54 Virgo Season Herbalism| The Craft of Putting By
“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.”
Category: Wheel of the Year
52 John Barleycorn & the First Loaf: The Story of Lughnasadh
“The field gives back what the field was given.”
48 After the Sun: Cancer’s First Whisper
“We climbed all this way for the light. And the light, having reached us, turns us gently back toward home.”
47 Litha: An Herbalist’s Threshold
“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…
46 The Sun in a Bottle| St John’s Wort at the Summer Solstice
“In February, when the light is thin, you take down that red jar — and you are holding the third week of June in your two hands.”
45 The Pollinator’s Sermon | Tending Here While Holding the Dream
“The garden you have is already worth returning to. Tend it well.”
43 The Road Was Full of Company
The road was full of company. That is what I came home to tell you.
42 At the Gate of the Year
“This is how we bless ourselves. Not by waiting for someone else to do it. But by bending down to the grass in the early morning light and accepting what the earth is already offering.”
41 Creating Seasonal Rhythms: Herbs & the New Moon in Aries
“For those of us navigating intensity — planetary, personal, or simply the wild energy of early spring — they offer exactly what Aries fire sometimes forgets to give itself: steadiness, and release.”
40 Fierce and Nourishing: What Nettles and Dandelion Teach Us About Strength
“Dandelion is the plant that will not be erased. Every attempt to remove her simply disperses her further — her seeds carried on the wind, landing in new places, beginning again.”