Book Review: Medical Astrology by Judith Hill
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today we begin our new book review series, and I'm kicking it off by reviewing Judith Hill's foundational text, "Medical Astrology: A Guide to Planetary Pathology." This is an essential book on medical astrology, and should be a staple reference in your library if you're interested in the astro-herbalism approach.
In this post you'll learn what this book has to offer, including:
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The six sign polarities and how they influence organ systems
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The planetary qualities and their role in health
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The lunar nodes and their connection to excess and deficiency
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The houses related to health and what to look for in a chart
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The four elements and three modes—the building blocks for the signs
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Who this book is for—and why I keep coming back to it
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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. |
| 0:23.2 | Hey there, everybody, and welcome back to the plant path. |
| 0:28.0 | And in this episode, I'm going to do something new. |
| 0:30.8 | I had a little bit of inspiration. |
| 0:34.9 | And I wanted to try doing a new series here on some of my favorite books. I get |
| 0:42.8 | questions all the time in terms of what my favorite books are for clinical herbalism or |
| 0:51.2 | drug interactions or alchemy or medical astrology everybody everybody wants to know what |
| 0:56.2 | i'm reading um so i while we do have a really in-depth uh post on our website on building your |
| 1:05.3 | herbal library we'll put a link for that in the description below um I'd like to start spotlighting some of my personal favorite books. |
| 1:16.2 | Share just a little bit about them, why I like them, some of my favorite aspects of them. |
| 1:23.8 | And so for this first one here, I want to start off with medical astrology, a guide to planetary pathology by my teacher in medical astrology, Judith Hill. |
| 1:37.0 | When I first got this book, up until then, I had read maybe two or three books about medical astrology that I think were |
| 1:50.5 | written a little bit more in, you know, I think they were more written more in the 70s. |
| 1:55.9 | This was a little bit more recent written by Judith. |
| 1:59.8 | But, you know, one of the things that kind of bugged me about |
| 2:02.8 | those other books is that all of a sudden the book about halfway through would stop being |
| 2:08.8 | about medical astrology and all of a sudden it would be talking about, you know, crystals and |
| 2:15.5 | chakras and energy healing and Reikiy and that's all fine and good but that's not |
| 2:22.2 | medical astrology and so when i got my hands on this it just really struck me how direct and to the |
| 2:32.1 | point this book was i also really appreciate the way that, you know, |
| 2:38.8 | this is really just kind of foundational book on medical astrology. So if you're just getting |
| 2:44.9 | started like, what is this? What do I need to know? What's, what are the basics? |
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