to navigate this space, and still feel like I’m able to share about some of the community-oriented spaces being woven in this corner of the web.

I’m truly just trying to create spaces where we can feel held in real time by the presence of like-minded kin & the bigger powers at our backs.

To me, ritual praxis - which encompasses my relationship with the Land, Ancestors & Stars - has been such a sincere lifeline in navigating this moment. Not just to give me some artificial / bypassing kind of disassociation — quite the opposite.

These practices help me to feel ALL THE WAY HERE. Resourced, able to continue turning towards the world with my finger on the pulse of something much bigger than me, including my human community. My people need me all the way here, so I’m trying to be.

Sharing a few different ways to gather in community this spring to connect more deeply with these systems of support, within & without. We do it in communal space, on purpose.

And, as always, if you’re just needing to be witnessed in process privately, I’M HERE. Truly. I want to make myself available a community member to you, kin, as we navigate the unknown & unseen.

I’m here if you need space to speak truth & be witnessed by someone who won’t flinch at what hurts, so we can make space for its wisdom to be revealed. Loving you. ❤️‍🔥🫂

01/31/2026

NEPTUNE IN ARIES ❤️‍🔥⚡️🕯️🪞 INVOCATIONS
2026-2038+

Awake in the dream ~ fire divination
The mystic carries a torch into the unseen
The warrior’s sword reflects visions of flame…

Can you feel it? The shifts have begun. we have entered the realm of fire, instinct, renewal.
Our work now is in discernment, learning how to keep a good flame.

This week I shared much longer written invocations about this shift on the Altar of Stars.
Find the full transmission for your Rising sign. Let me know how it lands ❤️‍🔥⚡️🕯️🪞

We are learning how to play with fire, my friends…

01/30/2026

NEPTUNE IN ARIES ❤️‍🔥⚡️🕯️🪞 INVOCATIONS
2026-2038+

Awake in the dream ~ fire divination
The mystic carries a torch into the unseen
The warrior’s sword reflects visions of flame…

Can you feel it? The shifts have begun. we have entered the realm of fire, instinct, renewal. Our work now is in discernment, learning how to keep a good flame.

This week I shared much longer written invocations about this shift on the Altar of Stars. Find the full transmission for your Rising sign there. Let me know how it lands ❤️‍🔥⚡️🕯️🪞

We are learning how to play with fire, my friends…

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 🔗🧿🤟❤️

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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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