This blend is intended to keep me protected, grounded and feeling well when working in the spiritual realm and/or with the dead. It honours the dead, opens pathways to liminal realms and harnesses intuitive abilities, yet still upholds strong but gentle boundaries between myself and outside energies/beings.
Blend
Black Salt
Marigold
Lemon Verbena
Lavender
Larkspur
Cinnamon
Mugwort
Cedar
Garlic
Bay
Lobelia
Rosemary
White Willow Bark
Myrrh
Weeks prior to creating this blend, I had been feeling prone to headaches and easily overwhelmed intuitively while around death energy, so in the morning before visiting one of my local cemeteries, I whipped it together. I still felt lucid, grounded and able to work with energies and my intuition, but the fogginess, headaches and nausea were gone. It also gives off such a warm, comforting sense, that I often carry it with me just because it feels so lovely to have around.
(to see the purpose of each ingredient, go to the full post)
Ingredient Functions:
• Black Salt: wards off & banishes negative energies/influences, purifies, protects
• Marigold: honours the dead, protects, chases off unwanted energies
• Larkspur: repels & removes negative energies/ghosts, good for any water-related energy/magic
• Cinnamon: protects, used in mummification in ancient Egypt, healing, wards illness, brings comfort
• Mugwort: enhances psychic/spiritual abilities and awareness, protection in all ways, excellent for lucid dreams, divination and altered states of consciousness, connected to Hecate, Artemis and Diana, as well as earth, moon and water energies, provides groundedness during all aforementioned aspects
• Cedar: opens one to higher levels of spiritual consciousness, dispels negativity, powerful grounding properties, spiritual protection, connected to Persephone, creates sacred spaces, connects to ancestors, intense cleanser
• Garlic: offers protection, wards off and banishes evil and vampiric/draining energies/entities, promotes good health, strength, sacred to Hecate
• Bay: spiritual cleansing, banishes & exorcises, heals, helps enhance (and induce) visions, psychic abilities, and all divination, increases positive energy and protects from negative energy
• Lobelia: increases spiritual awareness, protects, helps one stay in the present moment, relaxes with its dreamy vibes, prophetic visions and intuitive dreams, protects ones health and physical bodies
• Rosemary: remembrance especially for the dead, grounds, gives a sense of home-like warmth and comfort, brings good energies, cleansing and purification, helps in recalling dreams and protects from unwanted nighttime visitors/nightmares
• White Willow Bark: lunar and death energies, connected to Morrigan, Hecate, Persephone, a traditional graveyard tree, effective for contacting the dead, meditation, a healer & protector, calming effect
• Myrrh: healing, cleansing, peace/joy, purification, exorcism, protection, connects you to your spirit, used in ancient Egyptian funerary rites, linked to mediation, Isis, and helps those in mourning
The purposes for the components I’ve listed are merely my own personal associations for them, and are by no means limited to just these aspects. Also, as usual, I don’t have measurements for my herbal blends, as I often create them intuitively and tend to add more/less of certain ingredients each time depending on what aspects of each feel most needed.
*Disclaimer! This blend is not meant to treat or cure headaches, nausea, migraines, brain fog etc. Remember to consider and asses your physical health and consult a healthcare provider if you have concerns!*
Dreams come in all types and cover a various treasure troth of topics and can be comforting, often not even being remembered after we are fully awake.
Precept 1: Every Dream Offers an Opportunity for Growth
No dream is meaningless or the result of a too-heavy meal eaten the night before. Every fragment, image, symbol, and sign in a dream has meaning, conveying something about the dreamer's life, concerns, emotions, attitudes and subconscious beliefs. Therefore, every element deserves further exploration so that the dream's intended message can be understood by the dreamer. Many dreams provide constructive criticism, pointing out how our limiting beliefs sabotage our efforts. It is not enough to witness the emotional quality of the dream, nor is it accurate to generalize dream information as merely a recapitulation of daily events. It is important to identify what growth opportunity is being called forth from the dream content.
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Precept 2: Every Dream Has an Intended Message
Therefore, every dream is communicates something valuable. Some dream experts will tell you a dream can have multiple meanings. However, that isn't exactly true. Certainly a number of associations, both objective and subjective, can be made about each dream's symbols that may eventually lead the dreamer to an accurate conclusion. But a dreamer can get steered away from the intended message if they apply too many associations to a symbol. Also, a dream's meaning is not coded information in an unintelligible language meant to trick the mind or ego. Dreams make sense.
Precept 3: Dream Language is Metaphorical, Beautiful, Mysterious and Meaningful
In most cases, each symbol in a dream acts as a metaphor for a larger idea or is a statement of truth about what one feels or believes. Symbols sometimes have a personal association, and therefore the meaning is only understood by the dreamer. For instance, a pink rose as a symbol can remind you of your mother who loved pink roses. Therefore, the pink rose represents your mother's love. Symbols in dreams also have a universal meaning drawn out of the collective unconscious. In this case, the pink rose represents feminine qualities of beauty and love.
Precept 4: Characters in a Dream Serve the Consciousness of the Dreamer
They may play more than one role. Not all characters in dreams represent parts of our personality contrary to popular belief. Some characters mirror other perspectives to our beliefs and attitudes, complement us or appear as who they are in real life.
Precept 5: Even a Bad Dream is Good
Therefore, there is nothing to fear in a dream. Even our worst nightmares may come as warnings of conflict that demand resolution within the psyche. Nightmares may signal that we are ready to start working to clear away the things that deeply bother us. Villains and terrorists who threaten us in a dream may point to our own fears about showing our personal power and authority in the world. By confronting the demons in our dreams, we vanquish the fears that paralyze us.
Precept 6: As the Jewish Talmud Says, "A Dream Not Understood Is Like a Letter Left Unopened"
Dreams unearth jewels of meaning from the subconscious, symbolic information from the depths of the soul. Each is full of symbolic information that needs to be investigated and valued. Therefore, every symbol and element in a dream must be appreciated. Each is too precious to disregard or to cast away as trivial or not worthy of attention.
Precept 7: Dreams Come From a Wise and Intelligent Source
One should not try to direct or control the dreaming process. Or do we need to feel controlled by our dreams? Dreams come from a wise and intelligent source. The subconscious is united with a higher creative intelligence ready to work out conflicts that erupt and disturb the internal world. Lucid dreamers sometimes consider the practice of controlling the outcome of a dream as mastering their subconscious. However, they may be defeating their dream's purpose by consciously redirecting a scene or producing a desired outcome. Forcing any action in a dream based on an ego-desired outcome may interrupt a greater creative solution. The outcome we want may not serve the balance of the dreaming life.
Precept 8: Wisdom Is Derived From Intuitive Dream Work
Wisdom is the product of intuitive understanding. Therefore, the messages in dreams are best deciphered with the intuitive mind rather than picked apart by an analytical process. Any dream dictionary is limited to the writer's general understanding of the language of the soul. Unfortunately, many dream dictionaries on the market offer outdated interpretations based on superstition and conjecture, such as a cat in a dream being a band omen. Dreams are best decoded with the help of someone close to you – an intuitive and compassionate friend with insight is far better than any dream dictionary. Some dreams require an expert to decipher them.
