Venus Excess & Deficiency: Medical Astrology & Herbal Treatment
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In honor of Valentine's Day, celebrated as a day of love and friendship, we're focusing on Venus. Venus is the planet associated with archetypes of love, beauty, and relationships. Valentine's Day is often seen as being for lovers, but let's broaden the Venus archetype to include reflecting on the beauty in your life and the love you have for everyone in it.
In this episode, we explore Venus in excess and deficiency through the lens of medical astrology and herbalism, examining how this archetype shapes the kidneys, reproductive system, circulation, relationships, and the deeper work of balance and self-understanding.
Here's what you'll learn about:
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How Venus patterns show up physically: urinary and reproductive manifestations of Venus excess and deficiency
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The tissue states behind these patterns (lax/leaky vs. dry/tense/depleted)
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Herbs used to balance Venus patterns — from urinary tract remedies to reproductive support strategies
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How excess/deficiency works as a spectrum (not a binary) in both astrology and clinical herbalism
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The Venus–Mars polarity and why Venus issues often involve Mars dynamics
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The Aries–Libra axis as a map of self vs. other and how imbalance affects relationships
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The Taurus–Scorpio axis as a map of values, depth, transformation, and intimacy
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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 | Greetings, everybody, and welcome back to the plant path. |
| 0:14.5 | And in this episode, in regards to the United States holiday of Valentine's Day happening, |
| 0:23.3 | wanted to talk a little bit about Venus, as this planet, of course, is our classic archetype |
| 0:32.4 | associated with many of the things that we like to celebrate on Valentine's Day, such as the love |
| 0:40.3 | and beauty and the relationships that we have in our life. |
| 0:45.8 | You know, I think oftentimes, Valentine's Day is oftentimes thought of as, you know, |
| 0:51.3 | only those people that we are romantic with. |
| 0:53.7 | But I kind of like to broaden the scope |
| 0:55.9 | in the way that I think about it and think in terms of this archetype of Venus and have at a |
| 1:03.6 | time to reflect upon the things that are beautiful in our life and the love that we have for |
| 1:10.4 | the people in our life, not necessarily |
| 1:12.6 | just our partners or spouses or boyfriends and girlfriends and things like that. |
| 1:19.1 | So today I'm going to talk about some of the patterns of Venus in excess and deficiency. |
| 1:25.8 | Now, of course, as an herbalist, I'm going to be talking about it |
| 1:28.8 | a little bit more from the physical standpoint, from a medical astrology and in conjunction |
| 1:35.3 | with herbalism standpoint. Now, one of the interesting things about Venus is that this planet |
| 1:41.9 | is considered one of our quote- quote unquote benifics alongside Jupiter, |
| 1:48.0 | Jupiter being the greater benefic Venus being the lesser benefic. And in that way, |
| 1:53.6 | oftentimes is not really that closely associated with being a causative factor in disease. Usually it's because of other planetary |
| 2:06.4 | qualities in relationship to Venus that can cause problems. Venus generally is tend to thought |
| 2:13.4 | of as bringing good things. But alas, too much of a good thing can suddenly no longer be a good |
| 2:19.8 | thing as we all probably know and understand. So what I want to do here is talk a little bit about |
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