Herbal Wisdom For Every Season of Life
“Putting by isn’t only about pantries. It’s a whole way of moving through a year — noticing what’s abundant, and doing the quiet, unglamorous work of making sure it doesn’t…
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The Sturgeon Moon rises full this week under the shadow of a partial lunar eclipse in Virgo, the second doorway of this eclipse season. Join this week’s ritual of charging dried herbs beneath the moon, and trace the old grain-harvest folklore that still echoes through it.
“She deserves to be understood as what she actually is — someone who survived by paying close attention, and who turned that attention, eventually, into a kind of quiet mastery.”
“It is only changing into a different kind of alive.”
“The field gives back what the field was given.”
Motherwort — Leonurus cardiaca, the lion-hearted herb — is bitter medicine for a racing heart. In this episode, Brenda explores the plant’s centuries-old reputation for steadying anxiety and menopausal heat, the astrological history linking her to Leo the lion, and how to meet her as the sky turns toward this week’s Aquarius full moon.
She saw the devil in it. I see an old friend — this is grandmothers’ herbal wisdom, plain and simple. Welcome back to another dose of grandmothers’ herbal wisdom. Some…
“Home was never the walls. Home is the tending — whatever small territory you care for on purpose.”
“We climbed all this way for the light. And the light, having reached us, turns us gently back toward home.”
“The solstice gives you the threshold. The Virgo moon hands you the map and asks you to actually look at it.” It’s Litha, summer solstice morning — the longest day…