Honoring the Goddess – A Tribute to Mother

Blessings on Mother’s Day to all the Moms out there!

A Tribute To Mother:  Honoring the Goddess

The Goddess is the “goodness” of all women! Historically, the feminine form or “Triple Goddess,” is based on ancient goddess triads and the three forms (aspects) a woman takes throughout her life. No matter which transition she is experiencing (maiden, mother, crone), it is a nice time to bring awareness to the “nurturing energy” in your life.

 

Honor your mother or a mother you know. Here are some beautiful ways to send loving energy:

1. Light a candle to honor a mother who is living or who has passed.

2. Use a simple ritual to bring love and honor to yourself as a mother, or to give thanks to mother earth.

3. Pay homage to your mother through the power of scent with affirmation candles, an essential oil sampler or our sacred anointing oils. Below is a list of oils that may be appropriate:

Jasmine: is a bold, sweet scent. Jasmine is the most celebrated aphrodisiac of all. These night-blooming flowers are picked at their height to bring out one of the sexiest scents. Associated throughout history with the compassionate Goddess of the Moon, Jasmine, grown along the Nile in ancient Egypt, is represented Isis, the Egyptian Mother Goddess who held the secrets of fertility, magic, and healing.

Patchouli: is a sweet, earthy scent. Its smell is intense and spicy. From an energetic point of view, Patchouli, like Jasmine, is warm and yet anti-inflammatory in action. It combines a calmative property with a gentle stimulating effect that uplifts the spirit! Patchouli is a sweet and grounding harmonizing fragrance!

Neroli: is distilled from bitter orange trees. It has a refreshing, spicy aroma and is known for its sensual, exotic effect. Neroli oil is emotionally unifying and soothes with harmonizing effects. Described as both physical and spiritual, Neroli helps to reestablish the link between a disconnected mind and body. Neroli paves the way for a gradual release and allows us to recall hope and joy!

Ylang Ylang: is a vibrant, fragrant oil that means “flowers of flowers.” A scent to perfume the body or use for a euphoric massage. Ylang Ylang is relaxing and euphoric. The ecstatic sense of merging is inherent in Ylang Ylang. Like Jasmine, this oil helps to reunite our emotional and sensual natures, aspects of our being that need to contain each other and unite.

Rose: The Mother of All Flowers, the Rose has incredible powers of love, trust, and self-acceptance. Roses are representative of faith, hope, and love and have the qualities to restore the very center of one’s being. A gentle tonic of the heart, the compassion of the Rose is seen through its ability to heal emotional wounds. When loss, rejection or sorrow has injured our capacity for nurturing and self-love, Rose oil brings a sweet and gentle comfort, binding the “heartstrings” from the Heart to the Mind. Rose oil’s psychological properties lie mainly in its effect on the mind, the center of our emotional being. Rose oil calms and supports the heart and helps to nourish the soul

4. Treat your mom to an at-home spa session.

5. Invite your mom to enjoy a unique seasonal tea blend, created just for her.

 

The Goddess Tea Recipe

Add (one teaspoon per cup, plus one “for the pot”) each of any (3) of the following loose leaf teas:

~Rose buds

~Lavender buds

~Orange peel

~Cardamom

~Anise

~Chamomile

Measure the amount of fresh water into the saucepan and place over medium heat. Heat the water until it just comes to a rolling boil. Over-boiling removes too much oxygen, imparting a flat taste to the tea.

Add the tea to a warmed steeping pot. Immediately pour the boiled water over the loose leaves; cover the bowl.

Steep three to five minutes for most teas- longer, to taste. Also be sure and steep the herbs longer for the teas made from sticks, twigs, roots or berries, as well as, herbal infusions.

Ready to serve? Pour tea through a strainer, into each cup. Serve!

6. Consider making her a unique “soundtrack” in honor of who she is. Choose and create music that reminds you of your mom!

7. DIY, do it yourself and create an extra special and unique gift basket designed just for her. You can gear it toward the celebration and your budget! Remember, the look of abundance is the key.

8. Honor your mom with the gift of crystals.

 

Stones to honor the Goddess

Amethyst:

The gem of spirituality and dream recall. Used for contentment and meditation. It provides common sense and flexibility in decisions. Strengthens and enhances psychic abilities, imagery and mind quieting. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Most effective on the Brow and Crown Chakra. Amethyst contains the grounding color of red with the energy of blue, which is expanding, spacious and flow of peace. Amethyst is the color that you see in the sky as twilight transitions into night. Amethyst takes you on this transition from the magic time of dusk to a conscious shift into a different place. Crossing this threshold is the lesson of humility, which Amethyst can teach us. This stone can show us how to let go and trust; surrender so that you may see beyond the cycle that consumes your attention; give it all up, so that you can receive more; and bow, which you may become a part of the more significant whole. Amethyst is considered a Master Healing stone.

Azurite:

Referred to as the jewel of wisdom or Stone of Heaven. Azurite symbolizes insight and discovery. It is said to increase psychic abilities. Azurite activates the Brow and Throat Chakra for more assertive communication and alertness. It allows for quite, in-depth access to the subconscious and as a seeing stone offers access to other times, places and lives. Therefore, it is a great stone to assist in astral travel. This great balancer helps those who talk too much and allows for those who to be expressive when they tend to hold back. This opens our psychic intuition and gets us acquainted with our inner-selves. It is a stone that stimulates creativity, giving access to a fountain of ideas, images, and awareness of things around us.

Moonstone: 

This stone honors the Goddess in all women. This stone helps women (and men) to be more comfortable with their gentler feminine/yin receiving side. This stone is also an excellent remedy for overly aggressive females or for men who need to connect to their more feminine/emotional side. Its connection to the moon has been documented for centuries. Because of its shimmering, glossy nature its color plays off the light as does the moon. Like the moon, as it waxes and wanes, this reflective stone allows us the lesson that everything is a part of the cycle of change. Moonstone is considered the stone of new beginnings. Moonstone is most famous for balancing our emotional states. Therefore, moonstone is one of the best gems for soothing emotional stress and anxiety. Moonstone helps calm, soothe and calm over-reactions to emotional and personal situations. It allows us greater flexibility and flows with life. Moonstone has been used for protection against the perils of travel. It encourages a lust for life, a youthful attitude and helps us to become comfortable with the aging process and its transitions.

Pearl:

In tune with emotions, water, and women, especially pregnant women, pearls are a symbol of pure heart and mind; innocence and faith. Because it is from the sea, it has watery and lunar elements. Therefore it is used for balancing emotions, especially for water signs. Absorbing by nature, this mineral absorbs thoughts and feelings and because of this, must be used with caution. If you feel excessively negative while wearing a pearl, it will hold that energy until it is cleansed. Remember, Pearl is the result of layer upon layer of substance produced to combat irritation. Pearl can cool and soothe. It is very nurturing. If using pearls in conjunction with other gemstones, consider Diamonds to amplify and purify, or Emeralds to bring negative energy out and disperse it. Recommended for occupations as varied as artists, chiropractors, and farmers. Pearl is a cold and independent mineral, which is used, ironically at the Heart, Solar Plexus and Sacral/Spleen Chakra, to stimulate the heart, liver and emotional issues, digestion, immunity weakness and emotional stress.

Phenacite:

Also spelled phenakite, is a powerful, loving, healing, spiritual stone. It is believed to be one of the highest vibrational crystals yet discovered. The clearer the stone, the more intensely it opens the Third Eye, Crown Chakra, and Transpersonal Chakra as a white light channel. Hence, its aura clearing abilities are phenomenal! This stone ignites clairvoyance/spiritual communication, meditation, astral travel, as well as life journeys. Helps one to map out a pathway within the dimensions. It energizes meridians and the healing energies of other stones. It is a powerful crystal for clearing and activating the chakras. It helps one to go further in a trance state and gives a broader awareness of one’s inner structures. Phenacite can be used to amplify the energies of other stones used for healing, and to balance energy within one. It can also alleviate despair and fear including fear of change and lead one to live in love. Phenacite may help one to connect with Angels due to its high frequency and relationship to the Ascending Masters. Phenacite has been associated with Gemini.

Titanium Quartz:

Quartz is infused with titanium and additional metal oxides to form one of the most precious crystals on the planet. It increases lifeforce and vitality, attuning to the highest attribute of the Crown Chakra. It’s rainbow colors have been shown to stimulate the entire aura body! An exceptional stone for creativity. This quartz removes blockages and enhancing the flow of creativity due to its intensely visual colors. It has been used for increasing intuition and therefore an exceptional stone for promoting clairvoyance as well as all forms of “seeing.” Consider this crystal for assisting in meditation, an alternative medicine career or yogic practice. This crystal appears to stimulate the upward movement of the kundalini and is exceptional for any tantric practice.

Rose Quartz:

Rose Quartz represents love, beauty, peacefulness, forgiving, lovingness, self-love, and emotional balance! Rose Quartz works with the Heart Chakra. It is a soft, gentle, soothing stone that warms the heart center. Its value as a nurturing friend cannot be overstated. Neither can it’s soothing influence.  Rose Quartz helps diffuse negative stimuli and uncomfortable memories. Helps us discover the ability to love ourselves and makes us more open to other people. It is of particular value in helping us to forgive ourselves, hastening self-acceptance. Helps us realize that all change is essential, even difficult change. Rose Quartz stimulates love and tender appreciation of all things.

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