Arrival isn’t a location—it’s a threshold. Here’s the 5-minute ceremony I use when Kevin and I travel for trunk shows: shift the atmosphere, place one home anchor, offer water to the body, and seal the room with a simple blessing that helps you land.

Sound has always been more than “background” for me—it’s information, atmosphere, a doorway. In this essay I share my lifelong sensitivity to tone, why certain soundscapes create safety in the nervous system, and a simple 3-minute practice to help sound become a steady sanctuary you can return to.

There is a moment each December when the world softens and the year begins to exhale. As we step toward 2026, the stars open a powerful new chapter — one shaped by rare transits, spiritual awakening, and creative expansion. In this poetic month-by-month guide, I share what the cosmos is offering us next year, the energies moving beneath each season, and the gemstone pairings to help you walk into 2026 with intention, ceremony, and an open heart.

2025 was a threshold year — a year of awakening, becoming, and remembering why I create. New offerings were born, my ceremonial voice came alive, and The Art of Ceremony stepped into its next expression through jewelry, earth offerings, and the beginning of our Experience Pillar. This is my love letter to a year that changed me.

Yesterday, something shifted inside me. Our first live ceremony — opening Canyon Ranch’s Awaken Festival — became a moment where everything I’ve been creating finally breathed on its own. In a sunlit room framed by two walls of windows and guarded by towering amethyst geodes, sound, breath, and intention came alive. Kevin’s blessing, Jared’s soundscape, and my voice found each other in perfect rhythm. And in the slowing down, in the spaciousness, something opened — in me, and in the room.