Ian's November Newsletter 2025

Greetings from Brazil!

As the year draws to a close, November is an ideal time to pause, reflect and decide what we may want to let go of before we move into the busyness of the festive season and the start of a brand-new year. It's an opportunity to notice any old frustration, disappointment or tension that still lingers and decide whether we’re ready to let it go.

Forgiveness plays a vital role in this process. It is not about forgetting or excusing what has happened, but rather releasing the emotional charge that keeps us tied to the past. When we forgive, we reclaim energy that has been held in resentment or regret and open the way for greater happiness and peace.

The 2025 Essence supports this wonderfully. Its vibrational energy encourages new beginnings and a willingness to step forward into this year's brand-new nine-year cycle, without carrying with you the emotional weight of what you may have been holding onto from the past, especially resentment. Used with Transition Essence, it helps bring closure to emotional cycles and supports change with steadiness. Calm & Clear Space Mist can also be helpful here, assisting to quiet the mind and calm emotional agitation. Misting the Space Clearing Mist around where you've done your forgiveness work is also very beneficial.

Forgiveness can be difficult if we’re still holding strong feelings of hurt or anger. In these moments, it’s useful to remember that the act of forgiving isn’t for the other person, it’s for us. It’s about reclaiming emotional freedom so that our energy is no longer tied to the past. The longer we hold resentment, the more it drains our vitality and clouds our perception. When we let resentment go, we often find that our outlook shifts, our body relaxes and we’re able to move forward with greater ease and lightness.

For those ready to work more deeply, the Forgiveness Process is a powerful way to clear long-held resentment and create a new sense of peace and healing in your life.
In my workshops and to my patients I always tell them to begin the Forgiveness Process by taking Dagger Hakea Essence for a week before and during the process. However, the 2025 Essence contains Dagger Hakea, so you could use either this essence instead or Dagger Hakea Essence.

In December there's another extra strong “hit” of the Universal Year 9 energy, being a month divisible by three. My recommendation would be to take the 2025 Essence for the last week of November, start the Forgiveness Process at the end of this week and then take the 2025 Essence for that first week of December - you could take it for longer if you wish. This will allow you to get the optimum value of the energy of the last remaining days of this Universal Year 9 and pave the way for a wonderful start to your 2026 year.

To start the Forgiveness Process, find a place where you feel safe, won’t be disturbed and can comfortably speak out loud, without any concern of being overheard. The process can either be done in one session or split up over several sessions.

a.  After settling yourself into a comfortable position, take a few deep breaths, close your eyes and get into a relaxed and reflective state. Then ask to be presented, visually, to the people that you hold resentment towards. Only one person at a time will appear and the ones with whom you have the most issues to resolve, will turn up first - almost invariably one of your parents who is then usually followed by the other parent. You can still do the process even if a person who appears to you is no longer alive.
b. When you have a picture of a person, or a sense of who it is, visualise a cord or tube going from that person’s navel and connecting with a cord that emanates from your navel. Tie the two cords together and then say out loud, “the resentment I hold against you for .........” then list everything that you feel resentful or bitter towards that person for.

c. When you have completed everything, say “(name) the resent­ment I hold against you I now release. I love you and I forgive you”. At the point of saying, “I forgive you”, physically make a pair of scis­sors with your fingers and cut through that imaginary cord connecting you and the other person. 

d. This whole process is then re­peated another two times and while list­ing the resentments it is okay to repeat previous ones you have already mentioned.

e. When having completed these additional two times you then reverse the process. This is done by again tying the cords with the person but this time you commence by saying “(name) the resentment that you hold against me for.......” - list the things that you feel that the per­son feels resentful against you and then on completion say “(name) all these things that you hold resentment against me for, I now forgive you for. I love you, I release you” and then cut the cord. As before, do this another two times from the other person’s perspective.

f. You are then ready to embark upon releasing resentment with the next person, so at this point ask to be presented with the next person you hold resentment towards. You then repeat the process that you just completed with the previous person.  Keep going until no one comes to mind. 

The aim is to consciously release the emotional ties that keep us entangled in the past. It’s a simple yet very effective way to restore inner peace, open our hearts and allow in more fully powerful, healing energy.

These Bush Essences can all greatly assist with forgiveness and emotional renewal:

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  Bottlebrush – helps you move through change and let go of the past.

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  Dagger Hakea – assists in releasing bitterness and resentment.

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  Mountain Devil – transforms anger and rage into love and forgiveness.

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  Sturt Desert Rose – helps release guilt and any regret of things done or left undone.

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  Bluebell – opens the heart to love, generosity and emotional flow.

Mahatma Gandhi reminds us, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” True strength often lies in the willingness to soften, to let go and to meet life with an open heart once again.