According to Trista Haggerty’s website describing her Sacred Oil Academy, a myrrhophore is also called “Mistress of Oils” who “cares for the soul of humanity and their point of transition – the threshold moments where the soul needs tending. Birth, death and initiation.” I attended Trista’s Sacred Oil Academy where I learned how to be a myrrhophore. And oils can be used for more than just transitional times. Who wouldn’t bless a baby at any time, for example, or the sick? A newly married couple wouldn’t turn away a blessing either. It is just a beautiful way to connect with people.
…a myrrhophore is also called “Mistress of Oils” who “cares for the soul of humanity and their point of transition – the threshold moments where the soul needs tending. Birth, death and initiation.”
www.tristahaggerty.com
Being a myrrhophore has been amazing, spiritual and sacred. The hardest part is incorporating it into my life in a way that doesn’t…seem weird to everyone else, honestly. When I’m working with oils, it feels right, calming and I love doing it, but try explaining that to someone who is either not into spirituality or *really* into their own spirituality and don’t want to hear about my Goddess-based sacred oil work. It’s hard to find your people. I have found I have to be more non-denominational with a distinct monotheistic bent in order for people to be accepting. But I guess we have to start somewhere.
My goal is to be able to be free and open about my work, and that people will be accepting of the fact that I myself am Goddess-based, but that I can perform sacred oil work in a way that is non-denominational; it just all depends on the words used. My personal preference is to call on the Goddess and the Light. I use words like “bless” and “divine” which everyone is usually comfortable with.
It is only recently that I’ve been able to actually begin speaking to my family about my sacred oil work, and unfortunately, my first uses have been for transitions from life to the afterlife. My two surviving grandparents went into hospice care the same week, and I blessed them both. Just days later, my grandmother of 98 years passed. I felt so much peace in having performed the oil blessing for her, it helped me tremendously with closure. The importance of ritual at all stages of life cannot be understated. My grandfather is still under hospice care and I plan to go and bless him again, with a different sacred oil (for there are several).
Ultimately, I want to be able to offer this service to my community.
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