Each month, I get a shipment of Young Living oils. As soon as it arrives, I go in and change it around so I get a new batch of stuff the next month. I love it! Yesterday, I got Joy for my mom, two bottles of Lemon - one for my mom and one for me, "Life 5" - a "high potency probiotic", and cedarwood.
The description in the Reference Guide for Essential Oils compiled by Connie and Alan Higley (hereto forthwith known as "the guide') states: "Cedarwood was used traditionally by the North American Indians to enhance their spiritual communication. It creates the symbolic effect of the umbrella protecting the earth and bringing energy in from the universe."
It was late when I got home and the box was outside my door. I opened it up, put the life 5 in the 'fridge and smelled the lemon and cedarwood. The lemon will be used for everything, espeically drinking water while I am traveling. The cedarwood, I rubbed into my feet before sleep with sesame as a carrier oil.
In bed, I felt my feet buzzing. Not tingling, but a deep resonance. I felt it up to my knees before I fell asleep and my whole body felt solid and fully inhabited (a much needed and hard to come by state for me at times).
My dreams were all about shelter. I dreamed it was time to move out. My lease is up in June and in the waking world I have every intention of staying in this place, it's perfect for me. But in my dreams last night, I was getting ready to move out, looking for a new apartment, the whole deal. It was stressful. Then, I had this big aha moment - I can stay here! I told my landlord I would be staying and this huge sense of relief came over me. I felt deeply settled in this part of the dream.
Then, (or before as you know time doesn't operate in dreams) I was dreaming about housing for us (some arrangement of my family). It was at a retreat or training and we had been staying at this cool house for the first week. More family was arriving so we switched to another place. We walked into the room and it was full of people laying thin blankets out on a cement floor! Panic. This won't do. I can't recall how it turns out but the feeling was of having had something that was great and then the new situation being completely not great. It was stressful.
I woke up feeling like I had done the hard work of processing out stored psychic debris.
Then upon re-reading the description of the oil when I woke up this morning, I was struck by this additional comment regarding shelter: "At night the animals in the wild lie down under the (cedar) tree for the protection, recharging and rejuvenation the trees bring them."
