Lady Lavender, Queen of Healing & Peace
This fem and most refined lady, which has been a true love of mine for decades, deserves your homage. Somehow, she gained an undeserved rep for being a ‘granny’ thang, a distasteful insult to both parties?! I can remember, as a young teenager, choosing to inherit a bucket load of lavender smelling toiletries upon the death of my Grandmother; didn’t every one have at least 1 lavender talc’d gran? FYI, talc is now being regarded as an evil toxin…check https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/talcum-powder-and-cancer.html Unfortunately, this royal being has fallen far from grace, another of modern Life’s anomalies….. and needs to be returned to her throne and here is why…
Usage goes back for thousands of years, evidence for which can be found in the ancient Egyptian, Roman and Greek cultures. In our own, we have proof of use in hospitals during WW1….?! Where has that knowledge disappeared too? And you can easily buy some at the Supermarket, a clear indication of her popularity and acceptance. But medicinal claims she cannot make, instructions she doesn’t come with, and proof of grade, ingredients and purity are lacking. So how and why she could and should be used are lost…..
Interestingly on the continent, the German scientific committee on traditional medicine, Commission E, reported including its use for restlessness or insomnia, Roehmheld’s syndrome, intestinal discomfort, and cardiovascular diseases, among others. (Thanks Wiki) Good to know it’s importance is redeveloping somewhere near here….
I know her for her instant calm, her gift of deep sleep, her skills with taking the burn out of burns, the sting out of bites, the flees away from the cat. I put her on our skin to get rid of bruises and scars, to relieve tummy aches, on the roof of mouths when anybody is loosing it, on clothes as perfume to calm anxieties, and in my warm water drinks and cocktails. She is the ONLY oil considered safe to use undiluted on skin, though with children I recommend always using a carrier to dilute, for just in case or until you know they are not ‘reacting’.
Spiritually, her colour purple, denotes the colour of the crown chakra….hence her regal title. This 7th energy centre, located where your brain resides, and associated with higher purpose and spiritual connectivity. This is where the highest vibrations in your physical body take place. Thus in healing terms, Lavender helps us to raise our vibrations to facilitate the easiest path to healing. I never leave the house without it, carrying it with me on my vial key chain (check here to see), because every outing with my hyper mobile 5 year old involves at last a couple of accidents.
Her provenance, this bee worshipped flower ‘Lavandula’, is part of the mint family. She is from the Old World and can be found growing from Cape Verde, the Canary Islands, Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, southwest Asia, China to southeast India. There are around 47 different varieties of Lavender, with varying medicinal benefits. Here is the doTERRA sourcing video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjbHnTrTeKc&feature=youtube
Her floral meanings are, Purity, Silence, Devotion, Caution, Serenity, Grace, Calmness (Source: http://www.flowermeaning.com/lavender-flower-meaning/
Originally published at celticwitchmama.com on December 8, 2018.
