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Primrose—Good love. Loving with all the boundlessness of one’s being whilst accepting the boundaries. Appropriate love. Letting go of giving or receiving inappropriate expressions of love—intrusion, imposition, rejection, neglect, etc. Finding within the reality of a given relationship ample room to love well.

Primrose essence helps us to love with all the boundlessness of our being whilst respecting any boundaries that may exist in the external space of relating. It helps to safe-guard us from drawing inappropriate expressions of love from other people - from neglect through to intrusiveness, lack of care through to excessive intimacy—by enabling us to be more fully conscious of our own boundaries and the level of our needs. Similarly, it helps us to be aware of and accept the needs and boundaries of the other person, comprehending their wishes and desires when they are at odds with our own, coming to an inner acceptance of the place of balance between us.
As such this is a remedy which can be useful in relations with friends and loved ones in particular, helping to heal conflict that may come from misunderstandings about the love that is being offered. The time, heart-space, energy, commitment, etc. available on each side does not always balance; this can cause great confusion, unhappiness, loneliness and/or feelings of being compromised. Because the essence facilitates the acceptance of letting love be at the level it truly is, it can release the struggle and pain around this, bringing greater peace and acceptance.

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Ring of Brodgar-Sacred Ceremony. Focus; charge point of spiritual intent; cohesion. Helps us to be still within and feel the support of the earth and humanity. Feeling these coming together in wild and sacred energy. For ceremonies, for recharging, for deep connection with the sacred in the earth and the sky.

This environmental essence of the Orkney stone circle, the Ring of Brodgar, helps focus, charge and protect one’s energy; grounding and connecting one with the forces of nature and spirit. It reflects our deep-rooted sense of the sacredness of life and the wish to celebrate this with ceremony. And it invites us to step in to the strange, mystical and wondrous interaction that exists between nature, spirit and humanity, entering into a profound communion with Life.
Stone circles are places of power, energy, celebration, community and containment. They are an age-old testimony to our need to connect deeply with the forces around us – to become part of them, matching grandeur with grandeur - massive standing stones of hewn rock placed in the teeth of the elements, in a perfect circle, aligned with the stars. The Ring of Brodgar is a most beautiful example of this: at once elemental, pagan and wild, and yet deeply peaceful and protective.
The essence assists us in going through rites of passage, or in times that must be marked with ceremony and awareness. It helps contain and charge the energy within and around us and enables us to connect with the depth, solemnity, and celebration of such times. It helps create and hold a sacred space, imbuing it with the mystical energy, peace and gentleness of this far northern stone circle. And it is an essence to help recharge, bring cohesion to, ground and protect one’s energy at any time where this is needed.

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Ruby in the Storm—Strength of Heart. Staying firmly grounded in one’s heart during times of cataclysmic change. Going with the dynamic winds of change, even when these seem shattering. Releasing one’s self to movement whilst staying absolutely centred in the heart. Charting the path of heart through the storm.

This is an essence which facilitates real strength and grounding during times of change. Ruby-in-the-Storm helps to stabilise the heart energy amidst profound turmoil, keeping one centred in this loving space. Then everything else may shift and the winds of change may whistle through the heart and through all that one is, but the heart remains steady. It is like having within a sturdy, sea-worthy vessel with which to ride out a turbulent storm.
Ruby-in-the-Storm is for times when we are experiencing the most profound changes in our life where nothing seems familiar to us anymore. It is as if we are standing in our own world but feel incomprehensibly alien within it. Nothing that we knew now feels certain, and there is nothing external that we can grasp hold of. This essence helps us hold to an inner strength — the stillness at the centre of all motion, of all life, the eye of calm in the middle of the storm. It enables us not to react, not to be blown at will by every gust that comes our way. Instead we respond firmly and clearly, finding our way through, holding to that which we do know and which supports and sustains us. In this way, we can let go of beliefs or ways of being which no longer serve us or which hold us back.

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Scots Pine Sentinel—Inner Direction. Helps us to re-orientate when feeling lost, blind, seemingly stuck in the past. For being with the fog and seeing through it. Maintaining smooth strong boundaries to aura. Brings warmth, security and sense of being at home.

Scots Pine Sentinel assists us in discerning, heeding and staying connected with our internal compass. In times when we feel lost and afraid it supports us in finding our bearings, coming back to the space within where we know where we are and where we need to go, no matter how disorientating it may be for us in the external world. It reminds us that we have everything we could possibly need now to deal with this moment and that nothing that we have been given to deal with is beyond our capabilities. The essence supports us when we feel lost and stuck, when we are faced by a wall of fog which we cannot see through, where the path ahead is no longer clear. This can make one feel anxious, unsure of what to do and liable to act from a place of panic rather than from an internal space of calm and confidence.
Scots Pine Sentinel nurtures feelings of deep grounding and certainty. It encourages the ability to wait patiently in unfamiliar times to see how things unfold - not reacting but trusting that deeper plan that we often cannot see or fathom.

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Scottish Primrose - Jewel of the Heart. The 'Heart Support' essence. Restores exquisite connection with the heart, with its deepest potential. Nurtures a deep jewel-like resonance of energy in the heart - with life, with one's self and with others. Enables you intimately to explore the heart's deeper treasures.

The exquisite flower-head of the Scots Primrose consists of tiny heart-shaped petals of rich magenta, clustered around a golden centre. It is the ‘heart support’ essence: it helps us reach for the deepest treasures of our heart and to intimately connect with qualities of love, compassion and forgiveness. It assists us in engaging more intimately with ourselves and others, connecting heart-to-heart, openly and with joy.
The essence reminds us of the beauty of the heart’s energy and of its phenomenal capacities for love. It is place of great depth, richness, and treasures – a constantly present resource that connects us with our most enduring and humane qualities. Intimacy, the ability to forgive another, acceptance, unconditional love, passion and romance, tenderness, compassion, integrity, faithfulness, and ‘determination to live and respond as a peaceful being’ – these are all gifts the heart offers us, seeds of potential within us all. Scots Primrose helps us find and anchor these qualities within ourselves. It reminds us of the radiance of our heart’s energy, its jewel-like glow and warmth, its depth and beauty. And it helps us to put this radiance at the centre of our being and of our life.

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Serenity—Mindfulness. Provides an inner bridge for stepping from one level of awareness / consciousness to the next. For releasing attachment to any clouds passing over the clear blue sky of the eternal mind. Grace, mindfulness, awareness.

This essence was made on the shores of Mull as the sun set behind Iona, casting its rays upon this holy island and across the tranquil water.
Serenity is an essence which nurtures an internal space for meditation, mindfulness and increased awareness. It assists us in moving from one level of consciousness to another, releasing resistance and moving gently and fluidly forward in to greater openness and clarity. It is a profoundly supportive tool for spiritual practice, guiding us to let go of need and enjoy the serenity of being.
The essence is also helpful where there is suffering and turmoil that comes from undue attachment to a way of being/a person/a set of circumstances/an ideal or dream. The deep soothing calm of the environment in which this essence was made - the sea hushed and at peace - acts like a spiritual balm. Serenity assists us in bringing awareness and wisdom to those processes of the mind which can judge, undermine, and sabotage us, causing us to distort what is beautiful, simple and natural within ourselves. It helps to gently untangle the knots and release us from patterns of clinging desperately to that which is external to us. Serenity invites us to rest in the knowledge that we reside in a world of grace and miracles; to trust to its unfolding, aware and open, discerning our way through.

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Silver Birch (‘Fire’) - Harnessing Fire. For learning to master one's fire; letting it flow without burn-out or overwhelm. Walking in the realms of anger and passion without going into reaction. Helps us feel our way through to gifts of insight, inner power and self-awareness.

Silver Birch Fire essence facilitates a strong and grounded wielding of one’s own fire. It is for staying anchored in one’s power and not being overwhelmed by the emotions of passion and anger or the ego’s wish to control. It is like being within a ‘fire wall’ of protection which enables one to stay detached but compassionate when meeting these emotions in self and others. As we remain contained in the face of our fiery nature and do not react from it, we begin to harness its energy in more positive ways—to strengthen our commitment, resolution, vision, scope, determination. It fosters warrior energy—teaching us of the potential to harness passion for peace.
This essence helps with the visionary aspects of the fire element—for being wise enough and quick enough to see. It works to burn away illusion, enabling a person to see more clearly (even piercingly) into areas of one's life and being where this may be needed.
Silver Birch helps with true mastery of one’s most potent emotions—for being able to contact them, draw on them, use their vision and potency, but not be consumed by their power. It cools and grounds reaction, teaching one to sit within the furnace of one’s passion and wield its energy discerningly, with patience, peacefully—and thus learn the gentle nature of true power.

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Silver Light—Waiting. For stillness, for attending/awaiting change. For those times when it is not right for us to act, for learning the gift of patient attention. Understanding the energy of winter when nothing appears to be happening. Staying poised and gathering for the moment when action is needed.

Silver Light enables us to be with the energy of winter in our lives - metaphorically and literally. It supports us in understanding the worth of times of rest, hibernation, and apparent inactivity. Such times may have been forced on us by illness, the failure of a project to get off the ground, lack of employment, etc. It is a time when the ground on which we stand seems cold and hard; nothing appears to be growing. It helps us to be with times of rest and inactivity in our lives, with great patience and trust, poised and ready to act when the moment comes, gathering our resources and strength in this time of grace.
Often we find it difficult to let go into these inactive periods, feeling weighed down by self-judgment that tells us we are failures, unworthy and unable. This essence gently illuminates these patterns of self-criticism, letting us see them for what they are, and it reminds us of the gift that awaits us in being present to the moment.It is not a time to push but a time to yield and surrender, knowing that snowdrops, daffodils and a new season are incubating beneath.

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Spring Squill - Childhood Innocence. For clarifying and restoring childhood innocence and truth. Protects the dreams and innocence of childhood. Brings insight and support to trauma, bad dreams, painful experiences, in adults and children. Encourages us to stay aligned with the spirit of our childhood dreams; to make choices that help us to ground and embody these as they evolve during life.

Spring Squill is an essence that preserves, restores and nurtures the innocence and joy of childhood. It can be used equally well for children and adults.
The diminutive plant has a baby-blue flower which appears, like stars strewn across a magic carpet, on the short turf of grassy headlands in spring. It has a wonderful child-like feel to it. As an essence, Spring Squill helps one to catch one’s star, keeping one’s dreams and sense of destiny clear and intact. Our life-dreams begin in childhood. It is incredibly important that these are nurtured, encouraged and developed at an early age – thereby giving us our own inner magic carpet as a foundation from which to fly as we go through life. The essence can be used at key stages in a child’s life when they, or their guardians, face difficult and life-changing decisions. This essence will help them remain connected with the star that guides them and the joy they have within. As adults it helps us to recover our early dreams, with the innocence and delight that permeates them.
At a deeper level, Spring Squill helps to turn back trauma in childhood. Where a child has been abused or experienced deep pain, where life has literally been a ‘bad dream’, the essence helps deeply to cleanse and restore childhood truth and innocence, energetically wiping the slate clean.

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Starry Saxifrage—Spiritual and earthly balance. Supports us in balancing our needs for worldly success, achievement and recognition, with our spiritual values. Helps us accept and harness our material desires so they can work in harmony with our spiritual needs to create true holistic abundance for our self and others.

Starry Saxifrage helps us to balance our spiritual path with our material nature - our higher purpose with our desires, ambitions, ego and drive. It helps to marry the energy of the two productively in truly holistic success and abundance. It is an essence that fosters a powerful integrity between these two differing aspects of one's being - the white petals of spirit embracing and holding in safety the yellow and red of the fire and dynamism within. Ego is not something we can do away with - it is a fundamental part of who we are, a touchstone to return to and check in with. However, when out of awareness it can become out of balance, driving us to become caught up in the world of externals, competing for recognition and attention as if this were all that matters.
Starry Saxifrage helps to balance ego by keeping us in contact with our spirituality and enabling this more tangibly to permeate our material life. It invites us to give up aggressiveness, competition, and self-indulgence where these put us at odds with self and others. Instead it enables us to harness drive and ambition as forces of potent creativity, at the disposal of Spirit.

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Venus Transit - Divine Feminine. Venus Transit - Divine Feminine. Opening to the energy of the Divine Female. Exploring and knowing the energies of goddess, fertility, intuition, birth, destruction within. Initiation into the inner magic and mystery of the feminine.

Venus Transit assists with unifying the male and female energies within us, with particular emphasis on bringing the feminine energy fully into power where this has been over-ridden by the energy of maleness.
It is an essence that speaks of the sacredness of the heart and of love, and of the power of these to bring beauty, grace and healing to our lives. It teaches us to listen more deeply — beyond the physical, material, rational, doctrinal — to that which is pervasive, encompassing, embracing, and mystical, within all life. The energy of goddess, mother earth, the divine feminine. This is an energy which has, throughout the world, symbolised the forces of life and death, of destruction and rebirth, of instinct and intuition, of deep knowing of the pattern of things, and of the reading of these patterns.
For women this essence deeply connects one to this feminine power, returning to the fore the powers of mothering, destroying, birthing, bringing forth, intuiting, knowing, sexuality, sensuality, and the weaving of love. It helps a woman to reconnect with her feminine ancestry and heritage. For men it particularly helps to be open to – within themselves and from others - the sensual and sensitive aspects of the Venus energy. It restores balance and brings healing where this energy has been misrepresented or stifled in a person’s life, helping them to connect to it safely and with wonderment, feeling the power of it to heal.

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Viper’s Bugloss—Spoken Word. Knowing the true weight of words and their potential for harm or healing. Releasing the need to criticise, judge, blame, condemn. Coming to a place of care and creativity with one’s language. Learning own sacred discourse.

This essence reflects the fact that the power of speech is one of our greatest gifts. It is the power to articulate, to inspire others, to move beyond separateness to communion, to soothe, to amuse, to inform, to tell stories, to love, to wax lyrical. Viper’s Bugloss reawakens an awareness of the words we use, their full weight and impact. It helps us with the spoken word, particularly where the joy and awareness of communication is at a low level and speech has perhaps become negative or critical. Viper’s Bugloss invites us to seek for a better way, a way more aligned with our higher intent.
Words are a fundamental tool in creating the world we live in—our own immediate environment. They profoundly reflect who we are, what we put out, what our intentions and motivations are, how we relate to others. This essence helps to temper those areas of speech where we are not aware and where the message we put across is not what we truly wish to create. It releases the sharpness, the barbs of inappropriate speech, enabling us to find a gentler, softer, truer way, a way which does not shut others out and which releases us to be much more articulate about who we really are.

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