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 which 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 Montretia 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.  A vibrational strength of the Irish and the land of Ireland is an energy of perserverence and also a deep rugged vitality, this ability to keep going for eons.  Montbretia addresses the wet depression that can come to a person of Irish descent by virtue of his genetic heritage rooted in a wet and consequently at times  melancholy  land.  The imbalance which 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 descent lift out of the wet depression into a more fiery heated zest for life.  Fire energy is easier to maintain in balance 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 Flowers offer of assistance.  They know this whole journey is a journey of seeking balance.

There is a soulfulness in the Irish that is the gift of their 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 will send her a bottle for inbetween 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 of the world's diverse ecologies even if we could not travel to all these diverse places.

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