How to Really Read Your Constitution in the Natal Chart

The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy

Sajah Popham

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 570 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sajah talks about how to assess a person's constitution through the natal chart and why this matters for effective holistic herbalism. You'll learn how the rising sign, planetary placements, and the 1st to 6th house relationship reveal underlying patterns that determine health, imbalance, and therapeutic strategy.

Here's what you'll learn:

What "constitution" means in holistic medicine — and why it's foundational
Why treating symptoms without constitutional assessment often fails
The difference between prakruti (core constitution) and vikruti (current imbalance) in Ayurveda, and how they relate to the natal chart
The #1 mistake beginners make in medical astrology
Why the rising sign is the true constitutional doorway
How to assess constitution through: the rising sign's element, mode, and ruling planet, planets conjunct the ascendant, the ruling planet's placement, strength, and dignity
How the 1st house and 6th house form a quincunx, revealing health vulnerabilities
A breakdown of the Gemini–Scorpio elimination axis as a case study
When the rising sign can be overridden (stelliums, stationary planets, elemental dominance)
Why constitutional knowledge should guide herbal formulation

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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	Hey there, everybody, and welcome back to The Plant Path.
0:14.2	I'm my host, Saja Popham.
0:15.7	And in this episode, I want to discuss the assessment of the constitution through the use of the
0:26.4	natal chart. So talking about constitutional theory and its relationship to medical
0:34.5	astrology. And I can remember way back during my Bastier days and being introduced to the concept of the
0:48.4	Constitution in regards not the Constitution in a political sense, but in, you know, obviously I was introduced to our American constitution prior to being in college.
1:00.8	But no, from more of a traditional medical system perspective, the constitution.
1:05.5	And I immediately really took to this concept, that's not really a concept. I, to me, it's a truth.
1:18.1	To me, I took to this truth. Because it is really at the root of a holistic approach to a person. It is one of the primary ways that we are
1:33.1	able to look beyond the symptom of a person and see into the underlying causative factors that are unique to the individual.
1:49.3	This is key because as holistic herbalists, we want to treat the whole person, right?
1:56.3	We want to be holistic.
1:58.4	And we want to be cautious not to excessively fall into that allopathic
2:06.1	trap, which is treating the disease, treating the symptom without consideration of the
2:16.4	underlying root causes. Now, of course, there's a case to be made where you want to address symptoms, right?
2:21.4	Because symptoms don't feel good and they make you suffer and we want to, you know,
2:25.3	relieve suffering to the best of our ability and to provide relief for people, but not in a
2:31.9	suppressive way.
2:32.9	I think that's the key is that there is a way to address a, but not in a suppressive way. I think that's the key, is that there is a way
2:35.1	to address a symptomatic pattern in a non-suppressive manner and even in a way that is in accordance
2:44.5	with the vital force of the person, moving with the vital force of the person. Well, how do we
2:49.7	understand the vital force of the person? Really, how do we understand the vital force of the
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