Medical Astrologer, Herbalist & Author
Judith Hill is the Founder of the Academy for Astrological Medicine and an award-winning author of fourteen books including the classics: Medical Astrology, A Guide to Planetary Pathology, and The Astrological Body Types, Medical Astrology for Health Practitioners, and Medical Astrology in Action: The Transits of Health. In 2024, she published The Twelve Zodiac Sign Syndromes of Medical Astrology.
She produced The Renaissance Medicine Conferences and created the course Medical Astrology 101© and Astrological Herbalism Decoded©. Hill was possibly the first to introduce Western Medical Astrology to Szechuan, China. She is a Chartered Herbalist with Dominion Herbal College. Hill documented the natal and transit health influences of the Lunar Nodes and eclipses and created the first polarity based nodal eclipse calendar.
An internationally recognized researcher, Hill published significant statistical research on astro-genetics and astro-seismology; and was the private assistant to the great physicist Arthur Young at The Institute of the Study of Consciousness. Hill is also faculty with Kepler College and The Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism.
Rainforest herbalist, medicine maker, educator, and Anima Mundi Herbals founder Adriana Ayales moved to Brooklyn from her home in Costa Rica with a mission to bridge remedies from the native peoples of Central and South America with modern day needs and imbalances. From a young age, Adriana devoted her studies to shamanic style healing, hands-on energy work, and botanical inquiry.
Born with intuitive sight, she recalls seeing auras and spirits when she was a small child, not knowing what to do with this power or how to talk to her family about it. Later, she learned to cultivate it and trained with psychics and healers that helped convert this energy into a healing art she could apply to this world.
As an adult, Adriana studied several healing traditions extensively alongside master herbalists and shamans for over 13 years. Her vision is to continuously create a farm-to-pharmacy experience that not only creates a sustainable system of healing, but contains within its core the pursuit to wholeness.
She is devoted to sourcing from honest farmers, wildcrafters and from indigenous peoples when possible, to alchemize and create truly high vibrational medicines for the mind, body, and soul. Adriana believes that by preserving ancient forms of indigenous botany, we keep alive a very sacred aspect to our source.
Matthew Wood began studying herbalism at age 13 - 1967, the summer of love, when a National Guardsman on the run to Canada handed him a copy of The Teachings of Don Juan. Those were heady days.
He studied botany at the University of Minnesota; got his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales). He began practice in 1981 at Present Moment Herbs in south Minneapolis.
He is the author of ten books on herbal medicine, including The Book of Herbal Medicine, The Earthwise Herbal Repertory, and Holistic Medicine and the Extracellular Matrix.
He teaches online through the Matthew Wood Institute of Herbalism.
Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism, Natura Sophia Spagyrics, and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. He trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.
His comprehensive approach focuses on balancing the science and spirituality of plant medicine to heal the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is achieved through working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants.
His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves. He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife and children where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.
Zoey Gong is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) chef, food therapist, registered dietitian, and educator based in Shanghai and New York. Born in China, she has hosted hundreds of pop-up dinners, workshops, and events featuring TCM food therapy in both China and the United States since 2018, bringing healing foods and Chinese cultural traditions to thousands of guests.
Her first cookbook, The Five Elements Cookbook, was released in February, 2023 by Harper Collins.
Cameron is an Astrologer & Herbalist that specializes in Holistic Health Astrology, a practice that synthesizes Medical, Traditional, and Evolutionary Astrology with various healing arts modalities.
Cameron began his path to understanding mind-body awareness with a degree in Health and Sports Science and Psychology before deepening through direct experience with nature, Astrology, Herbalism, Yoga, Ayurveda, and other indigenous technologies. Cameron is currently studying to become an Ayurvedic practitioner & has over 350 hours of training in Yoga & movement.
Cameron addresses Astrology from a holistic lens, bridging spiritual, psychological, emotional, physical, & material matters together in a grounded manner.
Katheryn "Kathi" Langelier is the CEO and founder of Herbal Revolution, a brand renowned for its dedication to quality and efficacy in herbal wellness. An accomplished herbalist, farmer, author, and activist, Kathi has spent the past 30 years pursuing her passion for organic farming, herbal medicine, and community wellness. She trained in clinical herbalism under David Winston and remains a beacon of authenticity and dedication in the herbal wellness community.
Kathi manages the medicinal herb production on her certified organic, regenerative farm, where all the herbs and vegetables are grown for Herbal Revolution's "farm to bottle" products. These formulations emphasize daily preventive care and have garnered awards from the American Herbalists Guild, International Herb Symposium, and New England Made Shows. In 2019, Kathi was recognized by the Small Business Administration as the Best Home-Based Business in both Maine and New England.
Her work has been featured in prominent outlets like Maine Women Magazine, Boston Globe, New York Times, and Mother Earth News, with her products highlighted in publications such as Down East Magazine and the New York Post. Kathi is also the author of Herbal Revolution: 65+ Recipes for Teas, Elixirs, Tinctures, Syrups, Foods + Body Products That Heal and creator of 12 monthly herbal zines available through her company. When not tending the farm or business, Kathi enjoys hiking, swimming, exploring new experiences, and spending time with her partner, Gus, and her family.
Robert Weinstein L.Ac. is an acupuncturist, herbalist and medical astrologer with over 20 years of clinical experience. He has studied with a wide variety of legendary astrologers, including Judith Hill and Christeen Skinner, and is also well know for his unique financial astrology work on global financial markets.
His website is astrocryptoreport.com
Maria Noël Groves, RH (AHG), clinical herbalist, runs Wintergreen Botanicals, nestled in the pine forests of New Hampshire. Her business is devoted to education and empowerment via classes, health consultations, and writing with the foundational belief that good health grows in nature.
She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self Care, Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies, and the new Herbal Remedies for Sleep. Her fourth book releases late 2025.
Learn more about Maria and herbs at WintergreenBotanicals.com.
Adriana Ayales
Join Adriana Ayales, founder of Anima Mundi, for an insightful journey into the energetic and traditional applications of rainforest medicinal plants and their planetary correspondences.
This class will explore the profound relationship between these plants and their astrological associations, highlighting how cosmic rhythms influence their energetic and healing properties.
You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the core archetypes of medical astrology and how they relate to both common and lesser-known rainforest plants.
Robert Weinstein
In traditional Astrological Medicine, the Sun is regarded as the fountain of life. Its placement in the natal chart describes the quantity and quality of the “Native’s” Vital Force.
In this talk, we will assess the inherent constitutional vitality of the client through their natal chart, primarily looking at the placement of the Sun by sign, house and aspect, as well as elemental balance.
By considering these factors we can select herbal remedies that help enhance the client’s vitality and vital force.
Sajah Popham
The astrological patterns have a diverse range of applications in the sphere of herbal medicine, from holistic assessment, formulation and therapeutics, to harvesting and pharmacy.
Spagyrics—or traditional plant-based alchemy— is commonly misunderstood as merely putting plant ash back into tinctures, but the true application of alchemical philosophy to herbalism goes much deeper.
This class will explore the four primary ways the planetary pattern influences the practice of true spagyrics, both in the pharmacy and the clinic, to generate the most holistic form of clinical herbal practice.
Kathi Langelier
This Herbal Formulating class invites you to delve into the art of crafting personalized and business-oriented herbal formulations.
We will explore customizing herbal remedies to address individual needs and business objectives while harmonizing with the natural rhythms of the earth. Our discussions will include the distinctions between formulating for an individual versus specific conditions, as well as how seasons, moon phases, and optimal harvest times play a role in formulation.
Students will learn to select and combine herbs effectively to enhance their healing properties and align with nature's energetic cycles.
Join Kathi to strengthen your connection with nature's offerings and elevate your herbal skills.
Zoey Xinyi Gong
Chinese medicine food therapy is a healing modality with at least 3,000 years of history.
In this class with food therapist Zoey Gong, you will learn the basics of TCM food therapy, from foundational theories to culinary herbs, to a different perspective of diet and wellness.
Maria Noël Groves
Digestive concerns plague many Americans. Autumn is the perfect season to begin a healing tea ritual to support long-term gut health and repair and to bolster your resilience and vitality for the year to come. Learn about common approaches with herbal teas and other remedies to soothe the gut and bring the body back into balance. In these cold, dry months, our gentle warming and moistening teas are particularly welcome.
We'll discuss soothing demulcent herbs, healing vulneraries, digestive bitters, and helpful (tasty!) carminatives with favorite herbs featured for each category.
Formulation tips and a sample tea recipe (as well as tea alternatives) will be provided.
Cameron Allen
As herbalists, we have the tools to see what the person's current constitutional state is utilizing holistic evaluation approaches.
One thing that many herbalists find more difficult is understanding the root constitution.
Using the Natal chart, which was called the "Radix" meaning "root", we can find where the underlying pattern originated in order to see how illness has fully blossomed in the present moment.
Through this lens, we can become more mindful and precise in how we choose our herbal remedies through a holistic understanding.
Judith Hill
The famous ‘Shani Sade Sati’ life period is traditionally noted as one of life’s most trying times for personal physical and/or mental health, especially when culminating. This seven-and-a-half- year period is caused by transiting Saturn’s proximity to the natal (birth) Moon.
Astrological Herbalism offers fascinating methods to remediate this experience. These same antidotes are equally useful for all other “hard” aspects of Saturn to the natal Moon. The practitioner must first assess the temperature and moisture potential of that natal Moon!
Judith will demonstrate a practical method accessible to herbalists and astrologers of all levels.
Matthew Wood
A practical talk about some of our most useful herbs and their energetics, from Nicholas Culpeper (1652) to William Davidson (c. 1960). The four qualities (hot, cold, damp, dry) of the Greeks (from Culpeper's "Method of Galen's Physick"), the planetary energetics, the oxidation/sub-oxidation of doctor Davidson, and sometimes just plain interesting stuff.
Judith Hill introduced the North American Continent to the first medical astrology-herbalism Conferences (as far as we know) in 1992. Her later in-person “Lost Secrets of Renaissance Medicine” conferences (2013-2016) sold out each year and presented a dedicated conflation of herbalism with medical astrology. These wildly popular events sparked a flame that raced through the global astro-herbal community and continues to grow to this day!
In 2024, Melissa Behm, the Director of Judith’s ‘Academy for Astrological Medicine’, suggested a modernized, virtual resurrection of those popular Renaissance Medicine conferences and Judith enthusiastically agreed! Melissa worked in corporate pharmaceuticals in several different roles over the span of 15 years until she quit in 2022 to pursue Herbalism and Astrology full-time; she joined Judith’s team in 2023. Having coordinated several Global Town Halls in the past, and being an herbalist and astrologer herself, Melissa will be organizing this year’s event with Judith’s guidance. They are a perfect team!
1992: “Astrology, Health and Healing”
Idea and format presented to the OAA board by Judith Hill.
Produced and organized by Judith Hill, Sue Scott, Susan Payton, the OAA and their sponsor. Included herbal and medical astrology topics. Speakers selected were medical astrologers with herbal knowledge, and astrological herbalists.
2008: “Medical Astrology Day”, Portland, Oregon, October 23rd,
Produced by Judith Hill and Deborah Tramposh, assisted by Patrice Tilka
2013: The Renaissance Medicine Conference: Medical Astrology, Herbalism, Alchemy.
Sponsor, Creator and Producer: Judith Hill. Co-produced with J. Paulson.
2014: The Lost Secrets of Renaissance Medicine 2: Medical Astrology, Herbalism, Alchemy.
Sponsor, Creator and Producer: Judith Hill.
2015: The Lost Secrets of Renaissance Medicine: Medical Astrology, Herbalism, Alchemy.
Sponsor, Creator and Producer: Judith Hill.
2016: The Lost Secrets of Renaissance Medicine: Medical Astrology, Herbalism, Alchemy.
Sponsor, Creator and Producer: Judith Hill.
2024: The Herbalism & Medical Astrology Summit
A Virtual Confluence of Planet Medicine and Cosmic Healing
Produced by ‘The Academy for Astrological Medicine’
Productions Director & Organizer: Melissa Behm
Co-Director: Judith Hill
Event Sponsors & Creative Direction: Judith Hill & Melissa Behm
15+ hours of video, audio + PDF's
DISCLAIMER: Herbs contain phytochemicals and must be administered only with the guidance of appropriately licensed medical professionals. This class is informational and historic only. We are not responsible for student misuse of this material. If you have a medical problem, please contact your physician.
Judith Hill is not a doctor. Materials presented on this site are for research purposes only and are not meant to diagnose, treat or cure. We are exploring the hypothetical energetic patterns of planetary configurations. None of this is medical advice. Always follow the advice of your trusted medical practitioner. If you suspect you are experiencing mental health issues, see a mental health professional.
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