Infusing oil with Calendula flowers is so simple and yields such a beautiful medicine. Calendula or Pot Marigold, is a prolific self-seeding flower which grows in a variety of climates and soils with minimal care – making it one of the easiest entries into medicine making.
This happy orange/yellow/pink flower leaves a sticky resin on your fingers during harvest – that resin is where all the medicine lives.
Folklore:
The colloquialism “Pot marigold ” refers to its use in soups and stews, and it is a regular ingredient in daily herbal infusions and beauty treatments. They were made into wreaths or garlands for weddings, religious rituals, remembrance of the dead, and protection.
To encourage prophetic dreams and protection while you sleep, scatter petals under your bed in the evening.
Ancient Egyptians, Romans, and Greeks used Calendula to rejuvenate the skin and added the flowers to baths to inspire respect and admiration of everyone they meet.
Calendula assists us in moving that which has stagnated in our lives, reclaiming our boundaries, and making use of our energy. Encouraging us to recognize our own wealth and potential, and that abundance is available to all of us. It helps to warm and dry the emotional-energetic pools we’ve avoided.
Sending someone calendula flowers is “flower lore language” for “I’m thinking of you”. It was believed that girls who touched the flower petals with their bare feet would come to understand the language of the birds. Carrying petals in your pocket would help justice smile favorably on you.
Shakespeare said that Calendula “wakes up weeping” because he (Calendula) collects dewdrops in his closed bud at night, and when he wakes with the sun and opens his petals, the droplets drip like tears. Calendula has been known as the flower of grief.