"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." -The Gnostic Gospels

This spring the land surrounding me was covered with wild irises, and I couldn't get over how completely unique each one was, and how exuberantly each expressed itself! I was filled with happiness every time I saw one, and the message came to me again and again-

"Be yourself! Be joyfully yourself!"

It reminds me of what post e.e. cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

It's a battle we all fight, and this sumptuous and soul-nourishing plant medicine can help you remember how important it is that you be nobody-but-yourself so that you can bring forth what only you can bring forth in this world.

Ingredients:

Wild iris essence (untamed individuality)

Amethyst essence (inner voice)

Spring water and a delicious apricot liqueur

1oz

Take a few drops on the tongue whenever you wish to access your hidden inner depths and call what is within you to the surface.

(I could not get a good picture of the amethyst I used so I stole this one from The Healing Chest!)

Essences are vibrational medicines, to be taken a few drops at a time to influence the body/mind/spirit on an energetic level. You can read my post describing flower essences here. Stone essences are made in the same way.