Anethum graveolens (yellow). Positive qualities: Ability to experience and absorb a wide variety of sensory experiences, heightened awareness of taste, touch, hearing, sight, smell, etc. Patterns of imbalance: Overwhelm due to excess stimulation, hypersensitivity to environment or to outer activity, sensory congestion.
Cornus nuttallii (yellow/whitebracts). Positive qualities: Grace-filled movement, physical and etheric harmony in the body. Patterns of imbalance: Awkward and painful awareness of the body; latent emotional trauma or abuse affecting the body, accident prone.
Erythronium purpurascens (yellow with purple). Positive qualities: Involvement in the social fabric of the world; ability to share one's spiritual gifts with others. Patterns of imbalance: Withdrawal, isolation, self-protection; overly delicate or mystical, lacking the inner strength to participate in community and family.
Fuchsia magellanica (red/purple). Positive qualities: Genuine emotional vitality, ability to express intense feelings. Patterns of imbalance: Hyper-emotionality or hysteria that masks deeply-seated pain and trauma; misdirected psychosomatic responses to pain and stress.
Ehrendorferia chrysantha (yellow). Positive qualities: Ability to remember and understand core experiences that define emotional history; nourishment and insight from past experiences. Patterns of imbalance: Suppressed toxic memories of childhood; feelings of pain and trauma about past events, affecting present emotional identity.
Achillea filipendulina (yellow). Positive qualities: Remaining open to others while staying self-contained; active social involvement which preserves inner equilibrium. Patterns of imbalance: Over-sensitivity to one's social surroundings, resulting in social isolation, or a false social persona; dependence on drugs for protection or social masking.
Solidago californica (yellow). Positive qualities: Strong and secure sense of individuality, balanced with group or social consciousness. Patterns of imbalance: Overly influenced by group or cultural ties; inability to be true to oneself, easily susceptible to peer pressure or external social demands.
Hibiscus moscheutos (red). Positive qualities : Warmth and responsiveness in sexuality; integration of soul warmth and bodily passion. Patterns of imbalance: Inability to enjoy sexual experience; lack of warmth and vitality, often due to prior exploitation, false cultural expectations or abuse.
Cynoglossum grande (blue/white). Positive qualities: Holistic thinking; perception of physical reality united with lively thoughts, integration of imagination and intellect. Patterns of imbalance: Materialistic world view, weighed down or dulled by a mundane or overly analytical viewpoint; can be accompanied by heaviness or torpor in the physical body.
Silene californica (red). Positive qualities: Ability to remain centered and focused, even under stress or high levels of activity; managing and coordinating diverse tasks. Patterns of imbalance: Psychic forces which are easily fragmented by too much movement; frayed and overwhelmed during multi-leveled activity.
Iris douglasiana (blue-violet). Positive qualities: Inspired artistry, soulful creativity in touch with higher realms; radiant, iridescent vision in all aspects of life. Patterns of imbalance: Lacking inspiration or creativity; feeling weighed down by the ordinariness of the world; dullness or spectator consciousness.
Cypripedium parviflorum (yellow). Positive qualities: Higher purpose aligned with daily work, integration of spiritual vision with vital forces in the root and creative chakras. Patterns of imbalance: Life purpose and direction not aligned with outer activity; nervous exhaustion or sexual depletion due to inability to access life force in the lower chakras.
Lavandula officinalis (violet). Positive qualities: Spiritual sensitivity, highly refined awareness intact with stable bodily health. Patterns of imbalance: Nervous or high-wired energy states, over-stimulation of mental or spiritual forces, depletion of physical forces; insomnia.
Amaranthus caudatus (red). Positive qualities: Transcendent consciousness, the ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish; transpersonal vision; compassionate acceptance of life karma. Patterns of imbalance: Intensification of pain and suffering due to isolation; profound melancholia or despair due to the over-personalization of one's pain.
Madia elegans (yellow/red spots). Positive qualities: Precise thinking, disciplined focus and concentration. Patterns of imbalance: Easily distracted, inability to concentrate, splintered activity that is unproductive.
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Asclepias cordifolia (red-purple). Positive qualities: Healthy ego strength; independence and self-reliance. Patterns of imbalance: Neediness and emotional regression, dulling the consciousness through drugs, alcohol, overeating; creating dependency or sickness to receive attention.
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