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Healer Priestess✨Artist & Alchemist✨Esoteric Hypnotherapy✨Sacred Plant Medicine✨Botanical Incense✨Spiritual Counselling✨Buddhist Chaplaincy✨Rituals & Ceremonies✨Card Readings✨Esoteric Astrology

A native plant that helps us connect with the Future, the Upper Heavens and our spiritual guides. Native Angelica also ...
28/04/2026

A native plant that helps us connect with the Future, the Upper Heavens and our spiritual guides.

Native Angelica also known as Koheriki and Rose-leaved Anise, is a hardy coastal plant that is naturally found on cliffs and dunes. Native Angelica is found in lowland areas of the North Island, extending its presence as far south as Taranaki and Napier. It typically grows to about 1m high, featuring glossy and dark green leaves.

In the spring months, it produces small, fluffy heads of delicate white flowers that resemble an old-fashioned English garden favourite, Queen Anne’s Lace (Ammi majus). It is related to Queen Anne’s Lace and other members of the widespread carrot family, Apiaceae.

Native Angelica is one of eight native plant essences that I use to support my clients integrate the soul retrieval work I offer. It assists us to access the future and to send power and healing into the future. While soul retrieval is typically focused on the past, in Esoteric Astrology we also connect with the future and our future self.

Native Angelica is a shamanic teacher plant and our guide in the Upper World or Upper Heavens, the place of our spirit guides. Native Angelica assists us to connect with divine beings who are spiritual teachers and guides. I offer Esoteric Hypnosis journeys to connect with one's spiritual teacher or guide, as well one's soul guardian and power animal.

Native Angelica helps us bring attention to the future and obtain information about the future in order to make wise decisions in the present. It rekindles our hope for the future, and is especially helpful when we feel trapped in the present reality or have anxiety and fear about the future.

🌸 No. 103 Native Angelica, The Future Essence, First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.

📷 Native Angelica (Scandia rosifolia), Omata, December 2019.

A native plant that helps us to be totally present and tap into the spiritual dimension of life. Tree Daisy also known a...
28/04/2026

A native plant that helps us to be totally present and tap into the spiritual dimension of life.

Tree Daisy also known as Streamside Tree Daisy is a charming native evergreen shrub known for its delicate daisy-like flowers. The shrub is covered from early spring with clusters of small white flowers with prominent yellow centres. The plant can grow up to 4 metres in height and has small leathery, dark green leaves.

It is typically found in rocky river gorges throughout New Zealand and can be found from Coromandel in the North Island, and west of the Main Divide in the South Island. Tree Daisy plays a vital role in its local ecosystem, providing essential habitat and food sources for native biodiversity. It is often prioritised in the restoration of alpine-montane river systems.

Tree Daisy is another key essence that supports soul retrieval work. Tree Daisy essence anchors in the lost or fragmented parts of soul into the present. It helps us to anchor power from all dimensions into the present, from the past and the future. It assists us to be totally present, especially when we are constantly referring to the past or future.

Tree Daisy helps us to open up to the spiritual reality of life. Through this conscious connection it can help us solve everyday problems, feel the energy, see beyond the surface of situations and see the truth. It can be a helpful plant essence when we need to stay present during tasks, studies or meditations, free of distractions.

As well as being a plant ally for Soul Retrieval, Tree Daisy is also an ally for connecting us with our spirit helpers. In addition to Soul Retrieval work, I offer Esoteric Hypnosis journeys to connect with one's spiritual allies, and Tree Daisy is the plant spirit that assists us to connect with our Soul Guardian.

🌸 No. 102 Tree Daisy, The Present Essence, First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.

📷 Tree Daisy (Olearia cheesemanii), Omata, December 2019.

Catch up with me at the Wellness Fair in Inglewood this Saturday! I will be offering: ✨Vibrational medicines including F...
28/04/2026

Catch up with me at the Wellness Fair in Inglewood this Saturday!

I will be offering:

✨Vibrational medicines including First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand and Rune Essences.

🔮Card Readings and Rune Readings with personalised remedies.

🌿Natural botanical incense and handcrafted custom incense blends.

The Wellness Fair is on this Saturday 2 May from 10am - 2pm at the Inglewood Town Hall.

After more than a decade of searching for meaningful support, Paige booked a free connection call with me last September...
19/04/2026

After more than a decade of searching for meaningful support, Paige booked a free connection call with me last September. Over the past 6 months, I’ve had the privilege of supporting her journey, and the transformation in her life has been profound.

Working with First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand has supported Paige to create meaningful change and experience a deep sense of inner peace, after years of trying different therapies to move beyond trauma.

When I first began working with the First Light essences, I described it as 'spiritual development on steroids.' They accelerated my own healing and evolution in ways I never expected, and I continue to witness this with my clients.

It’s an honour to walk alongside people as they reconnect with themselves and transform their lives. If you’re navigating something heavy or feel ready for change, you don’t have to do it alone.

Book a free connection call and let’s explore what’s possible for you ✨

https://www.teresagoodin.com/service-page/free-connection-call

After writing about the Tawa tree recently I felt called to visit a block of native forest on my family’s farm near Raho...
16/04/2026

After writing about the Tawa tree recently I felt called to visit a block of native forest on my family’s farm near Rahotu.

While I was there this afternoon I re-discovered the beautiful Tawa trees on the land. They towered over me like giant guardians, their canopies overflowing with ferns and epiphytes. I found the last Tawa berry of the year. I had seen this berry in a vision, which was what had prompted me to visit the trees.

I had a dream about this stand of native forest when I was a young woman. I meet my paternal grandfather in the dream, the first in our family to have farmed the land. Even though he died before I was born, he was very vivid in my dream. He had one thing to say to me, and he wanted to tell me that ‘commerce had destroyed farming’.

I then saw myself in the field in front of the native forest on my family’s farm. I was sitting in the field with a very large weaving loom in front of me, multicoloured threads were coming out of the forest and I was weaving them onto the loom.

I now realise the dream was a foreshadowing of the work I do now. 30 years later I’m helping people reweave their lives with the sacred plant medicine of this land.

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Join me on Sunday 3 May for an intimate and rich sensory experience exploring the ancient art of incense making. I will ...
15/04/2026

Join me on Sunday 3 May for an intimate and rich sensory experience exploring the ancient art of incense making. I will share my personal herbarium with you, a unique collection of pure resins, herbs, flowers, and barks from around the world. And you'll create your own unique botanical incense blend to take home. For more information and bookings visit: https://www.teresagoodin.com/events

A native plant that I grew in my garden for several years. After accidentally touching this plant one day, I have made a...
15/04/2026

A native plant that I grew in my garden for several years. After accidentally touching this plant one day, I have made a concerted effort to avoid its ‘sting’ ever since!

Tree Nettle or Ongaonga, is a species of nettle endemic to New Zealand. It is a large woody shrub that can grow up to 3 metres. It has large spines which contain numerous toxins that are poisonous to humans. Contact with the spines can result in a painful sting that can last several days or weeks (which I can personally attest to!)

Tree Nettle grows in coastal-lowland forest margins and regenerating scrub on both islands. Although it is one of New Zealand's most poisonous endemic plants it is a host plant for several butterfly and moth species. It is the favoured source of food for the larvae of the Red Admiral and Yellow Admiral butterflies. A symbolic nod to the metaphysical and spiritual qualities of this special native plant.

Tree Nettle is the Shaman's Death & Rebirth Essence. Shamanic death and rebirth is an ancient and universal process of transformation. It describes a process where we undergo a symbolic death of the old self, followed by a return or rebirth into a more integrated, empowered, or awakened state. It’s not about physical death, it’s about the dismantling of identity, ego structures, and outdated patterns.

This shamanic death often appears as a crisis or initiation such as illness, breakdown, grief, fear or some sort of psychological upheaval. It is often accompanied by a loss of identity, direction, or meaning and sense that one's self or life is 'falling apart.' Traditionally shaman are 'called' through such initiatory experiences, to attain greater power, depth and the ability to guide others through the dark.

Transpersonal Psychologist Carl Jung described this as a confrontation with the unconscious or nigredo (the dark, dissolving phase of transformation). This confrontation is rarely gentle and is often accompanied by emotional intensity, chaos and disorientation. Jung saw this not as pathology, but as a necessary phase of individuation and the process of becoming whole. This is the beginning, not the end.

The shaman's death and rebirth is essentially about letting something die, whether that is old identities, attitudes, beliefs or aspects of consciousness that have served their purpose. Tree Nettle is the plant ally that supports this process of transformation and metamorphosis, providing healing support and energy during times of intense inner change and disruption.

Tree Nettle essence supports us to be fearless in facing our fears, pain or shadow self. It assists us to break through self-imposed realities and old limiting patterns so that we can experience a new life and energy. Tree Nettle facilitates our passage into a new way of living or a new reality.

Tree Nettle helps us traverse the 'dark night of the soul' and find the lesson or the 'gold' in the pain. It is our benevolent companion when we have experienced disintegration, supporting us to rise anew like the phoenix from the ashes.

🌸 No. 107 Tree Nettle, The Shaman's Death & Rebirth Essence, First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.

📷 Tree Nettle | Ongaonga (Urtica ferox), Omata, December 2019.

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Jung
14/04/2026

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ~ Carl Jung

Meet the native tree that supports us to integrate healing, embrace the 'new self' and become whole. Tawa is a native b...
14/04/2026

Meet the native tree that supports us to integrate healing, embrace the 'new self' and become whole.

Tawa is a native broadleaf tree found in lowland forests in the North Island and the north east of the South Island of New Zealand. Tawa can grow up to 30m high, with trunks up to 1.2m in diameter featuring smooth dark bark. It often forms the subcanopy in primary forests beneath podocarps such as Kahikatea, Mataī, Miro and Rimu.

Tawa produce small inconspicuous flowers followed by large long fruit of a dark red plum colour. Tawa relies solely on the New Zealand Kererū (pigeon) and were present the North Island Kōkako for dispersal of its seed. Tawa also supports significant epiphyte gardens in their canopies, which are one of the few known habitats of the enigmatic, arboreal striped skink.

Tawa is the Self Integration Essence and another special native plant essence that I give clients to support Soul Retrieval work. Tawa is the plant ally that helps us integrate and anchor the fragmented parts of the soul back into the life and unite them together as one healed whole. It also helps us to identify and address the needs of newly found aspects of self.

Often when we have experienced a healing or a shift in consciousness we will initially feel clear, energised and inspired, but then it is not uncommon for us to fall back into old stuck patterns again after a few weeks. Tawa helps us integrate change and maintain new states of being for lasting results, especially after deep healing, significant life transitions or major change at a soul level.

I often give Tawa essence to clients to help them embrace change and give up habits of lifetime. It supports us when we are consciously wanting to avoid old thoughts and ways of being that no longer serve us.

🌸 No. 105 Tawa, The Self-Integration Essence, First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.

📷 Tawa (Beilschmiedia tawa), photographer unknown.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi
13/04/2026

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Rumi

One of my favourite native shamanic teacher plants and another important ally in the soul retrieval work I facilitate. T...
13/04/2026

One of my favourite native shamanic teacher plants and another important ally in the soul retrieval work I facilitate.

Tarata is a species of evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand that grows up to 12m high. Also known as Lemonwood, the mottled yellow-green leaves have a strong lemony smell when crushed. It has highly fragrant clusters of attractive yellow-cream flowers in spring, followed by distinctive black seed capsules.

Māori traditionally used Tarata to treat various ailments, including stomach irritations, coughs, and colds. The crushed leaves and flowers of the Tarata were used for scent and perfume. The gum was rolled in to a ball and chewed for bad breath. The tree’s wood was also used for making tools and utensils.

Tarata is the plant ally that helps us rewrite the scripts of our life. At the beginning of a nine-session Soul Retrieval Programme I give my clients a Story Book which they use to re-write their new soul story. The Story Book is an important extension of the deep soul work done during sessions, helping my clients to integrate and embody their new reality.

Tarata is the Spiritual Hero Essence. It is the plant ally that helps us break out of victim mode, I often give it to clients who feel victimised and damaged by life. Tarata is an excellent spiritual and psychic decontaminant, it assists us to cleanse our being when we are holding onto negative energy and heal psychic wounds.

Tarata is a powerful plant ally when we are ready to shed the old self and old myths, and emerge empowered, renewed and triumphant.

🌸 No. 108 Tarata, The Spiritual Hero Essence, First Light Flower Essences of New Zealand®.

📷 Tarata | Lemonwood (Pittosporum eugenioides), Christchurch, October 2012. Photograph by Steve Attwood.

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