Nemnach – Hill of Tara – Ireland

Equinoxes occur when the sun crosses the celestial equator in its seasonal migration. This occurs twice a year. The Vernal equinox is in late March and the Autumnal one is in late September. This essence has been made from waters of both equinoxes. A balance of dark and light. This essence is deeply linked to the Dobharchu story and the darkness we can feel around death and depression. There is a transformation within this remedy however almost like a shapeshifter. One must be wary of the darkness that balances our light but we cannot be light without the dark. This essence helps with the inner transformation and shift of the darkness into light. It can help to lift the grief for lost places of your past, a place that you cannot return to, a place that perhaps never was. These waters historic experiences and private stories of loss are held within the valley. Through this essence, there is a transcendence of physical and mental barriers and limitations that resonates with the past and gently evokes the future. It brings new meaning to a place that would have become stagnated in inertia. These remembered local landscapes, the waters, are the messengers of the excluded and perhaps the forgotten. This essence brings a hope for a better tomorrow, transferred through this process of serial dilution to release aspects of space and time.

There is a stillness to the winter solstice, a deep exhale that allows one to contemplate the silence. This essence is about listening, silence and everything that an exhale allows; a letting go, particularly of judgment and control. This essence is very helpful when holding space for other people or the landscape without trying to have any influence over the outcome. When we hold space for others, we can open our hearts, offer unconditional support, and let go of judgment and control. This essence is for those who prefer protected safe places that you can control wherever possible. This means that you generally don’t like people coming over uninvited and that you have firm internal rules about what is a safe place, and what isn’t. Your idea of safety can be quite stringent compared to that of others and is often anchored more to protected places, than to certain people. In addition, you will regularly seek out seclusion in order to find nourishment, wisdom or energy. Conditions are optimum when your safe place is also a space where you are guaranteed seclusion. The essence which is best worn around your neck when needed for long periods, allows for this feeling of safe space to be with you in the more trying times.

Collection point: Glenade lake, Leitrim, Ireland

Latitude : 54 22′ 02”  Longitude : -8 16′ 18”

What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt? This essence is for those who feel they are not seen or heard; a deep heartache that comes from not speaking ones truth. Your silences will not protect you. This remedy helps to give a voice to that silence. The speaking will get easier and easier and you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. This essence is a helpful relief in these challenging circumstances. What is most important is that your truth must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. The issue of “stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest” sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that we still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices. There is a sense of an upward lift that comes with taking this essence: it opens the crown chakra. This is a very helpful essence when self-confidence is needed, and helps one to move forward with projects and goals. It provides a liberating feeling as we move out of old patterns of defensiveness into universal connectedness through the waters and into a pattern of endless flow.