Rising Phoenix Metaphysics

11/14/2025

If you are a fan of Oracle and Tarot Decks, then you need to check out this kickstarter!

Drawn and written my dear friend Misha Cain Nell - Shaman and master intuitive guide and reader - this deck hits home on so many deep levels. If you know Misha of Cypress Pillar Healing Arts and her Tea and Tarot classes, then you know what i’m talking about. She is the healer’s healer and the inuitive’s intuitive.

This has been a passion project for Misha for many years, and I am so happy to see it come to fruition.

Check out the project and get one of these decks! You’ll thank me.

Weaving Together Wisdom from the Science, Spirit, & Story of Animal Allies in a unique artist-made oracle deck

11/13/2025

Stephen Jay here, your own personal Phoenix. Here to help you rise toward your best life.

This world can be a lot. And there are times where you may wonder what you contribute. Well, have I got news for you!

🌍💛 Happy World Kindness Day 💛🌍

Today we celebrate one of the most powerful forces in the universe: kindness.
A gentle word, a thoughtful gesture, a moment of compassion — these small acts have the power to ripple farther than we ever realize.

World Kindness Day is an invitation to pause and ask:
✨ How can I make someone’s day brighter?
✨ How can I show up with more softness, more patience, more love?
✨ How can I be a little light in someone else’s world today?

But here’s the part we often forget…
Kindness doesn’t just flow outward. It must flow inward, too.

Being kind to yourself is part of the practice:
💛 Rest when you need it.
💛 Speak to yourself gently.
💛 Celebrate your wins — even the tiny ones.
💛 Offer yourself grace when you fall short.

Kindness is a circle. What you give, you grow. What you nurture in yourself, you radiate into the world.

So today, spread kindness like confetti — to your coworkers, to your friends, to strangers, to the people you love… and especially to yourself. 🌙✨

11/03/2025

🌕🦫 Beaver Moon in Ta**us: A Full Moon Ceremony & Meditation
✨ with Stephen Jay | Presented by Rising Phoenix Metaphysics ✨

This moon calls you home to yourself. 🌿

The Beaver Moon teaches us the sacred art of preparation and protection — of building something strong, safe, and nourishing before the winter comes. Spiritually, it reminds us that rest is productive, that tending to your peace is an act of power.

And under Ta**us’ earthy glow, we are invited to:
🌕 Root into what is real and lasting
💫 Release stress, urgency, and overthinking
🌸 Reclaim softness as strength
🔥 Remember that steady hearts create lasting change

This is your invitation to slow down and reconnect — to trade burnout for balance, and anxiety for presence.
Together, we’ll breathe, release, meditate, and rebuild from a place of calm clarity.

🫖 Breathwork • Meditation • Sound Healing • Ritual Release • Ceremonial Moon Tea • Intentional Community

✨ All are welcome — every heart, every path, every phase. ✨
Come as you are. Leave grounded, peaceful, and recharged for your next chapter.

RSVP now to join the circle.

📅 Date: Saturday, November 8th, 2025
🕰 Time: 7pm
📍 Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts (and Virtual option too)
🎟 Ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515191
💻 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/full-moon-meditation-ceremony-/789199947345587/

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10/13/2025

Stephen Jay here, your own personal Phoenix. Here to help you rise toward your best life.

You may have noticed that I have not been doing my regular posts. And the simple reason is that I was exhausted - mentally, physically, and emotionally. So I had to pull back. And I felt guilty about doing so. But then I thought about it a bit longer and came to a different realization.

🌙✨ Rest is Not a Weakness — It’s a Spell of Renewal ✨🌙

You don’t have to earn your rest.
You don’t have to apologize for needing a break.
You don’t have to feel guilty for slowing down.

The grind of daily life can wear on even the brightest souls. Constant motion dulls your sparkle, drains your magick, and disconnects you from your center. 🔥

When you pull back to breathe, nap, reflect, or simply be — you aren’t falling behind. You’re returning to yourself. 💜

✨ Rest is not lazy. It’s loving.
✨ Rest is not weakness. It’s wisdom.
✨ Rest is a kindness — a sacred act of self-preservation.
✨ Rest is not a pause in your power. It is how you restore it.

Let yourself recharge without guilt. The world needs your light — but not your burnout. 🌙

10/13/2025

🕯️✨ The Witch’s Way with Stephen Jay: Early Samhain Gathering ✨🕯️

As the veil grows thin and the Wheel turns toward shadow, we gather not in mourning — but in remembrance, gratitude, and love. 🖤

Samhain is not a funeral for the year — it is a homecoming.
It’s when we open our hearts to the wisdom of our ancestors, our beloved dead, and all those whose footsteps paved the way for ours.
Their stories still whisper through us. Their light still burns in our bones.

At our early Samhain class, we’ll share soul cakes and stories, honoring those we love who now walk the unseen path.
We’ll light candles, raise our voices in gratitude, and open our intuition through divination, asking:
✨ “What wisdom do my ancestors want me to know?”

This is not a time of mourning — it is a time of connection.
A celebration of lineage, memory, and the eternal thread between worlds. 🌙

Date: Friday, October 17th
Time: 7pm
Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts
Hosted by: Rising Phoenix Metaphysics
🎟 Ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1901122
💻 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-witchs-way-with-stephen-ja/786385681053023/

Hosted by Rising Phoenix Metaphysics

09/30/2025

🌕✨ Why a Rising Phoenix Full Moon Ceremony Heals More Than You Think

A full moon isn’t just beautiful to look at—it’s medicine for the mind and balm for the heart. 🕯️💖

At a Rising Phoenix Full Moon Ceremony, you’re invited to step out of the chaos of daily life and into a sacred pause.
Here’s how it nurtures your mental and emotional health:

🧠 Mentally
• Quiet the endless chatter of overthinking
• Gain clarity on what you’re ready to release
• Reset your focus so you can move forward with intention

💖 Emotionally
• Let go of stress, guilt, and emotional heaviness
• Feel safe to process and express your feelings
• Reconnect with joy, hope, and self-compassion

And perhaps most importantly—
🫂 You’ll be held in intentional community. A circle where you are seen, supported, and reminded that you don’t have to carry it all alone.

🌕✨ When the moon is full, so are you. And when you allow yourself this space to heal, release, and reconnect—you rise lighter, clearer, and more at peace.

Join the next Rising Phoenix Full Moon Ceremony with Stephen Jay and experience the shift for yourself.

📅 Date: Saturday, October 4th
🕰 Time: 7pm
📍 Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts (and Virtual)
🎟 Ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515190
💻 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/full-moon-meditation-ceremony-/2182628095481373/

09/21/2025

Stephen Jay here, your own personal Phoenix. Here to help you rise toward your best life.

We are now at the time of Mabon: The Autumn Equinox ✨🍂

🌾 So… What is Mabon?

Mabon is the Autumn Equinox, usually celebrated around September 21–23.

It marks a sacred point of balance, when day and night are equal before we move into the darker half of the year.

Mabon is the second harvest festival of the Wheel of the Year (between Lughnasadh and Samhain).

It’s a time to:
• Celebrate abundance and gratitude 🌻
• Honor balance in all things ⚖️
• Prepare for the descent into shadow and introspection

✨ Mabon is both celebration and surrender - rejoicing in the fruits of our labor while preparing to step into the deep wisdom of the dark months ahead. 🌙🍷🌾

🍂✨ Mabon Blessing ✨🍂

“As the Wheel turns to balance, day and night as one,
We gather in gratitude for all we have won.
Seeds we have sown now ripen and bear,
Blessings of harvest are offered with care.

Tonight we honor what we have grown,
And give thanks for the gifts that we’ve been shown.
With open hearts, we claim what is near,
And plant bright intentions for the coming year.

May our past guide us, our present sustain us,
And our future dreams awaken and train us.
In this sacred circle, we bless and we weave,
As we will it, so mote it be.”

“As light and dark now meet in the sky,
So too within us, both dwell and ally.
Shadow and radiance, woven as one,
The Wheel turns forward, our work is done.

May we walk in balance, steady and true,
Honoring the darkness, embracing the new.
With gratitude held and intentions bright,
We step from this circle with love and with light.

09/18/2025

🍂✨ The Witch’s Way with Stephen Jay: Autumn Equinox Celebration ✨🍂

Date: Friday, August 19th
Time: 7pm
Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts
Hosted by: Rising Phoenix Metaphysics
Ticket: Ticket is $20
🎟 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-witchs-way-with-stephen-ja/1817454648847301/
🎫 Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515235

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🌗 As day and night stand in perfect balance, we gather to celebrate the Autumn Equinox — the turning of the Wheel, the harvest of blessings, and the invitation to step into the power of the darker months with clarity and intention.

This evening will be a feast for the spirit and the senses:
🍎 Homemade Apple Pie to honor the sweetness of the harvest.
🍏 Homemade Apple Cider to warm the heart and toast abundance.
🧘‍♀️ Magickal Guided Meditation designed to power you up for the Fall Season — charging your energy, grounding your spirit, and helping you carry your inner light as the days grow shorter.

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✨ All are welcome — whether you’re a seasoned witch or simply curious about walking the Wheel of the Year. This is a safe and inclusive circle where community, magick, and joy meet.

Come celebrate the season’s shift, taste the harvest, and step into autumn with a spirit renewed. 🍂

📅 Reserve your spot today — space is limited!

09/16/2025

🍎✨ The Magick of Apples at Mabon ✨🍎

Did you know the humble apple is one of the most powerful fruits in witchcraft? 🍏 When cut across its middle, it reveals a hidden five-pointed star — a sacred pentacle — symbol of protection, balance, and the elements.

At Mabon, the season of harvest and the Autumn Equinox, apples remind us to:
🌾 Honor the harvest — the fruits of our labor and the abundance around us.
🍂 Embrace balance — light and dark, past and future, all in harmony.
🔮 Work time magick — the apple’s seeds carry our intentions through past, present, and future.

This month in The Witch’s Way with Stephen Jay, we’ll celebrate Mabon with a special Time Magick Apple Spell, weaving gratitude for what has been, blessings for what is, and hope for what is to come. 🌙

✨ All are welcome — join us as we honor the harvest, cast our spells, and share in community.

Date: Friday, August 19th
Time: 7pm
Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts
Hosted by: Rising Phoenix Metaphysics
Ticket: Ticket is $20
🎟 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-witchs-way-with-stephen-ja/1817454648847301/
🎫 Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515235

Reserve your spot today 🍎

09/16/2025

So excited to be nominated for the work that I do!

You know me, Stephen Jay, your own personal Phoenix, helping you rise toward your best life!
And now I’ve been nominated for a sarasotaout.com Out Award!

Category 14 if you please!

Thank you to Joshua Beadle for your tireless efforts to highlight and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community on the Gulf Coast.

We are stronger together, and this lineup is just a taste of what our community brings to the table every day to make the Sun Coast the amazing place it is.

Vote for your favorite people and places in LGBTQ Sarasota for the 2025 OUT Awards!

09/05/2025

🌕🫂 Full Moon Magic Is Better Together
✨ A Rising Phoenix Full Moon Ceremony with Stephen Jay ✨

Yes, the moon holds her own quiet power.
But the real magic?
It happens when we gather beneath her light—together.

A Rising Phoenix Full Moon Ceremony isn’t just about individual healing…
It’s about shared experience, sacred connection, and intentional community.
It’s a space where we:
💬 Speak from the heart and are deeply heard
🔥 Let go of what no longer serves us—side by side
🫖 Share tea, stories, and sacred stillness
💖 Remember that we don’t have to do this life alone

Here, we witness each other in all our phases.
We hold space for joy, for grief, for wild transformation.
And in doing so, we rise—not just for ourselves, but for each other.

✨ All are welcome in this circle. ✨
Especially those who’ve ever felt left out of spiritual spaces.
Especially those who crave connection that feels real.

Come as you are.
Leave more whole—because you were seen, held, and celebrated.

📅 Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025
🕰 Time: 7pm
📍 Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts (and via Zoom)
🎟 RSVP: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515189
💻 Event: https://facebook.com/events/s/full-moon-meditation-ceremony-/796930226325657/



Cypress Pillar Healing Arts

08/14/2025

🪞✨ The Witch’s Way with Stephen Jay: Karma Magick & Witch’s Mirror Boxes ✨🪞

Date: Friday, August 15th
Time: 7pm
Location: Cypress Pillar Healing Arts
Hosted by: Rising Phoenix Metaphysics
Ticket: Ticket is $20, $10 for supplies (paid night of class)
🎟 RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/s/the-witchs-way-with-stephen-ja/1279498160516408/
🎫 Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/risingphoenixmetaphysics/1515234

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“What you send out returns — but with magick, we can make it intentional.”
This month in The Witch’s Way, we step into the mystical realm of Karma Magick — the art of working with energetic cause and effect, not as punishment, but as a sacred dialogue between your actions and the universe.

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✨ What is Karma Magick?

Karma Magick is the practice of aligning your spells, intentions, and choices with the natural laws of return — a way to protect your energy, clear karmic residue, and call in justice and restoration without falling into vengeance.

Rather than being passive, Karma Magick empowers you to:
🌀 Reflect what’s been unjustly sent your way
🌿 Heal old soul wounds and inherited cycles
🕯️ Intentionally cast energy that aligns with your highest self
🪞 Use mirrors, symbols, and sacred tools to direct energetic flow

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🧙‍♀️✨ Witch’s Mirror Boxes: What Are They?

In this class, you’ll create your own Witch’s Mirror Box — a powerful spellcraft tool used to:
🪞 Reflect harm or gossip back to its source
🛡️ Protect your space and spirit from manipulation or negativity
🔮 Seal intentions for energetic justice and truth

Using mirrors, herbs, charms, and your own intuition, you’ll design a box that doesn’t curse — it corrects. This is sacred reclamation wrapped in shiny glamor magick. ✨

You’ll take your box home to keep on your altar, under your bed, or near your front door — wherever your energy needs a little fierce sparkle and protection.

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💫 All are welcome.

Whether you’re brand new to witchcraft or a seasoned practitioner, this class offers a beautiful mix of discussion, hands-on spellcraft, and powerful community connection.

🖤 Come with an open heart. Leave with a mirror box, a bit more clarity, and the reminder that your energy is sacred — and worth protecting.

Spaces are limited. RSVP now and join us in the circle.