Ritual

5 Easy Rituals for Samhain.

Samhain, a pagan festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter, is a time when the veil between the physical world and the spirit world is believed to be thinnest.

For those who are spiritual but do not identify as witches, there are still meaningful ways to honor this sacred time. Here are some easy Samhain rituals perfect for you:

1. Ancestor Altar

Create a simple altar with photos or mementos of loved ones who have passed away. Light a candle and take a moment to remember and honor their memory. This ritual can help you feel connected to your ancestors and the cycle of life and death.

2. Nature Walk

Take a walk in nature and observe the changing colors of the leaves and the signs of the approaching winter. Reflect on the cycles of life and the beauty of the changing seasons. You can also collect fallen leaves or acorns to bring a piece of nature into your home.

3. Release Ritual

Write down any negative thoughts, emotions, or habits that you want to release. Light a black candle and burn the paper, visualizing the negativity being transformed into light and released into the universe. This ritual can help you let go of what no longer serves you.

4. Divination Practice

Use tarot cards, runes, or a pendulum to gain insight into the coming months. Ask for guidance or clarity on a specific question or simply see what messages the universe has for you. Divination can be a powerful tool for self-reflection and spiritual growth.

5. Silent Meditation

Find a quiet space, light a white candle, and sit in meditation.

Focus on your breath and allow any thoughts or emotions to come and go without judgment. This practice can help you connect with your inner self and the spiritual energy of the season.

These simple Samhain rituals are perfect for those who are drawn to the spiritual significance of the season but may not resonate with traditional witchcraft practices. Remember, the most important aspect of any ritual is your intention and sincerity.

Embrace the energy of Samhain and allow yourself to be open to the magic of the season.

Virgo New Moon Ritual for Clarity, Health and Harmony.

Jenny Heston · 2:22 pm ·

The Virgo New Moon is the perfect time to reset your space, your habits, and your energy.

This year, the Virgo New Moon is this Saturday, August 23rd.

Step One: Light a Flame

Virgo energy loves creating order in the physical world and restoring health in our bodies, minds, and spirits.

This lunar gateway invites us to release clutter—both tangible and energetic—and create fresh patterns that truly support our wellbeing.

If you’ve been craving a sense of clarity, calm, and intentional structure, this ritual will help you align with Virgo’s healing energy and set the stage for a vibrant moon cycle ahead.

Begin by lighting a clean-burning candle in a central location of your home. As the flame flickers to life, take three slow breaths. With each inhale, invite in divine light; with each exhale, release all that no longer serves you.

Call on the Divine—whether you connect with God, Goddess, angels, guides, or the intelligence of the cosmos. Ask for assistance in creating order, harmony, and radiant health in your life. (If you can’t light a candle due to pets, children, or safety reasons, use an LED candle or simply visualize a golden flame glowing at the heart of your home.)

Step Two: Clear Physical Clutter with Intention

Choose a space—big or small—and begin clearing. Even 5 or 10 minutes makes a difference. As you tidy, declutter, or reorganize, repeat inwardly:

“As I clear my space, I clear my body, mind, and spirit. I release all that I no longer need and make way for clarity, health, and joy.”

Donate, recycle, discard, or simply reorganize items as you feel guided. Notice how the energy shifts as you move into the rhythm of clearing. This process is a ritual in itself—an offering to Virgo’s love of order and healing.

(Feel free to clean out just a small area, like your junk drawer or medicine cabinet. I personally will be focusing on my spice cupboard! As wowzer, it is chaos and I know I have duplicates!

Step Three: Cleanse the Energy of Your Home

Before beginning, open a window or two so the old energy has somewhere to go. Then, employ one or more of the following tools:

1. Selenite Wand

Cleanse your wand first by placing it in sunlight for a few minutes or passing it through sage or incense smoke. Walk counterclockwise through your space, gently waving the wand to absorb and neutralize stagnant energy.

2. Dried Sage Bundle or Palo Santo Stick

Light your sage bundle or Palo Santo stick so it smolders, not burns, and carry a dish or plate beneath it to catch any burning embers. Move counterclockwise through your home, letting the smoke waft through each room. Visualize heaviness lifting and dissolving. When you’re done, fully extinguish the bundle in water or by sealing it in a jar.

3. Rose Water

If you’ve cleared with selenite or herbs, now move clockwise as you mist, infusing the space with sweetness, love, and harmony. If you haven’t cleared with either tool, move counterclockwise with the spray to clear lingering heaviness. Visualize and intend that the air and energy in your home are filled with beauty, order, and peace.

4. Chime or Bell

Stand in the center of each room and ring your chime. Imagine the sound waves sweeping away residue, lifting the vibration, and filling the space with uplifting, sparkling energy.

Step Four: Anchor Your New Moon Intentions

Return to the candle or central location. Place your hands in prayer position at your heart, close your eyes, and breathe deeply.

Bring to mind your Virgo New Moon intentions—especially those related to health, clarity, order, organization, and healing. Feel these intentions as already true.

Feel the harmony, joy, and ease they bring.

Open your palms outward and imagine your intentions radiating through your home as golden light, blessing every room and every corner with fresh, vibrant energy.

Offer gratitude—for the moon, for your home, for the clarity you’re stepping into.

Extinguish the candle, knowing your ritual is complete.

Why This Virgo New Moon Ritual Works

Decluttering your home during the Virgo New Moon doesn’t just create physical order—it creates spiritual spaciousness.

Virgo’s energy helps us align small, everyday actions with greater purpose, so that even simple acts like tidying a drawer or misting with rose water become magical methods of summoning the life you desire.

When your space is clear and your energy is balanced, your intentions have fertile ground in which to grow.

Will you be trying this Virgo New Moon Ritual? Do you have your own favorite tools for space clearing? Share your thoughts in the comments—I’d love to hear.

Aquarius Full Moon Ritual: Shift Energy and Attract Your Desires

Jenny Heston · 1:11 pm ·

Step 1: Set the Space

Begin by switching your phone to “do not disturb.” Create an ambient, sacred atmosphere—dim the lights, light one or more candles, and perhaps burn some incense (safely) if that feels right to you. Whether you do this indoors or out, the goal is to create a space that feels soothing, magical, and receptive. Also make sure you have a little room to move.

Step 2: Clarify Your Intentions

On a piece of paper or in a journal, write down 1 to 5 goals, desires, or intentions. Write them in the present tense, as if they’re already true. For example:

I know exactly what I want to do about ______.

I am in a loving, joyful relationship with someone I adore.

I live in a beautiful home that supports me on every level.

I feel confident, clear, and aligned in my purpose.

I always attract money from both expected and unexpected sources.

Step 3: Create a Vibe-Driven Playlist

Sit comfortably. Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and center yourself. Then, tune into the energy of the first intention you wrote down. Choose one song that reflects how you’ll feel when that desire is fully manifested.

Repeat until you have a song for each intention on your playlist.

Don’t overthink it—go with your instincts. Let the process be intuitive, spontaneous, and fun. Think of it like choosing theme songs for your future reality.

Step 4: Let the Music Move You

Put your playlist on—either in order or on shuffle—and let yourself move.

Feel the music enter your body. Let it vibrate through you. You don’t need to dance in any particular way. You might be in the mood to stretch on the floor, roll your shoulders, sway gently, or dance in a wild, joyful expression. Whatever feels natural is perfect.

Remember! This is not a performance. It’s a meditation.

As you move, feel yourself expanding into your intentions. Imagine your desires are already yours. Ask yourself: How does this feel? Then let your body dance the answer.

The key here is embodiment. You’re aligning your whole body’s energy with the vibration of what you want—because when you become a match for something, it can’t help but move toward you.

✦ Why This Works

Music is sacred geometry in motion. It’s an energetic tool that moves through your mind, body, and spirit to shake loose stagnant energy and create room for what you’re calling in. When you combine music with intention—especially under a visionary Aquarius moon—you’re amplifying your manifestation power.

And with Chiron retrograde supporting deep inner healing, and Mars in Libra helping you act with harmony and grace, this ritual can help you release what’s holding you back and call in what truly lights you up.

Enjoy! And share in the comments if you tried it or tweaked it.

Courtesy of Tess Whitehurst

Summer Solstice is here and Goodies Galore!

Jenny Heston · 3:33 pm ·

Dearest Gentle Reader,

Frigging love starting a post with that line! Summer Solstice, also known as Litha, arrives on Friday June 20th and the fire in you wants to burn with the sun.

To light up and beam out as far as humanly possible!

And why not?

Now you may be thinking to yourself, Jenny I have no clue what you are talking about or how to tap into the energy that is available to me!

Not a problem! There are two glorious goodies for you that will ignite your inner flame!

First off, I have you covered with the amazing Stupendously Abundant Summer Solstice guide. Fondly referred to as SASS, as who doesn’t like a little SASS.

She is a glorious 45 page guide that will walk you through it all with love and tenderness and help you ignite your own fire.

So let me ask – what words come to mind when you think of the Summer Solstice?

Thematically this celebration is about POWER, Strength, Illumination, Confidence, Energy, Self-acknowledgement, Joy and of course – glorious Faerie revels.

It’s time to celebrate and also time to reflect on your personal growth and the meaning of the season of light and growth.

This is the moment of our year when there is the most light available to you.

In terms of consciousness, it is when you are the most present to yourself and who you know yourself to be — the Sun represents the light of all life and consciousness.

At the summer solstice, a doorway in time opens, which our ancestors viewed as sacred and holy.

Litha is a grand portal of energy, space, and opportunity – a chance to let go of fears, doubts, and insecurities.

After the Sun reaches its maximum power, it begins to decline.

Slowly, the night force will grow stronger until its peak at the winter solstice.

Litha is the last chance in our calendar year to activate sacred intentions before moving into autumn and winter, the natural seasons of harvest and rest.

It’s a time to step out in faith and imagine what’s entirely possible for yourself. Dream an expansive vision for your life that will sustain you as the darkness slowly returns with the fall.

Which brings in the 2nd goodie!

After a lovely natter with my guides we are opening up 2 readings that are specific to Summer Solstice, which we haven’t done in two years! The first one is Stand in Your Power and the other one is Hot Mess!

Only 20 spaces will be open from now until the end of June for the Solstice/Litha energy.

Remember, like the Sun, you have your Inner fire.

Your Inner Fire is the fierce, powerful, badass part of you.

The You that does the hard work of bringing your dreams to life. In the same way that crops would cease to grow without the Earth’s sun, your life would shrivel without your Inner Fire.

So let’s ignite it so you can beam like the glorious beastie you are!

Okay, enough chuntering away.

Let’s crack on with the reading, shall we?

These are glorious guides to support you reconnecting with your Dream Song, Your Heart Song, Your Soul Song – your Inner Fire. Let their words and images wrap you in nourishment and niggle away deep inside.

So take a glorious deep breath gorgeous one, and then when you are ready pick the card or cards that resonate.

Did you remember to pick?

Let’s go take a little look-see, yes?

GO DARK

Your darkness is not your enemy.

It can seem scary, but it’s where new life grows and develops. You do too.

This moment calls you to be willing to be with your own darkness. It asks you to embrace your dark as your beloved ally. To cradle your uncertainty.

The dark night of the soul holds secrets for you that you wouldn’t be able to see in the brightness of glaring certainty.

Poet Mary Oliver spoke about a box of darkness as a priceless gift in her life.

Chaos, crisis and suffering want to gift you a new understanding of who you really are beyond who you always thought yourself to be.

COURT THE FEMININE

The word cunning is closely associated with the fox.

Cunning, like foxes and women, has been given a bad rap.

Many have twisted the word’s sacred origins into something manipulative and conniving.

But the word cunning comes from an older Middle English word “ken”, a range of knowledge or sight.

A cunning person understands that deep internal sight and wide-range vision lead to building an authentic life. Excavate your deep knowing and trust its messages.

This is the way your soul-sight grows sharp, and your instincts return to the untamed power you were born with.

Sharpen your cunning to cut away what no longer serves.

No matter your gender, your life deserves the fierce protection that feminine discernment can bring.

CRAFT YOUR FOCUS

Your vision is a magnifying energy source, amplifying and expanding what it perceives.

In any single moment you have one choice. You can turn your gaze toward what you don’t want, what isn’t working, what you are fearful of, what you worry about.

Or, you can look at what you treasure, what you love, and what you hope for, despite what reality tells you is possible.

Either way, what you focus on grows, right?

Now is the time to use this very simple power to direct the energy and flow of your experience.

When you focus on what you already have with gratitude, and what you want with love and appreciation, you create the energy version of your vision before there is any proof in the material world.

This moment invites you to consciously choose your focus.

Okay, have to say – love these cards! All deep, rich and meaningful! Wishing you an amazing Solstice and huge blessings. Remember to grab your copy of SASS, or gift yourself or a friend one of the Solstice reading specials. Huge hugs!

Simple Blessing Techniques that Work!

Jenny Heston · 5:55 pm ·

Throughout human existence, we’ve learned to face the dark time of the year and the longest night with rituals and ceremonies.

These practices equip us to face fears and foster hope as well as maintain our connection to nature.

One of my favourite authors, John O’Donohue, says that a blessing is an innovation, a calling forth.

The word may is often used in blessings because it imagines and wills the fulfillment of desire.

The word can be used like a magic wand, a way to guide energy that changes the world. However, using the word may is not vital, it’s your intention that is the most important aspect.

Allow your words to reflect your heart.

Easy Prosperity Blessing

Bless all the money that passes through your hands with generosity and prosperity. As the money moves from person to person the users will be blessed with the spirit of giving and with the attractive powers of prosperity.

Nourish Bodies and Soul Blessing

During this season we share lots of food and treats at meals, parties, events, and even cookie and soup exchanges. If you make food yourself, you can imbue it with good health and sweetness to nourish the recipients’ bodies and souls.

Soothing Frazzled Nerves Blessing

The holiday season often brings many errands and extra driving or traveling. Waiting in long lines or being stuck in traffic can eat away at goodwill.

If you are feeling stressed and impatient, probably those around you are too.

Whether in your car or waiting in line, blessing everyone in the area with “May all beings be at peace” is magickal.

After a few moments of slow breathing and silent blessings, the change in energy is palpable.

Stealth Blessing

This is so useful and can be used anytime, anywhere.

Pick a small hand gesture that you can do without anyone noticing.

The two I use most are simply crossing my fingers or making an “okay” sign with my index finger and thumb and letting the index finger flick, as if releasing something.

After deciding the gesture, charge it with your blessing of choice (I usually use “May all beings be at peace” as a generic blessing).

Then wherever you are, whenever needed, you can make the gesture and release that blessed energy into the vicinity.