LOVE PREVAILS

This Essence took two years and two different Venus Garden mandalas for its creation. The second season of 2004, the design I was given by the Angels was very simple. An outer ring of French Marigolds was intermingled with big circles of Sweet Alyssum. Inside this outer ring there were two rings of Red Shiso, our beloved stabilizer. Inside this was a ring of Mehera White Marigolds and inside this ring was a final inner circle of Red Shiso. The combination of Red Shiso and White Marigolds was striking. It was a wonderful boost to our Essences that our Red Shiso was grown in the transformative energies of the Venus Garden. However, one glory of this garden surprised us all.

As I explained earlier, once we plant a garden, we stay in close contact with the Angels and Elementals of the garden. The Angels know the divine plan for the garden and keep us to this plan. The Elementals tell us what the garden needs in terms of mulch, watering, or other hands-on care. Usually with Venus Garden incarnations, we are asked to weed out everything we did not actually plant. This year, the Angels had us leave the volunteer seedlings that appeared in the southwest quadrant of the garden, spilling from the center of the garden all the way to the outer edge of the garden. The garden grew up and the rings of Red Shiso and Marigolds became a cup or chalice for this outpouring of volunteer Pink Cleomes, spilling over like a flood of incredible, spontaneous, rejuvenating love. 

The striking focus of this garden became this rush of ever renewing Pink Cleome blossoms. This stately plant had an orb of spidery pink blossoms that continued to bloom until heavy frosts in late October. Each orb of Flowers constantly budded new Flowers at its top, even as those farther down the Flower stalk turned to dramatic long seedpods. I know of very few Flowers that bloom continuously from the same Flower head until heavy frost. Pink Cleome does this.   

After the fall equinox, the Angels said the garden was ready to be made into the long awaited combination mix. They called it Love Prevails. When making the Essence, the bowl of Flowers from the garden sat in the sunlight at the very spot the Pink Cleomes spilled over from the garden out into the larger world. It felt so perfect that the Pink Cleome arrived in divine order, unsought and unplanted by us, but central to the whole configuration. My illusions can make me wonder where love went, but it went nowhere. Love is. Love is here. It never left and never will. Love prevails.

This is a strong combination Essence. When I have worked with it, I have felt like it was going all the way into my very bones to offer illumination to each cell of my being, revealing the love that prevails in all things. I am delighted to offer it to you all.

Love Prevails is part of Green Hope Farm's Bee Happy Trio.

“I wanted to let you know that many of the Green Hope Essences were a great support to my mom during her passing from this life to the next last November.  And to me as well, during the years I cared for her at home, during the last days of her life, and throughout this year as I adjusted to the loss of her physical presence.” C.M., Ithaca, NY