The Celestial Language of Plants
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
By learning about the planetary forces and the ways they express themselves through medicinal herbs, you can gain a deeper understanding of how and why the plants work the way they do, as well as how they interact with the body.
In this week's episode, you'll learn:
- About the intersection of medical astrology and herbalism
- The problem with compartmentalized learning
- The Western vs. alchemical perspective of plants
- How planetary forces express themselves in nature
- How to use astrology to holistically understand medicinal plants
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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. |
| 0:24.5 | Hey there, everybody. Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:30.1 | And in this week's episode of the Evolutionary Herbalism blog, I want to talk a little bit more about this holistic model |
| 0:41.2 | that I've been sharing over the last few weeks in regards to medical astrology and its connection |
| 0:48.2 | to herbal medicine. Last week's episode, I was talking about the way that we can use astrology to look |
| 0:57.5 | at a person and see the connection between what's going on in their body and their mind |
| 1:05.1 | and emotions and their spiritual development. |
| 1:08.8 | And this week, I'll kind of want to flip it and orient this around plants, right? |
| 1:14.4 | Not a lot of people are aware that astrology was one of the oldest systems of classification |
| 1:23.1 | used in Western herbalism, right? |
| 1:26.9 | That this was one of the ways that plants were seen as having their medicinal and therapeutic properties, |
| 1:34.6 | that they understood their remedies based on, you know, whether it's connected to Mars or to Venus or to Jupiter or to Saturn, |
| 1:43.3 | as a way of understanding the essence of a plant. |
| 1:50.2 | And as I've been sharing over the last few weeks, you know, the thing about the astrology |
| 1:57.2 | is that it is this really holistic system, right, in the way that it sees not just |
| 2:04.5 | the whole plant or the whole person, but their connection to the whole cosmos, right, |
| 2:09.7 | to the wholeness of nature. It's really the most holistic model that I can comprehend |
| 2:16.4 | because it's looking at the wholeness of life itself |
| 2:20.1 | and the connections between the various expressions of life. |
| 2:25.0 | And so in a similar way that we can look at a person on that three-fold level, the way last |
| 2:31.3 | week I was talking about in alchemy they say that everything in |
| 2:35.6 | nature is composed of these three philosophical principles of sulfur mercury |
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