Ep. 239: Dreaming Herbs & Scientific Inquiry into Astrology with Will Morris

<p>Today on the Plant Cunning Podcast, Isaac and AC welcome back Will Morris, PhD, DAOM, MSEd, LAc, RH, a interdisciplinary healer and scholar whose work spans traditional Western and Vedic astrology, Chinese medicine, pulse diagnosis, sound healing, and education. Will explains his compulsive, spiritually driven path across traditions and how transdisciplinary study reveals shared underlying structures, including medical frameworks of location, process, and severity and recurring 12-fold patterns across nature and culture. He critiques mainstream scientific testing of astrology as method-driven, politically shaped, and often logically flawed, arguing the right assessment depends on the question and may require qualitative approaches. The conversation explores intuition, divination versus science, horary use in clinical settings, dreamwork and oneirobotany, mugwort’s shamanic origins, catnip’s “wind” associations, and Will’s upcoming books, including Evidence Ecology: Science and Astrology.</p><p>02:10 Why Study Many Traditions?</p><p>03:39 Life Path Music to Astrology</p><p>08:36 The Benefits of Transdisciplinary Studies</p><p>12:00 The Science Industry and Astrology</p><p>13:13 Is Astrology Divination or Science?</p><p>19:31 Testing Astrology Properly</p><p>27:59 Clinical Astrology in Practice</p><p>31:07 Book of Dreams and Yesod</p><p>32:48 Dreamwork Pulse and Herbs</p><p>36:59 Sedative Herbs Mix</p><p>37:10 Catnip and Wind Pathology</p><p>39:08 Eight Winds and Charts</p><p>40:32 Wind as Science Debate</p><p>41:23 Dream Plants: Mugwort</p><p>42:17 Dybbuk Clearing Story</p><p>44:58 Artemisia and Dreamwork</p><p>49:08 Cycles and Plant Motion</p><p>51:47 Pan Celestial Thesis</p><p>01:01:24 Land, Climate and Relocation</p><p>01:05:16 Universalism vs Relativism</p><p>01:08:15 Books and Future Projects</p><p>01:13:45 Closing Thanks<br></p>