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11/22/2025

🎄✨Open until 5 pm today✨🎄

The shop is sparkling and ready and twinkling for the Holidays!!! Twinkling lights, festive displays, and all the magic of the season!!!

Stop in and soak up the Christmas spirit!🎄
Twyla

11/19/2025

🌑✨ NEW MOON IN SCORPIO A DEEP RESET ✨🌑
November 19th, 2025

This New Moon isn’t the typical “manifest your dreams” kind of moon. She’s not here to sprinkle inspiration or push you toward big beginnings.

She’s here to empty what’s been full for too long. To pull up old roots. To flush out what your spirit can’t carry into 2026.

This moon is a purge. A reset. A truth-revealer.

If you’ve been noticing:

🪶unexplained emotions
🪶exhaustion
🪶sudden clarity
🪶old wounds resurfacing
🪶confrontations with people or patterns
🪶a deep pull inward

…you’re not doing anything wrong. You’re aligning with the medicine of this moon.

Scorpio doesn’t skim the surface, she dives straight into the shadow. She asks you to release the version of you still clinging to what’s familiar, even if it’s no longer aligned.

Tonight isn’t about manifesting. It’s about making space.

Ask yourself:

✨ What am I finally done carrying?
✨ What do I need to let die so I can breathe again?
✨ What truth have I been avoiding that’s now standing right in front of me?

Let the body speak.
Let your spirit show you what’s ready to fall away.
Don’t fight the pull inward, honor it.

This moon is preparing your field for 2026, a 1-year in numerology and the beginning of a new collective cycle. You can’t step into a new chapter with a full, tangled nervous system.

Release what isn’t yours.
Return what was borrowed.
Cut the cords that ache.
And sit in the quiet long enough to hear your own spirit again.

You don’t need to do anything fancy just be willing to let go.

🌑🖤

11/14/2025

Your Healing Isn’t Meant to Look Like Theirs”

We’re stepping out of the era of one-size-fits-all spirituality.
Your blueprint matters.
Your wiring matters.
Your design matters.

When you understand how you’re built,
you finally understand how you’re meant to heal.

11/14/2025

Why We Put Spiritual People on Pedestals

(And How It Blocks Our Own Healing)

One thing I’ve witnessed again and again in spiritual spaces both in my own journey and in the people around me is how easy it is to place someone “above” you.

Not because they’re better or more advanced.
Not because they’re wiser or gifted. And definitely not because they want to be put there.

But because your nervous system is doing what it learned to do to survive.

Pedestals aren’t admiration.
They’re protection.

When someone has spent a lifetime feeling unseen, afraid of making mistakes, or searching for safety outside themselves, they unconsciously elevate the person whose light feels comforting or familiar. The mentor, the healer, the teacher, the intuitive they become the symbol of something you’re still trying to find within yourself.

And here’s the truth no one talks about:

Pedestals disconnect both people.

When you put someone “above” you, you stop meeting them as a person and start relating to the idea of them. Suddenly your authenticity is replaced with performance mirroring their language, measuring your energy, seeking approval, monitoring their tone, apologizing when you feel too much, jealous when someone else gets their attention.

You stop being you, and start trying to be the version of yourself you think they’ll accept.

And the spiritual person? They lose the ability to be human with you.

Their own authenticity gets buried under expectation, projection, and responsibility. You don’t see their humanity only your fantasy. They don’t get to breathe or show their messy, imperfect self. They end up carrying all the unspoken emotional weight of the dynamic.

It’s not a relationship.
It’s not even connection.
It’s a trauma bond dressed up as spirituality.

Pedestals often form when someone…

• fears disappointing others
• lacks trust in their intuition
• longs to be chosen
• struggles with self-worth
• uses spiritual language to avoid deeper wounds
• sees someone’s growth and thinks, “If I stay close, maybe I can feel safe too”

But the problem is this:

A pedestal is still a cage for both people.

It leads to a predictable cycle:

Idealization, Entitlement, Resentment, Disconnection

And when the person you’ve elevated grows, changes, or steps back, it feels like abandonment even if all they did was become their truer self.

Your healing will always stall when your power is sitting at someone else’s feet.

You don’t grow by attaching to someone’s light.
You grow by illuminating your own.

If you’ve ever caught yourself placing someone on a pedestal, it doesn’t make you wrong or weak. It simply means you’re ready to reclaim the parts of yourself you once outsourced your intuition, your trust, your voice, your worth.

Let people be human.
Let yourself be equal.
Let relationships be reciprocal, not reverential.

The moment you step off the pedestal, you finally step back into yourself and that’s where the real awakening begins.

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

When the Ancestors Say Slow Down

There is a whisper moving through the collective right now a soft, firm, ancient whisper:

“Slow down, my girl.”

Not the slowing of the body alone,
but the slowing of the spirit.

Our ancestors did not rush their becoming.
They listened.
They watched the sky, the waters, the wind.
They trusted the rhythms of the Earth more than the noise of the world.

They knew that urgency was a sign of disconnection, and that stillness was a doorway.

To slow your spirit is to:

• loosen your grip on the future
• quiet the hunger to fix everything
• soften the instinct to overgive
• stop running ahead of your own breath
• stop tending every fire but your own
• let the energy settle before you speak or move
• honor the timing of the cosmos, not the timing of fear

This kind of slowing is a ceremony.

It is an act of returning to yourself.

Because when life feels paused, emptied, rearranged, it is not punishment it is the ancestors gathering close, turning your face back toward the inner fire you forgot you carried.

This season is not asking you to push forward.
It is calling you inward.

Back to the body.
Back to the breath.
Back to the land.
Back to the bones.
Back to the old ways of listening.

The Earth teaches this every winter:
what rests, roots.
What roots, rises.

Many are being pulled into this quiet right now where old identities fall away, old cords dissolve,
old versions of self drift back into the soil.

If you feel tired, hollow, or like you are shedding skins that once felt familiar you are not breaking down. You are being rewoven.

Your ancestors are slowing your spirit
so you don’t plant seeds in the wrong season
or build futures from old wounds.

This is not passive waiting.
This is sacred waiting.

Waiting until Spirit moves your body,
instead of your fear moving your mind.

Waiting until your next chapter arrives whole not forced, not rushed, but ready.

And when it comes?

You will feel it.
Not as an idea,
but as a deep knowing in the gut,
a pulse in the bones,
a clarity that feels older than your name.

Until then, let this land inside you:

“Not yet.
Rest.
Listen.
Heal.”

Your next path will reveal itself when the Earth and your spirit begin to speak the same language again.

11/13/2025

🕰️ Open Tuesday-Friday 11 to 6 and Saturday 11 to 5!!!!
🧦 A new shipment of fun, whimsical socks just arrived!🧚🏻‍♀️
IF we have ti wear socks now that summer is over… they might as well be FUN!
Twyla 👣

11/13/2025

MERCURY RETROGRADE ✨ NOVEMBER 2025

What This One Is Really Doing to You

We’re officially in Mercury retrograde again (Nov 9–29), but this one is hitting differently. Stronger. Sharper. More revealing. Not in a chaotic way but in a truth-unveiling way.

Mercury started its retrograde in Sagittarius and is moving backward into Scorpio, which creates a double-layered clearing:

Sagittarius brings the truth-quake the collapse of old beliefs, outdated stories, and assumptions that no longer fit who you are becoming.

Scorpio brings the shadow sweep hidden emotions, buried patterns, relationship dynamics, resentments, and communication breakdowns rising to the surface where they can finally be seen.

If you’ve been feeling sensitive, irritable, emotional, disconnected, intuitive, raw, or simply done you’re not off. You’re syncing with what the cosmos is doing.

This retrograde is revealing things you once brushed aside:

* relationships that no longer feel aligned
* conversations that never got closure
* resentments you didn’t want to acknowledge
* projections coming from others
* the truth behind people’s intentions
* energetic contracts you’ve silently carried
* beliefs you inherited but never chose
* repeating patterns you’ve finally outgrown

Scorpio takes what you’ve tolerated… and exposes the reason you tolerated it. Sagittarius takes what you believed… and shows you where it was built on illusion.

People may be acting strange right now. Old connections resurfacing, apologies coming in, emotional confessions, unexpected misunderstandings, or sudden clarity about someone’s energy. None of this is random. The veil is thin, and the truth is loud.

This retrograde isn’t asking you to fix anything. It’s asking you to see.

To reflect.
To realign.

To recognize what was never meant to continue. To honor what your nervous system has been whispering for months.

When Mercury goes direct on Nov 29, things won’t instantly snap back. We move through the shadow phase until December 16 slowly integrating the truth that surfaced.

But you will come out of this with:

✨ a brand-new story
✨ deeper intuition
✨ cleaner communication
✨ stronger boundaries
✨ a clearer sense of self
✨ and fewer illusions clouding your path

This isn’t a breakdown. It’s a breakthrough disguised as discomfort.

Mercury retrograde isn’t ruining your life. It’s revealing what’s been quietly draining your energy.

Let it surface.
Let it clear.

Let it guide you into the version of yourself that’s been waiting on the other side of truth.

11/11/2025

🕰️ Open Tuesday-Friday 11 to 6 and Saturday 11 to 5!!!!

📚Step into a world of imagination with our fantasy bookshelf puzzles.
Once completed… wow.
They’re unbelievably fun to build and even better to display.

Twyla 📚

11/05/2025

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Open today Thursday, and Friday until 6 pm, and Saturday until 5 pm.

Stop down and find your favorite!!!

Twyla

10/29/2025

In the Cocoon 🕯️🕸️

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve shown up here, and I wanted to share a little of where I’ve been.

After Dude’s passing, something in me went still. The kind of stillness that doesn’t ask to be filled, only felt. We welcomed Bear into our lives a new little heartbeat who’s brought both joy and reflection. The contrast of endings and beginnings has been powerful medicine.

October has always carried the frequency of death for me not just physical death, but the death of old versions of self, of patterns, of attachments. This year has been no different. I’ve released connections that once felt unbreakable, faced truths I didn’t want to see, and surrendered to what this season has been asking of me: to stop trying to fix, to stop forcing forward motion, and to let what’s dying… die.

I’ve been in the cocoon. Not hiding, transforming. And sometimes that means disappearing for a bit, not because the light’s gone out, but because it’s rerouting from within.

If you’re in that same space between endings and beginnings you’re not alone. The cocoon is sacred. It’s where the soul reorganizes what the mind can’t yet make sense of.

Thank you for giving me space to honor that.
We’ll rise when it’s time and when we do, it will be from truth, not survival.

🖤 Tonya

10/29/2025

🎃🎃Oh my!!!! We got in some of the funnest signs!!!!!
I am here until 6 today!!!!
Twyla