Flower & Forest Medicine: Essences and Alchemy

New podcast episode

Fall foliage at New Avalon sanctuary garden

Samhain blessings! And how perfect that it falls on the New Moon this year.

Let’s play with these themes and have a little fun.

Here’s a QUIZ:

THESE are profoundly enchanting, magickal and alchemical in the way they work to transform and heal (notice all the characteristics of this season and cross-quarter holy day).

THEY have a Scorpionic ability to plunge the depths of soul and psyche to help you heal, alchemize, transform patterns and imprints from childhood as well as those that have been held by our ancestors and passed down to us.

Any guesses?

If you said flower essences, you would be correct! (I might have given it away in the email title 😉 )

How do flower essences connect with the path of earth and land mysteries I teach?

Most people come to this path with a lot of trauma, woundings, and unhealthy patterns, which prevent them from moving into a natural state of heart consciousness.

Being able to meet spirit in all its many emanations from the heart is a non-negotiable when it comes to this work.

And whether it’s the world of the nature spirits, the spirit of that river down yonder, or the realm of the Sidhe, we definitely cannot experience spirit from the mind.

Furthermore, neither the mind nor the ego can be “fixed” or eradicated—as they are part of this human experience. But we can further integrate them and lessen how strongly identified we are with both.

Not only that, but I have found one of the biggest issues with people on this path is spiritual escapism. It’s one of several reasons why I stopped teaching directly about faery.

Because a lot of students—myself included 20 years ago!—use spirit and psychic work as a way to avoid 3D reality on planet Earth.

And I get it—I do. Life can be really hard and painful sometimes.

But . . .

We can never fully live an authentically aligned life connected to our soul purpose if we don’t want to be here—whether that “here” means in your human body or here on planet Earth’s body—we cannot go around; we must go through!

No matter how many spirit journeys or mystical meditations you do, without bringing these down into the body, these spiritual experiences will never integrate and you certainly won’t embody them.

Embodied Mythic Reality is about weaving the mystical with the mundane. That’s what being fully human is about.

But what happens a lot with this work is students become obsessed with “learning” more information and techniques, meanwhile nothing is landing in their body or energy field.

Flower essences help with everything I just mentioned. They help us feel more fully the energies, emotions, and things we repress.

They don’t force us to go into places we’re not ready to go—ever. They have their own intelligence and seem to know what we are ready to address and resolve.

They the most beautiful medicine allies, and I don’t know how I would do this journey without them.

That’s why I deeply want to share them with you.

If you want to learn more about flower essences, Alexandria Sciarappa and I just had another illuminating conversation we had recently about flower essences:

I’ll be sharing more about flower essences in the coming weeks because I realize most people have no idea what they are! They think they do, but they don’t. 🤣

Flower essences often get confused with essential oils or herbal tinctures; flower essences are neither!

They are vibrational remedies and, well . . . you’ll have to listen to the episode to learn more.

Local Women’s Flower Essence Circle

Borage flowers (Borago officinalis)

For any local people, I am holding Women’s Flower Essence Circle this Sunday from 2-4pm.

With the U.S. elections coming, people are feeling tension, fear, and destabilized. This is an invitation to you to allow yourself to be supported. We need to come into our bodies and find our center—no matter what happens, we cannot let the outer throw us off. And when it does, we need a way to come back to our inner compass and body wisdom.

For this, we will be working with BORAGE (pictured above!) for courage and so much more.

Pre-registration is required.

or you can learn more on the page:

https://diomirarose.com/circle