Olive Oil (Olea Europaea) – CARRIER OIL

Description ShareTweetPinLinkedInPrintEmail (*CAUTION: Essential oils are NOT safe for internal use.  For external use only.) Olive Oil (Olea Europaea) COMMON NAME :  Olive HERB SCIENTIFIC NAME :   Olea Europaea FAMILY :  Oleaceae METAPHYSICAL / SPIRITUAL ASSOCIATIONS & CORRESPONDENCES :   Element: Fire Planet: Venus Day: Tuesday Direction: South Zodiac Sign: Taurus Chakra: 2nd Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana) Energy: Yang Gender: Masculine Tarot Card: Chariot, Empress Spirit Animal: Dove Sabbat or Holiday: Mabon / the Autumn Equinox (btw. Sept 21-24) ; the Full Harvest Moon (September or October) Deity or God / Goddess Association: Athena, Apollo, Eirene, Minerva, Ra, Concordia, Brahma, Horus, Indra, Poseidon, Zeus, Thor, the Green Man, Modron, Morgan, Morrigan, Pamona, Pan   Parts Used:  Fruit Description:  Olive oil has extensive culinary uses. It is used as salad dressing, marinades, over vegetables, with pasta, for frying, grilling, roasting, and many, many other things. Olive oil comes from the olive fruit and contains monounsaturated fatty acids. Fatty acids in olive oil seem to decrease cholesterol levels and have anti-inflammatory effects. People most commonly use olive oil for heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. It has been said that drinking olive oil helps prevent excessive perspiration (hyperhidrosis). Olive oil is often used in personal care and beauty products. It is a heavy oil that does not absorb easily into the skin. It can clog pores and trap bacteria, so excess should be wiped off to prevent this. It can be used to remove eye makeup and is used in soaps, body washes, and lotions. It is said that if olive oil is boiled with the juice of unripe grapes to the thickness of honey, and applied to the teeth, it can cause them to fall out. Olive oil is also used as fuel for traditional lamps. Olive oil is a carrier oil and does not require dilution. Historical Uses:  excessive sweating, hyperhidrosis, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, toothache Mystical Attributes:  According to Greek myth, the city of Athens was won by Athena in a contest with Poseidon. They were challenged to give the people the most useful gift. Poseidon’s was a salt spring and Athena’s was an olive tree. It is said that the very tree continued to grow in the Acropolis for centuries until the Persians burnt it to the ground but then the same day it grew again. The olive is sacred to Athena and to the city of Athens and an olive tree appeared on Athenian coins. Athletes were anointed with olive oil at the Olympic Games and victors were crowned with olive leaves. Wear olive leaves to bring good luck. Olive oil was used as fuel for the Olympic Flame as well as in sacred lamps as temples. Olive oil was also used in sacrificial offerings and to anoint priests and kings, as well as for more mundane purposes such as fuel for household lighting, a base for medicinal ointments and cosmetics, and, of course for cooking. Draw a pentagram in olive oil on an item you would like to protect. Hang branches over the door to prevent lightning strikes and keep evil from entering, or place the leaves in a bag or add them to a wreath and hang on the door or the chimney for the same purpose. Steep olive leaves in rainwater and asperge your house after you’ve cleaned and blessed it, or stash leaves in the corners of a room to keep a peaceful household and prevent or bring an end to family arguments. Wear a wreath of olive leaves to ensure female fertility. Eat olives to ensure male fertility and potency. Write Athena’s name on an olive leaf and press it to your forehead to make a headache go away. Mystical Intentions:  athletic success, luck in competition, anointing, asperging, blessing, consecration, home protection, protection from lightning, protection from evil, peace, conflict, soothing arguments, harmony, fertility Smell:  Olive oil has a very distinctive fresh, grassy vegetable aroma. Botany, Cultivation & Harvesting:  Olive trees are native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin as well as the Levant, northern Saudi Arabia, northern Iraq, and northern Iran at the south of the Caspian Sea. Olives grow in the hot countries only; in any cold climate, they will never bear fruit, nor hardly endure a winter. It is a short and squat plant that rarely exceeds 8–15 m (26–49 ft) in height. There is an exception to this in the Pisciottana, a unique variety comprising 40,000 trees found only in the area around Pisciotta in the Campania region of southern Italy. These trees often exceed 8–15 m (26–49 ft) with correspondingly large trunk diameters. The silvery green leaves are oblong, measuring 4–10 cm (1.6–3.9 in) long and 1–3 cm (0.39–1.2 in) wide. The trunk is typically gnarled and twisted. The small white, feathery flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the previous year’s wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves. The fruit is a small drupe 1–2.5 cm (0.39–0.98 in) long, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Olive trees like to grow in climates with hot, dry summers and mild winters on slopes in full sun, the south side is ideal. Olive trees like a sandy loam that neither extremely acid nor basic. Seed should be given a period of cold stratification first, it is best to sow the seed as soon as it is ripe in a greenhouse in the autumn. Transplant the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter, perhaps for their first 2 – 3 winters. Plant them out into their permanent locations outdoors in early summer and give them some protection from winter cold for at least their first winter. Olives are harvested in the green to purple stage. Olive leaves may be harvested any time, but are best done after the fruit is harvested. Store dried olive leaves pieces or powdered dried olive leaves in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. Contraindications & Toxicity: Topical application of olive oil may worsen some skin conditions. Avoid use with skin conditions such as dermatitis or oily skin. Do not use olive oil on infants or small children.   Constituents: Oleuropein Oleic acid Anthocyanins (cyanidin glucosides) Flavonols (mainly quercetin-3-rutinoside) Flavones (luteolin and apigenin glucosides) Phenolic acids (hydroxybenzoic, hydroxycinnamic, others) Phenolic alcohols (tyrosol, hydroxytyrosol, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylglycol)     Sources: https://spiritartsandherbs.com/sources **IMPORTANT INFORMATON: Products are sold as curio items for entertainment purposes only and based upon historical and magical uses.  We do not imply or guarantee that any items provide specific abilities, powers, outcomes, remedies, or treatments. Any information provided on listings or through private conversation is intended for educational purposes only and are based on historical folklore and traditions, and should not replace the advice of a physician. Use our products at your own risk. By purchasing this item, you understand and release Spirit Arts & Herbs Inc from any liability. 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