Recently Elizabeth read to me the results of a hospital study in which 3300 people with sepsis were divided into two randomized groups. One group received prayers and the other group did not. The group that received prayers mended much faster with fewer complications and less pain than those who were not prayed for. We have all heard studies like this, but the difference with this study was that the prayer study took place in 2000 with all prayers sent to patients in 2000 but all the patients had sepsis between 1990 and 1995. How amazing to hear about a study that proved the efficacy of prayer is not bound by time.
This reminded me that the Angels and Elementals have always said that we can send Flower Essences back to earlier versions of ourselves and earlier events in time and that they will help in the same way they help when taken in the presence. The first time they explained this was when a dear friend who had lost both her parents as a 12 year old asked for a Flower Essence combination mix to help her with the grief and anxiety she still felt about this in her present life as a 45 year old.
I do not remember all the Flower Essences the Angels chose but I do remember the mix included Coral Pink Rose. They explained to my friend that she could put drops in her hand of the Flower Essences and then send this vibration back to herself in all the different moments in her past where she remembered feeling this grief and anxiety.
The topic of timelessness also came up with the creation of the Family River Trio of Black Currant, Bloodroot and Borage. We received the guidance that the healing vibration of this trio when taken by anyone in the family at any point would positively affect both earlier members of the family and future members as well.
I find it exhilarating to know that time is not a constraint in healing with prayer or Flower Essences or love in any form. Even when the dust has settled on any complicated situation and it is in the distant past, love, prayers and Flower Essences can be sent and they will have a measurable impact on the situation even if we will never know exactly what.
I have heard a lot of confusing discussions about timelines in the last few years but maybe this focused work to send love, prayer and Flower Essences back to people, events and earlier versions of ourselves is related to changing timelines. The more we do this, the more beautiful the timeline we ride right now.
And the big plus…..Marty McFly and the Doc would be very glad we don’t risk changing the time space continuum to do so! It’s all a win-win for everyone!
If you’ve read my blogs this year you’ve probably noticed my focus on the journey from 3D to 5D, both the work to ground this 5D light fully into Earth and also live from its principles of unity consciousness.
While the Angels began our work together in the 80’s with much talk about manifesting the fifth dimension, it was one of so many things explained to me that I thought I understood but didn’t.
My reference point to 5D life was the Venus Garden. The Angels explained that this was the place at the farm where the fifth dimension was grounded into form. I spent hours savoring the incredible vibration in this garden, but I didn’t live there. All my conversations and actions didn’t happen in this garden. I still returned to 3D for most of my life. Sometimes visitors to the farm literally couldn’t see the Venus garden. Somehow this made me think I understood 5D, because I did see it. But this was as silly as me thinking I could paint a Van Gogh because I recognized his brush strokes. I didn’t not understand 5D nor did I understand how to live in 5D all the time.
Perhaps this is the way with all sea changes. The Angels began the work with me to shift my vibration up to 5D in the ’80s. Because I could visit 5D back then, I thought there would be little work involved when it came time to live in 5D all the time. I didn’t understand anything about the change process let alone where it was taking me. Now, thirty five years in, I would say I have experienced at least a part of this shift and a glimpse of where it is taking me. I’m a bit more clear about the work and more sure of the immeasurable value of this work.
The vibration of 5D is very compelling, very blissful. There is something so much more real about 5D than anything else I have experienced. It keeps me motivated to get up and keep going when I have fallen back into 3D ways. The pointers that the Angels gave me decades ago have taken on more resonance the farther down this path I go. I reread their old messages with a lot more attentiveness.
Now the rubber meets the road. To live in 5D without an escape clause back to 3D is no joke. I salute those who are doing it. To accept we are one with everything means a level of kindness, inclusiveness and love both inspiring and arduous.
As I try to live in 5D full time, I pour over all the guidance I have received with fresh eyes.
One of the things the Angels conveyed to me from the beginning was that when we are confused it is easier for us to change. I always recall this in times of confusion, but these words return to me now lit up like neon. There is nothing like the way 2020 added collective confusion to individual confusion! May this confusion help us let go and let the light transform us.
I also appreciate spirit’s insights about loss on the way to 5D. The spiritual journey is a losing game we play to shed ego not a winning game to amass more. This pretty much sums up the process of going from 3D life to 5D life. It’s the process of having every ego thing be stripped from us, not so we don’t exist, but so we know who we really are beneath all the ego gunk..
But which of us enjoy being stripped down and sent naked of those identity markers into a sort of void?
The void.
Well, at least I am beginning to see that no matter how uncomfortable and disorienting it is, going into the void is a necessary part of any change and especially this one from 3D to 5D. There has to be a space between the letting go and a new life. There just is not room for 5D if we are still full up of 3D.
Not that I relish this emptying out process…..I spent 2020 earnestly asking for fine tuned help to release my attachment to all things 3D. You’ve read the itemized list in other blogs- my requests for help to houseclean my mental, emotional, etheric and physical bodies of all 3D notions of separation including pride and judgment, emotions springing from illusions of separation like anger or a lack of forgiveness, basically any habitual patterns that tie me to the lower vibration of 3D. But did I expect big changes? Not really.
For a very long time, just like so many of you, I have been asking for help to grow spiritually. I would acknowledge that it was challenges that helped me most in this work AFTER I had navigated the challenges. Not so much before! You’d think I would have expected my fine tuned requests to leave 3D behind for good to be fraught with some new challenges, but I didn’t.
Wouldn’t it have been fabulous to have really heard what the Angels said from the beginning and not always be so surprised by the change process. After all, change process indicates both change and a process and yes the Angels were always more than willing to discuss both with me. Oh well. Perhaps the change process requires us to let go of even knowing there will be challenges. That’s the void for you. A letting go of everything.
Yup, there is really no getting around it. In the process of going full tilt from 3D to 5D practically everything has to fall away, and then we have to experience the unknowing, the void, the place in between.
In considering what must go, take for example the habit of backbiting. We need to completely give up backbiting to live in 5D. Backbiting is defined as “malicious talk about someone who is not present.” How do you spell A-R-D-U-O-U-S? In my flawed efforts to stop backbiting I must appear very odd- back pedaling, stopping mid sentence with gulps and strange silences. I am often in an in between place of simply not knowing how to navigate conversation.
I went into therapy in the early ’80s when my second child was born deaf and with a cleft palate. After many months together, this therapist told me that it drove her crazy that I was so intent on “being good”. She said I was like a Flower always seeking the sun. I knew she didn’t much like me, but I experienced her remark as a compliment. It reinforced for me that I was in the beginning of a long recovery process from my mother, Divinity bless her. My mother was someone who only liked conversations involving criticism or gossip. She expected her children to report in on dirt about everyone. The more witty and malicious, the better. If her kids didn’t deliver the goods, she would rage at us. I am still working on methods to handle with kindness and without judgement people who want to backbite in this way and expect me to join them.
Playing in the sunshine with my grandson at lunch today, it occurred to me that children are restful companions when one is trying not to backbite. Backbiting is not yet in a three year old’s nature, and three year olds don’t mind the silence when one struggles to resist cheap 3D comments and go 5D.
My verbal stumblings among adults feels like a tiny price to pay for 5D. I need only remember my tangible experiences of the 5D light vibration pouring into ALL earth right now to know it will all get ironed out and we will find our way to make the whole Earth feel like the Venus Garden.
How amazing that we’ll all get to live in 5D full time once we give up this 3D baggage. I can’t imagine the joy of it fully. That’s part of being in the void. It’s simply beyond our imaginings what is to come. But the feeling of the light pouring into the Earth gives us a bit of a preview and its deeply encouraging. I hope you all feel this light and its encouragement too.
PS One way to sample 5D light and vibration is to choose Essences from our Venus Garden Collection which hold this 5D energy even as they move out from the Venus Garden into the world. I have used photos of this garden in this blog as well. XOX
It was still dark, well as dark as it gets with the bright light of an only just waning full moon, when the Angels roused me this morning to say they wanted me to write a blog today.
I had no idea what they wanted me to write about. No idea. What was there to say?
In answer to this, in my mind’s eye they handed me a bouquet of Flowers. I gathered that these Flowers bring the message of today’s blog and are an offering of the Angels’ loving support for us in this complex moment.
Front and center in the bouquet is Agnes Rose with its beautiful note of comfort and truth, “You and I are not we but one.” Tucked along side it are Angelica and Rosemary to help us know with our whole being that we are not alone but are part of a beautiful web of light.
Then there is Elecampane. I didn’t immediately figure out why this was in the bouquet. I think of this one as helping with assimilating sunlight in dark times of the year so in that way it was spot on for around here, but how was it relevant to one and all? The final paragraph of its website description speaks to the wider help this Flower offers, “In fact, the vibration is rising fast everywhere so Elecampane, with its ability to help us assimilate greater light even when it is not apparent that it is available to us, has become even more relevant for everyone.”
Indian Pipe was the next beloved I noticed. But of course. These wise ones remind us no matter what it looks like on the surface, peace is the abiding reality.
Feverfew, seen here with a purple Campanula mixed in, is there too with its I AM affirmation, “I AM the peace that passeth understanding”. I can see why the Angels have Feverfew in our bouquet. It’s such a calming Flower and Essence, so good for nervous times.
Calendula brings a pop of color and a reminder that we are loved and ever in community with beings who love us. As the veil thins more and more may we know this more and more clearly.
Sprigs of Maple, sweet Maple rise out of this unusual bouquet. How I love this Essence and all things maple. Reading its succinct description on the website underscores why it is so comforting today, “This Essence shares the wisdom of a Maple tree to help us feel rooted in our lives, embraced by the expansive sky, nourished by the sweetness of life and at peace with self and all creation.”
The last friend I saw in the bouquet is Honeysuckle. 2020 has oftentimes felt like a slog through a pool of knee deep molasses, so I liked this final Flower friend’s oomph to help us move on and begin anew, “Honeysuckle supports us to harvest the learning lessons and the kernels of genuine sweetness in our memories then leave the rest behind. This prevents us from getting stuck in memory quagmires of nostalgia and sentimentality as well as regret, remorse or an unending sense of sorrow and loss.”
When I asked the Angels if they wanted to attach a written message to their bouquet, they said, “May the sweet love of these Flowers wash over you all with their fragrance of love, peace and tenderness. May you always know we are with you as close as your very breath. May you feel your infinite oneness with all that is. May you ever abide in joy.”
Recently we have sent off so much of the combination remedy To Thine Own Self Be True that I had to mix more of the mother Flower Essences together into the blend in order to keep bottling this for you. I find the demand for this remedy extremely heartening.
Yes, it is a very confusing time with a lot of institutions and structures and ideas that we thought were solid and true falling to pieces. But how wonderful that in response to this, so many seek their own true self as their north star. The Light is within us, and it cheers me that so many are looking there for it.
As always when I assemble a combination from individual Flower Essence mothers, I fell in love all over again with this remedy. It offers much encouragement and wisdom about being true to one’s self in a layered but gentle way. I felt so strongly about the strengths of this mix and how supportive it is for all of us right now that I put a large bottle on my bedside table.
Below is a list of the Flower Essences in the mix with some thoughts about these ingredients. But first a link to an earlier blog in which I explain why our combination remedies have a large number of Flower Essences in them. As you may know, one of my missions with Flower Essences is to dismantle dogma about them, and this blog was one attempt to do so.
One other thought. Many of these Flower Essences are from our Additional Flower Essence list (I indicate this by an asterisk next to the Essence). This is a group of Flower powerhouses that keep a lower profile here for reasons largely unknown to me. Just as the wisest person in a room doesn’t often declare this to be the truth but just quietly lights up the room, these more reserved Flower Essences infuse our whole collection of Essences with incredible strength and insight. You’ll see they do so in this mix.
*Agathe Incarnata Rose- This exquisite Rose helps us assimilate the tremendous Light pouring into the Earth right now while also helping us translate our intention to be our most loving self into a fully embodied state of being.
Alex Mackenzie Rose– This Rose helps us have the courage and fortitude to keep going with the task at hand. Not everyone is going to be pleased when you live from your own truth. This dynamo helps you do so anyways.
Baby Blue Eyes– Created because my then four year old daughter Emily said it was needed, this is a beloved of children who find their wisdom discounted on a daily basis even as they are timeless souls living in young bodies. Baby Blue Eyes promotes the flexible, resilient, and detached energy of knowing who we are, knowing our own value and being able to experience what happens to us without taking any of it personally- such perfect support for being true to oneself!
*Bermudiana- This Flower is endemic to Bermuda meaning that this charming little blue Flower was originally found only on Bermuda. As a Flower Essence it helps us find our unique calling in the world. It helps to make our awareness of our spiritual identity and purpose something we don’t lose track of. Bermudiana also reminds us the the still small voice of Divinity within us has its own authority!
Blueberry– So many Essences in this mix help us confidently find our true self and express it. Blueberry helps in this way and is especially helpful for those called to walk a unique and unusual path.
*Blue Eyed Grass- Have you noticed the theme of blue yet? Blue Flowers so often help us be true blue with unswerving loyalty to our truest self.
I am going to share the entire description of this one from the Additional Essence list because it so exactly speaks to this time.
“These are complicated times with much pressing upon all of us. What is our specific role in unfolding events? How do we know when to act and when to refrain from action? With so much conflict and so many conflicting views, how do we stay anchored and true to our own inner wisdom? Blue Eyed Grass offers a vibrational model for this territory. It helps us discern what we need to do or not do and then supports us to march to our own drummer, even when this may be difficult. It knows that our true blue self-expression is right for the whole and part of the fabric of underlying. unity. This is true, even when our choices appear to separate us out from the pack and appear to cause rifts. Blue Eyed Grass helps us to know our role and feel comfortable in bold choices when our deepest truths call us to a singular path. I AM as I AM. In a sea of unity, I AM true self-expression, one with creation yet true to my unique vibration.“
*Buttercup- This one holds the sunlight of midsummer and acts to encourage us on with its friendly inclusive light of unity. After all, we all share one sun.
Cardinal de Richelieu Rose– If institutions, organizations, social groups or cultural stereotypes have boxed you in ( are any of us free of this?) this Rose helps you break free of these cages.
Cosmos– Cosmos encourages authentic self-expression by helping us open and align our heart and throat chakras more fully. This helps us speak and act from our hearts with greater honesty, clarity, power, confidence and in greater alignment with our most deeply held beliefs.
Cosmos has been key to my life with Flower Essences. Flowers were always a great love, but many expressed doubts they could be my purpose too. In turning within and being guided to make Flower Essences (Cosmos being among the first I made), I found myself knowing Flowers were my truth and path and purpose, and it was okay to live from this truth.
Daisy– We are meant to be free to be happy if we so choose. Daisy helps us center ourselves in this truth so we can let go of the niggling voices of those who would tell us its not okay to feel okay. This one has quite an organizing and aligning quality so it helps us shed doubts in a coordinated manner.
Dandelion- I asked the Angels why this dynamo was in the mix ( after all it is their recipe), and they said it helps to clear out the clutter stored in the muscles including those ideas that it is not okay to be yourself.
*Delphinium- Delphinium helps us own our power in any situation and remember our own divine inner authority no matter what we face.
*February Daphne- This one helps sweet people (too often the doormats of the world) to assert themselves. It reminds the downtrodden to assert their vision in the world. It is needed!
French Marigold– Listening to the still small voice of Divinity within us is key to articulating our true self, and French Marigold helps us with this task especially in dynamic situations in which a lot of change is going on.
French Marigold has so many strengths. It helps us with viruses, protects our hearing, helps us successfully shift gears in alignment with the incoming light. It is a treasure, and I am glad it is in this mix.
Gallandia Rose– Here this beloved speaks for herself, “I AM Gallandia. I greet you across time and space. I AM a messenger, a harbinger of good news, yet I also come to prepare your vessel for holding a different configuration in time and space. Welcome me into the matrix of your being for I come to soften the necessary adaptation process you are all embarked upon.”
Gardenia– Sometimes we all need a secret ally in our quest to self actualize, and here Gardenia offers to be that ally. And what an ally she is!
Goldenrod– Actually this is the first Flower Essence I made! Remember that story of eight year old me in the bushes making Goldenrod tea? Even then the Angels and Fairies were with me, and what a profoundly good Flower Essence for a little girl in a family who didn’t understand her at all! Goldenrod helps us have spiritual spine and stand up to all those in our tribe, circle of acquaintances and social world who would squash us and our truth.
Larkspur– Dynamic support for course correction plain and simple.
*Lily of the Valley- Keeps us intent on listening and hearing the sweet truth. It’s much better news than we think!
*Love in a Mist – When we cannot see where we are (ring any bells?) Love in a Mist helps us move forward, putting one foot in front of the other with loving intention.
Maple– Among its many gifts, Maple helps us tap into a sweet flow of confidence and trust in ourselves.
*Prince of Venus- I AM the complete expression of my Christed Self.
Purple Flowering Raspberry– I enjoy this Flower Essence so much. It pulls us into ourselves in such a magic way. Just consider its I AM affirmation, “I AM the song of divinity calling you to the unmet corridors of your heart, and to the glorious wilderness of your soul.“
Rosemary– Rosemary has a very grounding and embodying energy. It helps us tangibly feel our oneness which is a really helpful thing during this time in which we are separated from each other in unexpected and difficult ways.
Silver-rod– We manage a lot as we self actualize and raise our vibration to meet the light coming into the planet. Silver-rod helps the master conductor within us to know how to move electrical energy during these upticks in planetary vibration. It reveals to us that we know how to make this vibrational shift.
*Small Woodland Orchis- On the last blog there is a photo of a group of us observing some half floating logs on a remote Adirondack pond. These logs are the only place I ever encountered this orchid, and we only met once. She described herself as a lighthouse for swampy times. Thank you Small Woodland Orchis.
*St. David’s Rose- At a certain point the Angels asked me to grow most of the Bermuda Flowers in our greenhouse so we would have a more regular supply of blossoms. This was a delightful project bringing much beauty to the greenhouse, but there are some gems that I have never found anywhere but in old Bermudian gardens including this Rose. A towering advocate for choosing to be your own authority, this Rose is such an important ingredient in this mix.
Sunflower– Sunflower helps us be the super hero in our own life. And personally I feel this is as it should be. No one should be some other person’s or organization’s side kick as their main role in their own life!
Tuberose– Being your fully articulated true self requires energy, and Tuberose is one of many Essences included in this mix that help us access the necessary light to be our true self. Its I AM affirmation says it so well; I AM the force of healing light, moving without impediment through my energy system.
*Wild Columbine- No matter how extreme the situation, Wild Columbine helps us have the tenacity to stay centered, hold the light, and see the truth of the matter. This one is very helpful when a situation has escalated into violence and we must hold our truth and the light in these extremely challenging situations.
From the beginning of Green Hope Farm, more than thirty years ago, the Angels have had me end each description of individual Flower Essences with an I AM affirmation.
After I make a Flower Essence for the first time, I sit with the Deva of the Flower. The Deva of the Flower overlights the particular Flower and knows everything about the Flower including its Divine purpose. I also call in other Angels and Elementals involved including the Angel of Flower Essences. Then I ask for information about what the Flower Essence is for as well as the Flower’s I AM affirmation.
This is a process I have written about before of translating non-verbal energy or vibration into language. With the description of the Flower Essence there are so many vibrational gifts to mention, and sometimes what I choose to highlight ends up being not as important as another aspect of the Flower Essence. Just as you might describe someone as being an excellent cook but fail to mention that they can plumb a house only to find that a more needed gift when the pipes begin to leak, so too with Essences. I can mention some of the Flower’s many gifts only to find out its other gifts end up being more helpful to people and animals once the Essence goes out into the world.
As my understanding of an Essence shifts with your and my experience, I adapt the descriptions. It is funny though. My first try often holds more layers of meaning than I am aware of when transcribing them from spirit. I will go back to a description to edit it in light of all you have shared and find that the gifts WERE mentioned, but I didn’t grasp the significance of the language choices at the time.
With the I AM affirmations, it is a little different. I work very hard to get these right the first time and only go with an affirmation when I feel it energetically is as precise as language can be. Some Flowers tell me the affirmation when they are still in the field or garden. This is the group of Flower friends that explain themselves faster than I can write down their descriptions. That is always lovely except when I don’t have a pen on me!
Some unveil themselves more slowly and their affirmations come into focus more slowly as well. This reticence does not mean they are an unwilling participant in the enterprise. Some Flowers are not as connected to human community as other Flowers and coming into conversation is more of a leap for them. There are many other factors as well. No matter what, I ask for permission of the Flower and the spiritual forces that are part of the Flower before I make any Flower Essence. If I get a no, I stop then and there ( and sometimes I do get a no).
This asking is essential. There are no Flower Essences without the willing participation of all the spiritual beings present with the Flower. A Flower Essence can only be made when the Angels and Elementals that overlight the Flower transfer the energetic vibration of the Flower to the water in which the water sits and from there into the stabilized Mother Essence.
So pretty much from the moment I spot a new beloved Flower in field or forest until it goes off to you as a Flower Essence, the active participation of the Angels and Elementals of the Flower are necessary.
As I think I have mentioned before, the Angels and Elementals asked me to go back to the role of bottler in March of this year. During our many decades here, I have been the bottler for stretches of time then been moved off this duty then moved on again. It is sometimes hard for people to understand my complete willingness to switch gears in what I am doing in the office when the Angels and Elementals ask. For me it is simple. This place and these Flower Essences would not exist without the Angels and Elementals and their guidance. I have no idea why they move me around as they do, but their advice has always been flawless. If they ask it, there is a good reason.
I started this farm with no business training and no conscious understanding of Flower Essences and I have been in the classroom with peerless guides ever since. If they told me I needed to stand naked in the garden chanting every night, I would do it.
So when they insisted on I AM affirmations with every Flower Essence, I was, of course, committed to this.
Throughout the years, these I AM affirmations have been a precious part of each Essence’s presence here. On the shelves, most of the Flower Essences have their I AM affirmation under their names, and I like reading the affirmations as I pack orders. They are sparkling bits of poetry bringing home to me the beauty of each Essence. Each I AM affirmations joins the vibration of the Flower Essence to sing a beautiful song. Lately, I have found them a great help and solace in a different way.
As I bottle, I get out the description of the Flower Essence I am bottling and I reread the description with special attention to the I AM affirmation. I find this very uplifting and also supportive to the bottling process. The affirmations also give me a window into the collective which I find very heartening.
For example, this week as I bottled I noticed that the I AM affirmations of many of the Essences being bottling dovetailed together into several themes. Here at the farm we get a constant reminders of the unity of all life: again and again we notice waves of the same Essences flying off the shelves to people and animals all over the world. I really appreciate that as I bottle, I get to see what has flown because these are the very Flower Essences which I need to bottle to restock the shelves. In this way I feel our unity even as I bottle.
I am heartened by this glimpse into our unity consciousness. This week the themes were….. Well, I will share some of the affirmations with you so you can see for yourself.
Avocado– I AM the power of perfect health, returning my being to the divine blueprint awaiting me.
Blueberry– I AM the clear note of truth incarnate.
Coralita– I AM the smooth flow of information, free from limitation.
Corona del Inca– I AM the sanctity of my body, inviolate and strong.
Calliandra– I AM centered in the knowing that my heart is the source and my arteries the river of God’s unlimited love, wisdom, and power filling my body
In these Essences you had asked for I see us confidently take back our own authority and commit ourselves to health, truth and moving forward in peace and happiness.
As always, I salute you all and am grateful to be a part of your brave and steadfast efforts to be your light in the world!
As a community of Flowers, Angels, Nature Spirits, Dogs, Cats and even some People, Green Hope Farm can be a funny place……and I love telling you all about it!
