December is a season of contrast.
Outside, the world accelerates—travel, gatherings, lists, lights. A collective hum of movement and obligation.
Inside, something else is calling.
The New Moon arrives at the threshold of Winter Solstice, pulling us toward darkness, rest, and quiet. Toward the inner hearth. Toward fewer inputs and deeper listening. Drawing us into the deepest sill of the year and the threshold of the silent, substantial transfiguration as the poles shift their orientation to the sun.
As the Earth subtly reorients, we are asked to notice where our own lives are crossing from one way of being into another.
This is the deepest inward draw of the year.
A season that does not ask us to add more, but to tend what already burns within.
December teaches steadiness inside motion.
Presence inside noise. The calm within the eye of all things.
A way of grounding into center and self while everything changes, ongoing.
December reminds us that stillness is not withdrawal.
It is nourishment.
It is how direction quietly returns.
The New Moon of December asks for discernment.
When to engage. When to step back.
When to move with the current, and when to stand still and listen.
New Moon Primer
A New Moon is the fertile dark.
It is the pause before momentum—the unseen ground where beginnings quietly take root. Not absence, but incubation. Not doing, but preparing.
Under a New Moon, we turn inward to listen. We simplify. We clear space so that what wants to emerge can do so. With ease, with grace, with strength. Nourished, grounded, embodied.
The December New Moon
The New Moon of December arrives at the threshold of the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year.
This is the lunar dark nested inside the solar dark. A rare convergence of stillness.
Traditionally, this moment has been understood as a deep pause before movement. The earth is quiet. Seeds are underground. Light has not yet returned, but it is turning.
This New Moon carries the deepest inward draw of the year, on the threshold of Winter Solstice.
It is not a time for action plans or declarations. It is a time for listening rather than deciding. For clearing rather than initiating. For letting the nervous system soften into rest so that true direction can emerge without force.
What is nourished now becomes the foundation for what grows through the coming cycles.
Pausing Before the Wolf Moon
As this New Moon begins to wax, we move slowly toward the Wolf Moon.
In the dark of the New Moon, we pause. We wait. We wonder. We listen.
We make room to welcome the energy that will rise in the days ahead.
In traditional wisdom, the wolf is a symbol of guardianship, instinctual clarity, and tribe.
Of protecting what is precious.
Of knowing when to stand watch, when to gather close, and when to move together with purpose.
The Wolf Moon illuminates our role within family, community, and chosen kin. It sharpens instincts. It clarifies boundaries. It reminds us that solitude and belonging are not opposites, but partners.
Energetic Bridge
This New Moon asks us to cross deliberately—from noise into quiet, from dispersion into presence, from what has been into what is becoming.
What is Waxing in the Cycle to Come
Traditionally, the waxing of the Wolf Moon reminds us that winter strips life to essentials. What remains is what matters. Hunger sharpens awareness. Silence amplifies listening.
Practically, the Wolf Moon illuminates where we are being asked to conserve energy, simplify, and move with intention rather than urgency. It is a moment to assess resources. Physical, emotional, energetic. To notice what sustains you, and what quietly drains.
Ritually, this is a powerful moon for protection, boundary-setting, and strengthening inner resolve. A time to tend the hearth. To clear the space. To work with scent as a guardian at the threshold.
Featured Blend — Cross the Threshold
Cross the Threshold was crafted as a companion for transitions—the passages that shape a life.
From profound initiations to everyday shifts. From inner transformations to the liminal spaces between what was and what is becoming.
We are, continuously, crossing thresholds.
This formula waited patiently for the right moment, and it arrives now—at the turning of the year, when boundaries matter, instincts sharpen, and change asks to be met with awareness.
We shared Cross the Threshold for the first time at Mercado Sagrado at the Malibu Soho House in early December, within a space devoted to sacred exchange and intentional gathering.
It is offered now more widely as a steady ally for times of change.
Ingredient Synergy – A Resin Blend for Navigating Change with Grace and Power
Cross the Threshold works as a guardian blend– scent medicine for shifts and change.
With a scent that is both celestial and grounded, this ceremonial formulation brings together twelve resins, uniting ancestral lineages from the four hemispheres - each carrying a distinct intelligence for guidance, clarity, protection, and movement between worlds.
Together, the blend supports:
o Ease through change and transition
o Instinctual clarity
o Clear boundaries
o Inner flexibility, resilience, and adaptability
o Quiet guardianship
o Guidance across symbolic or literal thresholds
This blend opens a doorway, guides you through it, and helps you land on the other side with grace.
When to Use Cross The Threshold
Burn Cross the Threshold before, during, or after any passage— profound initiations, everyday shifts, inner transformations, and the liminal moments between what was and what is becoming.
Use the blend when you are:
• Opening or closing a ritual
• Beginning or completing a journey, inward or outward
• Entering a new life phase, relationship, mindset, or project
• Marking births, deaths, commitments, or profound personal change
• Preparing yourself or a space for transition
• Returning home and grounding after travel
• Welcoming guests or shifting the energy of a room
• Supporting emotional, spiritual, or psychological thresholds
Ritual to Cross The Threshold on the New Moon of Winter Solstice
Light your charcoal and allow it to fully ash over.
Call in the quiet stillness of the concave, fertile, deep darkness. The distillation of what is left when the noise and distraction fall away. See where you have been, what has brought you here to this moment, to this intention. Notice the noise, the thoughts, the loops, the pulls and draws. There they are. Find the center of your breath, inhale slowly, steadily, from the diamond mine of your heart and soul. Exhale, slowly, steadily, to full emptiness. Hold that emptiness for a moment without force or strain, instead with relaxation and release. Welcome the mystery of the unknown. There is magic afoot. We are continuously in transition of what we have been and what we are becoming.
Set your Intention.
Place a small pinch of resin on the coal.
Fan the vapor gently. Invite it in. Receive.
As the scent blooms, acknowledge what is ending.
Then sense what is ready to be welcomed, what is already becoming.
Move slowly. There is no need to rush a threshold.
Founder Note
There are moments when something in us knows change is coming before we can name it.
To me, Cross the Threshold is about meeting those moments with steadiness and respect—honoring the passage rather than bypassing it.
The resins know how to hold that space. With guidance, protection and repair. I feel like a steward, simply offering them at the right time.
Closing Blessing
May this New Moon offer you rest beneath the noise.
May the quiet clarify what matters most.
And may Cross the Threshold guide and guard your passage—
with ease, presence, and integrity,
for your highest good and greatest growth, in the right amounts.
