See also Sparkling Lotus FAQs
also note I have a blog and usually make entries
several times a week.  

My life as a plant reader began in 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.  
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.

As I got older I began to press the advantage of connections
made at that 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 47 of my 51 years.

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 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 second drafts of two related volumes.  I'm also
preparing a written reference to a Next Generation of Sparkling
Lotus Flower essences.  They include a beautiful selection of
wildcrafted remedies from the hillside where  I was blessed to
create the second Sparkling Lotus garden.   Land Healing is
another important writing focus at this time.  

My life/healing work experience includes 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 handful of
research projects related to 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