Flowers of the Soul
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Memory Flowers
Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
Forgiving and loving the self. Then forgiving any others. Image: A wave breaking over you- you feel bouyant, lighter.
Cattail (Typha latifolia)
For a balanced flow of inner masculine and feminine. For healing aversion to either male or female. Image: Fluid, iridescent ribbon of green-gold and blue silver, each yielding in order to generate the other.
Chinese Milkvetch (Astagalus mongholicus)
For those whose boundaries have been violated. For redefining self and other. Image: a baby's head crowning at birth; a breaching whale.
Elder (Sambucus canadensis)
To hold you steady through traumatic memory work. Healing emotional and physical shocks. Image: a loving hand on each shoulder, cupped hands support your heart.
Fragrant Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata)
Reuniting soul with body after the body has been abused. Mourning the separation. Longing for the return of joy. Image: After the joyous reunion of soul with body, the soul shines out like a water lily opening from the solar plexus.
Meadow Lily (Lilium canadense)
Tenderness towar the self. Gentleness for yourself as an anchor, a prerequisite to any speaking out or confronting of abusers. Image: a blue heron taking flight. The heron represents delicacy toward self: the heron rises without stirring the water.
Meadowsweet (Spiraea latifolia)
For moving fully into the present: leaving behind the pain, the shame, the blame. Image: a swing that lifts you high and free.
Spikenard (Aralia racemosa)
For reclaiming your power. For not reliquishing one's power to others in order to be safe, to be accepted, or to be loved. Image: you become your own cyclone of power when you connect to the inner-divine.
White Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea "Alba")
For continuing on when you want to quit the struggle; when you want to die. Image: you are surrounded by darkness; white light from earth center flows into you, up through the top of your crown, then a fountain of white light cascades over you.
White Sweet Clover (Melilotus alba)
For soothing the wounded self. Image: a soft poultice of white light to merge with open wounds.
