January & February: Love Through the Hands
January - setting intentions, building, working with grounding materials
The idea of ultimate love has been lingering with me this month. Love, not as something we strive for or protect, but something we surrender into. When we loosen our grip, love expands naturally.
This understanding feels deeply aligned with January’s work, and with the wisdom of the snake. The snake sheds what once protected it the moment it no longer fits. There is no drama or judgment in the shedding, only instinct, trust, and release.
I’ve felt this energy move through my hands as I’ve been designing throughout Capricorn season.
Pine branches have become the core of many January arrangements, and I just love the scent around my workspace. Quince branches, tight buds, create patience waiting for them to bloom. Protea brings strength and presence, while amaryllis open slowly, revealing themselves over days, and thistle, with its soft armor, has felt especially symbolic this month, resilience paired with tenderness.
These are not fleeting flowers, these are flowers that ask to be lived with over time.
I design January arrangements with longevity in mind, choosing stems that evolve, dry beautifully, or reveal themselves gradually. As petals fall and forms shift, they remind us that release is not loss, it’s an opening.
February, Lunar New Year Shedding of the Snake
As January deepens, this work of release begins to take shape beyond my studio.
February quickly arrives in celebration of the Lunar New Year, I am working at Eleventh Hour Art on a floral installation exploring transition, shedding, and renewal. Lunar New Year marks a collective threshold, a moment to close one energetic cycle and prepare for the next.
The image of the snake, shedding its skin to move freely, has been guiding this work. The installation echos January’s invitation to soften, trust, make space, set intentions so when the fire horse arrives we can set all in motion.
As we move toward the fire and momentum of the Horse, this shedding becomes essential. We cannot carry our old skins into new motion.
Flowers that endure
This same intention lives in how I’m thinking about flowers these months.
Some arrangements are meant to bloom and disappear, others are meant to endure. Forever Bouquets hold flowers that have already completed their cycle, a reminder that beauty doesn’t require urgency.
Alongside them, January Astro Bouquets are created as living rituals, grounded in Capricorn’s structure, opening into Aquarius’ vision, and designed to stay with you throughout the months. They are intentionally simple, intuitive, and made to shift, dry, and change as you do.
Together, these offerings through January & February: the Lunar New Year installation, the Forever bouquet, astro florals, and the flowers themselves become quiet companions for a season of shedding. Invitations to release without force, to love without armor, and to step forward into February lighter than before.
