Poised on a dandelion, the praying mantis looks to the stars in wonder, and sees the wisdom in their light. May you keep your heart in this prayerful state, through every task, no matter how small.

The light-sensitive scorpion, guardian of the desert night, is a potent totem for shadow workers and survivors. Like the Scorpio constellation, this ancient arachnid seems to tread a celestial web, glowing fluorescent in the starlight. Seeking signs of life, the hunter is drawn to the luminous core of a planet simultaneously protected and restricted by a ringed boundary.

Ancient Egyptians worshipped Khepri, the scarab beetle for its ability to roll spheres of fertilizer across the desert. Khepri rolls the sun from the underworld into morning sky, renewing life. If you’ve ever rolled dough between your hands, or thrown clay on a potter’s wheel, you know that the sphere naturally arises from circular motion. This is how worlds like ours come to be round, as the planet and its orbit continuously create each other. The scarab represents this creative force of cosmogenesis through motion.

The Bee, venerated by Rose Priestesses, sends healing frequencies rippling over a landscape of language. The voice sits at this horizon, where the power of sound meets the creativity of language. As an Egyptian perfumer told me, “Sweet honey words must not be left unspoken.”