Ep. #274: Plant Magic and Italian Folk Medicine with Lisa Fazio

Living Open | Modern Magick and Spirituality for Mystics and Seekers

Lisa Fazio (she/her) is an Irish/Italian American herbalist, astrologer, writer, mother, grandmother, and educator.

In this episode, Lisa and Eryn talk about:

• Lisa’s journey with plant magic, astrology, and spirituality
• Secure attachment through plant relationship and physical & somatic anchors with plants
• Being in service to plants
• Working with plants on indigenous stolen land
• Finding home with plants
• Animism
• She reads us her poem, “how to love a polluted river”
• Lisa’s relationship to poetry
• Poems as living things
• How her spiritual practice has evolved from growing up Catholic
• Italian folk medicine!
• Plants and ancestral connection
• Simple ways to start to reconnect with ancestral lineages
• How ancestral work can disempower white supremacy

Blog for this episode: www.living-open.com/blog/lisa-fazio

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Connect with Lisa on her website. Stay tuned for her book, Della Medicina: Plants of Italian American Folk medicine - out next year.