The energy feels very up and down with a lot of stops and starts. Here in the northeast, the weather echoes this rollercoaster ride with one extreme cold spell followed by a thaw followed by another polar freeze.

I asked the Angels and Elementals if they had anything they wanted to say about this uneven energy. They did.

Just a quick reminder before I turn this blog over to them. The Angelic kingdom is responsible for holding the divine plan for Earth and all creation. The Elemental kingdom manifests the plan. Humanity’s cooperative work with these two kingdoms makes an immense difference in how well the divine plan manifests, but it will manifest without our help.

”Radical change, the kind of change humanity and the planet are embarked upon, leaves a lot of betwixt and between moments as well as moments when it feels like the brake and gas pedals have been pressed at the same time as well as moments when events are moving very fast, but it is unclear which way they are heading.

Yes, as you put it, the energy is up and down with lots of stops and starts.

Change is like that. It is never a slow steady thing. It is nothing like the measured pace of a flight of stairs, but underneath, it does have its own divine order.   The stops and starts are their own harmonious music, even as it is challenging to experience them this way.

It is never a smooth process from one paradigm to another and THIS is a big paradigm shift for beloved Earth and all creation.

You can continue to expect times when things move forward both with fingernail biting tension as well as unexpected ease. You can expect times when what has been gained seems to shred to pieces before your very eyes and times when what has been gained is felt with every cell of your being.

In addition to this being an eventful time, in any paradigm shift there are release moments that cannot sync up precisely with download moments. You may have “ah ha” moments that clear the deck of much which you thought mattered, yet there is no clarity about what comes next. You may feel the space of what you have released but also the discomfort of nothing yet being there to fill the void.

It just has to be this way. Things must be cleansed, released and lightened in density.   And the new that is coming can’t always arrive right after the release. So just wait in this void until the way is made clear. It will be. Going backwards is not going to feel better. You have outgrown what you left behind. There is a plan. Wait in faith that this is so and that you will find the way forward.

We also want to encourage you that on any journey worth its salt, there are challenges and setbacks. This is a journey worth its salt. The setbacks and “learning lessons” are part of the process. Do not worry.

We know about now you might say, “All this is easy for Angels to say.”

Yes, we know this is true. It is easy for us to say which is why we want to support you to experience everything that is happening from our vibration of equanimity and calm.

That is why we want you to identify with us as part of us. This is the truth. You and we are not we but one. We hold an absolute feeling of confident overview about all that is unfolding, and we would like to help you find the bead on the consciousness that knows this. It is your truth as much as it is ours.

This is one of the reasons we are so present right now. We want to support you in viewing things from our perspective, because this perspective is yours too.   We want to help you experience this feeling of confident calm amidst change.

Last year we had the Green Hope Farm community grow the Through Angels’ Eyes garden and make a Flower Essence to share from this garden so there would be a tool to help you link to and experience our vibration as one with yours. We know that in aligning with our perspective it becomes one with you. From this place of oneness, you can ride these rollercoaster energies with serenity.

There are many other tools that will help you experience these times through Angels’ eyes. Here are a few more.

One way you find equanimity is in facing experiences that throw you off your game then centering in your heart to find calm again. This builds spiritual muscles so that no matter what happens you can find your way back to this centered place.

Finding time for this centering in one of your challenges. Your culture clamors for non-stop action and stimuli. This makes it very hard for you. Please understand that going slower than slow is essential right now. If you find yourself with any in-between moments or any quiet time embrace them. In fact, seek them out. Spend as much quiet time in your heart as you can.

We cannot emphasis enough the need for heart-centered quiet to assimilate the changes you are undergoing. You really do need more rest, more quiet, more sleep and more stillness. Let yourself embrace these states without guilt.

Stillness opens the door for you to experience oneness with us. In stillness you can much more easily sync with the serenity of our vibration and perspective, a place of deep peace that is your birthright.

Stillness grounds you in the truth that no matter how erratic things look, all is well.  In stillness our calming words become an imperishable experience of truth for you. The wisdom is experienced as part of you, an unshakeable experience of oneness and love in an ocean of love.”

Most of our combination Flower Essences are mixed from individual Flower Essences. The exceptions are combinations made from Flowers in specific gardens like the different Venus Gardens and the Arbor Garden. The mixes from these gardens are made right there in the gardens. With other combination Flower Essences, like those in the Animal Wellness Collection, we must mix them in our room of mother Flower Essence stock.

Today, we were low on many of the Animal Wellness Collection Flower Essences so I volunteered to start replenishing our inventory by mixing Flee Free.

Making combination Flower Essences is always a happy job. To get reacquainted with the ingredients in a combination Flower Essences is to appreciate all over again the wonderful layered strengths of the mix.

Combination Flower Essences work like braids: They offer electrical information that weaves together to give us complex support in a harmonious way. This is similar to how musical instruments work together in an orchestra to create a unified piece of music that is powerful in its layered beauty. While I know I switched metaphors in midstream from weaving to music, both are apt. The vibration of each Flower Essences literally is music, and when combined, Flower Essences weave their unique songs together to become something greater than their individual parts.

Someone emailed this morning to ask for something to add to Immune Support to support her through flu season. We suggested Golden Armor as it offers great support for keeping our energy system clear of viruses. Had she emailed an hour later, I would have made the suggestion she consider Flee Free too. This remedy never ceases to amaze me, and certainly I was struck again by its wisdom as I mixed it this morning.

The principle behind Flee Free is that when our electrical systems are vibrant and strong, we naturally rebuff things like fleas and ticks. This means the ingredients in this mix are intended to support us to make our electrical systems vibrant and strong. What I remembered today as I mixed Flee Free was that when our electrical systems are vibrant and strong, we also rebuff things like flu bugs.

Before looking at the ingredient list, it’s worth saying again that even the most complex Flower Essence mix is not too much for our electrical system to learn from. All Flower Essences are information not chemical, songs to inspire not substances to hinder our electrical systems. Often the sounds of the Flowers are so beautiful that our vibrations can rise almost effortlessly in response to their music.

So mix your Flower Essences together with joy and confidence. You never know what gem of a mix you are making or how what you learn will inform the work all of us on the planet are doing as we dive more deeply into the gifts of Flower Essences.

I encourage you to feel confident in part because of my own struggles with confidence.

When all this began, I had never imagined myself running a business. This meant that in the early years, I often tried to put on the brakes when my Angel partners wanted me to start a new project or simply let things blossom and expand. I wasn’t sure I could do it. Yes, I could love Flowers and Flower Essences with all my heart, but share them through a business? Gulp!

Such was the case in the early 90’s when the Angels wanted us to create the Animal Wellness Collection. The Angels had been asking me to expand our offerings for animals from Animal Emergency Care and Flee Free to a larger collection. I had been gnashing my teeth about my ability to birth this set into the world. Now this collection seems like a no-brainer and one of the things I am most glad we created. I LOVE this collection so much. It has helped literally millions of animals and people.

But back to me gnashing my teeth. One day an animal practitioner called to ask us to make this collection for the animals. I told her, “I don’t know if we can do it. We are not exactly sitting around eating BonBons.” As I got off the phone, there was a knock on the door. It was a young friend of the family bringing us an ENORMOUS box of…..chocolates!

Hmmmmmm. So we WERE eating BonBons!

This little syncronicity had the Angels fingerprints ALL over it, so I tossed out to them, “Okay, okay, I will do this collection but I need more staff.”

The phone rang. The voice at the other end said, “ My Angels just told me to call you. I would like to work at the farm. Are you looking for staff?”

Hmmmmmm. There really IS no place to hide when you work with Angels!

And so I dove into the project of making the Animal Wellness Collection.  Mostly this involved wonderful conversations with the Angels.  Once we got rolling, they never left me alone to fret over what the mixes to create or how to make them. They chose the issues each mix would support. They chose the name of each mix. They chose the ingredients in each mix.  And as each year passes, they keep on re-explaining them and pointing out to us how they can be used in circumstances we hadn’t considered before. Every day they encourage us onwards.

These mixes have bloomed in our lives for almost three decades. Each day brings new understanding of the significance of these mixes and not just because of what the Angels share. Your sharing is deeply important. Even the re-mixing of a mix is valuable. As I added each Flower Essence to the mix, I am reminded how it shines a light on the mix and, I feel all over again the brilliance of the Angels’ ingredient list.

FLEE FREE

Amaryllis

Blackberry

Broccoli

Chives

Crab Apple

Dandelion

Darrell’s Fleabane- on the additional Essence list

The Eight Garden

Echinacea- on the additional Essence list

Eggplant

Fleabane- on the additional Essence list

Jack in the Pulpit- on the additional Essence list

Jewelweed

Larkspur

Lavender

Lemon

Lilac

Maple

Nasturtium

Old Blush China Rose

Pennyroyal

Radish – on the additional Essence list

Rattlesnake Master

Red Clover

Self Heal

St John’s Wort

Sunflower

Sweet William

Teasel

Thistle

Titan

Trillium

White Yarrow

Wintergreen

Here in this mix are remedies for protecting our energy field (Lavender, St John’s Wort, Thistle, Teasel, Old Blush China Rose, Rattlesnake Master, Broccoli, Darrell’s Fleabane, Fleabane, Pennyroyal, Jewelweed), for balance (Chives, Maple, Jack in the Pulpit), for endocrine health (Blackberry), for knowing it is okay to say no to pests (Wintergreen), for shielding us from technology pollution that weakens our energy fields (White Yarrow), for rooting out negativity deep in our electrical field (Eggplant), for immune system health (Blackberry) , for course correction if our health is going in a counter-productive direction (Larkspur), for protection during fiery times (St. John’s Wort), for amplifying healing from other Essences (Radish), for alignment (Lilac, Sunflower), for self confidence we can be healthy and strong ( Self Heal, Sunflower, Crab Apple, Amaryllis, Sweet William), for blood health (Echinacea), for emotional balance ( Maple, Red Clover, Broccoli, Trillium, Red Clover), for cleansing our electrical field (Lemon, Dandelion, The Eight Garden, Eggplant) and for strength ( Lilac, Sunflower, Teasel, Titan). And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the gifts that these Essences bring to this mix.

And so, if your hand hovers over your Flee Free bottle with the inner nudge that it may be good for you as well as your animal companions, I say yes! You can bet my water has Flee Free in it today!

 

To step into the new year here at the farm means to step into Siberia a cold and snowy world.  Capricorn’s January is always a bit of an  bleak austere harsh glacial inclement month in our world. Sidewalks porches, driveways Trails are accessible only by skiis or snowshoes. Even with crampons and ski poles, walking is an icy challenge and one that sometimes sees me on my backside.  The expansiveness and lavish generosity of previous seasons feel like a hallucination are receding memories. All things grind to a halt, even the cars that won’t start because it’s 20 below zero.

This time of constraint may frequently sometimes make me restless, but when I surrender it as a gift.  In the stillness, small pleasures rise to the surface to be noticed appreciated.  To survive a five minute walk without getting frostbite, to warm cheeks, fingers and toes after a bracing walk, to spend hours drying soggy winter gear by the wood stove,  to watch the full moon light up the snowy landscape, to wait in the cold freezing dark while the dog takes her time going pee,  to feel the cold air in one’s lungs while observing the  the winter sky, to savor the gatherings of people inside together because it’s too cold to go outside, to watch the tow truck guy pull the family car out of a ditch: In the rush of other seasons one can race by these moments, but in winter, there is a chance to drink them in.

All kidding aside, I am grateful for the way winter pares down the sensory input so that things that really are deep pleasures can be reclaimed and cherished. I mean, who thinks about warm toes in July? Winter gives us ample opportunity to go into our heart’s where true expansiveness and solace lives.

This brings me in my usual round about fashion to the topic of Abundance. When the Angels assembled their Angel Sets  I was struck that they chose Gratitude  for the Abundance Angel Set.  The Angels are lateral thinkers. They solve problems in unexpected ways.  With the choice of Gratitude they suggest that the way to feeling like we have enough is to look more clearly at what we already have.

Here is how they explain Gratitude  on the website, “The alchemy of gratitude is that it lifts us out of our mind ideas of less than into an experience of life as an immeasurable blessing. It sweeps us out of the doldrums of restless disatisfaction into a primal experience of joy. Gratitude is a very high vibration state of being. It is a state in which we use our free will to give back to God the love our Creator has poured into us. This moves us into an energetic circuit that brings us closer to oneness with God.”

I love that feeling in the flow of abundance doesn’t always have to be about receiving more, but sometimes can simply mean experiencing the blessings that we already have.

For many months, I have had this desire to talk a bit about the experience of being disinherited by my family of origin.  This is not an experience I would wish on anyone, but it did teach me a lot.  It is still teaching me a lot. Certainly it helped me break free of my ideas about abundance or where abundance comes from.

I was not fully  prepared for this experience even though the Angels had been trying to get me ready for many years.  Sometimes I get what feel like very random and bizarre Angelic messages, and very early in my work with the Angels, like 30 years ago, I received a message that I would not get anything from my family of origin.

I could not really wrap my head around this information.  It was a very clear message but also so strange and out of the blue that I decided that perhaps I had heard wrong or perhaps there was some way to understand this message as not about being personally cut off from what I had always expected would be rightfully mine one day.  I wondered if there was going to be a fire or some event that would destroy my family’s home. I even wondered if global warming was going to flood my parents’ Connecticut home. I couldn’t begin to grasp that the extended family’s camp in the Adirondacks was in this category of coming loss, and so my husband went on to spend several summers building a four bedroom cabin for the place, a building we would never see again.

Even though I had never felt my mother liked me at all, I just couldn’t grasp this kind of action being taken against me.  I put the message aside, but I would think of it again and again as the years unfolded and events increasingly suggested that this was not a far-fetched thing to prepare for.

If you have read this blog from the early days, you may remember that I had a very troubled younger brother who wanted to kill me and my children.  For reasons I do not fully understand, other members of my family of origin including my parents, my other siblings and my extended family chose to minimize my brother’s death threats and see me as overreacting to the situation.

I had always been in charge of this brother from a very early age.  My parents were so wrapped up in their own struggles with alcohol by the time my brother was born that it fell to me to look after him.  Sadly this meant events like taking him to the emergency room to have his stomach pumped from alcohol poisoning when he was 10 and I was 17.  I continued to try to keep him from hurting himself throughout his young adulthood, but I didn’t really understand what I was up against.  As the years went by, he grew increasingly unstable.   When he began to threaten to kill us in order to try and extort money from my parents, I took his threats seriously because I had been with him in very violent and scary circumstances.

For reasons, once again, I didn’t understand,  my husband, my children and I were left on our own to deal with my brother’s escalating threats and violent behavior.  Even when examining the disintegrating course of events years later, it’s hard to understand how the threats ended up isolating us and casting us into the role of the problem in the family, but that happened. And it happened with a strange feeling of inevitability.  Everyone outside our immediate family backed away, and we too stopped looking to them for support of any kind but saved what energy we had to deal with the immediate threats on our life.   In the end, after more than a decade of threats and sorrowful dramas,  my brother died of a drug overdose, and we no longer had any connective relationships with any of my family of origin.

In so many ways, my brother was like an enormous light exposing  the hidden truths in my family or origin.   When push came to shove, members of my family of origin each wanted something else more than they wanted to help me or my immediate family feel safe from my brother’s violence.

A younger Molly who had found it hard to imagine being disinherited had become someone who had learned that family sometimes did the most horrible things to one another and not because anyone deserved it.

I had also become someone who found that solace and a sense of tranquility could be found in terrible situations if one was willing to stop looking outside oneself for solutions but surrender to the journey into one’s heart to anchor in the Divinity that lives within all of us.  An abundance of peace, of love, of comfort was all there within when I stopped looking for it from without.

So this wintry period of our family’s life showed us our own inner resources and their infinite nature.  We got stopped in our tracks by circumstances beyond out control, and in that quiet found unexpected inner strength and love.

By the time I learned that the Angels had been telling me the truth and I had been disinherited by my mother, I had discovered that the resources I actually needed were already within me.  Yes, it hurt to have someone, my own earth mother, clearly indicate she hated me so much that she wanted her last interaction with me to be this act of disinheritance. However, in all the years of loss- loss of external safety systems, loss of people, places and things, loss of how I had viewed what life was about- I had found things I hadn’t known were there.  I knew things about myself that I wouldn’t have known otherwise.

More importantly, I knew that Divinity would never disinherit me.  Divinity’s love is with all of us always. That is abundance, the only real abundance.  Divinity’s Love is with us always.