Ireland calls to many of us. We recognize its ancient magic as offering true healing, its rocky shores and green hills to be just the place our spirit craves. On trips to Ireland, I found even the most prosaic activity (such as hanging laundry out to “dry,” in the steady drizzle) to be exhilarating and soul satisfying. The green fed my soul. The wind and rain fed my soul. The lovely people fed my soul. And of course the FLOWERS fed my soul.
But sometimes even when a place calls to us, we are not meant to go there or can’t go there because we must stay put in the place we live. This is one of the great consolation of Flower Essences. I may never get back to some of the places where we have made Flower Essences, and some of the places like Taiwan and the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, I have not visited in this life. Yet the Flower Essences from these places bring the vibrations of these places to us. I feel a deep connection to Sicily from having worked with its Essences, even as it was Emily Sheehan who travelled in Sicily to make these Flower Essences, not me.
We can balance ourselves as global citizens with Flower Essences even when traveling to these places is not in the cards for us right now.
Take for instance precious Ireland. My husband is watching the Open golf tournament today. It is taking place in Portrush in the north of Ireland. I overheard an announcer mention the vast numbers of visitors returning to Ireland after the quiet of the covid years.
If you find yourself craving Ireland but grounded here in your current place on the planet, look to our Irish Flower Essences made on many a heartfelt journey to the west of Ireland. I look to them myself in these times for the way they show us how to endure what has to be endured, and how to keep the flame of our eternal spirit blazing despite depredations and challenges.
To mention but one Irish Essence offering pertinent, consoling wisdom for these times, let’s consider Omey Island. Made from all the Flowers blooming on this tidal island on a lovely July afternoon, the Omey mix restores us when we feel our lives have been pared down or nipped in the bud with our dreams perhaps also pruned unexpectedly.
When the worldly world has trounced us and left us battle weary, the Omey mix helps us anchor in our true eternal self which is unlimited and free. Yes, we may be in this world but we are not of this world, and this Essence reminds us of this truth.
Existing as it does in a place where its shifting definition as an island is regulated by tides, Omey and its Essence turns our focus to aligning with our own natural, inner rhythms and to a reality more true than surface events.
As we come in touch with what is eternal and internal within us, we can come to terms with what is happening in this passing show of daily life. So our daily life may be a shit show and so too the worldly news. When we anchor in the eternal beyond this temporary drama, we find the steady beat of belonging to an other enduring reality of goodness and light. And this consoles us.
Right now, the Angels say I must stay at the farm and not travel to Ireland or anywhere else. Most days I am at peace with this, grounded in my life with all its beauty and complexities, but sometimes, when I feel restless even homesick for Ireland, Omey and its Essence helps me trust the flow of my life. Omey whispers, “This path you walk, even when it seems to go no place right now but the compost heap, is for the good of your eternal soul. No matter how unexpected or strange or confusing in its twists and turns, hold on. Trust the tides. Trust the inner voyage. Trust that you are loved and that light prevails.”
