Ritual Health Acupuncture & Herbalism

Ritual Health Acupuncture & Herbalism Acupuncture, Classical Chinese Medicine
Ayurvedic Herbalism, Chinese Polestar Astrology: SF East Bay

Dr. Anne Shelton Crute is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese Polestar astrologer serving the San Francisco East Bay, CA

Just saw this commentary (below and in first comment) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍This question of a...
22/07/2025

Just saw this commentary (below and in first comment) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍

This question of authenticity: What is deep? What matters? 🤷‍♀️

The idea that calling out inauthenticity is itself shallow—just another performance. 🐚

But the question behind that critique is so Snake: Well then what really matters anyway? 🔑

Nothing? ⚫️ Maybe!

And also… if we follow that thread all the way through, don’t we get spit out the other side? Everything. 🖤

Or…? ❓⁉️

What is substantial? ⚖️

Personal share: I’m back home with family for a funeral, and it’s turning into an unexpected moment of ancestral connection 🌳—seeing myself in the facets of my family’s faces 💎, and looking into the mirror🪞of death.

I’m fully embracing emojis right now because I used to resist them. Turns out flexibility is fun. I’m also leaning into genuine laughter—not ironic, not smirking—because otherwise things can get real heavy, real fast. A lot of us are carrying quiet grief. That’s part of the Yin Wood Snake year… unless we access that playful, flexible Monkey King wisdom. 🐒👑

What’s up (for me) feels confrontational. Celebratory. Weirdly beautiful. Honestly? I have no idea what tf it is. Because trying to know something right now? That’s peak folly. Snake says: shed the certainty.

(By the way, the larger talk about this is happening on WhatsApp on Purple Star Club, if you want to join. The 🔗 is on the website.)

Here’s the reel that sparked it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMY5ij6SHn6/?igsh=MWRqbjlmZnRzdDh3Zw==

Just saw this commentary (below and also in comments) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍This question of a...
22/07/2025

Just saw this commentary (below and also in comments) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍

This question of authenticity: What is deep? What matters? 🤷‍♀️

The idea that calling out inauthenticity is itself shallow—just another performance. 🐚

But the question behind that critique is so Snake: Well then what really matters anyway? 🔑

Nothing? ⚫️ Maybe!

And also… if we follow that thread all the way through, don’t we get spit out the other side? Everything. 🖤

Or…? ❓⁉️

What is substantial? ⚖️

Personal share: I’m back home with family for a funeral, and it’s turning into an unexpected moment of ancestral connection 🌳—seeing myself in the facets of my family’s faces 💎, and looking into the mirror🪞of death.

I’m fully embracing emojis right now because I used to resist them. Turns out flexibility is fun. I’m also leaning into genuine laughter—not ironic, not smirking—because otherwise things can get real heavy, real fast. A lot of us are carrying quiet grief. That’s part of the Yin Wood Snake year… unless we access that playful, flexible Monkey King wisdom. 🐒👑

What’s up (for me) feels confrontational. Celebratory. Weirdly beautiful. Honestly? I have no idea what tf it is. Because trying to know something right now? That’s peak folly. Snake says: shed the certainty.

Here’s the reel that sparked it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMY5ij6SHn6/?igsh=MWRqbjlmZnRzdDh3Zw==

We’re at the heart of it: the year, that is. We’re now in the Summer Solstice qi node, peak of yang in a yin wood snake ...
04/07/2025

We’re at the heart of it: the year, that is.

We’re now in the Summer Solstice qi node, peak of yang in a yin wood snake year. Snake is yin fire: quiet but potent. This season is when the real themes of the year begin to surface—sometimes suddenly, even explosively. 🪷 It is also heart time. ❤️

Wood Snake might seem gentle, but real shifts are happening. What was hidden is being revealed. 🐍

I wrote something for you...follow through to the comments.

And I started a community group on WhatsApp (also in comments).

Let's trace time's coils. 🔭💫

See you there...

Find Adam Okerblom and I in NYC this weekend! I’ll be teaching from my chapter contribution “The Celestial Dance: Integr...
06/06/2025

Find Adam Okerblom and I in NYC this weekend! I’ll be teaching from my chapter contribution “The Celestial Dance: Integrating Time and Astronomy in Chinese Medicine” from A Ring Without End with the big cats: Z'ev Rosenberg and Stephen Cowan and I’m so honored!!! Plus, Schrier will be teaching his chapter on the Daoist Alchemical Body…

Just caught my breath from teaching my research and contribution to the newly released book ❤️_A Ring Without End_❤️ by ...
23/05/2025

Just caught my breath from teaching my research and contribution to the newly released book ❤️_A Ring Without End_❤️ by .rosenberg and Stephen Cowan down at Yo San University to the doctoral students! Looking forward to more, Rob Hoffman Thank you for having me! ✨🐝✨

Don’t just do something: sit there!!! 🪵🐍✨It is quadruple snake day here at the clinic! But wherever you are, take some t...
30/04/2025

Don’t just do something: sit there!!! 🪵🐍✨

It is quadruple snake day here at the clinic! But wherever you are, take some time today to go deep! Be still! Close your eyes! Especially now, while it is still snake hour (until 10am, for my West Coasties).

Love you all and nothing matters!
🪵🐍✨

You voted us into the finals! ✨Now vote for us to help us win Best of the Bay daily through May 5th! 🔥For Holistic Healt...
21/04/2025

You voted us into the finals! ✨Now vote for us to help us win Best of the Bay daily through May 5th! 🔥For Holistic Health, Wellness Healing Center, and Pain Management! 🌱Thank you for letting is serve you and this community! 🪡❤️

One of my fave patients just texted me the funniest thing. So good. 🪵🐍✨This is why I do what I do. We’re the world toget...
21/03/2025

One of my fave patients just texted me the funniest thing. So good. 🪵🐍✨This is why I do what I do. We’re the world together, one acupuncture session at a time…

(Edit: if you don’t get the joke, listen to the Yin Wood Snake talk in which we discussed what pb&j sandwiches, Billie Eilish, and Martha Stewart have in common. Find it on our website)

How about this Tiger month 🐅 in a Snake year, huh? 🪵🐍What we are seeing is that the predominantly Yin energy 🌑 of Yin Wo...
06/02/2025

How about this Tiger month 🐅 in a Snake year, huh? 🪵🐍

What we are seeing is that the predominantly Yin energy 🌑 of Yin Wood Snake 🐍 year is such that some of these lunar months are going to display thier signature pretty strongly. Tiger 🐯 is one. Generally, a wilder ride in early spring through summer 🌞 then, hopefully more even in autumn/winter. ❄️

(Update: the Lunar New Year talk went great on Sunday. The recording is on its way to you soon! Watch this space and the website and IG!)

Adam Okerblom Ritual Health Acupuncture & Herbalism

Check for the 🔗 in the first comment to read this year’s Yin Wood Snake 2025 Forecast! 🪵🐍✨Afraid of the dark? Take a loo...
30/01/2025

Check for the 🔗 in the first comment to read this year’s Yin Wood Snake 2025 Forecast! 🪵🐍✨

Afraid of the dark? Take a look!👀 Never sat still? Give it a try! 🪷

HUMOR UNDERMINES FEAR! ❤️

With and at

Please join us as we host ✨ Ritual Health's ✨ Lunar New Year Chinese Astrology Talk 🌝 on February 2th 2025 at 7pm. Disco...
13/01/2025

Please join us as we host ✨ Ritual Health's ✨ Lunar New Year Chinese Astrology Talk 🌝 on February 2th 2025 at 7pm. Discover the qi of the Yin Wood Snake! 🐍

Limited live in-person seating and live-streamed on zoom. Email adam(at)ritualhealth(dot)com for a spot/link.


This one is called Immersion and it’s one of my favorite puerhs that we have at our clinic. This beautiful teaware was m...
05/01/2025

This one is called Immersion and it’s one of my favorite puerhs that we have at our clinic. This beautiful teaware was made by for

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Dr. Anne Shelton Crute, DAOM, L.Ac.. Dipl.OM is an acupuncturist practicing Chinese medicine, Tibetan, & Ayurvedic herbalism and Chinese Polestar astrology. Serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005 with locations in Albany and Berkeley, CA.