The moon is 89% full and building in Scorpio. Three days from the peak. I can feel it, and I’ve been moon-gazing at night this week. The waxing gibbous in my own sign has a particular quality to it: everything gets louder, more clarified, more insistent. A lot moved, internally and externally. And inside all that movement were moments, probably quiet ones, where you chose your direction instead of just following the current. That's what I want you to name today. Not what happened to you. Not what you managed. Not what you survived. What did you ✨choose✨consciously, on purpose, even when it was uncomfortable? What did you say yes to that cost you something? What did you say no to that took more courage than the yes would have? Before you drop your answer, a heads up about what's coming: TONIGHT the Descent Video drops on YouTube at 7:00pm EST. Then, 🌕 June 29 — The Krokopeplos Moon. The Full Strawberry Moon. Krokopeplos — Saffron-Cloaked — is one of Hekate's ancient epithets, the color of dawn and initiation, the robe worn before the threshold-crossing. In ancient Greece, Iphigeneia wore saffron before her sacrifice. The color wasn't decorative. It was the mark of someone standing at the edge of one life and the beginning of another. The full moon on Sunday carries that same quality: what sacrifice bore the sweetness? What did you give up to get here? Also, ☿ June 29 — Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer! On the same night the moon goes full. Mercury retrograde in Cancer runs June 29 through July 23. Cancer governs home, emotional roots, ancestral patterns, the inner world. This is not the retrograde that scrambles your emails. This is the retrograde that calls up what you left unfinished in your own history. The past will call. Both of these land on Sunday into Monday. The Strawberry Moon and the backward messenger, on the same night, in the same sky. She is not subtle. 🔥‼️ In addition, I’m taking Saturday AND Sunday off from posting, but will be able to hop on and comment. I’ll be with family all weekend. Swimming! So, let’s keep the conversation going without big, official posts. Love you all. Thanks for supporting my rest. 😅

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

I love folk magic and tradition. This one comes from Italy. On the evening of June 23rd, Italians celebrate St. John's Night and they make St. John's Water, a traditional beauty and purification ritual. They gather herbs and flowers—traditionally St. John's wort, lavender, rosemary, mint, sage, and roses—and place them in a bowl of water. Then, they leave it outside overnight to absorb the summer solstice dew, known in Italian as “guazza”. On the morning of June 24th, they wash their face and hands with this “magical” water, which is said to bring beauty, ward off negativity, and renew their energy. ✨ Did you guys know about this tradition? Are there similar folk traditions that you know about?

Something different today. I've been pulling individual Oracle readings every Tuesday for weeks now and I love doing it…but I also just finished last week's readings yesterday afternoon. 😅 I want to be honest with you, I’ve gotten a little burnt out. The readings will come back next week. But today we're doing something I've been wanting to try for a while, and I think you're going to like it. First: I'm introducing a new deck, new to me as a gift, and I’d like to practice a little with it. The Bianco Nero Tarot by Marco Proietto and Arwen Lynch-Poe. The illustrations are inspired by Gustave Doré's engravings and Albrecht Dürer's woodcuts, which was really appealing to me. There's something fitting about bringing a black and white deck into Hekate's space. No color to soften the image. Just the line, the shadow, and what is. I'm consecrating it today. And I'm inviting you to consecrate yours. 🔥 The Consecration🔥 Whether you have one deck or twelve, whether you've used it for years or just unboxed it, this is an invocation you can speak over any tarot deck to ask Hekate's guidance to move through it. Hold your deck in both hands. Breathe. Then say: Hekate, Keeper of the Crossing, I bring this deck before Your flame. Let every card be honest. Lykaina — run ahead into what I cannot see. Kleidouchos — open what has been shut in me. Phosphoros — light my eyes so I don't look away. Where I would soften the truth, sharpen it. Where I would choose comfort over sight, take it. Show me the road that is — not the one I'd invent. I consecrate these cards in Your name. May what they show be true. May I have the courage to hear it. So mote it be. Hail Hekate. Set the deck down. Breathe. It's ready. Shuffle your deck. Ask Hekate one question or no question at all. Just open your hands and ask Her to show you what this week needs you to see. Pull one card. 👇 Post your card below — the name, what it is, and what it's saying to you right now if you want to share. No wrong answers. No wrong cards. This is a no judgement zone. I can help a little with interpretation.

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