53 Yarrow for Wounds & Boundaries| When the Sun Goes Dark
“It is only changing into a different kind of alive.”
Tag: herbalism
52 John Barleycorn & the First Loaf: The Story of Lughnasadh
“The field gives back what the field was given.”
51 Motherwort | The Lion-Hearted Mother
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.
49 The Lavender Drawer
“Home was never the walls. Home is the tending — whatever small territory you care for on purpose.”
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.”
44 Once in a Blue 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.”
39 First Light: A Celtic Herbalist’s Easter Morning
“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.”
34 Alliums, Eclipses and The Great Reset
“We are the earth element this week. We provide our own grounding.”