Pennyroyal - a celebrated and famous essential oil, know around the globe, for its powerful medicine.  It reminds us that the shiny penny always holds its true regal nature.  The “salt of the earth” proves again and again the real currency of life.  We welcome back folk medicine in favor of pharmaceutical roulette, where the stakes are high, our purses dwindle rapidly, and we gambling with our very own lives.  We welcome back folk music in favor of performance based opera and rigid vocal training.  We take back the night and the play and the we get real, again.  We invite ritual and gratitude and mysticism back into our world.  All things feminine, flowing and communal lost their place as the Queen, next to the King, in this latest human historical exploration.  Astronomy negated astrology.  Prose beat down poetry.  Religion ridiculed the glorious mysticism of the original gnostic teachings.  The American Medical Association trumped and vilified the plant and herb medicine as witchcraft, and then mined that very same source to mimic the healing with chemical manufacturing.  The IRS and The World Bank took dominion over and exiled the simplicity of barter.  Therein, we all gave up our power, as the folks and the “bread and butter” of this world.  Such richness exists in simplicity and humility, and no shortage of genius.

Pennyroyal reminds us to have the courage to shift the locus of control to an internal perspective once again, to the down-home magic of love and slow, intentional living.  This essence helps to awaken the feminine within each and every soul, so that we may walk forward with inalienable value and grace as whole humans, balanced in mind and heart.  Any game is more fun with a full deck.

Use this essence when you desire to support respiratory health, impede skin parasites, have painful menstrual cycles, or pain and constriction in muscles and joints.  She brings a real clarity of focus and energy and has a minty liveliness that is as grounding as it is inspiring.  Children enjoy her intrigue when needing more concentration and wakefulness.  This oil works with any heat related issues, such as fever or heat rash, or heat stroke.