Nettle Dieta: Plant Spirit Immersion & Astrology-Guided Resilience
Join us for a 3-week plant spirit immersion held in community, moving into the Spring Equinox with Nettle as your ally for the astrology of 2026!
Nettle is ruled by Mars and Aries. As we currently move into the astrological new year with a once-in-a-lifetime threshold: Neptune enters Aries for 14 years, Saturn meets Neptune at 0° Aries, Uranus moves into Gemini through 2032, Chiron shifts into Taurus, Pluto continues in Aquarius until 2044, and the Fire Horse year arrives under a “ring of fire” eclipse arc…a collective initiation into a new era.
You may feel overwhelmed with noise, distractions, and demands of life, and feel the call to slow down and reconnect with plants, nature, subtle energies, plant spirits, and know your sovereign, authentic self.
In this time of great change, setting aside time to connect with plants and your internal resilience has never been more important than RIGHT NOW.
▶ Join us for the Nettle Dieta here (Pay What You Wish)
Guided by Soul Expansion Guide and Coach Beth Weinstein, Clinical Herbalist, Medicine Maker & Herbal Educator Sam Perry, and TOTAMS astrologer Susan DeRyder, you will meet the 2026 astrological threshold with Nettle as your ally, building strength and centeredness from the inside out. Earth needs you to be resilient for these wild, changing times.
Check out these Medicine For These Times podcast interviews with our Nettle Dieta co-hosts, Herbal Wizard Sam Perry here and here and TOTAMS Astrologer, Susan DeRyder, here.
It’s the Aquarius New Moon Eclipse Week…
Can you feel the New Earth being birthed?
The week beginning February 16, 2026 starts one of the most astrologically significant times of the year, maybe of your lifetime.
It’s not just one transit…it’s a convergence of super significant astrological movements. A “pay attention” moment that sets the tone for the months, years and maybe lifetime ahead.
February 17, 2026: a future-seeding eclipse in Aquarius
The Aquarius New Moon arrives as an annular Solar Eclipse, a “ring of fire” solar eclipse.
This post is inspired by and taken from some of TOTAMS astrologer, Susan DeRyder’s article here:
I tend to feel Solar Eclipses like super-charged New Moons…not just a reset, but a rewrite. And because this is a North Node eclipse, the energy leans forward. It’s not only about endings… it’s about what’s trying to be born.
Aquarius brings that signature of freedom and higher truth… plus the kind of novelty where you can’t fully plan the outcome. Aquarius isn’t here to keep you comfortable. It’s here to pull you toward what’s real.
And with Uranus squaring this eclipse, there’s a wild-card element in the air… the kind that can flip a situation, reveal the hidden factor, or simply remind you that control is not the currency of this moment.
Venus rises:
One of the most striking pieces of this eclipse week is Venus emerging from the underworld and moving into alignment with the North Node.
If you track Venus as an inner myth (the myth of Inanna descending into the underworld)… this is the Sacred Feminine returning from her descent. Sometimes that looks luminous. Sometimes it looks a little bedraggled. Either way, it tends to come with clarity!
Not “perfect clarity”… More like: I know ME and what I won’t betray anymore.
And with the North Node in Pisces, there’s something about this that feels like a compass made of compassion… care for life… love that isn’t sentimental, but oriented toward what supports the whole.
The Fire Horse year begins!
Layered into this same window of 2026 is the beginning of the Year of the Fire Horse.
However you relate to Chinese astrology, the symbolism is hard to miss: fire, motion, volatility, courage, heat, acceleration. This is not a year that whispers. It has a way of asking for truth in action… and strength that isn’t performative.
February 20, Saturn meets Neptune at 0° Aries
This is the kind of transit you can feel even if you don’t know what it’s called. Ha! Saturn is structure… responsibility… reality. Neptune is dissolution… spirit… the ocean of the unseen.
And 0° Aries is a birth point, a new start. Initiation energy. The New Earth seed point? Who knows!
But there are question hovering in the field:
What are you willing to build that you actually believe in?
What has to dissolve because it isn’t real anymore?
This combination can feel like dream meeting discipline… mysticism meeting maturity… idealism being tested by life itself. It can also reveal shadow… illusions… distortions… and the places where something has been “almost true” but not fully lived.
This is also the opening of the first eclipse season of 2026, roughly February 12 through March 15.
Think of eclipse season as a portal window, not a single day. Things surface. Timelines shift. Old patterns get louder right before they leave. You may notice you can’t unsee what you’ve been tolerating.
And then on March 3, a total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo brings a more “release the ghosts of the past” quality… purification, simplification, endings that clean up the system.
So what do you “DO” with all of this wild astrology in 2026?!?
You don’t have to dramatize or fear it. But you also don’t want to sleepwalk through it.
Earth needs you to be resilient, strong and sovereign for these wild, changing times!
This is a good time for ritual, prayer, honest intention… and a willingness to be reshaped. It’s a good time to ask what your highest intent is… and then live in a way that’s aligned with it.
It’s also a good time to join us for our Nettle Dieta: Plant Spirit Immersion & Astrology-Guided Resilience for 2026
Rest, slowing down and resetting for resilience matters here too. Receptivity. Listening. Letting guidance arrive in the slow, quiet intuitive hits.
And if you slow down enough to feel it, you may notice that something in you already knows what’s next.
In this Nettle plant spirit dieta for the astrology of 2026, you will:
- Open a dieta to feel, learn from, and build a relationship with Nettle and other plant spirits through simple practices woven into your everyday life.
- Receive Susan DeRyder’s astrological orientation to the big 2026 shifts so you know what’s changing and how to work with your plant ally to navigate shifting energies with strength, resiliency and steadiness.
- Deepen your understanding of plant energetics, human-plant relationship, and the lore, magick and history of Nettle through Sam Perry’s deeply informative and entertaining teachings.
- Learn how to connect to and commune with plant intelligence and feel subtle energies, enabling you to deepen your bond with Nettle and ALL plants.
- Receive guidance, accountability, community, connection, and the potent energy of doing an intentional dieta alongside a like-hearted global community of plant-loving medicine folk!
- Cultivate deeper sovereignty and “bright boundaries” to shine your radiance like the sun, and stay open and collaborative without leaking energy or abandoning your center.
- Integrate the medicine and wisdom of Nettle so you carry it forward into your sacred incarnation on planet Earth.
- AND, receive the benefits of Nettle! Nettle is a deeply nourishing, nutrient dense mineral-rich plant that builds steady, sustainable energy without caffeine-like jitters & crash. It supports your adrenals (and fatigued adrenals), uplifts mood, helps restore sleep, supports bones, hair, skin, nails, cardiovascular system, healthy blood pressure, cholesterol, immunity, lungs, and digestion. It’s loaded with protein, vitamins, minerals and trace minerals like selenium, sulfur, zinc, chromium and boron that your body needs. A quart of nettle infusion has ~1,000 mg of calcium, ~15,000 IU of vitamin A, ~760 mcg of vitamin K, ~10% protein, and generous amounts of most B vitamins. Nettle supports “whole-body” nourishment that helps you feel more resilient and vital from the inside out!
2025 was about finishing old stories, wringing out the last dregs and debris of the old ways, and shedding the last snake skin.
February 20, 2026 is a threshold into the mystery of a completely New Era on Earth. Might we say this IS the turning point into the New Earth? We shall see!
Join us to learn from a wonderful plant ally, Nettle, deepen your relationship with plant spirits, and receive Nettle’s medicine to support you in these changing times with strength, resilience and “bright” boundaries.
▶ Join us for the Nettle Dieta here (Pay What You Wish)
See you there!!
Lots of love,
Beth