Goodreads asked Steve Andrews:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Steve Andrews I have long been interested in herbs and noticed that in some books on herbalism I had read that ancient herbalists, such as Nicholas Culpeper, had a system for assigning astrological rulers to specific herbs according to characteristics. So herbs ruled by Mars the god of war, for example, had something aggressive about their appearance or properties. This gave me the idea for my new book Herbs of the Sun, Moon and Planets. I decided to write about this subject, explaining what characteristics the herbalists used and to give examples of herbs under the dominion of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

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