Learn Astrology with Mary English
Sep 27, 2026 · 40 min · 15 segments
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Mary EnglishHost
In those, each one of the moon signs I've attributed, and it wasn't my invention.
because I've been in private practice for a long amount of time, working as an alternative therapist, so I've always run my astrology practice, but I've also, but, and in addition, I've also been homeopath, I am no longer, I've retired from that, and I'm still a hypnotherapist, so I still work in the alternative health sphere, yes, with me, so I thought today, since we've now gone into the sign of Libra, I will quote extensively one chapter from Herbs and Astrology by Liam Petrelengo published in 1977.
And just give you a little bit of a background of what he talks about in his books and how he how how the the gypsy thing is completely different from being a traveler okay um it's a culture it's a inverted commas race of people yeah um it's a completely different way of living to i can't remember the word they used for the people that weren't gypsies but there's a term that they use And they're so discriminated.
Her wise-lined face would crinkle in a smile as she recited the qualities of her favourite herbs, lingering lovingly over their fragrance and texture, ruminating on their ancient powers.
Why a thousand species of insects? Why a million species of grasses? A billion kinds of green growing things? Why did not the eternal one grow just one herb on his earth? Sorry, on his earth, a green stuff like spinach and say that's your lot sufficient unto the day.
Instead, we have this wonderful variety of from which to choose each green growing thing from a humble grass trodden underfoot to a giant redwood tree scraping the sky with its own use in life, its place in nature, its history and background enough to fill a book.
Now, when he wrote the book, there were more herbs growing au naturel in the countryside.
When he grew up, he would have been able to go and pick this, that and the other from the countryside and for it not to be as flopping polluted as it is now by car exhaust etc so he was quite happy happy lucky to have grown up in an environment where there wasn't as much probably less humans then as well And so he attributes to each sign of the zodiac.
In those, each one of the moon signs I've attributed, and it wasn't my invention.
because I've been in private practice for a long amount of time, working as an alternative therapist, so I've always run my astrology practice, but I've also, but, and in addition, I've also been homeopath, I am no longer, I've retired from that, and I'm still a hypnotherapist, so I still work in the alternative health sphere, yes, with me, so I thought today, since we've now gone into the sign of Libra, I will quote extensively one chapter from Herbs and Astrology by Liam Petrelengo published in 1977.
And just give you a little bit of a background of what he talks about in his books and how he how how the the gypsy thing is completely different from being a traveler okay um it's a culture it's a inverted commas race of people yeah um it's a completely different way of living to i can't remember the word they used for the people that weren't gypsies but there's a term that they use And they're so discriminated.
Her wise-lined face would crinkle in a smile as she recited the qualities of her favourite herbs, lingering lovingly over their fragrance and texture, ruminating on their ancient powers.
Why a thousand species of insects? Why a million species of grasses? A billion kinds of green growing things? Why did not the eternal one grow just one herb on his earth? Sorry, on his earth, a green stuff like spinach and say that's your lot sufficient unto the day.
Instead, we have this wonderful variety of from which to choose each green growing thing from a humble grass trodden underfoot to a giant redwood tree scraping the sky with its own use in life, its place in nature, its history and background enough to fill a book.
Now, when he wrote the book, there were more herbs growing au naturel in the countryside.
When he grew up, he would have been able to go and pick this, that and the other from the countryside and for it not to be as flopping polluted as it is now by car exhaust etc so he was quite happy happy lucky to have grown up in an environment where there wasn't as much probably less humans then as well And so he attributes to each sign of the zodiac.
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