Materia Medica
The Flower Essence Blog
The Flower Essence Blog is an invitation to explore the magic and science behind flower essences with expert insights and detailed guides on how these natural remedies can nourish your mind, body, and spirit. Browse our blog for an index of floral essence information, contextual science and healing benefits as well as tarot and flower attunement oracle insights to understand the mystical powers of the floral realm.
New moon in Aquarius & Borage Flower Essence
The 11th house, also known as the house of friendships, hopes, and wishes, also signifies our social networks, associations, and our capacity for fulfilling our dreams. It represents the role of community, collaboration, and the support we receive from others. The energy of Aquarius is humanitarian, and within us, it seeks knowledge and inspiration to elevate the world. Aquarius is ruled by the Star card in the tarot and is represented by 17. The self-consciousness of the magician and the driving force of the chariot together evoke the number 8, which represents strength. The star is our new self being born. We are naked to the world in our authenticity. The innocence of hope, new beginnings, and the light at the end of the tunnel. The Star reminds us that in order to create balance and shine in the material world, we must look within ourselves through meditation and self-care. The star embodies the element of air, and its challenges are of the mind and our own limitations.
Moon phase ritual tools, teas and flower essences
New Moon Phase - Waning marks a new phase and is always in the same Sun sign of the zodiac each month. As the Moon decreases, it initiates a time for inner reflection, resting, and meditation. This is a good time for setting intentions and divination. Just as the New Moon increases moister for the earth. The New Moon can invoke emotions and hidden shadows, making this the perfect occasion to learn and discover more about ourselves under the veil.
The Flower Attunement Oracle Session
Because we are consuming so much information and environmental stress, the botanical oracle system helps tap into the peripheral nervous system and provides a remedy for releasing emotional stagnation by blending a customized Flower Essence elixir based on what has been revealed through the subconscious level. With the synergetic qualities of each essence, they provide mental and emotional healing and give us spiritual support for our well-being, connecting to nature and instilling mindfulness.
The Essence of Sunflower
The Sunflower flower essence supports our internal equilibrium it is ruled by the Sun and brings us Fire and passion. However, the Sunflower also has the quality of the element Water and a connection to the Moon that works harmoniously with the Sun's energy to create a balance of our inward and outward expression. The essence of the Sunflower and the Sun helps us to shine bright through authenticity, healing our perception from a place of a balanced personality building a healthy ego and strong solar plexus. Sunflowers help lift our vibration and help us let go of toxic situations that no longer serve us. Their big, bright yellow petals shine strong and confident, giving us support and increasing vitality.
The Science Behind Flower Essences
The science behind their superpowers is primal. Like us, plants have organs and a sophisticated system to detect and respond to light, gravity, temperature, and physical touch receptors, sense environmental factors and relay the information through an intermediate chemical messenger response. My theory is the symbiotic connection between plants and humans' sensory systems allows for a seamless delivery system.
How to use the Perusal of the Four Seasons Zine for ritual
Each season offers a theme that corraponse with the dominant elemental nature. Within each season, we are faced with spiritual, emotional, and physiological challenges. In this Zine series, I created a simple step-by-step calendar wheel using an internal compass and the four elemental directions. Medical astrology, numerology, and tarot all infused together as an introduction for further exploration. *note for accurate moon phases, you will need a current yearly calendar.
The Four Seasons Blends & Tarot
The tarot can be related to the four seasons in a few different ways. One way to interpret the connection is through the suits of the tarot deck. The four suits, which are typically represented by wands, cups, swords, and pentacles, can be associated with the seasons. Wands can symbolize spring, representing growth, creativity, and new beginnings. Cups can relate to summer, representing emotions, relationships, and abundance. Swords can be connected to autumn, representing intellect, challenges, and transformation. And pentacles can be linked to winter, representing stability, material wealth, and grounding.
How to work with The Flower Attunement Tarot
Cartomancy is the art of using a deck of playing cards to answer insightful questions and practice divination. This method can be found in many cultures dating back several hundred years before the 1700s when it became popular in Europe. The origins of playing card symbology have several theories in this system; the four suits represent the four elements in nature. Highest to lowest from the color-coded method: Spades (black) being the highest representing the Air element, Hearts (red) being the Water Element, in the middle Clubs (black) being Fire, and the lowest Diamonds (red) being Earth. This can be interpreted as the seasons and the four cardinal directions of our internal compass rose. These opposing forces represent life's challenges and how nature consistently achieves balance in the changing seasons' polarities.
Oregon Grape Flower Essence
Oregon grape helps teach us healthy boundaries. Its medicinal qualities are known for treating many conditions and are often used as an antifungal treatment, eczema cream, psoriasis treatment, and rash aid. Our skin is a helpful site for self-reflection. It tells us when we are unbalanced and when our boundaries have been crossed emotionally and spiritually. Oregon grape flower essence helps us to find balance. Its spiky leaves remind us to strengthen our boundaries, while its beautiful flowers remind us to shine. Its fruit-bearing quality helps us to feel nourished in giving and receiving love.
Love Potion No. 6 for 2022
Lunar New Year 2022 moves us into the archetype of the Lovers and the mirror of 6. Six offers beauty, love, intuition, and the awareness of our hearts. In the Flower Attunement Tarot, The Lovers and Six of Spades offer plant allies to help us find balance in our mind and emotions, Air and Water. The sacred number highlights the mind and body as above, so below, The Lovers relate to Air and The polarity. The Devil represents Earth and our attachments to everything that makes us feel good or bad.
Winter Solstice essences from the Flower Attunement
Winter Solstice offers a time to lay down a new foundation; when we are called to this, we are invoking changes of the mind and all that we feel through our body, starting at the base of our spine. December brings Saturn's energy to examine structures we build for ourselves; its essence is cold, dense, dry, and solid. Saturn's energy is our bones and stability. When big changes and transitions occur, this energy starts at the base of our spine and moves up through our energy centers; this can cause triggers and upsets to areas of the body that hold certain emotions, from unprocessed anger to trauma and fear. I have put together a blend of flower essence allies to help us feel safe, grounded, and supported through this time of change.
How to use The Flower Attunement Oracle & Guidebook
Using the Flower Attunement cards is a transformative experience for connecting the mind and body. Each card in the deck holds profound insights and offers deep healing, allowing us to release fear and embrace unconditional love. Every card revealed during a reading corresponds to a specific flower essence. These essences can be blended together based on the messages of the cards, creating a powerful remedy that can be ingested as a tincture or added to water, tea, or any beverage of your choice. Additionally, all of the essences can be added to a bath for a soothing and rejuvenating experience.
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