MY BLUE LOTUS STORY
In 1995 I travelled overseas for 6 months with my ex-husband and our 2 children.
I’d decided before leaving Australia that I would love to go to Egypt, so we planned, then included, 3 weeks travelling through Egypt at the beginning of our trip away.
We flew into Cairo and there, in between everything else, visited a number of the many Perfume Emporiums that offered thousands of perfumes (for tourists I guess)!
I discovered that Egypt, because of its particular climate, grew many plants capable of producing magnificent perfumes. The extraction process was important and the rarity of some plants dictated the expense of the perfumes.
From these thousands of offered perfumes, I embarked on the journey to find one I loved!Over a few days, we visited a number of these Perfume establishments where their common practice was to apply a touch of a few chosen and different perfumes on your wrists and up your arms up to your elbows.
The idea was that once applied, your body chemistry would “act” on each perfume in different ways and some would ‘compliment and agree’ with you – and others not! They ‘morphed’ to become something you loved, or didn’t.
I’d decided before leaving Australia that I would love to go to Egypt, so we planned, then included, 3 weeks travelling through Egypt at the beginning of our trip away.
We flew into Cairo and there, in between everything else, visited a number of the many Perfume Emporiums that offered thousands of perfumes (for tourists I guess)!
I discovered that Egypt, because of its particular climate, grew many plants capable of producing magnificent perfumes. The extraction process was important and the rarity of some plants dictated the expense of the perfumes.
From these thousands of offered perfumes, I embarked on the journey to find one I loved!Over a few days, we visited a number of these Perfume establishments where their common practice was to apply a touch of a few chosen and different perfumes on your wrists and up your arms up to your elbows.
The idea was that once applied, your body chemistry would “act” on each perfume in different ways and some would ‘compliment and agree’ with you – and others not! They ‘morphed’ to become something you loved, or didn’t.
True alchemy - right?
They suggested you have only 2 perfumes on each arm so that you could differentiate between them and decide which one you loved! More than 2 made that nigh impossible as the scents mixed with each other and became difficult to separate out.
For a few days – as I was deciding – I’d go to bed each night with a few different perfumes up my arms and I remember waking many times during those nights to ‘sniff’ the scents in the different locations up my arms. All were beautiful, but not all were ‘intoxicating’. And not all were ‘right’.
Through this process, I fell in love with one called ‘Blue Lotus’ so I bought a 200ml bottle of that for $90 AUD. It was simply divine and its scent was soft, feminine, elevating, heady, luxurious, sensuous and intoxicating! Each sniff totally filled by senses and felt very Venusian!
At that time, I had little clue about the significance of Egyptian Blue Lotus regarding its use in the burial rituals of the Egyptian dead of long ago or its symbolism or meaning.
I went on to recognize that my journey to finding Blue Lotus felt like I then became ‘anointed and imbued’ with its magnificence.
Then, alongside what I considered to be an ‘activation’ received while sitting on the steps of one of the pyramids in Cairo, I left Egypt different from how I’d arrived.
Harmonic Convergence took place in 1988 and in the time til I visited Egypt, I was ripe for the further ‘waking up’ that needed a visit to Egypt somehow to cement that ‘activation’ into my soul and allow it to happen more definitively.
I have in the time since actually uncovered a past life in Egypt where my role was as one responsible for actually “preparing” bodies for the ‘afterlife’ and this was both a serious, revered and sacred role.
It’s clearer to see what actually happened then from now.
I still have a small amount of that Blue Lotus perfume bought in 1995 in Egypt left…and have been reluctant to use it up. I feel that by having even a small amount, I still ‘get to tap into’ the energy of its magnificence! Besides, I have recently found a place in Australia that offers Egyptian Blue Lotus, so I’m hoping it’s as beautiful as the original one I found in Egypt!
Also, just in the last few weeks, as I was preparing to put together all the information for this new website, I kept stumbling across references all over the place to Blue Lotus flowers.
I have ‘seen’ them everywhere – like for the first time – even though they have been in my hall rug with elephants (India in 2013), my latest Tarot cards and a gorgeous little carved labradorite Lotus blossom!
Somehow, they are everywhere and it feels like they have been beckoning me!
Here’s a little of what I found online:
‘Known to have been found naturally along the banks of the mighty Nile in Egypt thousands of years ago, the beauty of the blue lotus flower prompted men to take the brilliantly hued plant back to their own homelands. Thus, the blue lotus spread to the world beyond in ancient times and is commonly seen today in India and parts of northern Southeast Asia.’
‘The blue lotus plays a role in the Egyptian story of Creation, where the sun god Ra emerged from one at the very beginning. The opening and close of the lotus in the daylight and nighttime hours is said to be symbolic of the cycle of the sun through the heavens.
The intoxicating scent of the blue lotus flower must have also played a significant part in its popularity and its inclusion in the most sacred of ceremonies and prayers.’
‘In Buddhism, the blue lotus symbolized the victory of spirit over the senses, and the triumph of wisdom over suffering. In India, the flower represents the individual’s unfoldment and the soul’s expansion.’
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud” – Buddhist Proverb
“Om Mani Padme Hum” (a mantra I have recited for a long time) is supposed to translate in English to: “the Jewel is in the Lotus.”
‘Known to have been found naturally along the banks of the mighty Nile in Egypt thousands of years ago, the beauty of the blue lotus flower prompted men to take the brilliantly hued plant back to their own homelands. Thus, the blue lotus spread to the world beyond in ancient times and is commonly seen today in India and parts of northern Southeast Asia.’
‘The blue lotus plays a role in the Egyptian story of Creation, where the sun god Ra emerged from one at the very beginning. The opening and close of the lotus in the daylight and nighttime hours is said to be symbolic of the cycle of the sun through the heavens.
The intoxicating scent of the blue lotus flower must have also played a significant part in its popularity and its inclusion in the most sacred of ceremonies and prayers.’
‘In Buddhism, the blue lotus symbolized the victory of spirit over the senses, and the triumph of wisdom over suffering. In India, the flower represents the individual’s unfoldment and the soul’s expansion.’
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud” – Buddhist Proverb
“Om Mani Padme Hum” (a mantra I have recited for a long time) is supposed to translate in English to: “the Jewel is in the Lotus.”