Ritual Health Acupuncture & Herbalism

Ritual Health Acupuncture & Herbalism Acupuncture, Classical Chinese Medicine
Ayurvedic Herbalism, Chinese Polestar Astrology: SF East Bay

Dr. Anne Shelton Crute is a licensed acupuncturist and Chinese Polestar astrologer serving the San Francisco East Bay, CA

🌕 An Evening of Celebration & StillnessAs the season turns inward, we invite you to gather in the glow of music, convers...
10/29/2025

🌕 An Evening of Celebration & Stillness

As the season turns inward, we invite you to gather in the glow of music, conversation, and community. We welcome Flutist Maheshwari

Art is healing.
Music is magic.

🎵 Performance by Classical Flutist Sujatha Maheshwari
🩺 Talk with Dr. Anne on the seasonal Qi and how to harmonize with late autumn’s quiet pulse.

📅 Friday, Nov 7 · 6–9 pm
📍 Ritual Health Acupuncture Clinic · 1508 Walnut St, Suite D, Berkeley

This is our first Jade Circle gathering — a new community initiative for resonance, rest, and renewal.

✨ Reserve your spot: [insert Groupmuse link here]
💚 Space is limited — come fill your cup with beauty and belonging.

with Adam Okerblom and Anne Shelton

This isn’t the “fertile dark.”This is the fallow dark. The feral dark.The world goes quiet not to comfort us — but to st...
10/25/2025

This isn’t the “fertile dark.”
This is the fallow dark. The feral dark.

The world goes quiet not to comfort us — but to strip us down to what’s real.

The trees are bare. The heart is bare.

New blog: Crossing into the Deep Darkness 🌒
➜ https://ritualhealth.com/fulltext/crossing-into-the-deep-

🕯️ For those who feel the pull to rest, return, and remember.

with Anne Shelton and Adam Okerblom

✨ Snake Assembly: Chinese Astrology Classes Begin Soon! ✨Join me for an ongoing, live online exploration of Chinese Pole...
10/03/2025

✨ Snake Assembly: Chinese Astrology Classes Begin Soon! ✨

Join me for an ongoing, live online exploration of Chinese Polestar Astrology. Perfect for beginners and continuing learners alike — we’ll weave together theory, practice, Q&A, and case studies.

📅 Upcoming dates:

October 6 & 27

November 10

December 1 & 8

⏰ Mondays, 10–11:30am Pacific
💸 $100/month via Venmo (handle sent upon request)

Classes are recorded if you can’t make it live, but I encourage you to come in person — the discussion is always richest when we gather together. 💫

Zoom links go out just before each class. Ongoing enrollment is welcome — email me to join!

We’re moving through an interesting stretch of the year 💫. The midpoint of autumn—the equinox—arrives later this month 🍂...
09/15/2025

We’re moving through an interesting stretch of the year 💫. The midpoint of autumn—the equinox—arrives later this month 🍂, while Lunar New Year won’t come until mid-February 2026, unusually late. That delay stretches out the sensation of uncertainty, as if the year itself is suspended in midair.

Autumn qi update lynx in comments section...

Y'all: the new Chinese Astrology class for Chinese Astrology--called Snake Assembly🐍✨--starts next month.

Reach out directly if you want more info.

Just saw this commentary (below and in first comment) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍This question of a...
07/22/2025

Just saw this commentary (below and in first comment) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍

This question of authenticity: What is deep? What matters? 🤷‍♀️

The idea that calling out inauthenticity is itself shallow—just another performance. 🐚

But the question behind that critique is so Snake: Well then what really matters anyway? 🔑

Nothing? ⚫️ Maybe!

And also… if we follow that thread all the way through, don’t we get spit out the other side? Everything. 🖤

Or…? ❓⁉️

What is substantial? ⚖️

Personal share: I’m back home with family for a funeral, and it’s turning into an unexpected moment of ancestral connection 🌳—seeing myself in the facets of my family’s faces 💎, and looking into the mirror🪞of death.

I’m fully embracing emojis right now because I used to resist them. Turns out flexibility is fun. I’m also leaning into genuine laughter—not ironic, not smirking—because otherwise things can get real heavy, real fast. A lot of us are carrying quiet grief. That’s part of the Yin Wood Snake year… unless we access that playful, flexible Monkey King wisdom. 🐒👑

What’s up (for me) feels confrontational. Celebratory. Weirdly beautiful. Honestly? I have no idea what tf it is. Because trying to know something right now? That’s peak folly. Snake says: shed the certainty.

(By the way, the larger talk about this is happening on WhatsApp on Purple Star Club, if you want to join. The 🔗 is on the website.)

Here’s the reel that sparked it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMY5ij6SHn6/?igsh=MWRqbjlmZnRzdDh3Zw==

Just saw this commentary (below and also in comments) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍This question of a...
07/22/2025

Just saw this commentary (below and also in comments) and cracked up. It’s giving major Snake vibes. 🐍

This question of authenticity: What is deep? What matters? 🤷‍♀️

The idea that calling out inauthenticity is itself shallow—just another performance. 🐚

But the question behind that critique is so Snake: Well then what really matters anyway? 🔑

Nothing? ⚫️ Maybe!

And also… if we follow that thread all the way through, don’t we get spit out the other side? Everything. 🖤

Or…? ❓⁉️

What is substantial? ⚖️

Personal share: I’m back home with family for a funeral, and it’s turning into an unexpected moment of ancestral connection 🌳—seeing myself in the facets of my family’s faces 💎, and looking into the mirror🪞of death.

I’m fully embracing emojis right now because I used to resist them. Turns out flexibility is fun. I’m also leaning into genuine laughter—not ironic, not smirking—because otherwise things can get real heavy, real fast. A lot of us are carrying quiet grief. That’s part of the Yin Wood Snake year… unless we access that playful, flexible Monkey King wisdom. 🐒👑

What’s up (for me) feels confrontational. Celebratory. Weirdly beautiful. Honestly? I have no idea what tf it is. Because trying to know something right now? That’s peak folly. Snake says: shed the certainty.

Here’s the reel that sparked it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMY5ij6SHn6/?igsh=MWRqbjlmZnRzdDh3Zw==

We’re at the heart of it: the year, that is. We’re now in the Summer Solstice qi node, peak of yang in a yin wood snake ...
07/04/2025

We’re at the heart of it: the year, that is.

We’re now in the Summer Solstice qi node, peak of yang in a yin wood snake year. Snake is yin fire: quiet but potent. This season is when the real themes of the year begin to surface—sometimes suddenly, even explosively. 🪷 It is also heart time. ❤️

Wood Snake might seem gentle, but real shifts are happening. What was hidden is being revealed. 🐍

I wrote something for you...follow through to the comments.

And I started a community group on WhatsApp (also in comments).

Let's trace time's coils. 🔭💫

See you there...

Find Adam Okerblom and I in NYC this weekend! I’ll be teaching from my chapter contribution “The Celestial Dance: Integr...
06/06/2025

Find Adam Okerblom and I in NYC this weekend! I’ll be teaching from my chapter contribution “The Celestial Dance: Integrating Time and Astronomy in Chinese Medicine” from A Ring Without End with the big cats: Z'ev Rosenberg and Stephen Cowan and I’m so honored!!! Plus, Schrier will be teaching his chapter on the Daoist Alchemical Body…

Just caught my breath from teaching my research and contribution to the newly released book ❤️_A Ring Without End_❤️ by ...
05/23/2025

Just caught my breath from teaching my research and contribution to the newly released book ❤️_A Ring Without End_❤️ by .rosenberg and Stephen Cowan down at Yo San University to the doctoral students! Looking forward to more, Rob Hoffman Thank you for having me! ✨🐝✨

Don’t just do something: sit there!!! 🪵🐍✨It is quadruple snake day here at the clinic! But wherever you are, take some t...
04/30/2025

Don’t just do something: sit there!!! 🪵🐍✨

It is quadruple snake day here at the clinic! But wherever you are, take some time today to go deep! Be still! Close your eyes! Especially now, while it is still snake hour (until 10am, for my West Coasties).

Love you all and nothing matters!
🪵🐍✨

You voted us into the finals! ✨Now vote for us to help us win Best of the Bay daily through May 5th! 🔥For Holistic Healt...
04/21/2025

You voted us into the finals! ✨Now vote for us to help us win Best of the Bay daily through May 5th! 🔥For Holistic Health, Wellness Healing Center, and Pain Management! 🌱Thank you for letting is serve you and this community! 🪡❤️

One of my fave patients just texted me the funniest thing. So good. 🪵🐍✨This is why I do what I do. We’re the world toget...
03/21/2025

One of my fave patients just texted me the funniest thing. So good. 🪵🐍✨This is why I do what I do. We’re the world together, one acupuncture session at a time…

(Edit: if you don’t get the joke, listen to the Yin Wood Snake talk in which we discussed what pb&j sandwiches, Billie Eilish, and Martha Stewart have in common. Find it on our website)

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Dr. Anne Shelton Crute, DAOM, L.Ac.. Dipl.OM is an acupuncturist practicing Chinese medicine, Tibetan, & Ayurvedic herbalism and Chinese Polestar astrology. Serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005 with locations in Albany and Berkeley, CA.