Herbal Wisdom For Every Season of Life
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 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…
“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.”
“The garden you have is already worth returning to. Tend it well.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You are not falling apart — you are thawing. The body knows before the mind does. And the plants growing quietly in the cold right now know exactly what you need.”
“We are the earth element this week. We provide our own grounding.”