Preparing Your Lotus Infusion

We will be making a ceremonial dose infusion for our opening - infusing the flower for 6-8 hours/overnight.

If you are pregnant, infuse your tea for just 1 hour before.
If you are currently taking any medications, please email me so I can let you know what would be best.

• Use a Quart (4 cups) sized glass jar with a lid or a french press.

• Place your lotus in the jar - Whole Flower: use 2 flowers. Petals: use about a five-finger pinch.

• Heat filtered water on the stove and fill the jar.

• Place lid on + let infuse for 6-8 hours/overnight.

• If you only have a small jar available, half the amount of petals accordingly, or make a strong infusion and add water the next day.

I invite you to make your infusion in ceremony, with intention + presence, knowing that as you create this medicine your journey together begins. Hold the lotus in your hands at your heart, feel into their energy, whisper your prayers and intentions into them, or simply introduce yourself and share your name. Feel into the plant and take notice of how it feels in your hands, the smell, gazing at their beautiful colors… taking note of what they may begin to share with you just by observing them. Placing the petals in your jar, watching as the waters pour over and how the flower begins to expand and transform and come alive.

What does witnessing this alchemy share with you? How does it make you feel? Journal about your experience after if you feel called to.

• After your flower is done infusing - you can leave it on your counter until our ceremony.

• If you live in a more hot + humid environment without AC, then put your infusion in the refrigerator.

• Do not strain it - come to ceremony with your flower still in your waters.

Preparing Your
Sacred Space + Altar

I invite you to clear your space that you’ll be sitting in for ceremony with sacred smoke or herbal water before beginning. This simple ritual will invite the energy to shift for ceremony no matter where you may be.

• Create a small altar next to you or in between you and your computer for ceremony.

• Gather any sacred objects that are special to you that will honor the elements + spirits we will commune with.

• Something for:
  Air - feather, sacred smoke/incense, color white, + so on.
  Fire - candle, serpents, color yellow, + so on.
  Water - shell, a bowl of water, + so on.
  Earth - stones, flowers, a bowl of soil, metal, + so on.

  Spirit Guides - place some lotus petals or a whole flower on your altar with you as we welcome Blue Lotus Spirit. You can also welcome in anything that represents your unique guides. a representation of the Goddess/Gods you feel close to, a stone or object that is special to you or that was a found gift from spirit, your animal guides, the plant spirit guides, + so on if you feel called to.

  Ancestors - If you feel called to, gather anything that represents an ancestor(s) or ancestral lineage of yours that you’d like to call in with you, maybe something actually of the persons, or an object that is from those lands or represents the land, a plant or flower - I like to have a comb on my altar to represent my great-grandmother because a cherished memory I have is that she would comb her hair and oil it at night.

  Heart Center - rose quartz, a little bowl of rose petals or cacao, whatever feeds your sacred heart.

Allow this practice of gathering items around your home or the land you're on to be nourishing for you,
releasing perfection, and tuning in to the beauty + sacredness around you and your unique relationship with each element and what they mean to you.

Be in flow, go slow, it can be simple + special, only for you and Lotus.

Allow this to be your sacred offerings to the Blue Lotus, left at the edge of the river as we call her forth to commune.

Preparing Your Self

Prepare yourself for ceremony in whatever way feels good to you.
Maybe it's cleansing in a bath or shower, anointing your body with oils, clearing your body with
sacred smoke, laying on the Earth outside. Whatever makes you feel relaxed, comfortable + beautiful.

I invite you to adorn in something special - a garment or a piece of jewelry, wearing white or blue lotus blue, whatever it may be. Whatever you would like to adorn in to show up for a sacred event/ceremony.

Have With You For Ceremony

• a journal + pen

• your Lotus infusion and a large mug/cup

• sacred smoke/incense + a lighter/matches

• some water for you to drink if needed

• a pillow or blanket if you choose to lie down and need some extra support