Timely Flower Essences for the Collective

Welcome, Leo Season! August 1 marks Vena Cava's six-month anniversary in our current location in Slabtown. We are exactly where we want to be, and so grateful to have your presence in our blessed space. 

I have also opened more availability for custom flower essence consultations. The need for this work feels especially urgent right now. Despair is powerful, but like worry, it doesn’t serve. We must tend to our hearts—however broken—so that we don’t check out before we care for each other and the planet.

Flower and gem essences meet the human condition with a gentleness that’s also direct. Subtle, yet deeply powerful. If you've been in the studio, and wondered what the hundreds of tiny bottle lining the walls are, they are flower essences and they are here for you. 

I asked my guides for three essences that feel particularly of-the-moment, and they gave me four, none of them what I was expecting, but each of them so tender, so perfect.

Although essences are highly personal and meant to be made for the individual in the moment, it is hard to deny that the planet is pushing through collective shifts, and these essences speak to this work. 

Photos clockwise from top left: Chaparral from FES, Echinacea by Stephan H. on Unsplash, Sapphire from Alaskan Essences, Devil's Club from Sophia Rose

Chaparral

Invites balanced psychic awareness, deep penetration and understanding of the transpersonal aspects of oneself. Helps with disturbed dreams and overwhelm from violent images in the media that are more than we can assimilate, also for physical and psychic toxicity. Read more here. (Thank you to my teachers, Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz, for this essence and description). 

 Echinacea 

Heals our core integrity and immunity, maintaining a strong sense of Self, especially when challenged by stress or disease. It restores the shattering that is characteristic of severe trauma or abuse; physical or emotional disintegration of Self Identity; poor immune function; vacant presence. Read more here. (Thank you to my teachers, Patricia Kaminski and Richard Katz, for this essence and description). 

Devil's Club

Covered from tip to toe in unforgiving thorns, Devil's Club grows in thick stands throughout the Pacific Northwest. It boldly takes up space, makes its presence known, lets you know where exactly its boundaries lie. Its medicine helps us to communicate our own feelings, needs, and limitations without apology. It brings us in touch with our sense of personal power and helps us to clearly discern what is and is not in our best interest. In times when we struggle to assert ourselves, Devil's Club restores this ability and brings weight to our words. Taken over time, this essence helps us to advocate for ourselves, take up space, and live our lives with a deep sense of safety and sovereignty. (Thank you, Sophia Rose of House of Flowers for this essence and description).

Sapphire 

Strengthens devotion and commitment to Divine purpose; promotes loyalty and responsibility to one's true work on the planet; helps us connect to the energetic support we need to do what we came here to do. Heals us when we are feeling unsupported for being on the Earth; unaware of life purpose; lack of inspiration and commitment; feeling out of touch and out of place; unwilling or unable to take responsibility for why one has incarnated. (Thank you Steve Johnson and Janice Schofield of Alaskan Essences for this essence and description).