New Mexico, especially the Santa Fe and Taos area in the north, has very intense transformational energy. Many seekers are drawn to visit or to live here for a time during transitionary periods of their lives, or as a time of vision quest or spiritual transformation. The flowers and lichens that asked me to create vibrational essences with them are all supportive of this transformational energy.

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Apache Plume Fallugia paradoxa This shrub gets its name from the seedheads, which are held through the next bloom, so seeds and blossoms appear simultaneously. The seedheads take the form of a whirling vortex of soft red and green fuzz. The Apache Plume is the only species in the genus, which is in the rose family.The flowers are pure sparkling white, 5 petals, like a simple single rose, with a faint buttery sweet fragrance. They open in the sun and close in shadow and dusk.The action of the essence supports change, expanded consciousness, awareness of infinite possibilities. There’s a sense of play, of a profusion of light. For those who are blocked, stuck, caught in a hedge of thorny thickets of our own making.
Gray Green Rock Crust This essence supports inter-dimensional travel and consciousness. Accessing other dimensions, awareness of where you have created connections with other dimentions, lives or existences in other dimensionsw. Sliding between planes or dimensions of whatever…good for thinking inter-dimensionally. When there is pressure and intensity to change, opens possibilities.
Black Centered Gray Green Foliate Lichen On small red rocks. Vast distance, huge expansiveness of being can become localized on request. Here I am and infinite being simultaneously with ease.
Tamarack aka Tamarisk, Salt Cedar Tamarix pentandra A small tree with soft panicles of tiny lavender pink blossoms with bright magenta centers. A very faint meadowy scent. The tree grows in watercourses and saline areas, the between places. It is considered an invasive alien in the southwest. When I made the essence, I didn’t know what it was, and asked an indigenous man working in the area if he knew it. He not only told me what it was, and that it is an invasive alien, he also shared some native teachings about some of the other plants growing there. I had just that morning had a conversation with the friend I was visiting in Santa Fe about the tensions and devisiveness in the area between the Anglos and the ancestral inhabitants. The Tamarack deva supports the awareness that we are all connected, all life on Earth is connected, all consciousness is connected. It is an invented, devisive point of view that there are aliens that invade…It is our own judgements that create reactivity to invaders in our bodies, as well. The flower essence supports us being aware of when people are lying, when they appear sweet and nice until they screw us. This is true of beings without bodies also. Entities can present themselves as “angelic” for instance, which is not the same as being an angel! Entities can weasel their way into our minds and bodies by appearing to be friendly, resonating with our emotional state, that is, being sympathetic to us.If we don’t have the point of view that we have rigid boundaries that can be invaded, if we don’t have the notion that we need to protect ourselves and defend ourselves, our territory, then we are not reactive. We don’t attract invaders. We don’t have a problem when entities do show up. We can deal with them as other beings rather than enemies. This flower essence supports awareness of the connections, the easing of defensive stances, allowing others to be what they are rather than reacting.There is a global ecological transition taking place on Earth with plants and animals from different regions invading other regions, crowding out native species. The deva of the Tamarack showed me that all plants and animals belong on Earth, there is no alien to the Earth, we all belong, we all have a home here if we choose to. The influx of galactic energies entering Earth during this transitionary period in Earth’s consciousness has been challenging for many people to integrate. This essence supports softening to those new energies, integrating them gently.
Dakota Vervain Verbena bipinnatifida This low-growing plant grows in small patches in the dry hills. When I travelled north into Colorado, the terrain changed from rocky desert hills to high plains. There were great swaths of vervain in bloom, turning the landscape purple.This essence is soothing to those jarred and jittery from the intensity of transformation. For those who take their path to change with deep gravity, it assists in lightening up, being playful instead of taking it so seriously. The deva shares a deep purple wisdom and light. Supports intensity of change here with connecting to source, calm, peace. Relaxing. Aids sleep.
Austrian Copper Rose Rosa foetidus bicolor This astonishing rose was growing and blooming by my friend’s front door. The colors of the flowers are the most vivid I have ever seen in a rose: brilliant flame red, red-orange, and bright yellow. She said she had never watered it. I saw the yellow form blooming in several public gardens, as well, often in areas that were not part of the formal plantings. Holding a blossom to the heart, or merely touching the plant, one can feel the deep action on the heart. Our hearts are where we hold our deeply personal charged attachments to other people, to places, to our creations. During transformational processes, we often must relinquish our attachments, which can be intensely painful. This essence supports us to be the process of letting go instead of identifying with what is being torn away. Assists with letting go of possessing and control of our attachments and what we believe we are attached to, so we can change with more ease and less suffering. This was demonstrated in a remarkable way the very night after the essence was made: my friend, who has an emotionally dramatic personality, had a traumatic breakup with her spouse, triggered suddenly by some information shared with her. Usually she would have been devastated by a partner suddenly leaving, and would have been weeping and distraught for days. She kept sipping the mother essence of the rose she had made, and with each sip, received ease, peace, trust in the process. She was able to let go  of her habitual reactive mode, and receive an expanded sense of the changes being demanded of her by the transformational path she had chosen.
Golden Corydalis aka Golden Smoke Corydalis aurea The corydalis family is all about speed! This flower made my fingers buzz and tingle. The golden light of consciousness. Happiness, cheerfulness. The speed of space, which is infinite being. Supports getting up to speed on whatever you’re working on, supports the nervous system increasing its capacity to carry faster vibrational information.
Claret Cup Cactus Echinocereus triglochidiatus The deep color of this cactus flower is amazing. The deva downloaded a lot of information that came to me as bursting phrases. Here goes! Creating emotional intensity. Trauma and drama. Solar plexus, belly. Holding it inside. Desperation, isolation, loneliness, separateness. Must not get out. End of the rope. Extreme contraction. Despair. Wild struggles to hold onto. There’s no other way. It’s the only way. Intense power used for control. All forces directed to control. Immediate reality must be controlled. Control equals survival. Survival equals closing off escape. The choice to create no choice! Self-imprisonment. All infinite capacities shut away from cognition, from cognitive awareness. Rejection of everything that doesn’t fit. Using everything selectively, bastardization of capacity. Clear perception. Clarity of what is the choice to create. We create all the time, and a lot of what we create is limitation for ourselves and others.
Pinõn Pinus edulis This is the short pine tree that is the source of the native pine nuts of the southwestern United States. It grows with juniper in dryland forests that appear sparse…a tree every fifteen or twenty feet. Pinõn is a signature of the southwest. Each range of elevation and latitude has distinctive plant communities. The air is deliciously scented in the Santa Fe hills with the pinõn and juniper there. Likewise, we “squat” in a chosen or assumed position and call it ours, identify with it, and resist moving from it. The pinõn essence addresses squatting in a range of emotional positions including self-judgement, self-recrimination, regret, bitterness. We make our chosen position highly significant, including our chosen emotional intensity. The pinõn offers ease with letting go of the significance of our position, releasing the weight of the burden of the significance of self, of identifying with the squatting place. If we have chosen that emotional place or identified with the position to make ourselves distinct from others, to “prove” that we are a separate self, this essence allows us to be one among the many, just as a tree is one in the forest, without threatening to lose ourselves. We can be the gift we are in the creation without making ourselves greater or lesser, without having to be only one thing, one note in the symphony, investing ourselves wholly in that limited viewpoint, and then resenting when anyone or anything attempts to budge us from it.
Yellow Rock Crust This brilliant lichen is florescent green-yellow when growing, and a bright mustard gold when more mature. It makes a bright patchwork in the red rocks of the hills. The texture is cracked or crackled looking. This essence assists in tapping into the universal stream of information. Use it when you are seeking something, asking for something to be revealed.