september invitation: establish sanctuary

Each month in 2025, I’ve pulled a card to offer a soul-centered invitation—a way for us to root deeper into our bodies, our inner knowing, and our connection to the divine within and around us.

What can we prioritize and focus on to access and amplify our vibrancy and our radiance, so that our divinity may shine through in all that we do and BE?

For September the invitation is: Establish Sanctuary

This feels like such an important message for this season.

September is a month of transition—new school years, shifting schedules, earlier mornings, fuller evenings, changing rhythms. Even when we’re doing our best to take care of ourselves, the transition can feel disorienting.

During times of fullness, it becomes essential to create spaces of sanctuary so that we don’t lose ourselves in the busy.

Sanctuary can be a physical place—your bedroom, a corner with a candle, a spot in nature.

Sanctuary can be a pocket of time—five minutes of stillness before the day begins, a midday pause, a ritual before bed.

Sanctuary can be an inner refuge—a breath, a mantra, a memory, or an image that restores peace when the world feels overwhelming.

At its essence, sanctuary is about attuning back to our SELF. It’s where we can sense our own edges, separate from the swirl of everyone else’s needs, wants, and energy. It’s where we get to  realign with our desires, our discernments, and our true yeses and nos.

Sanctuary is also a universal and omnipresent energy. It is not limited to special places or rare moments—it’s accessible to everyone, anywhere. Sometimes it looks like silence, sometimes it looks like breath, sometimes it looks like simply remembering that you belong. No matter where you are, Sanctuary can be found.

The card description in the book that accompanies this deck highlights the importance of getting curious about how we speak to ourselves in our own minds. What kind of inner sanctuary are we creating with our thoughts? 

Are we cultivating a space that feels nourishing, expansive, and kind—or one that leaves us feeling small, diminished, and depleted?

We may not always be able to control our circumstances, but we do have influence over what we give our attention to. Because most of life is lived in the landscape of our minds, it’s important to ask and reflect on: is your inner world a sanctuary or is it something else entirely?

This month is an invitation to bring intention to the inner space we inhabit.

To me, the archetype of Sanctuary carries a deep lineage. Across cultures and times, sanctuaries have been sacred places of refuge, protection, and renewal. They are thresholds. Spaces set apart from the everyday world where one can reconnect to what is holy, essential, and true.

When we establish sanctuary within and around us, we join that lineage.

We create an altar space where our spirit can breathe.
We remember that safety and restoration are not luxuries but necessities.
We honor the part of us that longs to retreat and be restored so that we can re-emerge more whole.

This card is also a call to reexamine what you pay homage to and what you reject. What barriers have you placed—consciously or unconsciously—between yourself and the sacred? Sanctuary invites you to notice where you are withholding reverence, and where you might soften or open so that the holy can meet you more fully.

This month, I invite you to:

• Choose a physical space, time, or inner practice that feels like sanctuary and claim it as yours.

• Pause each day to notice what you’re giving your attention to. Ask: Does this thought bring me closer to peace, or pull me further away?

• Allow sanctuary to be an archetype that guides you—whether through a literal space, a felt sense in your body, or the inner landscape you’re cultivating with your thoughts.

May September be a month where you come home to yourself.

Where you find and create spaces that feel nourishing, safe, alive, and true.

Where your inner world becomes a sanctuary, no matter what’s churning around you.