Turk’s Cap Cactus - Melocactus intortus   

This glorious plant engaged in lively conversation with me as I hiked a remote peninsula on the eastern windswept and arid edge of St. John.   Its vivid pink flowers spiral around the top of a flat spiky surface with gem like magenta fruits rising up from this spiky matrix. 

Turk’s Cap Cactus tells us,   “I help people to “get” you and “get” what you are saying.  This is a visceral experience which can bypass much misunderstanding.  While you take the Essence, the effect is to bring you into focus for others.  I also help clarify to you your right to be.  If you have any doubts about your right to be in your life, consider working with me.

I help you clarify  your boundaries so you can hold an appropriate relationship with your environment and the community you are in.  There is no need to feel apologetic or ambivalent about being here.  To coin a phrase ‘The place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.’   I help you feel and know your right to be where you are.

I thrive when conditions work for me, specifically much open ground and bold sunlight but if my micro climate changes and things get too shady, I withdraw my energy serenely .  Thus, I help you with graceful withdrawals when circumstances shift and you need to no longer be engaged in some of the same relationships or endeavors that once served you.”

I AM confident and serene about who I AM, where I AM and what I AM called to do in the world.