It began with my innate nature. I’ve always thought in abstraction, been attuned to the emotional undercurrents pulsing through each moment, and registered an intuitive awareness of the energetics of the collective consciousness. For most of my life, I was the quiet observer in the room–taking in what everyone else was bringing to the dynamic, across every dimension, and filing it all away in my internal library of data about how they showed up in the world.
Naturally, I was drawn to psychology, personality systems, and frameworks that could help me understand the inner landscape in more tangible ways. My deeper curiosity was sparked as a moody tween, exploring horoscopes on Tumblr.
I dove into the Zodiac, eager to study the traits and qualities of each sign to feel more connected to those around me. As I devoured the data, the complexity of the study pulled me deeper and deeper. Over time, as my understanding grew, I moved away from books and websites and instead began learning the placements of the people closest to me—so I could feel into the energetic imprint of their unique charts.
My love for astrology, paired with my Cancer sun, rising, and Mercury, naturally drew me toward the moon and her rhythms. That devotion deepened when I lost my regular cycle due to hormonal birth control—something doctors dismissed as unimportant. Yet something within me knew better. I listened to that inner knowing, set aside the prescriptions, and returned to la luna’s rhythms. In amazement, I watched as my body began to bleed with every full moon, teaching me to understand the lunar cycles on a deeply embodied level.
From there, my healing journey expanded. As I walked the spiraling path of freeing myself from autoimmune conditions and chronic illness, I learned to honor the external seasons, listen to the rhythms of the Earth, and embrace myself as her reflection.
The deeper I sank into embodying the divine feminine path, the more the plants began to reveal themselves. My senses sharpened as I invited them into my daily life. I started to know and hear things about plants that I had never technically learned, and I began to recognize a through-line that had been encoded within my name all along. Samantha means “listener”—and I realized this had always been my truest gift: the devotion to deep listening.
I sought out teachers to develop my craft. I learned how to work with plant energy to not only heal myself, but others too, and a deeper understanding emerged. I saw how everything I'd been studying all along came back to creating balance.
My studies of divine feminine Ayurveda, Yoga, and Tantra helped me put into words what I understood within the cells of my body–to create balance, we must acknowledge both the seasons within and without. When we gain awareness of the subtle shifts that are occurring in both our inner and outer ecosystems, we empower ourselves with the knowledge necessary to return closer to a state of harmony.
Feminine Form Herbalism™ grew out of this lifelong devotion to listening—listening to the stars, to the moon, to the seasons, to the plants, and to the quiet wisdom of the body. What began as curiosity and survival has become a living philosophy: a way of remembering that we are not separate from the patterns that hold us, but expressions of them. The more we align with these rhythms, the more balance and vitality return, and the more gracefully we can meet the unfolding of life.
This is the heart of my work now: to share the medicine of plants, cycles, and subtle energetics as companions on your own path of remembering. My story is simply one thread in a much larger tapestry, and Feminine Form Herbalism™ is an invitation to step into that weaving—to listen, to feel, and to return home to the harmony that has been here all along.
