The About
This is what it looks like when a Clinical Herbalist with a specialty in archetypal astrology and mythology builds a full service Apothecary with a focus on healing through storytelling.
It looks like a lot. That's because it is.
Original City Apothecary is part herbal cabinet, part mythic workshop, part creative studio, and part practical remedy room. Hopefully, the following details will offer a bit more clarity. As ever, thank you for stopping by. Your time is valuable, and we appreciate it.
Original City Apothecary took root in 2019 and came to life on Halloween. It is the storefront home for the tinkerings, formulas, services, and concepts of the Herbteller. OCA takes her name from our location in Oregon City, the first incorporated city west of the Rocky Mountains. It also works as a handy acronym for the three main branches of the apothecary.
Custom Solutions for Your Unique Constitution
What do you need? What story are you telling? The Original Custom Apothecary offers personalized services and materia to assist you on your quest.
Each one of us has our own unique set of challenges, desires, patterns, and needs. What works beautifully for one person may not be the right fit for another. With this understanding, OCA is dedicated to creating access to custom services that are thoughtful, affordable, and approachable.
We are not here to replace medical care, but to offer a more personal, symbolic, and supportive approach to self-care, ritual, reflection, and growth.
If you are seeking a more personal approach to self-care and inner work, we can help.
Cosmic solutions for your star-spired life.
The Cosmic wing of the Apothecary works with the old principle of “as above, so below.” Here, herbs, archetypes, astrology, mythology, timing, and story come together to support your natal constitution and the cycles you are moving through.
From Mythoscopes and Charted Teas to Auspiciously Elected Provisions and the Aspectus, the Original Cosmic Apothecary offers tools for those who want to work more closely with their own nature in harmony with the celestial clock.
If you are seeking to understand your patterns, work with your chart, or create remedies aligned with planetary timing and the Doctrine of Signatures, we can help.
Creative support for small business buccaneers, makers, writers, and myth-builders.
The Creative wing of the Apothecary offers services and solutions for fellow small business owners, artists, writers, and imaginative individuals. From concept development and product design to wholesale opportunities and creative consulting, our cabinet of ideas is overflowing and ever growing.
If you are seeking inspiration, creative direction, product ideas, or help bringing your own strange and beautiful work into form, we can help.
Society of Enchantment
The member-supported library and learning circle of Original City Apothecary.
For those who want to go deeper into the world of Mythstrology, the Society of Enchantment lives on Patreon as our members-only archive, classroom, and ongoing cabinet of curiosities.
Inside the Society, members receive access to the Mythpository, our growing library of almanacs, rituals, tarot spreads, creative prompts, astrological guides, seasonal practices, herbal correspondences, and symbolic tools for living a more enchanted life.
It is where the ideas behind OCA continue to unfold. The shop offers the teas, oils, remedies, reports, and provisions. The Society offers the deeper study, seasonal rhythm, creative practice, and mythic context behind the work.
If Original City Apothecary is the storefront, the Society of Enchantment is the back room with the good lamps, strange books, annotated margins, and a kettle always on.
If you are seeking ongoing inspiration, monthly practices, astrological guidance, creative rituals, and access to the Mythpository, the Society of Enchantment may be right for you.
Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/societyofenchantment
Find us online: https://societyofenchantment.com/
Mythstrology
the symbolic system at the heart of Original City Apothecary
It brings together astrology, herbalism, mythology, archetypal psychology, tarot, ritual, and storytelling as one connected language. Astrology names the pattern. Myth gives it a face. Herbs offer material support. Ritual gives the work a shape. Story helps us understand what is asking to be lived, healed, changed, or remembered.
At its root, Mythstrology is the practice of reading a life as a living myth. Your chart becomes a map of themes, characters, tensions, gifts, longings, remedies, and recurring chapters. Plants become allies with their own temperaments and signatures. The planets become symbols of timing, energy, and meaning.
Through Mythstrology, OCA creates practical and poetic tools for self-understanding, including personalized teas, ritual oils, Mythoscopes, chart-based remedies, creative prompts, tarot spreads, and seasonal practices.
It is not passive fortune-telling, and it is not a replacement for medical care or therapy. It is a framework for noticing patterns, working with symbols, and creating tangible practices that support reflection, creativity, and meaningful change. This is healing through story, symbol, plant, and practice.
FAQ
Shipping
Do to costs, we currently only ship orders within the United States.
Herbal matter comes directly from our little forest when there is enough to go around. We also choose to use locally sourced organics and we shop from reputable nature-loving providers when we have to go outside of town.
Herbtales (Mythoscopes & Charted Options)
Upon purchase, you will be asked to make note of your natal details or send them via email to Herbteller@gmail.com. This information is not and will never be stored or shared without your direct permission. The Herbteller is BIG on privacy, B I G.
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