Crystal Woodling: Herbs, Stars, and Stories

Crystal Woodling: Herbs, Stars, and Stories Clinical and Folk Herbal Consultations, Private Yoga Coaching, Divination (Classical Astrology, Tarot, and Channeling), and Narrative Healing

11/07/2025



Come study with us in person in beautiful Ashland, Oregon! November 15th & 16th at the Artemisia Institute.

What we see as classic Virgoan traits such as anxious pouring over details and nit-picking perfectionism are not written...
08/21/2025

What we see as classic Virgoan traits such as anxious pouring over details and nit-picking perfectionism are not written in the stars...they are negative cultural manifestations of a world that doesn't give us room to rest in the abundance and magic of the world.⁠
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Therefore my prayer for you now is to not to let another Virgo season pass without taking up her softer side more often than not.⁠
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Can you sit next to a stream or on the soft grass as you make your morning to-do list?⁠
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Can you revel in the warmth of the sun and the softness of the breeze as you push your grocery cart to the car?⁠
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Can you take time to gaze into the center of a brown-eyed susan before your next meeting?⁠
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Can you prioritize a late-season canoe or camping trip with the family over stashing money for Christmas presents this year?⁠
Maybe the answer is yes, maybe it's no. I simply encourage you to lean into pleasure this season as much as you can. Service, an essential theme of Virgo, is only as valuable as the love with which it is given.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

It's been a long journey, but and I are getting so close to finally starting new lives in our perfect little log home a...
08/14/2025

It's been a long journey, but and I are getting so close to finally starting new lives in our perfect little log home and magical food forest temple!

Thanks to everyone who has helped along the way and kept us in their prayers as we've bustled about the globe trying to build businesses and find our sanctuary during these turbulent times.

Our travels and studies have contributed so much to how we intend to live here...the lessons we learned in the indigenous communities of Bali, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru are beautiful seeds for new ways of working with the spirits and elements here on the land...
..and new models for how to share the abundance of food and wisdom we reap.

We prayers are that this land and temple space we tend will be a haven for those seeking some peace, nourishment, and inspiration to create their own food forests and new ways of living with the earth.

Big thanks to for helping us to find the magical portal of the Capon Bridge!

I didn't get a chance to post about the splendors of yet. ⁠⁠I can't believe that it's been a whole month since we gathe...
08/12/2025

I didn't get a chance to post about the splendors of yet. ⁠
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I can't believe that it's been a whole month since we gathered in those sacred Cherokee hills.⁠
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It's always an honor to be included to indigenous-led spaces...an experience that is simultaneous incredibly humbling.⁠
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Humble and humus have the same Latin root...meaning vaguely "of the ground."⁠
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Building humus and humility are the work of a lifetime...it's how we develop lifeforce power in our bodies and in our shared glorious planet Gaia.⁠
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In between teaching plant alchemy of various varieties--with vinegars and in our dreams, I spent my "free time" at Firefly learning about soil alchemy, something I'm incredibly excited about bringing back to our budding homestead in the Cacapon River Valley.⁠
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The way we nourish the soils of our lands is cyclical...⁠
⁠..from the way we allow our bodies and the bodies of our loved ones to be taken back home by the earth...⁠
⁠... to the ways we can use our minds, hearts, hands, and tools to nourish and enrich the land we walk on while we are still alive.⁠
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Some highlights from the gathering⁠ (not pictured is a gorgeous class on natural burials and home funerals)⁠
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photo 1: the soil web of life⁠
photo 2: beautiful Cherokee hills and home of FireFly⁠
photo 3: classroom space for my Dream Alchemy Herbal Allies class⁠
photo 4: Soil tasting and experimentation materials⁠
photo 5: Korean Natural Farming bamboo fermentation chamber⁠
photo 6: Low Tech Biochar creation⁠
photo 7: Biochar burning⁠
photo 8: The little ones we nourish soil for

I was just lamenting to a friend that I hadn't found any chickens this year yesterday and then these beauties popped up ...
08/01/2025

I was just lamenting to a friend that I hadn't found any chickens this year yesterday and then these beauties popped up for me.

The earth listens and grants little balms for the soul when we are open.

These have been intense and stressful times for those of us with open hearts and open eyes.

I hope you are treating yourselves kindly and remembering to share your pain, grief, anger, and fear with the earth...she turns it into compost...she fuels herself with it and gives you medicine in return.

This is the dance that all of us need to be doing right now.

The time has come. A reckoning is on the way. We should feel shame. We should allow that shame to humble us back into th...
07/28/2025

The time has come. A reckoning is on the way. We should feel shame. We should allow that shame to humble us back into the earth to where our collective humanity can restore itself.

How did we allow actual n***s to brainwash us into allowing our tax dollars to fund genocide? To displace and slaughter a whole people group for decades.

It's time to fight to put new systems in place.

As Fox News uses its same old scare tactics to tell us Socialism is bad, Im here to say that im fully on board with the coming socialist revolution.

Would I prefer small band hunter gatherer societies with no borders? Yes. Will I take literally anything that doesnt feed off of the blood and suffering of children. Also yes.

Consider it. Donate. And join
For their summer school for Socialism and learn about ways we take the power back from these monsters and start living human lives, have humane wages, and a society built for ALL people not just billionaire n***s.

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Today I will pray.I will pray that tomorrow we can bring children into a world that we aren't ashamed of.Today I will no...
07/24/2025

Today I will pray.

I will pray that tomorrow we can bring children into a world that we aren't ashamed of.

Today I will nourish the dream of revolution in my heart.

Thank you for bringing that dream so much closer to a reality.


I was trained in a tradition where one gives gifts to others on their birthday instead of the other way around. So, in h...
07/23/2025

I was trained in a tradition where one gives gifts to others on their birthday instead of the other way around. So, in honor of the generosity of Lugh and Leo season, I have decided to share my harvest with you all, my dear readership and extended community/village.⁠
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I am offering 50% off all of my one-on-one work through the new moon in Leo with coupon code CometotheWell
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If you are interested in long-term coaching with me, this discount will also be taken into consideration for our final pricing!⁠
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May your first harvests be blessed,⁠
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Crystal⁠⁠⁠⁠

Show up allies!
06/19/2025

Show up allies!

Hermeticism, medicine-crafting, food forests, and beautiful people creating a more beautiful world! I am so very gratefu...
06/16/2025

Hermeticism, medicine-crafting, food forests, and beautiful people creating a more beautiful world!

I am so very grateful to the for giving me the opportunity to teach about alchemical herbal vinegars at their food forest in Takoma Park. If you're in the DC area check out these heart-centered food systems revolutionaries!

I mostly teach online so when I get the opportunity to meet face-to-face and hands-to-hands I glow with delight.

I've got a couple of other in-person coming up! On June 24th I'll be teaching about herbal medicines for the bones at the Congressional Cemetery and I'll be teaching more herbal alchemy and dreamwork at the Firefly Gathering which starts on July 8th! More on those workshops soon. DM me if you have any questions!

I've received a glut of emails from students, friends, and families about how to protect themselves from ticks and tick-...
06/10/2025

I've received a glut of emails from students, friends, and families about how to protect themselves from ticks and tick-borne illnesses this year as the tick population is at an all-time high along with Lyme disease diagnoses.

Unfortunately, being outside in the US during the warmer months means confronting the very real possibility of contracting Lyme. Ticks are tiny and easy to miss even with nightly full-body checks.

However, no one should restrict their love of Gaia's abundant wilds out of fear. Fortunately, there are ways to prevent Lyme that will improve your overall quality of life, even if it takes up a little more of your day.

Check back for the next 3 tips or check them out on my website crystalwoodling.com!

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Crystal is a Clinical and Folk Herbalist, Yogini, Traditional Astrologer, Journey Work Practitioner, and Story Teller.

She combines all of these healing tools in her one-on-one healing work with clients and teaches courses on plant magic and medicine which reveal the elegance of how scientific and spiritual perspectives of healing mirror one another.

Her magical work started young, palm reading in middle school and giving tarot readings in high school everywhere from AP Bio to the office of her gas station job where she also happened to work as the town “herb-alist”...if you know what I mean...

After leaving her career as a professor of poetry and literature, she spent nearly a decade studying with healers from various traditions around the globe in pursuit of freeing herself from debilitating chronic illnesses.