Mystery School Membership
This is an online mystery school devoted to reclaiming the Wise Woman within.
A space to awaken, remember, and reconnect with the ancient wisdom carried through generations of women—those who knew how to walk with the land, listen to the plants, and create healing in relationship with the earth.
Together, we journey into the roots of herbalism—exploring plant medicine through both science and intuition, from phytochemistry to direct, sensory connection. You’ll learn to work with herbs as living allies, crafting your own remedies and deepening your ability to listen and communicate with the spirit of the plants.
This path is not only about knowledge, but relationship.
You’ll be guided to live in reciprocity with the land and place you call home, aligning with the cycles of the moon and the turning seasons, and remembering what it means to belong to the earth.
Through plant magic, ancestral journeys, and the rich herbal and medical histories of Britain and beyond, we begin to uncover the threads of women’s wisdom that have been hidden, forgotten, or suppressed.
This work also asks you to see the wider picture—honouring global traditions, standing in solidarity with communities around the world, and questioning the colonial systems that have shaped our relationship to land, plants, and healing.
This is a remembering.
A reclamation.
A return to the Wise Woman way—rooted in earth, guided by intuition, and alive within you.
There is a way of knowing that was never meant to be lost.
It lives in the body.
In the land.
In the plants.
In memory that does not belong to any one lifetime.
This is a Mystery School for those who feel that remembering.
Not a course to complete, but a path to enter.
A slow return to the Wise Herbal ways of the Wise Women—through plants, history, embodiment, intuition, and the unseen relationships that once shaped how people lived with the earth.
An Initiatory Path
Those who come here are not students in the usual sense.
They are initiates—stepping into a living spiral of learning through four Houses:
The House of Medicine
The House of Memory
The House of the Crone
The House of the Ancestors
Each House is a threshold.
Each month, one of these thresholds is opened.
A single thread is offered—one plant, one practice, one story, one encounter.
Nothing is rushed. Nothing is taken all at once.
Instead, understanding deepens through return.
The Rhythm of the School
This work is held by rhythm rather than curriculum.
At each New Moon and Full Moon, we gather for Tuning into the Cycle—a shared practice with plant medicine, tea, and seasonal attunement, in relationship with the turning of the moon.
Once a month, the Sage’s Cabin Podcast offers conversations with herbalists, historians, and voices from social justice and healing traditions, widening the field of listening and perspective.
Alongside this, two teachings unfold:
One grounded transmission from the Houses of Medicine or Memory.
One inner or ancestral journey from the Houses of the Crone or the Ancestors.
Together, they form a simple rhythm of outer learning and inner remembering.
A Different Kind of Learning
This is not about collecting information.
It is about relationship.
With plants.
With land.
With body.
With history.
With what cannot be seen but is still felt.
Each month offers one small doorway into this wider remembering.
A single thread, followed slowly.
For Those Who Feel the Pull
This space is for those who sense there is more beneath the surface of how we have been taught to understand healing.
For those drawn to plants not only as medicine, but as presence.
For those curious about what was once known—and how it might be remembered again in the body, not only the mind.
For those who want to walk a path that is cyclical, relational, and rooted in the earth.
You are not learning something new.
You are remembering something old.
And the remembering unfolds slowly, in rhythm with the moon, the seasons, and the land beneath your feet.
The houses:
The Medicine House is where we enter into the herbal tradition and learn the plants as living allies.
Here we explore their healing virtues, phytochemistry, taste and sensory language, alongside folklore and traditional uses. We learn how to craft potent remedies, build confidence in herbal first aid, and deepen our relationship with plant medicine as both science and spirit.
The Memory House is a space for remembering the Wise Woman through history.
We explore how herbal medicine was once central to everyday life, and how it became marginalised over time. Through Anglo-Saxon leechbooks, women’s roles as domestic healers and midwives, cunning folk, charmers, and folk healers, we trace the lived realities of healing traditions across the British Isles.
We also look at the impact of witchcraft accusations, the rise of professionalised male medicine, and increasing church oversight—alongside women’s history, folklore, beliefs, and stories that still carry threads of the old ways.
This is a place of remembrance, reclamation, and deeper understanding of how healing traditions have been shaped, lost, and preserved.
The Crone’s House is a space for deep embodiment and intuitive practice.
Here we explore spirit connection, energy awareness, and the development of inner knowing through embodied experience. We work with folk magic, plant whispering, and plant magic as ways of building relationship with the land and the living world around us.
This is a practice of listening—deepening intuition, strengthening presence, and learning to walk in reciprocal relationship with plants, place, and spirit.
The Ancestors House is a space for deep listening with those who came before us.
Here we sit with ancestral grandmothers and grandfathers, the seers, and the spirit of the plants to receive insight, guidance, and support. Through journeying and connection, we open to the wisdom that flows through lineage, land, and the unseen world.
This is a place of remembrance, where relationship with the ancestors becomes a living source of direction and care.
Sage’s Cabin Podcast is a space where we hear the wisdom of sages working with herbs, healing traditions, and human rights struggles across the globe.
This podcast shares conversations that weave together plant knowledge, lived experience, and movements for justice—offering insight, reflection, and connection.
This Patreon supports the creation and ongoing development of the podcast, helping these stories and teachings reach more people.
Tuning in to the Cycle is a practice of attuning to lunar and seasonal rhythms.
We gather at the new and full moons perhaps with a plant of the month, tea meditation, herbal monograph, or ritual alongside seasonal celebrations of the turning year.
This is a space to slow down, observe, and reconnect with the cycles that shape both nature and our inner worlds.
Thoughts is a space for reflections on current events.
Here we explore what is unfolding in the world through the lens of herbalism, history, land connection, and social justice—offering perspective, context, and questions rather than certainty.
These posts are an invitation to pause, think critically, and stay connected to both the wider world and the more-than-human world as things change.
How the Mystery School Works
This Mystery School is a path of remembrance.
Those who enter are not simply students, but initiates—stepping into the old ways of the Wise Woman through a living, spiralling journey of plants, land, body, history, and spirit.
The teachings unfold through four sacred Houses. Each month, initiates are guided into two of these spaces, entering its threshold to receive a focused thread of learning and practice. Over time, these visits build into a deeper remembering of the Wise Woman path.
At each New Moon and Full Moon, we gather for Tuning into the Cycle—a shared lunar practice with a plant of the month, tea meditation, and seasonal attunement, aligning ourselves with the turning of the moon and the rhythms of the earth.
Each month also carries a transmission through the Sage’s Cabin Podcast, where voices of herbalists, historians, and those working with social justice and healing traditions share their wisdom, widening the circle of understanding.
Within the Houses, initiates receive two monthly entries:
One grounded information transmission, received through either The House of Medicine or The House of Memory, offering a focused doorway into herbal knowledge, plant practice, or the histories of healing and folk tradition.
And one journey transmission, drawn from either The House of the Crone or The House of the Ancestors, guiding inner exploration through embodiment, intuition, ancestral connection, and relationship with plant spirit.
Rather than gathering everything at once, each visit into a House offers a single thread—one plant, one practice, one story, one doorway—allowing understanding to deepen through return, reflection, and lived experience. These explorations and insights are given for you to work on and reflect upon throughout the month.
This is not a course to complete.
It is a path of initiation—into the Wise Herbal Ways that move through body, land, memory, and spirit, remembered slowly over time.
Reclaiming the medicine of the earth, and ancestors, finding our voice, and reconnecting with the land and spirit are powerful, radical, and defiant acts.
It is an intellectual, embodied, and spiritual journey.
Entry into the School
This is a monthly membership held in rhythm with the moon and the turning of the year.
Initiates enter through a simple ongoing contribution that supports the holding of the Houses, the lunar gatherings, and the making of the Sage’s Cabin teachings.
£11 per month
(cancel at any time)
To Step Across the Threshold
When you are ready, you are invited to enter.
Begin your path through the Houses.
Join the next turning of the moon.
Enter the remembering.
©2019 by Rox Madeira
Rox Madeira 