Eat your vegetables. Eat your dahlias? Originally classified as a veggie, dahlia’s edible tuber fed a great many during France’s potato crop devastation in the mid-1800’s. France? Interesting, I know, because this solar radiant reminiscent symbolic flower (say that 10x fast) finds its roots (ha!) in Central America known for donning the royal garb of the ancient Toltecs and Aztecs; and balancing blood sugar levels (tuber), and treating skin infections (petals) by native Mexican tribes in the pre-Spanish era. It was the Spanish “explorers” who brought this flower’s beauty and benefit to Europe. This is a plant with quite the passport over the centuries. She sure has traveled.
And she helps us as we travel to the edge of summer. Revered as the most popular flower for summer – perfect for bouquets set upon your altar, shrine, nature table – Dahlia helps move us gracefully from summer into the next season as the “Queen of the Autumn Garden”. She helps with transformation. No wonder butterflies feed on this flower.
I like to use dahlia outside for the inside. She holds many symbolic messages liken to creativity, inner strength and stands tall representing integrity, intention, commitment to one’s sacred values.
As her petals start to fade, I bring them in to dress our salads. An ode to the Fire symbol of Summer, she reminds me of my radiance, strength and sanctity.
Thru Dahlia, I reconnect to the ancients and I feel grace.
That’s a perfect aperitif for nurturing the Sanctuary of me across all the places and spaces I BE and go. A worthy plant in recipes for sanctuaries.
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