Omey is thought to have been the last refuge of the pagans when Christianity came to Ireland. The number of standing stones and standing circles on the island boggled my mind. Later, Omey was the home of St Feichin's monastic cell. People continue to visit his holy well and church ruin. In modern times, a viking warrior in full battle dress was uncovered in the tidal sands. Clearly, Omey has a complicated history with humanity.

This is a beautiful and magic island. In late June and early July when we visited, Omey was covered in a solid mass of blooming Thyme and dozens of other kinds of Wildflowers. Its rolling dunes were a haven for immense flocks of birds, thousands of rabbits, and the ubiquitous happy Irish cows. At low tide the sands of the strand were visited by riders on Connemara ponies. A number of beaches around the island had the same powdery white sand as the strand. Never once did we share whatever sandy beach we chose with anyone else, much as we would have gladly shared such bounty. The other more rocky beaches were sprinkled with round white quartz pebbles and brilliant yellow snail shells making every walk across their rocks a treasure hunt. To step anywhere on this island was to be immersed in such beauty. At the top of the island was a cairn of rocks which we visited daily, a spot of such love, wisdom and power that to stand there was an exhilarating experience of being recharged and restored.

Land is always overlighted by Angels. While the Elementals of a place are responsible for holding a place in form, the Angels hold the divine plan for a place and hold its emotional content. In talking with the Overlighting Angel of Omey, I came to think of her as one with the island and so refer to her simply as Omey. What she shared with me in the following conversations clarified the divine purpose of Omey and also illuminated the Omey Island Essence we made of her vibration to share with all of you.

In thanks for our time on her, I asked if Omey would like me to clear her emotional, physical, spiritual and etheric body. With her okay, this was something I began to do every day and will continue to do from Green Hope Farm until I am asked by Omey to stop. During my visit, I was bothered by the flotsam and jetsam that came in with each tide but you'll see below what Omey had to say about this.

My first message from Omey: "I AM a ravaged land, a holy land, a land grounded in the heart of God yet covered with a crust of debris. I thank you for your efforts to remove this debris. This serves me more than any futile efforts to remove the trash that floats in with each tide. I have a long long history with mankind much of it, most of it, unrecorded. I have been a refuge, a sanctuary, a retreat, a base camp. Sometimes people have seen me as I AM but this has been a rare occasion. A few rare souls come without agenda. I thank you for your efforts to do this yourself.

The rabbits are very good for the island. They dig up and release etheric garbage. The Flowers bejewel my jewel of a vibration and I share them with you with delight. It is good you are searching my every crevice and cranny for there are many gems here serving the light but happy to be part of this project. I have much to share with the world and humanity. I AM of this world but not in it. That is the nature of my tidal strand. I come and go, yes a bit like Avalon..."

Many Flowers wanted to be made into Flower Essences on this trip and many came from Omey. When a Flower catches my attention, I ask if it wants to be made into a Flower Essence. On some trips, the Flowers are not familiar with Flower Essences and each Flower needs an inservice about how it will be offered to the world. During this trip, the Flowers were primed and ready. They knew of my coming and were ready to go. Often they started to talk immediately, telling me their name and that it was time for them to be made into an Essence. It was an atmosphere of harmony and enthusiasm the likes of which I have not previously experienced anywhere but here at the farm.

One day, Omey said it was time for me to make a combination remedy carrying her vibration. This Essence was made at the cairn at the top of the island after a slow walk across her slopes collecting every Flower blossom she wanted in her mix. The following is her discussion of this Essence.

Second message from Omey: "I AM all about edges. People at the edge of their lives, pushed there by circumstances, will find me a help in letting go of control or the illusion of control and going instead inwards to a different experience of their lives. By edges I mean places where the business of life has been stripped back and fallen away due to losses, changes in circumstances, illness, places where much that has seemed essential is gone and the person feels raw and vulnerable with both less of a feeling of worldly protection or buffering but also less worldly burdens. I help people to realize less is more. I help them in this pared down place on the edge to feel closer to their eternal self, more whole even though circumstances of their worldly life might suggest they are broken, empty, less than.

I help people to see more clearly from this pared down vista and to actually experience the spiritual richness that is their birthright. I help lift them out of emotion based reaction towards a view uncluttered by preconceived notions. You, Molly, in your experience of life have found, when the dust settled, that experiences of loss and suffering took you to a deeper experience of your divinity, your eternal self, your true nature as love. I AM another wayshower for people amidst the loss and suffering who want to find that expanded sense of themselves, who are understandably submerged by the experience of loss and suffering and would like a life raft and companion guiding them.

I exist as a place in time yet, what I have tried to bring to this Essence is my timeless self. An experience of my timeless self via the Essence then becomes an opportunity for others to experience their timeless self. In this way, I am a sister in your journey. We can together know our timeless identity in God.

Yes, let me talk about my choice to overlight a tidal island. This reflects both my desire to be available to seekers but also remain anchored in my identity beyond form. The tides closing me off from visitors twice a day are symbolic of this balance. As I said before, I AM of the world but not in the world.

As a pure island, I would have a quality of being remote that is not of my Essence but here, overlighting Omey, I am both available and also in sanctuary. This makes me a profoundly helpful Essence for those who are struggling to find a better balance between giving selflessly to others and staying anchored in their divinity with their inner batteries fully recharged by this experience of themselves. My opening and closing to the worldly world is regulated by the moon, in all its intuitive grace, so my rhythm is evolved, ever changing but ever balanced. I will help each of you to find this in your own life.

Look how this worked for you, Molly. After the flood of excitement of travelling across Ireland; so many vistas, so much stimulation, you felt initially claustrophobic and constrained by all the hours when you could not leave here. The stimulation of the modern world makes balance very difficult and pushes humanity towards a fevered pitch of externally driven activities. The restraint imposed by my tidal nature slowed you down and returned you to a balance of rest, reflection, inner recharging counterbalanced by the pleasures of the world off island. I hope in my Essence, to help each person find the balance of travels in the external and internal realms. I will mark the way of balance. It will be your choice to decide what to do with this information

Q: One more thing I wanted to ask you, Omey, was about the way your tides and the rhythms of the moon, all big picture realities, define your availability and closed off times. Could you say, Omey, that you and your essence help people to accept the rhythms imposed on them by divinity, here embodied in nature, i.e., it is not civilization closing off the islands with stop lights, but the moon, the heavenly body of the moon.

A: Yes, exactly. I , in my acceptance of the rhythms of the tides, something not at all in my control, offer a vibration to the spiritual seeker of acceptance at the rhythms and constraints imposed on them. Everything divinity does is for the best. I help you know this.

Q: So this is what you were talking about in your discussion of people's whose lives seem pared down?

A: These are the bigger rhythms of each incarnation. Finding a bead on acceptance of these bigger rhythms helps people to harvest the gift of these larger experiences of being constrained and closed off from a bigger worldly life. In other words, illness or other paring down experiences are times of the tide closing one off from the shore. With acceptance comes the opportunity to go inward and find the purposes and consolations of the experience.

Q: So it is all about FLOWING not pushing. Letting life carry us from one experience to the next, letting life, the divinity in all things, create the rhythm.

A: The culture pushes right now towards external stimulation. This pushing is out of balance. For example there is no balance in cell phone technology. Are you really designed to be talking to people all the time, anywhere with anyone? Is this balance? No!

Q: Can you talk to me about inner pushing? Discernment about this balance?

A: What I hope my Essence will do is act almost like a highlighter pen so that you know and experience the difference between your personality pushing you and your own divinity guiding you in a true rhythm. I hope my example of balance will illuminate your own inner guidance about balance and help you know what is personality pushing and what is alignment with the divine rhythms of life for you.

Q: So when you talked about edges before, you could be talking about when people find themselves thrown out of their personality's ideas of rhythm into divine rhythm.

A: Yes, exactly. As you reorient yourself to a pared down or different situation than your personality desires, peace comes when you know the pared down situation is in divine order. This is part of what I KNOW, part of my wisdom.

My hope is that my Essence will support you in two primary ways. First, illuminating the guidance you receive to bring your life into balance and second, illuminating the divine wisdom in all of us that will help you know the constraining circumstances of your life are in divine order.

FLOWER ESSENCES FROM IRELAND 2005

The Flowers behind these Essences grow in extreme environments with little or no encouragement from their coastal environment yet they are bold, joyful, in a word irrepressible. Each has a very strong, unique, and enduring vibration offered to us with complete generosity in these Flower Essences.

Many of these Essences offer consolation during difficulties yet they also have more timeless gifts of reminding us of the great joys of being alive. I am delighted so many Flowers wanted to come to the New World as Flower Essences to remind us of our own inner strengths, inner beauty and ability to make the best of any situation.

Please note, many Flowers wanted to speak for themselves. I distiguish between my words and theirs by putting theirs in quotation marks.

Some but not all of these Flower Essences are listed on our original order blank. ALL are available and listed on our Research Order Form.

Autograph Tree at Coole Park anchored in Bellis perennis

Birdfoot Trefoil from Gallarus Oratory Lotus corniculatus

Biting Stonecrop Sedum acre

Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum

Bog Cotton

Bog Pimpernel Anagalis tenella

Bramble Rubus fruticosus

Buddleja from near Ashford Castle Buddleja

Common Knapweed Centaurea nigra

Common Ragwort Senecio jacobea

Common Scurvygrass Cochleria officinalis

Common Spotted Orchid  Dactylorhiza maculata

Devil's Bit Scabiosa  Succisa pratensis

Dwarf Common Centaury  Centaurium subcapitatum

English Stonecrop  Sedum anglicum

Escallonia  Escallonia franciscana

Fragrant Orchid  Gymnadenia conopsea

Heath Milkwort  Polygala gerpyllifolia

Inishbofin

Irish Heaths Calluna vulgaris, Erica Cinerea, Erica erigena, Erica mackaiana, Daboecia cantabrica

Kidney Vetch  Anthyllis vulneraria

Ladies Bedstraw  Galium verum

Montbretia  Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora

Mountain Avens  Dryas octopetala

Navelwort  Umbilicus rupestris

Omey Island -  This lovely combination mix is described in the opening discussion of this page

Pink Yarrow from the Cliffs of Moher Achillea millefolium

Pyramidal Orchid  Annacamptis pyramidalis

Ragged Robin Lychnis flos-cuculi

Rhododendron from near Ashford Castle

Scarlet Pimpernel  Anagallis arvensis

Sea Aster  Aster  tripolium

Sea Bindweed  Calystegia soldanella

Sea Campion  Silene maritima

Sea Holly  Eryngium maritimum

Sea Mayweed  Tripleurospermum maritimum

Spring Sandwort  Minuvartia verna

Thyme from Omey Island  Thymus praecox

White Orchid from the Burren

Wild Fuschia  Fuschia magellanica

Wild Thrift or Sea Pink  Armeria maritima

Yellow Loosestrife  Lysimachia vulgaris

I am indebted to Jane and Dieter Stark of Cleggan, Co. Galway for their wonderful Connemara Wild Flowers book, soon to be available on line.  Lovely photographs and much needed Latin names matched their great written descriptions of many Flowers I met for the first time on this trip.  Their insights into the history of the Flowers proved a departure point for many of the Flower's discussions of their vibrational strengths.  Complete Irish Wildlife by Paul Sterry also proved a friend in the field.

While I was working on this definitions list with the Angels and Elementals of these Flowers in late July 2005, Patricia asked me if I thought the Elementals that had returned with the Essences were going to stay.  She  could feel them all here with us.  This got us all wondering. Why had the Elementals in Ireland been so focused and supportive of our project?  Did they want to comment in any way on our project here at the farm?  This was the answer I received:

"We have "seen it all" however we have seen too much of some things and too little of others.  This project re-antimates our interest in things human because it works with us versus against us, as is more often the case.

We steady this planet.  We steady our emerald island.  Most often, we steady against the imprecations of humans.  But we find in this project, humans working to steady the planet with us.  We thank you one and all for working with Flower Essences and working to both balance yourself and your worlds.  We need you.  We need you most intently right now.  Much water is coming unless more of you concentrate on this steadying work.  It is okay if this water comes.  We say again, if waters come, it will be alright.  We have seen waters come and waters go.  The essential you survives even if you go through the death process.  The earth and human communities can be restored after such floods.  We can rebuild, we can remake, we can reinvigorate when such things as water cleanse the Earth but it is much labor that would not be necessary if more humans come to the fore with their own steadying efforts.

What do we mean by steadying?  Your efforts to find balance in your lives matter.  Your efforts to balance your impact on your environment matters.  We want to clarify that while your "ecological footprint" is grossly out of balance in the western world, the most pressing need is for you to work on your emotional footprint.  What do we mean by this?  We mean you must stop leaving your emotional chaos littering the natural world.  You must invoke us to clear it from the land you inhabit.  We hope you will deal with the imbalances of your giving and receiving relationship with us and live with us more as partners than in a master/ servant dynamic HOWEVER, the most pressing need is for you to clear the environment of your emotional garbage.

We asked  Molly to put a basic procedure for land cleansing after our message.  You may think that your contribution to this effort could not make any difference.  You would be wrong in this.  We were interested in Molly's farm, small though it is, because, in part, the routine energetic cleansing done at this farm has helped in a significant way.  We speak in a united voice with our brethren Elementals of the New World when we speak of the significance of energetic cleansing.  Every place that is routinely  cleared, no matter how small, has an exponential effect in terms of restoring the Earth.

You like to think of us as the little people of the old country; magic, mischievous, ancient, wise, guardians of earth treasures.  We may be all these things.  We would most certainly like to come into deeper communion with you and share our world view.  If you want to begin a deeper relationship by helping us in some way, doing any variation of the following process would be much appreciated. Green Blessings!

An INTRO to LAND CLEANSING from Molly

ENERGY CLEANSING PROCESS

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