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;

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;

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• finding alternative avenues of self-expression when our current self-expression is no longer valid or appropriate;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;

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;

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;