A Collection of Articles about How to Combine Astrology with Flower Essences
Posted by admin on Mar 9, 2010
Coming Friday, March 19, Vibration Magazine Presents: A Collection of Articles about How to Combine Astrology and Flower Essences. Not to be confused with aromatherapy, flower essences are a superb, natural, and inexpensive healing tool that can catalyze personal growth and smooth out the rough edges of times like these.
The combination of astrology and flower essences is outstanding in helping people understand and address difficulties that arise during difficult transits. Coordinated by Donna Cunningham, this collection of 17 articles by astrologers who are also flower essence practitioners will suggest ways astrology and essences can enhance one another.
It is one of the article collections for the International Astrology Day Blogathon, which you can read about here: http://2010astrologycarnival.wordpress.com
Evening Primrose—Healing a Mother’s Rejection
Posted by admin on Mar 6, 2010
©2007 by Dr. Terry Willard, Director, Wild Rose College of Natural Healing
Positive qualities: Awareness and healing of early, negative emotions absorbed from the parents; facilitates open emotional and committed relationships.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling rejected (even from in the uterus), unwanted; avoidance of commitment in relationships, fear of parenthood, sexual and emotional repression
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Evelyn has always felt a bit rejected in life. When she was a little girl her mother would often tell her ‘Life would have been very different for me if you hadn’t come along at such an inopportune time.’ Her mother had just started a very promising career when she became pregnant. Choosing to raise her child as a single parent, she gave up her ambitions of following her life passion. Evelyn loved her mother dearly and didn’t blame her, but she did still feel wounded by her mother’s rejection.
As an adult Evelyn finds it hard to form committed relationships. She isn’t all that interested in sex and the idea of having her own children frightens her. She likes to live her life avoiding emotions, and is happier with a life hidden in academia.
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Evening Primrose is the flower essence to combat feelings of rejection. If one is rejected early enough in life (even in the uterus) the feelings of rejection will often overshadow other emotions. The Self is most open and receives it first impression of life on Earth while in utero and as a small infant. During this time we receive and reflect the light of our parents’ emotions (especially the mother’s). Rejection at such a young age can create deep-seated emotions which makes it difficult to form meaningful relationships as an adult. This blocked energy can easily become focused in the sexual area, where a person either ignores it, or rebounds into non connecting sexual turmoil, violence or debased lust.
Evening Primrose flower essence can cleanse one from the effects of having grown up in a toxic family. It will aid in cleansing ourselves of difficult family relationships. It will help us to work through heart-related issues. Some people tend to stifle their individuality and become fearful of revealing their inner nature. Evening Primrose flower essence reminds us that it is okay to express our feelings to others.
When people feel distant from their emotions, they will often have a look of ‘deadness’ or lack of vitality in the way they talk or use their body. Evening Primrose flower essence will help one connect with their emotions, thus improving their physical vitality.
Evening Primrose flower essence can facilitate a spiritual rebirthing by providing an emotional matrix that can nourish the Self. This isn’t always easy though, as often hidden behind the shadow of early childhood traumas are many other emotions. In the same way the Evening Primrose plant first opens in petals around 6:00 pm to light up the night, its flower essence can shine light on these hidden emotions. Evening Primrose flower essence reflects moon energy and helps us heal mother issues – both mother and child.
Our own shadow often hides aspects of our personality we do not like. We try and pretend they are not there by ignoring them, or simple forgetting about them. If you want to truly integrate inner peace into your life, you also have to incorporate the shadow aspect of yourself. This requires getting to know your shadow side and resolve this part of you, changing it into an inner resource. Evening Primrose flower essence can aid in facilitating this process, but more often this essence should be mixed with other flower essences, to allow a gradual and gentle healing.
A message from the plant:
“Open up all your channels and allow you’re self to ascend. In truth you want to ascend as quickly as possible but your ego mind holds you back with illusions of fear. Ego says, ‘ you are not ready, you could hurt yourself, people will judge you, and you will feel alone.’ Spiritual health is most important. I will help you open up and trust your inner guidance. Let’s release all old wounds that go back to your first appearance. You are born anew, celebrate this healing. Any self doubt will melt away and you will feel elated!”
Chakras: root, third and Heart chakra
Symptoms Which Indicate the need for Evening Primrose:
Abuse, Action/Decisiveness/Self-Discipline, Alienation, Ambivalent/Apathetic, Avoidance, Catharsis, Childhood, Cleansing, Commitment, Confidence, Courage, Grief, Detoxification/Purification, Dreams , Escapism, Feminine Awareness/Balancing, Grief, Inadequacy, Independence, Inner Child, Insecurity, Involvement, Issues of Intimacy, Loneliness, Menstrual Issues, Motherhood, Obesity, Personal Relationships, Pregnancy, Purification, Rejection, Release, Repression, Sadness, Separation/Alienation, Self-Esteem, Sexual Behavior
About the Auth
or and Wild Rose College of Natural Healing: For over thirty years, Terry Willard, Cl.H.,Ph.D., has studied the medicinal properties of plants. He is recognized as one of North America ’s leading Clinical Herbalists. He appears regularly in the print and electronic media as an exponent of responsible herbal use. He currently serves as the President of the Canadian Association of Herbal Practitioners, a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and in the Canadian Health Food Association’s Hall of Fame.
Dr. Willard is the author of ten books on the subject of Herbs including the pivotal Wild Rose Herbal Series – a series of three textbooks written to educate herbalists. Two of his books, Mind-Body Harmony and Dr. Willard Encyclopedia of Herbal Uses , have been particularly popular with the general public. To learn more about Dr. Willard and his seminars through Wild Rose College, to go http://www.wrc.net/. The site contains a wealth of information about the herbal and flower essence properties of a large number of plants.
Art credits: Photos are from WikiMedia commons by Tarquin and Daderot.
Australian Flower Essences and the Collective Crisis: A Time of Creative Possibility
Posted by admin on Feb 27, 2010
©2010 by Eve Dembowski
All of us have experienced difficult times that are reflected by challenging personal astrological cycles. There have also been many difficult times in our collective history that have been reflected in the difficult astrological aspects present at the time. Read the rest of this entry »
Bleeding Heart Flower Essence—Loving with an Open Heart
Posted by admin on Feb 20, 2010
©2007 by Dr. Terry Willard, Director, Wild Rose College of Natural Healing
Positive qualities: Ability to love others unconditionally; an open heart; emotional freedom
Patterns of imbalance: Entangled in relationships based on fear, possessiveness or neediness; emotional co-dependence Read the rest of this entry »
The Seasonal Use of Essences ~ Winter/Spring
Posted by admin on Feb 13, 2010
©2010 by Ellie Web, maker of Harebell Essences
The use of flower essences on a seasonal basis began for me a long time ago when I realized that orders for some essences increase at certain times. People would come back to me at the same time every year for a certain combination which had helped them during the same period the previous year.
In particular there was a practitioner who regularly ordered Pansy, Jasmine and St Johns Wort through the winter months. I dowsed and these, along with two other essences became a combination called Winter Strength which myself and some of my client/practitioners find helpful during the challenging winter months. Read the rest of this entry »
Balancing on a Sunbeam: Sunflower Essence and Self-Confidence
Posted by admin on Feb 6, 2010
©2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
One of the ways I came to know the essences in my collection in the early days was to meditate on one each night. I would put a dropperful of an essence into a glass of water, stir thoroughly, and sip it slowly while noting the thoughts or impressions that came into my mind. Read the rest of this entry »
Flower Essences: How they Enhance the Work of other Helping Professions
Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2010
©2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
Vibration Magazine has never been exclusively a flower essence journal. It has always been the meeting place for practitioners and clients of a great variety of the healing arts to explore how multiple forms of healing can combine with essences for a stronger, more effective healing result.
Experimental Protocol for Seed Experiment
Posted by admin on Jan 23, 2010
By Deborah Bier, PhD
The photos I recently unearthed and published on this blog showing evidence of the effects of flower essences on seed germination got quite a bit of notice from around the world! Would you like to give this experiment a try yourself? Found in my files is the below experimental protocol we used during which the photos published a few weeks ago were taken (see http://www.floweressencemagazine.com/blog/?p=979 for the entire series of photos). It is published here for the first time, both in response to questions about how we carried out this experiment, and with my wish that others will follow it using any essence of their choice to see what results they receive. Read the rest of this entry »
Flower Essences and Astrology—Getting through our Collective Crisis
Posted by admin on Jan 18, 2010
©2009 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
Sudden upsurges of despair and generalized turmoil like we’re experiencing just now are related to—BUT NOT CAUSED BY—current astrological conditions. As an astrologer who has studied planetary patterns for over 40 years, I’m sensitive to the prevailing cosmic winds. Slow-moving astrological conditions, some lasting as much as two years, shed light on our collective experience and major changes in the world. Astrological insights, combined with pertinent flower essences, can help us make progress despite the stresses and strains. Read the rest of this entry »
Pussytoes Essence: Recover Surrender
Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2010
By Deborah Bier, PhD, maker of the Whole Energy Essences
I received an email recently from an essence customer who purchased a Whole Energy Essences Recovery Essence set and couldn’t find a description for Pussytoes in the book we sent along with it (an earlier edition of The Encyclopedia of Vibrational Essences). That was because Pussytoes was a late addition to complete this set, and I never got around to writing an entry!
But suddenly, I felt the urge to write it. Looking through my research notes, I could see why: it is actually a “fleur du jour” — a term used by my Vibration co-editor, Donna Cunningham. This expression refers to any essence that keeps being indicated again and again across many people because it is a reflection of a larger cosmic, impersonal need of the moment. (See her article about this concept here: http://www.essences.com/vibration/june98/fleurjour.html) Read the rest of this entry »
