If there is anything I know right now, it is that everything I need is in my heart. This is the place that beats for me, knows me, and knows what I really need. But I only listen when it is hurting and hard. What if I listened when it was soft and slow?

When my heart beats too quickly, it gets loud. When my heart breaks or bends or sinks into itself, I do all of the things to escape. I will make myself too busy. I will eat. I will lose my appetite. I will sleep. I will stay up all night. Anything to tire my body enough and to be as loud as possible so as not to hear the truth. That I already know what to do. I am the spell, after all.

What you need:

• Candle(s) — white is lovely, but any color that calls to you is great
• Roses or any flower that makes you feel loved
• A mirror

Find a place where you can be alone. Light a candle and surround yourself with flowers, petals, and beauty.  Get into a space of being comfortable and grounded and QUIET.

Let everything else in your mind be quiet. If there are thoughts, allow them to rest on the petals of the flowers around you or to sink into the candle flame. Let them go, let them go. Really, let them go. Close your eyes and enter into the present moment, to the place where you are safe, where your heart is safe. Where you can simply show up as you are.

Pull up into yourself, in whatever way makes sense to you, the energy, the power of who you really are. It might be familiar or it may be an energy you need to cultivate by means of imagination. You may need to fake the way you are, as though curling a finger to beckon it to come home. To come back to your body.

Allow yourself to be in this space until all of your body is filled with the magick of who you, uniquely, are. Once you feel ‘it’ and only you know what ‘it’ is, open your eyes and look into the mirror.

What do you notice? What do you feel? What do you want for this precious creature?

I love you.

I am here for you.

I am enough.

I am your home.

I am in a safe place.

I am safe.

I will take care of you.

I will not abandon you.

I love you just as you are, just as you always have been.

Tell yourself the things you need to know to hold a broken heart.

Make yourself the spell(s) of healing. Sit in the spells of surrender and possibility. For as long as you like. Until all the candles go out.

Bring yourself back to the truth of who you are, away from the noise of the world, away from the stories you are told and that you tell. Remember you are the spell you can cast and create and direct, as you need and as you will.

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She has taught in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, bringing her blend of grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at the personal and collective levels.

She has written a number of books:
Pagan Portals (Reclaiming Witchcraft – 2020, Aphrodite – 2020, Iris – 2021, Norns – 2023, Artemis – 2024, Circe – 2024, Hestia – 2025)
Earth Spirit (Honoring the Wild – 2023, Gaia – 2023)
Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being – 2020
(With Pantheon: The Greeks and The Muses to arrive in late 2025 and early 2026, respectively.)

Plus she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Moon Books, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, Llewellyn, Revelore Press, Girl God Books, Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Epona Muse Publishing, and more.

In 2023, they self-published a book of poetry, “wrecked: the insistence of grief.”

Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

For more details: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/moon-books/authors/irisanya-moon