How To Process Flower Essences at Home

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How To

Process Flower Essences at Home

From Phylameana lila Desy,

Your Guide to Holistic Healing.

Selecting essences is often a process of inner growth and awareness. Flower

essences are the blossoms of plants prepared from a sun infusion in a bowl of

water, then further diluted, potentized, and then preserved with brandy.

Difficulty: Average

Time Required:

4 to 6

hours

Here's How:

1. Sterilize your equipment

by washing with hot soapy water. Be sure not to touch the inside surface of

bowl and jars after washing to insure the purity of the essence to be

processed.

2. Intuitively connect with

the Deva (entity or life spark) of the flower you have chosen to process in

deciding how many actual flower heads are to be collected (generally one to

five).

3. Collect the flower head by

snipping them onto the glass saucer while being careful not to handle them.

Touching them or sniffing them will alter the flower's energy.

4. Remove the petals using

scissors or tweezers. Allow the petals to fall onto the glass saucer without

handling them with your hands.

5. Fill two-quart bowl with

one quart of distilled water.

6. Lift the petals one by one

and place them in the bowl of water so that each petal touches the water

surface. The petals will float. Shake loose all the stamen before hand.

7. Place the bowl in the

garden or sunny place outdoors.

8. Repeat steps 2-7 for each

individual flower variety that you are making during the preparations.

9. Give prayerful request to

the nature spirits for the healing properties of the flowers be treated by the

sunlight. Allow 30-60 seconds per bowl full of petals. Deva energy is

cosmically released into the water.

10. Allow the grounding

process to take place. 3 hrs. - sunny day, 2 hrs. - partly sunny day

11. Fill two quart canning

jars with approximately 1 qt. of brandy. Recommended ratio is 40-50 percent

brandy and 60-50 percent essence (no more than 50 percent brandy).

12. Fill the remainder of the

jars with the solarized flower solution.

13. Secure the jar with clean

lid and bands and label with name of flower and date.

14. The finished jars can be

then placed in the center of your garden or an alternate " power spot "

for final processing.

15. Congratulations, your

mother tinctures are complete! Your stock essences can be diluted into dosage

portions at your convenience.

Tips:

1. Tools and supplies needed:

scissors, long tweezers, 2 quart glass bowl, glass saucer, distilled water, quart

canning jars and lids, brandy

2. Best time for collecting

flowers: 8 AM - 10:30 AM. A sunny day is a must in preparing flower essences!

3. Choose flowers a day a

head of being fully open.

4. Choosing which flower to

be made into essences for your personal use can in itself be a process of inner

growth and awareness.

 

“Fortunately

art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a

spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the

flesh.”

 

-Allen Ginsberg

 

 

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