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In the plant world, lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is the archetype of the nurturing mother and resonates with the feminine and embodied soul. Lavender is a powerful antispasmodic and relaxant [...]

For this month's essential oil and flower essence we decided to focus on the theme of boundaries. The topic of boundaries in relationships is huge. Many relationships are tainted [...]

Florian and I use essential oils to support and guide the psyche on the healing journey towards individuation.  Individuation is a word C.G. Jung coined to mean the natural [...]

A colleague recently wrote to us: "I will be giving a short class on sacred essential oils. (I will cover the origin, the history, the chemistry and their use).  [...]

Psychic protection is something all of us need to practice at certain times in our lives. It’s good to have a few go-to essential oils for protection in your [...]

It was a day of celebration when this beautiful tulsi essential oil arrived from India – finally a sacred basil to work with. It is easy to see why [...]

When our artisan essential oil distiller in Croatia told us he had distilled vitex (Vitex agnus-castus) , I decided that I wanted to work with it. Knowing the plant [...]

When I began to work with our beautiful new Atlas Cedar Essential Oil (Cedrus Atlantica), I smelled it before going to sleep at night.  That night I had a [...]

“The archetype of the wounded healer symbolizes a type of consciousness that can hold the seemingly mutually exclusive and contradictory opposites of being consciously aware of both our woundedness [...]

A client emailed us recently because he was struggling with learning how to smell an attar: "You have a fantastic website with info about oils and interesting blogs. And [...]

Cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) is in the Zingiberaceae family like tumeric and ginger. I have always liked cardamom. I remember making my first curries as a young student and crushing [...]

Cathy and I have really enjoyed and learned a lot from doing individual consultations. I wanted to share an experience from one of our consultations a few days ago that [...]

Things have been extremely intense and unprecedented lately on this beautiful planet what with Covid, world politics, ecology...you name it, it’s anxiety provoking. Many people are not only feeling [...]

Florian and I met through aromatics and since we have been together, we have developed through a fusion of our experiences the AromaGnosis system of healing using aromatics as [...]

5 Essential Oils to help you drop into your natural rhythm of life   Trauma and PTSD can have long lasting effects on many of us and I feel [...]

We use essential oils at AromaGnosis for mental, emotional and spiritual healing. In short, we could say for ‘soul healing’. It is well known that aromatics have a powerful [...]

Ginger Lily, also called Kapoor Kachri, helps us through the dark night of the soul and replaces Palo Santo, which is critically endangered. Kapoor Kachri (Hedychium spicatum) is commonly known [...]

There are many different grounding oils. In my experience they all have their own tonality and type of grounding that they help us with. In this article, I am [...]

A well-trodden path, Marigold connects us to our ancestors. Marigolds (Tagetes erecta) are a powerful symbol for many people in the world. The plant is native to Mexico, even [...]

Cardamom has a long history of culinary, medicinal, mental and spiritual use. Cardamom is a member of the Zingiberacea family, which has over 150 species including ginger and turmeric. [...]

Sagebrush is THE essential oil that we use for the alchemical stage ‘sublimatio.' Florian decided to distill some of the sagebrush that grows around us here in Taos hoping [...]

It feels like the time has come to talk about what goes on behind the scenes at Cathy’s Attars and who does what. First of all, you may wonder [...]

This article is about the high desert flower essence range that I developed last year, how they work and why I feel they are a great medicine for the [...]

I am so enjoying having my faithful aromatic allies with me during this unprecedented time on Mother Earth, that I am getting pulled to write monographs about them and [...]

Fortify and Support Yourself in Challenging Times   I have always loved Rosemary, but I have recently noticed myself being drawn to it more deeply. Rosemary bushes grow everywhere [...]

Since receiving the beautiful and powerful Bay Laurel essential oil from our French distiller Florent, we have been exploring its effects along with its history and symbolism. The common [...]

Angelica is a plant that I have been very intimate with for many years. In this article, I am going to share my journey with the plant and then [...]

We have been thinking about writing this article for a while now. It is an open letter to the aromatherapy world about our calling and how we have decided [...]

Labdanum is an aromatic oleo-resin-like that comes from the cistus bush, commonly known as rock rose (Cistus ladanifer L.). The vernacular names of the cistus bush, gum rockrose, ladanum, labdanum, [...]

I feel passionately about sharing my discoveries and personal experiences as we continue to go deeper with our attars. Like many women, I have suffered trauma related to sexual [...]

The more I work with my own trauma and facilitate workshops about trauma, the more I realize the importance of working with transgenerational and historical trauma. We are not [...]

Sustainability is the major and crucial issue facing the essential oil world. Huge quantities of plant material are needed to produce minute amounts of essential oil. Depending on the [...]

What does it mean to touch and to be touched? To us humans, the obvious answer is skin to skin contact. But what if you are a sessile being, [...]

The website Cathy’s Attars is a branch that has grown from our main work AromaGnosis. We realized that in order to work with aromatic plant essences as allies in [...]