Hello all! Glad to be back at my computer after a long family weekend with my in-laws. It’s the full moon tonight, and I’m planning on making up for my weekend away by releasing a full moon ritual to go with the theme of our day! Later this afternoon. Our epithet is Κροκόπεπλος (kro-KO-pep-loss). Wrapped in saffron. Tonight she wears it full. The Strawberry Moon, or as Pluto Retrograde put it, "What sacrifice bore the sweetness?" Saffron was the most expensive dye in the ancient world. The crocus gives up only three crimson stigmas per bloom, hand-plucked, and from those threads comes a color reserved for dawn-goddesses, brides, and the divine. To call Hekate Krokopeplos is to dress the Queen of the Crossroads in the color of first light, not in spite of the dark she rules, but alongside it. The same goddess wears both. I’m lucky enough to grow crocus in my garden, which blooms early, the first flowers of spring here in Michigan. (Photos from this March attached below, see the rich orange stigma? That’s the color of saffron.) My weekend was a sweet one. We swam as a family. My son went in the pool for the very first time. Held, weightless, eyes wide at a whole new element, letting us know he was done assertively. 😭 We came home with bags of hand-me-downs for him, other families' love passed quietly down the line. While we were there, I floated and meditated on water. The element that yields and carries at once. It asks nothing of you but to stop bracing — you don't have to hold yourself rigid to stay afloat. The thing that carries you is the thing you stop fighting. 🔦 Torchlight For Today: "Ouranian, Chthonian, and of the Sea, Saffron-Cloaked…" — the Orphic Hymn to Hekate (Hymn 1), naming her of the heavens, the underworld, and the waters all at once 👇 Tell me one small thing from your weekend, a threshold you crossed, a thing handed down, a moment you let something carry you. I’ve already shared. 😉 En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙

This one started as a conversation with Ra Ven about St. John's Wort and turned into this two-plant post because these two can't really be separated for me right now. You see, my little St. John’s Wort hasn’t bloomed in a couple years, and I may have been too enthusiastic a few years ago about how much I harvested. So I’ve been harvesting chamomile in the meantime, to give St. John’s time to heal and grow. Anyways, these two plants usually bloom together, get harvested together, and have been used together in midsummer ritual across European and Mediterranean traditions for centuries. Same season, same solar energy, wildly different personalities. The solstice harvest window is right now. I've got both in my garden — pictures attached. First pic, chamomile this year. Second pic, St. John’s from a few years ago. Third pic, my St. John now. 🥺 Fourth pic, my offering of chamomile to Hekate this year. 🌼The Solstice Harvest🌼 Midsummer was the peak harvest moment for solar herbs across ancient European practice. The sun at its highest, the days longest, the plant's volatile oils at maximum concentration. Healers gathered at dawn on the solstice or St. John's Eve and dried what they found for the year ahead. When multiple traditions across time converge on the same two plants for the same purposes, it's worth paying attention. 🌼Chamomile — the gentle one Khamaimēlon. Earth apple, named for its apple-sweet fragrance. Look at a chamomile blossom from above and you're looking at a small sun. The Egyptians saw this immediately: chamomile was sacred to Ra, documented in the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE) as a universal healer, used in mummification oils to ease the passage to the afterlife. The solar plant at the death threshold. Dioscorides documented it. Hippocrates and Galen prescribed it. Medicinally: it's exceptionally well-researched. Its active compounds are anti-inflammatory. Clinical trials confirm what ancient physicians already knew: it reduces anxiety, soothes digestion, eases menstrual cramping, and supports sleep. Gentle enough for infants, I’ve given it to my little boy in a prepared syrup for teething pain. The essential oil is a deep, stunning blue, and I’m OUT at the moment, I need to get more.

We're meeting again in three weeks. One hour on the Skool call. Moved to 5:00 PM EST this next month so more of you can make it — wherever you are in the world, check your time below: 🕔 5:00 PM — New York / EST 🕔 4:00 PM — Chicago / CST 🕔 3:00 PM — Denver / MST 🕔 2:00 PM — Los Angeles / PST 🕙 10:00 PM — London / BST 🕙 11:00 PM — Paris / CET 🕙 6:00 AM (Jul 14) — Sydney / AEST The moon that night is 1.3% illuminated. For all practical purposes the sky is dark. The New Moon perfects the following morning — which means we are gathering on the last night of the old month, the Deipnon, the threshold before the new cycle begins. By July 13 we'll be five days into Phase III of the Pluto Retrograde arc — The Underworld Floor. Hekate as Chthonia. We are not descending anymore. We have arrived. This circle will sit with what that means. What we all found at the bottom, what is actually down here, what the dark is asking us to do now that we’re in it. It’s the same general itinerary: chat-based beginning, collective oracle pull, ritual and guided meditation. One hour, held together across timezones. 🕯️ If you were there last new moon — come back. If you weren't — there's a door open. 👇 Drop a 🕯️ if you're coming. En Erebos, Phos. In darkness, light. Blessings, Tirza 🌿🗝️🌙 #NewMoonCircle #HekateanHealing #CovenCircle #DarkMoon #Deipnon #Chthonia #PlutoRetrograde2026 #TheUnderworldFloor #ShadowWork #HekateanHerbalism #Skool #GlobalCoven

Hekate Phosphoros: The Descent Loves, the torches are lit. This Friday at 7 PM EST, Phase II of The Witch's Descent goes live on YouTube. We leave the gate behind. We go through. And She is already on the other side, waiting. Two flames held high, the only light in the dark. This is the month of stairs. A guided meditation down the spiraling path, and a reiki ritual that doesn't clear the whole body. It illuminates three rooms inside you that hide the most. Your power. Your desire. Your love. 🕯️ TO PREPARE: → Have your grimoire and Phase I entries ready (if you're new — start now, you're not behind) → Light two candles. One on each side of you. → Come as you are. She's seen all of it before. The descent doesn't wait for you to feel ready. It waits for you to decide. Drop a 🔥 below if you're descending with us Friday night. En Erebos, Phos. I'll see you in the deep. 🕯️🔥🕯️ Love, Tirza

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