Dark moon, Sacred Basil flower, and heylo there, Obsidian gem, essence ponderings...

It's Dark Moon, the time in her cycle when our shadow places and issues can indeed surface. Have they ever! I'm pondering, as you do at such times, where things are at personally. I was kinda triggered into little choice but to! How and where to refocus my energies in alignment with hers, and what supports this. 

Do you hear the whispers of the green folk? Those who both oxygenate our world, and fill it with such abundance. I find, when I'm calm n heart centred, with a sense of belly humour about, that's the best timing for such soul listening. If I can carry this energy into making remedies, like the flower essences, which I seem increasingly to be crafting, it effects the process in a magic way. Usually then as I come close to a plant, it's messages are audible, but at times nigh on shouting is required, even with one who considers herself relatively open...

 Most recently personified, (scuse my anthropomorphism, how rude!) by our 'Sacred' or 'Tulsi' Basil plant, her flowers seen gloriously pictured above. Ocimum  sanctum, what a beauty name! Her flowers, as part of the mint family, rise  up on spikes. She sent up a couple of them at first, some months back, and quietly suggested I brew a flower essence from them. 'To bring the sacred in' she informed me. Then when I didn't, she sent up a few more, and finally, in an ongoing display of gratuitous generosity, she virtually screamed 'DO IT!!'. So bit slow off the mark ol me, did it, and infact I've been taking it morning and night, for some weeks now. Easing the depression I can tend towards when I forget to turn towards my dear flower essences, in her own ways of reconnection to the divine. We say plants don't move! Ha! It was obviously the right move, cos she's kept happily, right on flowering away!

Last dark moon a gemstone dialogued similarly with me, to a plant, somewhat although not altogether to my surprise! 2 shards of Black Osidian, who had been sitting upon one of my altars for some months. For this very purpose. A volcanic rock, looking almost like black glass, this is a stone potently connected with shadow work, so it kinda made sense to pop some on my outdoor altar in the garden under the bright stars of the dark moon. In Scorpio, for a double whammy!

I had never made a gem essence before, but I presumed t'would be a similar process. Appears so, this baby feels potent. The Obsidian also happens to be the foundational bed rock of the culdera around Wollumbin/ Mt Warning we dwell in, so I imagine will be fab for supporting connecting to locale. Mayhaps, its part of the reason some folk dance through this area so transitionally, and still others are drawn to come work on their shit?

When I first read Edward Bach's wee book 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies', (originally published in 1933) I found it rather harsh and judgemental in the signifying emotional qualities it ascribed to each flower. Then I had it reframed. Discovering that each of these, he acknowledged he had himself experienced (sometimes along with physical symptoms). Both before, and whilst, seeking the appropriate plants to create the flower essence remedy. I realised, these remedies were supportive of a 'process' based approach, not finite declarations laid down like law, but very much developed through a lived experience of challenging times. Quite exquisite really. Life's work from a one time doctor who wanted to create a 'medicine chest' for every home. That could be accesible, and affordable. Made and used, to support well being.

Although Bach is probably the name most familiar for being 'called' to this way of vibrational, or energetic medicines. Indigenous peoples such as the Nyoongah, or Bibbulmun peoples, of South Western Australia have an ancient lineage of flower essence medicine, going back through time, at least ten thousand years....

Folks connecting to plants, flowers, and gems, in different landscapes at differing times. Listening for their messages, and working towards increasing their sensitivity to them. Gotta be a good thang! Bach himself predicted that as times changed, remedies would reveal themselves to suit. On the Australian land, the bush here, offers up wonderful wildflowers with properties, just as England did for him. Look to which plants are close by, or catch your attentions, when you are in a particular process....

 
I feel these coworkers are here to assist us in the growth pains that come as we make shifts, and heal ourselves, and the land. Sometimes shit gets harder before it moves, but if we can hang in there and allow the inner portals to open, in safe space, it's a pretty cool journey. Bonus is they can be used pretty safely in combination with other modalities.

This is only my experience, so use your inner wisdom when making health choices, and be aware of knowing plants, or rocks, that may bear poisons. Identify em. Enjoy!

Some resources you can choose to checkout your intuitions with n such:

Edward Bach 'The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies' note: try and locate a pre 1970 version, as this will include instructions for making flower essences (mayhaps I'll do a post on my version o this?) A link to youtube videos by Dr Bach Healing Herbs, with discussion of 'Twelve Healers' https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBC827CEF3DD326EE

Vasudeva and Kadambi Barnao 'Australian Flower Essences for the 21st Century'. note: Some of the info from this book is included in this report https://www.yorgum.org.au/assets/Uploads/Annual-Report-2016-2017.pdf for the Yorgum Aboriginal Corporation.

If you feel to get a bit more woo woo, as my partner describes it, try 'Gurudas' channelled through Kevin Ryerson 'Flower Essences and Vibrational Healing' 1983 note: it has some adaptable cool ideas on amplifying essences using copper pyramids in combo with quartz crystals.  

Candy Hillenbrand 'An Online Short Course in Bach Flower Remedies' note: some parts under construction https://www.aplaceinspace.net/bachflower/course/lesson1

Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz 'Flower Essence Repertory' published by the Flower Essence Society, Nevada, California

Marion Leigh 'Findhorn Flower Essences: Straight to the Heart of the Matter' 1997
 
Ian White 'Australian Bush Flower Essences' series of books