A Fresh Start

Hail and a warm, hearty welcome to you who has found this page! Many a moon has passed since last I shared words of meaning here. Since then much has transpired.....although I am reading at the same location coming on six years now, two and a half years ago, (November of 2019), the shop went through a change of ownership and subsequently a new name. I am now part of the "Just Witchy's" family. 
With the retirement of "Witchy Wearables' " owners, the name retired as well. My thanks to Kate and Morn for bringing me on in 2016, and my continued gratitude to Rose and Lydia for keeping me on. 
But as Spring moves to new growth, so does Just Witchy's! In addition to a very well stock shop, an online store, and a great family of readers and healers, we are also expanding soon to a new location to better serve our amazing clients and shoppers. A welcome Fehu/Berkana period, seeing the hard work of Just Witchy's manifest growth and expansion
Stay tuned for further details as a location is finalized and secured, a moving schedule set, followed by a grand re-opening date. 
Personal challenges have been part of this period as well. We moved to Chicago in 2018 to stay with my mom as her health changed. Her passing a mere 18 months later, quite suddenly and unexpectedly was a shock to all who knew and loved her. This was just before the Covid-19 pandemic erupted so I refer to this time in my life as a Hagalaz period, the quick, unexpected, chaotic events that are a catalyst for needed change no matter how unwanted they may be, not just personally, but on a worldwide scale. 
Yet the Isa phase that shut the world down, cost many people their jobs, many businesses their very existence,  and isolated people in their homes for months still brought different medical technologies and tools, as well and new ways of doing business. 
Terms like "essential worker", "self-isolate", "mask mandate", "curbside pickup" and "contact-free" became part of our daily vocabulary. 
Despite the many ensuing deaths, the world unified as best it could and has survived, ever changing as new variants pop up, keeping us ever vigilant. 
Yes, the last two plus years has seen much to talk about..  but Just Witchy's survived it all....and thrived! 
I hope you will come and visit the shop. There are always readers available, classes and monthly shopping specials going on as well. 
Of course I am available for your reading needs....in shop or privately. 
Until next time...
Ravens Dawn 

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