Medical Astrology for the Practitioner of Botanical Medicine (Part 1)
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Throughout the Renaissance Era of medicine, it was standard practice for not only herbalists, but university trained physicians to utilize medicine astrology in their diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. As science desacralized ancient traditions, the usage of astrology for medical purposes has diminished into obscurity.
The link between plants and planets is both ancient and universal, with cultures all across the world recognizing this sacred connection between Heaven and Earth. Through integrating the pattern of the cosmos into our model of clinical herbalism, our capacities as plant healers is magnified significantly in our ability to assess hard to treat conditions, see into the underlying root causes of disease, and create highly unique customized formulas and protocols that are truly healing and transformative.
This is part 1 of a 2 part lecture given at the 2017 International Herb Symposium.
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ABOUT SAJAH
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Sajah Popham, founder of Organic Unity and The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, is committed to creating a new paradigm of plant medicine anchored in herbal, medical, and spiritual traditions from around the world. His work integrates the science and spirit of herbal medicine, creating a system that is equally holistic, healing and transformational. His unique synthesis bridges herbalism not only east and west, but north & south, above & below, into a universal philosophy that encompasses indigenous wisdom, Ayurveda, western Alchemy and Spagyrics, Astrology, clinical herbalism, and modern pharmacology.
Sajah's vitalist approach utilizes plants not only for physical healing and rejuvenation, but for the evolution of consciousness. He never allopathicallyl focuses on just what a plant is "good for" but rather who the plants are as sentient beings. Sajah's 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 in southern Oregon with his wife where he teaches at his school, makes spagyric medicines, and practices his healing art. For more information about his products and programs, visit www.organic-unity.com & www.evolutionaryherbalism.com
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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| 0:00.0 | The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Saja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unique. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you very much, everyone, for coming to this intensive this morning time here and for coming out to the symposium this year. |
| 0:36.2 | I was looking at the schedule, and I was like, this is the best herb conference ever. |
| 0:43.7 | I've been to a lot of events. |
| 0:45.4 | Most of them on the West Coast and I'm just so impressed by the teachers and the classes |
| 0:51.9 | and the workshops that are here at IHS and it's just a real pleasure and a real honor to be here and |
| 0:58.0 | to be sitting amongst all of you this morning so I know that's the thing about events like this so it's always really hard to choose because there's so many great |
| 1:07.0 | classes and workshops so I feel feel really honored that you chose to be with me this morning. |
| 1:13.3 | So thank you very much for that. And I'll just introduce myself briefly here. My name is |
| 1:19.1 | Saja Popham, and I live in southern Oregon with my wife Whitney, where I do my work and see clients there and prepare Spajiric medicines and do |
| 1:33.5 | have a lot of workshops and take care of a school, the school of evolutionary herbalism. |
| 1:40.1 | And for myself, my plant path started, you know, when I was in my late teen years and was always really wanted to be a doctor, you know, ever since I was a little one. |
| 1:59.1 | And I wasn't really quite sure what that was going to look like |
| 2:02.2 | and kind of was on track to go to medical school to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. |
| 2:06.9 | And soon discovered herbal medicines and found that that was really the calling that I had in my heart |
| 2:15.9 | to be a servant of the plants and of the natural world. |
| 2:24.1 | And so my journey kind of began going to, welcome. |
| 2:33.3 | I attended Basty University out there |
| 2:35.9 | outside of Seattle and did the herbal sciences program. |
| 2:40.3 | And as the name implies, herbal sciences, |
| 2:43.8 | it's a very scientifically oriented study in herbal medicine, |
| 2:47.4 | and really focusing on how the plants heal through their chemical constituents. |
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