Piper Nigrum: Calming, healing, stimulates inner defences, brings out inner strength, exclusive, repels negative energy.

• Black Pepper is an excellent antidote to negative thinking, protection from negative energy, dissolving negative energy in and around the body, directing attention towards a positive outcome.

A king is surrounded by many advisers who tell him terrible things - about ruin, about war, about lack of funds, how all things are lost; they murmour and whine insistently, whisper and cajole - they try to break the king and take his power.

The king can feel himself begin to slip away when with a bang, the doors fling open wide - in steps a knight in blue black armour.

Sword drawn, he drives the cloaked advisers from the palace; and when they are all gone, the king can see clearly what is wrong, and knows just how to act as well to make it right again.

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