This marvelous essence really wanted to be made. I went looking for nettles one day and came home with nettles and two volunteers: wild oat and blackberry flower buds.

The one word that comes to mind with this essence is genesis. It went straight to my bones, where I could feel it working on strengthening my bones (osteogenesis) and ligaments. I suspect it will be a valuable essence for issues of bone quality and for healing damage to ligaments and other connective tissues that ally closely with bone.

This essence is about strength and flexibility. Both are needed for a healthy body, mind, and spirit; one without the other is no good. Strength without flexibility is rigidity that is prone to breakage; flexibility without strength is the opposite and equally fails under a load. We need the balance of both strength and flexibility.

This essence also speaks of wildness, freedom, power, vitality, wild abandon, wholeness, authenticity, realness; it makes me feel strong, wild, free.

The Animal collective said of this essence, "it gives us our strength back after an illness or injury." It is thus reparative, enabling the healing body to recover its strength.