Sacred Spirit Herbals

10/20/2025

10/18/2025

A friend to talk about tomorrow at 9:30 for the Roots and Resilience class! 😊

09/17/2025

Now is the time. If you want to see fireflies next summer, right now is the time to start thinking about how to make that happen. Firefly larvae are already out there in your yard—underground, in the leaves, and nestled in logs—feeding on slugs and snails, awaiting the cold grip of winter. Now is the time to ensure they have the resources they need to make it to next summer when they’ll pupate, emerge as adults, and provide those light shows you know and love.

This fall, leave your leaves to provide fireflies with moist overwintering habitat. Skip the pesticides and fertilizers, which can poison the prey that firefly rely on. Start modifying light fixtures to ensure that fireflies and other nocturnal critters can enjoy darkness. Consider which areas of your yard you might stop mowing next year. Make plans for where you might begin to incorporate native plants. Now is the time to act!

09/09/2025

The Nine Herbs Charm & the Power of Nine ✨

Long before numerology charts and modern astrology apps, people turned to story, song, and sacred numbers to understand the world around them. One such story comes to us from the Anglo-Saxon period of early medieval Europe: the Nine Herbs Charm.

This ancient healing verse, written down over a thousand years ago, calls upon nine plants : Mugwort, Plantain, Chamomile, Nettle, Crab Apple, Thyme, Fennel, Chervil, and Betony. The charm weaves them together in poetry as medicine for wounds and illness, and as guardians of balance between body, spirit, and the natural world. The number nine itself was seen as a deeply significant representation of completeness, cycles fulfilled, and protection against what was harmful or out of order. Though the Nine Herbs Charm belongs to its own time, it offers a glimpse into how our ancestors understood healing: through rhythm, repetition, and reverence for nature’s patterns.

This makes the number nine especially meaningful on September 9th (a date known in modern folklore as the 999 Portal). Whether it is seen as a mystical opening or simply as an echo of old numerological ideas, the symbolism remains the same: nine is a number of closure and renewal. It asks us to pause, reflect, and honor the wisdom that comes when one cycle ends and another begins.

Like the old charm, it is less about literal magic and more about remembering that our lives, too, move in patterns. It also offers an opportunity to remember that endings, while bittersweet, are always the doorway to something new.

09/07/2025

Harvest/Corn Blood Moon (Eclipse) • Sun, Sept 7, 2025
A luminous full moon rises with a total lunar eclipse. We may not be able to see it, but the effects are still worth paying attention to!

In traditional astro-medicine, the Moon governs the body’s fluids such as blood/lymph, mucosa, and lunar organs such as breasts, and uterus/ovaries. Disturbances in these systems can theoretically be read through the Moon’s condition.

Classical sources flowing from Hippocrates, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Galen (as well as other scholars from ye olden times) frame the Moon as moist by nature and link lunar phases to shifting elemental qualities (waxing indicates moist/heat, while waning indicates dryness/cold), underscoring why full moons can feel physiologically and emotionally heightened.

Because the Moon rules Cancer, traditions connect lunar influence with the stomach and bodily waters (pericardium/mucus), reinforcing a focus on digestion, hydration, and soothing the gut. Y'all better be drinking your water, getting your fiber, and indulging in some nutrient-rich teas!

Ayurveda teaches us that the Moon is allied with Soma (cooling, nourishing, replenishing). Practices that calm heat and support fluids pair well with the full moon.

Keep it simple to protect your peace and keep your cool:
• Sip a cooling infusion (lemon balm, hibiscus, or lavender) and breathe slowly.
• Sit under the moonlight for gentle release/renewal.
• Journal one pattern to release + one way you’ll nourish your body’s waters (rest, hydration, lymph flow).

May this crimson moon remind you: release feeds renewal, and balanced tides (both inner and outer) carry you home to your peace.

08/31/2025

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08/30/2025

We had such a fun morning talking all about water and cooling herbs! 🌿 Thank you to all who participated! I'm excited to see you again for the next Sacred Saplings class 😊

08/30/2025

Reminder: Sacred Saplings today at 10 AM! 🐸

07/29/2025

New Class: The Language of Plants- Exploring Herbal Energetics

Ever wondered why peppermint cools you down, while ginger warms you up? Or why some herbs soothe, while others stimulate? The answer lies in herbal energetics—a traditional system of understanding how plants feel and function in the body.

In this hands-on class, we’ll explore the basics of plant energetics (hot/cold, moist/dry, tense/relaxed), how to match herbs to people, and how different traditions like Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Western herbalism interpret these patterns. You’ll also get to experience a variety of herbs and learn how to tune into your own body's energetic needs.

This class is Ideal for herbal beginners, intuitive medicine-makers, and curious plant lovers! Class will be held at Driftwood Dragonfly on August 9 at 10 AM. The cost is donation-based, so pay however much you feel called.

07/01/2025

Welcome to July! Check us out this month:

Fri. 7/4: Closed for the 4th
Sat. 7/5: Herbal medicine class focused on the lymphatic system
Sun. 7/20: Reiki 1 Certification
Thurs. 7/24: Singing Bowls
Fri. 7/25: Pop-Up Market in the green space (during Friday's After Five)
Sat. 7/26: Sacred Saplings Kids Herbal Club
Wed. 7/30: Monthly Reiki Meet Up

05/08/2025

Lovely Thistles everywhere I go. Some may fuss over their invasiveness (understandable), but I just love looking at these strikingly beautiful beings. 😍

05/08/2025

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