The Altar Healing and Ceremony, Rochester, NY (2026)

10/14/2026

Welcoming this Venus year proper, indeed. Really deepening into the meeting place of my magickal life and creative praxis, which feels evermore nourishing to merge together. I have always been in the business of enchantment, and my libra 12th house is buzzing with winged energies as I prepare my creative cave to keep me warm through the dark months.

For almost a decade now I have been entirely at odds with keeping the balance between my artistic / creative life, and my client work as a practitioner. I care so much about both of these parts of my life equally, yet there are not many helpful maps for how to navigate this territory skillfully. As a very mercurial person, having many fires burning actually gives me energy ~ but disseminating my attention between them of course proves difficult.

I have been giving myself increasing permission to feed my creative fire over the past few months, and entering my Venus year now feels like she’s really demanding it. I have been spending full days in my studio, so wildly nourished and grateful for the gift of making magick with these hands.

And so, if you have any interest, please do find what I’m up to over at 𓆸 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 𓇺𓇼𓆃 𝚃𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝 💖 I put an enormous amount of love into what I make, giving sincere ritual attention to each piece and collaborating with the many unseen forces that support their ensoulment. This work really is the heart of my ritual praxis these days, as many years of tending has culminated into understanding the importance of intentional ritual tools.

I have been a metalworker since I was 16, and of course learning the lineage of birthing drums & rattles for the past many years. More recently it has felt extremely meaningful to be making more folk charms, which is really borne out of a lot of my client work over the past handful of years. This way of working together feels so much more sustainable and agentic, while also allowing my own creative fire to be fed — which in suit strengthens the magick that these pieces hold! Everybody wins! 😅

As always, you know where to find me. If you’re considering gifts from your beloveds, perhaps you’ll think of me 😉 Unending gratitude for your support!!💖✨

10/08/2026

Three decades earthside and I still don’t act my age. Time is a circle folding in on itself, as my inner 80 year hold meets my inner 8 year old, and things are finally starting to make sense.

I look back at old photos and recognize her more than ever before. Always scheming, ever-curious, with BIG feelings & a frown to match. Talking to the spirits, making magick, opening worlds within this one. Cunning, clever, persistent. A sensitive little misfit, fully content on her own. We have not changed much at all.

What a wild decade it has been. I have taken myself far too seriously, made everything much more intense than it needed to be and fortunately there’s no other way I could ever possibly be. Yes, it always is that deep. I insist. 🦂⚖️🌾

My plans for the next decade(s) are more PLAY, more Eros, more magick & creativity, and much more f*cking around to find out. If this world needs anything, it’s more aliveness. If we’re gonna be here on Earth during these times, might as well make the best of it.

Today I enter a Venus profection year, as she is getting cozy in the Great Below. She is already here, waking up my body, re-enchanting my sense of possibility. Thank the gods, it’s been a long time coming 🕯️🗝️ learning the art of asking for what I need & actually receiving…

If you’d like to gift me a coffee, dinner or groceries (seriously, lol) for my birthday I would be insanely grateful. I know it’s been a rough year for most, and the malefics certainly wiped me out. It is surely the only time I will ever invite this 🥴 -west

10/03/2026

Have you heard the news? The Queen of Heaven has plummeted herself into the Great Below, and she’s bringing all of us with Her. You cannot look away now, you must turn with willing eyes to face what lives inside of these human shadows.

Come, come — bring your exiled pieces, scattered across the land like the body of a fallen god. We welcome you home now. Come, bring your brave gaze. You know how to hold truth between your teeth; bite down. This will only hurt for a moment…

How else did we think we would make it through this? Have you ever seen a woman giving birth? Change is grotesque, like a snake’s eyes rolling back into its skull, milky white. There is no time for disassociating now, come — bite down. Do what you need to do to stay wakeful, lucid inside the dream. Perhaps let your animal body scream.

If you haven’t noticed, Venus is already doing her work, asking that we swallow poison and find ways to turn it into medicine. Here she goes, giving voice to what festers in the shadows. Did you think we could move forward without this? No, no — this is how it must go.

Now is as good a time as ever to let yourself howl, let out those moans. There are ungodly things that live inside our bodies, given to us without asking. Have you ever felt the sting of alcohol in a wound? Come, bite down. It will be over before you know it.

Have courage, my friends — we will get through this and be better for it. There is nothing to fear, unless you’re afraid of truth. Be brave, at some point you prayed for this. Perhaps it is our liberation.

09/30/2026

VENUS RX 🌹 rising sign spells

May you be well held as we make our descent, beloveds. This Friday, Venus day, Our Lady of Heaven and Earth will be visible for the last time as the evening star. Go out and look at her. Hold vigil. Bow your head.

There’s a little care package over at the Altar of Stars for you 🪞🕯️✨

Lastly I will say this very simply and directly; consider that the surge of awareness and ferocity of heart that is rising up around the protection of bodies that have been historically vulnerable to harm is an invitation from this process. These poisons live within our collective body, our lineages, and thus are own. We cannot separate ourselves from the way those serpents move.

I am not trying to cast platitudes on the immensity of what is surfacing. I am saying it’s a call to action, awareness, healing and reparation. I am saying that Venus in Scorpio is the protector of those that have been suffering in exile. She is one who eats poison. And so we are being asked to digest some of the deepest poisons that live inside these bodies. May it be well held with fierce love at the helm. May we not allow these burdens to be bore by future generations. This is a collective descent.

When I sat with Inanna last week, she said “my story has always been the battle cry of the people”. Here we are. May we find our voice, our howls, our grief. May we not forget the tears underneath all of this rage. Let us go to the places we must go to turn poison into healing.

🦂🌹❤️‍🔥🪞🕯️🫂🙏🏼🕊️ in fierce love, T

09/27/2026

Season of Tending 🌲🕯️🌾

Libra season brings me into the cave of my 12th house, a kind of sanctuary where my soul knows exactly how to find respite. Year after year, this season invites me home to the creative rhythm that can only be found when deeply listening with the land and her many bodies.

This year I find myself working with the body of black bear, the most profound tending I’ve yet experienced in this work. In all the years I’ve been working with these drum kin, I have never been brought deeper into the cave to learn in this way. Humbled beyond words.

It has been deeply nourishing for my soul to be tending in these quiet ways. It feels like I have found my home in something that will take me a lifetime or more to learn from fully, which is such a welcome edge to grow into. Slow magick like the land in her many seasons.

Since I was born I have worked very hard and pushed myself harder — this work has been the biggest teacher for me because it asks for attunement beyond all else. Here, I cannot push. I am in constant collaboration with the will of these other bodies. I have had to get so good at listening, and I certainly have a ways to go. Grateful to the moon and back again.

Working on a few more pieces for some beloveds but you can find me in the cave all winter long. If you feel called to collaboration you know where to find me 🕯️
𓆸 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐀𝐑 𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 𓇺𓇼𓆃 𝚃𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚗 𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝

09/22/2026

Equinox Spells ✨ reminders as we prepare to make our descent…

I am thinking about the courage of Libra, to be the one who initiates us across that mighty threshold. I am thinking about the Queen of heaven & earth, who must make her journey to face herself completely.

Only then can we know the world. The shadow as holy as the light to which it belongs. A one without a two.

I have a feeling our journey will be exceptional this season, guided by the One who inhabits both worlds as equal, held in the balance. The evening star descends and we follow her into the great below. We open our ears to listen to that fertile darkness.

What is true can only be seen with nocturnal eyes. Let them adjust to that pregnant black void. It is where you came from; return.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light,
To know dark, go dark, go without sight
And find that the dark, too, blooms & sings
And is traveled by dark feet, and dark wings…
🕯️WB

Acknowledgment to my friends in the southern hemisphere as you make your emergence 🌹

09/20/2026

Unbecoming ⚫️

I make myself anew
By scent and sound,
Drench myself in rain
And howl a song…

Walking halls of memory
In Dreamtime, like a haunting —
Old skins slip off my shoulders
Like a thousand lives returning

I offer them up
And give of myself
A spell of unbecoming…

I do not care what you make of me
I am tired of living to please

The Queen of Heaven meets me at her Western Gate and puts me on my knees
A sword to sever, a knot to bind
Oh, She will make a Knight of me

I hope to become monstrous,
Unpalatable — familiar only to those
Who have known life in exile

I will not wear my scars as trophies
But live to honor them well.

They have made a man of me
And a handsome woman
is fearsome indeed.
___________

This past year brought me to my knees. Humbled, tired, contented by the ways hardship has made me more real, more honest - like the stone that sharpens the blade I know I have been honed. And yet there were moments that I feared I might break. I watched as those close to me navigated the same and wondered how we might get through this together when everyone needs something steady to lean up against, while our bodies are rocked around by the wind. I wonder how our ancestors made it through moments like this and remind myself, that indeed, they did.

Moving through your mars-ruled Saturn return as a mars ruled woman with mars as your time lord is no joke. It has been malefic as all hell. I have known that I am made of fire but I have not always learned how to hone it well; it is all too easy to let it burn you out. I am emerging from this process like coming out of a crucible, knowing my limits and yielding to them. It is a good thing sometimes, to be too tired to push anymore.

Welcoming the Venus year that is to come with much relief, but of course she will have descended into the underworld just days before my solar return. Seems fitting for my Scorpionic nature. I do not resent any of this; I have a soft smirk on my face as I write this.

Many of those close to me know that this year was rough and tumbling. If you can, say a prayer for me on October 8th. I reckon Venus will continue to teach me to ask for what I need. Love to you, immensely. 🫂🫀

09/16/2026

I watch with grief as the things I hold sacred are fed into this hungry ghost of a machine; an algorithm in a possession state. Perhaps I have a savior complex, but I still walk daily with a desire to protect whatever semblance of integrity is left.

I’ve been tracing histories at the request of my ancestors, as to what it means to hold the word WITCH on your tongue. Yet again we have jumped the gun without really reckoning with the past collectively (as we do with many things when we move too quickly), thus feeding into the very systems that witchcraft historically resisted.

Hear me; I am grateful that we live in a time where we can speak of things so openly. Astrology, Ancestral Veneration, Magick — this is a privilege that many of our Ancestors did not have. And yet, as with anything, if we do not move with intention, it can so easily be taken too far.

There is a difference between practitioners being paid for their work (which I agree with) in contrast to only practicing for profit & aesthetic. The commodification of magick feeding the machinations of Empire, in the same way we’ve seen it happen with astrology (or anything that becomes a buzz word/hot topic), greatly concerns me.

I care about rooting our practices in tradition, history, reality. This applies to anything & everything. The moment we stray from this, we decontextualize our practices and uproot them from their origins. Our world does not need more forgetting; it needs remembrance.

Remembrance requires us to slow down, lean back into our people, and turn gently towards the history that got us here in the first place. It also requires discernment around what we are CONSUMING ~ questioning where this information comes from.

I often feel like the role of my work in this world is to play the devil’s advocate, to ask people to slow down & consider the implications of our actions. I know it’s nauseating to some, not sorry.

I’m sure I’m shouting into the echo chamber void here, but if you want to talk about & learn these lifeways in culturally rooted contexts, you know where to find me. I’ll be dying on that hill someday. 🌾
Carousel of words that have been inspiring me as I research…

09/12/2026

THE BELOVED DEAD 🕯️❤️‍🔥☠️ tending season

Dear hearts, it is the season of harvest, the season of dying, the time where our beloved ancestors lean in closer as we prepare to enter the dark months.

This is my favorite time of year for many reasons, but most of all to be in the constant tending of those that have given me this precious life. There will never be enough ways to say thank you. May I be their answered prayer, walking through the world.

Putting out the call once more if you would like to come together and tend in community. I find the work is always stronger when shared together, as our people have throughout history.

We will gather on mercury’s day and cross the threshold of Samhain, opening the way for our beloveds to get what they need to be well in spirit. Repair before maintenance of relationship is vital, purposefully tending the colonial reverberations along our lineages.

We will speak of legacy, inheritances, blessings & burdens, animism & land connection, colonial harm & repair, and embodying the face of our lineages. ✨

If you’re unable to join us in person for the Samhain intensive, these circles are a great option to still participate in communal tending.

I look forward to meeting you & your beloved kin soon. ☠️🕯️❤️‍🔥🌑⚡️🌾🌌

Please enjoy this carousel of the many souls that I come from. Ireland, Scotland, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, North Africa, Sicily, Germany, North & South America. We are a tapestry of many colors, songs and stories. May there always be peace between us. ❤️‍🔥🫂✨ salaam

09/10/2026

Virgo new moon 🌾 the honorable harvest

Sorting & sifting what is most essential
Conserving our energy by eliminating excess

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