The lilac will bloom this spring -- a sign?

[ar_wahan]

We bought this house in the summer of 1985. The following spring (20 years ago, if that is significant)), my husband's parents showed up with two lilac plants that were offspring of ones in their yard, which in turn were offspring of ones in the home they had purchased after their marriage in 1947, and where my husband had spent most of his childhood. One was purple, one was white. 

There was just one problem with this lovely gesture: My husband is very allergic to lilac blossoms.

So, that was twenty years ago. The plants grew, despite my husband's repeated efforts to "accidentally" mow them over. Eventually, one of them did succumb to something. I couldn't have told you if it were the purple one or the white, though because neither of them had ever bloomed.

Jim, my father-in-law and a professor of agricultural economics, died very unexpectedly of a heart attack in March of 2003. There was a funeral mass, but because the ground was frozen, burial was delayed until May.

Every year at about this time, I would go out to touch the remaining lilac and see if it had flower buds. There never were any. But a few days before the burial, I noticed buds for the first time. I felt a jolt of joy and ran back into the house and insisted that my husband and daughter come out to look. "It's Jim!" I said. "He wants us to know he's all right!" While my husband didn't really react in my presence to this event, my daughter later told me he had been surprised and moved by it., and had referred to it several times since then.

There weren't a lot of flowers, but when they did open up, they were white. I took one and added it to the others that people placed on the coffin before it went into the ground.
 
In 2004 and 2005, the lilac was barren again.

This morning,  I noticed its highest branches are full of flower buds. When my husband came out of his shower, I annonced, "Guess what I discovered? The lilac's going to bloom again!"

"Oh, great," he said grumpily.

I felt a little hurt, but tried not to show it. "I prefer to think of it as a sign."

i could tell he was backpeddling from this gaff as fast as he could. "Well, I guess. But they'll still a headache."  (Later, lest you think him a complete clod, he asked at lunch where I wanted to go to dinner Monday night. "What's special about Monday night?" asked the samurai. "It's our wedding anniversary," he replied.)

I was curious about the meaning of lilacs, in terms of mystical properties., so I just did a quick Google search  One site mentioned they were often planted around New England houses for protection from evil spirtis. Another site  rather ominously said one should never give lilacs to sick people for some reason I can't recall. Another said simply,

Lilac: Exorcism, Protection 

Do you know of any other meanings? (Especially fastrr_pussycat? You seemed to have some good sources about lilies of the valley, etc. the other day.) For the longest time, I thought the reason it didn't bloom was because it wasn't getting enough light, but nothing in the environment has changed.

Comments

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

that's funny. those are the same properties I got for "Solomon's Seal" when I did a bit of research. Which by the way, my flower most certainly is now that's it's bloomed. not lily of the valley.

Here's what I've found for Lilac:

Lilac activates all the chakras, and eases tension throughout the body - especially the spine. The Lilac is closely connected with nature spirits. Protection, banishing.

AND GET THIS!!!!! :

Lilac: good for inducing "far memory" and recalling past lives. Also good for clairvoyance in general. Brings peace & harmony. Excellent for uncrossing. Tends to promote the positive aspects in the herbs it's combined with.

Wow! Ask Fastrr_pussycat, and ye shall receive...

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

That was an almost instantaneous response from you! All I did after posting was to walk outside again to look at my raised beds and notice that the chives I planted last year were back . . . Thank you! Can you tell me what site you used? I'm going to be completely redoing my front garden, and could use some ideas...

I will post some more past life stuff, but probably not tonight. (May post, but on other topics.) "Thanks for watching!" *grin*

P.S. Glad to know you're getting acquainted with the Desperate Housewives.

Re: Wow! Ask Fastrr_pussycat, and ye shall receive...

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

here's one site:

http://www.branwenscauldron.com/uses_herbs.html

and I have many things in print I browse through.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

By the way . . . what's "uncrossing"? Remember, I'm a "hereditary natural witch," not one who has studied anything! LOL...

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

I'm still learning myself LOL! i don't even know if I'd be considered "intermediate" at this stage. There's so much to know, and the older I get and the more I change, the more my path changes.

Uncrossing is like revering jinxes, dispelling negative energy, etc...

[fastrr-pussycat.livejournal.com]

*I meant reversing, not revering

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

I understood! (Signed, the LJ Queen of Typos)

[darkhorseman.livejournal.com]

Maybe it means nothing more that what it already has. To get your attention and to make you think. Maybe to open communications between you and the hubby? Somtimes signs dont have words on them but they still get your attention.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

Hey, good point. If you've been reading everything here (not that I expect you to), you know physical contact -- and we're not even talking "quality time," as you put it in your journal -- hasn't been that great for the past year . . . I woke up last night really wanting that, but had no protection. (Condoms are not an option now... TMI) I bought something today to protect me.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove lilacs! We had them growing around my house growing up, but my neighborhood here doesn't have any. (There are lots of forsythia, which are pretty... but not as heavenly-smelling as lilacs.)

I'd never heard of the protection belief - it sounds like a lovely use. (;

Living on the second floor, I am limited to container gardening. I wish that there was a way to grow them on pots on a balcony...

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

When I read this, I kinda thought he might have meant "Oh great" Because he wondered who he would be losing. He lost his dad, the lilac bloomed. While I, too, prefer to see it as a good omen, perhaps he's just being pragmatic. As well as dreading the headaches.

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

Nah, it was annoyance, not worry. I can read him -- just as I could read his backpeddling. I've been married to this guy for 23 years and 364 days (and I'm an empath, remember?). He was thinking about his sinuses, not about his dad (or me).

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I understand.