Candy Barrel Cactus
Flower color: orange
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Fostering mental and emotional calmness, Candy Barrel helps us recognize our inner wisdom and uncover long stored abilities.
Harmonizing Qualities
- accessing inner abilities;
- creating more flexibility in thinking and relating to the environment and others;
- emotional and mental calmness and stillness;
- mental clarity and stillness;
- recognizing the wealth of wisdom you already have;
Patterns of Imbalance
- agitation at a deep level;
- emotional and/or mental agitation;
- feeling worthless or less than others;
- rigidity of ideas, unbudgeable attitudes;
- thinking you don't know anything;
- unfocused;
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Cane Cholla Cactus
Flower color: magenta
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Cane Cholla Cactus helps us
leap to a new perspective when we struggle with an issue and insist upon
defining it in such a way as to block its resolution.
Harmonizing Qualities
- able to joyfully be with others without defensiveness or pretension;
- allowing an expansion of your mind and an attitudinal shift which
can embrace an apparent duality, bringing greater integration within
yourself;
- releasing struggle which creates resistance;
- resolution through letting go of your present attitude and approach to a problem, allowing a "leap" to a new point of view;
Patterns of Imbalance
- an impasse in achieving understanding or a solution to a problem;
- defensiveness or pretension in your relationships with others;
- empowering a problem through your insistence to define the problem
in a certain way which is blocking other ways of perceiving and
resolving it;
- maintaining too rigid an attitude or perspective about a situation;
- struggling with an issue with much effort, but no resolution;
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Cardon Cactus
Flower color: white
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Powerful energy is released as
repressed feelings of inadequacy and inferiority are unlocked. Helps us
accept our shadow side so that it becomes a source of strength and
confidence.
Harmonizing Qualities
- similar to Saguaro, yet the strength is more from a powerful accessing of the inner feminine;
- strength, determination and deep energy reserves to move ahead in life;
- the shadow side becomes a source of strength and confidence;
- unconditional acceptance of others;
- unlocking deep strength as a result of releasing and expressing;
Patterns of Imbalance
- "I can't make it";
- feeling inadequate, deep shame, inferior, deficient;
- repression;
- seeing the dark-side in someone else and thinking it is the essential nature of that person;
- struggles with the dark side of yourself, trying to run away from it or deny it;
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Claret Cup Hedgehog Cactus
Flower color: red
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Clarity and focus are the key
words for this hedgehog cactus. This is an excellent essence for
manifestation, meditation or any situation requiring mental steadiness
and acuity.
Harmonizing Qualities
- an essence to facilitate manifestation;
- clear, sharp focus in one direction or on one subject;
- energy focused in directions that support the upward spiral of life;
- metering out your energy with discrimination;
- relieves mind clutter so the focus is direct and to the point;
Patterns of Imbalance
- expending your energy in inappropriate directions or indiscriminately;
- fuzzy thinking;
- inability to meditate;
- unable to remain focused on something;
- undirected thoughts that ramble around;
- wasting energy;
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Compass Barrel Cactus
Flower color: yellow
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Compass Barrel Cactus helps us
move through an emotional state by lightening up and letting go,
trusting our inner wisdom to point the way.
Harmonizing Qualities
- allowing mind and feelings to be equal partners;
- clarity and ability to focus in the area that is a bridge between
the mind and the feelings, where the mind reacts to the feelings;
- commitment to moving beyond an emotionally "stuck" space;
- contacting deep inner wisdom;
- grounded;
- in touch with the joy that is under the surface at all times;
- lightening up and letting go;
- secure;
Patterns of Imbalance
- grumbly, complaining;
- holding on to anger or resentment;
- judging your feelings;
- taking yourself and life too seriously;
- unwilling to move through and beyond an emotional state;
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Desert Christmas Cholla Cactus
Flower color: yellow/green
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
This cholla cactus helps us
communicate our limits with humor and ease, especially if we get caught
up in other people's needs or expectations. It is wonderful support when
we have too many demands upon us and feel overextended.
Harmonizing Qualities
- able to react with humor and lightness to differences;
- approaching life with loving relaxed attention;
- caring through separateness;
- experiencing that others are truly cared for when you care for yourself;
- feeling and accepting abundance;
- self-acceptance;
- softening through caring when you have been hardened by pressures or great stress;
Patterns of Imbalance
- experiencing enmeshment with others;
- experiencing expectation, obligation, and/or preoccupation with
details that keeps you from a caring, open-hearted contact with others;
- fear that someone or something will make things difficult for you;
- feeling controlled by other's expectations and needs;
- feeling like you are doing battle with life and people;
- inability to separate yourself from another;
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Fire Prickly Pear Cactus
Flower color: yellow/red
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
This prickly pear cactus helps
us redistribute energy (or focus) if we are concentrating too much
attention on one part of our lives (or bodies) to the detriment of the
whole.
Harmonizing Qualities
- adapting to an environment without losing your sense of self;
- balancing our instincts and automatic responses with our mind's assessment of of appropriateness;
- finding alternative avenues of self-expression when our current self-expression is no longer valid or appropriate;
- redistribution of energy or focus to become more inclusive of the whole;
Patterns of Imbalance
- being overly adapted to an environment or situation and losing a sense of self;
- focusing too much attention or energy on one part of your life (or body) at the expense of another part;
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Fishhook Cactus
Flower color: lavender
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Fishhook Cactus is for those
who hide behind non-communication. It is especially indicated for the
fear of risking in communication. It supports us with confidence in
public speaking, intimate relationships or for speaking foreign
languages.
Harmonizing Qualities
- harmonizes the attitude behind defensiveness;
- realization that there is only something to be gained and not lost through communication.;
- trusting and risking in communication;
Patterns of Imbalance
- a tendency to be defensive;
- closed-mouthed;
- feeling that communication would be losing, or giving up something;
- refusal to discuss or negotiate an issue for fear of losing face or risking your position;
- reluctance to communicate;
- uncommunicative;
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Hedgehog Cactus
Flower color: magenta
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Hedgehog Cactus helps us sort
out the difference between self-nurturance and overindulgence. It
intensifies empathetic perceptions, bringing us closer to nature.
Harmonizing Qualities
- an intensified empathetic perception allows us to feel closer to others and to nature;
- encourages a broader, more inclusive overview;
- encourages confidence in ourselves and our ability to participate in life;
- feeling radiantly comfortable with ourselves and with the world;
- finding a balance between self-nurturance and overindulgence;
- self-nurturance and self-acceptance;
Patterns of Imbalance
- closed perception;
- feeling cut off from the source of life, excluded, separate;
- feeling worthless, inferior;
- overindulgence;
- self-neglect;
- stuck in or too focused on details;
- unappreciative;
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Jumping Cholla Cactus
Flower color: deep pink
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Fostering inner balance,
Jumping Cholla Cactus is an antidote for frenzied rushing around. It
helps us respond rather than react to life.
Harmonizing Qualities
- antidote for rushing around and feeling frenzied;
- balance;
- focus on abundance;
- knowing your abundance of capabilities;
- one step at a time;
- removal of annoyance;
- responding rather than reacting;
- steadiness;
Patterns of Imbalance
- deep inner sense of lack and limitation;
- feeling unbalanced;
- obsessive worry; distracting yourself by rushing around thus not being in the moment;
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Klein's Pencil Cholla Cactus
Flower color: silvery pink
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
This cactus essence encourages
our creativity and growth in dealing with a relationship that feels
stuck. It is excellent for when we stay in a relationship that is not
supporting our growth in some way.
Harmonizing Qualities
- becoming receptive to the forces that are familiar and gentle or trusted;
- excitement;
- gently unfolding to a process;
- growing outward;
- joy;
- resolution of our relationship to lust;
- resolution of our relationship to relationship;
- vitality;
Patterns of Imbalance
- being "stuck" in a relationship to someone or something but not wanting to leave;
- fear of becoming overwhelmed by some force larger than yourself;
- feeling "at the mercy" of your lust;
- focusing on aspects of a relationship that are not encouraging growth;
- hesitation, withdrawal or closing up;
- holding back emotionally in a relationship;
- holding yourself down in a situation or relationship;
- staying with a relationship that is holding you back emotionally;
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Prickly Pear Cactus
Flower Essence
Flower color: yellow
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
The key word is adaptability. Its qualities help us surrender to the flow of life's events. It is excellent for culture shock.
Harmonizing Qualities
- accessing the great strength that comes from surrendering to the flow of life and life's events;
- adaptability;
- inner calm through surrender to what IS;
- key word is adaptability;
- remaining committed to what you know is right;
Patterns of Imbalance
- giving in to something you really know is not right for you;
- pushing to make things happen;
- rigid and tightly held in check;
- toying with giving up something you know is right for you;
- wanting to control the timing of events and situations;
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Queen of the Night Cactus
Flower color: white
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
The Queen of the Night can
help us sink deeply into the intuitive root of our being to ground our
subtle sensitivities. It helps us open to the qualities of the moon in
our daily life, experiencing the blissful perspective of deeper
understanding, feeling and sensuality.
Harmonizing Qualities
- deeply intuitive;
- experiencing the blissful power of deep seeing, understanding, feeling and sensuality;
- facilitates an integrated sense of our godliness and humanity;
- feeling spiritual wholeness;
- in touch with deep inner wisdom;
- opening to the moon energy in daily life;
- radiance;
- receptive;
- sinking deeply into the intuitive root of our being to ground subtle energies;
- without blame or harshness;
Patterns of Imbalance
- distortion or blockage of the female receptive principle;
- fear of wide open spaces;
- fearful, scattered, nervous, pushing or trying but feeling inadequate;
- feeling a victim of the frailty of life;
- feeling impotent;
- feeling our inadequacy in the face of God;
- hopelessness; feeling disconnected from the vibrant flow of life;
- looking for, borrowing, or adopting a justification for our existence or a spiritual belonging;
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Rainbow Cactus
Flower color: magenta/yellow/green
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Rainbow Cactus is a
searchlight to illumine something dark or held in. Releasing petrified
emotion without becoming entangled in it, we emerge bright, free and
whole. It is excellent for meditation or regression work as it
facilitates easy movement from one state of consciousness to another.
Harmonizing Qualities
- a search light to illumine something dark or held in;
- accelerates our ability to process our emotions, to feel and express
them, then release them so that emotional energies do not "trap" our
perceptions;
- can work with releasing beastly attitudes without becoming involved emotionally;
- clear seeing, uncolored by emotions and judgments;
- easily moving from one state of consciousness to another, excellent for meditation or regression type work;
- facilitates release of petrified emotion without becoming entangled in it;
Patterns of Imbalance
- caught up in emotions that are deeply held in or "stuck";
- difficulty in being able to meditate;
- feeling a need to wash out difficulty, depression, impurity;
- unable to easily make a shift from one state of consciousness to another;
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Saguaro Cactus
Flower color: white
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
Saguaro helps us know and
trust our inner wisdom and authority. It restores the will to live, to
heal and to be the best that we are. It assists us in accessing the
perfect inner father who encourages us on in life.
Harmonizing Qualities
- balance and understanding of our masculine and feminine attributes;
- compassion;
- endurance;
- helpful in working through "power struggles" with parental or authority figures;
- helps us access and trust our deepest inner wisdom-authority aspects;
- like a true father, it helps us see how we can help ourselves;
- restores the will to live and to heal, and to be our best;
- self-empowerment;
Patterns of Imbalance
- feeling like you want to give up, like you just can't help yourself;
- not trusting your deepest inner wisdom;
- struggles working through our inner and outer sense of power, wisdom, and authority;
- tendency to overreact to outside authority during transitions when we are seeking a deeper self-identity;
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Senita Cactus
Flower color: pink
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
The grandparent's perspective
opens the flow of emotion without pain, without bitterness from the past
or expectations for the future. Senita helps us access from within us a
soft, sweet support for letting go of old perspectives that keep us
locked into unsettled emotions.
Harmonizing Qualities
- brings a grander perspective and centeredness in relation to our emotions;
- fosters the faith to let go of old perspectives that keep us locked into unsettled emotions;
- helps us access great faith, softness and strength;
- helps us embrace our positions as elders;
- self-grand parenting;
- supports aging gracefully;
- supports healing old regrets;
Patterns of Imbalance
- bitterness about past or future events;
- clinging to painful, old emotional hurts and wounds;
- lack of faith;
- old perspectives that keep unresolved hurts alive;
- unresolved regrets;
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Spineless Prickly Pear Cactus
Flower color: yellow/orange
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
With Spineless Prickly Pear,
we discover that all we need for survival is contained within us and
that we don't need anything outside of us to Be. We find strength in
vulnerability.
Harmonizing Qualities
- feeling deep strength in vulnerability;
- fostering an extremely deep sense of power that knows its purpose;
- helps bring a great sense of "I AM";
- knowing that "I don't need anything outside of myself to BE";
- recognition that whatever IS at a given moment IS your existence;
Patterns of Imbalance
- fear of vulnerability;
- feeling a sense of lack or of needing something "else" so that you can handle life and life's situations;
- trying too hard at something;
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Staghorn Cholla Cactus
Flower color: pinkish brick
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
This cholla cactus activates
our innate capacity for self-ordering and reconstruction after a time of
transformation and change. It helps us see that change occurs in
harmony with our own unique soul plan.
Harmonizing Qualities
- it is indicated when you are ready to be "remodeled", when you are
ready to move on and accept more expanded applications of your innate
resources and capabilities and see them unfold;
- re-organization following disintegration;
- realization that change occurs in harmony with and conforming to your unique inner design;
- regeneration and reintegration of yourself according to your essential nature and design;
- security and faith in your innate capacity for self-ordering and healing;
Patterns of Imbalance
- exhaustion, stress, or a feeling of being "undone" or "unraveled";
- feeling disoriented or "disordered" in yourself, especially following a period of change or upheaval;
- restless, unfocused energies;
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Strawberry Cactus
Flower color: bright pink
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
For those of us who are
expecting things to go wrong or be difficult, Strawberry Cactus
encourages us to let go and allow our hearts to transmute difficult
emotions. We know that there is perfection in each moment and each
situation, and we begin to live in joy.
Harmonizing Qualities
- BEING the joy and fun that life is;
- emotionally soothing and calming;
- helps us adjust to a greater intensity of energies;
- knowing that there is perfection in every moment and living that reality;
- letting go or giving up emotions to the heart for transmutation;
Patterns of Imbalance
- an underlying sense of expecting things to go wrong;
- planning for what might go wrong in the future;
- taking life too seriously, not having fun;
- too much control by the head;
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Teddy Bear Cholla Cactus
Flower color: pale green
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
A cuddly looking cactus, Teddy
Bear Cholla helps with deep fears of intimacy and allowing others close
enough to see our perfection. It is also for when we feel impatient
with our perceived level of growth or development.
Harmonizing Qualities
- contentment with what IS;
- moving into and through fears in order to allow others to come close enough to see your perfection;
- perseverance and patience with your growth processes;
- recognition that the process of unfolding consciousness takes place at the perfect pace for you;
Patterns of Imbalance
- deep fear or terror, especially of intimacy or of allowing others to come close enough to see your true self;
- desire for instant gratification;
- frustration or impatience with your growth process;
- hiding your unique gifts and talents;
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Theresa Cactus
Flower color: pinkish
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
For those who hide behind
serving others, this cactus fosters a deep sense of self-care. It helps
us change conditional giving into unconditional service.
Harmonizing Qualities
- fosters a strong sense of self-care;
- helps change conditional giving to unconditional service;
- helps us access the essence of true service and giving;
- helps us clarify why we are hiding and bring the focus back to Self;
- the essence of choice for those who hide behind service or giving to others;
Patterns of Imbalance
- always putting others ahead of yourself;
- codependent attitudes;
- doing things for others and then not having time to take care of your own interests, health, or self-care;
- doing things for others and then resenting it;
- feeling obligated to take care of others;
- for those who are always serving others at any cost to themselves;
- for those who hide themselves behind giving to others;
- inability to give unconditionally;
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Woven Spine Pineapple Cactus
Flower color: pinkish white
Essence type: Individual
Flower Essence Description
This cactus loosens old
emotional tensions in the body when we are overburdened by the "shoulds"
of life, helping us become our own best friend. For regeneration of
energy after exhaustion, burn-out, travel, or illness.
Harmonizing Qualities
- being in touch with your own uniqueness;
- being your own best friend;
- encourages a lighter, more courageous attitude;
- innovation, perseverance, flowing with destiny;
- release of something that has been blocking life force;
- revitalization at the core of your being or at the core of an issue;
- self-confidence, self-esteem;
Patterns of Imbalance
- burnout;
- feeling overburdened by all the "shoulds" in life;
- feeling overburdened, tired way down deep inside;
- feeling that "I've had enough, I just can't go on";
- victim consciousness;
- wanting to give up;
