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Building Your First Herbal Tea Ritual

A cup of herbal tea can be just a drink. You can make it quickly, pour it into whatever is clean, drink it while doing something else, and move on. There is nothing wrong with that. But there is something more available, if you want it. In virtually every culture that...

The Herbalist’s January: What This Season Asks

If you asked most people what a herbalist does in January, they might look at you blankly. Nothing is growing. The fields are bare. The visible relationship between the herbalist and the plant world seems to be in abeyance. But the experienced herbalist knows...

Dream Herbs: A History of Plants and the Sleeping Mind

Humans have always been interested in their dreams, not just in interpreting them after the fact but in cultivating them, in finding ways to make the dream space more accessible, more vivid, more legible. And across cultures that developed this interest, certain...

Mugwort: The Dreaming Herb and Its Ritual History

Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) is a plant that has never quite sat comfortably within simple categories, because it has always belonged to both folk medicine and spiritual practice simultaneously. The genus name Artemisia honors the Greek goddess of the moon, of...

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