Herbal Wisdom For Every Season of Life
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.”
“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.
“The rare moon is a doorway. And rare moons open onto rare possibilities. The things we have been carrying privately, year after year, deserve a doorway sometimes.”
The road was full of company. That is what I came home to tell you.
“The moon is the anchor. The turning of the light is the medicine. The resurrection — whatever tradition names it, whatever language your heart speaks — is written into the sky.”
“You are not emptying yourself. You are making room. There is a difference, and it lives in the body.”
“You do not have to make noise to be ready. You do not have to announce your beginning. You can simply begin.”
“We are the earth element this week. We provide our own grounding.”