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Can CBD and Melatonin Help You Sleep Better?
While CBD is a relatively new darling in the plant-based health and wellness industry, the benefits of Melatonin have been touted for several years now; both are established crossover hits when it comes to accessing deep relaxation and sleep. This is due to the ways in which both substances work and are accepted by the
Yarrow: Ancient Herb of Healing, Protection, and Power
“Thou pretty herb of Venus Tree Thy true name is Yarrow Now who my bosom friend must be Pray tell thou me tomorrow”. -Halliwell Yarrow is one the world’s oldest medicinal plants and has been used since ancient times. It is uniquely gifted in helping just about anything and everything that could ail one’s mind,
The Benefits of Osha Root & How To Prepare Your Own Recipe
Osha root is also known as loveage, loveroot or bear medicine because bears, after chewing it for health reasons, are side-affected by its “lovage” properties and take to nuzzling each other. This perennial herb — Ligusticum porteri, known as osha or osha — is found in parts of the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico. While immediately effective for many wellness-promoting purposes, Osha root’s said side effects (quite benign and even cause alone to consume it) are a
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Capricorn Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse: Karmic Renewal
The Capricorn Full Moon Lunar Eclipse arrives on Tuesday at 5:38pm Eastern Time, closing the eclipse vortex. This occurs in the midst of Mercury retrograde, as well as one of the year’s heaviest retrograde seasons—with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Chiron also moving backwards. The planets are pushing us to turn inward and let go
CBD on Planes: Can You Fly with CBD Oil?
The wildly popular CBD has become mainstream. For many people, CBD is ingrained in their wellness routines now like a daily multivitamin. For others, it’s crucial for managing their health issues ranging from anxiety to seizures. If CBD products are part of your everyday life, then you want to have access to them even when
Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer: Opening an Emotional Portal
The Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer arrives on Tuesday, at 3:16pm Eastern Time, opening a deeply emotional eclipse portal. The two-week period between eclipses is always a time of karmic compression. Big changes occur as we enter a whole new energetic frequency. Via Ethereal Culture. This time, the Solar Eclipse is close to the North
The Astrology of July: Eclipse Season / Great Internal Change
We begin July with Cancer the Crab leading us into emotional waters. Here, eclipse season begins, bringing about significant change and acceleration. Cancer is the Great Mother and the womb. With the North Node in her domain, we’re rapidly evolving into her enlightened qualities, balancing our pragmatism with intuition and sensitivity. We’re learning to better
The Alchemist’s Kitchen Book Club: The Stars Within You
There’s nothing like laying out a blanket on a roof or a field on a warm summer night, laying back, and looking up at the night sky. Beyond just being beautiful, the stars can tell us so much about ourselves and how we move through the world. They offer a map of our tendencies, responses,
Celebrate Your Freedom: Three Easy Ways to Advocate for Plants and Plant Medicines
This July 4th as we are celebrating the birth of our free nation here in the United States, we might also consider the ways we can advocate for the freedom of plants and the use of plant medicines. In a country where free speech are constitutional rights, we should carefully scrutinize our freedom in health care choices.
CBD on Planes: Can You Fly with CBD Oil?
The wildly popular CBD has become mainstream. For many people, CBD is ingrained in their wellness routines now like a daily multivitamin. For others, it’s crucial for managing their health issues ranging from anxiety to seizures. If CBD products are part of your everyday life, then you want to have access to them even when
Introducing: Plant Alchemy Solar Eclipse Zinc Sun Shield
Summer is finally here, which means lots of time outdoors! We’re so excited for long days at the beach, hiking through the woods, and twilight barbecues. A common question our herbalists are asked is: what type of sunscreen do you recommend? How best can I protect my skin? To answer this question, Plant Alchemy worked
CBD and Sexual Healing
Before its criminalization, cannabis was often prescribed by doctors for relief from gynecological issues.Traditional cannabis recipes were for oral, vaginal, intranasal, anal, and topical application, instead of for being smoked. As Foria Wellness explains: The earliest written records of the gynecological uses of cannabis date back around 4,000 years to Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. These
Guide to Bitters: Digestive Effects, Benefits, Recipes
Bitters are the femme fatale of the herbal world. An air of mystery and elusiveness surrounds their edgy aura. They show up wearing many different masks, easing their way around a cocktail bar and medicine cabinet alike. People are drawn in by their seduction with an edge. Yet their identity remains low key; spoken in
Eir the Goddess of Medicine & Important Norse Healing Trees
The feminine goddess culture and herbal medicine go hand in hand across cultures and ancestral traditions. The goddess culture of the Norse people places great importance on the relationship goddess had with healing. You might be wondering, what goddesses did the Norse people have, other than Freya and Frigg? Whether it be through the Marvel
Healing is Always Political: An Interview with Herbalist Jennifer Patterson of Corpus Ritual
1. On your website you said, “I feel a kindred kind of love and respect for survivors of multitude of traumas. I admire our willingness to sit with what is profoundly complicated and difficult. I admire our tenacity and resilience, our searching for healing, our willingness to settle into the life-long continuum of healing. I
Guide to Bitters: Digestive Effects, Benefits, Recipes
Bitters are the femme fatale of the herbal world. An air of mystery and elusiveness surrounds their edgy aura. They show up wearing many different masks, easing their way around a cocktail bar and medicine cabinet alike. People are drawn in by their seduction with an edge. Yet their identity remains low key; spoken in
Eir the Goddess of Medicine & Important Norse Healing Trees
The feminine goddess culture and herbal medicine go hand in hand across cultures and ancestral traditions. The goddess culture of the Norse people places great importance on the relationship goddess had with healing. You might be wondering, what goddesses did the Norse people have, other than Freya and Frigg? Whether it be through the Marvel
Healing is Always Political: An Interview with Herbalist Jennifer Patterson of Corpus Ritual
1. On your website you said, “I feel a kindred kind of love and respect for survivors of multitude of traumas. I admire our willingness to sit with what is profoundly complicated and difficult. I admire our tenacity and resilience, our searching for healing, our willingness to settle into the life-long continuum of healing. I
Capricorn Full Moon / Lunar Eclipse: Karmic Renewal
The Capricorn Full Moon Lunar Eclipse arrives on Tuesday at 5:38pm Eastern Time, closing the eclipse vortex. This occurs in the midst of Mercury retrograde, as well as one of the year’s heaviest retrograde seasons—with Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Chiron also moving backwards. The planets are pushing us to turn inward and let go
Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer: Opening an Emotional Portal
The Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer arrives on Tuesday, at 3:16pm Eastern Time, opening a deeply emotional eclipse portal. The two-week period between eclipses is always a time of karmic compression. Big changes occur as we enter a whole new energetic frequency. Via Ethereal Culture. This time, the Solar Eclipse is close to the North
The Astrology of July: Eclipse Season / Great Internal Change
We begin July with Cancer the Crab leading us into emotional waters. Here, eclipse season begins, bringing about significant change and acceleration. Cancer is the Great Mother and the womb. With the North Node in her domain, we’re rapidly evolving into her enlightened qualities, balancing our pragmatism with intuition and sensitivity. We’re learning to better
The Alchemist’s Kitchen Book Club: The Stars Within You
There’s nothing like laying out a blanket on a roof or a field on a warm summer night, laying back, and looking up at the night sky. Beyond just being beautiful, the stars can tell us so much about ourselves and how we move through the world. They offer a map of our tendencies, responses,
The Internal Alchemy Hidden in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
Yoga has gained recognition as a physical practice in the West, but physical yoga asana is only a small part of a vast body of yogic practices in the authentic and closely-guarded spiritual traditions. Practicing physical asana alone can still be effective for everyday problems, but divorced of the internal work, they fall short. There
Alchemical Principles for Personal Growth
The three alchemical principles are Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt. Together, these form the “Tria Prima,” or Three Primes, as discovered by Paracelsus, related to the Law of the Triangle in which two components come together to produce the third. We see this in biological conception: feminine (Mercury) + masculine (Sulfur) = physical cells which become
How to Celebrate the Summer Solstice, Midsummer, and Litha
The Summer Solstice, also known as Midsummer, or Litha (pronounced Lee-tha – for my witches out there who celebrate the pagan calendar), is the day in which we celebrate the sun at it’s peak of strength on the longest day of the year. As we bask in the summer solstice, we arrive at a culmination
Bondages of Fear: Denying a Full Experience of Life
This summer, the energies are held by the exact conjunction of Pluto/Saturn. The Lord of the Underworld and the Lord of Karma/Time don’t really give us a chance to ignore the current global transformation illuminating our collective Shadows at their core. Building since January, they were joined with the South Node (unresolved Shadow from the
Wandering Home: How to Use Retreat to Come Back to Center
Spiritual retreats are meant to change your life. For thousands of years, spiritual practitioners have packed their belongings and traveled to far away places to spend solitary time. There is a misunderstanding in our culture that time alone is curative and this is false. We have been led to believe that taking a vacation will
