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.
Nelumbo nucifera (pink). Positive qualities: Expansive and inclusive spirituality, ability to synthesize diverse life experience in service to the spiritual world. Patterns of imbalance: Spiritual pride, inflated sense of Self, out of touch with ordinary personality and humble tasks.
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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Arctostaphylos viscida (white-pink). Positive qualities: Joyous embodiment, spiritual identity integrated with the physical body. Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world; eating and sleeping disorders.
Penstemon newberryi (magenta). Positive qualities: Forthright masculine energy; warrior-like spirituality which confronts and transforms. Patterns of imbalance: Vacillation and withdrawal in the face of challenge; lack of assertiveness, inability to take a stand for one's convictions.
Artemisia douglasiana (yellow). Positive qualities: Integration of psychic or dream experiences with daily life; flexible, multi-dimensional consciousness, warm and expansive soul qualities. Patterns of imbalance: Tendency to hysteria, fantasy or projection, overactive psychic life unable to distinguish or integrate trans-physical experiences.
Artemisia douglasiana (yellow). Positive qualities: Integration of psychic or dream experiences with daily life; flexible, multi-dimensional consciousness, warm and expansive soul qualities. Patterns of imbalance: Tendency to hysteria, fantasy or projection, overactive psychic life unable to distinguish or integrate trans-physical experiences.
Tropaeolum majus (orange-red). Positive qualities: Glowing vitality, radiant warmth; living thinking. Patterns of imbalance: Overly “dry” or intellectual consciousness; depletion of life-force and emotional verve from too much study.
Berberis aquifolium (yellow). Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust. Patterns of imbalance: Paranoid or defensive behavior; expectation of hostility from others; antagonistic projection.
Mentha piperita (violet). Positive qualities: Mindful and wakeful clarity, warm metabolism balanced with cool head forces. Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; under-active metabolism which depletes mental forces.
Mimulus lewisii (pink). Positive qualities: Emotional transparency; courage to take emotional risks with others. Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, or unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection due to prior abuse or trauma.
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Toxicodendron diversiloba (greenish-white). Positive qualities: Positive vulnerability, ability to make contact with others through touch. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; reactive or rejecting in relationships.
Punica granatum (red). Positive qualities: Joyful expression of feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world. Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global.
Triteleia ixioides (yellow, brown stripes). Positive qualities: Radiant inner beauty; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance despite handicaps or blemishes. Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance.
Mimulus kelloggii (purple). Positive qualities: Love-based rather than fear-based spirituality, calm and clarity when experiencing spiritual phenomena; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance. Patterns of imbalance: Fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community; apprehension or avoidance of threshold experiences due to...
Briza maxima (green). Positive qualities: Harmonious community consciousness, flexible and receptive in group work. Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to compromise, over-attachment to personal will and desire in social situations.