Ritual Herbalism is a podcast devoted to exploring how we heal in relationship with the Earth, our ancestors, and ourselves. Hosted by herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and educator Lupo Passero, each episode invites you to slow down, tune in, and remember your place within nature’s rhythm—through the lens of plant medicine, ritual, and ancestral remembrance. <br/><br/><a href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">twinstartribe.substack.com</a>
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Ritual Herbalism is a podcast devoted to exploring how we heal in relationship with the Earth, our ancestors, and ourselves. Hosted by herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and educator Lupo Passero, each episode invites you to slow down, tune in, and remember your place within nature’s rhythm—through the lens of plant medicine, ritual, and ancestral remembrance. <br/><br/><a href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">twinstartribe.substack.com</a>
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June 14, 2026
Episode 12: Midsummer, St. John’s Wort & The Bringers of Light
<p>Welcome back to the <strong>Ritual Herbalism Podcast</strong>, a space where we explore the sacred threads of plant medicine, seasonal wisdom, and the ways we return to ourselves through earth-centered ritual. In this episode, “<strong>Summer Solstice, St. John’s Wort & The Bringer of Light,”</strong> we arrive at the threshold of Midsummer, the longest and brightest day of the year. A seasonal turning where the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and the world stands fully illuminated.</p><p>The gardens spill outward. Forest edges blur into green abundance. Bees move heavily through blossoms while herbs rise toward the sun in full expression. Everything feels visible. Alive. And yet, there is something quietly paradoxical about this moment. Because even as the light reaches its fullest point, the cycle has already begun to turn.</p><p>The word solstice comes from the Latin solstitium, meaning “the sun stands still.” For months, the light has been increasing, extending itself further across the landscape until finally it arrives at its furthest reach. And then, almost imperceptibly, the descent begins.</p><p>This is the threshold of Midsummer. The height of light and the beginning of its return toward darkness.</p><p><strong>Episode Themes:</strong></p><p>At the heart of this episode is an exploration of illumination, not only as a seasonal phenomenon, but as a relationship we are being asked to tend within ourselves and within the world around us.</p><p>In this episode, we explore:</p><p><strong>The Wisdom of the Solstice</strong></p><p>Summer Solstice reminds us that illumination is not something we possess forever. It is something we tend. </p><p>Under the longest light of the year, very little remains hidden. The gardens reveal their flourishing and their failures equally. The body reveals its vitality or its exhaustion more honestly. What has been growing beneath the surface becomes visible.</p><p>And perhaps this is part of the medicine of the season. Not only abundance, but awareness.</p><p>This episode also explores the relationship between fire, devotion, and burnout. In a culture that often mistakes exhaustion for worthiness and productivity for value, the natural world offers another rhythm entirely. At high noon, even the animals retreat to shade. Birdsong quiets. Deer rest in tall grass. The bees themselves slow in the thickest heat.</p><p>Radiance is balanced by rest.</p><p><strong>The Herbalist as Keeper of Light</strong></p><p>Midsummer has long been one of the great seasons of herbal gathering. Calendula, chamomile, mint, rose, yarrow, tulsi, and St. John’s Wort all stand in their fullest vitality beneath the longest days of the year. For many herbalists, this season feels deeply instinctive. Baskets grow heavy against the hip. Bundles hang drying from rafters and porches. Oils begin steeping in windowsills beneath the summer sun.</p><p>What blooms freely now becomes medicine for the darker months ahead.</p><p>This episode reflects on the possibility that part of the herbalist’s work has always been to gather light while it is abundant and carry it forward carefully into more difficult seasons. The apothecary becomes more than a collection of remedies. It becomes a living archive of relationship.</p><p><strong>St John’s Wort & The Bringer of Light</strong></p><p>At the center of this episode is St. John’s Wort, a plant long associated with protection, illumination, resilience, and the driving away of darkness.</p><p>Blooming near St. John’s Day and the Summer Solstice, the plant has occupied an important place in European folk traditions for centuries. Gathered beneath the longest light and hung over thresholds and doorways, it was believed to ward against nightmares, heaviness, illness, and harmful influences. In some traditions it became known as Fuga Daemonum — “the devil chaser.”</p><p>But beyond folklore, St. John’s Wort also offers profound physical, emotional, and energetic medicine.</p><p>This episode explores: St. John’s Wort for nerve pain and tissue trauma, infused ruby-red oil as stored sunlight for darker seasons, flower essence for psychic heaviness and intrusive dreams, emotional resilience and nervous system support, and important considerations surrounding cytochrome P450 interactions and internal use.</p><p>Most importantly, this episode reflects on the deeper teaching of the plant: St. John’s Wort does not fight darkness. It introduces light.</p><p><strong>Light in Modern Times</strong></p><p>We are living in a time where many people feel psychically overwhelmed. Saturated by speed, fear, crisis, nervous system exhaustion, and disconnection. Darkness has always existed. But what feels different now is how many people no longer experience enough true light.</p><p>Sunlight. Rest. Embodiment. Community. Beauty. Stillness. Joy.</p><p>Meaning.</p><p>This episode asks what it means to remain in relationship with light during difficult times, not through avoidance or denial, but through presence, reverence, beauty, and connection.</p><p><strong>Ritual Invitation</strong></p><p>This episode concludes with a simple Midsummer ritual practice centered around light, reflection, and tending the inner fire with care. A gentle invitation to slow down, gather seasonally, and remember that radiance and rest belong together.</p><p><strong>Do you want to learn the foundation of herbalism? To become a community herbalist and learn the importance of ritual herbalism? Our </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com/foundations-of-herbalism-home-study-1"><strong>Foundations of Herbalism Home Study course</strong></a><strong> is 40% off through June 26th! Start to take the steps on your herbal pathway from the comfort of your own home and at your own pace.</strong></p><p><strong>Want to go deeper?</strong></p><p>Join us at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twinstartribe.com/"><strong>Twin Star Tribe</strong></a> to explore the art of ritual herbalism, energetic plant medicine, and ancestral healing. Our online and in-person offerings are here to support your journey—whether you’re just beginning or deepening your path with the plants.</p><p>Come be part of a growing community rooted in Earth wisdom, sacred remembrance, and collective transformation. <strong>Visit our website at www.twinstartribe.com and step into the circle.</strong> We’d be honored to welcome you.</p><p>Disclaimer and release of liability: information and services provided on this website, by Lauren “Lupo” Passero and by Twin Star Herbal Education and Shakti Exchange LLC are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any medical condition and have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Information provided on this website and during all classes, programs and trips are for educational and entertainment purposes only.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">twinstartribe.substack.com</a>
May 1, 2026
Episode 11: Beltane & Rose: Deepening Relationship with Plants
<p>Welcome back to the Ritual Herbalism Podcast, a space where we explore the sacred threads of plant medicine, seasonal wisdom, and the ways we return to ourselves through earth-centered ritual.</p><p>In this episode, <strong>“</strong><strong>Beltane & Rose: Deepening Relationship with Plants</strong><strong>,”</strong> we arrive at the threshold between spring and summer, a moment in the turning of the year when the earth is no longer quietly waking, but fully alive. This is a season of movement, of expression, and of connection, where life is no longer hesitating, but reaching outward in every direction.</p><p>A year ago, I recorded the first episode of this podcast during this same season. The same deep spring energy was present. The same turning of the wheel. And yet, something has shifted. There is something about returning to the same place in the cycle that reveals not only what has changed in the land, but what has changed within us, and in the way we are in relationship with the world around us.</p><p>In that first episode, I spoke about the cicadas, creatures who spend years beneath the surface, living quietly in the dark before emerging all at once, climbing toward the light, singing, and becoming visible. At the time, that story felt like one of emergence, of finding voice, and of rising from something unseen into something fully expressed. Now, standing here again in this same season, I feel that story differently. Not as something that simply happened, but as something I was in relationship with. And this recognition opens into the deeper invitation of Beltane, not simply to notice that life is returning, but to consider how we are meeting it.</p><p><strong>Episode Themes:</strong></p><p>At the heart of this episode is an exploration of relationship, not as an abstract idea, but as something we are already participating in. Through breath, through the body, and through our connection with the plant world, we are continuously in exchange with the living systems around us. This episode invites us to move beyond knowledge and into presence, into a way of being that is rooted in attention, reciprocity, and connection.</p><p>In this episode, we explore:</p><p><strong>The Energy of Beltane</strong></p><p>Where the Spring Equinox brought balance, Beltane brings movement. The days have grown longer, the air has warmed, and the land is no longer holding back. Everything is reaching branches extending outward, roots deepening, blossoms opening. It becomes difficult not to notice that nothing in the natural world exists in isolation. Everything is in relationship. The trees with the soil. The soil with the rain. The blossoms with the pollinators. The warmth of the sun with the life it is calling forward. And this movement is not only happening around us. It is happening within us as well. Our inner landscape mirrors the outer one, awakening through sensation, through desire, through the simple awareness of being alive inside a body that can feel. Beltane reminds us that to be alive is not only to exist, but to be in relationship.</p><p><strong>The Green Breath</strong></p><p>One of the most profound ways we are already in relationship with the plant world is through breath. What we inhale is what plants release, and what we exhale is what they receive. This continuous exchange, sometimes referred to as the green breath, is a relationship that exists whether we acknowledge it or not. When we begin to notice this, something shifts. We move from asking what we can take from the plant world to recognizing that we are already in a shared rhythm, a shared life. Relationship is not something we need to create. It is something we can choose to become aware of.</p><p><strong>Plants as Relationship</strong></p><p>In modern herbalism, plants are often approached through their uses, edible, medicinal, utilitarian. These frameworks are valuable, but they are not the whole story. Plants are not passive resources. They are living beings, breathing, responding, and participating in the same world that we are. To be in relationship with a plant is not only to know what it does, but to know how to be with it. To sit, to notice, to return again and again, allowing something to unfold over time.</p><p>For me, this understanding began long before I had the language for it. There were times in my childhood that did not feel stable, but the plants were always there, consistent, quiet, present. I did not realize until much later that what I was experiencing was relationship, a way of being with the world that is often described as animism. In many ways, the plant world was one of the first places I experienced a sense of safety.</p><p><strong>The Medicine of Rose</strong></p><p>At the threshold of Beltane, one of the most beloved plant allies begins to bloom, rose. Across time and culture, rose has been associated with love, beauty, and devotion. It has been woven into poems and ceremonies, carried in grief, offered in celebration, and present at some of the most meaningful moments in human life. Its petals are soft, delicate, and deeply fragrant, inviting us closer. And yet beneath them are thorns, sharp, protective, and unmistakable. Rose does not offer beauty without boundary. It does not invite closeness without awareness.</p><p>To be in relationship with rose is to learn something about love, not as an idea, but as a practice. The practice of opening, and the practice of remaining with ourselves as we do. The practice of softness, and the practice of discernment, existing together.</p><p>Rose has long been used as a medicine of the heart. It supports the nervous system, softens emotional tension, and brings warmth and sensation back into the body. But beyond its physical effects, its deeper medicine is relational. It teaches us how to stay, to remain present with what we feel, even when it is tender, even when it asks something of us. And it is no coincidence that rose blooms at Beltane, a season of heightened sensation, beauty, and pleasure. A time when the body is invited back into relationship with the world through the senses.</p><p>We are living in a time that feels complex and uncertain. In moments like this, it can feel difficult to speak about beauty, pleasure, or love, as though these experiences are secondary or indulgent. But what becomes clear through this work is that they are not luxuries. They are forms of medicine. To feel pleasure in a time like this is not to ignore the world. It is to remain connected to it. To remember what we are still capable of feeling, and what is still worth being in relationship with.</p><p><strong>Ritual Invitation</strong></p><p>This episode concludes with a simple ritual for deepening your relationship with the plant world, one centered on breath, presence, and the recognition that relationship is always present.</p><p>Both our Green Witch Immersion and our <a target="_blank" href="https://lupo-passeo.squarespace.com/green-witch-online">Green Witch online course i</a>nvite you to build relationships with the plant and embody the pathway of ritual herbalism. We will gather with students this weekend for our immersion but our online course is open year round for those who feel the call. <a target="_blank" href="https://lupo-passeo.squarespace.com/green-witch-online"><strong>Learn more</strong></a></p><p><strong>Want to go deeper?</strong></p><p>Join us at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twinstartribe.com/">Twin Star Tribe</a> to explore the art of ritual herbalism, energetic plant medicine, and ancestral healing. Our online and in-person offerings are here to support your journey—whether you’re just beginning or deepening your path with the plants.</p><p>Come be part of a growing community rooted in Earth wisdom, sacred remembrance, and collective transformation. Visit our website at www.twinstartribe.com and step into the circle. We’d be honored to welcome you.</p><p>Disclaimer and release of liability: information and services provided on this website, by Lauren “Lupo” Passero and by Twin Star Herbal Education and Shakti Exchange LLC are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any medical condition and have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Information provided on this website and during all classes, programs and trips are for educational and entertainment purposes only.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">twinstartribe.substack.com</a>
March 18, 2026
Episode 10: Ostara, Persephone, and the Medicine of Dandelion
<p>Welcome back to the Ritual Herbalism Podcast—a podcast exploring the sacred threads of plant medicine, seasonal wisdom, and the ways we return to ourselves through earth-centered ritual.</p><p>In this episode, <strong>“Ostara, Persephone, and the Medicine of Dandelion,”</strong> we step into the threshold of the Spring Equinox, the moment in the turning of the year when day and night stand in perfect balance and the earth begins its steady return to life.</p><p>This is a season of emergence.</p><p>A season when light begins to win its slow return.When seeds begin to stir beneath the soil.When what has been quiet and hidden begins to move again.</p><p>Across cultures, this moment in the wheel of the year has been honored through stories of descent and return, death and rebirth, darkness and light.</p><p>One of the most enduring of these stories is the myth of Persephone. The daughter who descends into the underworld and whose return to the surface world marks the arrival of spring.</p><p>Her story reminds us that life often begins in darkness before it rises into the light.</p><p>And that what appears dormant is often preparing for transformation.</p><p><strong>Episode Themes:</strong></p><p>At the heart of this episode is one of the great plant teachers of early spring: dandelion.</p><p>A plant that many people overlook.A plant that pushes up through sidewalks, gardens, and fields alike.A plant that arrives each year as one of the first green medicines after the long quiet of winter.</p><p>In this episode, we explore:</p><p><strong>The Mythic Energy of the Spring Equinox</strong></p><p>The equinox is a moment of balance.</p><p>Light and darkness share the sky equally.</p><p>It is a pause in the cycle of the year—a threshold between the inward turning of winter and the outward movement of spring.</p><p>Cultures across the world have honored this moment with symbols of fertility, rebirth, and emergence.</p><p>Eggs. Seeds. Returning light.</p><p>These symbols remind us that life begins in stillness before it bursts into motion.</p><p><strong>Persephone and the Medicine of Descent</strong></p><p>The myth of Persephone tells the story of seasonal movement.</p><p>Her descent into the underworld marks the barren quiet of winter.</p><p>Her return to the surface world marks the greening of the earth.</p><p>But the story is not simply about loss and return. It is about transformation.</p><p>Persephone does not return the same as she left.</p><p>She returns as someone who has walked in the dark.</p><p>And this myth mirrors the cycles we experience in our own lives.</p><p>Periods of retreat.Periods of uncertainty.Periods when growth is happening beneath the surface, long before it becomes visible.</p><p><strong>Dandelion: A Teacher of Early Spring</strong></p><p>Dandelion arrives just as the earth begins to wake up.</p><p>Its roots reach deep beneath the soil.Its leaves spread low to the ground.Its bright yellow flowers rise toward the returning sun.</p><p>It is both grounded and reaching.</p><p>Just like the season itself.</p><p>In herbal tradition, dandelion is known as one of the great spring bitters; plants that help stimulate digestion, support the liver, and encourage movement within the body after the stillness of winter.</p><p>It reminds us that spring is not only about beauty.</p><p>It is also about circulation, cleansing, and awakening.</p><p>One simple way to work with dandelion this time of year is through a fresh green tincture, made from the young leaves as they first emerge. Bitters help awaken digestion and invite the body back into motion as the seasons shift.</p><p><strong>Ritual Invitation</strong></p><p>Because this is ritual herbalism, this episode also includes a simple Spring Equinox ritual centered on the symbol of the cosmic egg.</p><p>Across many traditions, the egg represents life held quietly in darkness before it emerges into the light.</p><p>A container of potential.A symbol of creation waiting to unfold.</p><p>This ritual invites you to sit with that threshold moment and honor the parts of your life that are still forming beneath the surface.</p><p>Not everything needs to emerge all at once.</p><p>Some things need time in the dark before they are ready to break open.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://twinstartribe.substack.com/online-resource"><strong>Access our herbal resource video library!</strong></a><strong> Receive hours of free herbal education and community care classes. Inside our free online resource library, you will find herbal education for beginners and active herbalists, plant spirit connection practices, ritual teachings and seasonal support, short trainings and guided learning experiences, and resources you can revisit anytime</strong>. <strong>https://www.twinstartribe.com/online-resource</strong></p><p><strong>Want to go deeper?</strong></p><p>Join us at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.twinstartribe.com/"><strong>Twin Star Tribe</strong></a> to explore the art of ritual herbalism, energetic plant medicine, and ancestral healing. Our online and in-person offerings are here to support your journey—whether you’re just beginning or deepening your path with the plants.</p><p>Come be part of a growing community rooted in Earth wisdom, sacred remembrance, and collective transformation. <strong>Visit our website at www.twinstartribe.com and step into the circle.</strong> We’d be honored to welcome you.</p><p>Disclaimer and release of liability: information and services provided on this website, by Lauren “Lupo” Passero and by Twin Star Herbal Education and Shakti Exchange LLC are not intended to diagnose, prevent, treat, or cure any medical condition and have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Information provided on this website and during all classes, programs and trips are for educational and entertainment purposes only.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. 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