I was prompted to write a blog about finding our mojo when we’ve temporarily lost it. I had an idea what the word mojo meant, but I was surprised how dictionary definitions linked mojo with magic as defined as NOT A REAL THING.

Losing one’s mojo was grimly described as losing enthusiasm, self confidence, energy and direction. The dictionary clearly felt this was a realm we could all live in and maybe should. Mojo itself was dismissed by the dictionary into the realm of made up things.

Sometimes I feel that dictionary definitions expand the world, but here I felt they did a disservice, trapping us in a world where mojo is as imaginary as light sabers from the crystal caves of the ice planet Ilum.

Yet, facts are facts. This is a time in which a lot of us feel like we have lost our mojo, yet we are confident we will recognize it when we get it back, regardless of whether the dictionary thinks it’s real. I am glad about that because already we have moved towards returning mojo by refusing to be told it is not real.

As an aside, I’m also sorry that dictionaries and their ilk like to make arbitrary lines between what is and what cannot be. Magic is all around us. Just consider how seeds grow into plants. If dictionaries had not defined seed germination as a normal process, we’d all recognize it as magic AND open up to experience all life as magic. Let’s defy the dictionary and allow for magic to be the very fabric of life, ever expanding and ever available.

#ONE Okay so that’s step one in mojo retrieval. We acknowledge that mojo is REAL and not something unattainable because it’s imaginary. We believe in our own experience over what we are told.

Essences that help us back ourselves up to confidently know what we know include All Ego Contracts Null & Void (This one supports us to throw out the imposed constraints that limit our experience of ourselves be they from society, family, or any other institution or person), Authentic Self (When we get a bead on our experience of ourselves, it can be a flame nourished by Flowers that whisper, “Yes, You are YOU!”) Ispahan Rose (We are living in a particular time but the specifics of this time do not define us. This Rose helps us experience a more timeless and limitless self), Grounding (Being grounded does not mean imprisonment in the ideas of the general consensus but instead helps us feel fortified to stand in our beliefs with conviction and confidence).

#TWO- Be open to knowing that what appears on the surface is not necessarily what is going on. We live on a planet of duality. This means when events and circumstances appear most dire, there is a counterbalance going on of a corresponding amount of light. This light is not necessarily visible or reflected in what makes the news.

A few blogs ago I posted a photo of the Schumann Resonance. This is the visual record of the heartbeat or vibration of Earth. Variations in the chart reflect the amount of light being absorbed by Earth from solar flares and other incoming light much as a jolt of electrical energy would change our vibration and heartbeat too.

Since this earlier blog was written, the Shumann Resonance daily charts of incoming light have shown massive and continuous amounts of light pouring into the planet. Whereas earlier, most days showed slivers of light coming in, recently there are days when the whole chart is a whiteout of incoming light. This reflects one of MANY forces of counterbalancing light.

As I mentioned in that earlier blog, this incoming light is a gift to us. It lifts up the planet and all of us on it. However, if we don’t know what this light energy is, we may decide to keep it in our upper chakras where it can make us feel mentally overcharged and anxious.

Flower Essences help us move the incoming light down into our hearts. From there this light energy will move out into our whole light systems via the meridians (light channels) of our chakras. Hollyhock was an Essence I mentioned in that blog for moving the light down to the heart and from there to integrate into our whole electrical system.

ANY Flower Essence that helps us ground our consciousness in our hearts is going to help us right now. If you feel this mental overcharge or anxiety, you can visualize moving the light from your crown down into your heart and also use the FOURTH CHAKRA ESSENCES to ground yourself in your heart. Look at the various Flowers in this group and see if any call to you. We know what we need.

You can also check out the ALIGNMENT OF CHAKRAS page and see what calls to you there. These Essences help move this light to all parts of our electrical system and align us with this rising vibration.

#THREE. Pull up into an overview. Many Flower Essences are there to help us rise up into a perspective no less loving than our eyeball to eyeball stance but one in which we experience the long view. Gorse reminds us all is not lost and never will be. It helps restore our optimism. Eyes of Mary , Through Angels’ Eyes and To Hear the Angels Sing sweep us into the wise and loving perspective of Angels. Equanimity supports us to find mental calmness, composure and an even temper amidst great difficulties. This is a complicated and painful time for so many. We can be there for each other with love and kindness while also remaining optimistic. The Flowers can help us with this. Sometimes their nudges can be just what we need to keep going.

#FOUR- My guidance pokes fun at me. That’s often how I know it’s not me talking to myself, because goodness knows, I take myself way too seriously. I try to let go of my ridiculously huffy reactions to this humorous feedback. I remind myself that I’d rather be happy than right and taking myself a lot less seriously helps. So what if I find mojo when I laugh at myself. At this point I’ll take it!

Rosa Mundi brings a particularly great dose of humor when we feel like Divinity is leading us on a wild goose chase, and we want to opt out. Don’t Worry-Bee Happy offers the Elementals enormous boost to just enjoying the whole crazy show Shrubby Cinquefoil wants to help make laughter the meat and potatoes of our day. The Fairy Rose gets even the most serious group laughing. Gosh, I was at a meeting last week where I wished I’d had a spritzer full of Fairy Rose. Bless this group, but cleaning the oven would have been more fun! Maybe that’s another piece of the puzzle.

#FIVE Don’t let the bastards wear you down. If you can, spritz the room or high tail it out of there!

I asked the Angels and Elementals if they had anything to add. The noted their personal secret weapon to MOJO was Showcats. Gosh! How could I forget this gem? We’ve heard from so many over the years that this is the Essence that makes all the difference in the show ring. It helps animals and (people too) find the whole circus of life FUN. Yes, that well could be what we all need right about now!

This is a message I received this morning. (Please note that while taking down this message, I was confused about pronouns. For example, my use of the word “we” reflects the limitations of my understanding and not truth)

“While we may experience this country as in an extreme state of duality in which the world is populated by us and them, this has no bearing on the reality in which ALL ARE ONE.

Furthermore, not only are we all one, but our joint work is to know this as an absolute truth. So how do we accomplish this?

In each encounter, bring forward the attitude, “You and I are NOT we but one. There is no division except in illusionary ideas encouraged by a forgetfulness born at the Big Bang.

So the task right now is not to dismember or divide. The task is to avoid the pursuit of spearation or making anyone an other.

Question from me: How does the Sovereignty Set fit into this?

Answer: The pursuit and longing for the experience of unity consciousness necessitates not buying into illusions. The Sovereignty Set can help create an inner space in which the bindings of illusions of separation can be unknotted and released.

The path to unity consciousness does not come from joining groups of this persuasion or another. but from going within to release illusion and find the experience of unity with source.

Do you see how this is perhaps a different process than most expect? Institutions and religions may hold truths. Members of these institutions and religions may be beoved friends but nothing is gained and much can be held in abeyance by an identification with an institution or religion if it calls you to any sense of separation. Separation is not a truth. Separation is a binding.

Consider the daily task of welcoming every person you encounter, interact with, read about or hear about as no better or worse than you. Better and worse are illusions of separation.

No one is an other. Abandon judgment and division. Yes, create an inner temple for your own spiritual pursuit of unity consciousness but this temple is not meant to be a barrier of division, ever.”

Each day’s orders and emails bring new learning for us. We hear from you about what Flower Essences are helping you with specific issues and this gives the Flower Essences greater dimensionality.

For example, this morning a woman placed a reorder for the following Flower Essences explaining that these Essences, Purple Flowering Raspberry, Round Plum Raspberry, Blackberry, Honeybees in the White Hawthorn, Avocado, Dandelion and Eggplant have helped her with her endometriosis.

Sharing how Flower Essences have helped you informs our understanding of their profound depths and helps us see the Essences differently. I appreciated so much this Green Hope Farm friend sharing. It helps us so much as we share the Essences with the whole Flower Essence community. We are in the process of updating our Flower Essences for Common Concerns document and I will put these Essences into suggestions for endometriosis. I will also ask the Angels and Elementals for their suggestions for this topic.

Also this morning, an order came in for a custom mix with the Green Hope Farm friend asking us to create a mix to help her let go of the old and birth the new. She noted that she feels stuck in between, unable to move forward. Old feminism to new feminism. Old ideas of Divinity to new awareness of Divinity. She noted she has lost hope for a future or the process of moving forward. She feels awash in feelings of despair especially about the divisions in our country.

I turned the creation of the custom mix over to the Angels who chose these Essences as their baker’s dozen.

Gorse– Gorse helps us when we feel all is lost as Gorse knows this is never the case. This one has been going out the door in a steady stream as it helps us find the bead on imperturbable optimism.

Dhuni Fire– There is so much to let go of and this Venus Garden Essence helps us burn off the burdens of our bindings and our ego illusions that keep us stuck and veiled from our true identity.

Safe Passage– This is another Venus Garden Essence bringing support for the shift humanity is making. I love how the Angels described this time and this Essence. “We walk this path of rebirth with the promise of Divinity that this will be a safe passage with not a soul forgotten. We are in this together, indivisible. Nothing is outside this shift of ages. No one can be forgotten. We are one.”

The Eight Garden– Yesterday a healer wrote us to say that every time she works with this Venus Garden Essence, she can feel her electrical field expand. This reflects how the Eight encourages us to flow and expand into Divinity as well as let Divinity flow into us. Sometimes our only role is to surrender to the flow.

Eyes of Mary– This beloved Essences explains that it helps us love with detachment. Love with detachment can sound sort of heartless and clinical. In actuality, the perspective offered by this Essence helps love flow without restraint and with deep faith of the divine order of all our life circumstances.

Eternity Orchid– This Essence helps us when we feel disoriented, lost in time and space or just plain lost. The Angels have suggested it a lot lately.

Queen of the Night– This powerful cactus Flower blooms at night. It is very empowering especially for women, allowing us to find clarity, hold our focus and understand our power.

Sago Palm A mysterious and powerful friend that escorts us into the mystery of what the heck we are doing here.

Swamp Candles This one is so supportive during dark night of the soul experiences. Comes forward like a candle to illuminate the dark.

Phoenix Rising- This Venus Garden Essence restores our faith even as our lives seem to be on fire. Here is part of its description, “The promise of the firebird and of this precious Essence is that you are not alone in your suffering or in a wasteland of purposeless burning but in a fire of purification.”

Ragged Robin– I am struck by the way this Flower explains itself, ” I AM order amidst chaos, the connective thread of light amidst significant upheaval. Imagine a dark night of difficulty and how birdsong right before dawn would herald new hope and remind the listener of the presence of light amidst darkness even before the dawn came. I AM that song. Consider me for faith during dark nights of the soul. I AM a strong vibration of faith. I know the divine is rooted in each event and being. I know the light in both light and dark.”

Belerephon of the Open Door I could write for days about this Flower Essence and the mysterious and wondrous ways it opens doors for us in such wildly inventive ways. If you can’t seem to cross the threshold of something, work with this Essence!

Pink Grootendorst Rose I love that the final musical note of this mix is this Rose with its vibrational energy of ONLY LOVE IS REAL.

A Green Hope Farm friend emailed to ask for a Custom Mix of Flower Essences to support her to clear out her family of origin’s home and let it go to the next owners.

She noted that the task has been physically grueling and emotionally overwhelming noting that “some days I cry and nothing gets done.” She recalled that when she had to sell her own home, “I remember the effect that the Gaia Knows Best drops had on me when getting my own home in order- suddenly I was a powerhouse and tasks were accomplished with ease”. She asked for a custom mix for this hurdle ahead. ” It would be more for the home itself but also for my benefit. I’d like something that will help in restoring order where needed, as well as bless the home for the young (pregnant) couple who will occupy it and support me with getting it all done without having a mental breakdown (I know that’s a tall order! LOL!) I want it to have a housewarming, welcoming and loving vibe.”

First of all, I appreciated this woman’s sense of humor amidst an enormous challenge. I was also interested to see what the Angels and Elementals would choose for the custom mix. How would they address this coming and going? As usual they chose a Baker’s dozen of Flower Essences for the custom mix. Here it is the list of ingredients in the mix with some thoughts.

Please know that we love doing custom mixes for you for any circumstance. I learn so much from the whole process of hearing what you want then seeing what is chosen for your mix!

Flow Free– Our old friend that oils every squeaky wheel and helps things flow in any situation.

Carry Less & The Letting Go Flower– A childhood home carries so many memories and when we let the home go, it’s a good time to let any memories that bind us go as well. These two Essences help us get clear on what needs to be released and help us let go of all that binds us, hopefully leaving LOVE as all that is left.

Queen of the Night– This dynamo helps us feel powerful and clear sighted even when we are in a dark and murky situation, in fact, particularly when we are in a dark and murky situation. Clearing out a family home is often this sort of situation. I think this one will address her concern about not losing her mind while doing this work!

Morning Glory and New Beginnings– These two both help welcome the new owners and also help the former owner to find her own new beginnings with an open heart and arms wide open for the next adventure. I love how Morning Glory helps us drink in new experiences with gusto. In addition this one will definitely help with the welcoming vibe.

Honeysuckle– This one really helps us not get bogged down in old memories that might overwhelm us. When my childhood home went, the Angels let me go say goodbye to the property but told me not to look in the windows of the house. I had been disinherited by then, so none of the stuff was coming to me or was my responsibility to clear out. I appreciated this clear direction from the Angels to not look. I would definitely have been triggered by looking in the house. Instead I was able to say goodbye relatively peacefully down by the lake in our backyard. My husband, Jim, first kissed me down by the lake and later proposed to me in a rowboat out on the lake, so I could remember sweet things that had happened on this property and not get engulfed in sorrows In conclusion, I am in awe of those of you who must sort through all the stuff inside a family home!

Maltese Cross- Dismantling a childhood home is a tearing apart of the very fabric of our lives. Maltese Cross helps us piece ourselves and our situation back together during and after a tear down.

Spiderwort– This one offers support for discernment. It helps whenever we have to sort out what to keep and what to let go of.

Restore Divine Order and Harmony with all Kingdoms– While the house won’t trigger the new owners with old memories, I appreciate the way this Green Hope Farm friend frames her work in the house and her desire to leave the place in Divine order for the new owners.

Cardinal Flower– This clear out is sacred work and Cardinal Flower helps to know this.

Maple– Maple is so centering. It helps us find the middle ground and feel the sweetness in what we are called to do. It also is deeply restorative to our physical being after an ordeal like this.

From 1997 to 2010 my family and I lived with death threats from my violent, drug addicted, mentally unstable brother. These threats did not stop until my brother died of a drug overdose.

The many years of threats left me searching for Flower Essences that would help me and my family stay calm and centered even as we lived in danger. During these years, I needed Flower Essences that would help us not be adrenalized or in a flight or fight response all the time. We needed Flower. Essences to support us to feel calm even when we were not actually safe. We sought Flower Essences that would help us live our daily lives with as much good cheer as possible, even as we had to have systems in place should things go south. It was a balance of the practical and the hopeful, and it was hard to achieve.

The threats were credible. While my family of origin wanted to soft pedal my brother’s threats, violent behavior, drug use and illegal activities, the police in our area watched my brother closely and agreed with us that my brother was a danger. While it was helpful that the police didn’t discount our concern as my family of origin did, and instead actively worked to protect us, this didn’t leave us feeling safe.

The police patrolled the farm once a night. They knew that any 911 call from us was going to be bad, and together we discussed what we should do before and after such a call. Even with this support, we were vulnerable almost all the time. We often felt isolated and misunderstood as well as unsafe. Well meaning people would say things like, “How likely is this brother to actually kill you?” I was grateful to the police who did not feel we were overreacting, but sadly being right to be concerned wasn’t a solution or a comfort.

So what Flower Essences helped us? Here are some of the many we leaned on.

Emergency Care– This is helpful whenever we feel scared or adrenalized. I carried this one with me everywhere to take when I got alarmed or in case of emergencies. There was a moment when we learned that a student at our daughter’s college had been randomly killed in a school parking lot. For a bit we didn’t know if the victim was our daughter. This was the kind of moment that Emergency Care helped us with.

Flow Free– It was important always to keep flowing- not hold my breath, not hold onto spikes of anxiety, fear and worry but just flow. I took Flow Free every day. for all those years. It was the first thing I did each day- put Flow Free in a quart of water to sip throughout my day. I don’t know how I would have gotten through those years without Flow Free.

Sanctuary– We created this for a rape crisis center, but it helped us too.

Scarlet Runner Bean, Red Clover, Old Blush China Rose– These were three individual Flower Essences than helped me derail my fear train of thought. The Red Clover was particularly helpful in panic driven moments. Sometimes the circumstances just crumpled me and Old Blush China Rose helped me pick myself up again.

During this time the Angels had us create a Venus Garden called Don’t Worry- Bee Happy. A lot of my spiritual work was to understand that worry and fear didn’t help me. There were actions to take but to let the fever of constant worry prevail was not helpful.

So many of the Venus Gardens were to reassure and bring us closer to Divinity. That was one unexpected thing. Despite my rather puritanical upbringing, I didn’t experience these threats as some sort of punishment from an angry deity nor was I mad at my spiritual guides and teachers. Yes, I was mad at my brother and the rest of my family of origin, but I felt that spirit was in the trenches with us every second of this horrible time. Even as I couldn’t be given some guarantee that it would all turn out okay, I had their absolute support. The Roses including dear Agnes Rose with its affirmation, “You and I are not We but One.” was one reason I felt this unbreakable companionship. Roses are Divinity in form and so are their Essences. They help us feel our inseparable oneness with Divinity.

One more thought on Don’t Worry- Bee Happy and other Venus Garden beloveds like Equanimity. During this time we had to stop believing that enjoying our lives as best we could was wrong. We could legitimately have just stayed in a state of alarm all the time, but we had to set ourselves free to be happy and not feel guilty about this.

Releasing my guilt was a big process. Things happen that are beyond our control, and sometimes we want to take responsibility for them or blame others just so we don’t have to acknowledge our lack of control. I would go over and over events and think to myself, if only I hadn’t done this or that maybe the whole thing wouldn’t have happened. I had to work really hard to let this thought pattern go and acknowledge that my holding onto guilt was in some ways an effort to see myself in control of something I was never in control of.

I hope none of you find yourselves in circumstances like this one, but I am so glad there are Flower Essences there to support you through if you do. I am grateful that the journey of creating Essences has continued since then with more supportive Flower Essences like the Sovereignty Set,Safe Passage Be Fearless and Amor Fati.

If any of these Flower friends call to you, know that we send them to you with so much love.