Flower Essences

Rosa californica (pink). Positive qualities: Love for the Earth and for human life, enthusiasm for doing and serving. Patterns of imbalance: Apathy, resignation, pronounced passivity; inability to catalyze will forces through the heart.

Dudleya cymosa (orange). Positive qualities: Balanced psychic and physical energies; grounded presence in everyday life; positive charisma. Patterns of imbalance: Distorted psychic experiences; inflated involvement in psychic or charismatic experiences; addiction to “trauma-drama” lifestyle.

Chrysanthemum morifolium (red-brown). Positive qualities: Able to distinguish higher spiritual identity from temporal personality; transpersonal and transcendent soul expression. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of aging and mortality, over-attachment to temporal personality; healing crisis due to materialistic focus of the soul.

Taraxacum officinale (yellow). Positive qualities: Dynamic physical energy and expressive life force; inner ease in work and play. Patterns of imbalance: Tense, rigid or stiff, especially in the musculature of the body; over-striving and hard-driving.

Ceanothus integerrimus (white). Positive qualities:  Gentle purity and clarity of purpose; motives and actions that are allied with one's true feelings. Patterns of imbalance:  Mixed or conflicting motives; dishonest or polite responses not based upon genuine feelings.

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.

Myosotis sylvatica (blue). Positive qualities: Awareness of karmic connections in one's personal relationships and with those in the spiritual world; deep mindfulness of subtle realms; soul-based relationships. Patterns of imbalance: Lack of connection with souls in the spiritual world; loneliness and isolation due to death of a loved one; soul myopia.

The FES Quintessentials flower essences are liquid potentized extracts derived from flowers grown in the Biodynamic gardens at Terra Flora, or pristine wildflower habitats. Created in 'Nature's laboratory' through a careful orchestration of the four elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire, FES essences combine the fifth quintessential element of the sensitive attunement and awareness of the...

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.