The connection is right there in the words themselves. Throughout the Renaissance Era, Medical Astrology was common knowledge for practitioners of medicine and herbalism, but for some reason it is almost unheard of in our modern practice. Medical Astrology holds a critical place in a truly holistic model of herbalism, for it links the plants and people to the greater pattern of the cosmos and nature, achieving the ancient axiom "as above, so below." In this intensive, you will learn how to incorporate astrological principles into your practice of herbalism through classification of plants and their medicinal properties, holistic evaluation, diagnostics and psycho-spiritual assessment of your clients, as well as the harvesting of herbs and their spagyric (alchemical) preparation. You will learn how the Planets, Signs, Elements and Modes of astrology relate to other energetically focused systems of healing, such as Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Unani-Tibb and Greek Medicine, and North American Herbal Traditions. This gives you a truly "whole-istic" model of plant medicine that unites the above and below, the spirit and body of both people and plants, as well as reclaims the metaphysical root of western herbalism-something that has been lost for far too long.