Last night I dreamed I was talking to one of you about Timely Virus Mix. The dream felt like a prompt to remind you all that this powerhouse is still on our shelves and there to support us through cold and flu season both as a preventative Flower Essence mix and as a vital support if we get sick.

Here below is the description of Timely Virus Mix combination remedy from the website. Click on the link to get the remedy winging its way to you!

Many of you requested we make a mix to support everyone during 2020 to address the virus, so we sat with our Angel and Elemental partners to create this remedy. Nowadays, we check in with our partners each season to tweak the remedy so it can continue to be a powerhouse combination remedy containing deeply supportive preventative and healing Flower Essences and Flower Essence combinations.

I have listed the ingredients of Timely Virus Mix and given some possible reasons why the Angels and Elementals included these Flower Essences in the mix, but as always, their choices are wiser than I can imagine and words will always fall short of explaining any Flower Essence or Flower Essence combination remedy.

–BREATHE: This Flower Essence combination supports the health and well being of the entire respiratory system including the lungs
–CORONA DEL INCA: a gift from the southern hemisphere, Corona del Inca explains, “I act to neutralize even repel… negative energy so that your electrical systems and physical bodies can remain serene and unaffected by these low vibrations much like a mosquito net protects from mosquitos.” Please check out Corona’s full description.
–DON’T WORRY BEE HAPPY: This was one that the Angels suggested from the first whisper of the virus explaining that it is vitally important for us to try our very best to keep our vibration as high as possible at all times. This Flower Essence combo from the Venus Garden is a game changer for this
–EMERGENCY CARE: Our “Go to” Essence for any acute emergency situation or illness, Emergency Care helps us calm and stabilize our electrical system during intense stress
–EPSTEIN BARR RELEASE: This one has many Flower Essence intent on fighting viral infections, so it translates into an excellent ally in this situation.
–FEVERFEW: This beloved Flower Essence first brought to my attention by a shaman from the Andes supports us to find calm and go inward to a place of peace amidst any chaotic situation
–FLOW FREE: This one helps us move out stuck and low vibration energies in our mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies which positively impacts our health and immune system.
–FRENCH MARIGOLD: One of the best Flower Essences for fighting viral infections, French Marigold also offers great wisdom about adaptation and navigating radical change. Additionally it helps us go inward and hear our guidance better than ever
–GOLDEN ARMOR: Offering the immense protective energy of Archangel Michael and the Angels of the Blue Ray, this is a powerhouse of protection
–IMMUNE SUPPORT: This is our beloved remedy for strengthening the immune system. It is a powerhouse.
–MUTABILIS ROSE: For any species, including us, successfully navigating inner and outer change is an essential skill and this Rose offers incredible wisdom about successful mutation.
–PANSY: Strong antiviral support
–TEASEL: An individual Flower Essence offering unrivaled wisdom on protection
–VITEX: This Flower Essence helps us get all the nutritional support from our food possible to keep us as healthy as possible.

This week one of the emails we received was from the mother of a large family of small children. Her plate was filled with taking care of these little people. In many ways she felt maxed out. And no wonder! The physical demands of giving birth combined with the many years of intensive child care that follow for mothers is an astounding output of energy. Mothers have my total respect and appreciation. 

And while our culture in general gives mothers only lip service, it was heartening to hear from a young friend at Harvard Business School who went to a talk by Reese Witherspoon. Reese told the business school students to hire mothers, saying no one is more organized, more hard working or more responsible than mothers.

The mother that emailed us was in the trenches receiving few accolades. It was our great joy as an office of women and an office of mothers of many ages to assemble a custom mix for this mother and send our love along to her with the mix. As I said to this mother, “If you felt a wave of love coming from us this morning you were not imagining it.”

Here are the Flower Essences I suggested for her  custom mix:
Recovery Vitality. Dombeya Wallichii Motherwort Restore Divine Order Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue Maple Vitex The Sacred Feminine Sanctuary Phoenix Rising Golden Armor Sarah Van Fleet Rose

My choices are meant to support her physical repair and recovery from the overwhelming exhaustion of years of night and day physical work. Recovery, Vitality, Restore Divine Order, Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue, Maple and Vitex are there to support her in this big task.

I also wanted her to receive support from some Flowers that offer sheltering love and see her role in the world as vital. Dombeya Wallichii, Motherwort and the Sacred Feminine speak to this.

The mothers in the office said their focus for her was sanctuary and supporting her to find respite from her life as a mother. Sanctuary and Golden Armor were there for this.

The young mothers in the office also said that it had helped them to use the Flower Essences as part of a moment in each day in which they got a time out and had a quiet moment in a space separate from their kids, a moment away from the noise and chaos and endless demands of their lives as mothers to take care of just themselves. 

One of the office mothers noted that the physical process of using the Essences has helped her make an actual physical moment in her day when she gets to take care of only herself. 

In addition to the mix, I suggested an Essence like Emergency Care might also be good to have for moments of understandable overwhelm. It is such a complex time on earth, and this mom (all moms) have a very complex life. Having Emergency Care to use, even just keep in your purse or pocket, can be helpful.

I suggested she make dosage bottles from her custom mix– i.e. put a couple dropperful of the custom mix in an empty 2 oz spritzer bottle then filling with water. This would mean she could make many dosage bottles from the custom mix and use it as frequently as she wanted. 

I am all for this because giving Flower Essences to everyone in a household is an excellent way to take care of the mother. As her kids’ electrical systems simmer down because of the gifts of the Flower Essences, so too do the demands on the mother.

So I suggested this mom spritz the mix over your kids too. Children love Flower Essences and have a natural intuitive sense of how helpful they are . More importantly children let the Essences work incredibly well because they don’t have adult skepticism running interference.

Countless children have walked into our shipping room and gone directly to the Essences right for their situations. Our office has over 400 Flower Essences on our shelves!

Recently a six year old walked in and picked the perfect pair of Essences to help her with her parent’s recent separation. The accuracy of children in picking just the right Essences to comfort and heal themselves never ceases to astound me. 

In any case, I feel strongly that if her children’s electrical systems were calmed by Essences, that  would positively impacts her.. I suggested that if she wanted to get a different Flower Essence for her children she might think about an Essence like Arbor Garden or Anxiety and use this in a spritzer bottle to spritz everyone in the household. When my grandchildren come here, right off the bat they want me to spritz them with Flower Essences and they always want to take a couple home when they go! I love this!.

I also suggested that this mother check out the Rose Flower Essences in the Rose Garden Collection. Roses love to support women and they love to support weary mothers.  The new Lady Rose trio asked me to mention the trio in particular to her, but there are many comforting and restorative Roses for us beleaguered women. We have heard wild and wonderful healing stories about this Rose trio as it travels out to you all.

Sending much love to all women, precious life giving and supporting mothers and their children and all who cherish and take care of the women in their midst.

A new rescue kitty joined us at the farm this week. Meet Augusta.

First I would like to thank her foster person, Mary, who did such an amazing job with Augusta. The selfless dedication of folks fostering animals never ceases to amaze me, and I will always be grateful to Mary for giving this dear rescue a new beginning after her rough start.

We have had many rescue cats over the years. Helping them feel confident, secure and happy in their new life has meant sharing many a Flower Essence with these new family members.

Before Augusta arrived I spritzed the rooms of the house with a custom Flower Essence mix. This was meant to help all of us find a calm place from which to welcome Augusta.

This mix continues to be the mix I spritz around the household and also spritz on Augusta’s food. Everyone in a household shares their electrical vibrations, so the calmer each of us is, the easier it is for all of us to be calm.

Whenever one animal in a household is having a challenging time, I suggest everyone in the household work with the Essences. If everyone in a household is working to hold a higher vibration, it is much easier for the animal experiencing the challenges to find that higher vibration too. Coming into a new household is a challenge for the new arrival and a challenge for the old guard too. Everyone can benefit from the Essences duing this kind of transition.

Augusta arrived in our household on a cold, fall night. She had travelled across Vermont from her foster home in a crate. We opened the door to the crate and spritzed a bit more then waited for her to come join us in her own good time. When her curiosity overcame her nerves, she came out of the crate to check us out. And so began our new life with Augusta.

Arbor Garden and Sanctuary were included in the Flower Essence mix I am using. These two Essences help animals (and people) feel safe even in very challenging situations. I need to write more about Sanctuary for animals as it has stepped forward as a key Flower Essence remedy for so many animals.

I included Abandonment & Abuse because of Augusta’s rescue experience. This is our most beloved remedy for rescues, and I will share it with Augusta indefinitely as I do not fully know what she has gone through already in her young life. I know she was a feral kitten rescued by a rescue organization, and I know Mary did an incredible job fostering her.

Of course there was New Beginnings in her mix!

And Golden Armor!

Golden Armor helps animals feel contained in their own safe energetic space. It is a game changer when an animal is scared by loud noises, confusion and the unknown. There can be quite a lot going on at the farm. Noise, bustle, people coming and going. No matter that we aim to keep things calm for Augusta in her new life, there can be still moments that might scare a rescue. Golden Armor is there to support her handle any noise and confusion with serenity.

And then there is dear Sheba, our rescue terrier chihuahua mix. She recently lost her cat friend Pippa, a precious rescue with us since 2011. We wondered how Sheba would take to the arrival of Augusta. To help her with the task of welcoming Augusta, Jealousy went in the mix.

Sheba has done a great job. She has monopolized the cat bed we made for Augusta, but other than that she has been an excellent elder stateswoman to this sparkplug of a kitty.

As I type this, Augusta has tucked herself under my elbow for a well deserved nap. She is purring loudly while Sheba is sacked out about two feet away. I am grateful to the gift of Flower Essences easing all of us into our new life together, and I am grateful for the sweet joy of this new kitty and my BFF Sheba who has done such a good job welcoming in her new cat sibling.

We continue to want to help you integrate the high vibration light energy pouring into Earth and in every way support you through this time, AND YOU HELP US!

Today I share more helpful Flower Essences specifically ones you have called our attention to. It is YOU (as so often happens) that have pointed us to these Flower Essences as tools that are helping you integrate this energy.

Ethereal Fluidium Super Glue. An oddly named Flower Essence combination remedy which supports us to move light through our etheric or memory body into our physical body. Not only does this Flower Essence help us and our animal beloveds bring more prana or life force energy into our physical bodies, but it helps us bring the incoming light energy (that I keep writing about) fully into our bodies as well.

As we bring this light into our energy systems, it moves more easily through certain parts of our bodies than others. For many it seems to get stuck in the third eye sixth chakra and crown seventh chakra, leading to anxiety and mental spinning. This is one reason why we have been focusing people’s attention on Grounding. It is also worth checking out the sixth chakra and seventh chakra pages on the website as this is where this energy is getting logjammed for many.

As you look at these chakra suggestions, see what Flower calls to you and trust this intuitive hit. The Flowers that you are attracted to are going to help you move the light energy down into your lower chakras.

If you are searching for different chakra listings, click on Find a Flower Essence on the home page and go to Topics on the left or simply search for the chakra you want support for in the search bar.

If in doubt which chakra needs support, the general practitioners under the topic Alignment are fantastic.

We have certainly noticed that one chakra that is a big factor in this light movement is the first chakra. This chakra is all about tribe of origin issues and our sense of belonging in the world.

To back up a moment, the etheric body is where we store our memories including childhood memories. Difficult memories can leave us with a weak and damaged etheric body. All light moving into our bodies has to move through our etheric body so a weakened etheric body is a challenge for us.

If we had a rough childhood with our tribe of origins, we have probably spend much time trying to heal etheric body wounds and weaknesses. This is important work! The incoming light will move through our etheric body much better if we have healed our first chakra issues and released the wounds from the etheric body created by our experiences with our family of origin. Even if we have done a lot of healing work around childhood issues, it is worth looking at the first chakra page to see if anything calls out to you. There are a lot of Flower Essences for healing first chakra issues. Wound Healing is also helpful for this as well as specific ones from the first chakra list

One arena of Flower Essences which many of you have been called to is the Camino Collection and also The Healer’s Toolbox both made by staff goddess Elizabeth Sheehan on her three pilgrimages on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.

All of us are on a spiritual journey, so it comes as no surprise that the Camino Essences made at specific points on this pilgrimage route would support specific concerns at specific points in our own spiritual journeys. Please check out these collections! The Camino takes the pilgrim on five hundred mile journey in which all kinds of inner and outer obstacles must be met both physically and metaphysically. There is even a place on the trail called the God forsaken place which must be moved past to keep going on the Camino. Even if we too feel like we are in a God forsaken place or that the world is in a God forsake place these Camino Essences will help us keep going. They address very specific concerns and offer wonderful support to keep going. If you want the general practitioner from these Collections it is The Way Forward which is a combination remedy made from Flowers collected on the entire Camino on Elizabeth’s third Camino. On the Camino yellow arrows show pilgrims where to go next. This Essence is like a yellow arrow in a bottle!

I was making a custom mix for someone recently. She had shared a bit of her journey in order to get the custom mix she wanted and I almost sighed outloud as the Angels suggested Camino Essences including Hontanas, Trabadelo and Sahagun that so perfectly supported her. I probably did sigh outloud when called to add The Leylines of Trust from the Healer’s Toolbox to her custom mix and add them to my own glass of Flower Essence water! These Essences are so perfect for these times!

So I will stop here and simply wish you a Buen Camino and send you my love and love from all of us here at the farm.

In the microcosm of the Green Hope garden, it’s been a tough season. First we had too much rain. Plants grew too fast with spindly and weak stems. Then we had three months with virtually no rain. The plants were confused. The Lilacs lost their leaves, then bloomed this week. The humans felt the same level of head scratching climate confusion.

While rain was lacking, visitors to the garden were not. The abundant deer and groundhog population nightly dined on any produce that survived the drought and any Flower I had not sprayed with garlic spray. I planted things in strange inaccessible spots to try to outsmart the guests, but they found everything and dined like Top Chef guest judges.

To Reginald, our fearless groundhog leader’s delight, the fence that is supposed to keep the critters out is still a half baked reality. In any case, Reginald remains confident that no fence can keep him out no matter his girth.

Yet, in spite of all the deer and groundhog food fests, today I made an apple cake with apples from our trees . Somehow the deer missed a few. I also made soup with potatoes, onions and thyme that Reginald and his gang didn’t care to eat. What’s the old lyric? “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometime, you’ll find you get what you need. ”

While the poem in this illustration speak to Reginald’s seasonal weight gain, the Rolling Stones song lyric considers the equilibrium of effort and grace. That old chestnut. We have to keep trying, and yes, we don’t get what we want, but the grace of it is that we get what we need. Which to me right now seems to be a combination of divine support to get ourselves physically across these light thresholds ( thank you Flower Essences), divine reassurance about the big picture situation and divine nudges to keep laughing.

There have been days when I have felt like blowing the whole groundhog colony to kingdom come. The depredations of Reginald and gang REALLY ANNOY ME. However, Reginald and his motley crew have also given me a way to not take myself so seriously. And that is priceless.

PS Please don’t tell Reginald I said this.