All traditional forms of medicine have viewed the body, plants, and the seasons through an elemental lens. The Elements are the foundations of life. Everything seen or unseen has its origins within a unique composition of elements, water, air, fire, and earth, and when we intentionally work with them, we are moving into the very foundational blueprint of nature.

There is a way of understanding health that predates clinics, diagnoses, and protocols. It lived in kitchens and gardens, in the hands of the grandmothers, folk healers & midwives, in the knowledge passed from one generation of women to the next about which plant eases a fever, which one calms a crying child, which one is steeped and drunk through pregnancy to build strong blood. This is the Wise Woman Tradition, and it is the foundation that the practice of herbalism grows.

The Wheel of the Year is an ancient compass of European origin, celebrating the 8 seasonal festival also known as “sabbaths”, marking the solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days of the annual cycle of the sun ~ offering us a points of time to reflect on the energies within & around us. The Wheel of the Year is multilayered, it’s archetypal energies can be seen across the moon cycle, menstrual cycle, feminine archetypes, elements, the breath, times of the day, and in the growth cycle of plants.

We have all connected with cacao at some point in our lives, as everyone has surely eaten chocolate. But cacao is much more than just chocolate, it has a history dating back over 5,500 years as a sacred ceremonial plant medicine.