In this episode Steven speaks with herbalist Christine Dennis.
Christine is an eco-psychospiritual herbalist, with a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in Herbal Medicine, with a focus on the Goethean Methodology, from the University of Wales in the UK. She is a current Professional Member (RH) and past president of the Ontario Herbalists Association as well as a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (MNIMH) in the UK.
Here’s the show notes:
2:35 : Steven asks Christine about how she came to call herself an eco-psychospiritual herbalist and how this is important in filtering who comes as a client
5:30 Christine shares what the Goethean Methodology is in herbalism, which she learned from the University of Wales in the UK, helping people to connect with plants
8:25 An example of how a plant, in this case the black cap raspberry, can call to you when you are in need of their medicine, their remedies show up when you need them
11:50 Our job as herbalists to help us connect to our deep inner nature
12:38 Was there a specific event or illness that brought you to herbalism? Christine share how her journey into plant medicine began
17:30 There were signs before this though, drinking kava with elders in Fiji
20:40 Steven and Christine share a common kava experience and how it can ground as well as connect us to the ether
21:41 How Valerian shares similar attributes to Kava
22:30 Steven asks Christine about her passion for Astrology and what’s happening in the skies right now (recorded April 17, 2026). New moon in Aries and what that means. Dissolving and Emergence
26:26 We’re in transition but we’re still just seeing the decay, now is the time to plant the seeds of what you want to see grow
29:34 What Christine loves about Astrology
31:18 Astrology helps us recognize we’re right where we’re supposed to be, can help us be ok with chaos
32:15 The stars are our inner nature, relation to archetypes
33:43 Clarifying that Christine is not a medical astrologer and explains her approach using a client’s natal chart
37:00 Evolutionary Astrology is what Christine is really called to which deals with why are we here and what are we meant to be doing and why symptoms are coming up in a client’s body
39:25 How crisis and collapse can be an anchor to reconnect you and call you to share your core desire
41:57 Reconnecting with the same plants you already know on a deeper level, they keep teaching us
44:35 Why it’s important to know your ascendant and not just your sun sign
47:13 The land called Christine home
49:00 Christine’s practice shifting towards connecting to the cosmos and how that connects us to the earth
50:54 Christine’s upcoming new course ‘Archetypal Study of Nature’ where she will work with astrological archetypes and looking to identify these archetypes in nature, along with study of these in the self, coming up in July
In awe of the Mystery, as a vitalist, death doula, ceremonialist, astrologer and amateur naturalist, thus a lover of Nature and the Cosmos and the cycles of Life, and having a blend of bio-medical, traditional, energetic (5 elements) and mystical herbal medicine experience, Christine is an eclectic and integrative practitioner. Christine holds certificates in IFIO & IFS -informed therapy (Intimacy From the Inside Out – for couples, & Internal Family Systems models of psychotherapy), after having first been introduced to this approach by ayahuasca in a ceremony over 15 yrs ago. She has 25+ years of hands-on experience in the field, seeing patients, facilitating health education and personal transformative experiences.
Living at the end of a dirt road, surrounded by trees, gardens and nature, right next to the forest, and under the canopy of the magnificent and humbling heavens, it is here that Christine works and dwells in the edges.
