Flower Essences

 Mimulus lewisii (pink). Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others. Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma.

Achillea millefolium var. rubra (pink-purple). Positive qualities: Loving awareness of others within a field of self-contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries. Patterns of imbalance: Unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others.

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.

 Ericameria nauseosus (yellow). Positive qualities: Lively and alert mental field; acute sensory perception and mobile state of mind. Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events, “fuzzy” consciousness that is unable to register details.

Artemisia tridentata (yellow). Positive qualities: Essential awareness that releases what is extraneous, receptive “emptiness” capable of transformation and change. Patterns of imbalance: Over-identification with illusory parts of oneself; cluttered and chaotic attachments; need to release dysfunctional and stifling aspects within the personality or surroundings.

Cytisus scoparius (yellow). Positive qualities: Positive and optimistic feelings about future events; sun-like forces of action and connection in the world. Patterns of imbalance: Disheartened and depressed; overcome with pessimism and despair, especially regarding one's personal relationship to world events.

Leucanthemum superbum (white/yellow center). Positive qualities: Mandalic or holistic consciousness, ability to synthesize disparate ideas into a living wholeness. Patterns of imbalance: Over-intellectualization of reality, especially seeing information as bits and pieces rather than parts of a whole; artificial or mechanized intelligence.

Antirrhinum majus (yellow). Positive qualities: Lively, dynamic energy; healthy libido; verbal communication which is emotionally balanced. Patterns of imbalance: Verbal aggression and hostility; repressed or misdirected libido; mouth and jaw tension, misplaced snapping, biting or eating behaviors.