MONTBRETIA  Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

Montbretia is not native to Ireland, but it grows in just about every hedgerow in the country. Exotic introductions like Montbretia sometimes jump from gardens where they were first introduced, into the wild, where they grow with abandon. Considered invasive, these plants spread like wildfire to correct energy imbalances in the land and to offer vibrational gifts that the land and its inhabitants need.

Montbretia came to Ireland to help to restore joyfulness to a bone weary landscape. Ireland, like its people, has been through the wringer. The glorious orange and flame colored Flowers of Montbretia help both the Irish and their land to experience more fire energy.

The nature of our genetic heritage predisposes each of us to vibrational strengths as well as weaknesses. Montbretia Flower Essence addresses the susceptibility to a wet depression that can come to a person of Irish descent by virtue of his genetic heritage, rooted as it is in a wet and consequently at times, melancholy land. The imbalance that Montbretia addresses might be called an imbalance of too much water energy with a need for more fire energy. The Montbretia Flower sparks Ireland with more fire energy. As an Essence, it will help a person of Irish or other descent lift out of a wet depression into a more fiery heated zest for life. Fire energy is easier to maintain in climates where there is more heat, so there is really no judgment in Montbretia coming with its gift of fire energy. There really is no judgment in any Flower’s offer of assistance. Flowers know that for all of us, the journey is about seeking balance.

There is also a soulfulness in the Irish that is the gift of this damp, watery world. Balance comes in preserving this soulfulness, but bringing just enough joyful heat to keep it from slipping into world-weariness, sadness, melancholy and despair. One of our dear cousins, Maureen, said about a sunny day, “We’d never have to go to Spain if we had more heat and sunshine like this.” I sent her a bottle for in between her heat seeking trips. This is one of the things the Angels told me long ago would be a gift of Flower Essences: They would help us find the balance offered by gifts from the world’s diverse ecologies, even if we could not travel to all these diverse places ourselves.

I AM the heat, light and sparkle of the fire element.  I AM joyfulness.