Flowers of the Soul
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Spring Flower Selection
Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolio) Fire Element
Reconnecting with healthy sensuality; for taking in the nourishment of touching. When your infant was not lovingly handled. For adults who have issues with sensuality: may be either "too hot" or "too cold". For not loving yourself enough to receive affection. Image: a baby gently lifted from its cradle to be lovingly caressed.
Poison Ivy (Rhus radicans) Wood Element
To make the transition from feeling shamed to feeling blessed. Opens the inner divine child to receive universal love. For those not comfortable with themselves. For feeling not good enough; that you don't deserve to receive what you need. Image: arms raised to receive an embrace from the sky.
Purple Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) Water Element
Connecting with unconditional, personal love no matter how deeply you've sunk; to be touched by the spark of hope that ignites transformation. For beginning anew, rebirth, body-soul refusion. For hitting bottom, the depths of despair and lovelessness. Image: drowning at the bottom of the ocean to be scooped up by a whale who carries you gently to the surface and into the light.
Red Trillium (Trillium erectum) Water Element
For birthing the self. Reveals one secret of the self at a time. Image: unlocking a safe/strong box; other boxes await in the distance.
Rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis) Water/Fire Element.
For seeing the big picture. Cosmic overview. For staying in touch with your inner truth. For those who tend to get stuck in petty details. Image: galaxies spread out before you.
Rosebud "Rainbows End" (Rosa x. hybrida var. savalife) Fire Element
[made under the full moon]
Mirror to the self. Self-love as the starting point of all "right" relationship. For staying present to the self. For healing those who love others more than themselves. For healing relationships based on emotional addiction. Image: full moon mirror reflecting your love back to you.
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatwn biflorum) Earth Element
Healing pre-birth trauma. For psychic trauma in utero. Creates a safe place. For unnamed terror. Image: heartbeat sound in a loving, safe, womb-like space.
Star Flower (Trientalis borealis) Water Element
Connection with your star home/star ancestor/star wisdom. To unlock the star vault of karmic evolution. Our individual star holds the energy template/pattern for us, past and future. For those with life-threatening illness who wish to renegotiate their earthly karma. Image: our umbilical light cord connecting to a distant star.
Sweet Violet (Viola blanda) Wood Element
For insecurity that can be painful, paralyzing. Fear of failure. Need for reassuring feedback. Healing unresolved adolescence issues. To create a confidence that is grounded in self-knowing and self-love. Image: stabbing shyness lifts to exuberant confidence.
Sweet-Scented Bedstraw (Galium triflorum) Earth Element
For breaking free of repetitive patterns. Discovering what really nourishes you. For self-destructive loops. Cyclical ups and downs. Food, drug, alcohol addictions. Image: plowing (not rototilling) new, fertile earth to plant a garden.
Umbrella Magnolia (Magnolia tripetala) Earth Element
For those who were emotionally malnourished as a child. For healing self-denial. Image: sweet, gentle guardian angel nanny for your inner pre-school aged child.
Veronica Speedwell (Veronica officinalis) Metal Element
Forgiving yourself. For not hanging onto guilt and self-judgment. Image: Veronica lifts you off the fish hook of self-recrimination.
White Birch (Betula papyrifera) Water Element
Moving in concert with your destiny. Going with the flow. Fluidity. The dance of life. For when you feel stuck or out of balance. Image: a birch canoe floating smoothly downstream through swirling eddies and quiet pools.
Wild Azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) Fire Element
For the dark night of the soul. When you feel there is no one and nothing there for you. To know that you are not alone. Image: dark forest with a beam of light streaming to your feet.
Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense) Water Element
To create a reflective inner place of knowing that is far away from stress, chaos, busyness. Image: inner reflective poola mirror of truth.
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Wood Element
For awakening the inner warrior. For supporting appropriate confrontation. Heals emotional battle wounds. Clears "sticky" projection energies from your aura. Image: a yellow tornado swirling around you.
