Aromatherapy uses of lavender, emotional benefits to motion sickness

Essential oil of Lavender

"Essential oil is the term given to a volatile oil that occurs naturally in aromatic plants and is extracted by distillation. Essential oils have been called the healing life force of plants because they contain many of the plants’ healing nutrients such as trace minerals, vitamins, hormones, enzymes and more." (http://www.preservion.com/Lavender)


Did you know that over 160 different substances have been identified by chemists from wild lavender,
the healing power is complex due to the combination of substances.


It has been used in Greece and Rome as a disinfectant for sick rooms and hospitals. The Latin name Lavandula comes from meaning "to wash" from the Latin, Lavare.

Associated with the planet Mercury it helps balance extreme mood swings, being helpful for those with manic depression and other psychological problems such as insomnia, stress, depression nervousness melancholy., fear, and irritability.

THE OIL BRINGS A FEELING OF CALM.

Add the oil to a massage carrier oil (such as olive, almond or sunflower oil) to help relieve the body of muscle tension and overwhelming thoughts. Put it in a spray bottle, with water and spray your bed sheets before sleeping, this is one of my favorite uses.

I once read that men find this the most desirable of all the scents on a women. Certainly history favored the oil. Our grandmothers were exposed to nearly every cologne water that contained lavender oil.

Lavender stimulates the gastric juices and is very useful for motion sickness, just breath in the vapor right from the bottle, or place a bit of the oil on your forehead .

Every skin type benefits from the use of lavender. Especially dry skin and is preferred in the treatment for acne. This oil is great when combined with tea tree. I wash my face with lavender water, I mix my own and use a cotton ball to clean and refresh my face. It is a lovely way to start off the day.

Moths dislike this smell, soak a cotton ball with lavender oil and place it in your closet, plus all of your clothes will smell great.This is also a great idea to do for your bed lines, drawers or blanket chests.

Here is a quick chart for your reference of the Physical benefits

1. antispasmodic
2. pain relieving
3. diuretic
4. healing
5. insect repellent
6. heart strengthening
7. motion sickness
8. sprains

It is helpful for the following Conditions or Aliments

1. burns,wounds
2. insect bites
3. eczema's,dermatitis
4. fever
5. herpes
6. ear infections
7. headache
8. athletes foot
9. nervous heart
10. boils
11. asthma
12. depression
13. anxiety
14. leg ulcers

lavender is considered one of the most versatile oils that are used therapeutically.

Purchase your 100 percent pure essential oil of Lavender here

References:Complete Aromatherapy Handbook,The Sterling Publishing Company 1990
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils,element Books 1995


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Waite, Smith and Levi in the Rider-Waite Deck

Waite and Smith

I have always thought the images were simple, even child-like,yet I have found a wealth of symbolism in background, as will you when you look closely at each card.

"Waite had the Christian imagery of older tarot decks' cards toned down—the "Pope" card became the "Hierophant", the "Papess" became the "High Priestess". The Minor Arcana are also, as in the earlier Sola Busca Tarot, fully illustrated with designs created by Smith." (wikipedia) I have used them because they are tradiona (cards published 1909) in many aspects and the imaginary has always been very effective and accurate for me. I have stayed away from decks with dragons, or fairies for hard core psychic readings. The symbols, influenced by the 19th century magician and occultist Eliphas Levi.

I myself don't care for Levi for he turned perverted and went into the dark. He used Tarot cards in his magical system, and as a result many magicians use them as well. Levi had a deep impact on the magic of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and later on the ex-Golden Dawn member Aleister Crowley.(another whom has given Wicca, tarot reading a bad name.

It is interesting to note however that he is attributed to declaring that a pentagram or five-pointed star with one point down and two points up represents "bad", while a pentagram with one point up and two points down is "good". It was largely through the occultists inspired by him that Lévi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magic, many who are practicing black magic.

Please be aware of the up side down star , it is important that you use it upright and beware of those who revert it, it is meant to mean evil. Here is the star that was designed by Levi

Eliphas Levi's Tetragrammaton pentagram,

which he considered to be a symbol

of the microcosm, or human being

As seen in these two cards, both 10's, the one on the right the 10 of swords can be understood by even a child, backstabbing, not a 'GOOD' card, while the other , the 10 of cups (love) is clearly a HAPPY card, and in fact it is, a pleasant marriage, with the possibility of children and a golden future. There are more complex meanings, of coarse, which mostly depend on the placement of the cards, but the Rider-Waite decks imagery is archetypical.

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