How I make essences

How do you make the essences?

I’ll answer this a bit backwards…

One aspect of the orchid essence making is that I have now been doing it for over 20 years. That’s relevant, in two ways. One is that I have learnt things along the way about the techniques involved.

The other is that the orchids themselves, and the wider community of orchids, seem to have responded to all this activity. Higher, more profound energies have been coming through in the last few years as a consequence.

But basically, I use an immersion process, or partial-immersion process, depending on the orchid. 

The orchid is brought out of the greenhouse and into a room which has been prepared.

It is placed in such a way that the bloom or blooms will be within the space of the 3-litre bowl I have placed on a table. The idea is to position it such that, once the water is poured into the bowl, some or all of the bloom or blooms will be in contact with the water. All of this activity is done in calm silence.

Once the water is poured, I get out of the room, and lock the door. We want only the energy (chi) of the orchid infused into the water in the bowl. 5 or 6 hours is usually enough, but occasionally it will be 24 hours. Sometimes it will be made at night, such as with Shadow Warrior, or Vital Core, Vital Clarity and Vital Light. But most of the essences are made in daylight hours.

Once the time is up, I go back into the room, and gently remove the orchid from the water. I then mix that water with an equal measure of organic cognac. The mixture is left for 30 to 40 minutes to ’set’. It is something akin to photographic fixative at work, the alcohol is fusing with the chi. (It doesn’t happen instantly when the cognac is mixed with the water, and we found over time that typically 30 minutes is the minimum time needed.) I leave the room again during that ’fusing’ period. Once that is finished, I re-enter the room, and decant the newly-formed Mother Tincture into the dark violet glass bottles for storage.

I then sip a bit of the MT, as do others in the week that follows, to discern the qualities.

That’s about it. 

All the very best,

Don