As we navigate this time of challenges and unknowns, it is an immense comfort to know that the Nature Kingdom made a promise to always provide solutions to our problems. Even our most toxic and misguided creations are met by Nature with solutions and healing. Always.

Yes, we still need to seek these gifts out and then actually use them, but they are there ready for us.

The Flower Essence Goldenseal speaks to the Elementals specific promise to help humankind in its healing process and evolution towards oneness. Despite our disregard for Nature and disbelief in the existence of a consciousness in Nature, Nature keeps turning up for us.

This summer I have been working on a complex project with my Elemental and Angelic partners as well as healer Kathy Skolem to create a group of Flower Essence mixes to help us with the specific energetic concerns we face right now. Tune Up ’21 was the first of the mixes we co-created, but by the Autumn Equinox there will be five more mixes to support us at this specific energetic juncture.

As I work on these mixes and dive more deeply into conversations with the Angels and Elementals overlighting this work, I am struck over and over again by the infinite generosity of Nature.

My process works in the following way. First there is the need to identify energetic issues to be addressed. This involves research and many conversations with the Angels and Elementals overlighting Green Hope Farm. Then I consider Flower Essence candidates for each issue by going deep into conversation with the Angels and Elementals of the various Flowers.

One thing I notice is that EVERY TIME I arrive at a Flower Essence needed, the Angels and Elementals have already made sure the Flower is either growing here because they guided me to grow it this season OR it has volunteered in the gardens and is ready to be made into an Essence. The synchronicities are over the top!

During the growing season I am always busy restocking our Flower Essence inventory, but this year sees me particularly in awe of the offerings in the garden. What an astounding gift to find these Flowers ready to serve us all. The steadiness and generosity of Nature leaves me in complete awe and wonder.

One Flower Essence that has taken me on a deep journey this summer is Garlic. When I last studied Garlic, I focused on its gifts for the 6th chakra. This time, the Angels and Elementals have called me to look at other gifts Garlic has. As I see how it creates a force field of positivity, I recall how in myth and lore it is used to keep negative entities like vampires at bay. In revisiting its energy and talking with it in more depth, this reflects its ability to bring to light negativity especially negative thought patterns and move them out of our energy fields.

Now I will reconsider how Garlic can be added to various existing and soon to be created mixes. One of the synchronicities here is that after my complete failure to rein in the rampaging deer last summer with my ridiculous twine fences, I received an email from a beloved GHF friend named Judy who suggested I use some sort of garlic based spray to spray the daylilies. So this season, I’ve been spraying any plant the deers usually eat with a garlic concoction. AND IT’S WORKING! Yes, I need to shower twice a day and still smell faintly of garlic, but who cares because once again I have Day Lilies blooming everywhere!

So thank you Garlic and thank you Judy and thank you Nature Kingdoms! And deer, I love you and thank you for the lessons you have brought me but honestly, I am thrilled to be having a new lesson with you!

This morning in the gardens, the Cleome was sparkling.

I love the pine needle path of this year’s Venus Garden.

In the vegetable garden, a wonderful crop of peas is on the right side of the photo. We’ve been waiting for the pods to fatten up. Today they look ready to begin to harvest. Tonight’s supper no doubt!

This is one of my favorite Roses- Konigin von Danemark. The Purple Smokebush behind it makes for an interesting conversation between the two plants.

This photo was not from this morning but I couldn’t resist adding it to the post. It was taken on Midsummer Night’s Eve.

All Blessings to you!

Not much happens here at the farm without me considering the significance of the event in a larger way. This sounds rather grandiose, but paying attention to small moments on the farm is the way I connect to a greater world. I may very well get the symbolism of events wrong, but this doesn’t stop me from observing the gardens closely and pondering all that happens. Noticing these precious small moments of beauty and challenge brings me joy and help me harvest bigger picture realizations.

Perhaps I would have found this focus on nature no matter what, but I credit my sixth grade teacher for igniting this fire of observation. He had each of his students make an insect collection of 50 different species, identified and properly mounted. It was a long involved project that saw me and my classmates running through fields and forest with nets and collecting jars, looking closely at every tiny thing.

I don’t think I could bring myself to kill any insects now (except when swatting black flies), but ironically this love for all life was vastly increased by this assignment. In many ways it changed my life. After that spring chasing bugs, insects and other small creatures of the world became more precious to me. This science project may well have brought me to Flowers too, because Flowers and insects are seamlessly connected one to the other.

Once I started looking and listening carefully, it was hard to miss that the world talks to us ALL THE TIME. Even when I don’t understand, I know that every tiny event in the garden holds significance.

Which brings me to Monday morning at 7 am. Expecting a large contingent of staffers, Lizzie went out to move the various farm vehicles from the upper staff parking lot down towards the house to make room for the staff cars. I was heading for the gardens when I saw our red pick-up truck wildly careening down the driveway, plowing through stonewalls to stop at last in our ornamental pond out front of the office.

The brakes on the truck failed and Lizzie was unable to stop the truck’s charge into the pond. By the grace of Divinity, Lizzie was safe. This was a miracle that filled our hearts as we considered how easily this brake failure could have happened with one of us going down our steep hill or on a highway with other traffic. No one was hurt. Even the polliwogs were still swimming around the submerged wheel.

In the wake of the truck’s path, garden pots lay smashed, stonewalls were leveled, the welcome arch covered in Hops was flattened to the ground and the truck found itself jauntily perched in the pond. Oddly enough the pond’s fountain was unscathed. We enjoyed its saucy burble as we noiselessly surveyed the scene.

When the tow truck guy arrived to pull “Old Red” out of the pond, he took a lot of pictures to show the folks back at the dispatchers. This was not the usual tow job. Slowly, slowly he pulled out the truck as we watched to see what the damage would occur on the reverse path.

When the dust settled, we discovered the ornamental pond, fiberglass in structure, had a repairable crack. The cedar arch was history. Almost at once, I began to replant the surviving plants and consider what new structure to create for the languishing Hops.

For someone who looks for significance in a slug invasion, raucous crows or a Bindweed problem, this moment gave me a lot to consider. Here are some of my initial thoughts.

Hops is all about spiritual growth. For some reason, ours needs a new support. What will this be? Big picture, little picture things are falling away and new ways of being in the world and seeking the Light are coming into form. And some of these new ways will arrive in dramatic and unexpected ways in terrain we thought was just fine as it was. After all, that arch seemed perfectly good to me, and never did I imagine the truck would need to plunge through this garden for a visit to the pond.

I have always called this garden the Entrance Garden as it welcomes those going to the office and those going into the farmhouse. It feels important to step up the energy of welcome. The old arch was two cedar posts with a cedar post across the top. It had a heavy, grounded feel to it. After checking in with the Angels and Elementals, they had me move an existing more delicate but actually stronger arbor up from the Rose Garden area for a new welcome arch. This was made for us many years ago by a local welder. It is round and very tall with hearts welded into the design. When its settled in place I’ll post a photo. Because of its immense size, we joked that it looks like we are expecting guests from Mt Olympus. Who knows?

Around the original arch lived a cluster of planters. As I put new planters out and began to replant them, I chose plants I had never grown here before that I know nothing about. It’s time for us to welcome the new, and not what we imagine the new to be. I think for all of us everywhere, it is going to be better than anything we can imagine.

I replanted using shards of pottery from the broken pots in the bottom of the new pots. If some old structures survive all the change occurring, these old structures will be used in new ways. They’ll serve the new evolved creations coming in but not be in charge anymore.

And then there was the pond itself and the fact that this body of water had stopped the truck. We built this pool as a representation of the Sacred Feminine. The Sacred Feminine is the deep pool of inner wisdom and intuition within each of us, ever there to guide us towards a path of unity consciousness and light.

Our version of this sacred well of feminine intuition and deep wisdom is what stopped an out of control and very solid truck. This gives me hope that all the out of control destructive energies of this time will meet their match and be stopped by the rising energies of the Sacred Feminine awakening in every one of us. This event leaves me not only with hope but with confidence. It shall be so!

PS A week or so later:

I love all you’ve shared about what you make of this event. One beloved GHF friend said, “Wow, what an amazing happening, and I love what it symbolizes! The male patriarchal energy does seem out of control in the world, but there is the divine feminine that will ultimately transform it.” Another beloved said, “As far as the Lily Pond- deep emotions, feminine, flow, no wood which in Chinese medicine feeds fire which is anger. No stone, the keepers of knowledge and history, stopping this so old history cannot stop new from coming in.”

Keep those insights coming! We’re in this together and not alone!

To imagine me this last month, think of every stereotype of a gardener of a certain age and you have the visual- Straw hat smushed down on my head, garden pants more dirt than canvas, black flies swirling around my head and my feet moving as fast as possible as I tear through the gardens with a wheelbarrow loaded with clippers, twine, compost, soil amendments, shovels, stakes and flats of transplants.

May (and now June) are a blur for a gardener like me. So many things to get done in a short amount of time. But the work environment couldn’t be better (except for the black flies). There is so much beauty to savor on trips to the compost heap or doing any one of the many splendid happy jobs of May in a garden. It’s glorious to just stand there and soak in the gardens around me.

Here are a photos of some of what I have been enjoying. I hope there have been Flowers (or the equivalent bliss) in your life this month too.

Hello dear friends!

I love May! Beautiful zesty, lush, green, beflowered, expansive May!

Today is May 5^th   It’s rainy and gray with the gardens drinking in every last raindrop with palpable delight. Even as Flowers keep their heads down in the downpour, the gardens look poised to soar into wonder and magic the moment the sun returns. Everything sings, “Yahooooo!”

Amidst this magic clamor of new life, the Angels and Elementals nudged me to make a new mix! Last night it was ready. Today it’s on the shelves available to go off to you……and what a dynamo!

Noting that this has been a confusing and disorganizing time for one and all, the Angels and Elementals created this mix to help us re-align all our systems. In addition to support for re-alignment, they said this mix was to help reorganize any system currently in knots or going in disharmonious directions. Additionally it is to help re-invigorate and restore optimum vibrational harmony by both moving out of our electrical fields whatever needs to go and grounding higher healing vibrations.  

The Angels and Elementals explained that no matter the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual challenges we face right now, this mix will help us find our most harmonious, empowered, clear, aligned and balanced self. 

To sum up, the Angels and Elementals are undaunted by this time’s challenges and with complete confidence offer a remedy that will bring light into even the most complex situation.

These are big confident statements, but as you will see from the ingredient list below, the confidence is more than backed up by the Flower Essences composing this mix.   The energy of the mix is a very big  WOW! This one is like Flower Essence Drano capable of handling ANY clog in the system! And it’s not destructive but constructive a.k.a. less is more. We empty out to see the Light we always were. I felt more whole just mixing it up!

The Angels gave the mix the name Tune Up ’21.

They encouraged me to clarify that this mix is for EVERYONE, regardless of what has happened to you in the last few years.  If there are some members of your household that have suffered more than others, it will help them if everyone uses the mix as it’s easier to rise up together than separately.

Spritzing the mix is a brilliant way to share the wealth. My household sees me coming at them night and day with the various spritz bottles! 

The first person I handed a bottle of tune Up ‘21 to felt full body shivers for several minutes. Then….. what a smile! May you too feel the love!

Here are the ingredients given in the order received with insight provided by Angels and Elementals.

Sunflower– YOU ARE SUPER HEROES! YOU CAN DO ANYTHING. Let us show you the pattern of your perfection.

Pine– Cooling respite beyond battle. We hold you.

Birch– We peel back and remove what needs to be removed. We do so with calm so you can remain in calm. We get to the bottom of things with you. (Additional Flower Essence list page 46)

Meadowsweet– YOU ARE LOVED. We bath you in sweet love. We soothe overfiring circuitry. We help you rest in love.

St John’s Wort– We are the very best fire fighters.  We help you keep the sunshine and shed the burn.

Cardinal Flower– We help you in the seriousness of your healing intention. We uplift you in your dedication and focus. We help you release energies that mislead. No more hair shirts.

Yellow Mullein– YES YOU CAN DO IT. Stand in this knowing without fear. You can and will do it.

Oregano– If it doesn’t belong within you, it’s got to go. Only true self and source. We help you clean house. (Additional Flower Essence list page 23)

Raspberry– Total harmony. Aligned with Divine energy, only light exists. (Additional Flower Essence list page 25)

Tansy– We blast away any misplaced energy no matter how long it’s been clinging to you. We support your freedom and sanctity. (Additional Flower Essence list page 28)

Lion’s Ear– Wise elders gather with this Essence to give you bespoke healing support. A gift beyond measure.

Yerba Mate– We re- map cell patterns after illness or challenge. We bring immense protective energy.

Corn– The deep perfection of energy organized by Light.  This downloading is the wisdom of the ancients. It takes you forward in community of unity consciousness.

Osteospermum– If betrayal has been a part of your journey, we help you experience your wholeness on the other side.

Willow– The immense gift of flexibility makes all things possible. (Additional Flower Essence list page 30)

Purple Queen Snap Bean– Harmonious shifts. Dissolving the impediments of self judgement. (Additional Flower Essence list page 30)

All our Marigolds including French Marigold– As masters of love, gratitude and harmonious mutation, we take you across the threshold to spiritual freedom and liberation.

Fragrant Ladies Tresses– We help you let go and let grace prevail.

Angelica– Indivisibility with the Divine. Spiritual freedom. Wound healing. Never underestimate how many Angels love you.

Borage– Happiness is yours for the taking.

Mehera– Because the destination is the source.

Jade– It’s a wild woolly ride but green energy is with you and that makes all the difference.

Last thoughts from the Angels and Elementals? “Let us help you! And remember, our shared Divinity has this! It’s going to be okay.”