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The Herbs of Samhain: Plants of the Threshold

Samhain (pronounced approximately SAH-win in Irish, or SAH-ven in Scots Gaelic) falls on October 31 and is the most significant of the four Celtic fire festivals in the folk calendar. It marks the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter: the dark half of...

Herbs and the Ancestors: Plant Medicine at the Year’s End

There is something particular about the dark months that invites this kind of reflection. When the garden is bare and the light is thin and the year is turning toward its end, the fact that you are doing what human beings have always done at this season, reaching for...

The Herbs of Yule: A Winter Solstice Herbal Tradition

The winter solstice (Yule in the Norse tradition, Midwinter in the Anglo-Saxon, Alban Arthan in Druidic tradition) falls around December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere and marks the longest night and the return of the light. The celebration of this astronomical event...

The Plants That Have Always Been There

There is a moment that comes for almost everyone who moves from casual interest in herbs to genuine practice: the moment when you realize that the plants you are coming to know are the same plants that have always been there, and that the knowledge you are slowly...

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