Spicy Ginger - An oil for the Spring Equinox

April 2025

The Spring Equinox has just gone past closing the door on the long drairy winter months and opening one to the promise of warmer days. Despite the temperature outside slowly creeping upwards, April and even May can still feel a little chilly and if you are into growing your own crops, you will surely be aware that the nights can bring a sharp spell of cold air that will inhibit or even prevent the growth of your tiny seedlings.

Nature will wake up slowly over the next couple of months, warming up and drawing onto the spring energy of birth and renewal. Ginger encapsulates this notion to perfection. The aroma of Madagascan ginger is warming, spicy without extravagance, tangy and zingy with the hint of a sweet note.
Like the spring equinox, ginger opens a path to help us sustain and rebuild our energy phycially and emotionally. It encourages us to draw from deep within ourselves the stimulation to move forward. Its warming, sweet and joyful nature works deep in our psyche and keeps us stimulated, enabling us to gather strength, motivation and the will to face challenges with a view to bringing them to fruition.

Ginger is well renowned for its anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties and its action on various bodily functions. Likewise on a pshychological level, ginger is grounding. It is a useful tool to dispel anxiety, eliminate toxic thought and restore clarity to move forward with renewed energy and confidence.

Ginger is truly the spring equinox essential oil of choice.

Ginger is easy going and will blend with many oils: Spices such as cardamon and black pepper, Woods - sandalwood, cedarwood; flowers especially ylang ylang, neroli and rose; all citruses; grasses lemongras, citronella, palmarosa; Roots such as vertiver or gums such as myrrh and benzoin.

Ginger is in our blend ‘Yellow’ designed to portray in a scent the qualities of the colour as light, joy, freedom, warmth and comfort as one would enjoy feeling carefree on a warm sunny day. It combines the citrus oils of orange and mandarin, ginger to ground and inspire, benzoin to add sweetness and warmth. It is a blend that aims at bringing balance, joy and a cozy feeling of comfort.