The Unknown Land

“Lost in Divine” May 14th, 2021

St. John’s Wort + Yarrow

 

Hypericum perforatum L. - St. John’s Wort

Origin: France

Plant part used: Flowering tops

Source: Wild-crafted

Method: Steam distilled

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Description

St. John’s Wort Essential Oil

The plants for this essential oil were wild-harvested in France. This herb that is associated with the sun is harvested traditionally at midsummer, around the solstice, when the flowers are fresh and yellow. For the essential oil, St. John’s Wort is harvested when the flowers actually start to burn up and turn brown from the sun’s power, a little after the solstice. Its solar power comes across it its sweet strong aroma.

Use this oil when protection is needed. It is called St. John’s Wort after John the Baptist whose feast day is in midsummer (June 24). Another name this plant was given is ‘sol terrestris‘, which means terrestrial sun. (according to “Plant lore, legends, and lyrics” by Richard Folkard). It really fills us with light and pushes out the dark, shadowy areas by filling them with fierce light and sun energy. If you need protection, carry the oil with you and smell it whenever you need. I also use it for protection when journeying and working with difficult ancestral situations. Smell the oil while journeying, maybe in combination with another oil. People with a tendency to hypochondria or who are taken over by feelings of being impure, ill, or damaged in some way can really benefit from this oil’s energy that helps us find our inner sun.

 

Achillea millefolium L. - Yarrow

Origin: France

Plant part used: Flowering tops

Source: Wild-crafted

Method: Steam distilled

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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.