Brenda's Blog

The new year arrives not as a demand to become someone else, but as an invitation to remember who you really are.  Please know that hope lives in the quiet remembering. It's  in the breath you take in every moment, in the  courage it takes to begin again without erasing the past. Wonder in 2026 doesn't require certainty, it asks us to stay open to new experiences. What if life could surprise us this year in ways we can't plan or predict? That could be amazing. We need the rig

As the final days of the year arrive, something inside us begins to soften. We pause. We look back. We decide to look a little deeper. The end of the year isn't just a date on the calendar, it's an opening of the soul. It calls to us to ask: what have I lived? Lost? Learned? What has shaped me, stretched me, or awakened me?

Today is Winter Solstice and the longest night of the year. Ancient cultures honored it as a sacred turning point where darkness gives way to dawn.The Solstice holds a frequency of completion, illumination, recalibration, and quiet remembrance.In the Rose Lineage, the Winter Solstice is seen as a pause between breaths seen as the womb space where the next chapter begins forming in silence becomes visible.On this day, the veil thins in a different way than on Samhain. Instead