Elder Sisters Apothecary (2025)

24/11/2025

This week brings the launch of 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Now more than ever, we are standing strong against corporate greed with bare feet firmly planted into the snow laden forest floor and heart strings echoing songs of connection. All throughout this year, we’ve been listening, receiving, and intuiting this Collection from the Land and YOU. We cannot wait to share it with you.

As always, there will be the bounty of much awaited returning seasonal favourites along with new offerings for you and your loved ones. We hope you cherish receiving them as much as we loved making them. We will be offering a special gift to you with the launch of this collection so stay tuned for more on that as well as product reveals throughout the week.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 arrives in the Sh0ppe (onl!ne) this 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟎𝐚𝐦 𝐞𝐭.

May the echos of the darkening days offer you a gentle reminder of holiday celebrations long past — those filled with deep kinship, community support, handmade gifts, and the simple pleasures of seeing and being seen.

Holiday Gifts Handcrafted Handmade Homegrown Winter Solstice Christmas Gift Ideas Ritually Crafted Made with Love Meaningful Gifts

19/11/2025

In just 10 days we will be launching our Winterdark Holiday Collection in honour of Small Business Saturday.

This time of year is so important for all small businesses. For many makers and artisans, us included, holiday shopping is how we survive the year. It is, however, much more than that — it is one of the greatest opportunities for each of us to effect change. It is the time to collectively push back on big business consumerism by supporting the hardworking artists, makers, and crafters that are bravely putting their magick out into the world. Shopping small affirms the cultural necessity of art, brings folks together through reciprocity, elevates those who are underrepresented, and celebrates the unique and different.

Energy is another form of currency. When you choose to put your energy and time into community through shopping small, you are investing in a future founded in community and elevating the values and ethics of that wee business. Personally, for our business to be noticed is to bring awareness to a return back to handcrafted, mindful living, ancient arts & wisdom, Earth-based knowledge, the teachings of our ancestors, sustainable actions, environmental impact, and fueling positive perspectives. We are one wee shoppe amongst millions; yet we are infinitely grateful to be seen and to uplift the health, vibrancy, and vitality of our collective.

So let’s join our voices together this holiday season to bring kindness into the world. Let’s choose kinship, thoughtfulness, and goodness this holiday season and beyond. It might seem like a small thing, but if we all make that choice, imagine how we can shift the collective mindset?

May you feel deeply the potency of your energy and magick. May you always trust your extraordinary capacity to create change.

Holiday Gifting Shopping Small Support Artists Handcrafted Makers

17/11/2025

May your Monday be filled with magick, wild things, and shimmering stars.

Wild Things Wild Places Simple Living Autumn Magic Soul Knowing Old Ways

14/11/2025

We’ve had the gift of seeing so many of you in person this Autumn along with many thousands of new faces as we travel for shows and events each weekend. Fire Cider has kept us healthy and vibrant, giving our immune systems the support they’ve needed and a vital boost as the nights lengthen and the days get colder.

This potent vinegar infusion has a rich history in ancient medicine as an anti-viral remedy for staving off Autumn and Winter ailments such as colds and flus. Rooted in lineage with some Elder Sisters magickal additions thrown in, our Fire Cider comes straight from our farm to your kitchen with homegrown and organic herbs and vegetables, homemade Apple Cider Vinegar, and Catskill Mountain honey. We’ve continued to brew larger batches this year and are thrilled to share this spicy tonic to support your immune system and carry you through the changing seasons. May you, too, stay vibrant and healthy as we descend into the Winter months, and may you honour the flames of transformation inside and out.

Community Health Herbal Fire Cider Immune Tonic Digestive Tonic Homegrown Herb Farm Holistic Health Fermentation Green Witchcraft Folk Remedy

11/11/2025

At this time of year, when we start to move into the Season of Gathering, the collective call toward gratitude, and those holidays that invoke both celebration and transition, we are reminded to consciously tune back in to the practice of kinship. Much like Samhain is a reminder to check in on how well we are doing with honouring our Ancestors as a tended relationship all year long, the traditions of the Winter Season prompt us to remember that we are not solitary but a part of a whole, and that our very survival depends on it. The struggles and sacrifices of the generations before us connect us more deeply and, perhaps, compassionately to each other as we journey through the horrors we face today. We are not just a collective; we are kin — with the folks of the past, our present lives, and our future selves. We must attend both our offerings and our impact.

The foundation of the Celtic way of Seeing and Being is Animism. Divinity is vibrating — sometimes that vibration takes its own unique form in a myriad of forms, and sometimes it is felt or heard rather than seen. When we get lost in the illusion of individuality, gratitude and the celebration of kinship can call us back to the Collective Soul and the practices of collective remembrance.

May you choose kinship over division, time to remember over time to be busy, and empathy over otherness. May your mindful actions shape your presence so gratitude can find you (rather then you finding it). May the start of the Winter Season offer you the nourishing gifts and necessary reflection of community.

Community Gratitude Snow Reflections Winter Wisdom Seasonal Practices

10/11/2025

What makes Ritual Fixed Candles Unique?

There are A LOT of candles out there on the market. From visually captivating & enticing smells, to ones that hold a particular intention or essence. Candles that have stones, glitter, herbs, & fragrance.

Ritual Fixed Candles, however, are a magick tool and by their nature are rooted in folk tradition & ritual. Sometimes also referred to (depending on tradition) as dressed, anointed, or conjure candles, these candles are themselves a ritual. Each candle is handcrafted and hand-poured in ceremony then dressed with herbs, resins, oils & blessings. It is the blessings and the breath of the worker, in particular, that wake up the Spirit in each vessel.

Everything holds a Spirit. Herbs, resins, and oils all have a Spirit, a vibration. The rituals, incantations, & blessings we work with wake up the Magick, the Spirit, the Energies of the herbs, oils, & dressing. We harness our own magick & tap into our depth of study into magickal & medic!nal practices of the old European folkloric traditions to blend the right combination of plants & oils, and activate the power of that Energy through blessing, ceremony, & breath.

Fixed Candles are purposefully not fragranced. When crafted to throw scent, a candle is dispersing energy outwards (somewhat haphazardly) in all directions. With traditional Fixed Candles we are seeking to harness & direct energy. It is a bridge, a portal to Spirit. It is intended to facilitate connection to other realms and call in the guidance & support needed for your intention.

Once you begin your work with the candle, it is your energy, intention, & focus that bring the Spirit(s)’ attention toward you so that you may be seen, heard, & responded to by these Energies. Fixed Candles are a communication tool between you & the Spirit/Energy of the candle. This is not a channel for your personal energy, but rather a reverent “ask for help & support” from the invisible. Fixed Candles, when both prepared & worked with correctly, are powerful magickal tools for spirituality & spell work.

May you feel the potent kinship between you & the invisible and may you always trust your own magick, power, & intuition.

09/11/2025

Wishing you a warm and cozy Sunday from our hearth to yours.

Hearth and Home Plant Witch Herbalist Fire Magic Sunday Blessings Folk Magic Apothecary Witchy Home Old Ways Simple Living

08/11/2025

On Kindness

Kindness is a thing of great beauty. It requires a depth of presence and a chosen generosity that offers nourishment to the Soul of the Receiver — the perfect conditions to sprout gratitude and hope from the humus of one’s being, that dark soil within of possibilities not yet seen.

Kindness. Majestic in its quiet simplicity and, often, the immensity of its impact. Basic in that it should be the foundation of everything else.

Thank you for your incredible talent, your storytelling through your creativity, and your kindness embodied in this Floral Ghost. She is our Ghostie Guardian Goddess of the Hedge — like an herbal kiln god, guiding and guarding as we tend, craft, and create. We love her so.

Ghost Guardian of the Hedge LandSpirit Ghostie Pottery Kinship

07/11/2025

Yesterday into today marks the threshold of the midway point between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice — what many would say is true Samhain as the sun rises and pierces through passage mounds at Sliabh na Caillí and Teamhair na Rí marking the alignment of this sacred festival.

Samhain is the time of the Cailleach — Queen of Winter, Ruler of the Dark & the Cold. In old Irish, Cailleach means ‘veiled one’ and, in modern Irish, Cailleach is the Hag, Crone, Giant Witch Goddess of old. She is the Great Grandmother, Old Woman of the World — powerful beyond measure, ageless, and immortal. She is the (Gaelic) Celtic archetype of creation and destruction — predating the myths she is associated with in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Her stories tell of the formation of the Land and how she shaped the Earth throughout time. She is the voice of the Earth, guardian of its balance, and fierce protector of its wild creatures.

At Samhain, she travels across the Land with her Staff in hand, destroying signs of growth. She rides from hill to hill spreading snow, ice, storms, and wild weather.

The Cailleach is a fierce, solitary, shapeshifting Spirit of wilderness, craggy hills, and mountains intimately tied to the Land and the changing of Seasons. She’s connected to sticks, stones, and bones — deer, cattle, and birds — water, ice, and snow — the high, windy, wild places at the edges of the world. She will initiate us into our wisdom and power and continue to test us along the way both fiercely and lovingly. She represents the wildness in us that does not weaken with age, but rather grows deeper. She is not one to be feared but rather fiercely respected, reminding us of how fiercely we must respect ourSelves. Her wisdom is timeless, and she is a profound archetype to call on during times of challenge and change.

May you draw upon the energy of the Cailleach this Samhain Season to come to know your own strength, endurance, and inherent truth. May she connect you deeply to your own wildness, ancient wisdom, and innate magick. May she guide you in shaping your future with fierce love, robust vulnerability, and impenetrable integrity.

06/11/2025

As the sky struggles to decide between rain or snow this morning, we feel a deep connection to the profound gifts of the element of Water.

Across our ancestral lands of Ireland and Scotland, some of the oldest sites of worship are wells and springs, uprisings from the Earth where miracles have been said to occur. In Irish folk tradition, many tales tell us that the source of all water comes from Otherworld and the wisdom of Otherworld can be touched at holy wells, rivers, lakes, and streams.

The potency and almost unspeakable power of water has been ever present in this season of Autumn — the calling to cleanse, purify, and wash clean the atrocities that invade our circles of humanity large and small. Tuning into the ‘knowing’ of our ancestors and honouring the portal to the invisible that it offers, we take ourselves down to our own spring fed pond and silently sit receiving the wisdom beyond the veil. Tapping into Source, we call upon the life-giving and healing power of water to tend the wounding of our Collective Soul and carry us to a place of kinship — with each other, with the Earth, and with ourselves.

As the first hints of the wet, damp, snowy Winter peer around the corner of Autumn, how might you connect more deeply with the element of water? Are you called to ritual cleansing or bathing? To drink water throughout the day with conscious intention as a nourishing offering or libation to your body & Soul? Are you called to find a natural source and release your wounds to the water? Perhaps you are beckoned to sit silently outside as the first snow flakes gently blanket the Land on which you dwell and open yourself to the messages that each tiny flake has for you?

May you come to know the potency and profound gifts of the element of Water. May you follow the sacred wells of inspiration that flow through your own channel to receive the wisdom and healing that you need. May water offer you a companionship of belonging, reflection, and being wholly seen.

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