When Flowers Speak: Healing with the Alchemy Flower Oracle
I’ve always loved flowers and plants, I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t growing them. When I lived in the city my apartment was the one with the balcony that looked like a jungle…the inside was a mirror image.
As an environmental artist, I worked with nature, deep intuition, and the memories held within sites to bring forward messages through immersive installations in art galleries and site specific ephemeral works. I loved my work, but I began to feel a yearning to enter into a deeper communion with the Earth. I didn’t know what it meant, but it felt like a calling—an ache, an empty room inside my soul yearning to be filled.
That yearning grew stronger until it led me to leave everything behind. The moment I drove onto Salt Spring Island from the ferry, I burst into tears—it felt as though every tree was sending me a hug. I was exhausted and jetlagged, which may have heightened my awareness, but I knew in my heart that I had arrived exactly where I was meant to be.
I met my husband a year after arriving on Salt Spring Island, and five years later, we bought Alchemy Farm. One of the first things I did here was plant flower seeds—flowers to bring beauty into the world and to support the bees, whose struggles with colony collapse disorder had deeply moved me. I don’t know if I can fully capture in words how deeply and profoundly plants have touched my life and shaped the person I’ve become through working with them.
The Alchemy Flower Oracle, which focuses on the spiritual messages of flowers, was born from my wonder, awe, and direct experience of growing and working with the flowers in our gardens. Some of these plants were nurtured from seeds—I whispered to them, cared for them, and watched them thrive. I hope I never lose the profound sense of wonder and gratitude that comes from witnessing a seed transform into a living, miraculous being.
Another passion of mine is photography—I have thousands of photos capturing the beauty of our gardens. In the winter of 2017, working with photos I’d taken in the gardens, I began to create the artwork for the flower oracle cards.
Birthing a new oracle deck is a long, complex, and expensive undertaking. I had successfully run a crowdfunding campaign for the Eco Heart Oracle and decided to do the same for this deck. By the time the Kickstarter launched and was funded, the artwork for the 48 cards was complete. I had promised to deliver the oracle decks to supporters late in 2018, and everything was right on schedule.
What’s the saying? Life has other plans while we’re making ours?
In February 2018, I was on my way back to the farm from the flower wholesaler, with buckets of flowers for Valentine’s Day orders. I had stopped at a red light at a major intersection, the last one before the ferry. In the next moment, my car was surrounded by soft white light and complete, peaceful silence—like angels had suddenly gathered around me.
Then the silence was broken by a terrible scraping and rattling sound. I stumbled out of my car, completely shocked to find my car on the other side of the highway. My brain felt like it was on fire. Flowers were strewn all over the interior by the impact along with pots of plants that had become airborne.
I’d been rear ended by a speeding driver. My car was more than 100% a write off. I was also a wreck. The recovery time took years and even now if I’m under a lot of stress the concussion symptoms start to creep back in again. I’ve had to learn to be gentle with myself.
A couple of days after the accident I wrote something down and wondered why I was looking at my grade five cursive writing. I couldn’t sleep because I kept waking up crying, back at the accident scene. I had recurring migraines. My entire body hurt. I had a hard time following conversations. I couldn’t speak, my thoughts weren’t reaching my mouth. So it was hard for anyone to know how I was. I just kept saying: fine. I was definitely not fine.
After a few weeks I began to wonder how in the world was I going to do 48 meditation journeys for the oracle deck when I couldn’t even think straight. But I had promised people that they would receive their decks. I wasn’t going to let them down.
I still remember the fear I felt sitting down to do the first meditation. I was scared. I had a hard time just getting through each day—how did I think I was going to pull this off? But I had to try. I lit a candle. Said a prayer. Closed my eyes.
The first meditation journey was exhausting. It felt like sparks going off in my brain, light reconnecting broken places. My brain was exhausted, and I cried. I wasn’t sure I could go through it again. I waited a few days before trying once more.
With each meditation journey to meet the flower devas, I received a blessing—a healing. I have tears in my eyes just writing this. I will be forever grateful to them for their light, for the messages they shared with me to carry to you.
The meditations for the Alchemy Flower Oracle were profoundly different from those for the Eco Heart Oracle. They were deeper, more mysterious—like stepping into an ancient, sacred space beyond time and the physical world. Each meditation felt like stepping into the essence of the flower itself, where the devas, the spiritual guardians of the plants, revealed their truths in ways I’d never experienced before.
The flower devas spoke not in words, but directly to my being, in waves of emotions, visions, and energetic shifts. Some meditations wrapped me in wonder and joy, while others guided me into shadows. They communicated through colors, scents, and sensations that felt alive in my heart and body. These journeys often left me breathless, filled with awe, and deeply humbled by their wisdom and love.
As I continued, I realized that these meditations weren’t just about creating the oracle—they were healing me, rewiring the broken places within my brain and perhaps my soul. The flower devas became my guides and teachers, holding space for transformation and infusing their messages into the cards. Each card carries their light, their energy, and their timeless wisdom, waiting to connect with those who feel called to work with them.
Please know that you are loved, that the plant beings know you, they sense you and can communicate with you on the subtle realm.
To everyone who has supported the Alchemy Flower Oracle, thank you. Your belief in this work has been a source of light and inspiration.
Much love and many blessings,
Ingrid
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