Conjure Moon

04/29/2026

A hat conjured for Spring.

04/22/2026

It’s happening tonight! ☄️

The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking, bringing fast, bright meteors across the sky during the quiet hours before dawn. This year, the conditions are especially favorable, with the Moon setting early and leaving the sky nice and dark.

This ancient meteor shower, linked to debris from Comet Thatcher, has been observed for over 2,500 years—making it one of the oldest known celestial events still visible today.

You can expect around 10–15 meteors per hour, along with the chance of brighter fireballs that can briefly outshine the stars. The later you stay out, the better the show gets.

🌠 Best time to watch: After midnight until dawn

✨ No equipment needed—just find a dark spot, get comfortable, and give your eyes time to adjust.

Keep looking up—you never know when a brilliant streak will light up the sky!

04/14/2026

Front & back view of part of a raffle prize I conjured for the upcoming NVN May Day tea.

03/03/2026

I'm very pleased with the flowering parasol I conjured for the May Day tea. I've never attempted anything like this before. It felt good to expand my horizons. 🌙

03/03/2026

I was thinking as I looked at the moon this morning, how the ancestors contemplated this same eternal sky.

An old man once told me by a low fire,
Do not fear the dark, learn what it protects.
The stars are not decoration,
they are witnesses with patient eyes.

Look at a man who has listened a long time,
his silence is not empty,
it is full of names he will not misuse.

The feather in his hand is not a trophy,
it is a reminder to speak clean.
Truth should land softly,
like a bird returning home.

Some storms arrive to test your pride,
others arrive to wash your vision.
Either way, do not chase the thunder.
Hold your ground and watch.

Fire teaches without shouting.
It takes what is offered,
and leaves a warmer shape behind.
If you are carrying grief,
set it down beside the flames.

The land does not ask you to be perfect,
it asks you to be respectful.
Step like you are borrowing the path,
not owning it.

A strong heart is not the loud one.
A strong heart can wait,
can forgive,
can keep its promise when nobody claps.

When the night gets heavy,
remember this,
the sky is still working above you.
Even the smallest spark
knows how to resist the cold.

If you have been pushed around by life,
move like water, not like anger.
Water does not beg stones to move,
it learns the way through.

You do not need to prove your spirit.
You need to protect it.
Feed it with quiet choices,
with honest work,
with love that shows up again and again.

And when you feel alone,
lift your eyes to the stars,
they are the same ones
your ancestors looked up to,
and they did not abandon you then,
they will not abandon you now.

03/03/2026

Safronia & I witnessed the Blood Moon Eclipse. We beheld its beauty & marveled at how the same God that created such magnificent phenomenons created us. 🌙

03/01/2026

Total Lunar Eclipse, March 3, 2026 | The Blood Moon

On March 3, 2026, the Moon will descend into the deepest part of Earth’s shadow swallowed whole by the umbra and rise again washed in crimson fire.

This is what we call a Blood Moon.

Not an omen of fear.
But a ritual written in the sky.

As sunlight bends through Earth’s atmosphere, the blue fades away. What remains are the embers red, copper, rust. The Moon becomes a mirror of filtered flame, lit by the breath of our own planet.

For nearly an hour, she will stand fully cloaked in shadow.
A liminal pause.
A suspended heartbeat between light and dark.

⏰ Eclipse Timeline (UTC)
• Penumbral begins: 08:44
• Partial begins: 09:50
• Totality begins: 11:04
• Maximum: 11:33
• Totality ends: 12:02
• Partial ends: 13:17
• Penumbral ends: 14:22

At maximum, the Moon will burn deepest red but her exact shade is never predictable. Dust in the air. Clouds. The living breath of Earth herself. No two Blood Moons are ever the same.

That is the magic.

🌑 For witches, this is not passive observation.
This is shadow work amplified.
Revelations rising.
Old bindings loosening.

Lunar eclipses have long been seen as times of endings, truth surfacing, and energetic culmination. What has been hidden often refuses to stay buried under a Blood Moon.

You do not need tools.
You do not need elaborate ritual.

Step outside. Stand under her.
Let the red light touch your skin.
Release what is done.
Call back what is yours.

When the Sun, Earth, and Moon align in perfect tension, the sky becomes altar.

And on March 3, 2026, it will be waiting.

02/28/2026

Safronia & I have been drowning in a sea of flowers. I am helping plan a benefit May Day tea for the town Senior Center. As such, the decor is a celebration of flowers & we have been conjuring with blooms. The colorful variety of these miraculous creations (even though these are faux) has us contemplating the coming out of dormancy into the blossoming of spring. Dancing to the rhythm of the seasons. 🌙

02/28/2026

Thinking back on my mall space & that period that I knew it was time to move on to South Dakota. Safronia & I uprooted ourselves from all that was familiar & embraced a new adventure. Although we knew not where it would lead us, we stifled the voices of fear & took a leap of faith. We are so glad we did as we love our life in our itty bitty old home in an itty bitty prairie town. May you trust your inner knowing when it says it's time to change & may you cling to faith to get you through it.

02/20/2026

Honor and Respect

Growing up, the elders advised us to practice “enoughness” as a discipline.

They said, “Peace doesn’t come from getting everything you want; it comes from training yourself to want and appreciate what you already have.”

Their words carried a quiet truth, one that takes years to understand. The world teaches us to chase—to reach higher, acquire more, and never settle. But the elders knew that the chase never ends. Every desire fulfilled gives birth to another. Every gain becomes a seed for further wanting. So they taught us that peace is not something we stumble upon by chance; it is cultivated through restraint, awareness, and gratitude.

The elders would remind us that every morning you wake with breath in your lungs, you already possess the one gift most chase their whole lives without seeing: life itself. From that awareness, peace begins to form—not as a sudden revelation, but as a slow, inward shift.

The one who has mastered enoughness walks lightly through the world. They are not seduced by every glittering thing, nor crushed by what passes away. They understand that life’s weight grows heavier with each unnecessary want. To put down what you do not need is not loss; it is liberation.

Peace, the elders said, does not visit the restless. It comes to those who have made room for it—by releasing excess, by softening desire, by learning to rest in sufficiency. It is not the abundance of things, but the quiet recognition of having enough that grants true rest to the heart.

The elders taught that “enoughness” is not simply an idea—it is a way of walking through life. It is to know that happiness is not hidden in what lies ahead, but woven into what already surrounds you. To live this way is to see beauty where others see lack, to give thanks where others demand more.

And in that truth lies the core of their wisdom: peace is not earned by reaching far beyond, but by seeing clearly that what you hold is already enough.