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10/18/2026

10/16/2026

🌿✨ HERB MAGIC: CATNIP ✨🌿

Did you know catnip isn’t just for cats? 😻

In folk magic, catnip is associated with love, attraction, and drawing energy toward you. And what better day to work with that energy than Venus Day? 💗

💕 Want to attract love? Start by loving yourself.
💕 Want better relationships? Get clear about what you deserve.
💕 Want to feel magnetic? Stop chasing what doesn’t choose you.

✨ YOUR VENUS DAY RITUAL ✨

Place a little dried catnip in a small bowl on your altar. Light a pink candle if that’s part of your practice, and set an intention for self-love, healthy relationships, and mutual attraction.

Remember, you don’t have to chase what’s meant to meet you halfway. 💗🌿

Happy Venus Day, loves! ✨

10/12/2026

🌿✨ PATCHOULI: THE EARTHY HERB OF MONEY, ABUNDANCE & PROSPERITY ✨🌿

Associated with the element of Earth, patchouli is a wonderful addition to spiritual work focused on grounding, stability, prosperity, and abundance. Its rich scent makes it especially popular in money-drawing practices.

💚 SEVEN WAYS TO WORK WITH PATCHOULI:

💰 1. MONEY JARS: Add dried patchouli, coins, a written petition, and prosperity herbs to a jar. State your intention before sealing it.

💵 2. WALLET MAGIC: Keep a small, securely wrapped pinch of dried patchouli in your wallet or purse, refreshing it as needed.

🕯️ 3. CANDLE WORK: Dress a candle with a small amount of patchouli essential oil for prosperity work. Keep oil away from the wick and never leave a burning candle unattended.

🛁 4. SPIRITUAL BATHS: Add patchouli to a prepared herbal infusion, then strain before use. Never apply undiluted essential oil to your skin or add it directly to bathwater.

🏡 5. HOME & BUSINESS: Place dried patchouli in a sachet near your workspace, cash register, or business altar to symbolize prosperity and steady growth.

🛢️ 6. ANOINTING OILS: Dilute patchouli essential oil in a suitable carrier oil and use it to anoint petitions or ritual objects, following the oil’s dilution instructions.

🌱 7. GROUNDING & ROOTWORK: Include patchouli in practices that help you feel grounded, connect with the Earth, and focus on stability and abundance.

✨ A LITTLE MAGIC TIP: Be specific about your intention—whether you’re calling in opportunities, growing your business, attracting customers, or creating financial stability. Write a clear petition and pair your spiritual work with practical steps toward your goals.

Have you worked with patchouli before? Tell me how you use it! 💚✨

10/09/2026

Sweetgrass is a fragrant grass with a soft vanilla scent that grows in the cool northern lands of North America, Europe, and Asia, and it's sacred to many Indigenous nations who braid it and burn it in prayer. Honor that history and buy from people who harvest it with care. Here's how you can bring it into your own practice. 🌿

✨ ON YOUR ALTAR
Lay a small braid or a few strands on your altar as a reminder of the sweetness, gratitude, and peace you want to grow in your life. Refresh it when the scent fades.

🔥 BURNING
You only need a small piece. Light the tip, let it catch, then gently blow it out so it smolders, and hold it over a fireproof dish. Let the smoke move through your space while you pray, meditate, or set your intention. Open a window and stay with it until it's fully out.

🌿 SWEETGRASS OIL
Cut dried sweetgrass into small pieces, fill a clean glass jar about halfway, and cover it completely with a gentle oil like jojoba or sweet almond. Close it, set it in a warm spot out of direct sun, and give it a little shake every few days. After 2 to 4 weeks, strain it and use it to dress candles, anoint yourself, or add to your body care.

🌹 ROSE AND SWEETGRASS SUGAR SCRUB
Mix 1 cup of sugar with about 1/2 cup of your sweetgrass oil, then stir in 2 tablespoons of dried rose petals crushed fine. Speak your intention over it as you mix, whether that's self love, softness, or welcoming more beauty in. Using the infused oil gives you all that sweet scent without rough grass fibers on your skin. Patch test first and keep it to your body and away from your face.

🛡️ SACHET
Tuck a few strands into a small cloth bag with dried rose petals and keep it in your drawer, your pillowcase, or your purse to carry that peaceful sweetness with you.

Learn your plants, learn their stories, and respect the people who kept that knowledge alive. ✨

10/04/2026

There has never been a better time to be wildly creative with your work.

Seriously.

We are living in a moment where you can literally wake up one morning and decide, “You know what? I’m going to make a business around something I’ve been obsessed with for 20 years.”

You can make videos in your kitchen.
You can sell something you created with your own hands.
You can teach what you know.
You can build a community of people who get it.
You can turn your weird little obsession into a whole damn business.

So if you have an idea that feels a little too weird, a little too bold, a little too “who the hell is going to buy this?”…

GOOD.

That might be the one.

This is not the time to make yourself smaller so your idea looks more “professional.”

This is the time to experiment.
Try the ridiculous idea.
Make the strange thing.
Wear the outfit.
Name the business something nobody understands yet.
Put the thing on the internet and see what happens.

Because there is never going to be another time exactly like this.

So go ahead.

Do the most creative, outrageous, slightly unhinged thing you can think of.

And then build the business around it. 😂🔥

10/01/2026

🚨 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

Be mindful of people who create a problem and then offer to solve it for you.

If somebody tells you you’re hexed, cursed, blocked, spiritually attacked, etc., and then immediately wants you to pay them to remove it… that’s a HUGE red flag. 🚩

Don’t let somebody scare you into paying for a problem they just introduced you to.

Use your discernment . 🖤

10/01/2026

Put something living on your altar and just watch the magic happen. 🌿✨

A plant, a flower, fresh herbs, whatever feels right. Give it a little attention and watch how it responds.

Your altar doesn’t have to be serious all the time. Let it be alive. Let it grow. Let it surprise you. 😂🌱✨

09/26/2026

The full moon isn’t just at night when it’s dark, y’all. 🌕😂 Let’s clear this up because I’m seeing so many people acting like the full moon only counts if you can look up and see it in the night sky.

The full moon reaches its exact peak at a specific time. That is the astronomical moment when the Sun and Moon are directly opposite one another in the sky. But that exact peak is a MOMENT in time. It does not mean the full moon suddenly begins at that minute and ends when the clock moves past it.

There is a build-up to the full moon, and there is energy following the peak as well. The Moon is moving through a process, not punching a time clock. 🌕✨

And remember, the Sun and the Moon are two different luminaries. ☀️🌕 Just because the Sun is up does not mean the Moon somehow stops being the full moon. The Moon can be full during daylight hours. You may not be able to see it clearly because of the light of the Sun, but that doesn’t change where the Moon is in its cycle.

So if the full moon peaks during the day, you did NOT miss the full moon because it wasn’t nighttime. You don’t have to wait until it gets dark to acknowledge it, work with it, journal, set intentions, release something, charge something, or simply sit with the energy of the moment.

And this is why I always say: pay attention to the peak time, but don’t become so obsessed with one exact minute that you miss the larger cycle.

I personally work with the energy before the peak and after the peak because I understand the full moon as a window, not a 60-second appointment. 😂

The exact peak matters. The surrounding energetic window matters too.

So no, you do not have to be outside at 7:14 PM, holding your crystals up to the sky, because somebody on the internet told you that if you miss that exact minute, you missed the full moon. 😭

Breathe.

The Moon is still the Moon.

The full moon isn’t just at night when it’s dark. 🌕✨

09/25/2026

Happy Venus Day 🌹🌕✨

Tonight we’re preparing our moonwater for the Aries Full Moon.

As you fill your container, take a moment to decide what you want this water to hold for you. Aries is fire, courage, action, independence, desire, confidence, and the willingness to begin.

Set the intention to move forward without second guessing yourself. To trust your instincts. To have the courage to make the first move, speak your truth, pursue what you desire, and stop giving your power away while waiting for the “right” moment.

Place your water outside where it can receive the Full Moon, speak your intention over it, and allow it to sit beneath the moonlight and absorb the energy of your ritual.

And because today is Venus Day, let there be some pleasure in that intention too. We’re not just calling in action. We’re calling in a life that feels good to live. ❤️‍🔥

What are you ready to move toward?

🌕🔥🌹

09/25/2026

🤗🌸💛🌿🦋We need to talk about coping mechanisms.

Because life is going to life. People are going to people. Your nervous system is going to occasionally say, “Ma’am, absolutely the hell not.” 😂

That’s why I believe in having a grounding practice. Something you can come back to every single day that helps you reset, regulate, and get yourself back into your own energy.

Maybe it’s walking. Maybe it’s meditation. Maybe it’s prayer, journaling, stretching, sitting outside, working with herbs, taking a shower, breathing deeply, making tea, putting your phone down for 20 minutes, or just standing there asking yourself, “Okay… what do I actually need right now?”

The point isn’t to never get stressed, anxious, angry, overwhelmed, or thrown off.

The point is knowing how to come back to yourself.

Build yourself a daily reset button. Because you cannot control everything that happens around you, but you can develop practices that help you meet life from a grounded place.

And please have more than one coping mechanism. 😂

A whole toolbox, baby. Not just one hammer.