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.
“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.”
“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.”
“You don’t have to burn bright to matter. You just have to stay lit.” Return of Inner Fire is a quiet Imbolc offering for anyone feeling worn thin by late…