Flames of Light, such as the Violet Flame, White Fire of AN, and the
blue flame of Achangel Michael, have been widely known and used in the
last few decades on Earth. However the use of Liquid Light is not so
widespread.
Flames of Light and Liquid Light are higher dimensional energies which
are the origin of physical reality. For example, golden Light is the
substance from which physical gold (and other golden crystals) are
created, gold litterally is densified golden colored Light. The same
applies to silver, and many crystals, and actually the same applies to
all physical matter, as it is known in physics that each different atom
has different frequency, and these frequencies correspond to colors, so
all physical atoms are manifestations of densified frequencies of
various colored Light.
When we use these colored Light in meditation, visualization,
intentions, etc, something real and factual happens in our higher bodies
(4D 5D and above, or in other words etheric, astral, Soul etc), these
colored Light are transmitted by the higher bodies which is having a
direct effect on these planes (etheric astral etc) and an indirect
effect on physical reality, because matter is always flowing between
physical and other planes in both directions.
A practical example of this is that the regular use of golden Light can
help to attract physical gold. However it is good to understand that the
real energy of gold and golden color is not really about mainstream
financial affairs but instead its essence is about transmitting the
energy of Higher Self/Soul, like a Sun or a Star, and this is the
original reason why it was used widely by ancient cultures.
Using colored Light in the form of flames or liquid adds a specific
elemental quality to the energy. In some cases it is very beneficial to
not use only flames of Light, and to balance them with the use of Liquid
Light. Especially for people with sensitive energy field that can
become tired and overloaded by of a lot of stimulation and strain from
modern lifestyle, Liquid Light have a more gentle, soothing, nurturing,
feminine quality just like physical water has, which can be very
beneficial to balance the stimulation and clearing of flames of Light.
Many colors and
combinations can be used beyond the famous ones like Violet Flame, in
plain Light or flame or liquid or a mix. Here are a few examples.
Liquid Rainbow
Light is a very powerful energy which has many many benefits and is used
a lot by many cosmic beings and star family. It is very good to help
create consciousness of Oneness, to transmute and heal among many other
benefits.
White pearly
liquid Light has a very potent divine feminine presence, gentle
nurturing energies of harmony and peace and Goddess archetype such as
Tara and Quan Yin. This is a very good combination and complement with
the White Fire.
Bright aqua colored Liquid Light is also very soothing and healing, with energies of innocence and joy and togetherness.
There are many more and everybody is free to experiment with them, as
various possibilities can suit different beings at different times.
When
I began my astrology practice twelve years ago, I felt constricted by
the traditional once-per-year contact with the client.
I could see
that many clients became overwhelmed by the amount of information
contained in the reading. Unless clients have some astrology background,
they have few resources to interact with the information, symbols, and
possibilities in the chart in a single session. Nor did I want to foster
a dependence upon my interpretation of the chart that might keep a
client asking for more information of the “what’s going to happen next?”
variety. Astrology is a spiritual practice and an art that needs
focused attention to be helpful at a deep level. It should be seen as an
ongoing exploration, unique in itself and deserving of time and
reflection.
I also have a strong connection to the natural world
and earth spirit. I have often urged my clients to get acquainted with
astrology by watching the sky. Astrology comes alive as we watch the
Moon wax and wane and see Jupiter’s bright eye in the sky. When I
discovered the world of flower essence therapy, I knew the combination
of the healing power of plants along with guidance provided by the stars
and planets would help my clients discover the healing power within
that is a gift of the natural world.
My acquaintance with flower
essences began in 1988 when a friend brought me a little bottle of Dr.
Bach’s Rescue Remedy after I was injured in a car accident. I was lucky
to escape the wreckage with only a broken nose, but I was incapacitated
for a few days with bruises and torn ligaments in body and spirit. I
felt dark holes open suddenly in front of me, and rage would wash over
me — a rage not connected to my thoughts. I drank a glass of water with a
few drops of Dr. Bach’s potent remedy and was put back together. I
would fall back into deep depression and, once more, be rescued by those
powerful flower drops.
Flower essences became my friends and
companions after that. I studied Dr. Bach’s books and was drawn to the
combination of energetic healing with the wisdom of plants and the
natural healing that they provide. Like homeopathy, flower essences
teach us that "less is more" — a new kind of physics where we come to
value and work with the pattern of manifestation before it takes form on
the physical plane.
What Are Flower Essences?
Flower
essences connect one to the vibrational energy of the plant, rather
than the chemical content. Flower essences are not herbal preparations,
nor are they essential oils, as used in aromatherapy. The essences are
gathered by floating blossoms on spring water and infusing them with
sunlight. From here, they are diluted in brandy and water until no
chemical effects from the plant are present. The essences work directly
with the subtle energy body.
Flower essences are traditionally
taken in drops under the tongue. They are also effective in a glass of
water, added to bath water, or sprayed in the air. Since flower essences
are vibratory medicines, some clients find them helpful even when they
are not ingested. People who have a strong connection to energy healing
often carry a bottle of flower essence around with them.
When we
experience ourselves as part of a network of light and movement rather
than separate solid objects, we understand why these simple preparations
of flower soul energy can be so powerful. Theories about physical
objects as light and energy flow have become part of or our concept of
physics. As we embrace energy therapies, such as acupuncture, and as we
open ourselves to the healing power of shamanic cultures, we begin to
appreciate our own healing traditions. Flower essences provide an
effective bridge between the medical treatment of the past and the new,
complementary healing methods of the present.
Dr. Edward Bach
developed flower essences during the 1930s in England. Bach was a famous
bacteriologist and homeopath who had come to the conclusion that
illness begins in the emotional body before it manifests in the physical
body. He wanted to find a source of healing easily available to country
people who cannot afford to go to a doctor. Bach left a successful
practice and a teaching position in London to search for a new kind of
medicine. Certain that he would find this new medicine in nature, he
wandered the English and Welsh countryside looking for inspiration. At
first, he used the dew on plants as the essence. By touching the dew to
his lips, he could sense the ailments and psychic imbalances that the
healing power of the plant was able to address. Later, he arrived at the
method of obtaining the essence by floating flowers on spring water and
infusing them with sunlight. From this water, he made remedies that had
amazing results with his patients.
Dr. Bach discovered that
flower essences encapsulate the pattern of the flower, and he developed
38 essences that he connected to various psychological profiles. Bach
chose to use the homeopathic method of working with character types
rather than physical ailments.
In the 1980s, new flower essences
were developed by practitioners all over the world. Energetic plant
medicine has blossomed and evolved in many directions. The devic
communication made manifest in the Findhorn Garden in Scotland took
plant spirit medicine in a new direction. The pioneering work of the
Flower Essence Society of California developed flower essences from
plants native to that part of the country. As the practices of shamans
and herbalists from traditional societies are sought as teachers by
Western practitioners, we acknowledge further cooperation between plant
and human. There are now thousands of flower essences which are
collected and used in a variety of ways. The plant kingdom seems eager
to collaborate with humans, to help us heal and evolve so that we may
survive in peace and harmony on the planet.
I owe the integration
of astrology and flower essence therapy to my Druid studies begun in
1990. As a practicing Druid, I see plants and planets in a network of
life and energy, visible and invisible, which includes me and all else
in its embrace. Until Druidry gave me the language to communicate
directly with the spirits of natural places — trees, plants, stones,
earth, and breezes — I had felt a terrible yearning and frustration. I
knew the language exists that could connect me to nonhuman creation, but
I did not know how to access it. I needed the wisdom and guidance of
the natural world but was deaf to the language that I could only sense
all around me.
Druidry sees all creation as imbued with spirit and
recognizes many realms of parallel existence that are imperceptible to
the senses. There is no concept of the superiority or separation of our
species. There is no hierarchy in consciousness: a stone, a tree, a dog,
an earth spirit, and a human perceive reality from their own viewpoint.
Creation is interconnected and interdependent. Humans dwell in a small
band of sight and sound and an even smaller range of smell and
intuition, yet we can open up to keener perception when we understand
our potential for listening, seeing, and sensing. Animals, plants, and
minerals also evolve in their ability to communicate and adapt to
changing circumstances. Druidry combines a respect for what has gone
before with a responsibility to develop creative responses to what is
going on in the present.
Plants and Planets: The Doctrine of Signatures
Western
healers were astrologers in many societies, and their medicine was
plant material. The Doctrine of Signatures, as conveyed by Paracelsus,
looks for the correspondence between the physical characteristics of
plants and the organs of the human body. As an example, mullein has
furry leaves, which gives a clue to the use of this plant for chest and
lung ailments: The “fur” is similar to the cilia of the trachea and the
alveoli of the lung.
Correspondence between the zodiacal mapping
of the human body and plant characteristics is another clue herbalists
were trained to observe. Yellow flowers and roots are associated with
the Sun; red flowers, leaves, and roots, with Mars. A thistle might also
be associated with Mars because of its spikes. The signs and symptoms
of the disease — the qualities of hot and cold, dry and moist — were
related to the appropriate plants and planets. For instance, fever,
because of its heat, and bleeding because of its red color, was
associated with fire (heat) and with an excess of Mars. The white
flowered yarrow plant, ruled by Venus, (considered a balance for the
excess of Mars) is used to staunch the flow of blood and to cool fevers.
Chiron used the herb to stanch the bleeding of Achilles. The Latin name
for yarrow is Achilles millefolium.
Nicholas Culpeper, a
17th-century social revolutionary, herbalist, apothecary, and
astrologer, left us with several herbal guidebooks still in print today.
These were the first such texts written in English, rather than Latin,
so that the common people might have access to healing from easily
available plants. Along with each herb, Culpeper noted its ruling
planet. Folk tradition, which had always depended upon plants and
astrology, had been devastated by the witch trials, so people were
terrified to admit any knowledge of herbs. Culpeper was able to give the
tradition back to those from whom it had been stolen.
Here is an
example of how the Doctrine of Signatures can be used with flower
essences to address a physical ailment. Snapdragon has a tiny mouth that
opens and “snaps” shut and was thus a good remedy for a client with
Bell’s Palsy, a disease causing pain and drooping paralysis of the head
and face. My client had been diagnosed with this uncomfortable malady,
which has no medicinal cure, and she was told that it would probably go
away in six months to a year. Transiting Mars had just entered her 1st
house. I suspected that this entry of Mars into Aries’s house had taken
the form of this painful attack on her head and face, parts of the body
traditionally ruled by Aries. I gave her an essence of snapdragon, based
upon the appearance of jaws in this flower. The pain and paralysis were
gone in a few days.
After her Bell's Palsy lifted, my client was
then able to carry out some plans for a community group. Mars in her 1st
house could now support her personal talents, and she became the head
of the civic organization rather than a woman with a painful attack upon
her head. The energy and determination of Mars in her first house was
transformed by the use of this particular flower essence.
The
connection between plants and planets and signs takes a variety of
forms, shapes, colors, and even numbers. For example, the Rose family
has five petals and thus a traditional connection to Venus. Why Venus?
Because, with her five-step cycle as evening and morning star, she has
been portrayed as a five-pointed star, the pentacle; the number 5 is
often associated with the feminine energy of the Goddess. When Venus is
uncomfortable in a natal chart because of sign, placement, or aspect to
other planets or is under siege during a transit, flower essences with
Venus characteristics can be tried as an antidote. This has to be done
very carefully over several sessions, to avoid activating the pattern of
resistance to Venus energy.
A variety of Rose-family essences
have helped clients who yearn for satisfying relationships but who are
discouraged by a history of failed love affairs. As progressed Venus
changes signs or houses, it’s not unusual for this despair to lift and
for clients to find room in their hearts to try love again.
Water
lily blossoms on top of water but has deep taproots that anchor the
plant to the bottom of the lake. I used water lily essence with a client
who has the Sun and Venus in Pisces. She had terrible pains in her
feet, a part of the body ruled by Pisces. This client also has Neptune
conjunct her North Node in Libra, which suggests that she needs to
listen to her Pisces, Jupiter (ruler of Pisces), Neptune, and Venus
(ruler of Libra) voices to move into new territory. The pains in her
feet came at a time when she was about to take a “big step.” I believed
that this client was not able to trust her Piscean energy to solve
problems and feel secure. Instead, she tended to fall back on her South
Node in Aries and Mars in Capricorn, often using a sledgehammer where a
gentle touch was needed.
Water lily eased the pain in her feet and
allowed her to trust herself to make decisions based on feeling rather
than a need for certainty. She could explore Piscean and Libran modes of
trust and could thus release her reliance on survival methods. As a
side benefit, she found that water lily enhanced her sexual desire
(Venus in Pisces), which enriched her relationship with her husband. She
also set aside time in her busy schedule to meditate. Like the water
lily, she opened to her potential to float while feeling the roots deep
beneath her.
This is where the invisible director, the soul, makes
choices. The chart becomes a stage; the planets, dynamic actors in an
endless, cosmic drama — a mythology constantly in the making. The plants
connect them to the transpersonal assistance of other realms and to the
healing momentum that is within each person. A link between the plants,
the planets in the charts, and the issues that trouble us are woven
from tradition and intuition in a process that continues to evolve.
Further Reading
Bach, Edward. Heal Thyself. C. W. Daniel Co. Ltd., 1931.
Bach, Edward. The Twelve Healers & Other Remedies. C. W. Daniel Co. Ltd., 1933.
Carr-Gomm, Philip. The Druid Way. Element Books, 1993.
Culpeper, Nicholas. Culpeper’s Complete Herbal & English Physician. Meyerbooks, 1990.
The Findhorn Community. The Findhorn Garden. Harper and Row, 1975.
Gerber, Richard, M.D. Vibrational Medicine. Bear and Co., 2001.
Kaminski, Patricia and Richard Katz. Flower Essence Repertory. Flower Essence Society, 1986.
Maclean, Dorothy. Seeds of Inspiration. The Lorian Association, 2004.
McIntyre, Anne. Flower Power. Henry Holt Co., 1996.
Tobyn, Graeme. Culpeper’s Medicine. Element Books, 1997.
Sarah
Fuhro combines her training as an astrology counselor and flower
essence practitioner in a healing practice called Star-Flower Alchemy.
She is a Druid member of the worldwide teaching Order of Bards, Ovates,
and Druids and participates in the training of Druids. To contact Sarah
phone (508) 652-9881; e-mail: sarahbeagl@aol.com or visit http://sarahfuhro.com.
This article appears in the Winter 2007 issue of Spirit of Change
Whewww….What a couple of weeks it has been, I feel like I have spent 14 days in the belly of the whale. The energies here in the Smokey mts have been totally liquid. An imposing liquid downloading for days, turning the summer leaves mottled in their autumn colors. Blurring all together like a Salvador Dali painting. A collage of shift so prevailing one has to hang on for dear life, praying they have the strength and courage to get thru this whirlwind of October. Drama is spelled with a capital ‘D’ as everyone goes thru the wind-tunnel of love alone, surfing the seas of self and mounting family karma.
Holy moly! Didn’t we already do this karmic wash? The higher your light vibration the more you will be CONTINUALLY distracted by ongoing outer emotional wear and tear. We can blame it on every eclipse, every retrograde and every person that pushes our buttons, but ultimately we signed up for this part of the journey knowing full well that we would be asked to go that extra 10 miles and do more than we thought we were capable of.
The secret to this galactic upliftment is to stand tall against what tries to steal your peace over and over again. The distractions come to steal your power away from what truly needs addressed. Stand your ground, stick to what you are currently doing/ involved in/ channeling/ healing etc. our virtual world seems to demand our complete attention like a new baby. We jump up every at text being swayed word by word, seduced away from what had been important to us. With every text and every email we are manipulated by another’s mood, needs, wands, demands. We go into flux, forgetting what we originally were doing. This pliable virtual side-tracked amnesia creeps into our lives everyday. We continually get escorted out of the building of self and our own souls evolution into the arena of an emotional free-for-all.
First off folks, you cannot fix anybody unless they want to be fixed! The definition of ‘crazy’ is doing the same thing over and over again with the same results. How many times have you given your all to another just to watch them repeat the same destructive habit over and over again? When another wants to be truly fixed of what ails them, it will be so. Once a mind is made up it always completes its actions. For every cell of your body believes what you say and think. The silent witness within knows all sees all, and you cannot ‘bull sh-t’ yourself.
Every year as we make our way forward in time we a pushed and prodded into more than we are really ready for. We stomp and cry and demand, justice and free choice on our part. The universe just smiles and continues to make its noisy children eat all those veggies they do not like. Forced feeding of the soul is a necessity, for continued growth. As humans are we ever ready for the hard teachings? The energies keep us close to our ‘cave of safety’ as we do not venture far from port.
Stay sharp as the summit of your spiritual awareness hones itself to a sharp point. Do not jump from a precipice like an anxious lighthouse, trying to save those in the turbulent seas. Shine for them and teach them to sup upon a higher light and a higher system of faith. Many have lost their trust in the universe; they have lost their way in the mirage of confusion. Some have lost the landscapes of their future. Your wings have been expanded by these winds of change. The great hope that you hold for yourself - give to all by your own strength and courage and conviction.
