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Astrological Essence for the Month

Towards the end of his life, Dr Bach was exploring the link between the first 12 Bach Flower Remedies he discovered (The Twelve Healers) and the 12 astrological signs.

Gentian Flower Remedy for Taureans

We are in Taurus season, the astrological sign that Dr Bach felt would most benefit from Gentian essence.

Practical, grounded and considerate, Taureans exude a calm and steady presence.  They enjoy the slow, sensual pleasures of life and are known for their devotion to both hard work and deep relaxation.

However, they can be resistant to change and find it difficult to ‘let go and let God’ because they like to be in charge of everything.

If your Sun or Moon is in Taurus, Gentian Flower Remedy can help you to let go and awaken the soul qualities of inner faith and trust.

Deep Heart Healing: E-Light April 2025

In this month’s E-Light we explore the opportunities being presented to us in the cosmic energy flow for some deeply transformational heart healing and how we can best engage the perspective of our hearts to help us dismantle the now redundant patterns of the old paradigm. We also explore how we can best negotiate the shifting sands of change with a degree of elegance and grace by remembering to see beyond the old, anchoring ourselves firmly into our physicality and honouring our humanness and connection to the whole.

Deep Heart Healing

March was quite a ride wasn’t it! So much up lifting high frequency energy flooding onto the planet and on through us, raising frequencies and facilitating transformation at a deep level. The two eclipses and the Equinox featured strongly in this, each one bringing a step up in energy and frequency.

At the same time Venus, Mercury and Mars were all in retrograde motion encouraging us to go within and review what needed our attention in order that we could make the most of the energetic roller coaster ride. Over the coming month all of these planets will turn direct again, and we should find that greater clarity and forward movement follows. During April the cosmic energy flow will impulse us to further strengthen our alignment with our true self and to move deeper into our hearts where we will....... [...]

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Tips for Consciously Working With Essences…

4 Tips for stepping more into your heart

Have you noticed how different your reality can look depending upon whether you see it through the perspective of your heart or through the perspective of your everyday mind? If not just pay attention for a few days to how this feels for you. The Heart Chakra Essence helps you to open your heart to new ideas and exciting possibilities and to begin to see life more from the perspective of your heart.

Tips for working consciously and purposefully with the Heart Chakra Essence....

1. As you take the essence pay attention to anything that comes into your awareness as it begins to unlock the old energies that have become stuck. Be willing to explore any old ‘stories’ that might present themselves. For instance, a feeling of unsafe-ness or vulnerability about being in your heart, deeply painful emotions around not feeling loved, a sense of sadness or grief, or believing that you are disconnected from life for some reason.
2. Take time out to connect with yourself and to delve into what you feel about your current ability to give and receive love and to be present in your heart. Look at the patterns that you inherited from your family as you were growing up. Check out whether you felt loved unconditionally or whether love was conditional upon you behaving and fitting in the way that your parents thought was important. What role model did your parents present as to how to give and receive love. Did you feel safe to be yourself and know that you were loved for who you are. Explore anything you find without judgement and then allow yourself to make new choices if necessary.
3. Be willing to explore what it is like to open your heart to yourself and others and to allow all of the feelings that might arise from this to be present with you.
4. Imagine what it would be like to live in a world where a heart based consciousness was the norm and where you felt loved, respected, included, valued and able to offer love to all without restriction.

Heart Chakra Essence

It's been a beautiful day here at Crystal Herbs. The sun had been shining and the first energies of spring are in the air and in the earth. The energy has changed, and a sense of renewed life is returning to the Norfolk countryside. It won't be long now until more and more flowers begin to come into bloom and the trees begin to flower, and the mother tincture making season will have started in earnest.

Coming to terms with the pain of bereavement, separation, sadness and loss, is something that we all have to do at times in our lives. Snowdrop flower essence is one of our favourite essences for helping you through this process. The beautiful vibrations of the snowdrop flowers helps to defrost the pain of loss so you can allow the natural process of grieving to take place. It helps you to restore joy and optimism so you can move forward with greater peace, able to re-engage with life with a renewed sense hope and joy for the future. This is a lovely single flower essence to use and it is also one of the essences in the Healing Bereavement combination.

Inner Relaxation & Slowing Down

The Inner Harmony Essence

Inner Harmony is a really helpful essence if find it difficult to relax, let go and switch off. It's a really good choice if you have an eternally busy mind or you're a very activity orientated person who habitually overworks or finds it difficult to ‘switch off’, rest or relax properly. It helps to promote inner relaxation and peacefulness, and is also helpful if you have any emotional or mental ‘tightness’. Inner harmony is a state created when the heart and mind work together in a balanced partnership in which the knowing of the heart is given equal status with that of the mind. In today’s activity orientated society the recognition of the importance of this balance has been all but lost, with the result that many people over strive in the outer world and can no longer slow down enough to connect meaningfully with themselves at an inner level.

Supporting & Initiating Change

The Restoring Patience Essence

The Restoring Patience Essence helps you to work with deep-rooted patterns of impatience, frustration and irritability or a tendency to ‘blow a fuse’ at the slightest irritation. The essences in this combination will help you to dissolve the often uncomfortable vibrations of impatience, frustration & irritability, encouraging a greater inner stillness and the ability to be patiently and calmly in the now. Impatience and frustration are very common emotions in our often fast moving world. It can be easy to forget that there is a place and time for everything when we follow the promptings of our own inner voice, rather than the demands of our personality. The energy of impatience can keep us from being fully in the moment and often acts as a defence against having to be still and face our inner emotional world.

‘Being present with yourself takes practice and a degree of mindfulness, but it is very powerful. Simply being present with what is, can make space for previously unseen opportunities to appear, rather like a doorway appearing that we had no idea was there.’

Flower Essences are Catalysts for Change

Embracing & Making Change - what is your relationship with change like? It can be an interesting question because at various times in our lives, we’ll all experience moments when we feel a deep inner need for change. A sense of feeling stuck and that our inner journey has arrived at a fork in the road, an intuitive knowing that something needs to change so that we can move forward in life. A feeling that we need to be able to look at life from a different perspective. Change is not always easy, but Flower Essences are really good catalysts for helping you to make those changes. Find out more about change and flower essences in our new blog post.

Flower Essences are Catalysts for Change

The Life of Nora Weeks - the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies

Over on our dedicated Bach Flower Remedy website you can find the story of the lady behind the Bach Flower Remedies....

What Flower Essences Are We Taking?

We love using our Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences! Here we share some of our personal experiences of using a particular Essence or Combination and how it has helped us.

This month Sam shares his experiences of taking the Emotional Body Essence....

Emotional Body Essence

Is anyone else feeling the emotional ebbs and flows at the moment? I’ve been feeling a strong inner push to work on what feels like a rich seam of old buried emotions and it’s bringing with it a new and deeper understanding of myself.

It feels really liberating, it’s fun ( sort of ), rewarding and interesting, but equally quite intense and hard work. Well I suppose that seems to be the way things are at the moment energetically!

To support this inner journey, I’ve been taking the Emotional Body Essence. It’s a Flower, Gem & Crystal essence combination from the Rainbow Light Body Essence range, and as the name suggests it’s all about working with your emotions.

I always find this a really potent combination for doing deep emotional work and releasing old deeply held feelings. Often when I’m taking it I find I’m able to connect more deeply with issues that I’m consciously working with, and at other times there can be some quite unexpected things that come up to be released.

It’s a really, really interesting essence to use and if there is deep emotional work to be done, this is a very good Essence to support you through it. It’s one that I find I need to take from time to time and one that I will often recommend when working with people needing to clear and release old emotional patterns.

Sam Cremnitz

The Emotional Body Essence

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Creating Inner Harmony & Balance With a Bach Flower Remedy Set

We love the Bach Flower Remedies! A set Bach Flower Remedies makes a wonderful resource for yourself, family & friends or as part of a professional practice.

Hemimorphite Crystal Essence: Updated Definition

Our Hemimorphite crystal essence is a really interesting and very useful crystal essence. It has an uplifting, harmonising, balancing energy that helps to promote understanding of how to use the unlimited creativity of yourself as spirit within the limitations of physical life. This is the essence to use when you feel stuck or frustrated because you cannot seem to manifest all that you know is possible. We've just updated the definition for this essence, and have really enjoyed re-connecting with it's energies. You can find out more here:

Hemimorphite Crystal Essence

Art is like flower essences because both are transmissions of energy. Like an essence, art works on the energetic layer and shifts and transforms the consciousness of the person who’s perceiving it....

The other day RHS posted on Threads asking people to name plants that don’t have the letter ‘a’ in their name. I’m really not sure why, but it set our minds going here thinking about the Bach Flower Remedies which don’t use the letter ‘a’. Well, it turns out that 17 of the 38 Bach Remedies have no ‘a’ in their name. If you were wondering which ones they are, to save you working it out, they are: Beech, Cherry Plum, Chestnut Bud, Chicory, Elm, Gorse, Holly, Mimulus, Olive, Pine, Red Chestnut, Rock Rose, Sweet Chestnut, Vine, White Chestnut, Wild Rose & Willow.

Always Useful Essences

These are the essences that people most often tell us they wouldn’t want to be without because they are so useful for balancing emotions, soothing the mind and uplifting the spirits.

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Positive Vibrations Essence Spray

Use this spray to cleanse and purify your personal energy field and as a space clearing spray to clear your living or workspace. Maintaining positive mental and emotional attitudes is as important as physical cleanliness for our overall health and well-being.
Thoughts and feelings are all energetic frequencies and those that we choose to be predominate in our everyday reality will be the ones that set the universal law of attraction into motion to bring forward new life experiences. It is not only our personal energy field that is affected by the vibrational frequencies we choose to entertain. Those around us as well as the places in which we live and work will also be affected, positively or negatively, by our choices. Use this spray to cleanse and purify your personal energy field or use it as a space clearing spray for your living or workspace. Calling in the transformational Violet Flame when you use this spray will enhance its effectiveness.

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Mimulus Bach Flower Remedy

Mimulus helps those who feel they need greater courage to face up to the everyday events of life. Those in need of Mimulus suffer unnecessary fear and worry about everyday situations, such as visiting the dentist, flying, swimming, spiders or perhaps taking their driving test. They can appear nervous, shy or timid and may hesitate or blush easily when in situations where they feel vulnerable. Sensitivity to crowds, loud noises, or bright lights are other examples of states for which Mimulus would be beneficial. As Mimulus dissolves their fears and worries those with this personality trait find themselves able to create a more positive mental approach to life.

Mimulus Bach Essence - for known fears & worries

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Revival Remedy

Revival Remedy is a combination of Cherry Plum, Clematis, Impatiens, Rock Rose & Star of Bethlehem and was originally formulated by Dr Bach for use in situations requiring ‘emergency rescue’. It acts as a very swift emotional stabiliser in circumstances where there is much fear, panic, trauma, or other severe upset such as a serious accident or unexpected bereavement. It is also a very effective support for those less traumatic but still challenging events in life like exams, driving tests, visits to the dentist, presentations etc.

Revival Remedy | Bach Flower Remedies

The Power of Acceptance: Loving Acceptance Rose Essence Spray

The beautiful space of loving acceptance is a state that is so needed in the world right now. It takes us out of  the right / wrong, us / them, polarized, separative dynamic that has been so much part of our world up to now, and reminds us how to see everything from a more unified perspective, where we are free to make positive, new choices for ourselves. Holding this frequency consistently also means that we broadcast it into the world around us, strengthening the collective field of loving acceptance and offering others the opportunity to remember and connect with it themselves. Our new Rose Essence Essence spray will take you deep into your heart to embody more of the powerfully transformative energies of loving acceptance. You can find out more in-depth here:

The Power of Acceptance: Loving Acceptance Rose Essence Spray

Pink Rose Flower Essence: Transforming Deep Seated Fears

Fear is very common but it can be a tricky vibration to work with because it feels so real if you get stuck in it. It creates a very effective smokescreen that prevents you from seeing beyond it if you are not very mindful. We can all be affected by fear because it is a vibrational frequency that sits at the bottom of many of the old emotional patterns and stories that we have. Today we’re exploring the Pink Rose Flower Essence which is an excellent essence for when you feel like you cannot get to the root of a deeply held karmic fear or for if you experience general phobias or fears with no apparent cause in this lifetime.

Pink Rose Flower Essence: Transforming Deep Seated Fears

Latest Special Offers

Each month we offer special offer discounts on a selection of our Flower, Gem & Crystal Essences - from individual Essences to Essence Sets. Discounts are usually 20% or more and you can find our current special offers for the month here:

Latest Special Offers