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08/12/2026

Herb of the Week: Linden (Basswood)

As we move through this week's theme of Rest, Restore & Realign, Linden feels like the perfect herb to talk about. Also known as Basswood or Tilia, Linden has been valued for generations not only as a traditional herbal remedy, but as a symbol of peace, protection, love, community, and restoration. Everything about this tree seems to carry the reminder that sometimes the most healing thing we can do is soften, replenish ourselves, and allow our bodies and spirits to rest.

Physical Healing: Linden flowers have a long history in traditional European herbalism, especially as a gentle calming tea. They have traditionally been used for nervous tension, restlessness, and supporting relaxation and sleep. Linden tea has also historically been used during colds and fevers to encourage sweating and provide soothing comfort. Some traditional herbal practices use Linden for digestive discomfort connected with nervousness or stress. Modern research has also investigated compounds in Tilia for antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and calming properties, although many traditional uses haven't been established as medical treatments. Linden is a beautiful example of how traditional herbalists recognized the connection between stress, rest, and the physical body long before we had today's language for it.

Emotional Healing: Linden has traditionally carried a very gentle emotional energy. It's associated with comfort during periods of stress, grief, overwhelm, exhaustion, and major life changes. I think that's especially important because sometimes we become so accustomed to functioning in survival mode that slowing down actually feels uncomfortable. Linden reminds us that we don't have to constantly be strong. There is strength in softness too. Emotionally, I would work with Linden when you're feeling depleted, overstimulated, emotionally heavy, or simply needing to feel safe enough to exhale.

Spiritual Healing: Spiritually, Linden has long been connected with love, peace, protection, friendship, reconciliation, and community. Across parts of Europe, Linden trees became gathering places where communities held meetings, celebrations, dances, and important discussions. Some became significant landmarks that remained part of community life for generations. With its beautiful heart-shaped leaves, it's easy to understand why Linden also became connected with heart-centered energy and love. Spiritually, it can be worked with when you're trying to restore peace to your space, reconnect with yourself, strengthen relationships, or return to your heart after a difficult season.

You can work with Linden very simply. A cup of Linden flower tea can become an intentional moment of rest rather than something you drink while continuing to run around. Sit down, put the phone away, breathe, and actually allow yourself to receive the moment. Dried Linden can also be incorporated into a peaceful altar or intention practice centered around rest, home, harmony, friendship, or emotional renewal. If you're fortunate enough to have a Linden or Basswood tree nearby, simply sitting beneath it can become its own grounding practice.

Linden also pairs beautifully with crystals associated with gentle, restorative energy. Rose quartz complements its heart-centered symbolism and compassion, while amethyst works well for quiet, reflection, and rest. Soft greens, creamy whites, and pale yellows naturally reflect the colors of Linden's leaves and blossoms and work beautifully when creating a peaceful space around this plant.

And that's why Linden fits Rest, Restore & Realign so perfectly. Last week we talked about building something that lasts. This week we're remembering something equally important: the person doing all of that building has to last too.

You cannot continually pour energy into your family, work, community, dreams, and everyone around you without eventually needing somewhere to replenish it. Nature doesn't bloom every day of the year, and neither should we expect ourselves to.

Sometimes healing looks like growth. Sometimes healing looks like finally allowing yourself to rest beneath the branches.

Reflection: Where have I been giving more than I've been receiving, and what does my body, heart, and spirit genuinely need in order to feel restored?

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, and this is not medical advice. This information is shared for educational purposes and to explore the traditional uses and history of herbs. Always do your own research and speak with a qualified healthcare professional before using herbs medicinally, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, have a medical condition, or take medications.

08/12/2026

New Moon in Leo + Total Solar Eclipse | August 12, 2026

Today isn't just a New Moon. We also have a total solar eclipse, making this one of the bigger celestial events of 2026. Astronomically, a solar eclipse happens at a New Moon when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun. Today's path of totality crosses Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic and Spain, with a partial eclipse visible across other parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Spiritually, New Moons have long been used as a time to turn inward, set intentions and begin a new cycle. In astrology, this New Moon falls in Leo, bringing themes of the heart, courage, creativity, confidence, self-expression and remembering who we are when we stop trying to meet everyone else's expectations.

Add an eclipse and I think the message becomes even more powerful. Eclipses have often been viewed as moments of disruption and change. The light temporarily disappears and then returns. Symbolically, there is something beautiful about that. Darkness doesn't always mean we've lost our direction. Sometimes we need the light turned down long enough to notice what we've been ignoring.

And that couldn't fit our theme of Rest, Restore & Realign any better. We've talked a lot about manifestation lately, especially surrounding 8/8, but today I wouldn't focus on trying to force another list of things into existence. I'd use this New Moon differently. Get quiet. Give yourself room to recognize what actually deserves your energy before deciding what you're going to build next.

Ask yourself what still feels aligned and what you're maintaining simply because you've already invested so much into it. What parts of yourself have been pushed aside while you've been taking care of everything else? What would you choose if you weren't making the decision from exhaustion, fear or obligation?

Sometimes realignment isn't adding something new. It's removing enough noise to finally recognize what's been there all along. If you'd like to work intentionally with today's energy, keep it simple. Sit quietly, light a candle, journal, meditate or spend some time outside. Instead of writing everything you want to attract, write down what you want your next chapter to feel like. Then choose one thing you're ready to release and one thing you're ready to give more of your energy to.

The Sun will return from behind the Moon just as it always does. Maybe that's today's reminder for us too. We can go through periods where everything feels uncertain, quiet or hidden without being lost. Sometimes we're simply between versions of ourselves.

Affirmation: I allow myself to become quiet enough to hear what is truly meant for me. I release what no longer aligns, restore what has been depleted, and trust myself as I step into my next chapter.

08/12/2026

Week of August 10–16: Rest, Restore & Realign

This week's theme feels like one I personally needed to hear: Rest, Restore & Realign. We live in a world that often treats rest like we're falling behind. We're taught to keep going, keep producing, keep helping, keep building, and somehow find enough energy to do it all again tomorrow. But eventually, even the strongest foundation needs care.

After last week's theme of Building Something That Lasts, this feels like the natural next step. Because if we want something to last, that includes us. Rest isn't the opposite of progress. Sometimes rest is the progress. It's where our bodies recover, our minds quiet down, our emotions have room to settle, and our spirit finally gets a chance to catch up with everything we've been doing.

Restoring ourselves is more than sleeping. It's returning energy to the places we've emptied while caring for everyone and everything around us. It can mean spending time outside, being with family, creating just because we enjoy it, turning the phone off, taking a long bath, sitting in silence, saying no without feeling guilty, or simply having a day where nothing needs to be accomplished. And then comes realignment.

When we're constantly moving, it's easy to become so focused on getting somewhere that we forget to ask whether we're still headed somewhere we actually want to go. Stepping away gives us enough distance to ask: Does this still feel right? What am I doing because I genuinely want to, and what am I doing because I've convinced myself I have to? Where is my energy being drained? What deserves more of me? What deserves less?

Sometimes the most productive thing we can do is stop long enough to hear ourselves again. So this week isn't about giving up on what we're building. It's about caring for the person doing the building. We're going to explore ways to rest physically, restore ourselves emotionally and spiritually, and realign our energy with what truly matters. You don't have to earn rest by reaching complete exhaustion first.

This week, give yourself permission to rest without guilt, restore what has been depleted, and realign with the life you're actually trying to create.

08/12/2026

Daily Energy Check – August 12, 2026

Good morning, beautiful souls. Today is a BIG energy day. We have a New Moon in Leo AND a total solar eclipse today, bringing us directly into eclipse season. The New Moon peaks this afternoon, and spiritually this combination is often associated with endings, beginnings, identity shifts, courage, creativity, and recognizing where we're being called to grow.

But today's energy doesn't feel like it's asking us to immediately run out and start something new. It feels much more like pause, listen, restore, and realign, which couldn't fit this week's theme any better. Eclipses can symbolically illuminate what we've been overlooking. Something you thought you wanted may suddenly feel less important. Something you've been avoiding may become impossible to ignore. You may realize you've been pouring energy into something that no longer deserves that much of you.

There is also some interesting communication energy today. Mercury in Leo is connecting with Uranus in Gemini, bringing an astrological theme of unexpected ideas, realizations, conversations, and seeing something from a completely different perspective. Mars also forms a supportive connection with Chiron, adding a theme of addressing something tender rather than continuing to push through it.

This is where Rest, Restore & Realign becomes so important. Sometimes we don't know we're out of alignment because we've been too busy moving to notice. Rest creates enough silence for us to hear ourselves again. Maybe today isn't about asking, “What should I accomplish next?” Maybe it's asking, “Does the direction I'm moving still feel like mine?”

Solar activity is worth watching today too. NOAA's current space-weather information indicates active conditions, including geomagnetic activity and recent minor radio-blackout activity associated with solar flares. Combined with everything happening astrologically, there's certainly plenty going on above us today.

Schumann Resonance: The live Tomsk monitoring source is updating today as well. After the striking periods of activity we've watched recently, keep checking in with your own internal energy today. If you're feeling like you need more quiet, sleep, grounding, water, nature, or simply less interaction with the outside world, listen to that. You don't have to keep pushing just because you're capable of pushing.

The Leo eclipse also brings us back to the heart. Leo asks us to remember what makes us feel alive, what we're proud to create, and where we've dimmed ourselves because it felt safer or easier. But realignment doesn't necessarily mean doing more. Sometimes it's realizing which things aren't ours to carry anymore.

Today, give yourself permission to be in the space between what was and what comes next. You don't need every answer today. You don't need to make every decision today. Let things settle. Observe what's coming up. Rest your body. Restore your energy. Pay attention to what your intuition keeps bringing back to you.

Today's affirmation: I give myself permission to pause. I release what is draining me, restore what has been depleted, and realign with what truly feels meant for me. I trust that rest is part of my becoming.

08/10/2026

Brenda and I are taking today off and possibly tomorrow too. We have both been going nonstop between closing Silver Lake, packing, moving, getting the new shop ready, keeping up with the business, and everything else life still expects us to do in between. We need a couple of days to step away from work mode, recharge, spend time with our families, and just breathe for a minute.

I won't be doing our normal daily posts today, but don't worry, I haven't forgotten about them. I'll catch everything up and get those posts out later this week. We are also stepping away from messages, questions, and other business stuff for the day. We will return messages once we're ready to step back into work mode. We appreciate everyone's patience and understanding while we give ourselves permission to take a much-needed break. The new Trillium is coming together, but today we're taking care of the people behind it too.

08/10/2026

Daily Energy Check – August 10, 2026

Good morning, beautiful souls. After the intensity surrounding 8/8, today feels less like a day to keep reaching outward and more like a day to bring everything back home. The Moon is in Cancer today, putting the focus on emotions, home, family, security, intuition, and the foundations that make us feel safe. At the same time, Mercury just entered Leo yesterday, bringing more confidence and heart into the way we communicate and express what we want.

There is some deeper relationship energy moving today too. Venus in Libra forms supportive energy with Pluto while opposing Neptune, creating an interesting mix between connection, truth, idealism, and seeing beneath the surface. Spiritually, I would use this as a reminder not to build something simply because it looks beautiful from the outside. Ask whether it actually feels right underneath. Actions, consistency, and the foundation beneath something matter more than appearances today.

We're also only two days away from the August 12 Leo New Moon and solar eclipse. That puts us in the final darkening days of the lunar cycle, traditionally a time for clearing, resting, releasing, and making room before beginning again. The eclipse occurs in Leo, adding themes of courage, identity, creativity, leadership, and deciding what we're willing to put our heart behind.

That makes today's energy fit our Building Something That Lasts theme beautifully. Before we build the next layer, we get to inspect the foundation. What feels secure? What needs reinforcement? What have we outgrown? What are we trying to carry into the next chapter simply because it's familiar? Cancer reminds us that a strong foundation isn't only physical. Emotional safety, healthy boundaries, supportive relationships, and knowing where we belong are foundations too.

Schumann Resonance: We've been watching some striking activity on the charts over the past several days, so today I would continue paying attention to the pattern rather than treating one spike as the whole story. Energetically, this is a good time to notice your own internal rhythm. Pay attention to changes in sleep, dreams, emotions, intuition, energy levels, or that feeling of needing more quiet than usual. Ground yourself, drink water, spend some time outside, and give yourself permission to slow down enough to actually hear what your body and spirit are saying.

The energy after Lion's Gate doesn't have to mean immediately chasing every intention you set on 8/8. Sometimes manifestation needs a quiet stage where intentions begin putting down roots. Don't dig up the seed every morning to see whether it's growing. Give what you called in some space to take form.

Our Crystal of the Week, Septarian, continues to fit perfectly. Its symbolism of grounding, patience, communication, stability, and slow formation reminds us that something can be changing enormously beneath the surface even when we can't see the finished result yet. Hawthorn carries that same message through deep roots, endurance, protection, and heart.

Today, focus less on how quickly you're getting somewhere and more on whether you're creating something capable of supporting you once you arrive.

Affirmation: I trust what is taking root beneath the surface. I strengthen my foundation with patience, intention, love, and courage. I am building something worthy of lasting.

08/10/2026

We’re not gonna lie. We definitely teared up a little walking out of 317 Main Street in Silver Lake for the last time. So many memories were made inside those walls, and there was so much faith behind walking into that little shop in July of 2023. We had no idea exactly what Trillium would become. We just knew we felt called to create something different.

Brenda took a huge leap of faith too. She went from buying crystals from me online to driving an hour to help build this vision with me. She believed, just like I did, that there was a need for more than another crystal boutique. We wanted to create a community.

A place focused on acceptance of ALL paths. A place where you aren't judged by your struggles, your beliefs, your past, or where you are in life. A place where you can be honest and open, where your voice matters, and where you can walk through the door exactly as you are.

We wanted Trillium to be a bridge. A place where people could discover crystals, herbs, natural healing, energy work, spirituality, different belief systems, local healers and makers, and maybe even discover something new about themselves along the way.

Silver Lake gave us the space to begin that vision, but eventually our vision became bigger than our little shop. We didn't have room for the classes we wanted to offer. We didn't have the space for Reiki healing, gatherings, community hangout sessions, workshops, or all the things we've dreamed about adding. Now we do. So walking away feels strange. I'm sad. I'm happy. I'm anxious. And yes, I'm worried because this move is BIG for us. It's a much bigger commitment and a much bigger leap of faith. But sometimes you know when it's time. And the Universe said it's time.

Now we get to unpack this next chapter at 30 Main Street South in Hutchinson and see what Trillium can become when it finally has room to grow. We are incredibly grateful to the Divine and the Universe for continuing to align the right people, places and opportunities exactly when we've needed them. And we're grateful for every single person who has walked through our doors, supported us, shared their story, brought their kids in, brought their pets in, stopped just to talk, laughed with us, cried with us, shopped with us or simply made Trillium part of their life.

Thank you, Silver Lake, for being the first stepping stone in this vision. You gave Trillium its first home. Now it's time to see where this path leads us next. We are nervous. We are excited. We are grateful. And above all, we are blessed. 🤍

08/08/2026

8/8 Lion’s Gate Portal – Building Something That Lasts

Every year, August 8th is known in modern spiritual communities as the peak of the Lion’s Gate Portal, a period associated with courage, manifestation, abundance, transformation, and stepping more intentionally into the life we're creating. But there are actually several different traditions and symbols woven together to create what we now call Lion’s Gate.

The name comes partly from the Sun being in Leo, the sign symbolized by the lion and associated astrologically with courage, confidence, creativity, leadership, and the heart. The number 8 adds another layer. In numerology, 8 is associated with power, achievement, abundance, balance, and the relationship between the spiritual and material worlds. Turn an 8 sideways and we also recognize the infinity symbol, which has helped make 8/8 a modern symbol of limitless possibility and continuing cycles.

You'll also frequently hear Sirius mentioned with Lion’s Gate. Sirius is the brightest star in our night sky and had enormous importance in ancient Egypt because its heliacal rising was associated with the seasonal cycle surrounding the Nile's inundation and the Egyptian New Year. Sirius itself has genuine ancient significance, although it's important historically that the specific modern “8/8 Lion’s Gate Portal” practice isn't an ancient Egyptian holiday. The Lion’s Gate as we celebrate it today blends astronomy, astrology, numerology, ancient symbolism, and modern spirituality.

And I actually think knowing that makes it more interesting rather than less meaningful. Humans have looked toward the sky for thousands of years to mark transitions and remind themselves that we're part of something much larger.

This year's Lion’s Gate feels especially fitting after yesterday's close meeting between the Moon and the Pleiades. We moved from the symbolism of remembering our roots and the wisdom that guided us here into today's symbolism of courageously deciding what we're going to create next.

That brings us right back to our theme this week: Building Something That Lasts. Manifestation isn't simply wishing for something and waiting for the universe to deliver it. To me, manifestation is intention followed by action. It's getting clear about what you want to create, aligning your choices with it, and then being willing to keep building even when the excitement of the beginning wears off.

So instead of using 8/8 only to ask, “What do I want?”, try asking, “What am I willing to build?” Today would be a beautiful day to write down eight intentions for the next chapter of your life. Then look at each one and ask what foundation it needs beneath it. If you want abundance, maybe the foundation is consistency. If you want love, perhaps it's vulnerability and boundaries. If you want community, maybe it's showing up for others. If you want peace, perhaps it's finally releasing something you've carried too long.

You can also create a simple 8/8 ritual. Light a candle to represent the life you're creating. Sit somewhere quiet and visualize yourself one year from now, not simply possessing the things you want, but living as the person capable of sustaining them. Hold a crystal if that's part of your practice. Citrine is commonly used for abundance and confidence, Carnelian for courage and creative fire, Tiger's Eye for confidence and focused action, and Pyrite for prosperity and determination. Our Crystal of the Week, Septarian, may be even more fitting because its symbolism centers around grounding, patience, stability, and creating something strong enough to endure. Then choose one physical action you can take today toward what you wrote down. That piece matters. An intention becomes much more powerful when we give it somewhere to land.

For Trillium, this Lion's Gate hits differently this year. We're quite literally standing between what we've already built and what we're building next. There are boxes, furniture, unfinished walls, plans that have changed a dozen times, excitement, uncertainty, and a whole lot of work happening behind the scenes. But that's exactly what building something lasting looks like. The dream is important, but so is carrying the boxes.

Maybe that's the message of this 8/8 for all of us.
Dream bigger, but build deeper. Don't only manifest the beautiful finished picture. Manifest the patience to build it, the courage to protect it, the wisdom to change it when necessary, the people who will help strengthen it, and the perseverance to keep showing up long enough to watch it become real.

8/8 Reflection: What am I ready to create? What foundation will it require? What am I willing to commit to consistently? What needs to be released because it cannot come where I'm going? What is one thing I can physically do today to begin?

Affirmation: I build with intention. I create from courage rather than fear. I welcome abundance while building the foundation capable of holding it. What I begin today

08/08/2026

Friday – Gratitude & Manifestation: Grateful for the Foundation

As we close out our week of Building Something That Lasts, I want to bring our focus back to gratitude. We spend so much time thinking about what we're trying to build next that sometimes we forget to look down and recognize everything already holding us up.

None of us arrived where we are completely on our own. Somewhere along the way, someone encouraged us when we weren't sure of ourselves. Someone showed up when we needed another set of hands. Someone taught us something we still carry today. Someone believed in an idea before there was anything tangible to see. Even some of the people and experiences that challenged us helped shape the strength, wisdom, and boundaries we now build upon.

Gratitude isn't only about being thankful when everything is going well. Sometimes it's looking at the messy middle and realizing how much has already been accomplished. It's appreciating the first brick while you're still dreaming about the finished house. It's recognizing the people standing beside you while you're still carrying boxes. It's being thankful for the roots before you ever see the flowers.

That has been especially powerful for me this week. As we're physically building Trillium's new home, I keep being reminded that Trillium wasn't built by two people. It has been built piece by piece by every person who walked through our doors, told someone about us, supported a live, attended a class, became a vendor, offered advice, helped move something, shared a post, brought us an idea, or simply reminded us to keep going. The storefront may be changing, but that foundation comes with us.

And maybe that's where gratitude and manifestation truly meet. Manifestation isn't only asking for what comes next. It's honoring what already exists while intentionally creating more of what matters. When we recognize the love, lessons, relationships, opportunities, and strength already present in our lives, we begin building our future from abundance rather than constantly feeling like we're starting from nothing.

So before thinking about your next goal today, spend a little time appreciating your foundation. Ask yourself: What am I building that will outlast this season? What foundation do I want to strengthen in my life? Who has helped me build the life I have today? What values do I want to be known for? How can I leave the people and places around me better than I found them?

And maybe most importantly, tell someone today that they have been part of your foundation. We don't always realize the role we've played in someone else's story, and gratitude means so much more when we actually share it.

Affirmation: Great things are built one intentional step at a time. I am grateful for the foundation beneath me, thankful for those who helped me build it, and I trust that today's efforts are creating tomorrow's dreams.

08/07/2026

The Moon & the Seven Sisters – August 7, 2026

There is something beautiful happening in the sky today that I think deserves a little more attention. In the predawn hours this morning, our waning crescent Moon passed incredibly close to the Pleiades, the star cluster many of us know as the Seven Sisters. In some locations, the Moon even passed directly in front of individual stars in the cluster, creating what astronomers call a lunar occultation.

But what makes this encounter so fascinating to me isn't only the astronomy. The Pleiades have been watched, named, honored, and woven into stories by cultures around the world for thousands of years.

In Greek mythology, they became known as the Seven Sisters, traditionally identified as Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. Stories about this little cluster of stars also appear in Indigenous cultures across the Americas and Australia, as well as traditions throughout Polynesia, Japan, India, Africa, and the ancient Near East. Different cultures understood them differently, but again and again these stars became connected with seasonal change, navigation, agriculture, ancestry, community, and cycles of time.

That's one reason I find today's meeting with the Moon so meaningful. The Moon has always represented cycles. It grows, becomes full, releases its light, disappears into darkness, and begins again. The Pleiades, meanwhile, have helped humans recognize seasons and navigate their way through the world for generations.

Put those two symbols together and today's sky carries a beautiful message: Remember where you came from while paying attention to where you're going. And that fits almost perfectly with our theme this week of Building Something That Lasts.

Anything meaningful we build needs both roots and direction. We carry lessons from the people who came before us, experiences we've survived, communities that supported us, and wisdom we've gathered along the way. We don't have to remain where we started, but we don't have to forget it either.

There's another interesting layer to the timing. This Moon-Pleiades encounter happens immediately before 8/8, which many modern spiritual communities observe as the peak of the Lion's Gate period. Whether Lion's Gate is part of your personal practice or not, the symbolism makes for a beautiful transition: first remembering your foundation and finding your direction, then intentionally deciding what you want to create from it. Maybe today's sky isn't asking us to predict what's coming next. Maybe it's asking us to remember that we've always had stars to navigate by.

Tonight, take a moment to think about your own Seven Sisters question: Who or what has been a guiding light in your life? What wisdom from your past deserves a place in the foundation of the future you're building? Sometimes moving forward doesn't mean leaving everything behind. Sometimes it means carrying the right things with us.

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