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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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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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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 Marigold—Mental and Physical Balance. For learning to balance excessive ‘head’ energy with the needs of the physical body. Coming from a place within where each is given equal voice. Keen mental acuity and brightness. Where excessive mental activity leads to patterns of physical ill-health and exhaustion.

Marsh Marigold supports strength, clarity and balance in the mental sphere. Where there is a tendency to over-use the mental faculties to the exclusion of other areas of our being, the essence can help us to become aware of this imbalance. Excessive studying, reading, use of one’s critical and analytical abilities, debating, etc, can all lead to feeling fatigued and worn out. Marsh Marigold addresses the patterns of imbalance that lead to this, helping us to stay connected with our emotional, spiritual and physical needs so that these are not over-ridden by this 'head-strong' aspect.
It is also supportive where the mental realm feels clouded, doubt-ridden and unsure—where we are unable to come to a clear sense of something, only feeling uncertainty and despair. It is as if, in such times, we cannot get the mind to provide an answer and yet continue to push and push it, sure that the answer must lie there. Marsh Marigold is once again reminding us to come in to the balance of all realms—to have the mind sit within the support of heart, body and soul and to let the answers come bright, strong and clear from all of these aspects working together.

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Monkshood—Good Medicine. Finding and harnessing own personal good medicine for one’s self and one’s community. Finding abundance, vitality, physical health in the natural world. Drawing to self and others that which nurtures, upholds, sustains.

Monkshood Essence is for seeing where vitality lies and harnessing it for one’s own good and the good of one’s community. It stirs in us our ability to embrace and protect those things which may be considered our own ‘good medicine’—the particular and appropriate nourishment, relationships, livelihood, environment, exercise, ways of being, etc. which support our health and wellbeing. It helps us to discern them, listen for them in any given set of circumstances, and heed them; retaining a healthy awareness of the fact that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves and our own wellbeing. As we develop this awareness we are increasingly able to see beyond the self to the health needs of our community—human, animal, environmental - to understand vitality at a deeper level.
Monkshood helps us to become aware of the patterns which are detrimental to our wellbeing and which do not serve to enhance and nurture our vitality. We design and create our world to a much greater extent than we realise. This essence helps to bring this more fully into our consciousness and to strengthen our ability to draw to us that which we truly need in order to thrive, in balance with the needs of the environment and others - to sense where health lies and to move towards that which is life affirming rather than life denying.

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