GODDESS FLOWER ESSENCES

Stars of Heaven Flower Essences created by Sophia Ovidne

DESCRIPTIONS

 

ARIADNE (Hanging Violet)                        AUTHENTIC SELF

For discovering one’s Authentic Self while experiencing sorrow or abandonment.

Possible Symptoms

• Feeling sorrow or grief through loneliness, enforced solitude, betrayal, or abandonment
• Overly desiring or yearning for someone or something, blinded by passion, inflamed with longing for something that may not be right for us
• Sacrificing own morals or dreams in favour of someone else’s, to help them to achieve their heroic story instead of your own
• Feeling used by someone or tricked by them
• Betrayed and wounded by someone’s broken promises. Experienced broken trust
• Have had blind faith in someone and they have failed us
• Listened to the advice or urgings of others, to our detriment
• Feel so confused about what guidance to accept
• Betrayal of own family, or cause, or organisation, or things you hold dear
• Suffering from illusion, delusions, or fantasies
• Plumbing the dark depths of our underworld labyrinth, and feeling lost or drowning. In great grief. Experiencing emotional breakdown
• Have lost ourself in another, have lost our identity and merged too much with them
• Have lost our way, our true path. Feel off track. In a maze and can’t find way out
• Feel abandoned by the world, by the universe
• Heart is closed and afraid to open
• Scared to look deep into self and discover what is there
• Don’t know yourself and what you truly stand for

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Discovering Authentic Self, connection to own heart and source of own inner being
• More able to find true love, or connection with what you truly love in life, i.e. your passion
• Come to understand what our own heart is telling us and what our true destiny is
• When we have endured the suffering of betrayal and abandonment and have come to terms with it, we are in a position to be offered our true fate, and perhaps divine union with our rightful Soul Mate.
• Connection to, and understanding of, self.
• More able to confront illusions/fantasies that have veiled true vision
• Have more courage to take the path to find your Authentic Self, and to dig deep into the murky depths of your being
• Illusion, delusion, and fantasy are dissolved, and a clearer sense of our Authentic Self begins to emerge. We can define ourselves without the need for anyone else
• We can honour our own needs and dreams
• Heart opens to reveal Authentic Self
• Feel the crown of success when Authentic Self is revealed
• Connect with the heart to learn the truth.
• Clarity of path ahead and learning which voices to listen to for authentic guidance
• Find some direction. No longer feel lost in a maze
• Less likely to be tricked by others, or own Ego Self, because you know what you stand for
• Less emotional or sorrowful. No longer feel abandoned or lonely

Ariadne, was the daughter of King Minos of Crete and his queen, Pasiphaë.  Ariadne’s half-brother was the fearsome Minotaur. She fell in love with Theseus and helped him to overcome the Minotaur, but Theseus betrayed and abandoned her afterwards. Grief-stricken, Ariadne was forced to discover her real self, and finally found true love when she married the divine god, Dionysus.

 

CASSANDRA (Storm Lily)                                     INTUITION

For enhancing intuition, emotional balance, and belief in self.

Possible Symptoms

• Want to be guided by your intuition but it feels closed off to you
• Receive intuitive or channelled guidance but don’t understand it, or don’t trust it, or don’t act upon it
• Receive intuitive or channelled guidance but can’t act upon it or prevent tragedy happening therefore feel frustrated or upset
• Feel unvalued, unappreciated, or ridiculed for the psychic gifts you have
• Possess psychic gifts but don’t use them, or use them just for entertainment value
• Fear your intuition and the mysteries of the Unconscious and the Divine
• Fear the visions or messages you have received through your intuition or channelling, or through what has been told to you by others
• Feel pessimistic about life, too negative and gloomy. Can’t foresee better times ahead. Feel impending doom. Negativity begets more negativity
• Feel shut down, marginalised, isolated, separate, different from others
• Experience stormy emotional times or even “insanity” because feel unsupported, abandoned, betrayed, tricked, or not listened to
• Feel you have no like-minded friends who share your beliefs
• Don’t feel strong enough to stand up for who you are or what you believe in. Fear rejection by others or confrontation
• Feel delicate, ethereal, elegant, and beautiful, but too weak or dainty to weather the storms of your life, especially the sudden ones
• Feel like a victim, not in control of own life, being sacrificed, or cursed
• Prefer to be amongst others and not on own. Feel safer and more supported
• Too much “in the clouds” (and especially the storm clouds), and not grounded enough
• Follow the spiritual path to the exclusion of the earthly path. Have become unbalanced. Don’t pay enough attention to earthly matters.
• Too earthly and concerned with the human form and material matters. Have become unbalanced. Don’t pay enough attention to the spiritual side of life
• Don’t welcome earthly or close relationships, or having intimacy within relationships. Push people away or spurn them
• Have given yourself in service too much with not enough thought for yourself and your own needs
• Have hidden, dormant talents that only reveal themselves when conditions are right. Need these gifts to blossom more permanently

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Easier, clearer connection with Intuition, Inner Self, or the Divine
• Able to open up and receive guidance through visions, messages, experience of energies, or physical synchronicity, and to act upon it. When you listen to your inner self, then others will also be more likely to listen to you
• More clarity and understanding concerning guidance received. More trusting of it and less fearful
• Better acceptance of own or others’ psychic abilities, more trusting. Can appreciate the sacredness of these gifts
• More inclined to practise using own psychic gifts to better understand self, and more able to trust own intuition
• Feel stronger in self and more optimistic about current life and the future. See the positives more, and understand that often breakdown is needed before breakthrough can happen
• Able to keep better emotional balance and centredness during stormy times
• Able to connect with the universe or Source to find complete inner peace and balance
• Divide time in a more balanced way between earthly and spiritual realms
• Able to accept being different from others, and to forgive others who cannot accept or appreciate you
• Feel stronger about who and what you are and what you believe in
• Can let go of feeling like a victim. Can stand up for self, and do things by yourself. When you value yourself, others will value you
• Can ensure your own needs are met first as well as serving others
• Can embrace all relationships with joy and love, even close intimacy and/or sex
• Able to allow dormant talents to surface and be encouraged to blossom, or you suddenly discover new skills that you never knew you possessed
• May feel the desire to be taught about the divine mysteries and to strengthen intuitive skills
• Desire to connect with other like-minded people

Cassandra was a prophetess and the daughter of the King of Troy. Her prophetic talent was a gift but also a curse in that her visions foretold only tragedy and doom. She accurately predicted the fall of Troy but her warnings went unheeded, causing her to go insane. She also foresaw her own ultimate tragic fate.

 

 

CERES (Zinnia)                                            NURTURE

For nurturing, creativity, and fertility, and issues around life, death, rebirth, and loss.

Possible Symptoms

• In pain through loss of a loved one, through death or separation, or needing to let go of someone or something
• Going through a mini-death of the self. Need to give birth to a new self. Feeling loss of old self. Want it back, or to be renewed or rebirthed
• Feel that life cannot go on because of pain of loss
• In grief, mourning, depression, sadness, or hopelessness, and all the world looks colourless. Dressing in a dour manner
• Wanting someone or something to return, or for things to return to how they have been before
• Resisting a new beginning. Not allowing the cycle of birth and death, endings and beginnings to occur
• Unable to adapt to change easily, especially if it involves letting go of people or places
• Wanting to hold on to others and control their destiny
• Needing to detach from someone, or to cleanse them “out of your hair”
• Wanting to cleanse self or your environment
• Wanting to take revenge on those we perceive have caused our pain
• Wanting to give birth to either a child or a project, to be creative
• Lacking in creativity. May have infertility problems or “writer’s block”
• Not wanting to face own fears and darkness, to take the journey into own Underworld and come out the other side
• Not looking after yourself properly, unable to nurture yourself, to love and take care of yourself responsibly
• Wanting a great fuss made of you and expecting too much nurturing, support and hand-holding from others
• Not able to nurture others sufficiently, or over-nurturing them and fussing too much
• Not domesticated in the least, and needing to be
• Being seasonal in your emotional buoyancy, up one day and down the next (or more seriously, having bi-polar disorder), or literally affected by the seasons e.g. SAD Syndrome
• Needing to be assertive with a higher authority and to get one’s needs met. Needing bargaining power and/or to strike a deal. May be inclined to using emotional blackmail
• Forgetting you are a goddess or god within
• Not connected to, or not resonating with, the earth, or not grounded
• Loss of intuition and inner guidance. Loss of connection to Inner Source/ Higher Self

Potential benefits after taking essence

• A better understanding and acceptance of the life cycle of death, loss, and rebirth, that with every ending comes a new beginning, and life continues on an upward spiral
• Better able to embrace the new and accept change
• Able to let go and face loss of old self and allow new self to be birthed
• More able to let go of people, things and places, and love what is
• More allowing of others to take their own path instead of binding them to yours
• More fertile and creative
• More willing to face own fears, limitations and deep emotions
• More willing and able to nurture self and take responsibility for this Less expectation of needing others to do it for you
• Less desire to overly fuss over others and over-nurture them
• More able to let go of a period of pain, grief, mourning, or depression and take appropriate steps to restabilise and re-establish self, and re-enter the world
• More able to release feelings of revenge, emotional blackmail, rage, powerlessness, or hopelessness
• More desire to cleanse or clear out more often, or more thoroughly
• Feel brighter, more cheerful and optimistic, and on a more constant basis. May feel like dressing more colourfully or redecorating the home environment
• Act, think and feel more like the goddess or god you truly are
• Become more domesticated, more willing to learn and to apply
• Act more assertively and with integrity to get needs met or to redress any wrongs
• Enhanced connection to Inner Self or Source, and to intuition and inner guidance

Ceres, the Goddess of Fertility, the Earth Mother, traditionally helped humans with fertility of the land and the growing of crops. She is also associated with the loss of a loved one and the grief of separation after her daughter was stolen from her by Pluto, the King of the Underworld. She battled with the gods of Olympia until her child was restored to her for six months each year. In revenge she created the seasons where for half the year the land was made barren.

 

 

EUROPA (Petrea)                                      GROWTH

for experiencing life to the full, surrendering to one’s destiny, being resourceful, and able to establish a strong family or group.

Possible Symptoms

• Feeling there must be more to life, feeling stuck, life is meaningless.
• Waiting for something to happen, for events to turn, for a new path to open up to one’s destiny
• In poverty-consciousness, focusing on lack rather than abundance
• Pessimistic and negative about situations
• Not able to manage one’s financial affairs successfully
• Envious of the wealth or possessions of others
• Too greedy or materialistic, not able to share
• Over-indulgent, shopaholic, love retail therapy, pampering
• Lacking in material possessions or without resources to build a secure life
• Unable to manifest things or secure needed resources. Not resourceful enough
• Wanting to give birth to a baby, project, or idea but infertile or lacking creativity
• Desire to start a family and create own dynasty, or start a community or group
• Not allowing yourself to follow your intuition
• Resisting your destiny
• Ungrounded, too ethereal or floaty. No solid foundation or roots
• Little connection with the earth or nature
• Little desire to cultivate or grow things, either literally or metaphorically
• Drained of energy
• Wanting to increase passion, sensuality, attractiveness, or charisma
• Need to dampen sexual desires or lust
• Aware of negative patterns within your family line that you wish to break
• Failing to see negative consequences of actions that will affect future generations
• Wanting to keep your family together, or not wanting to leave your family
• Lack of self-esteem and confidence; feel dowdy, frumpy, or ugly. Don’t love self
• Hiding away one’s beauty or talents
• Needing to be more feminine or delicate, can be like a bull in a china shop
• Too tough, abrasive, direct, competitive, or aggressive
• Overly delicate and brittle and needing too much support
• Too smothering of others
• Not experiencing and exploring things enough and not growing because of it
• Vagueness, stuffy head, can’t think clearly
• Aware there is a lot of “bullshit” going on, in your own mind or in other situations

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Feel a positive drive to take action to follow a new path
• Listen to and follow your intuition, drop all fear
• Surrender peacefully to destiny, acquiesce to fate
• Seek and openly embrace new challenges
• More optimistic, bullish, energised, fun-loving, passionate, resilient
• More able to manifest whatever is needed. Feel more resourceful and bountiful, in abundance-consciousness
• Take action to better manage one’s financial situation
• Learn from successful people instead of envying them
• Greater balance regarding materialism, and more able to share
• Discover the truth behind addiction to indulgence and pampering
• Increase in fertility or creativity. More able to birth things
• Take action to start a family, or establish a group or community
• Become more grounded, solid, secure, with strong foundations or roots
• More connected to the earth and nature. Become more earthy and sensuous
• Increased desire to grow and cultivate things
• Better balance regarding sexual yearnings
• Able to see and resolve past negative family patterns and traits, and consequences for the future
• More able to calmly and lovingly make decisions regarding family matters
• Enhanced self-esteem and love and respect for self
• More able to bring forth one’s latent talents and be proud of oneself
• Better balance of masculine and feminine aspects within yourself
• Enhanced goddess wisdom, doing things in a gentle, covert, non-competitive, supportive, and loving manner
• Desire to experience and explore things and learn and grow from them
• Enhanced clarity, insight, and cleverness. Clearing away of “bullshit” in the mind
• Greater physical, emotional, and mental strength
• Take life easier, more languorous, relaxed, sensual. Less stressed

Europa was a Phoenician princess who was deceptively seduced and abducted by Zeus disguised as a bull. He carried her away to Crete where she bore three sons by him, which led to the establishment of the Minoan Dynasty.

 

HECATE (Frangipani)                                 TRANSITION

For going through a time of transition, death, rebirth, or integration.

Possible Symptoms

• In between worlds, as in dying physically, or moving to a different place or situation that invokes a feeling of dying physically
• In between worlds, as in transitioning into the New Dimension
• Having undergone a spiritual initiation, now entering into a new higher level of Consciousness and needing to integrate this
• In between phases of your life, or entering a new phase e.g. retirement, becoming a new mother, starting a new school or job, changing careers, starting married life
• At a crossroads in life and decisions need to be made
• Feeling lost, directionless, disorientated, uncertain, confused, or in a void
• Needing to die to the old and rebirth into a new improved way of life and being
• Needing to surrender to a new direction ahead
• Having trouble letting go and accepting loss of the old
• Cannot seem to embrace or integrate new experiences being faced
• Feel cannot cope with a new world being entered. Feel weak and overwhelmed
• Yo-yoing between two different ways of being or living. Need to choose between them or integrate
• Feeling disconnected to either the earthly or spiritual world, or both
• Feeling in the fires of Hell, and need help to move into higher realms
• Feeling alone at this time of transition, without a friend or without support, in pain, and not understanding what is happening to us
• Feeling like an old crone

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Increased ability to cope, adapt, and be positive when we are in transition. Increased awareness of our own inner strength
• Enhanced decision-making skills with increased clarity of intuition and insight
• Feeling more orientated and on purpose. Clearer vision
• Helps us to die to our old self and old way of life and to embrace a new improved way of life and being
• Helps with surrender to a new direction ahead
• Assists us to understand ourselves, who we are and who we want to be, and to stabilise and integrate into this new being
• Helps to re-establish a connection with the earthly and/or spiritual realms
• Assists with the actual transition of moving into higher vibrational levels, whether that be to another dimension or within the same dimension
• Feeling more supported on our journey. Having the load lightened and pain lessened. Feel more like supporting and helping others in their times of transition too
• Increased intuition and insights into other realms and dimensions
• Assists with integration of Heaven and Earth inside of us and also outside of us. For understanding that ultimately we ourselves are Heaven on Earth, carrying Heaven inside us
• Assists with integration of new experiences, including inter-dimensional ones, and integration as a walk-in
• Allows us to feel like a goddess with magical powers of flying freely in and out of dimensions, whole and integrated, with a spirit of adventure

Hecate, is the Goddess of the Crossroads and the Threshold between Worlds, guiding people, especially women, through life’s cycles, and also guiding souls from one world to the next. She is these days erroneously associated only with sorcery, witchcraft, magic and the dead. Ruling the cycles of birth, death and rebirth, Hecate governs all transitions in this world and between worlds, as well as guiding us when we are at a crossroads in life.

 

HYGIEIA (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)_______WELL-BEING

For taking action to return to, or maintain, a healthy body, mind, and soul, and a clean environment.

For taking action TODAY, to get rid of YESTERDAY,

so that TOMORROW all is well!

 Possible Symptoms

• Having physical illness, disease, pain, or disability that requires healing
• Feeling emotionally or mentally unbalanced
• Knowing something is not quite right within oneself. The body is not working as it should
• Feeling out-of-sorts or unaligned. Just not feeling 100%
• Not taking care of yourself physically, emotionally or mentally
• Having little or no energy, always tired
• No desire for creativity or sex
• Making no time for a well-balanced lifestyle, or for your dreams
• Feel heavy and sluggish, full up inside, needing a detox
• Diet is not very healthy
• Experiencing diarrhoea or constipation or other gastric/bowel problems
• Not cleansing yourself or your home environment enough
• Needing a good internal and/or external springclean
• Perhaps picking up negative symptoms from people close to you
• Wanting a new body
• Wanting to rid the mind of old negative beliefs and emotions, and ‘stinking thinking”

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Improvement of symptoms that required healing
• Insight into what is causing the lack of well-being
• Enhanced intuition of path to take towards healing and maintaining well-being
• Feeling more centred and balanced, less emotional
• Desire for better lifestyle balance, more rest and creativity
• Feel more energetic and better able to cope with life
• Desire to follow your heartfelt dreams
• Taking the time for internal and external cleansing
• Letting go of old baggage, physical and emotional
• Taking action and more care of your nutrition, diet and exercise
• Better protection of your own energy field against others’ energies
• Taking a more holistic and nurturing approach to your well-being
• Taking time for meditation, going inwards to listen to the Soul and the Inner Child, for inner understanding
• Taking action to become more creative, to express yourself in some way
• Connecting with your earthy self, fully experiencing the body and the senses
• Helps to amplify your own healing efforts and energies directed at yourself or others

Hygieia, the Goddess of Healing and Well-being was revered by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. She encompassed all types of healing and cleansing to bring a person to wholeness and alignment in body, mind and spirit. She is often associated with the healing and prophetic powers of the snake which was sacred in the temples and sanctuaries, many of which were dedicated to Hygieia.

 

JUNO (Passionflower)                                  INNER POWER

For inner power and passion, equality, and forgiveness.

Possible Symptoms

• Feeling powerless, weak, lacking in inner or outer strength
• Feeling betrayed and wanting to take revenge
• Cannot forgive someone
• Acting the victim or doormat, consciously or unconsciously, while others have control over you or play power games with you
• Giving away your power. Subjugating your desires in favour of the desires of others
• Inequality issues in a relationship
• Unable to make a major commitment
• Having a weak personality, lacking a strong identity or understanding of who you are or what you stand for
• Feeling restricted, limited, or inhibited
• Lacking in fire, passion or libido
• Feeling unmotivated, unchallenged, unfulfilled, or bored with life
• Not liking the status of where you find yourself in life and wanting to take action to pull yourself up or remove yourself from a situation
• Being too protective of yourself and not letting others in to see the real you. Unable to be vulnerable because this takes true inner power

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Releases inner power, helping to step into that power, utilising it for the higher good of yourself and others
• Can keep true to own path and ideals and not give way to others or give power away
• Feel powerful enough to become vulnerable and thus set yourself free from maintaining protective barriers
• Helps with forgiveness for any wrongdoing. The forgiveness aspect of this essence helps us to become more loving in every way, to soften our hearts
• More able to muster dignity and inner power, and able to carry on with own role in life after being wronged or betrayed
• Increases sense of equality in a relationship or in the world in general. Desire to assert yourself to gain that equality fairly
• Desire for equality for everyone, not only yourself, and to treat others as equals
• Helps assess status in life and to take action if it is not where you need to be
• Increases motivation to make something of yourself, or take action to become more fulfilled with your life, to become more interesting and interested. Seek to become own hero (Hera)
• Enhances inner fire, passion, and strength, and fires up libido too
• Feel less inhibited and restricted, more spontaneous and entrepreneurial.
• Feel more enterprising, motivated, and up to the challenge.
• Come into full potential as wife, mother, career person, or spiritual goddess, resulting in a more fulfilled life and sense of achievement.
• Challenge limitations to self and to others e.g. the “glass ceiling” that prevents women being promoted equally with men.
• Ignore or overturn outdated traditions and stereotyped roles for women.
• Can make a commitment you have not been able to make before.

Juno, Goddess of Marriage and Social Customs, was married to the King of the Gods, Jupiter, who was often unfaithful to her. She supports women through all the cycles, duties, and rites of womanhood, especially helping them to find their inner power and assert their equality with men and in any situation. A victim herself of constant betrayal by Jupiter, she knows of the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness. She is also often known by her Greek name, Hera.

 

MEDEA (Cigar Bush)                                  USE OF POWER

for understanding the appropriate use of the powers of Nature and healing and the powers within oneself. Overcoming treacherous thoughts.

Possible Symptoms

• Wanting to be a healer
• Wanting to know more about herbalism, shamanism, or the powers of Nature
• Needing to understand how to cure oneself of illness in a natural way
• Wanting to work with plants or Nature in some way e.g. florist, gardener
• Feeling depressed or down and needing fire in your heart to raise you up again
• Feeling full of darkness or dark thoughts. Have little or no hope
• Using your special powers to help someone in return for something you want, maybe doing something illegal or morally wrong
• Not understanding the proper use of your power
• Not wanting to step into your power and claim your rightful throne or rightful treasure
• Loving someone so much that you sacrifice your needs for theirs
• Always supporting and promoting others but not attending to own path
• Betraying your own family or country to help someone or to be with them
• Feeling rejected, betrayed, humiliated, scorned, jealous, cast aside, gravely insulted, or passed over, or acting this way towards others
• Judging others for their deeds when you don’t have all the facts or know their motives
• Having helped someone at great cost to yourself, you receive little or no thanks
• Feelings of revenge or spitefulness for what has been done to you
• Feeling powerless to change a situation and can’t accept it
• “Cutting off your nose to spite your face” – doing something cruel to another despite it costing you dearly yourself
• Acting ruthless or mercilessly towards others or yourself
• Being too single-minded and indomitable that you allow nothing to stand in your way, and bulldoze anyone who impedes you
• Acting in a treacherous way towards others
• Scheming politically for gain for yourself or for loved ones. Love intrigue
• Enjoying tricking people but with malicious undertones
• Being labelled as a witch by others, feeling judged

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Guided towards books or teachers or herbs that will put you in touch with the powerful healer within you. Gain the skills and knowledge you desire
• Feel the desire to work with the traditional knowledge and customs of herbalism
• Gain understanding of which particular herbs or rituals to use in a given situation
• Accept and utilise the powers within you and the awesome powers of Nature
• Better able to connect with and co-create with Nature
• Understand the right use of power in every situation
• Able to step into your power and bravely take the required path of your destiny
• Can be courageous and formidable in the use of your powers without terrifying others
• Heart is on fire with passion and ideas and the power of yourself to manifest things
• Feel hope again
• No longer sacrifice your own needs for those of others
• Give appropriate support to others and to self
• Become conscious of the way you treat others and self, become kinder and more considerate
• Able to better understand the actions of others and to forgive them Feel less reactive
• Less judgemental of others, more accepting
• More willing to accept “what is” in life
• Better able to handle rejection or betrayal
• Do things for others without expecting anything in return
• Cooperate and plan with others for the good of all.
• Less inclined to gossip or scheme.
• Able to joke and tease but with genuine loving intent

Medea was renowned as “The Wise One”, a skilled herbalist, healer, and sorceress, and a priestess in the Temple of Hecate. Today she has been relegated more to the status of witch or shaman, but she teaches us the power of Nature and the powers we ourselves possess when we co-create with Nature. She misused her healing powers to tragic effect in a bid to enhance the status of her partner, Jason of the Argonauts, the god who stole The Golden Fleece.

 

MNEMOSYNE (Blue Sage)         _________    THE  MIND

For enhancing the conscious and subconscious minds, memory, and creativity.

Possible Symptoms

• Experiencing lots of dreams or vivid memories of the past
• Wanting to bring up repressed memories to resolve them
• Wanting to recognise patterns and cycles in your life to gain insights from them
• Experiencing aches and pains which would seem to have an emotional cause or be associated with some memory from the past
• Loss of memory, forgetfulness, not able to easily retain things in memory
• Inarticulate, speech problems, reading and writing problems
• Suddenly acting or reacting out of character
• Needing inspiration or to feel creative
• Needing to embrace your creative soul more e.g. dancing, music, poetry, writing
• Wanting to give birth to a creative project, or to a physical child
• Needing to find a solution to a particular question when you are stuck
• Needing to understand the symbology in a meditation, dream, synchronicity, or a situation in real life
• See life as through a veil, vaguely, ill-defined, unclear perception about things
• Very affected by the phases of the Moon
• Wanting to think straight or with more logic and reason
• Desire to be more intellectual or wise
• Needing to muse on things, take time out for contemplation, retrospection, reflection
• Feeling the need to unite with others in order to be more influential or effective. Need to combine group talents and enhance Group Consciousness
• Wanting to bring forth from your subconscious memory all your deep-seated talents
• Wanting to attract other like-minded people
• Overly weak or sensitive when left to your own resources
• Lack persistence and sustainability
• Too caught up with the past. Living in the past
• Projecting your own past onto yourself, not able to change, let go, or move on
• Find yourself projecting your own judgements, assumptions and beliefs onto others

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Enhanced dreaming, recall of memories, or imagery in meditations, especially at certain phases of the Moon
• Better understanding of patterns and cycles happening in your life
• More insight into the cause of painful physical symptoms
• Better memory, more able to retain things in the mind
• More articulate and more able to speak well and read and write better
• More insight into the cause of atypical behaviour changes
• Enhanced creativity and inspiration; soul comes alive
• Take action to do something creative
• Likelihood of Eureka moments and useful insights to issues
• More experiences of synchronicity
• Deeper understanding of imagery and symbology used by the Divine to communicate with us
• Increased clarity of vision and perception
• More able to reason with logic, rationality, and wisdom
• Stronger and clearer intellect and thought processes. More desire to use intellect
• More balanced emotionally when the Moon’s energies are strong
• More desire to sit still and meditate and reflect on things
• Take action to unite with others and combine talents in a group and receive support from it
• More able to attract like-minded people to you
• More gregarious and sociable, wanting to share
• Enhanced interest in Group Consciousness and community ideas
• Able to connect with latent talents within you
• More able to be persistent and sustain yourself, and live through difficult times
• More able to live in the present and let go of the past
• Cease projecting the past onto self and others, accept people and situations as they are
• Cease projecting your own judgements, assumptions and beliefs onto others, understanding that what you see in others is really applying to yourself
• Desire to research and document past history

Mnemosyne was a great philosopher and thinker, a Goddess who personified Memory and the Mind, bringing mankind the important gift of memory enabling them to memorise things and record the past. She was mother of the Nine Muses who inspired dancers, poets, and musicians and promoted the arts and sciences.

 

PALLAS ATHENA (Blue Flame Flower)              WHOLENESS

For wisdom and balancing masculine and feminine polarities

Possible Symptoms

• Feeling out of balance, unbalanced emotionally or physically
• Ill health caused by imbalance e.g. Candida, frozen shoulder, strokes, limb on one side
• Needing to bring balance and wisdom to a relationship or situation
• Experiencing issues with the masculine or feminine aspects of self
• Masculine or feminine side of self is too dominant or too weak At war with self
• Not integrating both the masculine and feminine sides within you
• Not utilising all aspects of self
• Issues with a male or female in your life not understanding you or your views
• Not embracing the masculine side of yourself and taking responsible action
• Not embracing the feminine side of yourself and listening to your intuition
• Too much in the head and not enough in the heart
• Overly left-brained, too linear, rational, detached, can’t think outside the box
• Overly right-brained, too emotional, reflective, abstract, unstructured, childlike
• Experiencing polarities or dualities, extremes of something
• In a power competition with a member of the opposite sex
• Trying to gain equality for self or members of your gender
• Lacking creativity, imagination, the spark of ideas, inventiveness, resourcefulness
• Going through justice or law and order issues
• Needing to plan a strategy
• Lacking in courage and bravado, wanting to be a victor, hero, or warrior
• Not able to stand up for oneself against others
• Issues with virginity, or being unattached in a relationship
• Issues with sexual behaviour
• Needing to speak, hear, or know the truth
• Wanting to bring about a union, or bring things together, to join things
• Needing protection or to be defended
• Needing to shed old skin and transform into a new way of being
• Feel part of self is missing or empty
• Feeling needy, relying on others to provide what you yourself should be providing
• Expecting others to fulfil you
• Lacking in integrity, or experiencing this in someone else
• Lacking proper balance in foods eaten
• Unable to surrender to God’s Will, to say “Yes” to the Universe, or to accept the inevitable
• Unable to align spirituality with materiality, heaven with earth

Potential benefits after taking essence

• More balanced, physically and emotionally
• More balance in the natural cycles affecting you
• More able to bring balance and harmony to a relationship or situation, to rein in polarities and come to the centre
• Better integration and utilisation of the masculine and/or feminine aspects of self
• Less war and conflict going on inside self
• For women, especially, the ability to embrace their masculine side and their power
• Integration of head and heart, integrating thinking and action with feeling and intuition
• Better integration of power with wisdom, more synergy of the two
• Better understanding of the opposite sex and how each can contribute in their own way, more cooperation
• Less extreme in thinking, feelings, or actions
• More able to establish equality , for self or others
• Enhanced creativity, imagination, inventiveness, resourcefulness
• Able to utilise talents better
• More able to bring about justice, law and order, or see differing points of view
• Better able to plan and strategise
• Enhanced courage and nerve, feeling more like a warrior or hero
• Strength to stand up for oneself in any situation
• More able to withstand the truth or express it
• More able to stand in own integrity
• Moderation of sexual behaviour
• Able to fill holes within self, become less needy and reliant on others. More fulfilled by self, more self-supporting. Feeling of wholeness within self
• Acceptance of single status or virginal status
• Ability to bring about a union or reunion, to bring things together or join things
• Feeling safer, more protected , more able to protect and defend self
• Open to transformation and letting go of old self or old ways
• More able to surrender to the universe and your destiny, or to accept “What Is”
• Take action to find right balance of foods
• More able to align the Divine with the material world

Pallas Athena, Greek Warrior Goddess of Wisdom and Truth, known as Minerva to the Romans. She was revered for her canny strategic advice in times of war. Patron of arts and crafts and inventor of practical and useful things, she is forthright and no-nonsense and combines power and wisdom. The balancing of male and female aspects is a main area of her focus, bringing union and harmony to all opposing polarities.

 

PANDORA (Polygonum)                             SUPPRESSION

For releasing suppression and conditioning, and invoking hope and respect.

Possible Symptoms

• Feeling suppressed, repressed, curtailed, inhibited, unable to let out one’s natural self
• Feeling caged in and wanting to fly free
• Feeling full of disease or evil, unclean
• Feeling conditioned by society, or by men in particular
• Feel stuck in a traditional role, especially that of a dutiful woman, wife, mother.
• Feeling disrespected, by men in particular
• Unable to suppress oneself from running riot, going over-the-top, over-exertion, or over-exercising one’s power over others
• Being too formidable
• Invading others’ space
• Feel like a caterpillar rather than a butterfly, dowdy and stodgy instead of light and vibrant
• For men, unable to view women as equals, or see their worth and value
• For women, unable to value their own feminine qualities
• Wanting to blame the ills and woes of the world on women
• Feeling hopeless, or that the world is a truly terrible place, full of disaster and destruction
• Looking at things negatively, feeling depressed: glass half empty attitude
• Congestion, tight chest, unable to breathe freely

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Feel lighter, more vibrant, freer, unrestricted, wilder, more sensual
• Experience more hopefulness and faith
• More in touch with one’s natural self and less inhibited about exposing or experiencing it
• More able to break free of society’s conditioning or the traditions of family or culture
• Allows one to stop suppressing one’s power and to step into it instead
• Calms down and reins in one’s overly-formidable self. Balances one’s power
• Balances the masculine and feminine energies within oneself
• Assists men and women to value and respect the Divine Feminine in themselves and others
• Able to view things more positively, hold out more hope
• Resolution/understanding of issues to do with equality and disrespect
• Purification and clearing of any suppressed issues, letting go, releasing
• Helps to alleviate tight chests, and to breathe more easily

Pandora, traditionally the Goddess of Hope, is well-known for her association with Pandora’s Box. Her origin as a bountiful earth goddess was re-scripted by ancient patriarchal men seeking to diminish the role of women in society. Her Pandora’s Box was portrayed in legends as unleashing all of mankind’s evil and woes into the world which were then blamed on women in general. As a result, women’s natural selves and their power were suppressed. However, Pandora had one saving grace in her Box, that of Hope.

 

VESTA (White Duranta)                             SACRED SPACE

Tending the inner temple of self, and better able to embrace family, domesticity, and commitment

Possible Symptoms

• Your home is not a sanctuary, either for yourself or for others
• Feel insecure or unstable because you are homeless, or have no home of your own, or your home is not very homely or comfortable
• Feeling separate, lonely, don’t belong, have no sense of family or community
• You haven’t been nurturing or nourishing yourself properly
• You are fighting for survival in some way, or you feel in need of protection or refuge
• Not domesticated, don’t like running a home, or don’t know how to
• Don’t like cooking, or being in a kitchen, or making the effort to prepare good, healthy meals
• Housekeeping, cleanliness and purity are not a priority for your home, your environment, or yourself
• Your home needs a good springclean
• Don’t cleanse your mind and emotions enough
• Not able to meditate or find time or a space for contemplation
• Life is too busy, noisy, stressful, or meaningless
• Very sensitive to noise pollution
• Feel disconnected from the divine world
• Wishing to be more goddess-like – virtuous, pure, full of grace, able to serve with dignity
• Have an issue with being of service to others
• Wanting to be free and individual, not restrained by vows, duty, custom, or rituals
• Feel your inner flame has gone out, your passion for life has burnt out
• Unable to commit to things long term
• Not very nurturing towards others, or kind, hospitable and welcoming
• Don’t know where to go to when in need of help
• Need more endurance to survive a tough period you’re going through
• Find it difficult to live happily without the love of an intimate relationship
• No sexual activity in your life for a while and this is an issue
• Have chosen celibacy, temporarily or permanently, and need help in remaining chaste
• Have forgotten to honour the divine world and appreciate everything around you
• Feeling uncentred, unbalanced, or ungrounded
• Feeling fragile, over-sensitive, too delicate, too small, easily wounded or bruised
• Have lost connection with your own heart, not feeling emotions, or not knowing what you feel
• When feeling spiritually lost, don’t think to go within into your inner temple
• Wanting inner peace and stillness
• Too concerned with what’s going on in other people’s lives to sort out own problems
• Believe there is no afterlife. Don’t believe in spirits and that life is eternal
• Looking for a new home, or trying to make decisions about a home
• Needing to deeply contemplate and ponder on something, and need divine help
• Needing sanctuary and refuge, a place to soothe the mind and emotions
• Desire to be able to meditate and gain insights
• Bad experiences with fire, flames, matches, candles, or excessive heat or sunburn
• Body feels dark and heavy

Potential benefits after taking essence

• Better sense of belonging, to a family, group, or community. Or take action to join or reconnect with any of these
• More connection with other people, and also your inner being
• Better sense of security, stability and protection
• Desire to make your home more homely, hospitable, welcoming, comfortable, or a sanctuary in which you or others can take refuge from everyday stresses
• Take action to provide a proper home for yourself
• Desire to nurture and nourish yourself and others properly, prepare and eat healthier foods, look after the body better
• Increased desire for domesticity, housekeeping, cooking, or cleaning
• Desire to cleanse old emotions and beliefs from the mind
• Take action to find time, space and discipline for meditation or contemplation
• Desensitisation to noise pollution
• Better remembrance to go into the inner temple when you need help or have issues
• More desire to regularly connect with the divine world and your own heart
• Better connection with the divine world and with own heart, more insights and feelings
• Deeper belief in the existence of the divine world and eternal life
• Enhanced gratitude for everything in your life, remembering to honour what brings you joy
• Become more goddess-like, elegant, graceful, ethereal, pure, dignified, virtuous
• Desire to be more of service to others and to the divine, more devotion to a cause, feel less resentful or constrained
• More able to follow rules and customs, or obey laws
• More able to commit to things long term
• Return of the flame within, feel more passionate and alive, lighter, sunnier
• More able to remain chaste or celibate when necessary
• More able to survive without love or an intimate relationship
• Extra endurance and toughness to survive hard times or woundings
• Better able to take the heat, both literally and metaphorically
• More balanced, centred, grounded
• Find a place within yourself that is peaceful, soothing and still, a sanctuary or refuge
• Better understanding of what your home means to you, or your inner temple, and what decisions need to be made
• More focus on own issues and less concern with others’ problems

 Vesta, the Roman Goddess of the Hearth was originally known as Hestia in Greek mythology. Vesta and her priestesses (Vestal Virgins) were the Keepers of the Sacred Flame of the Temple in ancient times and committed thirty years of their life to this work. Their job was to clean, cook, and attend to rituals. Vesta represents the home, family, sanctuary, hospitality, cleanliness, meditation, inner stillness and peace, and commitment.