Snowdrop Flower Essence

I took my first flower essence when I was 20 years old….a long time ago now!  At the time I was suffering from severe anxiety as a young history and archaeology student at University.  Like many people who journey with flower essences, the first I took was a Bach remedy from the local health store on the recommendation of my very wise mother.   Having been in the education system for years though, I viewed the flower essence with a great deal of scepticism and deep suspicion: how would a bottle of water and alcohol that had been immersed in shrubbery actually help the mental torture that I was experiencing?! I loved and respected my mother (who was and is years ahead of her time) but my academic brain that was trained to analyse and interrogate data and ideas for EVIDENCE was not convinced.  I took it and declared “I could feel nothing” and that it therefore did nothing.  I didn’t expect it to work and this became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or did it?  Flower essences work on a deeply energetic level on our energetic bodies especially the emotional body.  Back in the 90’s I understood very little of what I understand now about myself, the Universe and energy.  I was far too cut off from Nature, my own nature and frozen by trauma that had numbed my senses from feeling.  Conversely, I was and am a powerful psychic medium, intuitive channel and energy worker. I was far too humble and self-depreciating then to even comprehend that.  So I had mixed messages and I didn’t understand them and in the confusion I protected myself from all the strange and beautiful things that happened to me back then by denying them and dismissing them.  It would be another 8 years before I could truly start to shake off my disbelief and start to trust in the energy of things that I couldn’t see (although alarmingly for me and having an extremely developed clairvoyance: I often did!) and at least another ten years after that before I truly believed in Nature Spirits, Fae and that crystals really “worked” and weren’t just beautiful trinkets I’d collected over the years. So why am I telling you all of this? I suppose because you might feel the same way I felt about flower essences.  How can placing flower petals in water in the sun or moonlight and then preserving them with spring water create  powerful healing within our minds and emotions?  Worse still, how can channelling Goddesses, Angels and other deities or environmental energies help us to heal?  I can only tell you of the magic of mine and other people’s experience of the healing nature of these essences. In this column I’m going to take you through a year of the flowers every month by suggesting to you the flower essence that might be the most helpful for you to take to align yourself with the power of nature and the true power of yourself.  This helps us be more in the flow and when we are more in the flow we are more relaxed, more likely to follow our passions and our dreams and more likely to achieve happiness and peace. So every month I will tune into the Nature Kingdom and co-create this column with my Fae guides to bring you the flower essence or Goddess or environmental essence that they guide me will help you most and I am so excited to do this as this is part of my soul mission, my dharma. This month I bring you two essences that come through so strongly at this time of year to work with to support you.  The first is Snowdrop flower essence.  At this time of the year the Snowdrop is one of the first flowers to emerge from the ground and has long been admired as the first heralder that Spring is on its way.  As such, this delicate flower brings hope and the chance to start over again. It is also associated with the Celtic festival of Imbolc and Goddess Brigid, who is my Goddess. It helps align with your energetic body and your emotional and spiritual bodies to a fresh start, clearing away the old and making energetic space for the new to come into your life. It is at this festival that we plant our seeds of intention metaphorically for the year. Taking and aligning with the energy of the beautiful and delicate snowdrop helps us manifest and keep the original purity of our inner vision. If you are beginning a new career or study or anything new it will help you “grow” this beautifully.