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“You are a woman from the fields of grain. Isn’t that what your name means?” For a moment, I fell silent and listened within, as though I had looked into a mirror unexpectedly unveiled. This summer, I truly saw and experienced the growing fields of grain as if for the first time in my life. From emerald green to the radiance of gold. Each time I walked along the narrow path left by the tractor tracks after sowing, through a field that also resembled a rolling sea, I was touching the origins of my own name. Rye, also pointing to the meanings of ripening, harvest, nourishment, earth, cycle, fertility, continuity, rebirth, beginning and end. Through this, I felt how close and direct a connection with the Earth can be, a connection my soul is learning, together with others, along this path. The Earth, her name is Gaia – who is she? What is she like? The meaning of the name Rugilė, like the creation of perfumes, came into my life at a certain time of maturity - of a quality brought to ripeness, of a long-awaited harvest, accompanied by the synchronicity experienced between the inner and outer worlds. Gradually bringing together all that I had cultivated, as if binding it into a single sheaf of grain – Jungian analytical psychotherapy, group work, a deep connection with horses, osteopathy.
Jungian analysis is a long journey, closely connected with personal opening, unfolding, inner work, exploring the deeper contents of one's own psyche, and relationships. For this reason, it is travelled slowly, individually, as in every wisdom tradition, encountering trials along the way. This path taught me true humility before the unknown and the mystery of life, bringing together the opposites within myself. The long journey together with the group means to me a responsibility for the quality of one's own energy in relationships – a responsibility proven through trials – as well as the creation and sensing of a shared subtle field, for within such a space, profound inner teachings emerge and manifest. I came to know relationships even more sensitively through my horses, and together with them I experienced the deepest sense of Osteopathy, which I was truly taught with a capital letter, passed from hand to hand, from heart to heart.
Eight years ago, when I invited others into the circle, I wrote in the manuscripts... I sense people as though each of us comes into this world carrying a mystery. And our task is to recognize and come to know our own mystery. Some people live close to their mystery; others have grown distant from it. And there are those who live at the very centre of their mystery.
Over the course of seven years, the Nigredo Group unfolds its blossom like a lotus that has been slowly maturing for a long time. What was once hidden, hermetically protected, now emerges from the depths to the surface of the water. Lotuses hold a special significance in my creative work, having come very slowly, through patient waiting, and therefore, for me, they are first and foremost connected with readiness and the capacity to contain the unknown and uncertainty. One of them – the pink lotus – initiated the beginning of the group, like the fragrance of birth from the primordial waters of the psyche, intended, like the group itself, to explore the darkest, deepest origins of our soul's metamorphosis, the invisible form that lies beyond the visible, what we leave as a trace in others through our touch, our words, our very presence. Seven years later, I encountered a lotus of another colour, and as I took my first deep breath of its fragrance - the Blue One was born. Mu, the Cosmic Human, like a flowing current, a human channel - this is how the Arcanum appeared on the canvas as I exhaled, my hand being guided.
Journeys to the lands of East and West, experiencing the Earth I am part of, gradually drew me in more and more, as I returned to some places so many times that I could hardly count them. There are places that invite us to return again and again, each time anew, gradually embracing both diversity and depth, the seemingly immeasurable differences between cultures, yet the same feelings and emotions experienced by people. At times, it seemed to me that I had been listening attentively to the human world for many years, and so, with time, I felt an ever deeper and stronger longing to hear the Earth, the Trees, the Waters, and to learn to speak Their language.
Perfumery feels to me like an expression of Rubedo, emerging only once the golden grain has ripened, while the sun is still ascending towards its zenith, when almost nothing remains of oneself but the golden harvest. Composed entirely of natural materials, carefully sought out alongside experienced guides, much like the Sherpas of the Himalayas, with a deep regard for all living beings and the relationships we share, without causing harm to nature or animals – something deeply important to my soul. Each perfume creation is, to me, like a Kora, a pilgrimage I have walked and to which I return when called. A sacred path towards the Self, open to pilgrims who hear the silent call. The fragrance of a metaphysical journey, a book that opens onto profound inner teachings that gradually unfold within the one who reads it. Magdalene Sacrarum, Mu Atati, and the soon-to-be-released Chhaya Mukura are fragrances born of an authentic inner and outer journey, a deep process of individuation, following the guidance of the soul. Each is the fragrance of an Arcanum – or, in other words, the Great Mystery of Life – pointing towards what remains beyond our full understanding, yet may guide us along life's path, allowing us to draw closer to this Mystery. Created in very limited quantities, for both women and men, each fragrance unfolds differently on the skin, merging with the individual alchemy of the body.
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