Chthonic Star

💀🖤🎃 Tis the season for all the beasties and little bits!

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✨🖤✨ Experience the enchantment of Salem away from the crowds, in a private liminal parlour with an underworld vibe.

🧿 My books are now open for October intuitive sessions! Whether you’re seeking a general reading, insight from spirit guides, or a deeper understanding of your shadow aspects and inner landscape, I look forward to hosting you in my new parlour downtown. 🖤

For those unable to visit in person, virtual sessions will be available after the October season, offering the same depth of connection and insight.

Booking link in my bio!

Just added 18 books and decks! More still to come… 😅

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✨ Vegan Leather Amulets ✨

A limited number are now available! All are cut, threaded, filled, decorated, and blessed by me. All tops are unsealed so you may add a petition or other ingredients before closing it off and the ties are left long so you can adjust the length to your preference.

✨Powerful Momentum: Intended for powerful action, initiation, new ventures, road opening, and taking charge of your life with both joy and protection. Filled with powerful herbal allies and decorated with volcanic tektite and shungite.

✨The Healer: Intended for harmony, patience, emotional balance, overcoming fear, and calmly living in the moment. Filled with powerful herbal allies and decorated with amethyst and serpentine.

✨ Higher Self: A divinatory amulet intended for connection to your higher self and your guides. Filled with powerful herbal allies, a Shiva Eye crystal, and is decorated with lapis lazuli, larvikite, dream agate, and golden beads. Limited in number due to Shiva Eye supply.

These are made in very small batches. Please note that they are hand made so each one will vary slightly in appearance.

🍂 Bath weather is finally here! 🍂

Four seasonal bath blends are going back on my website and on my shelves at . ✨

🌿 Mystic Woods connects with the otherworldly rhythms of spirit and place to supercharge your natural intuition and magical power.

🌙 Salem Steep is a limited release for Samhain - Don’t miss out on this delicious blend that honors the liminality of the season!

❤️‍🔥 Seductrexx has a hypnotic blend of powerful, passionate allies to help you tap into your inner enchantress and prepare you for love and prosperity spells.

✨ Dark Goddess lends brazen strength to illuminate shadows so you can wash away and shed the lackluster remnants of what no longer serves you.

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💀 Serpent’s Embrace 💀

Spooky season prep continues! 😅 sooooo much pouring, painting, crafting, blending, dressing and blessing left to do but I’m looking forward to vending season.

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❤️‍🔥 GIVEAWAY TIME!! ❤️‍🔥

It’s time for my huge annual giveaway! Valued at over $450, this one is packed with all kinds of magical goodies.

THREE steps to enter, below. Runs thru Sept 29 and the winner will be announced Oct 1.

Included:
- Stacked Skulls candle
- Hekate Devotional candle
- Lilith Devotional candle
- Victorian Crow candle
- Druid candle
- Choice of one dressed large spell candle (Manifest, Abundance, Protection, or Divination)
- Choice of one Enchanted Perfume or Cologne (Queen of the Underworld, Seductrexx, Dark Ceremony, or Anubis)
- Choice of one Underworld Offerings loose incense (Hekate, Lilith, Anubis, or Hades)
- Charcoal bricks (accelerant-free)
- Choice of one ritual oil (Abundance, Return to Sender, Honor the Dead, or Hades)
- Choice of one handcrafted traditional, pure, and sustainable Japanese incense (Frankincense; Palo Santo; Patchouli, Sandalwood; or Tea Leaves)
- Palo Santo bundle (sustainably sourced)
- Amazonite Nugget
- Tiger’s Eye bracelet
- 10oz jar of my house made black salt (with ceremonial ash and sustainable hardwood charcoal)
- Choice of one Sun Sign book
- Chthonic Star tote
- PLUS, a $50 gift card to my shop

WHEW! Can you handle it?? 🖤✨

THREE steps are required to enter:
1) Follow my page
2) Like this post
3) Tag a friend in the comments

Get an extra entry by doing the same on my Chthonic Star IG page (chthonicstar) and/or threads ().

One entry per person, per platform. Contest runs through 11pm EST on 09/29/24. Must be 18+. One winner will be randomly selected from combined IG/FB/Threads entries and announced on Oct 1st. USA and Canada only.

✨⚡️✨ Made a little progress on one of the altars in the new space. Which color is your favorite?

They will be a work in progress for a long time, as always, but I’m excited to share them with you once I open. 🪶🌿

🍁🖤🍁 Fall Vending Dates!! So excited to join and this season! Can’t wait to catch up with so many talented friends. 🤩🖤

Haunted Happenings: Sept 28, Oct 12, 13, 20 & 27

Salem Night Faire: Oct 25 & 26

In addition to shopping at my tent, you’ll also be able to book appointments for private shopping away from the crowds starting the end of this month in my new Liminal Parlour in downtown Salem. Visit my site and sign up for email alerts to be the first to know when my books open!

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✨🖤💚✨ PREORDER! My first-ever branded apparel will be available for a one-week preorder starting 9/9! They will be available for shipping or local pick-up during the first week of October.

Swipe to see all styles. Visit my site to purchase.

I’m a huge supporter of body-inclusivity so our tees will range from XS-4X and hoodies S-4X. The totes are a 14L gusseted heavy cotton canvas with webbed handles. They are self-standing, comfortable, and durable!

We chose brands that have high environmental standards, a strong focus on waste reduction, use low-impact dyes, ensure safe and fair working conditions, and we will be using a local printer.

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Managed to finish one more! This one wanted to be called “The Healer.”

Intended for harmony, patience, emotional balance, overcoming fear, and calmly living in the moment. Includes amethyst, serpentine, and powerful herbal allies.

✨🌿✨ Only finished two pouches for today but I’ll continue to make more! They are vegan leather intention/spell pouches cut, threaded, filled, blessed, and dressed by me.

These are:

Powerful Momentum.

Intended for action, initiation, new ventures, road opening, and taking charge of your life with joy and protection. Includes volcanic tektite, shungite, and filled with powerful herbal allies.

Divination & Higher Self Pouch:

Intended to connect to your higher self and your guides. Envision & manifest. Be the apprentice and let spirit guide you. Includes a shiva eye (inside pouch), lapis, larvikite, dream agate, and powerful herbal allies.

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THANK YOU. Excellent follow up.

Yesterday, I shared 13 tips from a local on visiting Salem. These tips sparked a lot of conversation among both locals and potential visitors. With that in mind, I’d like to share 13 more tips for being respectful when visiting Salem. Often, we focus on the most outrageous behavior, but in reality, most visitors just want to experience the city, respect the residents, and absorb the history. So, here are 13 tips for doing just that:

1. You are not “the descendants of the witches they didn’t burn.” As my kids would say... that’s some SERIOUS cringe. First, they weren’t witches—they were terrorized Puritan women and men who were tragic victims of hysteria. Second, they weren’t burned; they were hanged next to what is today a Walgreens drive-through. And third…just don’t.

2. Most Salemites feel protective of the victims of the trials. Anyone who has lived here for more than a couple of years knows their names, their stories, and feels their tragedy. This may seem strange since this city throws a big Halloween party and calls itself the “Witch City,” but for most of us, there’s a clear separation between the human tragedy that happened in 1692 and the roundabout history that brought us to Hocus Pocus and Bewitched. Mind you, this is still controversial here in Salem, with some residents wishing the city would shed the “Witch City” label altogether. But one thing all residents can agree on is that the victims of 1692 are not your punchline. Jokes about hanging or burning are in very poor taste. Go ahead and have your fun with Winifred and Samantha, but please leave your jokes about Bridget Bishop and Giles Corey out of it.

3. The “I Got Stoned In Salem” shirt is in poor taste. Yes, some shops sell it, but we all judge you when we see you wearing it.

4. I know many tourists love those felt floppy witch hats... but just lean into it and go with the full traditional hat. It objectively looks much cooler. I said what I said.

5. You should absolutely enjoy our three historic cemeteries; they are incredible. However, you should not touch the stones or tombs, or—sit on them. These were real people who lived, loved, and died. Their tombs are not a place to rest your legs, change your baby’s diaper, or enjoy fried dough. Please be respectful.

6. Don’t walk three abreast on the sidewalk.

7. If you wouldn’t want someone to do it to your house, don’t do it to ours. Imagine someone sitting on your steps, plucking flowers from your garden, or looking into your windows. We are a dense city, and many of us live near historic sites, but these are still our homes. Please be mindful.

8. If you don’t have anything nice to say on Yelp, don’t say anything at all. Our local businesses work incredibly hard in October. Yes, they may run out of things, waits will be long, they will be super busy, and they may be understaffed—give them some grace.

9. Read the historic signage. The number of boyfriends I’ve seen confidently tell their girlfriends that the Ward House was the House of the Seven Gables is too high. And if all else fails, you could just... count the gables. Haha.

10. Don’t walk in the street.

11. The “Hocus Pocus House” is not a tourist attraction. It’s in a residential neighborhood and people live there. Over the last decade or so, some tourists have gotten bolder, knocking on the door, sitting on the porch, crowding around the home, and looking in windows. Please show respect. During October, the street itself is closed to non-resident vehicles, and there are many other things you can do and see that are less disruptive to residents.

12. The City of Salem expands resident-only parking dramatically in October. This year, we will also be using license plate readers to more quickly catch, ticket, and tow violators. Do not park on residential side streets; your car will not be there when you get back. Speaking of parking, there are days in October when we see 100,000+ visitors. There is no possible way to park even a tiny fraction of those vehicles. Plan other ways to get into Salem—you will thank yourself.

13. Enjoy yourself! As I mentioned yesterday, it can be frustrating to live in Salem in October, but deep down, we all just want you to love this city the way we love it. Soak up the history, be kind to our retail workers, servers, and small business owners, tip generously, and have the best time!

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It's that time of year again—locals call it "Septober." As someone who lives right in the middle of it all, I’ve gathered 13 pieces of advice to help you navigate Salem this season:

1. There is a huge difference between October weekends (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) in Salem and October weekdays. On weekends, roads are at full capacity, parking is nonexistent, and crowds fill Essex Street. Finding a table at a restaurant or a ticket to an attraction can be nearly impossible, with even retail stores having lines out the door. These weekends are for those willing to endure long waits or just come for the spectacle and costumes. Weekdays, however, are just busy. While you should still avoid driving, you can get into shops, restaurants, and most attractions. Local businesses prefer visitors on weekdays, as they understand many are deterred by the perception of massive crowds. 👍

2. We love our crosswalks in Salem. As a pedestrian-friendly city, many residents navigate daily without cars, using crosswalks and expecting the right of way. Drivers, stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Pedestrians, use crosswalks when crossing busy streets—don't expect drivers to see you if you're not in one. ⚠️

3. Walking tours are an excellent way to learn about Salem. Local companies provide a world-class experience worth every penny. Out-of-town companies often fall short.💀

4. Don’t let your kids swim in the East India Fountain. 🤢

5. Salem is not a quaint New England village and never has been. It's a bustling, dense, diverse, and complex city where houses from the 1600s stand next to busy streets. This mix is the magic of Salem. If you want quaint, charming, and quiet, Salem won’t be for you. But if you want historic, unique, rich, and vibrant, that’s Salem! ✨

6. Salem is also not a theme park. With 45,000 residents, most of whom don’t rely on the tourist trade, it’s a city where people live, work and go about their day. Unlike Disney World, Salem doesn’t control the guest experience—there won’t be enough parking, some houses will be decorated, some won’t, and the quality of street performers will vary. Appreciate Salem in all its uniqueness; don’t expect a curated Halloween theme park. 🎟️

7. Our retail employees, waitstaff, and small business owners are our friends, family, and neighbors, and they are probably exhausted. Treat them with kindness and tip generously; they need it in October. 🙏

8. We are no longer allowed to permit or CORI check street performers, so that Michael Myers impersonator could be ANYONE. Spend time on social media to familiarize yourself with well-known performers (Borah, Larry the Frankenstein, Addams Family, Uncle Boogieman, Denis the Zombie, Tiny the Clown, Pennywise Brandon to name a few.) or use your best judgment before letting your kids take photos with them. And make sure to tip! 💵

9. If you do see Borah, tell her to have a horrible day. It will warm her rotten black heart.🖤

10. Don’t use the bathroom in the Witch City Mall (IYKYK), but do patronize the great small businesses there. 👍

11. The Peabody Essex Museum is a world-class museum and absolutely worth the price of admission. Build it into your itinerary. 👏

12. Get up early before the crowds and walk the McIntire District and/or Derby Street neighborhood at sunrise. You won’t regret it. ☀️

13. While locals can sometimes be a little grumpy about the disruption, we’re proud that you’ve chosen to spend your vacation in this city we love. We truly appreciate you and want you to have the best time here! (But we still look forward to November 1). Happy Halloween! 🎃

Seasonal logo update. Feeling cute. Might put on a shirt later. 🖤✨

The Oak King getting acclimated in his/our new space. Thank you for your amazing creations!! Much love for you two. 🤩✨💙

🐇 🌕 ✨ Moon Gazing Hare

All set up for the vending! Don’t forget to come look for those of us downstairs in the library! 🖤🖤

🌑✨ Getting closer to the unveiling of my Liminal Parlour in downtown Salem!

This isn’t an *official* announcement but my estimated date is Sept 5th! 🤩🫣🤞 (I’ll post an official date once I’m further recovered post-op and open my books.)

This appointment-only space is intended to be an intimate sanctuary for customized eco-conscious magic and insight. I am working hard to create a unique blend of intuitive guidance, intimate rituals, and exclusive in-person shopping to help you establish or support your personal practice, or simply receive intuitive guidance. 🌿🔮

I’ll also be partnering with local businesses and other intuitives to conjure a selection of creative experiences.

Take a break from the crowds in Salem this fall and come explore Chthonic Star’s Liminal Parlour!

*books for shopping and services opening soon*

⛅️⚡️Trying to keep my left arm busy while my right is in a sling.

First shot at digital art and using Procreate. Feeling okay about it! Especially with my non-dominant arm. It’s a bit dark so you definitely need to up the screen brightness but I’ve found a fun way to hopefully create some art for the brand and eat away hours of my life. Haha

Thank you for the super helpful tutorials on YouTube!