The Root Circle

10/26/2023

Registration will be opening soon!
If you’d like to receive an email as soon as it does, plus get first chance at scholarships and early bird pricing, join the waitlist!
This course starts in March 2024. Space is limited!

Find out more:
https://therootcircle.com/della-medicina-plants

10/16/2023

Who's interested in in-person, not recorded, astrology classes at The Root Circle (Newport, NY)? The old fashioned way! With myself and Caren Diamond. Starting mid-November for 5 weeks. And if you're interested is 3pm, during daylight hours, possible for you? Comment here or Dm me!

10/02/2023

I learned these many years ago in a class with Paul Bergner and they just came up again recently. These are some words of wisdom that landed in me and never left. You know when that happens? When you learn something that becomes part of your own code of conduct? These are just 3 of the principles that are included in this text that included 13 simple, basic ethics of low intervention, non-heroic medicine. Always start with allowing the body to heal itself (unless, of course, it’s an acute emergency).

The full list of principles and commentary can be found in the article “Physician’s Commandments at Abu Nasr Sa`ed Al-Baghdadi” by Ayman Yasin Atat.
https://www.academia.edu/10098033/Physician_s_Commandments_at_Abu_Nasr_Saed_Al_Baghdadi_Died_624_H_

09/30/2023

09/27/2023

09/26/2023

“Red Admiral, Red Admiral,
I’m glad to see you here,
Alighting on my daisies one by one!
I hope you like their flavour
and although the Autumn’s near,
Are happy as you sit there in the sun?”

“I thank you very kindly, Sir!
Your daisies are so nice,
So pretty and so plentiful are they;
The flavour of their honey, Sir,
it really does entice;
I’d like to bring my brothers, if I may!”

“Friend butterfly, friend butterfly,
go fetch them one and all!
I’m waiting here to welcome every guest;
And tell them it is Michaelmas,
and soon the leaves will fall,
But I think Autumn sunshine is the best!”

~From “The Flower Fairies” book

Michaelmas Daisy flower essence available in our shop!
https://therootcircle.com/flower-essences-1

09/25/2023

New Essay just posted and FREE to read for anyone over on my Patreon!

“Our ancestral and cultural reclamation will not become embodied and fruitful beyond the individual and personal without experiential knowledge. It will not become a collective tradition or system that can have a positive impact on the present and the future, without relational and somatic practice situated in our immediate environment which includes the full matrix of beings; human, flora, fauna, and the spirits. For our work to bring us into presence with the context of our current surroundings it must offer us the needed practices and skills required for us to be in active engagement with where we are and who we are now that includes how we got here and what that means and has meant for others; past, present, and future.”

No membership required:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/culture-is-89817930

09/22/2023

MICHAELMAS DAISY/NEW ENGLAND PURPLE ASTER
Flower Essence
🌿🌿🌿
Welcome to Libra Season! And the equinox and the season of the dead! Witch season!
My absolute favorite time of year. And to celebrate we’re having a 15% off sale on all our single flower essences (does not include Italian essences)
Just use the discount code:
LIBRASUN23 at check out.

Also the asters are blooming just in time for Michaelmas, the celebration of San Michele, the archangel Michael.

This essence provides support for us during this “season of the dead” when the veils are thin.

Grief can become more noticeable during this time and this essence supports our relaxation into it that will enable us to move forward on the path of the living after we lose a loved one or have to let go of something or a situation that we are deeply attached to.

It does so by loosening our armor where it’s been tightened and twisted from pain, sorrow, and a sense of separation, so much that we have been inhibited in our growth.

It softens areas of body, mind, and psyche we wall or harden up when overwhelmed with sorrow or grief and increases our capacity to be with those feelings in a receptive, responsive, and transmutational way.

to order:
https://therootcircle.com/flower-essences-1

09/22/2023

Hi Everyone,
It's been awhile here! I hoping to revitalize this page a bit. As you can see we have a new logo thanks to Magia Agreste, my friend Victoria in Calabria!
My intention is to post more regularly here. You can also find me at my personal page: https://www.facebook.com/LisaFazioHerbalist
And instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therootcircle/

Thank you for being here!

11/23/2022

Watch for this upcoming course with Milk & Honey Herbs! Anyone looking for practical but powerful herbal knowledge I recommend this!

Hi everyone! I wanted to do a little intro post for you since it's been a while 💕🌾✨

I'm a community and clinical herbalist with a huge passion for our weedy, resilient, and abundant bioregional herbs and also hold a deep love of kitchen medicine, bc it's so accessible. Just this week I was in touch with a family member with c*vid and was like ok so you have Bay leaves? Lemons? Honey? Ok then you can make some medicine! All with common pantry and kitchen items. And they're doing fine now🥰

I've always been SO inspired by the idea of herbal medicine being the people's medicine bc it so is! Humans are only here today because of the plants and our deep interrelations and when I really take a step back and think about all that the plants provide for us- food, shelter, medicine, and so much more- I'm just truly in awe and ultimately in service to these amazing beings.

I've woven this ethos into my work as an herbalist from day one- which was over 15 years ago at this point!- and one of my goals is to connect people with plants and re-weave these connections.

In just a little over a week I'll be opening registration for my yearly winter online series on all things kitchen herbalism, Spice Rack Medicine🧄✨🧄✨

If you're wanting to deepen your connection to plants, especially common, household culinary herbs, and learn ways you can support you and your community's health and well-being with safe, powerfully medicinal, and accessible herbs, then this course may be for you!

Details coming soon✨❤️🧄🥘🌶️

09/15/2022

THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
September 22, 2022
@ 6:30 PM Eastern Via Zoom

The Doctrine of Signatures has been called the “language of the plants.” It is an ancient method of pattern recognition that notices, listens, and reflects about how the appearance of a plant describes its character including its medicinal properties. It is based on the principle that everything in the cosmos corresponds on some level because all life emerges from the same place and is shaped into diverse, archetypal, and iterative forms. Yet it is very practical, sensorial, and only requires some observational skills, practice, and a bit of imagination.

Not because it’s imaginary but because our imagination is what connects intuitive sensory and extrasensory inputs into recognizable arrangements of characteristics that convey meaning and can be “read”.

In this circle we discuss the history of the Doctrine of Signatures and some basic ways to read the language of plants using the Doctrine. We will learn how plants and trees express their nature and qualities in the way that they are formed, their gesture, their movement and:
Color
Leaf patterns
Petals
Texture
Plant family patterns
Shape
Energetic characteristics
Felt sense

During this circle we will practice looking at images of plants together and sharing what we notice based on some of the traditional ideas about what specific physical features indicate. We will also be open to what emerges that is not traditional or otherwise known as our conversations with plants are relational and unpredictable. By doing this you will be able to apply this practice to other systems and data sets with plants and beyond.

This workshop is available for free to our patrons at the “Vines” level and up. Join for $5 per month. Link to join:
https://www.patreon.com/therootcircle?fan_landing=true&view_as=public