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MARCH 2026 (Spring Collection)

Theme: 

The Soft Return: Trusting in Emergence

Flower cup

Clay: 

Light clay bodies including Dover White and Speckled BMix. I chose a light clay body to allow the glaze to really pop and show off their bright spring colors.

Glazes (each cup will come in 1 of these 5 glazes):

Each cup will come in 1 of these 5 glazes:

-yellow

-violet

-robin colors (rust orange/grey)

-pink

-Forsynthia Ash

Tuning In
I like to use the full and new moons as gentle reminders to pause and check in with myself. I’m often going, going, going — so I love knowing that at least twice a month I’ll take the time to slow down and reflect with a longer tea session.

You definitely don’t have to choose the moon phases, but for me they help me feel more connected to nature’s cycles and more present in my day-to-day life. I also enjoy exploring the themes associated with each moon in astrology. Even if astrology isn’t really your thing, the symbolism still offers beautiful messages, prompts for reflection, and ideas you can use to create a themed ritual.


Full Moon (time of culmination, release & emotional climax):


VIRGO March 3, 2026


WORM MOON


This Full Moon is about The Sacred Enough — releasing perfection and returning to what truly sustains you.

It is a time to let go of the pressure to do everything perfectly so you can devote yourself to what genuinely nourishes your life. This is a turning point. An invitation to choose sustainability over expectation.

Be like the worm.

Trust in your innate wisdom to humbly do the work that is yours. Worms aerate the soil, preparing the ground for the seeds of life. They do not bloom themselves, yet their quiet devotion makes all blooming possible. In the same way, the small, unseen ways you care for yourself now will set the stage for the months ahead.

Take this time to reflect:

Where am I overextending myself?
Which routines truly nourish me, and which are quietly draining me?
Where might perfectionism be masking exhaustion?

Allow yourself to release what is not sustainable.

Return to what supports your body, your spirit, and your life.

Remind yourself:

You are enough, just as you are.

Repeat it.
Let it settle into your nervous system.
Let it become something you believe.

You are enough, just as you are.

New Moon (new beginnings, setting an intention): 


PISCES March 19, 2026 


This is one of the most mystical, emotional, and identity-dissolving moons of the entire year. It is our last new moon of the winter season and it happens at the very last degree of Pisces—the final sign of the zodiac—making this a completion portal and soul-level rebirth. This moon asks that you trust in the waters of becoming. Think- “I release who I have been and allow who I am becoming.” Take time under this new moon to embrace the Pisces qualities of surrender, intuition, compassion (for self!), and imagination and vision.


Plant: 

Daffodil: I chose the daffodil to represent spring because it is one of the first flowers to emerge after winter, often pushing through cold soil and even snow. It symbolizes hope, resilience, and the gentle return of life. The daffodil reminds us that awakening doesn’t happen all at once—it begins quietly, with the courage to open again. It reflects the essence of this season’s theme: trusting in reemergence and honoring the soft return.

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Stone:

FLOWER AGATE:

Flower Agate supports gentle growth, emotional healing, and trusting your personal unfolding.

It doesn’t push transformation.

It holds you while you become.

This is the stone of:

  • emerging after a hard season

  • rebuilding trust in yourself

  • allowing life to open again

  • becoming without force

It’s especially powerful for anyone in a threshold moment.


Mantra

I welcome myself back with gentleness. I trust what is awakening within me.

Journal Prompt

Honoring What Has Been:

  1. What have I survived that I haven’t fully acknowledged?

  2. What protected me that I no longer need?

  3. What am I ready to thank and release?

Noticing What is Returning:

  1. What feels like it is quietly coming back to life within me?

  2. Where do I feel new energy, even if it’s small?

  3. What am I curious about again?

  4. What feels fragile but alive?

Trusting the Timing:

  1. Where am I being asked to trust without certainty?

  2. What am I trying to force that may need gentleness instead?

  3. What would it feel like to trust my natural timing?

  4. What if nothing is wrong with my pace?

Meeting the Version of You that is Emerging:

  1. How am I different than I was six months ago?

  2. What am I outgrowing?

  3. What am I becoming ready for?

  4. What would my emerging self want me to know?

Listening Inward:

  1. What is my body asking for right now?

  2. What does rest look like in this season?

  3. What feels nourishing and supportive?

  4. What feels like too much?

Rooting in Safety:

  1. What helps me feel safe to open?

  2. Where in my life can I soften?

  3. What support am I ready to receive?

  4. What does “enough” feel like?

Integration:

  1. If I trusted my emergence completely, how would I live?

Herbal Blend

This blend focuses on nervous system safety, heart reopening, and quiet vitality. It supports gentle awakening, emotional renewal, and trusting your natural timing. This blend will feel: gentle, warm, emotionally supportive, quietly uplifting, Not stimulating. Not sedating.Emerging.


Nettle — I am rebuilding

Oat straw — I am supported

Rose — My heart is opening

Linden — It is safe to soften

Tulsi — I trust the process

Lemon balm — Hope returns

Calendula — I am blooming

Blue Lotus- I am reborn


The Soft Return: A Tea Story

In the place between winter and spring, there was a quiet village where nothing bloomed all at once.

The villagers had learned to wait.

At the edge of the village lived Nettle, the guardian.

She was not soft, and she did not pretend to be. She wore a cloak of tiny needles and stood at the threshold, watching.

“I do not hurt to harm,” she would say.
“I protect what is not yet ready.”

Beyond her lived Oat Straw, the gentle builder.

He did not speak loudly. He moved slowly, laying golden threads into the earth, weaving strength where roots had grown thin.

When the others trembled, he would whisper,

“You are still held.”

In the center of the village slept Rose.

Once, she had bloomed wildly. But winter had taught her loss. Her petals were closed now, her head bowed.

She wondered if she would ever open again.

Beside her stood Linden, who kept watch with a warm, steady presence.

“You do not have to bloom today,” Linden told her.

“I will sit with you until you remember how.”

High on the hill lived Tulsi, the keeper of the flame.

She spoke to the wind, to the unseen, to the part of each villager that still believed in tomorrow.

“Even now,” she would say,
“life is moving toward you.”

And dancing through the pathways was Lemon Balm, who carried laughter in her pockets.

She did not force joy.

She simply reminded the others where it had been left.

“It will find you again,” she would smile.

Hidden in the garden, barely noticed, was Calendula.

She watched everything.

She did not rush.

She waited for warmth she could trust.

And deep beneath the still surface of the village pond dreamed Blue Lotus, who saw what the others could not.

She dreamed of Rose blooming.

She dreamed of Calendula rising.

She dreamed of the village in color.

She dreamed of you.

One morning, without announcement, Rose felt something.

Not a command.

Not pressure.

Just warmth.

Nettle stepped aside.

Oat Straw steadied the ground.

Linden stayed close.

Tulsi kept the flame.

Lemon Balm held her hand.

Calendula lifted her face to the sun.

And Rose opened.

Not all at once.

But enough.

And the village remembered:

Nothing had been lost.

They had only been waiting for the soft return.

When you drink this tea, you drink their story.

And your own.


Herbal Tea Blend
Herbal Tea Blend

Spirit Pet

A tea pet or spirit pet is a small clay figurine that sits on your tea table as you sip your tea. In Chinese folklore, households often honored small domestic spirits by inviting them to share a cup of tea with them. This was not only a way to honor this unique spirit but also to invoke the unique qualities of that specific tea pet. This month's theme is the ROBIN.
The robin has long been a sweet herald of spring — not because winter is over, but because it sings while the earth is still waking. Its cheerful song slips into the late-winter quiet like a promise: warmth is on its way.
That bright red-orange breast glowing against bare branches reminds us of life returning, of the heart’s brave willingness to begin again. Nesting close to home and greeting the dawn, the robin lives in the in-between — where night turns to day and winter softens into spring.
It teaches us that renewal doesn’t have to arrive all at once. Sometimes it begins with a single clear note, a flicker of color, and the quiet joy of starting fresh.
When you bring your ROBIN tea pet to share a cup of tea with you, be reminded of your own heart’s bright courage to begin again.

Songs to come!

BONUS!

Honey bee stir stick!

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