Flower Essences

Achillea filipendulina (yellow). Positive qualities: Remaining open to others while staying self-contained; active social involvement which preserves inner equilibrium. Patterns of imbalance: Over-sensitivity to one's social surroundings, resulting in social isolation, or a false social persona; dependence on drugs for protection or social masking.

Hibiscus moscheutos (red). Positive qualities : Warmth and responsiveness in sexuality; integration of soul warmth and bodily passion. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to enjoy sexual experience; lack of warmth and vitality, often due to prior exploitation, false cultural expectations or abuse.

 Lavandula officinalis (violet). Positive qualities: Spiritual sensitivity, highly refined awareness intact with stable bodily health. Patterns of imbalance: Nervous or high-wired energy states, over-stimulation of mental or spiritual forces, depletion of physical forces; insomnia.

Arctostaphylos viscida (white-pink). Positive qualities: Joyous embodiment, spiritual identity integrated with the physical body. Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world; eating and sleeping disorders.

Monardella odoratissima (violet). Positive qualities: Strength and clarity of thought, mental integrity and positivity. Patterns of imbalance: Unconscious absorption of negative programming, psychic contamination or possession.

Verbascum thapsus (yellow). Positive qualities: Strong sense of inner conscience, truthfulness, uprightness. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to hear one's inner voice; moral weakness and confusion, indecisiveness; lying or deception to oneself or others.

 Penstemon davidsonii (violet-blue). Positive qualities: Inner fortitude despite outer hardships; perseverance; ability to endure and forbear adversity. Patterns of imbalance: Feeling persecuted or sorry for oneself; inability to bear life's difficult circumstances.

Punica granatum (red). Positive qualities: Joyful expression of feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world. Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global.

Mimulus kelloggii (purple). Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to...

 Daucus carota (white). Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self. Patterns of imbalance: Projection or lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances.