Alchemessence is your portal into the wild spirit within. As a shamanic practitioner, mystic, botanical alchemist, and artist, I offer an integrative pathway for awakening to your true essence through spiritual rewilding.
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Alchemessence
Alchemessence is your portal into the wild spirit within. As a shamanic practitioner, mystic, botanical alchemist, and artist, I offer an integrative pathway for awakening to your true essence through spiritual rewilding.
A few years ago, I woke up on Christmas morning and my sense of smell was gone. This is awful for anyone…but for a perfumer? Absolutely devastating. It was a slow recovery. Though my smell had mostly come back by mid February, I could tell that I wasn’t picking up on the subtle nuances I used to. Smell is an often overlooked yet crucial sense. A strong sense of smell has always been a mark of a healer — the ability to sniff out both the diseases and the cures. It’s also closely associated...
Welcome to September Juniper Stokes • September 2026 harvest time :) When the world seems to be falling apart, we grieve. And, when we’re ready, we create. Rudolf Clausius, a 19th century German physicist, coined the term entropy to describe “the undoing of being” — an apt description of not only the nature of the universe, but of the metamorphic times we live in. This transformation of order to disorder, of constancy to discontinuity, is how we register change and tell one moment from the...
Virgos tend the sacred. This devotional sign carries us from August 23rd to the Autumnal Equinox, when skies grow dark once again. Largely misunderstood as overly-organized and detail-oriented, Virgo’s true archetype is that of the priestess (and priest, for that matter). This archetype helps us prepare for the times to come with essential tasks of offerings, clearings, rituals, and — yes — organizing our resources. ;) You’re invited to join our live September New Moon gathering and anointing...