26 Healing the Wounded Warrior: A Soul Journey with Chiron, Akashic Records & Herbal Rituals
Release Date: 04/06/2025
41 Creating Seasonal Rhythms: Herbs & the New Moon in Aries
The New England Herbary
"For those of us navigating intensity — planetary, personal, or simply the wild energy of early spring — they offer exactly what Aries fire sometimes forgets to give itself: steadiness, and release." The New Moon in Aries arrived on April 17th — and just the day before, the Sun and Chiron came together in a rare and potent alignment called a cazimi. If this past week felt tender, intense, or quietly transformative, you're not imagining things. In this episode, we sit with the energy of this threshold moment and explore what it means to create small, seasonal rhythms that...
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40 Fierce and Nourishing: What Nettles and Dandelion Teach Us About Strength
The New England Herbary
"Dandelion is the plant that will not be erased. Every attempt to remove her simply disperses her further — her seeds carried on the wind, landing in new places, beginning again." April is a season of fire and contradiction — warm one afternoon, cold the next, full of urgency and uncertainty in equal measure. In this episode, we settle into the waning moon energy of mid-April and turn to two of...
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39 First Light: A Celtic Herbalist's Easter Morning
The New England Herbary
On this Easter Sunday, herbalist and Celtic seasonal guide Brenda Sullivan invites you into the quiet of early morning — before the world wakes, before the day begins — to explore the oldest layers of this beloved threshold holiday. In this special 50-minute episode, Brenda weaves together the ancient story of Eostre, the dawn goddess of the spring threshold, with the remarkable astronomy of Easter itself — including the Full Moon that set its date just three days ago — and the healing herbs that are pushing up through the April soil right now, offering their medicine to anyone willing...
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38 The Slow Cleanse: Spring Detox Herbs Your Grandmother Knew
The New England Herbary
“You are not emptying yourself. You are making room. There is a difference, and it lives in the body.” In Week Four of the March series, we arrive at the Waxing Gibbous Moon — luminous, nearly full, and ripening toward the Pink Moon just days away — and talk about two of the most quietly powerful spring herbs growing right...
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37 Chickweed, the New Moon & the Body's Quiet Wisdom
The New England Herbary
There is a small green plant growing right now along the edges of your garden bed, tucked into the damp shadow beneath the stone wall, pressing itself quietly against the base of your fence. Most people walk past her without a second glance. She is not showy. She does not announce herself. She simply arrives — every year, before anything else dares to — and gets quietly to...
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36 The Body Knows Before the Mind
The New England Herbary
"You are not falling apart — you are thawing. The body knows before the mind does. And the plants growing quietly in the cold right now know exactly what you need." Early spring arrives quietly in New England — not with fanfare, but with a loosening. The snowpack recedes. The bluebirds return. And somewhere in the damp, cold edges of the garden, two small plants are already growing before...
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35 Trees Don’t Die From the Present: An Herbal Guide to the Emotional Spring Thaw
The New England Herbary
"Trees don't die from the present. They die from what happened in the past — slowly, quietly, underground, where no one was watching." It is snowing outside my studio window as I record this. A real blizzard — the kind that silences the street and turns the world white and still. And yet underneath all that snow, something is already moving. In this episode, I share a story from a recent drive along the Housatonic River to a woodland lecture with an arborist — and what the trees taught me about damage...
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34 Alliums, Eclipses and The Great Reset
The New England Herbary
"We are the earth element this week. We provide our own grounding." There's a sound that marks the turning of late February — dripping water. Ice dams releasing. Snowpack thinning. The quiet, persistent rhythm of melt and freeze that tells us something underneath is waking up. In this episode of The New England Herbary, we explore what's being revealed as eclipse energy ripples through our...
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33 Hawthorn Holding the Future Gently
The New England Herbary
In a week that feels mentally loud and energetically unsettled, this episode is an invitation to slow down and strengthen the heart instead of rushing toward answers. As eclipse energy builds and ideas begin arriving faster than the body can follow, we turn to hawthorn — the quiet protector of the heart and guardian of thresholds. Through story, herbal wisdom, and a gentle pause, this episode explores what it means to hold the future without...
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31 Return of Inner Fire
The New England Herbary
Return of Inner Fire is a quiet Imbolc offering for anyone feeling worn thin by late winter — when the world feels loud, the days still feel heavy, and hope can seem fragile. In this long-form episode, we step into the old Celtic threshold of Imbolc, the season of hearth fires and becoming. Together, we explore the wisdom of tending what cannot yet be seen — hope without proof, warmth without urgency, and the steady return of inner light....
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In today’s special episode, I’m joined by my dear friend and co-facilitator Heather Whitehouse—an intuitive healer and Akashic Records practitioner—for a heartfelt conversation on healing our inner wounded warrior through astrology, soul memory, and plant rituals.
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We’re sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into our upcoming workshop, Healing the Wounded Warrior: Chiron, the Akashic Records & Herbal Remedies, which will be held on Friday, April 25th, at Eclipse Holistic Living in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and stream live on Zoom.
Together, we’ll explore:
- What the Akashic Records are and how they reveal your soul’s journey
- The role of Chiron in your birth chart and how it reflects your core emotional wounds
- And how the healing power of herbs can support your path back to wholeness
So, whether you’re deep in your healing work or just starting to explore your cosmic blueprint, this episode reminds you that your wounds do not define you—they initiate you.
Heather's Contact Info
https://www.heatherwhitehouse.com/
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Link to Register for Workshop on April 25, 2025
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A gloomy day at Thompson Street Farm
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Editing the episode by a warm fire and a warm cup of tea. 🔥🫖☕️
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Hike at the Great Meadows Conservation Trust - Beehive
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A morning hike on the Shenipsit Trail. A beautiful morning on the trail. We climbed 500 feet in elevation, almost above the treeline. A lovely juvenile Bald Eagle appeared to be following us.
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