Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Kat Nix. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Kat, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

I feel grateful that my business continues to allow me to connect with meaningful experiences and projects often. As I deepen my practices and rituals, I feel reaffirmed that whatever energy you put out into the universe is what comes back to you. This past year especially, I feel blessed that my business and creative practice do feel rooted and reflected back to me with intentionality, ritual, love, and community. All to say, it’s difficult to speak to a “most meaningful” project.

My fav projects this year have been creating with loved ones or my new moon and full moon bouquet subscriptions. Community and collaboration have looked very different for me this year. To be honest, it felt a bit smaller in a lot of ways, but more tender and more reciprocal than ever before. I’ve had to embrace surrendering a lot, and I think in return, collaboration has looked intimate and full of ease.

Some of my most favorite arrangements this year were created for my dear friend, and beloved artist, Andrew Alba. He would commission me for arrangements and we would also have conversations about our lives and topics like auras, colors, grief, and rituals would come up. I didn’t realize until after seeing his paintings of the arrangements that the themes we were talking about naturally permeated into both our work but in different ways. There was a separateness but also a connection of these thoughts that showed up in the arrangements and the paintings. I feel so honored he commissioned me for so many arrangements and truly have loved seeing the end result each time.

Another fav project was creating a hanging floral installation with my dear friend, and beloved artist, Denae Shandiin. It was my first time creating something with someone where it felt really effortless, we actually didn’t speak very much while creating but instead just moved and designed in conversation with each other, embodying flow. I’m so looking forward to creating more with Denae.

Both projects, with Andrew and Denae, are so meaningful because they both felt divine and inspired because of the relationships that already exist between us. They flowed effortlessly, without trying to control, just honoring and in movement with each other.

Lastly, I just celebrated a full 12 months of offering the moon bouquet subscription. Each new moon and full moon I design a bouquet that comes with a ritual card with the names and virtues of each flower and a suggested ritual based on where the moon is in the sky. To know I am connected with clients by flowers and a shared ritual means the world to me and feels powerful to be connected to others in this way.

Kat, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My business has been in existence for almost a year and a half. It’s shifting and evolving constantly. Currently, I offer a new moon and full moon bouquet subscription; floral design and artistry for intentional collaborations, events, and weddings; and am a student learning about ancestral healing practices with flower medicine.

My hope is that my offerings through Ritual in Bloom, allow moments of reflection to honor the interconnectedness of flower medicine, the cosmos, land, and ourselves.
Flowers have so much wisdom, medicine, and subtle guidance to share with us, and developing reciprocal relationships with them can be powerful and shift how we relate to our surroundings. Rituals help us to find meaning in the mundane, rituals help us to move intentionally through the world, rituals can help us find healing for ourselves and our relationships.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

Wanting to participate in reparations, healing, hope, and honoring my ancestors.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

Educate yourself about the value that artists contribute to our communities. They are story tellers, they create entry points into difficult conversations, they preserve ancestry, create beauty, honor connections, and help us to understand the world and ourselves more deeply. Walk and move in your life with intention, buy local art, advocate for artists. Share their work, talk to them about their work more deeply, if you can’t financially support them, buy them a cup of coffee, or share their work online.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ritualinbloom.com
• Instagram: @ritualinbloom

Image Credits
The photos of myself and the first two photos on the second page are by Denae Shandiin.