Some of the highly effective issues about alchemy is that it allows us to entry vitality. We will have a look at the planets and crops and see how their energetic high quality in relation to their temperature, their humidity, which organ programs they management, which ailments they create, their constitutional sample and the way they form human our bodies, minds and feelings. After we perceive all of this, we will see a deeper stage of patterns in our means. We will see the relationships and the context.
As a part of this now we have the correspondence concept and the signature concept. Correspondence concept is the concept that when a plant appears like part of the physique, it’s treating that a part of the physique that’s its signature. Along with these organ system signatures, we will additionally see correlations to a selected ingredient or planet. So the doctrine of correspondence offers us a type of symbolic language engraved within the form of a pure being.
When college students find out about this, probably the most frequent questions they ask is which ebook to lookup correspondence – which ebook will inform them which plant is dominated by which planet. I am going to provide you with a couple of solutions to that. First, there aren’t many books that do that, and which of them are sometimes inaccurate info. Second, it is an abbreviation. The easiest way to find these relationships and correspondences is to realize firsthand expertise. Exit into nature and examine these crops and spend time with these crops and actually get to know these crops.
I believe correspondence and signature doctrine are actually from the center, not from the thoughts. We have to study to see the relationships and connections between all elements of life. We now have to expertise these items, embody them, see them with our eyes and never simply memorize lists in books.
And that is what this week’s podcast episode is all about. Jason Scott has been a superb good friend of mine for greater than 10 years as we walked the trail of alchemical herbalism collectively. Jason is the founding father of FeralFungi.com, the place he prepares medicinal mushrooms utilizing the spagyric technique and retains monitor of all astrological correspondences with the mushrooms.
Jason and I at all times have fascinating conversations, and that is no totally different. On this podcast episode we talk about the connection between astrology and herbalism and mushrooms, and alchemy and drugs, and all of the fascinating and distinctive methods these items work together.
We additionally speak about how Jason makes use of the Correspondence Concept and Signature Concept in his work with mushrooms, together with his strategy to studying about and from mushrooms. We’ll talk about a easy alchemical perspective, one of the simplest ways to study alchemical herbalism, discovering out the distinction between one thing and having one thing revealed (and its that means in herbalism), and extra.
Make sure you take a look at Jason’s weblog at alchemycology.com/weblog/ and an outdated discuss I gave discussing the doctrine’s signatures and correspondences.
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