From Small Beginnings.....
Part Two
“Also during this summer in Mt. Victoria, I began a new relationship, with Jane, who was very interested in my essence work.....”
By late January, 1997, I had found a new long-term home. An older style house, built in the 1930's, in Anne Street, Wadestown, on the hill above the motorway, overlooking Wellington Harbour. I fell in love with this house as soon as I saw it, especially the huge room that had been added on to the top of the house during the 1980's. This room had large windows on three sides, facing east, north and west, it had an en-suite bathroom, and of course, it became my bedroom, my living room, and my work-room. I virtually lived in this room for most of 1997.
I had my desk positioned so that I had an awesome view over most of Wellington Harbour. I had all-day sun, I had space and privacy and quietness. An ideal place to work and play and enjoy life! And, in this room, I did all three!
I was joined in this room twice a week by Jane, and it was a ideal “lovers room” And, in this room, I continued on with my intensive personal therapy work, seated at my desk with the awesome view out over the harbour. I particularly loved the days of autumn, and of spring, when the weather turned on its typical Wellington performance of blustery northerly winds, with the clouds speeding across the sky, and the wind whistling past the windows. I was safe and snug in my castle; and, looking out over the harbour, I could feel the powerful energy of this amazing body of water.
And, it was in this room one Saturday in late March, 1997, that the next step in the project that was to become the “New Millennium Essences of New Zealand” unfolded.....
I had just finished reading Machaelle Small Wright's latest book, “Co-Creative Science”. In this book, she describes how she worked co-creatively with the Nature Intelligences in her life's work of establishing the “Perelandra” Nature Research Centre. She gives details of how she has worked for many years as a student with Nature as her teacher, developing all of the many wonderful things to come out of Perelandra, including the Perelandra flower essences, the garden energy processes, the land balancing processes, “M.A.P.”, etc.
Towards the end of the book, Machaelle answers the question that must be in the mind of many readers: “Yes, you can do it too. You can work as a student with Nature as your teacher. You too can work co-creatively with Nature.” And, she gives some basic instructions as to how to go about doing this.
Inspired by this, I decided that I would follow her example. On the Saturday morning, I opened an energy “coning”, connecting with the “Deva of Co-creative Science Training”, with Pan and the local Nature Spirits, and with the “White Brotherhood Co-Creative Science Training Team”. I explained that I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Machaelle, and that I was now their student. I told them that I had the whole day available for us to work together, and most of the Saturdays for the foreseeable future, along with some of the evenings. And, I asked them “What do we do first?”
The answer came immediately. I was told “We make flower essences.”
So, we made essences. That very day, we made three new flower essences. And, two days later (it was Easter, one year on after the making of my first two essences), we made another three. We made
Nasturtium,
Pink Naked Lady, “Pink Flower Vine”,
Peace Lily,
Sweet William, and “Mystery Shrub”.
At this time, I had no idea what these new flower essences were for. The definitions (the “definition” of an essence is the description of what it is for), were not obtained until February 1999, almost two years later. I did, however, know that this was the jumping-off point for something really important, some “big project”, the purpose of which would eventually unfold. I was happy to trust my teachers, Nature and the White Brotherhood; after all surely they would know what was best for me. I knew that this was part of a big project, and I even gave the project a name: I called it “The Sacred Healing Project”, and I began to include the “Deva of the Sacred Healing Project” among my teachers.
As the seasons progressed during 1997, as autumn turned to winter and winter became spring, we made a further ten essences at the Anne Street, Wadestown, house. Narcissus,
Rosemary, Christmas Cactus,
Pink Camellia japonica,
Clematis montana, Turnip, Honesty,
Variegated Wallflower, Ornamental Angelica, and Aeonium arboreum. All of them were made, and used until Feb. 1999, without knowing what they were for. Just trusting, that if one of these essences came up positive when tested, it was because it was needed for some reason.
During this time at Anne Street, I greatly expanded my collection of house plants. In the placement of the indoor plants, and in the placement of my furniture, I used an intuitive process with the aid of my pendulum. Every piece of furniture, and every house plant, was placed exactly where I was told to place it by my teachers. Often, these placements were totally unlike where I would have “thought” to place these plants and furniture, but always, once everything was in place, it was “perfect”. I could feel that the energy of everything in each room was perfectly balanced. In doing this “intuitive Feng Shui”, I was actually laying the groundwork for the eventual evolution of the New Millennium
Feng Shui house balancing set of essences.
And, I was using these new flower essences that I was making, on my house plants, and in the garden. I had several spray bottles for different types of plants, and I sprayed all of my plants with essence mixtures twice a day. And when the plants were watered, or fed with organic liquid fertiliser, there were flower essences in the liquid.
I cannot now recall every exact detail of what happened over this period of my life. I was very busy, working forty-plus hours a week at Wellington Hospital,
(I was managing the computer equipment purchasing and installation there), working on my personal healing, and enjoying the time that I was spending with Jane.
I can especially recall the weekends as being times of great delight. On Saturdays I usually spent the whole day in my room, working with my teachers on “The Project”, and on my personal healing. Often the wind would be gusting around the windows, and the clouds scurrying across the sky. The harbour was always a picture-postcard scene, with the yachts racing across the water, and the ships coming and going. Some days, the clouds would part just enough for spectacular beams of sunlight to dance across the water. Pure magic!
And, on Sunday mornings, I would busy myself with watering all my indoor plants, preparing a delicious lunch for Jane, and having a last-minute practice on my piano (Jane, as well as being my lover, was also my piano teacher!).
However, as is always the case, it did not last for ever. The landlord visited one evening, to inform me that he was having to give me notice to quit the house, because they had decided to do major renovations on the house and to move in themselves. So, on Labour Weekend, (last weekend in October, 1997), I moved to another house, in a different part of Wadestown.
The new house, at Buchanan Street, Wadestown, did not have a huge room for me, nor a spectacular view. However, it did have a garden, and over the following eighteen months I was to make a total of forty-five flower essences from this garden.
On the final weekend before moving, my teachers and I had a “final fling” in the Anne Street garden. We made six more flower essences: Aeonium arboreum,
Clematis montana, Turnip, Honesty, Ornamental Angelica, and
Variegated Wallflower.
Upon moving in to the Buchanan Street house, the establishment of a vegetable and herb garden was very high on my priority list. I had not had a proper vegetable garden since 1992, when I moved from Nelson to Wellington, having lived in a succession of rented properties that either had no garden, or where I did not stay long enough. So, in common with thousands of other Kiwi gardeners, I spent Labour Day 1997 in the preparation of my vegetable garden.
Where this garden differed from most of the other vegetable gardens up and down New Zealand that were prepared that Labour Weekend, was that it was not just for the growing of plants for consumption. This garden had another purpose in mind.
This was my first garden since my move from Nelson to Wellington in 1992. And, it was my first garden since I had begun working with Nature as my teacher.
By Christmas, I had a plentiful supply of lettuce and other salad greens from my new garden. And, in the following months we were to enjoy a good range of fresh vegetables and herbs.
In much the same way that I had been working under the guidance of the Nature Intelligences in the placement of my indoor plants and furniture; with this, my outdoor garden, I worked in a similar way. Every plant was placed exactly as I was told by Nature, using my pendulum for communication. Often, I would be told to place some plants or seeds in a place that I would have thought to be inappropriate, and every time, it worked! I had the healthiest, most vibrant garden that I had ever had.
As the in my garden plants reached maturity and began to flower and seed, every plant was allowed to go through its complete cycle of flowering and seeding. Many of the plants provided me with flowers to make into essences, yet this was not the only reason for allowing the plants to complete their natural growing cycle. By not “ripping them out as soon as they are no longer useful for eating”, we achieve a better state of balance in the total environment of the garden. This is how it is in the wild, and all the plants are happier and healthier when they are all allowed to complete their natural cycles. Even with weeds, I allow a reasonable number to grow in the garden and to complete their natural cycle.
Those days in the summers of 1997-98, and 1998-99, as I went about the simple tasks of gardening, and the making of the essences, were among the happiest days of my life. I had lost my big room with its special energy and spectacular views, but I had gained my garden. I would often sit on the wooden steps that led down from the lawn to my garden, and meditate in the sun, with the energy of the plants all around me.
And, just as all things in nature have their cycles and rhythms, so too do human relationships have their cycles. After the shift from Anne Street to Buchanan Street, my relationship with Jane had changed. We had lost our “lovers room”, and it was time for the nature of our relationship to change. As the realisation of this began to dawn on me, I was at times very sad. However, I also realised that here was another opportunity for healing, and I resolved to use this opportunity to the utmost. Some of the essences that I made during this time were to assist me in this healing. See the information on the
Mahoe essence for an example of this.
This was a time of great change for me in other ways, too. On 31 July,1998, my contract at Wellington Hospital finished. After three years of continuous work there, without a proper holiday, I was free! I walked away with no regrets. Now I could devote all of my time and energy to my life's real calling!
Click here to continue the story of what happened next, when Peter left the
corporate world to work full-time on his life's work.
