Medical Astrology and Herbalism: Mercury
Mercury- this astrological force represents the nature of our mind and much of our psychological temperament. The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury represents the changeable mutable qualities of our thinking, as well as our capacities with language and communication. I wanted to talk a little bit about this planet and a few of my favorite…
The Transformational Virtues of Spagyrics
This is a full almost hour long lecture I gave at the Renaissance Medicine Conference in 2014, with Judith Hill and Matthew Wood. It’s a pretty amazing conference that goes in depth on herbalism, medical astrology, as well as alchemy and spagyrics. Let me know what you think below! If you haven’t heard about this…
Essential Oil Distillation of Turmeric
In this video I elaborate on the essential oil distillation process in the spagyric method. This example here is a little different from standard, as we were doing both a hydrodistillation and steam distillation at the same time (we had a lot of plant material!). Post your questions and comments below! Here’s a closeup of the…
2014 NW Alchemy Conference Lecture
This is a lecture I’ve never given before outlining more specifically the nature of the Doctrine of Correspondences and Signatures and it’s importance in herbalism and alchemy. Be sure to leave a comment below!