

This volume is essential for anyone working in ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, environmental anthropology, Native American studies, and Western and California culture and history. The Full Moon for this month will occur early in the month on Thursday, April 6th. At a time of the commercialization of traditional ecological knowledge, Peters presents her rich tradition on her own terms, and according to her spiritual convictions about how her knowledge should be shared. In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant.44. Trees have buds on them, spring daffodils and tulips abound, and. In fact, this lunar cycle is often known as the Seed Moon. Seeds are being blown about on the breezes, spreading life all around from one place to the next. Traditionally called the Pink Moon, this full Moon is also the Paschal full Moon this year. The full moon of April, called the Pink Moon, occurs Monday, April 26 at 11:32 p.m. In April, the thunderstorms of March are beginning to subside, and the wind picks up. Yet, in light of the many state and local quarantines due to Covid-19, I’m diverging from our normal group ritual and instead sharing this solo (or family) ritual. Aprils full Moon rises on the night of Saturday, April 16.

In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. The book begins with Josephine's personal and tribal history and gathering ethics. Josephine then instructs the reader in medicinal and plant food preparations and offers an illustrated catalog of the uses and In this extraordinary book Josephine Peters, a respected northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. The book begins with Josephine's personal and tribal history and gathering ethics. Josephine then instructs the reader in medicinal and plant food preparations and offers an illustrated catalog of the uses and doses of over 160 plants. April 7th Full Pink Moon (8:35 PM, MST) is a Supermoon and it would be an amazing time to gather a huge bunch of friends together and have a bonfire ritual.
