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April 12, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 7 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl The Rock Rose has always been one of my favorite plants. I have them planted in different places around my ChaskaNorte property. In contemplating my Golden Bach essence project, I was originally concerned that they were the pink variety, rather than the yellow used in Dr. Bach's Rock Rose essence. There are yellow ones in the Santa Barbara area, and- I had a strong feeling to make it from...

April 7, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 6 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl One of my favorite things to do is to watch a skilled tractor driver move dirt around at Chaska Norte, my 20 acres of land on a mountain top here near Santa Barbara. The land is very steep, and when I first got it, it didn't have much flat space. Over the past 10 years we have been creating terraces, roads, and paths, so there would be more accessible land...

Making the Mustard Essence

April 2, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 5 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl Mustard had been talking to me since 12-21-12. It was instrumental in getting me moving on this project. It seemed to be everywhere. I had been meeting with a powerful group of priestesses, and one of them, Aurora, was working on an Art installation called "Nest" at El Capitan Canyon. We were helping to hold the energy for that art installation, and for other things to happen on that land....

Making the Wild Oat Essence

March 17, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 3 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl I had asked Angel, my angelic helper on my Chaska Norte land, to weed whack around the labyrinth. The day he went to do it started out sunny, then suddenly got super foggy, and super wet. It happened quickly. It ended up that he only made a pathway, and didn't knock down the rest of the weeds. When I went down to the labyrinth to check it out, I...

Making the Willow Essence

March 15, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 3 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl One day, before the full moon (when we planned to make the Mustard essence), my friend Aurora was going to be working on an art installation called "Nest" at El Capitan Canyon. In fact, she was going to be weaving some Willow branches into the nest. I casually asked her if there was any Willow in bloom. She said she had seen some, mostly it was probably over, and she would have...

Making the Crabapple Essence

March 14, 2013|Star Riparetti

Part 2 of the series The Moment of Bloom ~ My Ecstatic Journey Making the Bach Flower Essences in a Golden Bowl As soon as the Golden Bowl arrived I kept looking at the list of 38 Bach essences. Who was going to be first? Where was I going to find them? I knew Mustard was willing, and that is about all. I sent the list of Bach flowers to the Star Essence staff, and to a couple of friends. For some reason, out of all the 38 flowers, I felt compelled to ask, Does...

April 10, 2012|Star Riparetti

Soaring. Defined as that time when things are flowing, gracefully. My recent journey to Peru was once again filled with wonder and magic. We were at the right place at the right time, all of the time. Before I left it felt like there was a possibility I would be making an orchid essence. I didn't know which one or what for- and didn't commit to anyone or myself about it. Gotta have the signs... And to keep in mind- as we are still in this time/space thing- there was...

February 24, 2012|Star Riparetti

excerpted from Bliss and Blessings: The Divine Alchemy of the Star Flower and Gemstone Essences Right after we made [the Freedom/Libertad] essence, I told Roger that I was getting the message that it was supposed to have Gold in it. His immediate response was, "It has to be 24 karat gold." Shortly after that, in another discussion, I overheard Roger describing to someone this totally pure, spongy-shaped, 24 karat gold that you could get in Puerto Maldanado, which is on the Amazon river. In still another conversation, Roger was debating...

June 8, 2011|Star Riparetti

After returning from Peru in April, I began to get information about the one wild orchid that grows here on the central coast of California: Epipactis gigantea (which is funny because it is certainly not gigantic- the blooms are quite small, between the size of a nickel and a quarter). This stream orchid, which grows in boggy areas, is quite rare and had been elusive to me for years. I had seen the plant, and never seen it in bloom. I mentioned it to a couple of friends, and- it...

April 12, 2011|Star Riparetti

My friend Roger Valencia had mentioned to me that he had planted a field of Linseed (Flax) at his place in San Salvador, Peru, and that when he had been there a couple of weeks before they were all in bloom: the most beautiful color of pale blue/purple. This magical land in San Salvador, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, is the place that I used to own with Roger. I have enough to do, and I am very happy here in Santa Barbara, so I eventually sold my...

March 25, 2011|Star Riparetti

The last time I came to Peru was with a group- in Nov. 2009- and even then I was looking for the Ellianthus capitatus Orchid. It wasn't its season. My dear friend Roger Valencia, an orchid expert, said "Come back in March." The orchid flower said the same thing. I got a very strong message at Machu Picchu that Nature could certainly work miracles and make it bloom- and it would be better if I would honor it's cycles and come back at its natural blooming time. (I also received...

September 7, 2010|Star Essence

by David Jonas I recently decided to go on a flower essence journey with 5 of the essences made by the wonderful Star, and I have called it A Journey to the Heart. Before I go into my experiences with the essences I chose, I would like to start by mentioning that, if you live near Santa Barbara (California), or if you are just passing through, I highly recommend visiting Star's pretty little cottage-office where you can sample all of the Star essences for free at her "Star Bar": it's...