5K High Altitude Apothecary

✨ The Mineral Wheel

Where astrology,

plants,

minerals,

and nourishment meet.

There are twelve signs on the zodiac wheel.

There are also twelve mineral salts

in an early twentieth-century astrological system

developed from the work of Wilhelm Schüßler

and later expanded by George W. Carey.

Carey proposed that each sign of the zodiac

has a particular relationship with one of these mineral salts.

I became curious about something a little different.

Where do those minerals live in the garden?

What plants carry them?

What foods bring them to the table?

And what happens when we look at the zodiac

not simply as twelve personalities

but as a wheel of relationships between the body,

the Earth,

and the things that nourish us?

🌿 Around the Wheel

Sign	Traditional Cell Salt	Foods to Explore	Herbs / Herbal Foods to Explore
♈ Aries	Kali phos — Potassium phosphate	potatoes, bananas, avocado, beans, peas, whole grains, nuts, seeds	Nettle, parsley, dandelion leaf, oatstraw, alfalfa
♉ Taurus	Nat sulph — Sodium sulfate	cruciferous vegetables, onions, garlic, legumes, whole grains	Dandelion, burdock, nettle, mustard greens, watercress
♊ Gemini	Kali mur — Potassium chloride	potatoes, beans, tomatoes, leafy greens, squash, bananas, avocado	Nettle, parsley, dandelion leaf, celery leaf, alfalfa
♋ Cancer	Calc fluor — Calcium fluoride	tea, seafood; ordinary dietary fluoride also comes largely from fluoridated water where used	Tea leaf is the clearest plant source; I would not build a long medicinal-herb list for fluoride
♌ Leo	Mag phos — Magnesium phosphate	pumpkin seeds, almonds, beans, whole grains, leafy greens, avocado	Nettle, oatstraw, alfalfa, dandelion greens, parsley
♍ Virgo	Kali sulph — Potassium sulfate	potatoes, beans, leafy greens, cabbage-family vegetables, onions	Nettle, dandelion leaf, parsley, alfalfa, mustard greens
♎ Libra	Nat phos — Sodium phosphate	legumes, nuts, seeds, whole grains, dairy, peas	Oatstraw, nettle, alfalfa, parsley, dandelion greens
♏ Scorpio	Calc sulph — Calcium sulfate	cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, garlic, radish/turnip family, legumes	Nettle, watercress, mustard greens, garlic, dandelion greens
♐ Sagittarius	Silicea — Silica	oats, barley, whole grains, green beans, cucumber skin, some leafy vegetables	Oatstraw, horsetail, nettle
♑ Capricorn	Calc phos — Calcium phosphate	beans, sesame/tahini, almonds, leafy greens, broccoli, fortified plant milks, dairy	Nettle, alfalfa, oatstraw, dandelion greens, parsley
♒ Aquarius	Nat mur — Sodium chloride	celery, chard, beets, sea vegetables and, most significantly, ordinary dietary salt	Celery leaf, sea vegetables, nettle, dandelion greens, parsley
♓ Pisces	Ferr phos — Iron phosphate	beans, pumpkin seeds, sesame, leafy greens, whole grains, dried fruit	Nettle, dandelion greens, parsley, alfalfa, yellow dock*

💎 Stone Companions…

♈ Aries

♉ Taurus

♊ Gemini

♋ Cancer

♌ Leo

♍ Virgo

♎ Libra

♏ Scorpio

♐ Sagittarius

♑ Capricorn

♒ Aquarius

♓ Pisces

🌙 Finding Your Place on the Wheel

Different astrological mineral traditions have developed ways of working with the

signs surrounding birth.

Here at 5K,

I invite you to explore the wheel as a pattern rather than a prescription.

Your Sun sign can be the beginning of the journey,

not the end of it.

🌿 Have the Keeper Make Your Blend

You don’t need twelve jars of herbs sitting in your cupboard.

Plants are wonderfully complicated things.

One plant may carry several of the minerals we’re exploring

which is why you may notice old friends such as Nettle

and Oatstraw appearing in more than one place around the wheel.

If you’d rather have something made for you,

tell me where you were born on the wheel.

I’ll look at the mineral pattern,

the foods and herbs associated with it,

and create a botanical blend from the plants in the 5K Herbarium.

🌿 Ask the Keeper to Create My Blend

The Mineral Wheel explores historical astrological traditions alongside botanical

and nutritional information.

Custom blends are created as foods/herbal preparations

and are not intended to diagnose or correct a medical mineral deficiency.

Continue Exploring…

Foods 🍲 The Mountain Kitchen

Herbs 🌿 Herbal Studies

Stone Companions 💎 The Litharium