The Enchanted Altar

10/23/2026

🗝️ THE CROSSROADS OF PERSEPHONE 🗝️
A Halloween Tarot + Reiki Experience
On Halloween, as the veil grows thin and we stand at the threshold between seasons, Lauren of xtwii and Brother Andrew Christos of MorningStar Collective invite you to pause at the crossroads and listen for the wisdom waiting there.

Your experience begins with Lauren of Xtwii and a six-card seasonal Tarot reading arranged in the shape of a symbolic crossroads. Together, you will explore the choices before you, the answers you seek, and the path unfolding ahead… with a Spirit Guide card standing at the center as a reminder of the strength and agency you already possess. This reading offers open conversation, mystical insight, and the gentle reminder that you are still the author of your next chapter.

From there, Andrew Christleton will guide you into a gentle Reiki experience and meditation. Through visualization, mindful presence, and energy work, you will journey inward to meet compassionate guides, loving ancestors, and angelic wisdom… honoring both your light and shadow, releasing what no longer serves you, and gathering courage for what comes next.

Each 30-minute experience includes:
🔮 15-minute Crossroads Tarot Reading
✨ 15-minute Reiki Guided Meditation
🍂 Thematic bites and beverage

Saturday, October 31st
12–5 pm | $60 per person
The Enchanted Altar
6 Park PlaceLee
Downtown Lee, Massachusetts

I love the intention behind this offering, and I cannot imagine a more meaningful way to spend Halloween than gathered at the crossroads with two gifted practitioners. Appointments must be booked online through the link: https://tinyurl.com/The-Crossroads-of-Persephone

Come sit with the mystery, honor the road behind you, and listen for where you are being called next 🖤

10/20/2026

Grateful and blessed for the opportunity to work alongside so many wondrous humans here in Lee to conjure magic and community in my hometown ✨🐾🧡🖤🎃 Yoga Lee Studio Sarah Smith Lee Chamber Lee Chamber of Commerce

The occasion celebrated the spooky as well as the spiritual.

10/12/2026

🎃 Costumes and festive attire are highly encouraged… so dress to impress!
Whether you arrive bewitched, bedecked, or wrapped in your favorite autumn layers, we cannot wait to see what you wear 🍁

All Hallows Lee from 12-5 pm is a RAIN-OR-SHINE celebration, so check the forecast and dress to stay warm, cozy, and comfortable while exploring Downtown Lee.

If the weather turns chilly ☔️ we have plenty of indoor spaces (in addition to our outdoor vendor village) filled with seasonal activities, treats, and a little extra magic:

🔮 11 am | Lee Library 100 Main Street
Kick off the day with a free, beginner-friendly talk exploring the history, cultural context, and intuitive practice of Tarot with Jezmina Von Thiele

👻 12 - 2 pm | Lee Town Hall 32 Main Street
Venture inside for the Haunted House and Halloween Stroll Lee Chamber Lee Chamber of Commerce

📚 12 - 3 pm | Bliss Crumbs and Coffee 77 Main Street
Meet acclaimed author and practicing witch Judy Ann Nock during her book signing and meet-and-greet… and enjoy Bliss’s thematic coffee, drinks, and treats while you visit

✨ 12-5 pm | Yoga Lee Studio 62 Main Street
Step into the Psychic Parlor for mini Aura Photography, Tarot readings, Shamanic offerings, Reiki sessions, and more

🖤 12-5 pm | The Enchanted Altar | 6 Park Place
Stop in for flash tattoos with Good Heavens Tattoos and a shop filled with witchy, magical, and seasonal treasures

🍂 The Starving Artist Creperie & Cafe | 40 Main Street
Fuel your adventures with good eats, festive flavors, and fun treats.

Come dressed for the weather, ready for adventure, and prepared to wander between the Festive Vendor Village on the Park Green and all the magic waiting throughout Downtown Lee!


Caitlyn Rose Andrew Christleton Sarah Smith Shannon Toye Xtwii Xtwii Lulu

10/08/2026

🍁🔮 The veil is thinning in the heart of the Berkshires… and we are thrilled to welcome international bestselling author Judy Ann Nock to All Hallows Lee 🔮🍁

Join us at Bliss Crumbs and Coffee in Downtown Lee on Saturday, October 17th, from 12-3 pm for a special Meet & Greet and Book Signing with Judy… practicing Witch and acclaimed author whose Modern Witchcraft titles are published by Adams Media, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.

Her work explores modern Witchcraft, Herbal Magick, Crystal Magick, Rune divination, natural Magick, spells, rituals, the Wheel of the Year, and creating a personal grimoire. Her catalog includes:
✨ The Modern Witchcraft Natural Magick Boxed Set
💎 The Modern Witchcraft Book of Crystal Magick
ᚱ The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Runes
🌿 The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs
🌙 The Modern Witchcraft Book of Natural Magick
🍂 The Modern Witchcraft Guide to the Wheel of the Year
🕯️ The Provenance Press Guide to the Wiccan Year
📖 A Witch’s Grimoire

Bring a favorite copy from your magical library or stop at The Enchanted Altar, where a selection of Judy’s books will be available for purchase. Then make your way to Bliss to meet Judy, have your book personally signed, and talk about Witchcraft, herbs, crystals, runes, divination, nature-based spirituality, and seasonal Magick.

While you are there, settle in with a handcrafted coffee or seasonal beverage and something delicious from the pastry case. Supporting Bliss means supporting the wonderful woman-owned café making this gathering possible…and books, coffee, and autumn treats feel like a little spell of their own ☕📚🍪

🎃 All Hallows Lee 2026
📅 Saturday, October 17th
🕯️ Festival: 12-5 pm
📚 Judy Ann Nock: 12-3 pm
📍 Signing: Bliss Crumbs and Coffee
77 Main Street
📖 Books: The Enchanted Altar
6 Park Place
🍂 Park Green & Downtown Lee, Massachusetts

This is a Lee Chamber sponsored event ✨

The Facebook Event is linked in our bio 🔗 follow along as we reveal the complete schedule!

10/07/2026

Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling Tarot History
11 am at the Lee Library
100 Main Street Lee Ma

Grab a coffee from Bliss Crumbs and Coffee and start your All Hallows Lee with with a ✨FREE✨ beginner-friendly journey into the living history behind the cards as Sinti-Romani generational fortune teller Jezmina Von Thiele explores how Tarot evolved from an Italian card game into a Romani survival trade, intuitive practice, and tool for community care.

Join Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she), speaker, educator, and generational fortune teller in their Sinti-Romani family tradition, for a welcoming, beginner-friendly talk on the history of tarot as a Romani survival trade. This talk explores tarot as an intuitive tool that started as an Italian card game, but because of centuries of persecution that continue today, it became a ubiquitous "fortune telling" (professional divination) tool. We will learn about the Romani cultural context for tarot and other popular divination, and its use for intuitive development, community care, and personal growth. Followed by a Q&A.

Jezmina is the coauthor of Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling and cohost of Romanistan Podcast. Roma are a diasporic ethnic group originally from India, also known by the slur/misnomer “G*psies,” which Roma and related groups ca reclaim, but others cannot appropriate.

You can get a reading from Jezmina at the Psychic Parlour at the Yoga Lee Studio afterwards from 12-5 pm 🔮

This is a Lee Chamber sponsored event ✨

10/04/2026

🌿🕯️ Botanical Ritual by Day.
✨🖤 Noir Spellwork by Night.
I have a definite weakness for things that feel as though they could have been discovered tucked away in an old apothecary… botanical illustrations, curious little objects, beautifully strange fragrances, antique ephemera, and anything with just enough mystery to make you wonder about its story... So when I discovered L’Apothicaire Co., I knew immediately that their candles belonged at The Enchanted Altar.

They are a small-batch, woman-owned maker inspired by many of the same things I love: botanicals, vintage ephemera, antiques, curiosities, art, and unexpected fragrance combinations. And I couldn't choose between their lighter botanical world and their darker, stranger one… so naturally, I brought in both 😂🌿🖤

The Botanica Collection feels like wandering through an old herbarium or an overgrown garden with an apothecary basket tucked over your arm. Forest Moss, Moonflower + Nettle, Sweet Grass + Jasmine, Cannabis + Rose, Wild Rose + Peony, To***co Flower, Sea Kelp + Lavender… scents filled with flowers and herbs, damp earth and forest floor, tea, smoke and salt air. They are botanical candles for people who like their florals a little wild and their home fragrance to smell like somewhere they might actually want to disappear into.

And then there is Noir Collection… 🖤 This is the other side of my heart entirely: candlelit studies, Gothic literature, old books, divination tables, folklore, Victorian mourning, graveyards, forbidden things and the beautifully macabre. Spellbound, Requiem, Nevermore, Absinthe, Fortune + Fate, Wisdom + Wonder, Forbidden, Graveyard Roses + Sacred.

These are the gothic candles I imagine burning while pulling Tarot Cards after dark, writing in a journal by candlelight, tending an altar, reading something deliciously spooky, or simply making an ordinary evening feel a little more enchanted. They also make wonderfully unusual witchy gifts for the beautifully strange people in your life.

I think that is what I love most about carrying both collections. They feel like two rooms in the same old apothecary. One opens onto the garden. The other waits at the end of a dark hallway with a candle burning inside 🌿🥀🕯️

✨ Which door are you opening first? Both collections are waiting to be discovered at The Enchanted Altar 6 Park Place in Downtown Lee, Massachusetts, here in the heart of the .

09/29/2026

Step into the art of Herbal Alchemy 🌿🍯
Join me at the Berkshire Botanical Garden on Saturday, October 31st, for a hands-on oxymel workshop exploring herbalism, folk medicine, seasonal wellness, and the home apothecary.

WHAT IS AN OXYMEL? An is a traditional herbal preparation made by combining honey and vinegar with herbs, roots, fruits, and spices. Sweet, sour, and versatile, oxymels offer herbalists and home medicine makers a practical, and delicious, way to extract and preserve the properties of plants.

🌿 During this herbal workshop, we’ll explore the history, uses, and versatility of oxymels while learning how to create thoughtful, balanced botanical formulations. You’ll taste prepared oxymel blends, experience how flavor can guide formulation, and learn how different herbal ingredients may support everyday wellness, immune health, and the body through seasonal shifts.

One of my favorite things about folk herbalism is that it invites us to work with our senses, our knowledge, and our relationship with the plants themselves. Rather than following one prescribed recipe, you’ll work intuitively with a curated selection of herbs, roots, and spices to craft a unique honey-and-vinegar herbal preparation to take home.

Whether you are beginning your herbalism journey, building a home apothecary, interested in natural wellness and plant medicine, or curious about traditional herbal preparations, this beginner-friendly class offers an approachable way to deepen your connection with plants and create something useful for the colder months ahead.

No previous herbal experience is necessary. All ingredients, supplies, tastings, and workshop materials are included.

✨ Herbal Alchemy: Oxymel Workshop
📍 Berkshire Botanical Garden | , Massachusetts
📅 Saturday, October 31st, 2026
🕐 1:00 - 3:00 pm

Spend afternoon brewing a little herbal magic with me in the Berkshires ✨🌿🌙

🍯 Register through via www.berkshirebotanicalgarden.org or our website www.TheEnchantedAltar.com

09/27/2026

Three of the most ancient-sounding names on the Witch’s Calendar were given to their festivals in 1974. I know that can feel startling if you’ve always heard the Wheel of the Year described as one ancient tradition passed down intact ✨🕯️🌙

The solstices 🌞 and equinoxes 🌚 are ancient celestial turning points, and Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh have older roots in Gaelic seasonal tradition. The eight-part Wheel that brings those days together took shape within modern Paganism, particularly twentieth-century Wicca and Druidry. I love learning where its different threads came from, because each one has its own story 🧵🪡

⚙️ When writer Aidan Kelly was making a Pagan calendar in 1974, he wanted names for the spring equinox, summer solstice, and autumn equinox that felt at home beside celebrations such as Samhain and Yule. He chose Ostara 🥚 drawing on the name associated with Ēostre; Litha 🌻 from Old English month names around midsummer; and Mabon 🍁 from Mabon ap Modron in Welsh mythology. Those older names and stories are real parts of cultural history. Their use as the names of these three Wheel of the Year festivals is modern. Yule 🌲 already had its own Germanic midwinter history.

For me, that doesn’t make a seasonal ritual feel any less sacred. When I notice the first changes in the garden, gather herbs through summer, or watch the light soften over the Berkshires in autumn, I am in relationship with seasons that are happening right outside my door. I can honor an old story, learn from a modern Pagan tradition, and still be honest about which is which.

You don’t have to be Wiccan to find meaning in the Wheel of the Year. Paganism holds many paths, and Witchcraft can be practiced in many ways. As a Witch and an herbalist, I want my nature-based spirituality to be curious about its history and attentive to the living land. Accurate history doesn’t diminish the Magic. It teaches us how to carry it with respect. 🌿

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🌚🥚🌻🍁❄️ Which turning of the Wheel do you feel most deeply where you live?

09/18/2026

A little herbal gift for Founders Weekend 🌼
After teaching my sold-out Calendula & Kindred workshop at Berkshire Botanical Garden, I had enough of our handcrafted botanical salve to create complimentary one-ounce samples for this festive weekend celebration in downtown Lee…

Calendula leads this nourishing formula, joined by Plantain, Comfrey, German Chamomile, Yarrow and Lavender. The herbs were gently infused into Olive and high-oleic Sunflower Oils, then blended with Shea Butter and Beeswax to create a rich salve for dry, hardworking and weather-worn skin.

Recieve this Founders Weekend Freebie with any purchase at The Enchanted Altar at 6 Park Place Lee… next to the park green during take home a free sample while each day’s supply lasts.

HOURS
September 18th · 10 am – through Taste of Lee 😋
Saturday, September 19th · 10 am – 6 pm
Sunday, September 20th · 11 am – 5 pm

And on Saturday, join us on the porch from 11 am – 3 pm for Keeper of the Hearth, our drop-in broom decorating workshop taking place on the porch ✨🧹✨Visit website www.TheEnchantedAltar.com for details!

🌼 Before you use the salve remember it is for external use on intact skin.
Please review the complete ingredient label for any potential allergies and patch-test before broader use.