AGAVE FLOWER ESSENCE

Article submitted 05/01/2009 by Linda Reiger
www.apathtowholeness.net
www.natureshealinggrace.blogspot.com

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The Agave is native to northwestern Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico. It is the largest native agave to the United States. It has a lifespan between five and twenty-five years ~ not 100 years as the nickname “Century Plant” implies.

This plant is unique in that it only blooms once in its life. Once the blooming is finished, the Agave uproots itself and dies.

In its final year, it will produce a flower stalk from 14 to 27 feet high. This stalk may take months to reach its full height. It produces little branch like stems for its clusters of up to 300, greenish yellow flowers. The plants depend on bats for pollination; they secrete nectar peaking between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. when bats are most active. This nectar is high in proteins and sugars that most bats need for fuel.

After flowering and during the development of the seeds, the plant begins to senesce. In other words, fruits are produced only once in its lifetime, a botanical phenomenon termed monocarpy.

The agave is considered the Mexican Tree of Life and Abundance, probably because the people of that region have had so many uses for it. It provides them with food, fodder, paper, twine, soap, roofing, dye, and alcoholic drinks. The sap has antiseptic properties. Agave fiber soaked in water for a day is used as a scalp disinfectant and a tonic in cases of falling hair. Compounds derived from the blue agave (the fruit used to make tequila) show promise as a new way to deliver drugs to the colon. Agave contains, among other things, substances known as fructans, which are thought to reduce cholesterol and alter the absorption of fat in the intestine.

These large-sized perennials grow in a rosette of succulent, spiny, sharply pointed leaves. A waxy coating with a powdery surface seals the leaf against evaporation and reflects up to 75% of the incoming heat. The waxy coating of the leaves help to roll the moisture down the leaves to the roots. Its sharp spines contain steroid compounds that could cause localized swelling and discomfort.

The Agave focuses so much energy into its stalk’s growth that you can almost see it as it lengthens. Each day the stalk will add as much as 12inches to its height.

Just as the Agave spends its life preparing to bloom, we may realize that maybe we have become too content in endlessly preparing ourselves for our life’s mission. We may become used to thinking that our life’s purpose will manifest but it will be sometime in the future. Sometimes we hide behind knowing that someday will begin to apply all that we have learned. Agave Flower Essence supports us in letting go, knowing and trusting our great inner strength and allowing it to manifest.

Agave Flower Essence helps us to wake and realize the time is now, the place is here; the inner work has been done and now it is time to bring that energy of deep inner connection out into daily life.

Just like the Agave, we have an abundance of nutrients stored right inside ourselves. Our nutrients are in the form of talents and abilities, as well as a firm foundation of learning. This essence helps us to see we need only to begin to act and we shall make experience out of what we have only dreamed.

This has been called a “late bloomer’s essence,” it symbolizes the universal principle of owning your own level of mastery and becoming comfortable in the process.

A Path to Wholeness website offers a variety of different flower essences to choose from; please stop by and learn more about them!

Walk in Beauty,
Linda Reiger
www.apathtowholeness.net
www.natureshealinggrace.blogspot.com

Linda Reiger has studied Metaphysics and Animal Wisdom for over ten years. She loves and appreciates beauty in anything, whether it is a person, art, music or nature. Being a Libran soul, balance and harmony in life and surroundings are very important to her. She has attained third-degree Reiki, and infuses all her flower essences with the Reiki energy. Her website was created from the evolution of her own experiences and the deeper relationship she has developed with nature.

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