Tea Tree and Thyme

Oh my --- it has been a whole month since I wrote anything -- and yes the oils have definately been speaking with me - waiting patiently for their turn..... Tea Tree and Thyme -- like two little soilders -weary of my delay getting back to writing -- but aware that I needed to move through the changes that I have been going through -- this time -not relationship, but career.  Yes another change -- leaving me adrift for a moment -- like in the void, but with a knowing that the Phoenix was soon to arise!!  After six months of working many, many hours on launching my new project using the essential oils with elder care and alzheimers/dementia -- I found that I needed to terminate the partnership I was about to sign off on.  The game that we started was delaying, changing -- and was not turning into the vision that I had originally.  So for the first time in my life -- I stopped.  I reevaluated, did alot of soul searching, and counseling (it is not easy for me to give up something that I committe to -- ergo.... any relationship), I let go.  What an experience that was -- a sense of relief that was so different for me.   Normally, I would pursue, work hard, grind -- and sad at the end that it didn't work out.  As I moved on, an amazing thing happened.... I wrote out (like a professional brochure) who I was, what my skill set is and what I am offering in the world.  I had never done this before -- it was an amazing healing.  I then created the opportunity to go back to CEO space and further what I wanted to happen.   The next day that I got back...... I connected with an MD of Psychiatry -- an intention of ten years fullfilled!!  Amazing, for he had been working for the same period of time (six months) on applying aromatherapy and building his case results.  He is also a yogi and meditator and very versed in the power of healthy eating and daily practices.  Their was such a powerful alignment -- I was in awe and immensely grateful -- for it looks like together, we will be able to compliment eachother and forward this great work.
Okay --- that is all background -- back to the oils -- the fact that Tea Tree and Thyme were standing by all this time, waiting to be expressed is so perfect!!!  Tea Tree (a very medicinal oil) -- what I would call a down to earth "worker" oil, is known for its anti-infectious properties -- with few rivals, and can be safely used for a wide range of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections -- more later.  Emotionally, and here's the cool thing, it so supports the body being with strength and confidence -- as Thyme brings courage, drive and morale -- also a very powerful antibacterial, used for infections.  I could see why these oils, or the energy of these oils -- were just "hanging out" with me -- strength, confidence, courage, drive -- were all what I needed though a transition like this.   So let's hang out with these two -- and I'll give you more on their amazing properties, in a bit .... and I promise it will not be a month.

BTW -- I was thinking -- after all the beauty of frankinsence and rose... they have such a commanding pressence.... they needed the space between them and our two new oils -- see don't they all have a personality?

Cedarwood and Awareness

I woke up this morning with sadness in the absense of my lover -- I can feel the emergence of two more oils (funny how they seem to come in pairs) -- however -- awarenss came to me (vimarsha) -- isn't it awareness that we need before moving on?  So I contemplated vimarsha, the cedarwood tree and the metaphor of the dawn -- how, when the light moves on the early horizon -- the colour of the tree begins to distinguish that tree -- how it looks, what kind of tree -- vimarsha (awareness)  -- whose emergence is virtually simultaneous with prakasha (the light) is the discernment and discrimination by which you recognize what you are seeing.  Even though - I may not be able to see/perceive with my physical eyes -- that tree is quivering with life in every moment, from the roots to the very last leaf.  In the same way -- the exquisite oil of the cedarwood tree carries that same vibrancy.  Indeed, the word alone comes from the Arabic meaning kedron, "power" -- its essence fortifies and strengthens, in addition to decongesting, breaking down accumulation.  The energy of cedarwood gives us strength in times of crisis, steadying the concious mind, restores a sense of spiritual certainty.  As I contemplate the cedarwood tree, with its roots deep into the earth, its trunk - straight, strong, reaching far up into the heavens - with its delicate tiny leaves on its strong branches --- demonstrating the transforming power of the will.  I can almost smell the deep viril, woody-balsamic aroma that assists me in taking a negative, or sad situation, and transform it into an experience from which I can derive strength and wisdom.    The experience of vimarsha -- discriminating and understanding what life is for us. Our understanding, our experience, our perception of the universe is an act of creation -- just as the dawn.
Like a mirror, vimarsha shows us ourselves and our creation.  Each of us has a face -- this is prakasha (pure illumination), existence -- but until we see that face reflected back to us through the capacity of vimarsha (self-enfolding knowledge), personified -- we have no idea what our face looks like.
I could see why I needed to finish this contemplation -- before moving into the two new oils that were beginning to have themselves felt.  Thank you cedarwood -- for your great gift.