Mary’s Bedstraw – The Light of the Grail
Galium Verum
Born 15.8.2020. Digit sum 9, The Sun
Light doesn’t DO anything to darkness, it simply SHINES; Wellesley Tudor Pole.
From an old Grail legend:” … Next comes a damsel carrying a Cup that blazes with light…”
Peace among Humans

Already more than a month before her birth, Mary’s Bedstraw starts to blossom, and her blossom time lasts approximately a couple of months. She announced her birth in due time and told me that she wanted to be born on the 15^th, so, first I thought she meant the 15^th of July, however it was the 15^th of August, on Assumption Day. The Catholics believe that Virgin Mary was so pure and without blemish, that she was able to ascend bodily to heaven.

In the days before Her birth there was a quiet gentleness, and, in a barely perceptible whisper, which I was not quite sure I had heard, she said:

” I do not believe, that confronting the unjust and controlling can solve anything. In my point of view, this can create even more of the same kind of darkness, that one is trying to fight. I simply believe that love and forgiveness dissolves everything.”

 In the morning the day before her birth, the world was enveloped in mist, and a rare sight, a crane came to greet me when I was approaching the lake. And when, by this lake, I was singing my morning song, it flew through the mists across the steaming lake, and back again. The crane is the Celtic symbol of the triple goddess: The maiden, the mother, and the crone. And the lake seemed to me then, as a steaming cauldron, a living grail.

Jørgen had once more decided to co-create the essence with me, and we found the right place together a week ahead of time, a place, which, while approaching it during our final walk seemed to me like Glastonbury Tor, for we walked on a path along a narrow ridge up the “dragon’s back” to the peninsula Vesterø, from which we had a magnificent view over Rørbæk lake and surroundings.

Mary’s Bedstraw had told me that she wanted to be born approximately at 3pm, since this time of the day, she said, would be the warmest time during the entire summer, and hot it was, already there was a heat wave in Denmark, and with no trace of any clouds in the sky, so….

… she began her speech as follows:

• A little light illuminates a great darkness.
• Psalms 119:105 ”Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, a light upon my path”
• We walk through the world, and we are called to go out into its darkness.
• I am the cup, the grail, which contains and carries all; the grail that you can find only in your heart. Brigid’s Holy Wells and Dagda’s cauldron quench my soul.
• I am the Eternal Light, which burns in churches and synagogues all over the world, I am the Sacred Fire of Vesta, the Eternal Flame of the nine Druid Priestesses of Kildare; My light can never be extinguished.
• I am simplicity, love, power, and light, and I am without limit, only the unwritten laws of the universe rule here, so if you follow me, you step into timelessness, eternity.
• With the Archangel Michael as my true squire, I guide you on your pilgrimage, along ley lines and other paths – The Michael’s and Mary’s lines in particular. That’s when you see me growing in a cluster in my own pilgrimage-community, my yellow flowers being like beacons in the dark; And a scent of paradise, and honey will bring you remembrance, and then you know: I protect the wayfarers.
• Not do I distinguish between rich, poor, animal, or human. I comfort the weak as well as the strong. Never will I deny anybody anything.
• I am a woman’s light living in the grail of the earth.
• I am peace and diplomacy. I listen and give others a chance. So here I grow among yarrow, and bluebell, at the foot of a hawthorn.

In the old days She was called St. Bridget’s Flower, and was used as a sedative and as bedstraw for women in labour. In Finland She was also used as bedstraw for the dead, to guide their souls, when they were buried, and She was said to help if somebody had been subject to incest, abuse, or were suffering from vulvodynia. Also, people who had been attacked, verbally, or physically might let go of their fear and anger and set themselves free thanks to the message of Mary’s Bedstraw and the active substances in the plant. Also, She is very good as smudge and contains coumarin.

The word” ley” in” ley lines” comes from the old English læghrych and means the edge of a field, and, verily Mary’s Bedstraw, also called Yellow Bedstraw, often grows at the edge of roads and fields and in uncultivated fields, for She thrives in the sun.

The Latin name of the plant gallium verum derives from the word gala, meaning milk in Greek, and verum meaning true.

Lady’s Bedstraw is said to help against dropsy, abscesses, eczema, epistaxis, diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, menstrual, gastrointestinal diseases, gout, headache, cramps, epilepsy, hysteria, and neurasthenia (chronical fatigue), it is diuretic by kidney diseases, astringent, and a pain killer against colic.