The Unknown Land

“Dust Beheld” March 2nd, 2021

Yarrow + Marigold

 

Achillea millefolium L. - Yarrow

Origin: France

Plant part used: Flowering tops

Source: Wild-crafted

Method: Steam distilled

 

Description

This Wild Yarrow essential oil is ideally suited to the work of aromatic shamanism. Yarrow is the plant form of the Wounded Healer. Yarrow essential oil is central to all of our work of helping Wounded Healers integrate their Wounds. This oil helps with healing wounds in the physical as well as emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. It stops leaks of energy and blood and reestablishes their flow when necessary. It brings our awareness to our wounds and traumas and helps us transform them. This is one of our main power allies, with whom we work frequently. Yarrow is also the keeper of boundaries. To keep “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours to keep,” energetically.

 

Tagetes erecta L. - Marigold

Plant part: Flowers

Origin: India

Pure and Natural – For External Use Only

Source: Cultivated

Method: Hydrodistilled

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Description

This Marigold essential oil is from ‘African’ marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) which is actually native to Mexico and has been used there for centuries to connect with the Dead, for example on Dia de los Muertos and is known in Mexico as ‘Flor de Muerto’ (Flower of the Dead). To the Aztecs, it was the  flower sacred to the goddess Cihualcoatl-Quilaztli (snake woman), a mother and fertility goddess.

This Marigold species took advantage of human trade and colonial routes to make its way to Africa and India. It has also been incorporated into ritual and worship in India. It is also important to know that this is not Calendula, which is sometimes also refered to as Marigold. Most of the Marigold (Tagetes) essential oil available is Tagetes minuta, which has a very different personality and aroma.

Our Marigold (Tagetes erecta) essential oil embodies the light that is also seen in the bright color of the flowers. It is this light that reaches the dead. It is the light of communication with our ancestors. Regardless of where your ancestors are from, this is a superb, alive aroma that helps with contacting them and doing ancestral healing. It is a powerful, pungent aroma that has a deep slow heartbeat.

 

Personal note:

A stripping away happens. Rounding out a strong yet soft boundary.

A journey to the ancestors and a question of wounding. The secrets that connect lines to dots never documented, only felt. Mother = Mater = Matter. You can untangle your roots but they’re never cut off. We stand on the shoulders of the ones who went before. What is “we,” what is “me?”