Wild Medicine: Herbs for your Yule Altar (Class)

About This Class: The Winter Solstice brings the dark days of the year to the northern hemisphere. With lessons of inward reflection and stillness, Yule is a potent time to listen to the spirit world and to dream. In this hour-long class, meet three auspicious herbs of the season and learn how to work with them ritually to craft a Yule altar.  About This Series: Staying connected can be challenging in a world that so frequently tries to separate us from our essential relationship to the land and all the life it nourishes.   There are so many obstacles—the constant sense of urgency and innumerable deadlines that add up to the hectic demands of so-called modern life—not to mention the physical distance that often separates us from the natural world, which may be due to our living situations being disconnected from nature, a scarcity of green spaces, especially in urban areas, or just the daily busy-ness that prevents us from even seeing the life around us.   Despite all of it, the plants