This Wednesday is kind of a big deal in the cosmos...because we have Solar Eclipse in Leo. And it arrives to gobble up our well-cultivated public personas. Our August Rewilding the Temple new moon anointing rite will be held during this eclipse, giving it an especially powerful energy. We'll be working with jasmine, and everyone is welcome to join. But first... Getting ready for the Leo solar eclipse Wednesday, august 12 Every eclipse season is a time of major change — individually and...
16 days ago • 4 min read
This email brings you a long weekend read :) If you want skip ahead, here's what to look for: A real peek behind the scenes — life, amiright? 8/8: what the Lion's Gate is actually about (+ a free ritual guide) Rewilding the Temple, August 12 — Leo New Moon solar eclipse Jasmine anointing oil for our ceremony Perfumes for Summer — six of my favorites New salves & hydrosols coming in September — get on the list Future nostalgia is the essence of August. Vacation mode is still on, harvests are...
25 days ago • 7 min read
Welcome to July Juniper Stokes • July 2026 fav July activity: view from my very own kayak The bulk of July holds us in the protective field of Cancer — the great mother of the Zodiac. Ruled by the moon and symbolized by the crab, Cancer is a water sign known to be sensitive, nurturing, creative, and changeable. There’s a focus on the home — being home, tending the home, and feeling at home wherever you are. The crab might seem a strange symbol for a water sign until we dig in a bit more:...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
This weekend, I was lucky enough to head to the wild PNW coast for solstice. Living in the dry, high desert (which I also love), it is always a balm for my soul to walk through lush coastal forests. And at this time of year, everything is blooming and the first berries - salmonberries and red huckleberries - are already ripe. Love. I've been walking these trails for decades. Singing, leaving offerings, and making medicine with the land. These forests have been generous. And this year, a new...
2 months ago • 4 min read
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...
2 months 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....
2 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months 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...
3 months ago • 3 min read
