EssenceEdge

05/29/2026

DL locals and visitors, if you’re out and about enjoying the Street Fair this weekend, stop in and see all the beautiful treasuries we have!

From stunning statement pieces to palm stones, pocket size crystals, and everything else in between, we have a wide variety of crystals waiting to be seen and find their new homes. Come browse and see if any are calling you!

I’ll be here until 6pm today, and back again Saturday from 11am - 5pm. Hope to see you soon!

Gen🛍️✨

05/26/2026

Hi everyone!

May 27th - June 4th

Just a quick update on our retail hours this week and into next! Come say hi to Gen during these hours! Excited to have Gen back in the shop, her smile and welcoming energy will make your day!!

We will be closed tomorrow May 27th, and opening one hour late through the 3rd!

☀️Hope everyone is loving the warm weather!

Tonya 🤍

05/26/2026

Beginning June 3

Join me every Wednesday at 7:30 PM for a gentle evening of movement, breath, rest, and sound in a space surrounded by warmth, and nature. These evenings are designed to help you soften, regulate your nervous system, release tension, and reconnect with yourself in a peaceful, grounding environment.

Dress for the weather and bring anything that helps you feel cozy and supported. 🤍

Every Wednesday in June
7:30 PM
In the greenhouse

Sign up through my website to reserve your spot or reach out to be added to the list.
If you’re interested in hosting a private event in the greenhouse just reach out! Let’s chat!

Please note: due to ongoing family health circumstances, events and schedules may be subject to change. Thank you for your understanding and grace during this season. 🤍

05/15/2026

I hope everyone stayed safe through those winds yesterday! 🌬️💛

I’m here today until 6 with TEAS!!! 🍵
We have such a nice variety — from Anti-Anxiety, Sleepy Time, Heart Chakra, Throat Soothe, White Lemon Ginger… just to name a few!

And don’t forget the Tea Straw — such a fun idea! ✨

Twyla

05/13/2026

Beautiful day to get out and explore! ☀️

We’re open:
Tuesday -Friday: 11 AM – 6 PM
Saturday: 11 AM – 5 PM

And yes… we have your sign! ✨ Twyla

05/08/2026

🌸 Mother’s Day is this Sunday! 🌸

Celebrate Mom with something unique and meaningful she’ll truly love. From beautiful crystal roses to handmade earrings and artisan gifts, we have something special waiting for her. 💖

✨ Open Today Until 6 PM
✨ Saturday: 11 AM – 5 PM

Stop in and find the perfect Mother’s Day gift!
Twyla

05/07/2026

Just popping in to say Hi! And to share a little on Hemimorphite. It is not only beautiful but has other properties. Hemimorphite is a crystal of healing, compassion, and higher vibration. Its uplifting energy encourages emotional balance, heartfelt communication, and spiritual growth while helping release old wounds and heavy emotions. Gentle yet powerful, Hemimorphite reminds us to lead with kindness, trust our intuition, and embrace transformation with an open heart. 💙✨
I am here today until 6! Tomorrow 11 to 6. Twyla

04/16/2026

New Moon Ritual Kits are now available at Essence Edge.

Tomorrow we have an Aries 🔥 New Moon!

Ritual is how humans have always said… I am paying attention. I am present at this threshold. I am willing to move through it with intention rather than letting it pass unconsciously.

Each kit includes a handmade seed paper scroll (Earth Moon Magic) with a key charm, a locally made white beeswax candle, a jar of cinnamon, a clear quartz tumble, and an incense stick.

Every item was chosen with intention and each kit includes an info sheet explaining what the new moon actually is, why ritual matters, and how to use everything inside.

The new moon is the moment the Sun and Moon align in the sky, the real biological and astronomical reset point humans have marked for thousands of years.

Tuesday - Friday 11-6 & Sat 11-5

04/16/2026

The New Moon Your Ancestors Actually Used

I put together a video on this, link below. What follows is the history behind it that I didn’t have time to get into.

So there’s a ritual that circulates pretty heavily in spiritual and witchcraft communities on the first of every month. You’ve probably seen it… blowing cinnamon through your front door for abundance, cleansing your space, setting intentions for the new cycle. But what most people doing that ritual were never told is that the first of the month marks nothing in the sky. Nothing.

But to understand why that date means nothing astronomically, we have to look at where our calendar actually came from. Because most people have never questioned it. We just inherited it.

The Gregorian calendar is a solar administrative calendar. Its months are bureaucratic divisions, they were built to run governments, collect taxes, schedule commerce. The 1st is a counting artifact. It is not a threshold. So where did the idea of monthly reset rituals actually come from?

Before the Gregorian calendar dominated the world, virtually every civilization tracked time through lunisolar systems, calendars that followed both the sun and the moon. The month began at the new moon because that was the actual observable reset point, the sky confirmed it and the body already knew it.

The Hebrew calendar still operates this way. Rosh Chodesh (the new moon in Hebrew) carries ritual significance precisely because the sky marks it and not because someone decided it did. The Islamic calendar is lunar, the Vedic Panchanga system is lunisolar. The Babylonian calendar, which heavily influenced later Western timekeeping, began each month at the first visible crescent after the new moon.

This wasn’t superstition to them It was an attunement. The human body tracks light cycles, lunar cycles, seasonal shifts. Circadian and circalunar rhythms governed human physiology for hundreds of thousands of years before anyone invented an administrative calendar. Your body was doing this long before anyone told it to.

So when the Gregorian calendar got imposed across colonized populations and enforced through commerce, taxation, legal systems, religious scheduling, something got severed. The collective entrainment to the Gregorian 1st isn’t organic consensus but a compliance that calcified into habit and got inherited as normal.

Most people never questioned it because it was handed to them as just the way time works.
And here’s the question I really want you to sit with. That charge you feel around January 1st or the first of any month… where is it actually coming from?

Millions of people treating a date as a threshold does create real charge, I’m not dismissing that. But that charge was built from the suppression of an earlier biological system, one your body still runs on. Think… Charge built from genuine alignment with biological and astronomical rhythm has a different quality than charge built from enforced synchronization.

Tomorrow there’s a new moon in Aries, the sky is actually marking a threshold. Your body already knows it and you may have already been feeling it building. The new moon isn’t a window someone assigns you. It’s something you can feel if you slow down enough to get quiet.

The question isn’t which ritual to perform or whether you’re doing it at the right hour. The real question is, can you feel when the window is right for you?

That’s what your ancestors were actually doing. Not following a transmitted rule but listening to something real.

New Moon, Abundance, Time & Truth

04/16/2026

Tomorrow we have a new moon in Aries and right now the sky has one of the more striking lineups I’ve seen in a long time.

Saturn, Neptune, Mercury, Chiron, the Moon, and the Sun are all stacked in Aries simultaneously. Think All of that fire, all in one place, the day before a new moon, in a Fire Horse year.

Aries is where fire originates and It’s not a fire that builds something, it’s fire at the ignition point or the very beginning of a THING. I think collectively we are being asked a question that a lot of us have been avoiding for a very long time.

Who do you want to be? What do you actually want? What are you willing to allow in your life going forward?

Those may sound like simple questions but they aren’t when you really sit with them. Because answering them honestly requires you to stop looking backward. So many of us when faced with genuine choice reach for the past. Not because the past was good, but because it’s known it’s shaped your identity even when identity was built on trauma & pain. And familiar pain is easier to hold than unfamiliar freedom.

This is how cycles repeat, not because people are broken, but because the question of who you actually are without the old story, without the old role, without the familiar weight, is one of the most uncomfortable places a human being can stand.

Tomorrow’s new moon is an invitation, but invitations require a response.

What’s yours?

Tonya 🤍