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My life as a plant reader began in my early childhood.  These
formative years were richly blessed with many caretakers who
were wise to the ways of the earth and heavens.   I didn't realize
how unusual or lucky this was until I was old enough to begin
searching out a different level of learning through books and
formalized paths of what the western world defines as education.  
Of course my most organic and powerful example of this model
was my mother.   She was very gifted as both a student and
teacher of many classical subjects.   She also maintained a
rather remarkable salon atmosphere of friends and associates
who influenced me on many sub-textual and far more direct
levels.  My interest in co-creative gardening, for instance, was
born while I was still a very quiet child listening to adults
converse after a long leisurely dinner.

Since my mother was afraid a conventional sitter would warp me
with excessive television viewing, she took me with her on many
of her library and museum treks, especially at the University of
Pennsylvania.  Their collection of Egyptian art, their Buddha
statues, and the detailed paintings of Great Plain sundancing
quite often served the role of 'watching' me while my mother
worked.   When I grew into the difficult teenage years, my mother
decided she believed in sitters -- at least the kind who don't own
televisions and have an encyclopedic knowledge of astrology
and tarot.    I struggled with the math aspects of astrology, and
still do, but I also developed an interest in the depth astrology
movement and charting overall planetary influences.  Tarot was a
more natural fit and I'm currently working on a deck and
accompanying literature.   Since everybody who taught me
potentially 'flakey' topics came equipped with ivy league backup
and some inarguably impressive CV line items, I thought these
subjects were as serious and inherently respected/respectable
as economics or comparative religion.   I saw no reason to
perceive the subject matter or myself in any other light and I
believe that was the final and most auspicious gift from the
generosity banks that were developed during my formative years.

As I got older, I began to press the advantage of connections
made at the dinner table in order to audit a number of first class
university programs which would not have been available to me
otherwise.  In this same general time frame I also moved to
Boston and began my independent adult life with the man who is
now my husband and only child's father.

For almost a decade I learned about flower medicine and various
sacred ceremonies in a primarily academic or academically
experiential sense - beginning my study with a species of plant
I've loved since the December I was five and saw Brugmansia
flowers for the first time.  They were at the conservatory at
Longwood Gardens.  When I became a mother at 27, the
profound change in consciousness (which began and
accelerated steadily within the process of conscious conception)
seemed to unleash a gift for developing various methods of
merging the two styles of gaining knowledge & practical
awareness.    All told I've been immersed in studying flowers and
their various properties for at least 45 of my 49 years.  I also
started sewing very young -- long before I was in kindergarten.

The recurring meditation-based image of a beauteous sparkling
lotus flower first started finding me in my late thirties.  At the time I
was heavily immersed in building and maintaining a co-creative
garden space.  It was my third such gardening endeavor and the
beginning of my practical experience with flower essence
preparation.    As I explored their efficacy at a personal level, I
grew curious to know if I'd also produced healing remedies that
could have a positive impact on others as well.  This lead to a
five year research project which in turn lead to the
Sparkling Lotus Flower Essence Handbook.    I'm currently
working on the drafts of two related volumes.  I'm also preparing
a Next Generation of Sparkling Lotus Flower essences which
includes a beautiful selection of wildcrafted remedies from the
hillside where I've been blessed to create the second Sparkling
Lotus garden.   Land Healing has become an important focus at
this time.  Some of my lecture and writing time is being
re-arranged as a result.

Previous life/healing work experience covers the areas of suicide
prevention, addiction recovery, PTSD support, and incest/abuse
recovery.   In addition to growing things, attending to my various
Beloveds, writing, and sewing, I drum for peace and make altar
cloths with the ongoing prayer that these actions do their organic
part to make the world just a little more mindful and beauty-filled.  
 Previous teaching experience includes quilt-making,
family-friendly gardening, exotic flower gardening, developing
ceremony (with special emphasis on comparative techniques and
low impact non-appropriation of traditional cultural ceremonies
and sacred objects), chakra intensive workshops and all the
various forms of ground/crash testing that went into development
of the Sparkling Lotus learning program and its two (so far)
research projects about co-operative interspecies development.

Contact
Acey for more info on flower essences, altar cloth
subscriptions,or if you'd like to learn more about the Sparkling
Lotus one-on-one mentorship program.
building a gaia altar at SL2
6/07/05