EssenceEdge

01/19/2026

🪄🕯️ Ritual Hearth Candles 🕯️🪄

These candles were created slowly, intentionally, and with deep reverence for the hearth, the place where warmth, protection, and presence live.

Each Ritual Hearth Candle is hand-poured into locally made pottery and infused with botanicals, crystals, and symbolism that speak to grounding, comfort, and ancestral steadiness. No two are the same. The vessel, the energy, the way the elements settle, each one carries its own personality and purpose.

These aren’t just candles to light for scent.
They’re meant to be worked with.

✨ Use them during ritual or meditation
✨ Light them to anchor your space after a long day
✨ Place them on your altar or hearth as a point of grounding
✨ Let them mark transitions, intentions, or moments of rest

Before lighting, you’re invited to remove the larger herbs, crystals, or charms and place them on your altar or keep them as ongoing talismans, allowing the candle to continue its work safely while the magic carries on beyond the flame.

Each candle is one-of-a-kind, and once it’s gone, it cannot be replicated in the same way again.

🌿 A special note:

Those who order a Witch’s Wheel of the Year Ritual Box will receive one of these specially made Ritual Hearth Candles within their box created specifically to support the seasonal work and intentions of that cycle.

🕯️Ritual Hearth Candles are now available on our website

✨ Shipping available
✨ In-shop pickup available for local customers

This line came together through intuition, repetition, and listening to the materials, to the season, and to what felt needed. I’m really honored to finally share them beyond the walls of the shop.

🪄🤍 Tonya / Essence Edge

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/categories/candles

01/19/2026

🪄✨ 🌱A Quiet Expansion Is Happening at Essence Edge 🌱✨🪄

For a long time, Essence Edge has lived mostly within the walls of our shop, in shared conversations, candlelit corners, hands touching stones, and moments that can’t quite be replicated online.

And for just as long, I’ve been saying “one day we’ll have more available online.” That day is finally, gently arriving.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll be slowly adding products to our website; ritual candles, simmer pots, tools, and offerings, so those of you who live out of town, out of state, or simply can’t make it into the shop can still connect with Essence Edge from wherever you are.

✨ Local friends, you can also choose in-shop pickup at checkout, making it easy to reserve items online and collect them when you’re in the space.

This isn’t a big flashy launch. It’s a steady, intentional opening.

Essence Edge has always been about presence, intention, and relationship and that energy is being carried into this next chapter too. Some items will be one-of-a-kind, some intuitively chosen, some seasonal… just like the shop itself.

If you’ve been waiting for a way to shop from afar, know that the doors are beginning to open 🌿 And if you love visiting in person that heart of the space isn’t going anywhere.

Thank you for growing with us, patiently and beautifully.

✨ Online offerings will be added as they’re ready

🌿 www.essenceedge.org

Retail Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00 - 6:00 & Saturday 11:00 - 5:00 218-850-8739

01/19/2026

🧶✨ Beginner Crochet Class ✨🧶

There’s something deeply calming about working with your hands, slowing down, creating stitch by stitch, and learning a skill that’s been passed down for generations.

Join Twyla on February 13, 2026 at 6 p.m. for a Beginner Crochet Class at Essence Edge.
This class is designed especially for true beginners no prior crochet experience needed.

This is a slow, supportive, hands-on class where we focus on building strong foundations so you can confidently continue crocheting at home.

You’ll learn:

• How to properly hold your hook and yarn
• How to create a consistent crochet chain
• How to identify stitches and understand basic stitch placement
• Tips for working with tension (everyone’s hands are different!)

✨ This class is about learning the feel of crochet, not rushing through projects.

Your class fee includes everything you need to get started:

🧵 1 skein of yarn
🧵 1 crochet hook
🧵 Beginner-friendly patterns to take home (dishcloth, scarf, afghan) so you can continue practicing after class

While we may begin exploring stitches beyond the chain, the primary goal is comfort, confidence, and understanding not perfection.

Crochet is meditative, grounding, and a beautiful way to unwind while learning a timeless craft.

✨Essence Edge Classroom
✨Class Fee: $45
✨Space is limited to keep the experience supportive and personal.

Come learn, relax, and enjoy a cozy evening of mindful making. 🤍

01/18/2026

🌑 New Moon Energy Check-In January 18

Today’s New Moon carries a quieter frequency than many expect not loud manifestation energy, not urgency, not “do more.”

This one asks for discernment.

The collective energy right now is about foundations. What you’re building. What you’re sustaining. And what you’re ready to stop carrying simply because you always have.

This New Moon doesn’t reward force. It rewards honesty.

You may notice:

• a desire to pull inward
• clarity around what feels misaligned
• a natural shedding of obligations that no longer feel true
• a deeper awareness of where your energy actually belongs

There’s a strong theme of long-term alignment over short-term reassurance.

Less “What should I start?”
More “What am I committed to maintaining?”

This is a powerful moment to check in with:

• your boundaries
• your routines
• your relationship with responsibility
• where you’re overextending out of habit, guilt, or old identity

Not everything needs to be fixed today.
But everything benefits from being seen clearly.

If emotions feel muted, reflective, or even heavy that’s not wrong. This New Moon works below the surface, helping you recalibrate before momentum returns.

✨ A simple intention for this cycle:

May I build only what supports my nervous system, my truth, and my long-term wellbeing.

No rush.
No pressure.
Just grounded, intentional beginnings.

How are you feeling this New Moon?
Pulling inward… or quietly recalibrating? 🌑

01/18/2026

🌱🕯️ Imbolc Ritual Boxes | Now Open to the Community 🕯️🌱

For a long time, I’ve felt a quiet pull to create something that helped us slow down and meet the seasons more intentionally, not as another thing to do, but as something to be with.
These ritual boxes were born from that place.

Imbolc has always felt especially tender to me.

It’s that point in the year where, on the surface, nothing looks very different… yet everything is beginning to change. The light returns softly.
The seeds stir beneath frozen ground. And we’re invited to tend what’s small, warm, and easily overlooked.

The Imbolc Witch’s Wheel of the Year Ritual Box was created as a companion for this threshold.

Inside, you’ll find objects chosen with care, not just for how they look, but for what they hold. Each piece carries intention: the candle, the cloth, the symbols, and quiet practices that can be returned to again and again. A written note is included to gently guide how the pieces come together, rooted in tradition but offered in a way that feels grounded and accessible.

This offering isn’t about perfection or performance. It’s about creating a small pause in the year. A place to rest your hands, your attention, and your hopes for what is beginning to stir.

These boxes are assembled slowly and with care, in rhythm with the season itself. Imbolc boxes are available for in-shop pickup at Essence Edge, with pickup beginning January 28.

(No shipping Available for this Sabbat)

If you’ve been craving a gentler way to mark the season something simple, meaningful, and rooted… this may be for you.

I’m really grateful to share the first turning of this Wheel with you.

🌱🕯️🪄

https://essenceedge.org/shop/ols/products/the-witches-wheel-of-the-year-ritual-boxes

01/17/2026

🌱🕯️ Imbolc Ritual Box | Pre-Orders Open Tomorrow 🕯️🌱

Tomorrow we open pre-orders for our first Witch’s Wheel of the Year Ritual Box…Imbolc!

These seasonal ritual boxes are created slowly and intentionally, in rhythm with the land and the turning year. Because of that, quantities are kept small, and Patreon members receive first access for each sabbat.

If any Imbolc boxes remain after Patreon access, they will be made available to the public.

If you’re part of our Patreon community, all of the details and timing are already shared there.

Get more from Essence Edge on Patreon

01/16/2026

❄️🧹 We Are OPEN 🧹❄️

I’m here until 6pm today

🤍Tonya

01/16/2026

🧹🙌🏽✨ Clearing & Comfort Simmer Pot Magic ✨🧹🙌🏽

I made up a new batch of simmer pots this week… not seasonal, not tied to a holiday, but made for real life. Because nothing resets the energy of a home quite like this ritual.

A simmer pot isn’t just a cozy scent on the stove.
It’s elemental magic. A gentle clearing. A way of telling your home and your nervous system,
“We’re tending what’s been carried.”

This blend is called Clearing & Comfort, part of my Ancestral Simmer Pot line, created for the moments when life has moved through your space and left a little residue behind.

Not bad.
Not wrong.
Just ready to be softened and released.

🌿 What’s inside:

🍊Orange, grapefruit & lemon for emotional lift and renewal
🧂Rock salt for grounding and purification
🌿Rosemary & basil for protection and nervous system support
🌲Cedar for ancestral grounding and steadiness
🍃Sage for gentle clearing of old imprints
Clove for warmth, comfort, and circulation

Combined together on low heat, they shift the energy of a space slowly and steadily, no harsh clearing, no disruption. Just comfort, circulation, and release.

🌀This is the kind of ritual you reach for:

• after a heavy week
• after company leaves
• during stress, grief, or overwhelm
• when your home feels full, but not unsafe

✨ Clearing & Comfort Simmer Pots are now available at the shop, made in small batches and crafted with intention.

Not just to make your home smell good, but to help it feel like a place you can breathe again.

✨ Clearing
✨ Comfort
✨ Grounding
✨ Emotional reset

All in one pot.

01/16/2026

🌱🛏️This past weekend I stepped into a role I don’t often share here… mom.

I traveled down to see my son as he prepares to officially open the doors this week to something he and his partner have been building, intentionally, steadily, and with a lot of heart.

Standing in their small showroom, I felt that familiar energy of beginning: the courage it takes to start before everything is certain, the choice to build something honest rather than flashy, and the quiet determination to do things their way.

I know he’s watched me build Essence Edge over the years… the long days, the risks no one sees, the moments of trusting intuition over trends. Seeing those same qualities mirrored back through him is deeply moving.

They’re based in Grand Forks, ND, but what they’re creating isn’t limited by location. They work with people near and far, keeping things simple, transparent, and people-first, values that matter more to me now than ever.

If you or someone you love is in the market for a mattress, I genuinely recommend Allan’s Mattress Outlet. Trust me, I laid on the mattresses myself 😂 And not just because he’s my son, but because I recognize integrity when I see it.

Sometimes our work becomes the soil others grow from. This is one of those moments I wanted to honor. 🤍

https://www.allansmattressoutlet.com

01/15/2026

🌱Community Care • Awareness • Human Rights

At the heart of everything I believe in is this simple truth:

People deserve to feel safe.
Families deserve dignity.
Communities deserve care.

Loving our neighbors isn’t just a feeling, it’s an action. It looks like paying attention. It looks like protecting one another. It looks like choosing awareness over apathy and compassion over fear.

For generations, whistles have been used as simple alert tools, long before phones, apps, or social media. They’ve been used to signal danger, call for help, warn others nearby, or simply say: pay attention. They are small, accessible, and rely on one powerful thing community response.

Right now, many people are carrying uncertainty not because they’ve done anything wrong, but because the world feels unpredictable and heavy. In moments like this, community matters more than ever.

At the shop, we’re quietly offering free community whistles to anyone who wants one, not as a symbol of fear, but as a tool for awareness, mutual care, and looking out for one another.

This is about:

• supporting human rights
• strengthening community awareness
• standing for dignity
• choosing love for our neighbors
• and remembering that safety is something we build together

No questions asked. No assumptions made. Just care. If you feel called to take one, you’re welcome to stop in.

May we continue choosing humanity.
May we continue showing up for one another.
And may love always be louder than fear.

🤍