New Product: Elysium, Sacred Spray

We got a new project in our shop: Elysium. A sacred spray to purify your home and other spaces, to cleanse your energy field, to help moving stuck energy whether within yourself or any client you may be working with and supports you in returning back to your centre.

A women’s tradition from the Andes

This sacred spray has been brewed according to an ancient recipe from the Q’ero Tribe, who live in the Andes mountains. Amongst them the recipe has been passed down for generations by women who are the only ones allowed to brew this magical potion and the only ones allowed to pass it on.

A lot of shamans are using the famous ‘Agua de Florida’, which (unfortunately) is very chemical. This recipe uses only natural ingredients. In South-America they use this sacred water for luck, for the giving of blessings and for protection against negative energies.

The women collect local herbs and flowers, as well as stones, crystals, feathers and other power objects. They gather in a circle of women, where the new generation then receive their initiation into this ritual.

During the ritual the herbs and flowers are put in the brew one by one with prayer and intention.

After the brew is finished, before they use it, the women will offer some of it to the Earth. This is known in the Andes as the principle of ‘Ayni’ – which means reciprocity. For everything we take (from the Earth) we give back, we give thanks and bless her for the abundance and richness she shares.

Elysium

Our Elysium has been created within the same ritual setting, a circle of women. Every batch of Elysium is highly unique to the season and energies of the day it was created, thus every batch will be limited in stock. That is why instead of an expiration date, you’ll find a ‘brew date’ on our bottles, so you know the day it was created.

We have given this sacred spray the name ‘Elysium’. Elysium (or ‘Elysion’ in Greek) is a place in the Greek underworld, the land of the blissful, where heroes and those who lived a virtuous life find their final resting place. In Greek mythology it is the hero Aeneas who, like Heracles and Odysseus before him, has travelled through the Tartarus – the hellish part of the Greek Underworld – before he was allowed to enter the Elysium.

Just like Aeneas, so do we have to travel through our own underworld or unconsciousness – We learn to face and embrace our own shadows and demons, before we come fully home in the light of our hearts. This is what Joseph Campbell has described as the Hero’s (or Heroine’s) Journey – which in tales and lore in many traditions describes the journey of a hero who is called to an adventure, to go on an exploration, in which he/she is faced with challenges and temptations, which he/she learns to meet with courage and compassion. It is these challenges, the temptations, the little demons in the corner of the mind, through which the Hero(ine) is transformed and reborn.

Sometimes we have to travel through darkness to discover our greatest light…