'Inner' Beauty Skin Treatments

Balancing The Seven Inner Metals: The Seven Days of The Week (continued from Herbal Beauty Recipes)

Our skin is a reflection of our personality. It corresponds to the 'truth and the false in the ultimate' (see quote page 23), which means, that if our skin is rough and dry, then to improve it, we must correct the rough and dry aspects of our personality such as our prudishness, or our uncaring attitude. If our skin is smooth and clammy, we must deal with smooth and clammy aspects of our personality, such as our integrity or our sponginess. If our skin is too oily, it could mean that we are too sticky - or too co-dependent.

Therefore, when balancing the seven metals (page 43), determine if you demonstrate the positive or the negative qualities. As an example, Sunday is ruled by the Sun (page 44: Sunday's Regenerating Jelly) which also corresponds to pride (page 43) . If you lack pride, then you would use any one of the Sun Herbs (page 45) as the base for your Sunday's Rejuvenating Seaweed Jelly, and wear it to increase the pride, in every area of your life, or until the condition improves.

If you were overbalanced and demonstrated the negative Sun traits (page 43), such as vanity, arrogance, or excessive pride, you would strengthen the other six days (metals) to target that specific issue, or to compensate for that particular issue. The same goes for all the seven days of the week (page 43 attributes).

Variations:

You may also prefer to use these treatments in the bath or as a seaweed wrap (page 72) as in the chapter on Spa Treatments.

Also, this chapter deals with the 'seven days of the week' which relate to correcting specific personality flaws, but not physical diseases - which are beyond the scope of this book. But, I have included a chart (page 83) for the "hours planetary ruler" for those that want to do more specific ritualistic treatments.

Sunday's Regenerating Jelly

"The Sun signifies celestial and spiritual love, and in an opposite sense, self-love and its lusts." - Swedenborg. 2441

This Sunday-Treatment uses the Sun-Herb Chamomile, but all of the Sun herbs (see list of Sun Herbs page 45) re-vitalize and stimulate as they subtly uplift and regenerate the skin. The Sun’s essential nature is to radiate perfect beauty, strength, and confidence throughout the entire circulatory system. The Sun's spiritual energy increases generosity and love, which receives consideration and optimistic responses in return.

The Sun-herbs act to balance a lack of the spiritual energy which causes the negative traits related to self-love, such as vanity, arrogance, over-optimism, and excessive pride by bringing about a strengthened inner core, with greater spiritual awareness, resulting in softer, smoother skin.

The opposite attributes of Fertility & Sterility in relation to the Sun-herbs is one of perspective. For as we try to improve the softness of our skin by outer means, it is not until we improve the inner-skin of our personality that we begin to understand the shift in perspective that is necessary to improve any outward condition.

It is this shift in perspective, the 'Gold', a new concept of personality that begins the process of cellular regeneration, and transfers this new self-identification onto newly developed fertile cells, which eventually liberate us from physical circumstances. The golden age was a time of innocence – the primary principle of regeneration - when we knew we were loved. ~ Sunday's Regenerating Jelly.