if you’ve felt it too, here’s what’s going on:

We’ve got a lunar eclipse landing right on the full moon in Pisces this week. Eclipses crack the veil open. Pisces is the most porous, spongy, absorb-everyone’s-feelings sign in the zodiac.

Put those together and you get exactly what I had yesterday: everyone’s chaos leaking into your nervous system like you left a window open in a storm.

Here’s what I did: I took a FULL energetic shower.

Not the kind where you rinse off, wash your face, and call it clean. I mean the full shower. Hair. Big soap. Exfoliating. Shaving. The whole production, the one you only do when you actually have time, and you’re not just trying to not smell bad.

That’s what your energy needs right now. Not a rinse. A full shower.

Here’s the step-by-step practice I did that took me from feeling IN myself to FEELING MYSELF.

That’s a big difference.

1. Acknowledge it

You can’t clean something you won’t admit is dirty.

I had to sit there and actually say it: my energy is whack right now.

And some of that is on me, and I can blame a little bit of it on the astrology (because that feels fun). This is the most important step of the entire ritual here.

Take ownership of letting things get this dirty, and now it’s time to clean it. This is the part everyone skips, and it might be the most important one.

2. White Light Meditation.

I sat down and meditated. But here’s the trick.

Focus on yourself, where your body is. Be aware of any sensations, then bring a white light in and have it make a square on the floor around you. Breathe into that light with each exhale, and pull it to you on the inhale.

Every time a thought distracted me or the color shifted, come back to the white light. You CAN do this. If it takes time it takes time.

This is your energetic car wash, sometimes you gotta scrub to get the dirt off.

Keep this pattern until white is coating your body. Inhale, and on the exhale, push that white light out over EVERYTHING. Let it burst through you.

You are now the light itself and as it moves from you, you are blasting any soul dust bunnies.

3. Connection

While I was in that meditation, a friend kept coming to mind, so I texted her. I talked about how my energy felt off, and she recommended the white light energy reset, and then I giggled because that’s exactly what I just did. This gave me a moment to ground into myself, my community and what is moving around me.

10/10 recommend.

Connection to someone GOOD in your space during this time can be grounding. Do not get caught up in drama or anything that makes you question yourself.

If that’s the kind of person you’re going to reach out to, I beg you, SKIP THIS STEP.

4. Grounding Time

Now you’ve opened your energy, cleansed things off it’s time to go outside. Yes, you need to touch grass, or a tree, or be near water, but you need outside time. Yes, actual nature. Actual earth.

I went outside and put my hands on the trees in my backyard. Out loud, I said: take off anything that is not mine. Then I meditated on my highest self. Not what she looks like but what she feels like.

Calm.

Peaceful.

Clean.

I brought that version into my body while I stood there and let everything else just... slide off onto the ground.

The earth can hold it. That’s what it’s there for.

I brought the white light back again, because I told you my energy felt whack.

After some good deep breaths, I went back inside.

5. Clean the space you actually live in

I came back inside and realized something I should’ve clocked way sooner: I cannot keep my own energy clean if my house is a mess.

Open your windows even for a moment and say “I welcome all new fresh aligned energy to support me. I banish anything that is holding me back, not mine, or getting in my truest self’s way”

Your home holds your energy, all of it, whether you’re paying attention or not.

I cleaned. Swept. Mopped the floors. Washed the windows. Touched up the mirrors.

Scrubbed the shower (Cause yes, there’s a shower that will happen)

Your space is a mirror. Clean the mirror before you expect to like what’s looking back at you.

Pro Witch Tip: Tidy up your altars and use Full Moon water to remove all blocks that were holding you back. Get fresh flowers and place them around your home to anchor the new energy. Change up where your crystals are sitting. Give it all a little touch up.

Everything up to this point gets you present, grounded, and standing in a clean house. The actual reset, the exact words for the ritual and the spell work after, is next.

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Full Moon: Aug 28th 2026 | 12:15AM EDT | 4°53’ Pisces

The Full Moon rises in Pisces, accompanied by a powerful partial lunar eclipse. Ending out eclipse season, FINALLY.

This energy is creating exhaustion, and there’s a chance you’re already feeling it.

The veil is thin, and you are most likely having wild dreams.

This full moon comes to dissolve the story you can no longer keep pretending is real. It will create quick endings and fresh new beginnings.

Pisces rules dreams, intuition, imagination, spirituality, and everything that exists beyond what we can physically prove. It helps us believe in possibility. It reminds us that life can still hold magic, even when we don’t know what comes next.

But Pisces also rules fantasy, escapism, projection, and the stories we create when reality feels too painful to accept.

You may recognize where you have been waiting for something to change.

The waiting room is changing, and you’re getting kicked out.

With the Sun in Virgo opposing the Pisces Moon, this eclipse asks you to look at what is actually happening, not only what you hoped would happen. This creates grounded energy, and practical action will be consuming your thoughts. Virgo brings the truth, the details, and the evidence. Pisces brings the feelings, the faith, and the vision.

We need all of the above.

Even if it’s overstimulating as hell.

This lunar eclipse occurs near the North Node, making it more than a moment of release. It is pulling you toward greater trust, deeper intuition, creative freedom, and a future you may not fully understand yet.

This eclipse is closure for the fantasy, the timeline, and the outcome you became attached to. It is permission to grieve what never became real, reclaim the energy you poured into waiting, and leave enough room for something new to find you.

You can surrender the fantasy without surrendering the magic.

You may find yourself feeling:

• Drained / Exhausted

• Quicler to Anger

• Weird Cravings

• Insomnia

• Feeling like you need to get your shit together

• Unsure of where to start

  
  
  

So here’s how it’s impacting you based on your astrology.

Horoscopes for all zodiac signs AND affirmations to say.

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I titled it “Your Thoughts and Prayers are Bullshit”

Now, I’ve always had a flair for the dramatics, its what made my blog my full-time income. But this was something else. It was written with the pain I was navigating in real time. It was raw, emotional, and really got to the heart of my experience, which was people’s inability to show up and somehow sending “thoughts and prayers” as though that was comforting to me and my degenerating body.

The coolest thing in my career happened: this post got picked up, and went pretty viral.

The hard thing? My family saw it. The people I called out (without using names) were furious. And I mean FURIOUS. I was flooded with calls, long emails, and huge text messages because “How dare I be so selfish” in a time where I had something to say those who were my people silenced me.

They screamed, yelled, and called me every name under the sun, but no one apologized. Not a single one of them saw my hurt or the truth of my words, which is that they did not come. I was alone. I was scared. And I said something about it.

In those moments, I felt so beaten down, so entirely exhausted, and my body couldn’t take anymore.

So instead of fighting, I stopped writing.

I stopped speaking.

Whatever I had, I lost it in that moment.

It’s like I added their guilt and shame to my backpack and carried it with me. Even if my words were true, I wasn’t allowed to air my “dirty laundry”

If I could go back and hug that Shay, I would. Because she was being vulnerable and authentic before it was a buzzword.

Now fast forward to 2026,

I’m sitting down to write an article for my new Substack because I’m part of a challenge, and all I can think about is that moment. My fingers freeze, a lump forms in my throat, and my mind goes blank.

I hear it again: “You cannot share that.” “It’s too personal”

In my process of unlearning the limiting beliefs my family imposed on me many years ago, I’ve created my own block.

So for the first time in 7 years, I’m writing for me.

and if anyone has a problem, there’s the door.

My silence helped NO ONE other than those who were abusing me. My lack of sharing left me feeling more isolated in a world where I could have had support. Me internalizing what I was going through created a wall that disconnected me from those around me.

And I refuse to carry that weight anymore.

It was not mine to carry then, and it’s not mine to carry now.

This is for me, and it’s the most healing thing I could do for that girl.

Do I know what I’ll be writing about on this…? Not really.

But do I have a couple of ideas… I sure do.

So if you’re here for the witchy woo woo, welcome.

If you’re here for the mindset training that builds resilience, I’m glad you’re here.

If you’re ready to adventure into the depths of my own shadow and maybe laugh along the way, this is the place.

But if you’re here to shame growth, honesty, or the rawness of life, unfollow now. Because I refuse to be silenced anymore.

Hi, I’m Shay, and this is where it all begins.

THEN, I snapped myself out of it.

Because WHAT DO YOU MEAN, it’s another box to check… I practice witchcraft because it’s fun. Because when I was a kid me making potions made me feel alive. There used to be such a rawness to it.

THEN growing up, and all the advice sucked the fun out of my craft, and I let it.

So rather than being a whiny witch, I diagnosed myself with not enough WHIMSY, and I came back to the basics.

Because yes, sometimes it’s throwing a massive spell with 18 candles and dancing under a full moon.

But sometimes it’s something SO simple. Because I want my life to be filled with whimsy and magic.

So anytime life feels less than that, here are 3 easy spells I come back to.

1) Clear the Stank Energy

Open a window, or door, let the air flow through.

Clap or ring a bell or waft incense in each room, and say:

“Anything heavy, stagnant, or not mine must leave this space.”

Shay Sauce: I dance around waving the incense. I want my house to feel ALIVE, so I generate that energy as I reset it.

2) Courage Candle

Light a red, orange, or white candle. (truly any color)

Speak one thing you want extra courage for into the flame. (BE SO HONEST HERE)

Let it burn for a few intentional minutes, and yap into the candle, watching the flame.

3) Morning Sweetness

Stir honey or sugar into your morning drink clockwise.

Say:

“May extra sweetness come easily into my day.”

Never underestimate the power of a little sweetness in life.




These are for the beginner witch and the ten-year-in witch alike. Make them as witchy as you want, or don’t. You can light the candle with a lighter you got at a gas station, use the honey packet from your coffee shop. That’s kind of the whole point.

The magic was never in the props.

It has always been in you.

Which one are you trying first? Tell me in the comments or better yet, tell me what “the next big thing” has been for you lately. I have a feeling I’m not the only one chasing it.

I was freaking out. How am I going to grow this? How am I going to stay in it?

Instead of spiraling, I did witchcraft.

I did the exact ritual I’m about to walk you through. Then I honored it.

Now I’m the healthiest version of myself I’ve ever been. My community is loving, growing, connecting. It’s changing lives.

It changed mine. Physically. Financially. All of it.

don’t forget that magic is an exchange of energy.

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Ritual Time

Scamper over grab your journal and eight bay leaves.

Sit down. Ground yourself. Take a couple deep breaths. Invite your highest self to come in.

Ask yourself: what do I want?

Write it all down. What you desire. What you’re craving. What you know you need?

Then rip that page out. Because that page was about your wants. and wanting is asking. we don't ask. We claim. That's inevitability.

You are going to think on that verison of you, who has it, she has everything. Close your eyes, breathe in, and invite her to sit with you. When shes present, look at your “past” self (your current you) and write a letter to her.

Write her a letter. The one who wakes up tomorrow and does this ritual.

Write it in past tense. Like it already happened.

Whatever it is for you, write it. This is you celebrating what you’ve already done.

Here’s mine if you want to be all snoopy.

Shay! AHHHHH! I’m so proud of you. Remember last year when you did that Lions Gate ritual? You had just gotten that SUPER cute shirt, and you were feeling yourself? well HOLY FUCK. It worked. Like magic.

within DAYS the perfect collaboration fell right into your lap, and it all worked out like magic. You got to go to the coolest faire with your friends and danced under the full moon. Your heart expanded every single day, and naturally so did your impact.

Your magic has always been in you, and holy, the way you yielded it, was MASTERFUL. You listened to your body, and forgave that verison of yourself we both know you’re hanging onto. You dedicated the time, AND you had so much fun, rested, giggled, and didn’t overthink too much. You created IN flow more times than out. Because you decided and I’m so fucking proud of you. I’m hugging you right now.

You are consistently hitting $33,333 every single month with SO much ease, and you giggle every time you see that number.

Thank you for trusting yourself and moving with action. In that your impact soared, and so did you. Those retreats you thought you were never going to do again? Well we both know that was the burnout.

This time around, wow! you cared for yourself that burnout is a thing of the past. and yes, we celebrate that effortlessly. Every damn day.

shifting has always been your superpower, and you know it.

I love you!

So write something like that to yourself… See how it feels.

NOW BACK TO THE RITUAL

Here’s where it gets cute.

Take that letter. The one to your future self.

Tuck it under your pillow TONIGHT (or the 8th is just fine)

Right before bed, say: “I am so grateful for every decision I make that led me to this point.”

Then say: “I love you, [your name].”

Go to sleep on that. Literally, haha

When you wake up on the 8th, you are that person.

So you better be acting like it and that’s where the bay leaves come in.

Out of everything you wrote, pick the pieces you are claiming. Not hoping for. Claiming.

that Thanos-style inevitable. - WHO ARE YOU? Program it in right now.

Write one on each bay leaf. All eight.

Then grab a flame.

Say “I am.” Then burn it. Blow it to the wind.

I am a woman who makes $33,000 consistently every single month.

Burn. Blow it to the wind.

I am a woman who has sold out retreats.

Burn. Blow it to the wind.

Last year shifted everything because I stopped shrinking to fit the old version of me.

This year? I'm expanding

This ritual?

It’s the magic you’ve been waiting for.

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Then I realized the problem was never the number.

Lion's Gate is supposed to crack you open and show you the truth, and the truth is I've been so busy chasing the next manifestation I forgot to actually receive the one that already landed. And that hit me like a ton of bricks.

Let’s back up.

One Year ago, I did my lion’s gate ritual to expand my personal abundance and get the “life of my dreams,” and DAMN did it work quick.

My problem? I was SO vague.

I want 10K months.
I want ease in business.
I want happiness and health.

This year, all those boxes are checked, but something wasn’t sitting right with me. I was there, and I wasn’t quite there at the same time.

Last night, when journalling about whether or not to release my Lions Gate Ritual to everyone reading this, I noticed these places in my soul where I was being rude to myself, ungrateful, and mopey. Call it Mercury Retrograde Shadow, or my little Cancer heart, but either way I was sitting there being like This doesn’t feel like it. I truly felt like I had failed, though by all accounts I didn’t.

When I navigated my feelings, I discovered that I was upset that I made a goal so small, rather than proud of that goal being achieved with flying colors.

Then I went back into myself. Into the girl last year who was calling it in. I noticed everything I was manifesting had something to do with external outcomes and nothing had to do with me, or my heart. It was money, which, FAIR, we need money to live, but in my heart-centered world, money wasn’t going to fulfill the same if that’s how I judged my success.

I’m officially at $10,000 months comfortably and consistently, within a FEW MONTHS of my ritual, and in a way it’s everything I was dreaming of. And now I understand it’s also not my stopping point. There’s an impact I desire, and money is just a side effect of it.

What does it feel like in my body when I say $33,333 consistent months?

Terrifying.

Buckle up, because that’s where I’m heading.

I want more, and honestly I have been scared to admit it. Scared that my community would flee, scared that in the spiritual community I’d be banished for admitting I desire bigger. Then I noticed that that fear was less about my incredible community and more about me not trusting myself to hold all of it.

OUCH.

I teeter between celebrating myself, and fear of the next chapter.

So how do I celebrate myself, AND say goodbye to this verison that is thinking way too small? Who is scared to piss off people, or lose community members? How to I ensure that I expand deeper into myself?

Well, that’s where THIS Lions Gate Portal Ritual comes in.

While yes, this year I’m going bigger, bolder, and braver. I’m also asking for the container to hold it, the heart to believe in myself, and the bank account that shows it.

I’m reaching for financial security in all aspects, and healing the anxious attachment around my bank account and the worth I prescribe for it.

And here’s how I’m going to do it.

It all starts the night of August 7th.

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