I volunteer for the opportunity to be hypnotized in front of a group of beautiful souls in a circle. I chose to volunteer because I want to know a version of my past life. Who am I? Where have I been once before?
I wouldn’t say I am a skeptic about past lives, rather I’m a person who doesn’t blame my current life based upon these deep discoveries about my ancestors/past lives in my spirit. Instead of using past lives as a narrative to explain why I am one way or another, or why my life might contain challenges, I choose to use what I’ve learned about my past as a window into my psyche, so I can make clear decisions about who I chose to be in this world.
I approach the chair beside my teacher and the moment I sink into the chair and gaze outward, the nerves kick in. My belly flips and I say aloud, “Oh wow! I just got nervous.”
Asia, with a kind and gentle touch, extends her hand and places it upon my knee. That touch reassures me that this is the right decision at this moment. This is why I am here. Guided into relaxation, my eyelids become heavy and unable to open, even with an attempt of effort. My hands become so heavy, and my body is unmovable. A trickle of fear creeps in, as my mind disconnects from my body, ready to go on a journey.
Asia gently asks me to remember a childhood memory that brings me joy, and I’m immediately transported to a small room with a paper cup full of soap and water, a straw gently resting on the lip. I see myself blowing bubbles, three or four years old in preschool. I choke on the soap spilling over the top, and I brush my curls out of my scrunched up face. I take a deep breath and go back to blowing bubbles, my cheeks puffed out with effort. Asia asks me to receive a gift from this younger version of myself and my child self hands me a paper Daffodil.
A Daffodil…
I recall for the first time in a long time this memory of creating this paper daffodil as a child. Now I stretch out my hand to receive the gift of that same Daffodil from my child self.
I have a rich history with daffodils, stretching back to early childhood that I’m only beginning to remember. As a young girl through to this day, I always love the first sight of Daffodils beginning to emerge everywhere after winter as I walk around the woods in the early spring breeze. I remember touching the soft, green leaves, some already in bloom, while others still await to bloom as if to stretch out the spring joy.
Last year, as I taught the beginning of the Botanical Mystery School, I sat in plant meditation to find our class’ ally for the course, and it was a Daffodil that offered its message: Be a gentle and kind teacher, stay positive, and hold the sacred divine feminine with joy.
The flower for the month of December is Narcissus, the family to which Daffodils belong and the month I was born.
The hypnotism I experienced, that I shared with you above, occurred in the first Intuition School I attended in February this year and by aligned cosmic events at the completion of my second Intuition School, just a few days ago, Asia closed her eyes and intuitively connected me with Daffodil once again through her gift of a flower essence!
Daffodil is known to be a toxic flower and care must be used if using it medicinally. Luckily, a flower essence can bypass this toxicity. However, there are ancient writings of uses of the flower as a cancer treatment. It is also the flower some of the national cancer foundations use as their logo when raising money. A coincidence? I think not.
Daffodils are popping up and blooming everywhere at the moment and through meditation with them, I have received a song and a poem as a gift. Click here to read the poem, hear the song, and read my research on the historical uses of the plant.
To be a daffodil
Snow melts, exposing barren landscapes as the cold oscillates from warm to freezing
Creating conditions perfect for my growth
I birth from dormancy to reckon the spring
Creating the reminder that the sun shines even through the cold depths of winter.
Purpose defined by the divine call to rise year after year
Dappling hillsides, gardens, and trails
A consistent reminder of the bliss in life
The joy in simplicity
In spirit, I rise from the darkness to brighten the day
Reminding you of your power to shine
Feeding on the depths of shame and turmoil, I awaken
Angelic voices heralding Spring through my leaves and blooms
I awaken the truth of you
~April Rameé
A Moment + Song from the Daffodils this morning for the Spring Equinox + Full Moon
Daffodil as a flower essence, according to Asia Suler, is “Bright and uplifting – this flower will bring joviality into your life. Daffodil is one of our star flower essences for promoting optimism and easing social interactions. This essence can help you to tap into your own inner light and allow that easy, gregarious, exuberant person that resides in all of us to flow effusively outwards. Useful for those who feel restricted by their own insecurities or misunderstood by those around them.
Daffodil types, or those in the positive state of Daffodil, handle relationships with ease; they are often the sunny center of gatherings, and exude a happiness that attracts many admirers.
Daffodil can also be helpful for those who find themselves in the spotlight frequently and feel burdened by the expectation to uplift others with their sunny attitudes. Such people can feel uncomfortable or untruthful admitting some of their own moments of darkness and doubt – Daffodil will help these naturally sunny types to confront the shadows with a grounded curiosity and confidence that they are authentically perfect just the way they are.
Daffodil can also help to balance the emotions, banishing darker thoughts to invite the sweet weightlessness of joyful living. This essence can help you cast off feelings of self-doubt or shame and open up to new possibilities in your social relationships and inner feelings of authenticity and personal freedom.
Traditional Uses Quoted from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)
Despite the lethal potential of Narcissus alkaloids, they have been used for centuries as traditional medicines for a variety of complaints, including cancer. Plants thought to be N. poeticusand N. tazetta are described in the Bible in the treatment for what is thought to be cancer. In the Classical Greek world Hippocrates (ca. B.C. 460–370) recommended a pessary prepared from narcissus oil for uterine tumors, a practice continued by Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. A.D. 40–90) and Soranus of Ephesus (A.D. 98–138) in the first and second centuries A.D., while the Roman Pliny the Elder (A.D. 23–79), advocated topical use.
The bulbs of N. poeticus contain the antineoplastic agent narciclasine. This usage is also found in later Arabian, North African, Central American and Chinese medicine during the Middle Ages
In China N. tazetta var. chinensis was grown as an ornamental plant but the bulbs were applied topically to tumors in traditional folk medicine. These bulbs contain pretazettine, an active antitumor compound.
Narcissus products have received a variety of other uses. The Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus listed narcissus root in De Medicina among medical herbs, described as emollient, erodent, and “powerful to disperse whatever has collected in any part of the body”. N. tazetta bulbs were used in Turkey as a remedy for abscesses in the belief they were antiphlogistic and analgesic. Other uses include the application to wounds, strains, painful joints and various local ailments as an ointment called ‘Narcissimum’.
Powdered flowers have also been used medically, as an emetic, a decongestant and for the relief of dysentery, in the form of a syrup or infusion. The French used the flowers as an antispasmodic, the Arabs the oil for baldnessand also an aphrodisiac. In the eighteenth century the Irish herbal of John K’Eogh recommended pounding the roots in honey for use on burns, bruises, dislocations and freckles, and for drawing out thorns and splinters. N. tazetta bulbs have also been used for contraception, while the flowers have been recommended for hysteria and epilepsy. A homeopathic medicine made from bulbs was prescribed for bronchitis and whooping cough.
In the traditional Japanese medicine of kampo, wounds were treated with narcissus root and wheat flour paste; the plant, however, does not appear in the modern kampo herb list.
There is also a long history of the use of Narcissus as a stimulant and to induce trance like states and hallucinations. Sophocles referred to the narcissus as the “Chaplet of the infernal Gods”, a statement frequently wrongly attributed to Socrates.