Key Word: Cool Fire. Softening and opening, feminine, cooling, watery, cleansing and purifying old conditioning. Helps to dissolve the illusion that spiritual means suffer. Carries the energy of the Herkimer diamond, the future - opening the higher chakras and so helping to attune to the higher spiritual domains. Stimulates the restoration of your energetic template to its original purity and truth. Helpful in space clearing, addiction, shock.

Key Word: Warm Fire. The feminine quality of softening goes deeper, influencing the way you feel, your perceptions; it modifies the way you see and hear. You can't change unless you feel accepted as you are: this essence helps towards the deep self-acceptance that allows you to change. Expands your energy field, stops you thinking small, encourages you to embrace your inner Goddess. Use it where there's a love deficit or any kind of blockage or resistance; also to encourage physical warmth.

Key Word: Self-Realisation. Takes self-realisation to a new vibration which means deep empowerment: ego starts to express itself as the individuated self come out of God, so encourages honing and development of your unique quality and gift to the planet. Helps you to claim ownership of the life script you wrote and to honour and trust the path you have chosen. Stimulates the great shift where we bring spirit/heaven to earth; hence its quality of protection and grounding. Good for getting projects started; detoxification of heart, circulation and lungs.

Key Word: Transmutation. Silver is truth, the connection with spirit, and powerful purification of body and soul, while grey is grounding and protective. This frequency carries the energy of Mercury, both metal and Roman God: the metal transcends the solid and liquid states, earth and heaven, life and death, so it helps return us from polarized thinking to unity consciousness. And Mercury is the messenger of the Gods, noted for his swiftness and speed, and the essence is used above all in Metatronic work for the purification of 'stories' as they leave the body through the aura.

Key Words: Liberation, Opening the Heart. Helps you step transcend the gravitational pull exerted by identifications, addictions and other ego-dross, opening the heart space and so freeing up your energy to create what you meant to create all along and forgot. Frees you from unhealthy attachments: to outcomes, to co-dependency, to habits; helps you let go so you find your way back to the present moment. Useful when you're stuck in your head, e.g. 'how do I know this is real? I may be just imagining it.' Use it to help in dissolving judgments.

Key Word: the Galaxies. This essence helps in dissolving mind-chatter, calming the monkey mind. Fine-tunes your communications, helping you to hear and be heard. Encourages the move beyond neediness so you get more attention and respect. Clears dramas from the throat chakra so you speak from the level of the soul. Spiritualises your communications, helps you to be actively present, to hear from the still place inside yourself, so that you hear the silence as well as the words. Tunes you towards the knowledge available right inside - your body - and right outside, i.e. from other dimensions: dolphins etc.

Key Word: Initiation. Opens your mind to spirit, stimulates the pituitary gland to receive the infusion of spiritual energy that affects the entire endocrine system, opening you more deeply to the guidance of your higher self. It helps you reach a deeper level of non-attachment: as you transcend your personal drama, you realize there's nothing to forgive because no-one was at fault anyway. This essence, this ray, reminds you the journey is just a story you wrote to entertain yourself while you learned your lessons; it gently re-awakens you as it cleanses your cells of their perceptions of blame. Helpful in depression or where it's hard to let go of control.

Key Word: Homecoming. Copper is a good conductor, and so very grounding: this ray increases transfer of energy from one part of the body to another, e.g. prana from air, haemoglobin from oxygen etc, hence strengthening and fortifying. Works strongly on the lower centres: metabolism and circulation. Helps you to be fully present. Copper created the transition from the Stone Age into the Bronze Age, and was also a traditional container for fire: so it creates a safe vessel to find the real grounding and strength for personal development, evolution, refining of energy. Useful for stress, ADHD, emotional shut-down.

Key Word: the Promise. Spiritual strengthening of lower chakras to link them with the higher ones. Increases life-force, courage, passion, creativity, will and personal power. Helps those who need the earth and fire of the lower-chakra energies in order to bring their aspirations into physical reality. Brings the 'olive branch', peace and new growth, into your cellular awareness: it is the promise of new life, new love, new opportunities; the encouragement to forgive so that true healing and regeneration can take place. Takes heaviness and density out of the root chakra as it brings in the new light of Spirit. Use to counteract melancholy and loss of hope.

Key Word: Choice. Encourages you to bring forth what is within you: the frequency relates to sulphur, which links with the Underworld, the shadow, the unconscious - and hence with your creativity. Helps you to show up, with all that you feel, all that you are: to feel the feelings not bury them, to bring the light-filled yellow to shine on all that you are. Deals powerful blow to remaining addictive patterns and transforms them if you're willing. Strengthens relationships through firming up your boundaries as you grow your sense of yourself. Use to encourage self-responsibility, courage and commitment - and to replenish kidney energy.

Key Word: the Immortal. Deep, powerfully physical ray; brings the earth's blood into the power centre of your individual expression, your divine spark on earth. Helps you find unity with yourself, the earth, other forms of life; reminds you that the power for everything in your life lies within you. Brings spiritual life-force into the blood; encourages personal transubstantiation, or fluid movement between spirit and matter within the self. The frequency relates to iron: thus it brings durability, toughness, inflexibility, courage and assertiveness; and iron is also needed for cell growth and repair so use the essence for physical warmth and re-growth.

Key Word: the Alchemist. Develops the heart chakra, amplifies thought form and opens the third eye. Brings great light into the heart and also connects you with gravity and weight, reaching into deepest levels of yourself; historically, gold is also related to what is both highest and lowest in ourselves. This frequency reminds you that the heart is your greatest source of strength and brings illumination to the 'heart of darkness'; it brings a golden flame to the depths and helps you to find the wisdom within the shadow. It quickens your spiritual connection to amplify your sense of sovereign power. Use for stress control and neural conditions.

Key Word: Sword of Truth. This ray softens the throat centre, the communications; and it amplifies all that it touches, including the power of your spoken word; it restores your communication faculties to their original state of purity. Helps in letting go of guilt - just as silver tarnishes easily but is restored to brilliance when it's polished. Connects with the energy of the moon, the past, the unconscious: hence it helps you connect with buried emotion and encourages you to clear karma through understanding and clear sight. Frees the soul from its past and from Earth history. Encourages you in bringing fresh energy (new moon) to existing projects or start new ones. Useful for shadow work.

Key Word: the Crown. Platinum is the bridge between our consciousness and pure white light; a window between the material and spiritual worlds. This essence, this ray, helps in lifting your focus away from human situations so you see it in a new way and cope with it from a higher place within yourself. It activates the chakras above the crown, so it's useful to enhance spiritual clarity and channeling ability. Great catalyst: brings higher cosmic intelligence so earthly reactions are completed more rapidly. Use to soothe emotional disappointment and balance mental conditions, e.g. paranoia, delusions of grandeur, mood swings.