Pink Yarrow from the Cliffs of Moher Achillea millefolium

The Cliffs of Moher on Ireland's wild, west coast plunge 700 feet down to the Atlantic.  Luminous green fields drop abruptly to the sea far below.  Only the sea birds, circling along the cliff's walls, and people, the size of dots, standing at the top, give any sense of the scale of this majestic place.

My husband loves heights: I don't.  The first time we went to the Cliffs, in 1980, there were no fences.  He lingered on one precipice after another next to signs like "Beware, edge is prone to crumble."  I imagined newspaper headlines like "Honeymoon High Point ends in Free Fall to Atlantic".  In 1998, when we returned for a second visit, there were fences everywhere.  My relief was short lived, as the Elementals wanted Jim to pick this Pink Yarrow as close to the Cliff's edge as possible.  How quickly he bounded over the fence to pluck those flowers!  The Pink Yarrow is a marvelous Essence, but I think the Angels own me for this one!

Like the site where these flowers grew, this Pink Yarrow has a vibration of confident splendor, complete ease and unapologetic self-expression.  The energy of the Essence encourages us to shine in all our glory even when we are in a place of extreme exposure or feel very exposed. The Essence awakens us to our eternal "safety" no matter where we are.

In 2005, when I returned to the Cliffs of Moher to make more of this Essence, I arrived to be greeted by distressed Elementals.  The day was so foggy that we actually could not see the Cliffs.  Everything seemed turned around in a chaos of major construction.  The only noise was the noise of construction vehicles and the only visible lights, the blinking lights of enormous excavators.   The vibration of the place felt terrible. The Elementals told me that blasting with explosives for  "site improvements" had disrupted the energies of the entire Cliff.  The blasting was done for  a  new underground visitor center but  like so many other things humans do, this project, meant to ease the human impact on the location, had inadvertently violated all the sacred energies of the place.  After commiserating with the Elementals, I turned to go.  "Wait" they said "We still want you to make Pink Yarrow from the Cliffs of Moher.  This time we bring to the Essence an even deeper strength to hold one's own inviolate spirit in spite of destructive events."  Well away from the crowds and the construction, I found the patch of Pink Yarrow which the Elementals wanted me to use for  the Essence. Even as I write this I feel such awe and gratitude for  the Elementals.  They continue to hold  the place in form despite grievous human errors, AND they still reached out to the human community  with the generous offer of this Essence.  They really walk their talk with this Essence!

I AM joyful self-expression wherever I AM for I AM always safe in God's arms.