The vibes are good.

Tranquil music fills the air inside the city’s newest metaphysical shop. After 37 years as a pawn shop in Old Colorado City, the three new co-owners of The Enchanted Fox have cleansed the space’s energy, painted the walls a soothing oceanic color and refinished the stone floor.

“When all three of us got together, it felt like the ‘Charmed’ episode when the light comes on and the fairy dust sprinkles,” co-owner Kelle Smith said. “It feels like this was supposed to happen.”

Pendulums and handmade jewelry dangle from display stands, and baskets of smooth and shiny rocks and crystals are piled in baskets. Images of the third eye are emblazoned on a multitude of items.

Many of the items for sale in the 900-square-foot space are made by the store’s owners. Smith’s pretty pastel TwinMoonMagick Intention Candles are stacked on a side table, while artist and silversmith Lalania Simone’s divination and tarot decks occupy another, along with her handmade jewelry. And behind the front counter are shelves packed with large glass jars of calendula, clove, mugwort and other herbs, ready for healing tinctures and potions by herbalist Shay Koloff.

The shop came to fruition serendipitously, helped along by all three women having experience owning or running a brick-and-mortar metaphysical shop or healing center. Smith ran a healing center in Jackson, Miss., before moving to Red Feather Lakes and then to Colorado Springs. Simone is also a co-owner of the Denver metaphysical shop Alchemy of Ritual Goods, and Koloff owned Zenith Moon Co., an herbalism shop in central Springs that’s now closed.

They found each other in a roundabout fashion, as Simone sold Smith’s candles in her Denver shop for years. When they both finally moved to the Pikes Peak region, they met in person. Simone had taken herbalism classes from Koloff, and suggested she meet Smith. And all of their conversations pointed in one direction: opening their own space.

The initial talks happened in November and they signed a lease in December.

“This (space) just happened to come available after almost 40 years,” Koloff said. “We came and looked and said there’s no way we can let this pass. The space is perfect, the energy is perfect, the connection is perfect. Everything aligned.”

Each woman followed her own labyrinth into the healing arts. Smith, who grew up in Southern California, felt a strong connection to energy as a little kid. She always imagined healing sad adults with a warm Care Bear hug, from the popular kids’ franchise. Encountering her first crystals in a general store one day, when she was 8, sealed her metaphysical future. She began studying reiki in 2017.

“I’m a helper and a healer, and I was always doing energy work, but I didn’t have names for it,” Smith said. “They’re using reiki in hospitals. Nurses are getting attuned. They’re realizing there is something to this energy, and now I got attuned into something and can tell people, and they don’t think oh, she’s woo woo crazy. It’s reiki and people understand.”

Koloff fell in love with plants while living in Tulsa, Okla., where a friend one day invited her to work in a community garden. Entranced, she came home and installed two garden beds. Once she moved to the Springs, she began making remedies from her plants, in particular for her young daughter. People around her noticed and began asking her to make tinctures for them. Eventually, she earned a certificate in herbalism from the popular herbalist and author Rosemary Gladstar.

“I learned the basics, then got into the ancestral practice of herbalism, which is root work,” Koloff said. “I taught myself a lot of ancestral healing through herbalism. That’s something I enjoy helping others get into contact with. Are you in touch with your Native American roots? Your other roots from wherever, and how do we get you to tap those, so you’re practicing from where it began?”

Simone, a lifelong artist and self-taught silversmith, also felt called to learn the tarot after opening her Denver shop years ago. But then she noticed something about the deck.

“I couldn’t find myself in the imagery of the cards,” said Simone, who has Native American heritage. “I couldn’t find things connected to my people or people of color. I knew at some point I would create a deck.”

She now has five decks. And though she once gave readings, she no longer does.

“When people get a reading, sometimes it’s for fun, but more often than not they’re going through something deep, and I found it leaves me quite drained,” Simone said. “My work in the tarot field is to create the tools, but to not be the translation of those tools, for my own health.”

Along with merchandise, the owners will also hold classes and workshops on herbalism, tarot card reading, drum making and more. Koloff will offer herbal consultations for $100, which includes the recommended herbs. Smith, a reiki practitioner, offers reiki and shamanic healing treatments and also tarot card readings. Sessions will run $55-$111. There’s a discussion about offering sliding-scale fees and community healing days. An online appointment portal will be available at some point, and walk-ins might also be offered.

“All these alternative medicines, like herbalism, are now becoming more mainstream,” Smith said. “So all of us who have done these things for years, still shining our light but feeling like not everyone understands. Now people are starting to understand.”

The trio wants the space to be open and non-judgmental, a place for everyone, no matter their spiritual background, ethnicity or sexuality.

“She’s (Simone) Native American, she’s (Koloff) African American, I’m white – LGBT. We’ve all had some form of bias against us, so we want to come together to create a safe place,” Smith said. “It’s inclusive. Come here and feel no judgment.”

Details

The Enchanted Fox, 2636 Colorado Ave., 719-227-2162, enchantedfoxocc.com