In the archetypal language of the Zodiac, Cancer is the great nourisher, often looked at as embodying the energy of the Divine Mother — she who tends her family and home with protective, unconditional love. Yet this year, our solstice and transition into Cancer Season falls on Father’s Day — June 21. At the solstice, the sun stands directly overhead as it enters the sign of Cancer. The solar principle — classically masculine, paternal, and the source of authority and light — arrives at the...
8 days ago • 4 min read
Tomorrow is the Gemini new moon ceremony for Rewilding the Temple — and there's still time to join us. Every month, this gathering follows the lunar cycle: a seasonal teaching, rewilding practices, a sacred anointing, and community connection in a 90-minute live ceremony. A plant ally leads the way. This month, we meet blue tansy. Blue tansy has a bright yellow flower that becomes a deep, stunning blue oil through steam distillation — the alchemical process revealing what was always inside....
13 days ago • 2 min read
Oh the blooms of spring and summer. I’ve been adding more flowers to my garden ever since we moved into our house a few year ago, and this year has been a delight. Tons of purple irises and a few gorgeous pink peonies. Wildflowers that can actually thrive in our sandy, cold high desert climate. A wall of rhododendrons that ranges from neon pink to dark purple. Humans love flowers. I think part of us recognizes that these ephemeral blossoms do more than offer seasonal delights — they transform...
18 days ago • 4 min read
Flower essences are such gentle, accessible, and subtle medicines. So subtle in fact that it never ceases to amaze me how well they actually work! I know it shouldn’t come as a surprise anymore, but somehow it still blows my mind that water can pass on a gift from nature that shifts our entire way of being in the world. In the past few months, I’ve been flooded with reviews saying how much my flower essences have helped people. Here are just a few: On Snakeskin Fritillary: I haven't tried all...
19 days ago • 3 min read
This is a wallflower. It might look unassuming, but its fragrance is divine. I love wallflowers. They seem to be one of the few wildflowers that thrives in our high desert climate, and this year they filled my garden with stunningly bright orange blooms. I’ve been creating an enfleurage of their aroma — it already smells divine, though it will be a few seasons of blooms before it’s ready to use. Enfleurage is the slow, methodical, luxurious process of placing aromatic blooms on neutral...
19 days ago • 3 min read
Rewilding the Temple Juniper Stokes • June 2026 We live in a world of duality. Yin and yang, feminine and masculine, dark and light — it is the coming together of two dual forces that holds the generative energy to create something new. Yet when duality becomes polarized, it causes so much of our human pain. Good or bad. Right or wrong. This or that. In reality, good and bad are part of one greater whole. Same with desire and aversion. Joy and grief. When we forget this, the fractures caused...
22 days ago • 6 min read
NEW: Rewilding the Temple New Moon CeremoniesLearn more about these magical monthly gatherings. Gemini Blooms Juniper Stokes • May 2026 I love looking at our star signs as parties…the Taurus season gatherings of slow, earthly delights are now giving way to Gemini's game nights and creative conversation starters. Mercury — the planetary god of shape shifting, magic, and communication — rules the season. Mercury is actually in its home sign of Gemini right now, making this season especially...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Tomorrow is Earth Day — and you are invited to a free workshop on soul restoration in partnership with our planet. >>>Register for free here. You can watch the replay if you aren’t able to attend live. :) This workshop explores how we cannot fully tend the Earth while fragmented from ourselves...and we cannot fully come home to ourselves while cut off from the Earth. Because the Earth is where we belong. We are born of the Earth, made of the same elemental material. Our entire species evolved...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Let yourself want what you want. These words are so simple — yet weirdly edgy, right? Last year, while teaching at the Gathering of the Shamans in Sedona, I met the amazing Whitney Freya. I was teaching on soul healing and nature (as I do) and she was teaching on art as a catalyst for transformation (as she does). I went to Whitney’s workshop, of course. And during this experience, Whitney guided us through a powerful journey to meet the Goddess Kali. Kali, the dark goddess who comes to us...
2 months ago • 2 min read
