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...
about 4 hours 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...
3 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...
18 days 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...
about 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...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
One of my favorite Wendell Berry lines: Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. It holds the exact paradox we're being asked to live inside right now. To see the truth of what's happening — clearly, unflinchingly — and still respond from joy. That's not spiritual bypassing. That's spiritual leadership. And it's what we're going to practice together on April 16. >>>Register for Spiritual Leadership at the Threshold In case you're wondering what three hours actually looks like,...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Welcome to April. Spring is always a time of new beginnings (and the endings that go with them), but this one feels especially active to me. As if there’s a cosmic memo: Stop waiting around and do the thing! “The thing” being your soul’s calling. The dream you’ve been incubating. The gift you’re here to share. But — this can seem like way too much pressure! Especially when a lot of us are also in “what-is-even-happening-right-now” mode. So… The real invitation of this season is to start...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Up until recently, I thought the whole idea of a “leadership” training sounded gross. I pictured middle management reading What Color Is Your Parachute, or worse, a ketamine-fueled implementation of holacracy. And when I thought of spiritual leadership...yikes. Too many times I've seen groups circle in healing loops, fantasy, surrender, and dependence that severs people from their power to create something real. (This last bit is what really gets me...because we are here to create!) So many...
2 months ago • 2 min read
How’s your heart these days? For many, there seems to be a pervasive sense of grief just under the surface. It’s not only the familiar grief of a known loss or deep held regret… This grief comes from collective losses that are so much bigger than most of us know how to process. In the presence of this vast, collective grief, people tend to move in one of two directions: They turn towards fundamentalism. And while this does include traditional religious fundamentalism, it includes anything...
2 months ago • 1 min read
