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Fragrant Orchid - Group Harmony. Attuning to and resonating with others in accord; refining the energy of a group; working together to the highest potential. Discovering why we are grouped with others.

This beautiful orchid emits an energy of incredible grace and elegance. It lifts us to a higher place within ourselves when we take it and a place which beautifully harmonises with the energy of those around us. It is an essence of accord; where we find ourselves able to strike a chord with people even where we had previously felt only disharmony and discord.
Where a group is working together it helps those people to meet together and resonate so that they do the work they truly came to do. It helps ease conflict and feelings of difference and separateness. Its sweetness enables us to open our hearts to others, feeling safe to share and explore and be vulnerable and be supportive.

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Globeflower—Inter-relating. Lifts us beyond a limited world view. For seeing the bigger picture, understanding how everything inter-relates with everything else. True ‘global consciousness’. Responsibility for our place and part in the whole—the whole Self, the whole of life.

This essence helps us to see the whole picture - to see and comprehend wholeness in all things. It reminds us that nothing is separate, nothing is simply an identity or thing in and of itself that bears no relation to anything else. All is joined, all is connected and nothing can be done in isolation without affecting everything else, without sending ripples.
Globeflower teaches us something germane to our times - the remembrance that we are all in the same dream and all aspects of the same living organism. We are reliant on each other and we are responsible for each other. The essence helps us with this concept: it enables us to feel at ease in our own being, at the centre of the whole, rather than feeling overwhelmed or despairing at this level of responsibility. The journey begins with one's self - with responsibility for one's world and microcosm, with an understanding of how our every decision affects our life, and with an awareness of how to make choices from a place of wholeness.
With continuing levels of maturity Globeflower can then assist us in going further: it teaches us to apply this beyond ourselves, to think holistically about the macrocosm, the people and planet, understanding our potential to support the earth we inhabit from a place of strength, ease and wholeness within.

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Golden Light - Dancing Forward. Reconnects us with our playfulness and with our dreams, for manifesting ‘what happens next’ in the life we are creating. Keeping hold of our dreams, looking forward to the future. Clarity, abundance, play. Helps us to keep imagining a rich and beautiful life into fruition.

Golden Light essence enables us to align with the spiritual connection that brings appropriate abundance into our future. It is an essence of intense and invigorating clarity and play. It was made late one afternoon in the mountains of Cumbria when the land was covered in snow, the low winter sun had turned the white valley golden and a polar maritime wind danced and stirred through the environment.
This essence calls on us to play and dream, to dare and imagine. It reminds us to laugh, to open to light and happiness, to experience, to delight and to revel in life. It is from this place that we are most able to create - spontaneously, abundantly, and fruitfully. It helps us to shed our heaviness and our sorrow, our caution and our fearfulness. And it lets us dance into transition without being aware that we are doing it.
Golden Light encourages us to let go and return to a place of childlike trust where we can dream a good dream for our futures and hold it in our mind like stars in the night sky - magical, sacred and blessed.

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Grandfather Pine — Empowered male. Grand, formidable, impregnable, deep and gentle wisdom. Both Grandfather and Grandmother Pine enable us to contact and be strengthened by our ancestral wisdom. Reaching back to our roots, our elders. Bringing intricacies of a complex, mature, multi-facetted wisdom. Facilitating justice, fairness, good judgment, appropriate action.

The pine essences in general help wherever one feels shaky, ungrounded, anxious, unsafe. They foster feelings of inner safety, peace, security, being integrated, being at home within one’s self/within a situation. They are essences that enable one to stand tall and firm, in wise and generous ways.
Grandfather Pine brings an impregnable, grand, and formidable energy. This is a towering force and the essence helps connect us with this in ourselves. But it is the towering force of an elder that has been honed and refined by many years of experience and learning, and that is deeply ingrained to the point where strength and wisdom are now intricately combined and have become instinctive. The essence supports one in seeing things from all angles, in being able to plot one’s way by taking into account the needs of all, in being centred: a force of strength and compassion on whom others can rely. It releases feelings of shakiness and anxiety and is particularly good to help the young grow tall, straight and strong within, and to help the elderly know the value and strength of their many years of experience.

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Grandmother Pine—Empowered feminine. Energy of the matriarch, impressive force, guardian, gateway, command. Both Grandfather and Grandmother Pine enable us to contact and be strengthened by our ancestral wisdom. Reaching back to our roots, our elders. Bringing intricacies of a complex, mature, multi-facetted wisdom. Facilitating justice, fairness, good judgment, appropriate action.

The pine essences in general help wherever one feels shaky, ungrounded, anxious, unsafe. They foster feelings of inner safety, peace, security, being integrated, being at home within one’s self/within a situation. They are essences that enable one to stand tall and firm, in wise and generous ways.
Grandmother Pine offers rounded, warm, embracing, 'wise woman' energy. The energy of the matriarch—protective, commanding, forceful. This essence teaches us to open up to this wisdom within, to open to teachings that we might only be able to hear and accept from a wise elder woman of our ‘tribe’, from our own ancestral knowing. This is often survival wisdom—teachings which will help us go forward more adeptly, less clumsily, returning our feet to safe ground. The teachings are not always easy to follow; the illumination of consciousness may bring some uncomfortable awareness. But the essence can provide a catalyst to release us from areas of stubbornness, blindness and wilfulness, and to help us to find a more rounded, embracing attitude.

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Grand Quintile—Dissolving defences. Moving beyond states of difference and separateness. Letting inner defences relax into and merge with love. Stepping towards oneness whilst still maintaining healthy boundaries and the ability to discern. Being guided by beautiful, compassionate heart-energy.

Grand Quintile is a gem, astrological and environmental essence combined. As such it is both potent and supportive. It provides a catalyst for dissolving barriers which are inappropriate, defensive and outdated. It does this by inviting us to return to a place where all communication is of the heart and spirit. It helps us go beyond the barriers of the physical world - of time, space, culture, language - and return to the reality of energy, which is much more pervasive, fluid, permeable and malleable. It is a place where nothing is set in stone; creation is unfolding in myriad ways on myriad levels.
This essence enables us to see the nature of our own limitations - the boundaries we place around ourselves, the walls and defences - and to expand beyond them. It is an essence for leaving behind outmoded behaviours and ways of being, especially where these come from fear and reaction. It invites us to rest in the eternal space of the heart where we are naturally protected and can naturally respond from a place of universal truth and appropriateness. Here we merge into oneness whilst staying absolutely clear and defined in who we are. Here it is possible to say no and state our needs without losing our compassion for others. Here it is possible to dissolve barriers whilst still retaining form and individuality.

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Grass-of-Parnassus—Celebrating your Light. Knowing, owning, celebrating your own individual, exquisite and pure inner light. Living your beautiful nature with truth and modesty. Relinquishing habits of giving light away/denying it. Standing in the light of Who You Are.

This essence strengthens your ability to stand in your full power without feeling apologetic, embarrassed or unworthy, and without imposing this power on others. It helps us perceive our innate beauty and purity, gently reminding us of this whatever else we may have come to believe about ourselves.
Grass of Parnassus brings us to an awareness of the light that pervades all creation, including ourselves, an awareness we reach through our own heart. It helps us contain our own light and strength—not leaking away our power, light, or beauty through feelings of unworthiness. Rather than giving away that which is integral to us, it helps us to strengthen and maintain it.
Many people fear to shine their light, to be fully all they can be, to stand in the centre of their own magnificence - modest yet powerful. Grass-of-Parnassus helps us to feel safe in our power and inner beauty, to shine our light with grace and modesty, comfortable with the truth of our own majesty.

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Greater Cuckooflower - Loving Intimacy. Friendship, companionship, community, communion with others. Meeting others with love; forging strong bonds of friendship and trust. Social ease and confidence. Mutual responsibility.

This striking plant is the cousin of our common Lady’s Smock or Cuckooflower. Greater Cuckooflower grows in woods, beside running water or in marshy shaded areas. This essence is for intimacy, companionship and friendship. For all aspects of relating - it helps one to feel at ease with the company of others, to trust, to open up, to be willing to engage and take responsibility, to enjoy and take pleasure in one’s relationships. Its energy is trusting, intimate, open, playful and balanced. It helps one to revel in the pleasure of being with others and assists us in being present and aware so that we can dance in the moment of interaction with humour and lightness.
This is an essence for anyone who struggles with socialising, friendship, relationships, community. This may be through shyness and a lack of ease in the company of others, or it may be because others find them too difficult to be around and so tend to avoid them. For people who feel alone and outside, it helps one move towards creating beautiful true relationships with others. And it is also good for anyone who simply wants to strengthen their connections further and deepen their ability to find support, love and pleasure in the company of others. A lovely essence to spray around at parties or communal gatherings—it creates openness, receptivity, and willingness to engage. (This essence is part of Heart Balm combination.)

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Hawthorn Berries—Ripening intensity. Fruition, receiving the fruits of your labours. Receiving your heart’s desire. Letting go of suffering and lack. Finding the heart’s home. Coming into your own, your inheritance, your spiritual legacy.

Hawthorn Berries helps us to receive what our heart desires, to make room for this within and to remain firmly rooted and open-armed when it comes to accepting it. It is useful for anyone who struggles in this area - who finds it hard to recognize, receive or hold onto abundance. The essence gently releases the internal resistance we may have to receiving our true worth by increasing our awareness and insight, realigning our internal energy system to allow the flow (the give and take) of abundance. It strengthens the heart - its rhythm, beauty, dreams - to give it good grounding from which to flourish; it encourages us to seek the 'food' our heart truly needs (in all senses of the word) in order to blossom and bloom in strength and wholeness.
At a deeper level it invites us to come fully into our own, to accept our inheritance, to become comfortable with receiving what we need from this earth without plundering it or denying others, to be fully attuned to our desires so that the life we live can be desirable for us. This essence increases our capacity for receiving life's gifts of grace, for drawing them towards us without needing to push them away or sabotage our success.

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Hawthorn Blossom—Domestic Harmony. For truly accepting and being at one with your life as it is. Counting gifts and blessings. Ceasing to yearn and hanker for what is not or what might have been. Settling into the everyday and working with the richness of What Is.

This essence assists us in accepting and embracing what is, where we are in our lives, what we have - accepting our lot and seeing within it the enormous gifts it holds for us. Hawthorn Blossom provides a gentle catalyst for coming away from patterns of dissatisfaction, complaining, feelings of lack, feelings of being 'hard-done-to'. It helps us fully to embrace the here and now, rather than struggle against it.
For the striving, yearning and expectation that takes one out of the bounty of what is and has us looking only at what is not, Hawthorn Blossom realigns our perspective and sharpens our insight. It invites us to remember the abundance and harmony that exists all around us, where potentially 'Everything is exactly as it needs to be; all I need is here and everything is perfect'. It helps us to truly count our blessings and to experience domestic harmony by knowing the worth of what is often right under our noses. Hawthorn Blossom helps us to weave a cloth of gold from the gifts that we have in the present.

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Lady's Slipper Orchid - Healthy Vitality. For living the knowledge that we can heal; reconnecting with our healing potential; true vitality. Connecting with our ability to help others to heal. Overcoming obstacles and dissolving boundaries to true healing. Understanding what healing means for us.

Lady’s Slipper Orchid is one of our rarest orchid which is perhaps reflected in the healing it brings — it restores us to our full knowledge of and belief in our ability to heal. As a plant it is strong, green, potent and vital. It has a mysterious feel to it because it is such a jewel of our times. Its energy field is incredibly strong and whole.
The Essence imparts to us this gift of vitality, health and certainty. Everything about the plant is confident and dynamic. As an Essence it directly touches our life-force, our own healing vitality, and helps us to tap into this freely. By helping us to recover our belief and knowledge that it is possible to heal, no matter how long or how seriously we have been ill, we have already been offered great healing and deep peace of mind. In any situation where there is a lack of hope, strength and trust that things can and will get better; where we are out our lowest ebb and do not believe in our dynamic life-force, the vitality within us that will see us through - this Essence re-establishes our connection with this inner potency. It reaffirms that we have the strength and certainty within to continue and complete the journey we are on. It reconnects us with the knowledge that healing is possible.

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La Meije—Spiritual majesty. Rising up to meet the place within where your spirit soars, connecting with the Absolute, the great I Am. For sitting at the foot of your own sacred mountain and meeting your path and calling. Going beyond previously known limits—facing the terror and splendour.

La Meije is an essence that inspires and holds us when we are facing our true calling. It is supportive when one is looking up at one’s own spiritual mountain in life and feeling tiny, vulnerable and not up to the job - when what lies ahead is both awesome and terrifying. It could be manifesting as one’s life work, a fundamental shift in direction, or as an inner call to live very differently with much deeper values. When we look at that path, and look at where we have been, the way back can seem more comfortable, or at least safer, than the path that goes ahead. La Meije is for when we are in that place of choice—not the little everyday choices—at a real crossroads where we have the chance to enter into a much deeper, richer, more sustaining and more risky connection with life or where we can stay in a place which is perhaps a little more sleepy and more secure.
The essence gives us the opportunity to see beyond our fears and see the beauty of where we are. It reminds us our grounding is firm, we are not alone, we only have to reach out our hand to be held in Spirit and guided. It beckons us to risk and trust; to meet this point where life has issued us with a command, knowing that we will be supported, cradled and sustained in every moment.

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Le Jardin des Alpes—Reassurance. For moving within to a space of inner contemplation and meditation. Resting, renewing, relaxing. Letting go of external demands for a period in order to return to gentleness and compassion within. Being present.

This essence is about taking time to rest and renew, to retreat from the demands of external life in order to reconnect with one’s internal life, to become more present. It brings a sense of peace and gentleness, of being in a beautiful meadow on a sunny day and resting - letting the sun come into your bones and warm them, letting yourself recharge.
At a deeper level, Le Jardin Des Alpes is for letting go of attachment to external demands, to the needs of others, to the world beyond. It encourages one to trust the life within, the life that is connected to every thing else. It reminds us to listen, to stop, to breathe more slowly, to contemplate, to let go of hurrying, to let life slow down with us, to relax. It stimulates us to find renewal in the every day rather than waiting for some imaginary time in the future when we hope we will stop and be still. It invites us to rest within the moment. And initially this may mean stepping back, breathing deeply, hearing the birds, feeling the sun or the warmth of a fire, returning our body and mind to safety and comfort. It is not enough to rest the body and leave the mind worried and active and preoccupied. It is not enough to switch off the mind and emotions and exhaust the body. Rest involves a balancing of all areas of one’s being in order to restore harmony and order once more.

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Lunar Standstill—Embracing Change. Helps you connect deeply with your intuition; to stay fluid, soft, and responsive during change. Catalyst for times when you are stuck or resist change. Letting the movement of change course through you, bringing energy, creativity and confidence.

Lunar Standstill is an environmental, gem and flower essence. It was made on a small tidal island, off one of the remote islands of Orkney. The bowl was left for the night as the high tide cut off this patch of land. It rested on a bed of Oyster Plant, where the north sea and atlantic meet, under a huge moon, both pulled and anchored by these forces: an essence of moon, flower and tides.
Lunar Standstill helps us find our natural rhythm - be this circadian rhythm, sleep pattern, menstrual cycle/menopause—and to find a new rhythm when our old one has been disrupted. Our rhythm, our flow, and our sense of harmony in our life, are all intricately linked. When this is disturbed through change, or where it has become heavy and stuck in a pattern which no longer serves us, we can feel profoundly affected. This essence helps restore us to our inner sense of how best we may move with these currents, supporting us when we are struggling to find our natural balance in a particular cycle or phase of our journey. It invites us to step into the core of the rhythm we are feeling—into its momentum and flow—and connect deeply with our intuitive sense of how it naturally needs to move through us, and how we need to move with it.

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Marsh Felwort—Applying your Wisdom. Bringing own spiritual wisdom and sophistication to everyday life. Working with the flow. Heeding, sensing, attending to one’s inner voice and mastery and applying this practically. Spiritual discipline and resolve.

Marsh Felwort supports our discipline in practising what we preach, living our spiritual beliefs, applying the teachings of our inner wisdom. It bridges the gap between theory and practice, enabling us to consciously embody our inner knowing - for living our spiritual wisdom practically, not merely intellectually.
In some ways it is an essence for ‘being good at life' in that it helps us to much more rigorously apply and live what we know. It enables us to become conscious of the wisdom we have within which guides us in every moment, and to heed and act from it. It is for the practical application of wisdom. As such the essence helps us grow more aware of mistakes we keep repeating through not listening to our inner guidance. Marsh Felwort helps with spiritual discipline and resolve—for more rigorous spiritual practice that is truly of use to us in life, not divorced from it. It brings reality and spirituality together within us as essential companions, balancing and supporting each other.

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Marsh Helleborine - Out Into The World. Moving out into the world with confidence and ease; especially after periods of retreat or introversion. Finding our way in the world; taking our teaching/knowledge/gifts out to others.

Marsh Helleborine has striking white and pink flowers, which look out in every direction with open wings. This flower supports us in going out into the world in a way which is loving, open and embracing. It enables us to trust that we can make our way in the world; reach out to others with our gifts and learning; and connect fruitfully with the people, organisations, experiences, and situations that we need.
The essence helps us journey beyond ourselves, stepping over the old boundary lines of our life as it used to be; expanding to touch new horizons and explore new areas of life. It is an essence that supports us in moving outward from the known self and becoming more than one currently experiences oneself to be.
Marsh Helleborine encapsulates a beautiful, inquisitive, curious energy with which to explore life. For those who have been in retreat; who are naturally shy, introverted or reclusive; or who have been experiencing a time away from the bustle of life and are now ready to return, this Essence helps one to emerge in a way which feels safe. It supports us in showing out face to the world and coming out of hiding. It is often the case in such times that we are emerging to show more of our deeper self than we have previously revealed (to our self or others). It helps us move beyond fears of releasing ourselves to the unknown, both within and without, so that we can gently break with the past and move forward into a more expansive way of being.

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