Episode 511 -Herbs & Astrology for Libra

Anyway, so in his introduction, he says, the rhythm of life.

It was my grandmother, Anita, from faraway Romania, who first introduced me to the mysteries of herbal remedies as the Romanies know them.

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.

Stand on Ellie Hill, she would tell me, and look for miles around at the view.

There you will see God's bounty growing just for the taking.

Plentiful.

In everything that grows we find the mystery of life a million times.

She was right, of course.

Why there is such variety in life remains a complete and eternal mystery.

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.

We're doing signs now.

Various different herbs.

And there's only, he's quoting one, two, three, four.

Four for the sign Libra.

So it's not a vast amount.

It's not going to take me ages to read it to you.