Dear friends,
hello, from the Barn where it’s high summer here in the Connecticut River Valley and I've just started to feel that delicious curve in summer energy as it starts to soften toward fall. I've been moving slow, working in the garden between thunderstorms, making tinctures for the year to come, writing, mapping my fall workshops, and seeing dear ones before I need to turn my devotions more toward teaching.
I spent most of July in Iceland, an island that is so dear to me that I've been visiting and writing with since 2012. Here I am on this trip crouching in front of an Alpine Lady's Mantle in bloom growing from a massive tectonic plate! Out of frame to my left is a huge waterfall cascading from the tectonic plate, itself.
In Iceland, I was in residence at Dansverkstæðið, working with one of my long-time human collaborators, dearest luminary Samantha Shay and her Source Material Collective, on a new film project. A part of that work for me has been developing writing in ceremony with a circle of exquisite dancers, the brilliant musicians Sóley and Keeley Forsyth, and sacred landscapes and the ley lines between them. There is a certain magic that only occurs in ceremonial circle and I've been transmuting a part of that magic into a new manuscript, tentatively titled, Earthen Oracles. It will, of course, be some time before I finish that book, but, in the meantime, there are plant and mineral medicines I've been making and working with which orbit the ceremonial work I've engaged in as I write that I'd love to share here through with/in.
I've been thinking of these essences as guardians for these times who can help reattune our bodies to Earth's frequency and repattern our consciousness as we navigate great social and climate change, the coming election season, the extreme loss of genocides, as we dream (alone & in community) toward new paradigms of being, as we soften and mourn and celebrate, and as we work to find balance with Earth.
There are 6 new essences, some with whom I've been working for many years, and I’m so pleased to say that they are finally ready to share. You can meet them briefly below or read their full profiles over in the apothecary, each new essence is marked with a "New!" banner.
Below, I share the face of each flower (instead of a photo of the bottled essence) so that you can get to know these beings flower by flower (or, in one case, mineral by mineral). Maybe your body will feel a pull to one's color, curve, or luminosity. If so, that just might be the essence for you at this time.
Welcome,
Acanto’s flower essence supports us in the generative chaos between what was and what will be. Each flower on the stalk offers stability and a haven where we can dream toward new paradigms of being.
Angelica’s essence streams profound tenderness, protection, and centered support through the body and casts a soft, glowing protective barrier around our auric field. All while helping us tap into deeper time scales and wider spectrums of knowing.
Imagine feeling centered and safe, with open access to guardian ancestors, star beings, and elemental spirits guiding you as you take your next steps.
Calendula flower essence gifts the art of communication. Each blossom is a golden cup of solar light and warmth. I feel this golden warmth glowing the larynx, helping us communicate in healing, empathetic, and empowering ways. Calendula flower essence clears our thoughts and emotions of energetic toxins and acts as a balm uniting the mind, voice, and heart. All while helping us to infuse our relationships with receptivity and warmth.
Lady’s Mantle essence hydrates and restores vibrancy to our aura—that radiant spirit field—glowing like a living cloak surrounding our physical forms. Lady’s Mantle gifts reconnection with the living hydrosphere (the water mantle) of Earth, which “hydrates” and reinvigorates our spirits from within.
Imagine your aura, vibrantly glowing, and as wide as Earth, herself. Earth’s auras nourishing your own. Your auras nourishing Earth’s.
This special essence blend was made in ceremony with Red Ochre mineral at an estuary site of the Salmon River meeting the Pacific Ocean. And with Wild Roses at an estuary site of the Connecticut River meeting the Atlantic Ocean. Uniting river and ocean energies and the west and east coasts of Turtle Island.
Rose Ochre is an essence blend for remembering the sacred cave of our bodies, rekindling our heart’s bloom, reconnecting to the resonance of Earth’s heart, and magnetizing creative & multi-conscious responses to these revolutionary times.
Essence of Snowdrop softens those places in us that are frozen with grief or fear making way for self revelation.
This essence is for those of us who fear our big emotions, who feel stuck in the past, who are frozen or tense, who are sad but unable to cry. Snowdrop resonates into those hardened places helping us to relax, release, and re-pattern toward hope and joy.
May we enter gently. May we thrive in softness. May we feel fully alive with reverence and awe.
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