No’s 63-84  Plants - Life Enhancement

Enhance Life’s Experiences - Live Life Consciously

The twenty-two First Light plant essences are made from a spectrum of different types of plants including trees, shrubs, vines, perennials, herbs and ferns.   These natural emotional remedies are life enhancers designed to help enhance life’s experiences and to assist the soul to move through the twenty-two universal archetypal life challenges and situations encountered on the journey of life.

These twenty-two plants are magical helper plants that have been given the responsibility of assisting, protecting and helping the individual soul on its journey and quest. These essences help us to successfully participate in our life, experiencing it as a magical journey with a series of challenges, tests, trials and initiations through which we can progress and emerge empowered and whole.

What follows is a summary of the different qualities and soul potential of each of the Plant Essences, for in-depth information on each Plant Essence and on the collection as a whole, please refer to The Sacred Plant Medicine of Aotearoa: Volume One.

 

No 63  KARAMU – The Manifestation Essence

Soul Lesson:  Knowing one has all the resources needed at one’s disposal

Positive soul quality:

Manifestation; focused intent; focus; directed will; concentration; belief in oneself; belief in one’s abilities; capable; objectivity; feels up to the task at hand; enhanced performance and self-expression; brings it all together; a multi-tasker; coping with many tasks at once; ‘the juggler’.

Negative soul quality:

Feels unable to cope; unable to manifest what one needs; feels unable to influence outcomes; overwhelmed by life; enervated; scattered energies; feels incapable; incompetent; inept; inefficient; feels unable to tap into one’s full potential.

Notes:

Corresponds to the archetype of the magician who is a conscious channel for universal energy.  Use when wanting to be the artist of one’s own life; to energetically align and make plans for achieving goals and bringing dreams to fruition.  Use when one has the seed of an idea, a plan or the inspiration, but need to know how to make it all an actuality.  For the ‘juggler’ who has many things on the go simultaneously.  Use to aid in eloquence: the power of the written and spoken word · Useful for exams, interviews and public speaking.   Use when feeling enervated, overwhelmed by life or not up to the task at hand.

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No 64  KOROMIKO – The Wisdom Essence

Soul Lesson: Remaining neutral and detached to access wisdom and understand deeper significances.

Positive soul quality:

Wisdom; the use of intuitive processes; personal equilibrium; neutrality; energetic autonomy; inner poise and tranquillity; stillness; calmness; clear perception; enhanced inner reserve; detachment; dynamic receptivity; enhanced understanding; self-knowledge; at peace with the mystery of life.

Negative soul quality:

Isolated; lonely; misunderstood; cold; unloved; feels empty; feels alienated; withdrawn; inhibited; questions the validity of one’s own ‘knowing’; overly sensitive with no energetic boundaries between self and others.

Notes:

Corresponds to the archetype of the wise woman – the priestess, healer, psychic.  Calls upon teachers from the inner planes – the archangelic realms – whose responsibility is to work closely and assist one’s soul journey.  Provides access to the eternal divine feminine, especially when working in a universal healing capacity.  Use for protection from emotional tension emitted by others.  Suitable for empaths with high degrees of sensitivity who feel they need a stronger boundary between themselves and their environment.  Use for a sense of calmness and objectivity, or to avoid being drawn into life dramas.  Excellent in a child’s or baby’s bathwater after a busy over-stimulating time.  Beneficial for those left alone in life through separation or bereavement.  Use for emotional self-sufficiency in times of difficulty when there are few external support structures.  Helpful for the scholar, researcher or those who have an inner spiritual focus and who wish to develop their gifts to their full potential.  Helpful for those women who feel they do not fit into the traditional role of the ‘mother’.

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No 65  TREE FUCHSIA – The Feminine Power Essence

Soul Lesson:  Living abundantly, harmoniously and creatively with others

Positive soul quality:

Feminine power; abundance; openness; receptivity; inner harmony; empathy; emotional serenity; feelings of love and completeness; pleasure; contentment; secure within one’s own femininity; emanates a receptive energy.

Negative soul quality:

Emotional dissatisfaction; inner disharmony; inharmonious relationships; suppressed or unsuccessful creativity; difficulty working co-operatively; always giving; neglects own feelings and emotional needs; feels ugly, old or unattractive.

Notes:

Use to connect with one’s feminine energy; the anima.  Use to help honour one’s own feelings and emotional needs.  Use to access the energy of abundance and the limitless creative power of the great mother energy.  Use for any female rite of passage such as pregnancy, birth, menarche or menopause, aging.  Acts as an emotional support during issues around the feminine, fertility, conception, motherhood.  Helps one ‘mother’ or parent oneself.  Use on those days when one feels unloved or that no-one is there for one emotionally.  Use when redefining one’s relationship to the feminine.  Use for the emotional effect of any intrusive physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, psychological, medical or surgical experience directly impacting on the feminine e.g. mastectomy, hysterectomy, abortion, miscarriage.

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No 66  RANGIORA – The Masculine Power Essence

Soul Lesson: Embracing leadership, taking responsibility and acting in an empowered and purposeful manner.

Positive soul quality:

Masculine power; leadership; motivation; foresight; dominion; order and control; organisation; self-determination; self-reliance; responsibility; independence; emanates personal authority and autonomy; effectiveness; has a commanding presence.

Negative soul quality:

Dominating; stubborn; rigid; immovable; overly logical; controlling; overly forceful; unemotional; needs to prove oneself to others; issues around power, control or disempowerment; intimidated by authority figures.  

Notes:

Use to connect with your masculine energy; the animus. Use when feeling weak, ineffectual, unsupported.  Use when needing to be positive, capable, projective, assertive and in control, rather than emotionally driven.  Infuses one with solar force, self-determination and self-confidence.  Use to project oneself powerfully in the world, to win a job, get a raise or gain a job interview.  A great essence for single parents who must be both mother and father to their children.  Use in times of crisis to inspire others with enthusiasm and active leadership.  Helps one ‘father’ or parent oneself.  Use when needing extra strength, physical energy or when faced with additional responsibilities.  Use when seeking to take charge and be pro-active rather than passively waiting for events to happen.

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No 67  RED RATA – The Guidance Essence

Soul Lesson:  Being directed by inner guidance and one’s spiritual connectedness

Positive soul quality:

Guidance; spiritual autonomy; listens to inner instruction; inner tuition; receives a flow of guidance or information; open to the signs and messages in daily life; spiritual connectedness; spiritual open-mindedness; feels a connection to one’s life purpose and life path.

Negative soul quality:

Extreme conservatism; overly conventional; limited rigid beliefs; superstitious; fearful of what others will think; close-minded; a traditionalist; fears the unorthodox; ignores one’s inner promptings.

Notes:

A powerful spiritual essence.  Use to create a bridge between the higher and lower self.  Use when experiencing an inner shift or an urge for something more in life than the material. Use to tap into one’s inner teacher to find a higher answer or resolution.  Use when embarking on a search for personal truth or meaning.  An excellent essence for the counsellor, therapist or those who give guidance, expertise or counsel to others.  A useful essence to take when there is a gap between the perceived ideal and the desired reality.   Use to create a bridge between where one is and where one wants to be. Use to help one regain personal or spiritual autonomy.

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No 68  PURIRI – The Discernment Essence

Soul Lesson: Developing powers of discernment and discrimination

Positive soul quality:

Discernment; discrimination; makes appropriate life choices; enhanced sense of inner union with oneself; experiences balance, inner unity and wholeness within the psyche; emotional intelligence; a positive relationship with oneself.

Negative soul quality:

Inner conflicts and dualities; lack of discrimination in love or in life choices; co-dependence; unsatisfactory relationships; feeling pulled in two directions; feels incomplete without the other; overly impressed or influenced by the qualities in others; looking for qualities outside of oneself; entering into relationships for all the wrong reasons.

Notes

Use to increase discernment when there are major life choices, options or a number of paths to choose from.  Helpful when attracted to an idea or person, but uncertain as to whether it is the right choice.  Helps one resolve major life dualities or inner conflict.  Helps one to see that the qualities we are attracted to in another are the very qualities one is seeking to integrate or reconcile within oneself.  Helps one to ‘know’ who one is and to stay loyal to oneself rather than losing oneself in feeling-based relationships with another. 

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No 69  BRACKEN FERN – The Triumph Essence

Soul Lesson:  Mastering opposing forces and influences

Positive soul quality:

Triumph; overcoming challenges; creates movement; takes action; keeps the momentum; resilient; bounces back from adversity; will-power; determination; discipline; self-control; ambition; drive for success; finds new solutions to problems; body, mind and spirit in accord; stays on course.

Negative soul quality:

Inner conflict; feels at war with self; contradictory thoughts and emotions; uncertain as to where one is going; feels defeated by obstacles or problems; has difficulty coping with over-powering or hostile circumstances, events or change; afraid of opposition or competition.

Notes:

Use for travelling, travel sickness, when moving on or relocating.  Use to stimulate or activate forces or when seeking forward motion.  Helps the soul or higher self to take control of the life.  The essence of the spiritual warrior willing to overcome obstacles.   Helps you to know what you want and supports you as you go out to get it.  A psychic immune system enhancer calling forth nature power and healing forces.

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No 70  HEN AND CHICKENS FERN – The Strength Essence

Soul Lesson:  Harnessing the power of emotions

Positive soul quality:

Strength; passion for life; renewed passion, pleasure and connectedness in life; inner strength; emotional stamina; courage of heart; bravery; fortitude; endurance; self-mastery; resolve; control over one’s animal instincts; control over one’s inner weaknesses; transmutes the raw power of destructive emotions.

Negative soul quality:

No passion for life; loses control of one’s emotions; emotionally reactive; egocentric behaviour; inner rage at not being the centre of attention or getting one’s way; fury at not having one’s needs meet immediately; controlled by one’s inner weaknesses, passions and desires; prone to infantile, egocentric, self-defeating habits, emotions.

Notes:

A stimulating and energising essence.  Use to help overcome self-defeating habits, addictions, emotions or behaviours. Use when starting to break a habit, quit smoking or stay on a diet.  Use to dig deeper to innermost stores of energy; to tap into a source of greater strength beyond limited personal abilities; drawing sustenance from one’s connection to the spiritual world.  Helpful in situations where one has lost heart or courage or has no strength to go on.   Use when needing to have the courage of one’s convictions.   Helps one experience the higher nature as being stronger than the lower.

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No 71  COASTAL CONVOLVULUS – The Reflection Essence

Soul Lesson:  The capacity for self-examination and self-reflection

Positive soul quality:

Reflection; the capacity to go within; contemplation; patience; acceptance; wise counsel; self-reliance; inner silence and stillness; self-evaluation; time out and restoration of the spirit; draws wisdom from life experience; the ‘lighthouse’ who shines one’s light out into the world; helps others to see things clearly; ‘the way shower’. 

Negative soul quality:

Overly-introspective; introverted; aloof; fear of solitude; loneliness; depression; melancholy; tunnel vision; headstrong; refuses to see the obvious, take good advice or to learn from experience.

Notes:

Enhances deepening of spiritual consciousness.  Use after a period of great activity or stress when rest and recovery are needed while one seeks a new direction.  Helpful for those experiencing a period of convalescence.  Use to maximise a period of re-evaluation or self-examination.  Use when withdrawing one’s energies from the outside world, or desiring to pursue a personal vision quest; deepens meditation.  Useful for times of study, retreat or celibacy.  Helps one see matters from a higher perspective or to shine light on a puzzling situation.   Understanding the inner nature of things and seeing one’s part in the plan; shining one’s light like a beacon in the world.

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No 72  SHINING SPLEENWORT – The Synchronicity Essence

Soul Lesson:  Aligning oneself with the synchronicity of the universe

Positive soul quality:

Synchronicity; timely action; luck; good fortune; going with the flow; opportunities come one’s way; in tune with the magic of the moment; attuned to natural cycles, rhythms and timing; non-attachment; reaping what one sows; self-responsibility.

Negative soul quality:

Out of synchronicity; missed opportunities; unlucky; gets tangled up in side issues; recurring problems in the life; gets trapped in negative cycles of karma; nostalgic; accident prone.

Notes:

Enhances one’s ability to live as part of the flow of life and to embrace the twists and turns of life.  Helps one to understand that one cannot control everything.  Use to get ‘in-sync’ and to have a positive relationship with life’s ups and downs.  Benefits those who often feel persecuted by circumstances or the twists and turns of fate.  Enhances the ability to recognise and acknowledge synchronicity at work in the life.

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No 73  Coastal Lobelia – The Decisiveness Essence

Soul Lesson:  Enhancing one’s capacity for objectivity and decisiveness

Positive soul quality:

Decisiveness; equanimity; mental strength and clarity; objectivity; impartiality; judiciousness; balanced assessments and decisions; evaluation; cool logic; constructive thought; fairness; neutrality.

Negative soul quality:

Lack of objectivity; indecisiveness; difficulty reaching a decision; swinging between two viewpoints; hesitant; prejudice; biased attitudes; unreasonable outlook; imbalanced extreme processes; in denial of another’s viewpoint; victim mentality; moody.

Notes:

Use when needing to take strict, impartial action or when significant unbiased decisions need to be made.  Use when weighing up what course of action to take.  Helps one arrive at the truth in order to make a fair decision.  Helps one maintain balance and equanimity.   Helps guard against being swayed by the thoughts or opinions of others.  Helps protect against psychic contamination or the negative thought projections of others.  Helps with inner arguments that go back and forth.  Useful for persistent unwanted thoughts that prevent concentration.  Helps one to come to peace with divine justice, with the affairs of life that seem to be taken out of one’s hands, and to be at peace with the bigger picture. Helps one to see the truth; rather than what one would like to see. 

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No 74  GOLDEN COROKIA – The Surrender Essence

Soul Lesson:  Being able to see life from a different perspective

Positive soul quality:

Surrender; selflessness; inner grace; patience; meets life’s situations with good grace; dedication; devotion; sacrifice; time out for re-evaluation; letting go; ‘hanging loose’; sees matters from a different perspective; reversal of outlook; a transpersonal and transcendent outlook.

Negative soul quality:

Resignation; feels stuck or in limbo; stuck in ‘mid-life’ crisis mode; resists letting go; impatient, uptight or stressed; sees things from one perspective only; losses or reversals in material situations; frustration; meets situations with ill grace or a lack of grace; lacks interest in others.

Notes:

Use when duty or the needs of others have to predominate over one’s own personal desires.   Helpful when making the choice to willingly sacrifice childhood illusions to achieve adult dreams.  Helps when you need to make personal sacrifices in order to achieve a goal.   Shifts the ego identification from one’s personality to a higher spiritual identity.  Helps one to learn how to manage energy, so that it is not expended when it is not required.  Use when experiencing a reversal of normal interests e.g. no longer being motivated by things such as career, money etc.  Useful for the experience of mid-life crisis.  Use when there is stasis: when a situation seems to be showing no sign of change, when nothing is moving, or things feel stuck or stagnant.  Helps one to have patience and wait gracefully for the winds of change.  Useful for those who have involuntarily or voluntarily withdrawn from work day life or normal daily life.  Helpful for times of convalescence.  For those who feel a sense of being different because of personal beliefs, choices or life circumstances.  

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No 75  WHAU – The Release Essence

Soul Lesson:  Being comfortable with death or endings

Positive soul quality:

Release; rebirth; reinvention of self; regeneration; at ease with transition; death-type situations; loss; endings; transformation; metamorphosis; radical change; major shifts; elimination; shedding; moving on from an old definition of oneself.

Negative soul quality

Fear of death and endings; fear of change; lethargy; inertia; no energy; enervated; burnt out; holds on to the past; a cluttered life; retentive; states of depression; extreme despair or absolute dejection; feels stuck; life has lost its meaning; feels dead or utterly lost inside.

Notes:

Use when wishing to transition to a new phase of life by letting go of the old.  Use to perpetuate personal growth and stimulate creation through getting rid of old attitudes and behavioural patterns.  Use when dieting or fasting to help rid oneself of the old.  Helps with severing of powerful psychic connections and moving on from old relationships or activities. Facilitates the release of outgrown attachments to people, places and things.  Supports one during major life events, bereavement, divorce, sudden losses etc.  Useful when something familiar is no longer a part of one’s life.  Use when not wanting to be influenced or distracted by persuasive influences.  Useful for times of spring cleaning; helpful for hoarders; assists one to help let go or clear out the old.

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No 76  NATIVE HAWTHORN – The Moderation Essence

Soul Lesson:  The ability to use ones energies wisely in a balanced way

Positive soul quality:

Moderation; restraint; forbearance; diplomacy; the art of co-ordination; harmony; balance; balanced flow of energy; steadiness of effort; self-control; understanding; tact; adaptability; synthesis; the alchemist turning the dross of life into the gold of experience.

Negative soul quality:

Mood swings; excesses; immoderation; wastes one’s energy; intolerant; over-reactive; out of balance; out of kilter; unable to synthesise the many different factors; everything feels a mess or a muddle; impatience.

Notes:

Is a ‘soother of pain’.  A great convalescent tonic; a gentle balancing remedy to help restore wellbeing.  Heals ancient wounds, past injustices and upsets. Use to allow the passage of time to be a healer and a balancer.  Assists in the release of negative karma and helps one feel compassion for those who have perpetuated pain.  Awakens the inner healer.  Aligns the solar and lunar currents within the body and psyche: alignment of all opposing forces – heaven and earth, solar and cosmic, divine and human.  Useful when introducing a new situation, or having to cope with a new factor or factors in the life.  Use to call upon the mighty forces of nature, the good protective spirits.  The cosmic messenger. Acts as a the bridge between heaven and earth and opens creativity with the soul and with sources of higher inspiration.  Use for inspired perspective, vision, artistry and deep soulfulness which is in touch with higher realms.

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No 77  CLEMATIS – The White Light Protection Essence

Soul Lesson:  Remembering to not take oneself too seriously

Positive soul quality:

Humour; able to keep one’s spirits up; unafraid; reclaimation of one’s power; comfortable with one’s own power; uses power wisely; non-controlling; integration of one’s shadow; facing one’s fears; emotional and mental freedom from fear; is fully present; effective with the things of the material plane.

Negative soul quality:

Fear; manipulation; underhandedness; gives one’s power away; controlled or controlling; personal devolution; feels caught on a downward spiral; attracts negative energies; chaos, addictive behaviours and repetitive scenarios; caught up in fears, desires or addictions; over-serious; harsh.

Notes

Useful when suffering from a protracted illness. A space clearer for negative energy; cleansing and purifying both internally and externally.  Useful for those who give their power away in relationships, or attract negative destructive relationships.  Use when locked into situations where there is a misuse or abuse of power.  Helps one identify who or what one is giving one’s power away to.  Use when caught in a career, relationship or lifestyle that is life-controlling or damaging one’s wellbeing.  Helps those suffering from addictions: nicotine, alcohol, drugs.  Useful when wishing to escape or confront abusive, threatening situations.  Enhances the sense of humour and the capacity not to take oneself too seriously.  Use when confronted by one’s shortcomings, attachments, weaknesses and fears, in order to be able to see them for what they are.  A grounding essence that helps create a connection with powerful earth energies.

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No 78  AKEAKE – The Change Essence

Soul Lesson:  The ability to dismantle what is false or artificial in life

Positive soul quality:

Initiates change; responds positively to catalysts for change or enforced change; lives authentically; reorientation after shock or crisis; awakens to the truth; spiritual shock leads to a spiritual awakening; open to expansions in consciousness; illumination; not afraid to see the truth; sees the reality.

Negative soul quality:

Hides behind a façade; states of inner paralysis; totally set and stuck in one’s ways; paralysis of the life; withdrawn; not fully present; numb; distraught; in a state of shock or disbelief; disoriented; unable to be comforted; unable to pick oneself up, put oneself back together again and move on after setbacks.

Notes

The great awakener; brings clarity to present circumstances. Helps facilitate movement into the new and bring focus into the present.  Use when restrictive circumstances are draining energy.  An ideal space clearer and aura cleanser after shocking or distressing news. Use for the after-effects of physical, emotional, mental or psychically frightening experiences: strengthens the soul to deal with the psychic shock associated with physical or emotional trauma.  Can snap someone out of denial, or begin a process of clearing old shock impactation: useful for chronic or acute shock.  Helpful for those who have withdrawn as a result of a recent traumatic event.  Helps in recovery from deep-seated shock or trauma that has caused a disconnection of the higher self from the body.  Use for any unexpected event or circumstances, such as a sudden upsetting phone call, ‘out of the blue’ news or distressing event. Helps one in an emergency, crisis, accident, shock, change, sudden upset, calamities or setback in one’s life, job or relationship.  Useful for those who have not fully recovered from an initial loss, grief, shock or distressing experience.  Works to dislodge dark energy or blockages that have impacted in the subtle bodies as a result of experiencing pain or hurt.  Helps one to be comfortable with change, so then one is in an ideal position to dismantle or destroy that which is false or artificial in life and which no longer serves.

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No 79  FRAGRANT FERN – The Hope Essence

Soul Lesson:  Redefining oneself and aligning with one’s destiny

Positive soul quality:

Hope; healing; connection to higher spiritual energies; insight; revelation; illumination; charisma; help; protection, luck, inspiration; spiritual support; assistance from higher sources; a lifting of spirit; deep state of peace; spiritual alignment; the water-bearer – who gives something back to humanity; healing the waters.

Negative soul quality:

Hopelessness; depression; utter despair; hopelessly depressed; feels lost and abandoned by God; ‘the dark night of the soul’; abandons the fight; does not realise that difficulty or pain is an opportunity to do the transmutation work of clearing the inner waters.

Notes:

The ‘soother of sorrow’.  Brings deep levels of cleansing and healing to the whole being: purifies blocked and negative energy in and around the energetic body.  Use to tap into the highest energies for help, healing inner strength, inspiration, protection, guidance.  Links one into the unseen but powerful forces at play in the universe. Extremely helpful for those suffering from lingering or chronic illness, at times of death or when assisting a soul to pass over.  Brings rejuvenation and hope when feeling devastated by loss or destruction.   Supports those who seek to give something back to the world by offering assistance, hope or healing to others.  Use for safe travelling through to the next stage of the journey.  A source of hope, help and assistance in times of spiritual transition, crisis, illness, darkness or difficulty.  Provides deep levels of cleansing and healing and can act as a direct link to an influx of power or energy from Spirit.  Reminds one that one is never alone and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.  Use for staying on track, following one’s star and staying true to one’s destiny.

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No 80  RAGLAN ROSEBERRY – The Clarity Essence

Soul Lesson:  Developing increased levels of supersensory capacity and psychic ability

Positive soul quality:

Clarity; listens to one’s gut feelings and instinctual nature; able to access supersensory and psychic abilities; in touch with psychic and supersensory abilities; vigilance; alert and aware; responsive; personal magnetism; sees beyond illusion; able to navigate one’s way through confusing terrain.

Negative soul quality:

Total confusion; over-vivid imagination; feelings and emotions run high; no longer knows what one thinks or feels; lost connection with one’s instinctual nature; feels lost and completely in the dark; feels one is going crazy; inner perturbation; emotional turmoil; uncertainty; questions if one is on the right path; feels insecure and vulnerable; one’s own worst enemy; panic attacks; groundless fears; unconscious anxieties, secret imaginings; fear of persecution.

Notes:

Use when feelings or emotions are running high and clouding a situation.  Use for sleeplessness, nightmares, an overactive imagination.  Useful for feelings of disillusionment, uncertainty.  Use for those who have an overactive psychic life, or who are out of touch with the physical world.  Helpful for the spiritual sensitive with highly refined awareness.  Useful for those who have a tendency to hysteria or emotionality.  Helps with nervousness and overstimulation of spiritual forces which deplete the physical body.  Links one into one’s own self-protective animal instinct, the animal kingdom and the primal state of nature.  Use when imagining worst case scenarios, when fears and imagination have taken over.  Can be used to find clarity and answers in dreams.

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No 81  TANEKAHA – The Joy Essence

Soul Lesson:  The enhanced capacity to radiate increased levels of joy

Positive soul quality:

Joy; happiness; optimism; a sunny disposition; buoyant; sense of fulfilment; enjoyment; contentment; sheer delight in one’s daily life; ordinary activities give one pleasure; enjoys life; sees the world through unjaded eyes; elation; embraces success; expansion; a sense of inner wellness; each day is an opportunity to grow and expand one’s world; freedom at a soul level.

Negative soul quality:

Despondent; gloomy; a jaded outlook on life; boredom; an underlying sense of sorrow; doubtful; weary; pessimistic; feels doomed to failure; low energy; unfulfilled; boredom; a wet blanket; feels as the sun has permanently gone behind a cloud; feels every day is just like any other.

Notes:

Embodies the energy of the sun: helps to shine light back into life.  The return of joy, insight and innocence. Restore joyous child-like enthusiasm and a whole-hearted enjoyment for life.  Use to connect to the joy of the inner child as a source of wellbeing.   Helps one listen to and respond to the soul’s need to grow and evolve through moving out of comfort zones or self-imposed limitations.  Useful for depression, gloom, boredom and despondency.  Use when doubt surrounds plans for success. Use when faced with disappointment or the thought or possibility of experiencing failure.  Use for hyperactive children with an abundance of energy.  Helps clears suppressed toxic memories of childhood and heal old childhood wounds.

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No 82  GOLDEN TAINUI – The Transformation Essence

Soul Lesson:  Being receptive to totally new possibilities

Positive soul quality:

Renewal; responding to the soul’s call to action; being true to oneself; rebirth; resurrection; vision for an entirely new quality of life; new possibilities; revitalisation; the soul breaks free of the limiting control of the personality; transition; transformation; starting anew; irrevocable change; unable to go back, only forward; ready to embrace the new self.

Negative soul quality:

Stuck at a crossroads; delays decisions; won’t let go although the shackles are broken; closes the mind to new possibilities; refuses to respond to the soul’s call for action; being untrue to oneself; the soul’s expression is limited by the limitations of the personality.

Notes:

Use to embrace and celebrate personal rites of passage; to help leave the old life behind and step into the new.  The butterfly emerging from the chrysalis; to assist one on the journey of personal evolution and soul growth when there is no turning back to what or who one was.  Use when one has come through the ‘fire’, irrevocably changed, unable to go back to who or what one was before.  Useful for spiritual surrender or at times of deep transformation: opening one’s heart to the life of the soul and spirit world.  Helps one be receptive to being transformed and changed by every encounter with life.  Embodies the principles of the phoenix that rises up from the ashes; gives the soul the courage to let go and move on to new experiences.  Supports a commitment to major inner changes and the ability to forgive and transcend regret.  Very useful after periods of illness or grief, when ready to face the world again.

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No 83  KAKABEAK – The Completion Essence

Soul Lesson:  Wholeness and stability resulting from successful closure and resolution

Positive soul quality:

Completion; fulfilment; successful closure; inner stability; wholeness; individuation; a sense of true self; synthesis; integration; transition; maturity; spiritual development; total transformation; the world dancer ready to begin a new dance with life, to sing a new soul song; feels a new person; neutrality with the past.

Negative soul quality:

Instability; lack of resolution; life out of balance; lack of closure; sense of incompleteness; emptiness; has not learnt the required lessons; still holds on to the past with its unresolved issues, experiences and emotions; has not learnt the soul’s lesson so unable to move on; still dancing to an old tune even though the music has stopped.

Notes:

The essence of final transition, synthesis and integration of a situation or life lesson.  Use to get a sense of closure regarding an important task, relationship or life phase.  Can provide the successful closure of any human affairs so that one can move on freely and embrace the next level or step.  Enhances holistic living and living in an enlightened manner.  Use for stressful situations; helps one to feel balanced in a changing situation or environment.  Helpful for travel, change of location; use if prone to travel sickness or jet lag.  Assists the body to adapt to the new high frequencies pouring into the planet; perfect for interdimensional stability.

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No 84  KAWAKAWA – The Faith Essence

Soul Lesson:  Moving in faith into deeper levels of the unkown

Positive soul quality:

Faith; moves forward fearlessly; ready to take a leap of faith; courage; the inner freedom of the soul; enthusiasm; interest for life; freedom from care; able to be in the moment; the seeker on the quest; goes into the next adventure; open to new experiences; starting afresh.

Negative soul quality:

Blind faith; recklessness; imprudent; folly; foolish; naïve attitude to life; irresponsible or unrealistic approach to life situations; needs to constantly anticipate the next experience; careless; skates too close to the edge; lives vicariously through others; encourages others to take risks one would not take oneself.

Notes:

Use for a sense of perfection in the moment; joy, love and openness to life; travelling lightly with no personal baggage.  Use to move beyond a careworn, jaded approach and regain a sense of excitement and anticipation in life.  Supports one to live as a free spirit in the truest and purest sense of the word; to embody the experience of true freedom.  Use to remember that one is a spirit having a physical journey.  Supports one to embrace the next adventure and the next evolutionary experience on the journey of life.  Helps one live life from a place of faith and belief in the benevolence of the universe.  Enhances a connection with life and creates a powerful protective resonance in the energy field.  Use for support to take the next leap of faith on the quest.

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Boxed Essences Set (63-73)

Presented in a beautiful box set and includes essences No's 63 Karamu through to and including 73 Coastal Lobelia.

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Boxed Essences Set (74-84)

Presented in a beautiful box set and includes essences No's 74 Golden Corokia through to and including 84 Kawakawa.

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Life Enhancement Set (63-84)

Presented in two beautiful box sets, this is the full Plants - Life Enhancement collection, No's 63 - 84. They are life enhancers designed to help enhance life's experiences and to assist the soul to move through the twenty-two universal archetypal life challenges and situations encountered on the journey of life.

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