FES QUINTESSENTIALS
*** List of Key Symptoms and Positive Potentials ***
FES (2) - From Cosmos to Lavender
25. COSMOS. Cosmos bipinnatus
THE COHERENT EXPRESSION FLOWER. From chaos of mind to coherent communication. Key Symptoms: Disorganized communication; overwhelmed with too many thoughts and ideas; over excitement. Positive Potential: Coherent thinking; integration of ideas and speech. |
26. DANDELION. Taraxacum officinale
THE DYNAMIC LIFE FORCE FLOWER. From rigidity to easy work and play. Key Symptoms: Tense musculature; rigid physicality; hard-striving and over-driving. Positive Potential: Equilibrium and ease between work and play; expressive and dynamic life force expressing through your physical energy. |
27. DEERBRUSH. Ceanothus integerrimus
THE TRUE FEELING FLOWER. From conflicting motives to genuine communication. Key Symptoms: Dishonesty mixed with conflicting motives, reasons or purposes; politeness not based on genuine feeling responses. Positive Potential: Clarity of purpose; alignment of motives and actions with one’s own true feelings. |
28. DILL. Anethum graveolens
THE SENSITIVITY FLOWER. From overwhelming input to sensory awareness. Key Symptoms: Overwhelming and chaotic experience of the sensorial realm; excess of stimulation; hypersensitivity. Positive Potential: Ability to experience in depth a wide variety of sensory input; awareness of touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing, etc. |
29. DOGWOOD. Cornus nuttallii
THE BODY PAIN RELEASE FLOWER. From body trauma to harmonic body. Key Symptoms: Awkwardness feeling of the body; hidden trauma of abuse or accident prone; past trauma permeating and affecting the body. Positive Potential: Movement filled with grace; physical and ethereal forces balancing the body, creating harmony within. |
30. ECHINACEA. Echinacea purpurea
THE IMMUNITY FLOWER. From shattered self to strong integrity. Key Symptoms: Poor functioning of the immune system; affected by severe trauma or abuse of any kind; disintegration of the Self. Positive Potential: Immunity and core integrity of the Self when challenged by stress and/or facing trauma symptoms or illness. |
31. EVENING PRIMROSE. Oenothera elata
THE OPENING TO LOVE FLOWER. From repression to harmonic love. Key Symptoms: Profound fear of rejection rooted in childhood by parental figures; avoidance of relationships and repression of any warm emotional or sexual feelings; emotional coldness and repression. Positive Potential: Healing and warming up of personality of early traumatic emotions absorbed by caretakers; capability to open up to relate with no fear and in authentic ways; opening to love and be loved. |
32. FAIRY LANTERN. Calochortus albus
THE MATURATION FLOWER. From childish dependency to growing up adult . Key Symptoms: Neediness, childish dependency, immaturity and helplessness; unable to grow up and take responsibility. Positive Potential: Acceptance of adulthood and its responsibilities; healthy integration of the "inner child" and maturation. |
33. FAWN LILY. Erythronium purpurascens
THE SOCIAL INVOLVED FLOWER. From isolation to participation in society . Key Symptoms: Isolated, withdrawn, self-protection; over mystical and lacking the ability and the drive to be in relationship. Positive Potential: Positive involvement with family and community; capable of sharing personal and spiritual gifts with others; involvement to social projects. |
34. FILAREE. Erodium cicutarium
THE BROADER PERSPECTIVE FLOWER. From hyper-focus and worry at details to star-like vision. Key Symptoms: Obsessive compulsive about minor details; exaggerated worry and control; unable to have a broader perspective of events in life; hyper-reactivity on small things not going the way you think they should. Positive Potential: Able to hold a cosmic overview of things, events and life itself unfolding naturally; there is room for imperfection; gaining perspective and ease in looking at things with love and trust. |
35. FORGET-ME-NOT. Mysotis sylvatica
THE SOUL CONNECTEDNESS FLOWER. From disconnection of the Soul to awareness of karmic links. Key Symptoms: Loneliness and isolation of the Soul due to the death of a love one; lack of connection to the spiritual world. Positive Potential: Awareness and connectedness to the karmic realm of the soul; ability to perceive the subtle and transpersonal realms. |
36. FUCHSIA. Fuchsia magellanica
THE VITALITY FLOWER. From body-trauma pain to genuine expression. Key Symptoms: Hyper-emotional and drama-like hysteria masking deeply rotted pain and trauma; psychosomatic responses to trauma. Positive Potential: Authentic and genuine vitality; ability of express deep and intense feelings. |
37. GARLIC. Allium sativum
THE ACTIVIST FLOWER. From weakness to firm resilience. Key Symptoms: Fear and weakness due to external influences; pron to low energy and vitality; mediumistic. Positive Potential: Resilience and vitality to respond in a firm way to life events; active resistance to not favorable circumstances or adverse influences. |
38. GOLDEN EAR DROPS. Ehrendorferia chrysantha
THE REMEMBERING CORE EXPERIENCES FLOWER. From repressed memories to insightful understanding. Key Symptoms: Repressed memories; suppressed traumatic memories suffered in childhood; trauma and pain about past events affecting your present moments and identity. Positive Potential: Nourishing and insightful memories; ability to remember and understand past experiences that are core to your personal and emotional history. |
39. GOLDEN YARROW. Achillea filipendulina
THE INNER-OUTER EQUILIBRIUM FLOWER. From over-sensitivity to balanced self in relationship. Key Symptoms: Hyper-sensitive to the social environment and social surroundings; isolation to the self or fake social persona; drug dependency for social masking and protection. Positive Potential: Staying open to others while staying self-contained; participatory and active socially but preserving the inner equilibrium. |
40. GOLDENROD. Solidago californica
THE BALANCED INDIVIDUALITY FLOWER. From socially influenced to standing with once own individuality. Key Symptoms: Over-influenced by group dynamics or cultural and social pressures; inability to be true to oneself; easily susceptible to social and peer pressures or social external demands. Positive Potential: Firm and strong sense of Self; secure sense of individuality balanced in relationship with others, groups, family and with social consciousness. |
41. HIBISCUS. Hibiscus moscheutos
THE VITAL SEXUALITY FLOWER. From no sexual enjoyment to sexual fulfillment. Key Symptoms: Inability to embody your sexual energies; unable to enjoy sexual and sensual experience; lack of vitality due to previous abuse, or false cultural beliefs or expectations falsely created. Positive Potential: Warm and loving response to sexuality; integration of body passion and warmth of the soul. |
42. HOUND'S TONGUE. Cynoglossum grande
THE HOLISTIC THINKING FLOWER. From materialistic world view to holistic perception. Key Symptoms: Over-analytical materialistic and mundane view point of life and the world; heaviness or torpor may accompany in the physical body. Positive Potential: Unified and holistic perception of reality with lively and creative thoughts; integration of imagination and intellect. |
43. INDIAN PAINTBRUSH. Castilleja miniata
THE CREATIVITY FLOWER. From low vitality to perfect expression of your creativity. Key Symptoms: Exhaustion and low key activity and low vitality; difficulty to sustain creative forces; inability to bring forth creative forces into physical expression. Positive Potential: Lively and creative creativity; energetic and artistic exuberant activity. |
44. INDIAN PINK. Selene californica
THE CENTERED FLOWER. From fragmentation to grounded focus. Key Symptoms: Fragmentation of the psychic forces by too many external demands; overwhelmed by multi-level activity. Positive Potential: Capacity to be centered and grounded; able to focus even under very stressful circumstances; able to multitask and manage and coordinate various tasks. |
45. IRIS. Iris douglasiana
THE INSPIRATION FLOWER. From ordinariness to soulful creativity. Key Symptoms: Absence of inspiration and creativity; feeling weighted down by the ordinariness of the world; observant and passive numbness. Positive Potential: Inspired soulful creativity; you have access to higher realms of inspiration; radiant and iridescent vision that permeate all aspects of life. |
46. LADY'S SLIPPER (Yellow). Cypripedium parviflorum
THE LIFE PURPOSE FLOWER. From energetic exhaustion to alignment of your spiritual vision. Key Symptoms: Life purpose not in alignment with outer activity; energetic exhaustion; lower chakras blocked; sexual depletion due to inability to access to your life force. Positive Potential: Your higher purpose is aligned with daily activity; integration of your spiritual vision; vital forces aligned. |
47. LAKSPUR. Delphinium variegatum
THE CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP FLOWER. From lack of leadership to charismatic presence. Key Symptoms: Distorted power misaligned, wrongly expressed and utilized; self-aggrandizement and burdensome dutifulness; inability to motivate and inspire others. Positive Potential: Joyful and enthusiastic leadership; charismatic presence that is contagious. |
48. LAVENDER. Lavendula angustifolia
THE SPIRITUAL SENSITIVITY FLOWER. From scattered state to high awareness. Key Symptoms: Nervousness or high-wired, scattered energy states; over-stimulation of mental or spiritual forces, insomnia and depletion of physical forces. Positive Potential: Spiritual sensitivity; high awareness that is aligned and stable with bodily health. |
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Texts, titles and Key Symptoms and Positive Potentials are written by Roser Camats Falip. Photos of the flowers are taken from free images at Pixabay.