November 9 & 10
We are currently finalizing the schedule and the talk topics for this year's summit. (NOTE: We reserve the right to potentially switch out speakers if needed by the speaker)
Judith Hill
A demonstration of astrological medicine.
Observe profound astrological variations of the solar-ruled Vital Force in charts of the stroke and heart attack prone; versus those with tendencies toward heart failure, edema, fatigue and excessively low blood pressure. This is a great way to observe the Sun’s influence at work in real cases.
We will discuss traditional hypothetical remediations for both cardiac extremes (herbs, nutrition, and traditional gemstone prescription).
This talk intends to demonstrate the natal Sun’s constitutional role in “hot” and “cold” cardiac conditions and natal Vital Force quantity and quality. Attendees will gain skill in spotting these tendencies, and comprehend traditional thinking as to their remediation.
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz
In Mesoamerica, reverence for the Sun spans millennia and continues today honoring the Sun not only as a physical source of life but as a spiritual force, a being, and a marker of sacred time. Come gather in virtual sacred space to honor Grandfather Sun—the great heart of the sky—and the ceremonies that arise in rhythm with its path. In this plática-style session, we enter into a deeper relationship with the solar cycle as it lives in curanderismo and ancestral Mexican traditions.
This is a space for remembering the body's connection to the turning of the seasons, and the way ritual helps us move through cycles of growth, rest, release, and rebirth. We explore how ceremonies connected to the Sun are woven with land, lineage, and presence—sometimes with plants, sometimes with prayer, always with intention.
Stephanie Gailing
While dreams and astrology are both vehicles for potent self-awareness, together they work synergistically to allow us to discover an even deeper level of understanding and wisdom.
Astrology can help us access and translate the meaning of our dreams, while our oneiric visions offer us insights that further reveal the fount of self-knowledge potentiated within our astrology charts and the current zeitgeist.
In this talk, we will explore ways to weave astrology and dreamwork together as well as discuss flower essences that inspire both sleep and dreams.
Zoey Xinyi Gong
Align your body with the rhythms of nature!
In this TCM workshop with food therapist Zoey Gong, discover how to nourish each phase of your menstrual cycle using Traditional Chinese Medicine food therapy. Learn which foods harmonize with the moon's energies—yin-nourishing foods for the new moon, blood-building meals for the full moon, and Qi-moving recipes for transitions.
We'll explore how TCM links menstrual health to lunar cycles and share practical, delicious ways to balance hormones, ease PMS, and enhance vitality.
Sajah Popham
From the perspective of herbalism, Rose and Cleavers don’t have much in common at all. But from an astro-herbalism perspective, they are both ruled by Venus. Yet the way Rose operates on Venus is quite distinct from Cleavers. This class explores the application of William LeSassier’s triune classification system of herbs to planetary correspondences, using Venus as an example.
The purpose of which is to get more specific at defining how plants embody and influence planetary qualities for a more refined system of classification. We’ll cover the nature of Venus builders, neutrals and eliminators alongside specific plant examples.
Nidhi Pandya
This session explores the intersection of Ayurveda and astrology, examining how the cycles of the moon, sun, and zodiac mirror the body's internal rhythms.
Topics include perimenopause and the shifting doshic landscape with age—particularly the rise of Vata—as well as seasonal and elemental balancing through diet, lifestyle, and lunar awareness.
Drawing from Ayurvedic principles, the talk will offer insight into aligning with nature's cycles for hormonal harmony, emotional resilience, and sustainable wellbeing throughout life's transitions.
Marcos Patchett
Astrology provides insight into the nature and causes of problems, but traditionally it was used to find solutions to those problems as well.
Drawing from Renaissance and medieval prescribing traditions, we can combine the best of ancient and contemporary technologies to develop practical strategies for upgrading our lives.
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 & 2025: 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
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.
Stephanie Gailing is an astrological advisor, self-care consultant, and family constellations facilitator with over 20 years of experience. She is the author of seven books including Planetary Apothecary, The Complete Book of Dreams, and Stellar Visions Oracle Deck. Co-host of the So Divine! podcast, Stephanie’s work has been featured in Vogue, Well + Good, MindBodyGreen, and numerous other media outlets.
In addition to her counseling and education work, Stephanie also offers editing and writing services to astrologers and wellness practitioners.
Stephanie earned a Certificate in EcoPsychology from Pacifica University, Advanced Diploma in Coaching from New York University, and M.S. in Nutrition from Bastyr University.
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.
Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism, co-founder of 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.
Nidhi Bhanshali Pandya is a certified Ayurvedic Doctor, a speaker, and creator of the Inner Climate Method®—a transformative approach that blends ancient Vedic wisdom with modern science. Based in New York City, she brings 15 years of expertise and a lifelong immersion in Ayurveda, inspired by her grandfather, a revered Ayurvedic healer in India.
Formally trained for over 5 years at a traditional Gurukulam-type institution, Nidhi excels in distilling complex ancient scriptures into practical, modern-day tools. Her passion lies in empowering people to cultivate self-awareness, live intuitively, and achieve mind-body balance. Through her globally taught Inner Climate Method® and now her book Your Body Already Knows, she helps readers and students harness their intuition and innate wisdom to achieve sustainable health and well-being while providing a systematic guide to reset their gut, hormones, sleep, and mood.
As a faculty member at the Shakti School, a contributor to leading publications, and the creator of a course on Commune, Nidhi bridges the gap between traditional Ayurvedic teachings and contemporary lifestyles. Her TEDx talk and teachings have inspired audiences worldwide, proving that vibrant health and happiness are attainable for modern women everywhere.
Marcos is a herbalist, medical and horary astrologer, and head of the Plan*tarium school (https://plantarium.uk/) teaching medical astrology to therapists of all kinds.
He is formerly clinical supervisor at Middlesex University’s Western Herbal Medicine BSc & MSc courses (2013-2018), Westminster University (2021-22), and Heartwood online herbal medicine programmes (2020-2023). He teaches at Kepler College (USA), QHP, and the Academy of Astrology (UK).
His first book, The Secret Life of Chocolate, was released in 2020.
Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz is an award-winning author, revered curandera, and respected herbal educator deeply rooted in the traditions of the Sonoran Desert. Her work in traditional healing has been featured in Forbes, Healthline, Spirituality & Health, and on Padma Lakshmi's Taste the Nation on Hulu.
With more than 30 years of initiation into spiritual wisdom traditions, folk herbalism, energetics, and esoteric studies, Felicia shares personalized guidance, luminous insight, and practical tools to help others awaken the innate magic and mystical qualities aligned with their life purpose.
She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband, Jason, and their dog, Mars.
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