Astral Polarities & Organ Systems

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In medical astrology, astral polarities offer profound insights into the body's interconnected systems, revealing hidden relationships between organ functions and celestial archetypes. By studying opposing zodiac signs, we gain a deeper understanding of how the various parts of the body interact. This perspective aligns with holistic traditions like Ayurveda, which recognize the dynamic interplay between organs, emotions, and physiological processes.

Each axis in astrology represents a functional system within the body rather than isolated structures. These polarities provide a framework for understanding health imbalances and how bodily systems influence one another.

In this episode, I'll delve into the intersection of astrology, herbalism, and organ systems.
Here's a quick overview of what you'll learn:

Understanding Astral Polarities – Explore the six axes that govern bodily functions and how opposite signs create dynamic physiological relationships in the body
Interconnected Organ Systems – Insights into how astrology reveals hidden relationships between the organ systems
Astrology & Herbalism – How medical astrology enhances our ability to assess health imbalances and create effective solutions.
Practical Applications – Using astrological insights to identify root causes of health issues and support holistic healing.

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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH

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The Plant Path is a window into the world of herbal medicine. With perspectives gleaned from traditional Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Alchemy, Medical Astrology, and traditional cultures from around the world, The Plant Path provides unique insights, skills and strategies for the practice of true holistic herbalism. From clinical to spiritual perspectives, we don't just focus on what herbs are "good for," but rather who they are as intelligent beings, and how we can work with them to heal us physically and consciously evolve.

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ABOUT SAJAH

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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.

His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is only achieved through understanding and working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves.

He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
0:24.8	Hey there, everybody, and today on the plant path, we're going to be continuing on talking
0:31.4	a little bit more about astrology and herbalism and how these fit together.
0:39.0	And I want to talk about today this concept of astral polarities and their relationship
0:46.0	to organ systems.
0:48.0	One of the things that really struck me when I first started getting into studying medical astrology and its relationship
1:00.1	to herbal medicine was all of the insights that it started to bring to me in regards to
1:07.3	seeing connections in how the body works in ways that aren't always readily apparent, I suppose, on the surface, or perhaps seeing things that are connected in the body that are obvious, but the way that it relates to the pattern of astrology is just not happenstance,
1:27.9	that it's a little too accurate and precise for there not to be something profound going on here.
1:34.6	And this is something that I've always been interested in as I am a little bit of a nerd for patterns.
1:42.8	And I think this is one of the things that I appreciate about traditions of
1:47.7	medicine that have a little bit of a different understanding of, I guess, anatomy and physiology
1:55.1	than modern science, than the modern scientific approach. For example, how in Ayurveda they see that the
2:06.9	Vata dosha connects the lungs and the colon and the nervous system. That's pretty profound.
2:15.8	There's a lot of very interesting dynamics there in terms of
2:19.9	oh when you're stressed and anxious and your batta is high one of the best ways to calm down
2:24.0	is take a deep breath that's the lung nervous system connection um the lungs and the colon
2:31.1	and the colon and the mind anyone that's ever felt constipated knows that that constipation in your bowel also can constipate your mind.
2:43.1	It's like really, really hard to concentrate sometimes when you experience constipation.
2:50.2	I've only been constipated once in my life and I felt like my brain was filled with constipation. I've only been constipated once in my life and I felt like my brain
2:54.0	was filled with cotton balls. Like I could not think clearly. I couldn't concentrate. I was just
2:59.3	felt spaced and tired. And I was like and then I remember, oh, that's Vata. Like there's a Vata blockage
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