Recognising and accepting our darker side
Made at New Year, Honouring Our Shadow naturally incorporates the energies of Janus, the Roman god of contrasts, whose two (sometimes four) faces help us look in all directions whilst making new beginnings.
The essence first supports and encourages us to see in the dark. This can be one of the most humbling experiences we can undertake but, in the process, many of our shadow aspects can, at least, become illuminated and transformed into 'saving graces'. Our dark controlling side, for example, can now be honoured as the shadow of our desire to help others; our 'selfishness' the shadow of our willingness to love and care for ourselves as well as our selflessness in allowing others freedom to do the same. We can also begin to recognise the traits we dislike in others as projections of qualities we do not like in ourselves. With the healthy introspection and wisdom Honouring Our Shadow encourages, our darker side can thus become a key teacher, giving us access to our undeveloped potential.
Honouring Our Emotional Shadow Reconciling and releasing emotional problems
This essence helps to reconcile and release emotional problems from our past or present lives. Emotional shadows are amongst the most destructive aspects of our dark side and can adversely affect not only ourselves but those around us. They also limit us and impede our growth and progress.
Emotions often get buried into our shadow so that we can cope and survive. But, unless dealt with these 'ghosts' will haunt our lives. At the least they may cause an irritating behaviour patterns such as feeling unable to give a public speech or constantly worrying about being late for appointments. At the worst they may cause havoc with very basic aspects of our lives such as career, relationships, success and finances. This essence combination provides insight into paterns within our behaviour that result from emotional shadows. It then supports us whilst we return to the source of the problem, to accept, forgive and release before moving on.
Honouring Karmic Shadows Karmic release and pattern breaking
Our actions in past lives affect many aspects of our present life such as attitudes, nature, disposition, character, behaviour, relationships and even health. Indications often show as patterns within many generations of a family. They can range from addictions or other forms of self destructive behaviour to misuse of power for personal gain; poor anger management to abusive behaviour; inadequate parenting to life styles that generate specific health problems. Individually, unhealthy attachments to one particular person may also have karmic origins. This combination helps break these unwelcome influences and releases us from them, stopping the cycle, so we can move on in this and our future lives.
Honouring Our Sexual Shadow Reconciling and releasing sexual problems
This essence helps to reconcile and release sexual problems from our past or present lives. Our sexuality is the most intimate, private aspect of who we are and, for this reason, its links with our behaviour and lifestyle patterns can become deeply suppressed in our shadow. Problems may range from difficulties with our sexual orientation to how we feel about our bodies; from how we express ourselves physically towards others to the types of relationships we choose. This powerful mix of crystal, moss and flower essences helps by linking the sacral and brow chakras, providing access to deep, unconscious or suppressed issues that are affecting us. We begin to see clearly within and without. The combination then connects us emotionally and spiritually with our physicality. This allows imbalances to be adressed by Honouring Our Sexual Shadow's powerful signatures of acceptance, forgiveness and love - helping and guiding us towards become healthier, happier sexual beings.
Honouring Our Inner Adolescent Rites of Passage to Youthful Adulthood
This combination aims to reconclile and release any problems remaining from our adolescent years such as heartaches of unrequited love and broken relationships, including those with members of our family; issues relating to our body and appearance which have become translated into destructive behaviour in our adult life; sexual problems; loneliness arising from our failure to recognise our inherent talents and to find our place in society; and inability to make the right of passage from child to adult so that we try to exist as perpetual Peter Pans avoiding responsibilities and commitments. As these issues are addressed and resolved, our inner adolescent strengths can shine through so that, whilst remaining responsible adults, we can still feel passion, live in a world that is essentially good, take occasional risks, experiment and try new things and remain youthful in all aspects of our lives.
Honouring Our Inner Child Reconciling and releasing problems from childhood
The combination comforts and rebalances that part of our inner child that has been hurt or damaged, whilst bringing out its most spontaneous and joyful traits. Part of the process is to help us to accept, truly, and love ourselves as we are, to forgive those who have caused those restricting hurts and pains, such as fear, regret and lack of trust and to choose to move on from a numbing past to a joyful, fun-loving and positive future.
Tools for the Journey
Closure Drawing a line under the past
Sometimes we just can't draw a line under the past and become stuck on a particular event, person or issue. We may even develop unhealthy, obsessive behaviour patterns. Closure was made, under spiritual guidance, from ancient stone carvings and circles and will help free us from the ties that are restricting our progress.
Entity Release Clearing unwanted energetic life forms
Entities are energetic life forms that become attached to the energy fields of people, buildings, environments, etc. They can be created in many ways, from strong negative emotions, to spells or curses which have taken on a life of their own; firm decisions we have made about past or present life experiences to souls who are out of time, place, body or this world. Sensitive people will be quickly aware of such presences around themselves or others. Lay people most often notice a sudden personality or behavioural change in a loved one or a dark/strange aura around them.
We can be particularly vulnerable to picking up entities as children, at times of ill health, during operations involving anaesthetics and, or course, if we dabble with the black arts. Entity Release is a powerful, lunarised, environmental essence made on 6th June 2006. Use it intuitively whilst connecting with the love and compassion the essence radiates towards the entity as it transforms then guides it through a tunnel of light back to the fifth dimension.
Growth Without Pain Effecting yet easing the process of change
This is a powerful essence that promotes fundamental changes in a magical way. It contains Enchanter's Nightshade, named after Circe, the 'dark goddess', famous for her ability to turn humans into beasts and vice versa. Growth without pain, however, captures Circe's lesser known skills of compassionate restoration which she used to counteract confusion and inaction, divert from danger and oppression, and transform primal, chaotic or destructive urges into positive drives. The essence additionally effects spiritual purification and unity so that we feel reborn, balanced and whole.
Harmony and Balance Brings equilibrium when we or our lives are imbalanced
The symbol for this set of essences is the Yin and Yang sign. Yin and Yang literally mean 'dark side' and 'sunny side' of a hill and are analogies for the harmonious interplay of opposites in the universe. Just as the areas of light and shade on a hill change throughout the day, so yin is constantly changing into yang and yang into yin. Ideally, however, they must compensate for each other to keep balance and equilibrium. Imbalance in the body obstructs the vital life force, or ch'i and causes dis-ease. This combination epitomises the goal of the Lighten our Darkness series. Use it to restore balance and harmony to mind, body and/or spirit.
