More Lessons From Jasmine

I've decided that an effective way to begin writing The Faerie's Guide to Herbalism and Green Magick is to concentrate on one herb per week. The manuscript is due June 1, so I can just about do this. The idea is that I will have several days to mediate on each herb, to make a recipe with the herb, to plant it if necessary, or if it's already growing in my garden to sit with the plant and do my best to relate the fae energy.

As I was gardening today, I looked over to a little fogotton spot and saw four jars of infused oil, stuffed with herbs that I had put there several weeks ago. One of those jars was filled with jasmine flowers. I took the jar inside and opened The Enchanted Diary to look at some recipes. Serendipitously I flipped to my Goddess Sugar Scrub recipe. I had just been telling my friend Dana that I really felt I needed to exfoliate. I felt I was moving along with my healing, but there was some residual paradigms and patterns that I needed to cleanse from my aura.

The recipe called for 1/4 cup of oil. Guess how much I had? Oh yes, a quarter cup. I brought my Quan Yin statue to the kitchen to oversee the creation of my connoction. I sang Let it Be, calling on Mother Mary's energy, while I altered the recipe a little to accomodate the materials I had in the house. Of course, I found a jar the perfect size for my scrub. I also found that jasmine is sacred to the Goddess Diana and so the copal incense I burned was perfect, as well as the fact that tonight is a full moon at perigree (meaning close to the earth). I remembered that jasmine is growing out front of my house and visited the plant for a little inspiration while I wrote the jasmine entry for the book.

Ahhh. This is fae magick at its best.