Hawkweed Medicine Essence
This is the second essence produced and given to Morningstar by Healer Elly van Ekelenburg of The Netherlands. We are delighted to be able to share this wonderful gift with you!
Here is Elly's account of the production of this essence told in her own words and we hope to be able to include some pictures as well soon.
The story of the preparation of Hawkweed medicine is full of miracles and unexpected
events.
Last year, 2004, the flower was calling to be prepared but also I had to wait until 2005 for some reason. Not knowing at that time Lynx would visit the Netherlands.
Of course we had a wonderful time and during some of the last days of her stay we prepared the Hawkweed essence. Some days before two of our very dear friends had asked for healing for different reasons and the essence was on this level being prepared working very strongly already.
Both Lynx and I had a feeling that the bowl needed some more time in our camping garden.
After Lynx left, I went back, had a night sleep and had a weird dream.
A fetish that looked like a white snake, which I got from one of those friends and was part of another healing session, did slowly bite a cat in her ear. The cat died in peace and it was okay. Waking up from this dream I thought: the essence! I stood up in the very early morning, went to the bowl and saw the water of the essence was brackish and died.
I did a thank you-ceremony and buried the essence on s special place.
Coming home I got two mails from my friends that the healing they asked for had taken place and I was very surprised to hear that. But it perfectly fitted to the birth and dying if the essence. I knew there would be another time to prepare the essence.
As the whole week was sunny and I had no chance to go to the camping and I felt a bit impatient and frustrated because the weather would be cold and rainy during the coming weekend. On my day off on Friday I asked Hans(my husband) to wake me when the weather was sunny, he would bring me to the camping before his work. But the sky was cloudy. And when I stood up after he left the weather was clear!!!
So I was sitting in the garden, the flowers were speaking (we have also Hawkweed in the home garden) and thought: somebody is making jokes with me.
Now I the time is right and I do not have transportation to the camping.
Hans would be home at 14.00 but that would be to late.
Then a voice came in and said: Henrike (Henrike is my friend on the camping)
I phoned her, hardly could explain WHY I had to go to the camping but even without knowing the reason she came to pick me up. In the car I explained what was happening (she knew about the first Hawkweed essence).
Guess what happened:
Henrike told me she had the strangest week ever on the camping (!!!!!)
First the Sweet Williams blossomed, the were the favorite flowers of her father who had passed over. (A note from Lynx: Sweet Williams were also the favourite flower of a much beloved family member who crossed over when I was quite young. And upon my arrival in Amsterdam, Elly and Hans were waiting to greet me with a bouquet of Sweet Williams)
When she told me, we were actually riding behind a hearse) she also told me it would have been her fathers birthday and would like to have some Sweet Williams from our garden to honor her father.
Then she told all that happened during the week.
The first day, walking with her dog, Bobbie the Boxer she discovered a woodpecker nest, the same way as Lynx discovered one when the four of us were walking two weeks ago in another Forest. The woodpecker had special messages for Lynx at that time.
The next day she went back with her camera but the woodpeckers had flown out and where flying around her and Bobbie.
The following day, in the same Forest she found owl feathers and owl casts, looked up in the tree and saw an owl nest.
The next day also the owls where gone but:
a young deer was appearing and looking at her and Bobbie!! They stood there for a while and Bobbie and the deer were playing!!!
Isn't that amazing!!!
And I was telling Henrike that the camping was pulling me all week to go there for the essence. She experienced all those miracles!!
Both of us felt this was part of the essence.
I started making preparations for preparing the new essence.
I did a cleansing ceremony with Sage and cleansed the permanent Medicine Wheel in the camping garden.
The Medicine Wheel is made from lava rocks shaped in a circle, the Four Directions are pointed by minerals and in the middle of the Medicine Wheel is a big trunk. On top of it is a hawk statue with a baby hawk at her feet.
In the Medicine Wheel the Hawkweed flowers are blooming.
I also included items of the three friends:
the little statue frog (Lynx) which Lynx has one also; Annie's snake again (it had to be there to) and an apricot from Doreen, all items placed them on the trunk next to the hawk statue. (Annie and Doreen are very close friends of both Elly and myself).
I used the bow technique from the flowers growing in the Medicine Wheel, as also the "cutting" technique, asking the Hawkweed flowers that wanted to be in the bowl that are growing in other parts of the garden.
I did move the bowl clockwise in the Medicine Wheel four times during 4 hours, so the bowl followed the sunlight as also the four Directions.
When the bowl was placed five minutes in the east-south direction I heard a lot of noise:
lots of cows where coming near to watch to process!!
It was the first day the cows where in the meadow closest to the camping and just came to join the process!
At 16.30 the essence was ready and I did the finishing ceremony.
I felt it needed some more sunshine but my guides will tell me when needed.
(the coming week will be nice weather and in the home garden there also grow Hawkweed
flowers with more sunlight and, if needed and guided for, I can ask the sun to make
the essence even more strong and powerful) Also I got a message to name the essence"
Hawkweed Medicine. It carries the energy of the Hawkweed flowered and the Medicine Wheel.
The day after preparing the essence something very wonderful happened and I just feel and know this is so much part of the essence (the bottles were on a quiet place in the cabin):
I was working in the garden, looked to the meadow where the cow were arriving agian.
Then my eye caught a specific cow that had something under her tail that did not look like p.. or p...
I went nearby and saw: I little cow will be born!!!!!
Running over to Henrike who knows the farmer better then we do, called him to tell him and he arrived through the meadow to our place.
He carried a tool that could be used when needed.
I talked (in my mind) to the mother cow and said: you can do the delivery yourself!!
And so she did!! The farmer only had to help the last seconds.
A calf was born: very black, only two longs white socks on her back paws (!) two little white socks on her front paws, a white belly and: a white spot on her forehead in the shape of a heart!!!!!
Then the farmer asked my name.
He explained that in some cases cows get names (usual they only get numbers)
and he wanted to give this cow my name. The official name of the little cow is:
Elly 9500!!
Is not that a miracle??!!!
The birth of this calve is so much related to the birth of the Hawkweed Medicine essence.
Also I felt this all was so much a part of the birth of the essence!!
The next morning the young Redstarts flew out of the nest, that is very nearby our cabin and the meadow. (Lynx's note - The Redstarts are rare birds in Holland and a bonded pair had taken up residence in a bird house that Elly and Han's have on their propertywhile I was there. It was amazing to just sit and watch all their activity!)
The Redstarts do have the same color red-orange as the flower Hawkweed has.
And orange is an earthly and grounding color as it is solar-plexus energy to bring form and materializes your life, actions, creativity and wishes.
Wednesday Spirit called me to put the bowl in ur home garden with some Hawkweed flowers
to get more Sun Energy to it to make it an ever stronger essence. I know Lynx was with me in Spirit during that time, probably dreaming about Holland, working in the garden with the essence.
Hawkweed flower:
It is an annual plant, with a rosette of hairy leaves on the ground, some leaves growing along the stamen to the flower. The stamen is very long, reaching up to the sky and the orange flower is on top if this stamen.
Qualities, as experienced until now: (started last year)
Helping to get an overview in your situation, problem, illness.
Being able to look, focus like a hawk from the sky above to the situation you are dealing with, to get more insight in the whole problem, situation.
The long stamen feels like Kundalini energy and helps you to get those insights right trough your spine into your mind and body and get help to change whatever needs to be changed to heal or transform a situation.
The color orange will help to materialize what is needed to take steps for transformation.
The qualities of the medicine wheel will help to get Earth and Spirit benefits from the Four Directions to be healed in every way needed.
And as the Medicine Wheel is on the ground the energy will help to ground
the Healing Power.
As many animals where involved in the process Hawkweed Medicine also carries a quality
of communication with other people. While looking at your healing process from above it tells us to talk to other people about what you are working on, telling them from your heart.
if something is bordering you and ask others for support, when needed.
The essence is also helpful for healers:
giving us a quality of being able, when having permission, to overview a clients situation and therefor being able to help heal on a "deeper and higher level".
Elly van Ekelenberg
As with the Ametrine/ Yarrow Essence, this truly is a most remarkable essence from a highly gifted teacher and healer and we are so honoured to be able to offer it through our site!
If you would like to know more about Elly's work or if you would prefer to order this essence directly from her, please email us and we shall email you her contact details.
- Hawkweed Medicine
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Last updated 1-08-04
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