Plant dynamics

Boxwood is a perennial shrub whose name sempervirens means evergreen.

It has small, glossy dark green leaves that are very strong and almost leathery.

This tree is also known for its sturdiness and solidity.

Its very hard wood is used to make musical instruments and chess pieces.

Its name Buxus means closed fist in Latin.

This is because the wood is as hard and determined as a clenched fist. That means the will of the boxwood!

Your message

Did you know that in the language of flowers, boxwood represents stoicism?

It is true that boxwood tells us all about this: to remain calm, constant, tenacious.

Not to be influenced by events or people who want to harm us.

To be solid like a boxwood.

It also represents protection.

Especially among Christians, who used boxwood for their crosses.

And who hung branches over their fireplaces to decorate the crucifixes at Easter.

For the Greeks and Romans, it represented immortality and eternity.

The Gauls worshipped the tree god Buxenus, which explains the many French places whose names evoke the box tree, thus giving rise to the words bush and wood: la Buissennière, la Boissière, la Buxière, etc.

It's funny to see how important the presence of the boxwood is!

In popular culture, its message is to persevere, to resist, but also to know how to adapt and shape oneself in order to go on living.

Like the boxwood, which is constantly pruned and celebrated for its ability to be so transformed.

To know how to protect oneself even in a fight, the raised fist of the buxus, maintaining its inner power of creation.

A possible sharing to come, a nectar to spread, like that of its flowers and fruits.

Thoughts

• I am suffocating in this life. 
• I am unhappy in my marriage, I am lost in it. 
• My son is afraid of his maths teacher, he can't answer. 
• I'm gay and my family doesn't understand me. They humiliate me whenever they can. 
• I have a job that I hate, imposed on me by my father. 
• My job requires me to wear a suit, high heels and slicked back hair. But that's not me, I don't recognise myself in that image.

Advantages

The floral elixir of boxwood gives strength and courage to stand up and choose the life you want.

It allows people who are in a difficult environment to show perseverance and tenacity in order to endure and have the opportunity to choose their path.

Boxwood also allows us to rediscover our individuality, for example in an unhappy relationship where one partner is completely subservient to the other.

Or to regain our integrity. For example, in combination with the solid strength of boxwood, after a sexual assault or the loss of a sense (hearing, sight) or a limb (amputation).

But it will also come to support shy children who cannot express their character and who they really are in front of authoritarian parents or teachers.

It will also come to help them develop their ability to express themselves, for example through creation.

Finally, Boxwood Flower Elixir will help those who feel trapped in a straitjacket, suffocated in their social, family or professional environment.

It encourages them to persevere and not to give up.