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.
Triteleia ixioides (yellow, brown stripes). Positive qualities: Radiant inner beauty; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance despite handicaps or blemishes. Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance.
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...
Briza maxima (green). Positive qualities: Harmonious community consciousness, flexible and receptive in group work. Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to compromise, over-attachment to personal will and desire in social situations.
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.
Chaenomeles speciosa (red). Positive qualities: Loving strength and firm loving; integration of masculine initiating power and feminine nurturing qualities. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to catalyze or reconcile strength and power with affection and tenderness; dysfunctional or inconsistent parenting or leadership behavior.
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.
Trifolium pratense (pink-red). Positive qualities: Calm and steady presence, especially in emergency situations, internally generated behavior. Patterns of imbalance: Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety, easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought.
Salvia officinalis (violet). Positive qualities: Wisdom derived from life experience; ability to assess and understand life process from a higher perspective. Patterns of imbalance: Seeing life as ill-fated or undeserved; inability to perceive higher purpose and meaning in life events.
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.
Carnegiea giganteus (white, yellowcenter). Positive qualities: Awareness of what is ancient and sacred, a sense of tradition or lineage; ability to learn from elders. Patterns of imbalance: Conflict with images of authority, sense of separateness or alienation from the past.
Hypericum perforatum (yellow). Positive qualities: Illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness; solar strength. Patterns of imbalance: Psychic and physical vulnerability; fearful or disturbed dreams; depression due to lack of contact with spiritual world.
Mimulus cardinalis (red). Positive qualities: Direct and clear communication of deep feelings, especially anger or disappointment, integration of the emotional “shadow”. Patterns of imbalance: Fear or repression of intense feelings; inability to act upon issues of anger and powerlessness; need to be seen as “nice” rather than “real”.
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.
Dodecatheon hendersonii (violet/pink). Positive qualities: Humanized spirituality, cosmic consciousness warmed with caring for all that is human and earthly. Patterns of imbalance: Profound feeling of alienation, especially not feeling at home on Earth, nor a part of the human family; disturbed birth trauma.
Centaurea solstitialis (yellow). Positive qualities: Generous and inclusive, ability to share with others due to an inner feeling of abundance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of lack, inability to give freely and spontaneously, miserly or hoarding tendencies.
Calochortus tolmiei (white/purple). Positive qualities: Sensitive and receptive attunement; serene soul disposition, inner listening to others and to higher worlds, especially in dreams and meditation. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to cultivate quiet inner presence, lack of attunement or soul insight, unable to meditate or pray.
Mimulus aurantiacus (orange). Positive qualities: Balanced integration of human warmth and sexual intimacy; ability to express deep feelings of love and connectedness in sexual relationships. Patterns of imbalance: Repressed sexual feelings, inappropriate sexual behavior divorced from human love; inability to experience human warmth in sexual experiences; deep fear of sexuality and intimacy.