A new version of the Love Essence was created in September, 2010. It has been several years since the last time I made the Love essence. I have changed considerably since then and the frequency that people can handle has expanded as well. I believe that this essence is the highest work I have ever done in making essences.
The base is made from roses. I have grown and nurtured one variety of rose for many years. It is particularly fragrant and was originally a pink Tea rose.
An amazing energy came through me that day while focusing my awareness on the rose blossoms, as they had their day in the sun, nudged against the central crystal in my circle. The experience shocked and delighted me. From my perspective, the light that I am, magnified and intensified from my core out and into the bowl, making the roses dance and spin.
People are ready for this now. It will profoundly restore the sense of self-love and consciousness in a person.
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Its been an abundant fall here. We are bottling mangos, juicing and drying star fruit, and drying and freezing bananas and papayas.Instead of putting the garden to sleep for the winter, here in Hawaii our best gardening season is just beginning. The harsh sun diminishes, and the rains get more regular. Result? Happy little vegetables that need little help from the gardener. So, the beds are full, and the seed trays are pumping out little starts.There is something so deeply comforting about gardening and harvesting abundance. I am grateful.
Gardening has evolved here over the summer. I discovered actively aerated compost tea(AACT). This is a method of taking my own compost and aerating it in a 55 gallon drum for 1 – 2 days. Just add a little molasses to feed the bacteria and off it goes into brewing a frothing liquid that goes right on the ground and on the leaves as soon as it is made. Basically, it is expanding the colonies of bacteria and some fungus into numbers that will increase diversity of the microbial population in the soil. This in turn adjusts the nutrient level available for the plants. Simple. No fertilizers needed. Everything seems to love it and it is free. All you need is a plastic drum, an aquarium pump and stone and your own freshly made compost.
I have learned a few things by trial and error that may be helpful to other gardeners, especially gardeners in Hawaii or rainy areas.
I have been gardening for more than 20 years in the same area. It has taken many shapes and forms. Square, round and now linear mounds. The circle garden is still the center of the garden energy and I love it. Several months ago I was responding to the uncertainty of our planet by planning for more sustainable catching water and growing food. The food part has really been a surprise. Let me tell you about it.
I have doubled my gardening foot print by creating four 16 foot long mounds, about two feet high. The soil and ground preparation consisted of bringing in some beautifl mulchy soil and mixing it with my compost. The mounds were covered in weed barrier cloth, with one foot troughs between them. I then cut X’s into the cloth and dropped in new plant starts.
It has been all planted out for a month or so and the results are shocking. Plant growth that doubles the size of my ordinary plants of the same age. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding tastes good. The benefits are not just the amount of produce. It is the soil that I am saving. Normally our soil here in rainy land gets leached out of all of its nutrients very quickly. Heavy rain turns our ground into clay. Now the heavy rains just roll off, not taking much of the soil nutrients with it. That will pay for it self for years of growing.
Side benefits of this method are lack of weeds, contolled watering through the X’s, and a clean ground cover to protect the plants that get knocked over in the rain and wind.
I would recommend a 20′ x 20′ space with 4 rows of 32 plants per row with high fences around the outside for beans, peas and other vines making the perimeter. That would produce enough food to feed a few families at least. A good use of a samll plot of land in changing times.
Known as “the atomic bomb of the Polynesian Kingdom”, Nioi(Cayenne Pepper) has come into my life and I want to share about it. My body has gone through a respiratory flu bout that lingers. Five days ago I figured that I may need conventional medicines to end the coughing, etc. I intuitively went to my garden and asked whether there was anything there that could cure my body. The strong answer was Nioi(Cayenne Pepper), there in the middle circle, two plants, beautifully hanging their red globes. I grew them as more of an ornamental contrasting plant, but had never done any more than run one over my lips. Picking one, I could feel the life force pulsing and the end of it looked like a real dragon head, ready to shoot fire. I had forgotten the training I received from a Hawaiian herbal healer. He said it was the number one warrior for healing.
Well, of course no one uses the stuff because it can be amazingly painful. Although it is painful to chew, I am witnessing fascinating positive reactions. First day, my eyes stung for hours after I had eaten the pepper. My nose unloaded. Mouth was like a bomb went off. Perspiration, panic and then I just road that first one out. Whew. The second day I only ate a half a pepper. Third, I almost finished one. Next two days, one each, and I’m sliding into a momentum of one a day for who knows how long.
Burning skin in the legs and stomach, intestinal clearing, and heat and perspiration are some of the obvious things that I’ve noticed. Oh, I forgot. The cough is 90% gone. I am convinced that Nioi is a powerful warrior herb for this body. So, it seems that I will continue this one a day thing. Checking it out on the web, I was blown away to read about the effects of Cayenne Pepper. Cayenne has the ability to clear the blood, cure digestive problems and to help people who suffer from cold hands or feet. It alleviates inflammation and can break up the deposits that contribute to the pain of arthritis. It clears sinus congestion, conjunctivitis, and bleeding gums. Because it also has astringent qualities, it can stop bleeding and prevent swelling. A source of Vitamin C, it rejuvenates the entire body when energy is depleted. Then there are the guys that are swearing a shot of cayenne tincture or tea will bring a person back from a heart attach. Amazing stories about how it cures all heart or circulation issues.
So, time passes, the mouth burns and the dead rise.
My little experiment in grazing and dining in the garden this week is making something clear. One needs a lot less volume of stuff going in the mouth when the stuff is just picked. The mind worries about not having enough to eat, when the reality is that we have plenty to eat right in the back yard garden. Add a little fruit, and that should do it.
It is our conditioning around the social value of eating cooked processed food together that holds us back from seeing the obvious. Eat your food right off of the plant or tree and you will receive way more nourishment. Just reporting from my experience.
Chris, my wife, has been traveling and I have gotten further away from normal meals. I am grazing as I work throughout the day. The last four nights I have eaten out of the garden directly. It grows on me. I feel really energized on small quantities of leaves, beans, herbs and flowers. I have been using my intuition to go from plant to plant and it seems to work wonderfully. My mouth feels zingy from the herbs and mints. There is so much food in the garden. It is odd that we learn to prefer the packaged starches and sugars instead of live food. I am happy to report that I am hooked.
This subject is one of my favorite. The garden. I have developed my gardening awareness here in Kauai. 20 years ago I started a garden in a raised bed, rock bordered, square shape. Eventually, my love of the circle motivated me to reconstruct the space with 2 circular garden plots, within each other. Years passed, load after load of my own processed compost was added, and generations of “volunteers” have created a spontaneously regenerating space. The mix of flowers, herbs and vegetables is more determined by nature than me. It truly is beautiful.
The energy in the garden has matured and enlivened to the point that I am occasionally making flower essences in the center of the garden, rather than in the circle I normally use. The energy is palpable.
I am using the garden as my dining room more and more. I have an abundance of lettuce, chard, kale, tomatoes and assorted herbs that I nibble and graze on. They can make a whole meal, mixing and weaving between one taste to another. I move from plant to plant, choosing by color, choosing by taste and choosing by intuition in general. Anastasia, the hero in the Russian Ringing Cedars Press series, has reawakened this practice in her books. The essence of that message is that the consciousness of the plants is prepared to work with us for our health and nutrition on levels that we have forgotten. This fits right in with my flower essence work and is really just another logical extension of it.
Of course, the freshness of just cut plants fades in seconds, minutes, hours and days. By eating the leaves when you pick them, you are taking in the life force of the plant at its most potent point. There is no better way to convert the energy of the plant kingdom for our enlivenment. I’m enjoying this experiment, and I will probably be motivated to write on this subject again soon.
