The Freyja Necklaces were inspired by a very shocking discovery. Years ago, a friend of mine brought me a cat and dog skull that he had found. When I asked where he found them, he told me about a spot in some light woods behind a pet shelter. He had stumbled into an area that quite a few people knew about. I had him take me there. I was floored friends! It was a large pile and several smaller piles of bones. Mostly, skulls in the piles, with the smaller bones spread about the area. One of the piles was up to my kneecaps! I walked over and realized they were almost strictly dogs and cats! I found a raccoon in the bunch but most domesticated pets. I was floored! My friend told me that the shelter used to dump bodies back there, and a lot of people knew about it. He said many people returned to the spot to collect them and give them love in the afterlife. I was really taken aback. We did what we could to blanket the area with love, and I invited any dog or cat spirit to come home with me if they wanted.
I was inspired by sorrow to draw the design of this necklace that evening. When I would send this necklace off, I asked a few guardian spirits to go home and be loved by their new mom or dad. Animal companion spirits are pure. They just want to love us. I want better for those beauties. I hate to think about their lives without someone to care for them and someone to care for back. They are here to teach us kindness, humility, and love. We must take care of them. Like each release, a percentage of the sales will be donated to a few no-kill shelters.
This necklace really took a lot out of me emotionally but reminded me of a lot of good things too. It raised a ton of awareness for furbabies and funds that helped in their aid. Please remember that animals are fellow Earthlings. We must do all we can for them. They are showing us the way to our higher self.
This blog has been coming for a long time. Writing it has been hard because this blog is the Community Exit Sign we come across on a highway that tells us our exits. This is the first of two in the city of “That’s A Wrap!”
The EPJ Floral Wraps are coming to an end. We start with the new release of the Mini Wraps. I am excited for their last dance, but a touch of sadness comes with the end of an era.
In 2010, the Wand Floral Wrap began to be created. Over the next year, many short wraps were added, and the flower design became another EPJ Signature piece.
Unfortunately, several knockoffs started making the rounds. I know that the path of the higher self should be the road walked, but I didn’t take it well. Sure, this had happened countless times, but this one had an added layer. I think it was because many people I called friends bought them and even bought them wholesale to sell in their shops. I always thought that being a shop curator should be more about making a place where amazing things could be found. Not selling anything you can get your hands on for money. Many people showed who they were during this time, but we live in a time where honor is dead and money is king. I separated myself from many of those people because that is not the energy I want in my circles. Some of them are sweet, and some of them are kind, but I have rules. These rules are called “How to be the Luckiest of Lucky.” Befriending those without some sort of standards is a way to be unlucky.
I have always believed that things without soul or purpose except greed bring bad juju to sellers and buyers. They pollute their energy and the energy of buyers who may not know what they are selling. I couldn’t believe the excuses from people I knew.
“The knockoffs are $5.00.”
“Babe, they were selling them for 40 cents per unit if I bought 300. You think I am gonna pass that up?”
People want the design, but they don’t want to actually pay for it. They want a carbon copy of an imitation. It’s the equivalent of wanting a culture but not the struggle. It’s all for show.
These were two excuses I wrote in my journal from people I knew. What is a “unit?” Is that where we are at? A unit? Great. Mislabeling a talisman or an amulet is an issue in this world… but now we are down to a “unit?” There were times I was ready to tap out. I get it; not everyone believes what I believe or works, feels, and knows energy. Some don’t care. But what happened to being a decent person? Not buying knockoffs from junk manufacturers. Not buying stolen designs? Oddly, I watched these same people buy them for 40 cents a “unit” and mark them up 100 times their wholesale price. I was floored. We sometimes live in worlds of ghosts.
Tears are in my eyes as I write this like the wound is fresh. It became ridiculous how many people once posted their EPJ Original Design Wraps to those posting the knock-offs. The knockoffs grew and grew. It got out of control, and I tapped out. I had already been through lawsuits with larger companies and had settlements. It is draining. It begins to take its toll. So, I quit making them. My energy could be used elsewhere, and I needed time to re-energize and consult my higher self, as opposed to the self that was sad.
It wasn’t that no one had ever wrapped a crystal before—that is silly. It was the fact that my exact flower design was being replicated and sold “by the unit.” The people telling me to “get over it” were also a part of the problem. I had to see it for what it was—masking dropping to the floor and revealing to me who I was really talking to this whole time. I also learned who was not like that. I found some beautiful people during that time.
In 2017, after some rest, I was back with a fresh batch of wands. The issue was that people kept sending me messages with photos of the knockoffs. It’s wild when people constantly do that. You know they are trying to help, but it hurts more than anything. I had to request they stop sending them because there were too many to count.
“My enemy shot an arrow and missed, but you picked it up… walked over to where I am and stabbed me with it.”
This is when you limit the access to you. Sometimes, that access means shutting off the faucet that flows to many things. The art draws the water was the first. Sometimes, social media can be a lot. So, once again, I stopped making the wraps.
Too many people have requested them not to let one last round come about, so I have decided to make two last rounds. The Minis will be available on September 20th, 2024, and the Wand wraps will come sometime next year. These will be the last ones EPJ ever makes.
One day, long after I am gone, I hope someone comes across the original design and the knockoff in a vintage shop or estate sale. I hope they hold them side by side and know the truth.
Thank you for loving the wraps and thank you for supporting small businesses. It always will mean the world long after we are all gone.
On Monday afternoon, I found my red string bracelet peeking through the seams of my couch. I had lost it months ago and remember pulling the cushions out to see if it had made its way down into the unseen regions of the sofa. Nothing, but now there it was. I thought, “Yeah!” and put it on my left wrist.
That evening, I noticed it was gone again while brushing my teeth. I thought. “Boo!” But oh well. It’s just a red string bracelet. I liked it a lot because it had a rose quartz bead, but it’s not the end of the world. Before bed, I told JD, “I lost my red string bracelet. If you see it tomorrow, hook me up!” He replied, “Didn’t you just find it today?” As I rolled over, I sang my reply, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.”
I woke up at 3 a.m., and as I came to somewhat wake, I felt something in my right hand… It was my red string bracelet! Did I sleepwalk downstairs and find it in the dark without memory? Nope. Some kind entity or friendly spirit found it and put it in my hand. At least, that’s what I told my half-asleep brain. I thought, “Yeah!” and put it on my left wrist. Then, I rolled over and went back to sleep.
I always thought it was one of the wildest things in the world when I saw someone or groups of people band together and invest their precious time and energy into bad intentions. Like targeting someone they don’t like in social situations. I like to overthink. I sometimes spin out in my overthinking and live there for days, even months. I ask why and what. Some would say this place I enter isn’t good, but really, it is my power place.
I step into other people’s shoes and try to understand why they feel right and just. Unfortunately, their self-righteous stance is still motivated by malice, and they do not see it. Their intention is to cause harm, and the seed comes from such little information. Most of all, it comes from a shadow that exists within them. Investing in it grows the shadow until it blankets everything they see.
When we invest our time and energy, remember that it is a currency. We are investing life force into something with a desired result that has an intention to harm. Even if we think the harm is just… we must remember that none of us on this planet are equipped to judge or inflict harm on others. Not one person is a perfect human being, and anyone who claims to be should think back on a time they were learning or becoming. Think back to a time they were wrong or misinformed. Think back to things that they understood much later than in a moment. Even the most innocent are guilty. So invest in your own endeavors. Invest in the light you have and make it grow instead of growing shadows and wasting your time with things that don’t have good intentions.
The internet is a wild place. Log off from social media this weekend and find things in front of you that can be seen with your eyes rather than things perpetuated with malice or ill will. Remember to find joy no matter the hardships in your life. Look for things that give you joy… and invest in them. Other people’s endeavors are not a part of your plan. They are a waste of your precious currency.
These two Evil Eye pieces have been a super staple for me over these past months. I find myself unable to take them off at times or switch it up here and there. Sometimes, it is just like that with pieces that call us. I feel that call to protect and guard right now. That is where I am at.
What a wild ride this has been. A lot of you know what I am talking about. Being imperfect beings that live in an imperfect world seems sometimes to be lost on these apps. Humans living behind screens being treated like things that do not live at all.
I seem to remember it being different, or maybe I am just stuck in one of those circular visions. I have seen it somewhere before I know it. If it wasn’t the past, maybe it was a future vision. In my being, I feel like it is real. I know it is real—a place where all living beings can give space and care for all living beings. A world where great upset, suffering, and pain can’t exist because that kind of world isn’t understood. For this to happen, we must start to understand each other. Renouncing all quick reactions that give way to misunderstandings. All must be given a chance to just be, like a human being is meant to be. Remember friends, when we scroll these seemingly faceless windows, and we don’t understand what we are looking at… never forget there is a person trying to understand this existence we live in… just like we are. Paths change every day for every person, and the shore of understanding is an individual’s journey. No wave is alone and we must carry each other in like the tide. No wave is alone, but some can be closer to shore than others.
Be kind, be understanding, and try to figure it out with care instead of building walls that divide. Misunderstanding lives in division. This ocean divided sometimes feels like millions of individual glasses of water on one table. Blessed Week’s End friends.
Every person born has a power plate of gems that are meant to guide their path. It is called a Birthplate. The plate is unique to every person and must be drawn up similarly to a Natal Chart. The plate is square, and the stone placements on the square are arranged in the shape of a pyramid. The original True Birthstones are used in the mapping configuration. These stones are tied to planets and Planetary timeframes.
A Birthplate is much more than a guide and map of a person’s life that can come from mapping a Natal Chart. It is also a formula that can be changed or enhanced; in my opinion, it is the highest form of Divination and among the oldest known.
Just like the geomatic figures in Geomancy, the arrangement of stones on your Birthplate have divinity. We are reflections of the sky, and that sky has a zillion-beyond little dots. As those dots connect, they make a picture. That picture is you. As you start setting up your Birthplate, this story will emerge.
This Booklet is a limited beginners introduction. A master work is in place, but will not be ready for a couple more years. Patreons will receive the larger work first and have a pre-order window for a year before the public release. The Birthplace Booklet is available now at:
This book was a personal note and a fever dream. Written in a two-week mind coma of my inner world while the outer world version of me was working on autopilot through the motions. Crazy to wake up and see that you wrote a book about your childhood and its ponderings while somersaulting through an undertow. I usually design in that space, but the underneath had something else to say, I suppose—definitely, not anything I would say on a post or a group of friends. Mostly just things I shared with my journal or my closest who hear me nonspeak more than my actual speak.
What a way to wake up. I went from being 11 years old to being in my forties within two weeks. I wouldn’t say it was anything new. It seems like it is and always was something we all do several times in each life and in rotations within others. The only new here was that process. I usually see things in my mind and make them tangible, as in jewelry. Here, it was tangible… all real at one point, but then disappeared into my mind. All to watch myself bring it back out and make it tangible again.
This book is a personal note that I didn’t want actually to release, but I had already let Patreons pre-order it. After I read it, I was not sure how I would feel about other people reading it. This is all of my nonspeak as a result of being forced to be overspoken. My inner child, sitting on the banks of my childhood creek with my adult self. Not just me at the age I am now but every age that I have been. A thousand versions reaching to a becoming that only longs to talk to the beginning. Ah, how the snake always eats his tail.
This limited version will be released publicly for a very short time. Patreons will be able to continue order copies if they wish.
Over the last year, I have shared little sneak peeks and works in progress for this bracelet aligned with an Evil Eye Info Series on Patreon. This bracelet was a labor of love and a long-time wish. I have had several Evil Eyes bracelets in my lifetime, but the metal was usually a base metal that turned my wrist green. Or Sterling silver that can turn me black, tarnish so badly that cleaning it was impossible, or the bracelet would break because of the metal the adornment was made out of.
I was also wanting more than just an Amulet. I wanted a concentrated piece. A piece that was made as a talisman and not just for fashion. Sometimes it is unknown if the item was moved with the planets or just made. I wanted color magick, numerology, and symbolic language all in one. Finally, thanks to all of you, it happened.
They will only be available in black. No other colors will pop up. A modernized version to some but in color therapy, black deflects and at times, absorbs and neutralizes.
They are hypoallergenic stainless steel, so I can leave them out on my dresser and not have it turn a thick copper-black color that I have to rub intensely with a cloth for the color to shine through. Steel comes with protection properties, and being a Level Two it enhances the surrounding intended purpose.
Made with numerology and in a talisman fashion in accordance with the planets, this makes this beauty a talisman and an amulet combined. 11 Eyes to invoke awareness along with numerology in the measurements of the eyes and charms. Each eye is 9mm, the horseshoe charm is 10 x 10mm, and the Malocchio is 18mm. I put every possible symbolic language into this piece to make it as energetically efficient as possible in protecting and guarding.
This is the Evil Eye Bracelet that I always wanted and imagined. Thank you for assisting me in manifesting my vision. Many Bright Blessings and all of my love.
These magical chunks were considered high quality, but I do not get into grading systems because I feel like all crystals are relevant. EPJ’s lapidary called me when he got into the each to tell me this was some high grade, and he wanted to buy some off of me or buy the scraps from the cuts as he always does.
This Sodalite has that high-end lush blue-violet color that is sought after. I love all qualities of gems, but I must say, I didn’t have quality in my personal collection because it is rather expensive. I feel so blessed to be able to bring this beauty into my own life and the lives of anyone seeking Sodalite energy.
Sodalite is a Level Two Crystal and a lukewarm crystal spiritually. Like all Level Twos, Sodalite can balance out crystals that are too cold or too hot. My main love of Sodalite comes from the clearing of the clouds that can make your sky gloomy. Those clouds can come in by the state of our world and the people we know who send us dark clouds. Usually, people do not mean to send us dark clouds of resentment, it isn’t really steered toward us, but they do it out of their own dysfunction. Sodalite can help us not make a gloomy day into a gloomy month. This crystal is also helpful to writers when they are trying to remove the “film” of the world and open a place of purity to express themselves. Sometimes we have a lot of things sticking to us, and Sodalite is ready to clear us of all the things that are weighing us down. All of the things that cloud our vision.
Sodalite is a journaling buddy for me always. A way to peel away the world’s influences and see the center of the matter. I highly recommend this crystal for writing and communication.
