Lavender is so sensational & surely the ideal essential oil to have around anytime but especially to be more tranquil during a Dark Moon. Or you can tear sprigs off & put them in your pillowcase & this is the most amazing recipe for Lavender muffins. Lavender comes from the Latin ‘lavandas’ – things to be washed, probably because Ancient Romans knew how fab & tranquility inducing it is to bung in with the laundry. It’s a.k.a Elf Leaf and Nard. As the latter, it is mentioned in the Song Of Solomon.
Lavender is a herb of of Mercury & Air. Mercury is Messenger of the Gods. It’s thus so appropriate that it is Lavender/Elf-Leaf that actually started modern aromatherapy. Rene Maurice Gattefosse was working in a perfume lab when he burned his hand and – intuitively or just in pain – plunged it into a beaker of pure lavender oil. The hand healed beautifully and voila; aromatherapy. All because of lovely lavender.
A few drops of the oil on your temples is ultra-calming & sprinkled on sheets if you’re restless at night, ditto. They say that asps – the snakes – like to sleep in lavender bushes, which makes me think of Cleopatra. Maybe the asp wasn’t in her bowl of fruit but actually in the lavender bought in for her bath? Only she would have called it Nard, of course.
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Beautiful pic, I looooove lavender and aromatherpy. The scent of fresh + dried springs takes me back to childhood holidays in south of France where it grows wild on the streets and villiage alley ways…
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Unfortuneately lavender scent brings back a time that was not so great for me. I was dating the Aqua brain surgeon Mystic (dag-gone Aquas huh?) and going through back surgeries which Aqua man did repair beautifully though.
I used Lavender lotion on my grandaughter’s sweet little body after her bath one time and then gave the rest to my daughter….
Overall, lavendar would just make me melancholy however and I don’t want to go there even while wildly growing lavender in the south of France does sound lovely AquaCat. I’m big on alley ways and growing things as lived in an old neighborhood that had alleys and lots of fruits hanging off trees…
Do like lots of other essential oils and put them in massage oil but one thing I’ve done lately is put peppermint in my fountain in my massage room. Feels cooler instantly as in the triple digits temp wise here right now…
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Mystic – LOVING yr housewitchery posts, which funnily are sychronious with things at this end. As I admire new Basil plant pn windowsill above sink – You post re the magic of basil. Then new Mugwort smudge stick goes on top of list, & bingo, your post tells me more. today, sitting here downing Peppermint tea, inhaling aromatic lavender oil from new vaporisor thingo – yet again….MM shares tips on Lavender & Dark Moon Witchery!
thank you thank you for sharing your wisdoms & knowledge xox
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A favourite of mine. Alas, the cat finds it repellent.
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My brother just told me “scorpions don’t cross lavender”. Apparently in the south of France there are many scorpions. The housewives must place lavender in the windows to stop them entering or something?
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that’s fascinating!! like vampires and garlic HAHA.
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yes! maybe that’s why in all those beautiful coffee table decor books chronicling southern french rustic houses they always have abundant bunches of lavender perched by the windowsills…
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Me too loving your housewitchery tidbits………..muchas gracias Mystic ……..
I adore the lavender that grows wild in the streets and gardens where I live……………….
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Cheers for the recipe link…one Nigella Lawson cookbook I drooled over in a bookshop contained a recipe for Lavender Tart Cheesecake… still drooling…
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