Folks following my weblog know that I’ve been writing about Rose flower essences just lately. However privately, I’ve been interested in a variety of essences in the identical household so I assumed I’d discover the Rose household, the Rosaceae, usually. Typically talking, members of the identical botanical household will share sure qualities in frequent. This additionally holds true for a way they’re used as flower essences. All of them have their variations however you might consider them as variations on the identical emotional/religious theme.
After all, modern-day botanist don’t communicate of such issues however our ancestors who lived lives extra enmeshed in nature actually did. So most of the historic symbols, mythology and folklore we’re nonetheless a minimum of vaguely accustomed to as we speak got here from humanity’s try and interpret patterns they noticed in nature. That’s why I typically like to incorporate these outdated associations in my writing about flower essences. The associations exist or existed for a motive although now we have, for probably the most half, misplaced contact with our instinctual relationship with the pure world. I received’t go too deeply into this . . . however let’s take a short look.
Once they aren’t absolutely opened, it’s laborious to see it however Rosaceae flowers are inclined to have 5 petals or petals in multiples of 5 that come collectively within the form of a five-pointed star with rounded factors. You can even see that configuration in the event you reduce an apple in half by way of the center. Apples are within the Rosaceae household, and if you reduce the fruit that approach, the seeds kind a five-pointed star. In historic symbolism the five-pointed star or Pentagram was an emblem of affection and of the goddess of affection—Ishtar and Venus—in Babylonian and Roman cultures. However much more considerably, love=life. The pentagram was the image of bodily life. Within the Hindu faith the quantity 5 was related to the bodily physique (two arms, two legs, and head coming collectively by way of the trunk of the physique). It was additionally related to bodily life in Greek and Chinese language tradition due to the interplay of the 5 components.
Specifically, the Rosaceae flower essences have a tendency to deal with points associated to like and compassion, love of life, and taking maintain of the expertise of dwelling. My experimentation with essences on this household lead me to consider the theme as bodily and emotional embodiment, nurturance, and a way of coronary heart for being right here on the planet partaking with all it has to supply (thorns and all). Love, in fact, is a giant a part of this, however not essentially romantic love. It’s extra common than that, extra like love for others usually, for humanity, love for the earth, love for being alive and for being concerned.
Flower Essences within the Rosaceae Household
Wild Rose: the unique Bach flower treatment for renewed enthusiasm for all times and for its challenges when feeling apathetic or resigned.
California Wild Rose: for having the guts to have interaction with the obligations of life on Earth when feeling socially remoted or holding again from relationships, neighborhood, or world service.
Inexperienced Rose: for opening the guts, feeling safer and extra linked on the planet, particularly after experiences of trauma that causes an individual to carry again from life due to deep worry.
Agrimony: for willingness to truthfully face emotional emotions you attempt to cowl up or conceal from
Almond: for bodily and religious nourishment, particularly when an individual has points with embodiment due to early childhood experiences, even perhaps lack of ample nourishment within the womb
Apple: for hope, optimism, new beginnings, letting go of poisons from the previous, being prepared to attempt once more
Blackberry: for having the guts to observe by way of and put your nice concepts into motion
Cherry: for youthful optimism, enthusiasm or pleasure, letting go of adolescent experiences that left you feeling pessimistic or self-pitying
Cherry Plum: for trusting life if you worry breakdown or annihilation or are in an excessive frame of mind
Crab Apple: for clearing toxicity when feeling unclean, or obsessive about bodily well-being or small imperfections
Downy Avens: for integrating coronary heart and head when socially remoted and having a tough time relating due to being an excessive amount of in a single’s head and never engaged emotionally
Hawthorn: for soothing the guts and having braveness when worry pushes you into overly driving want for achievement, serving to you act from love as an alternative of worry
Quince: for balancing power, assertiveness, and agency boundaries with compassion and love