Cypripedium parviflorum Positive qualities: Higher purpose aligned with daily work, integration of spiritual vision with vital forces in the root and creative chakras Patterns of imbalance: Life purpose and direction not aligned with outer activity; nervous exhaustion or sexual depletion due to inability to access life force in the lower chakras
Delphinium variegatum Positive qualities: Charismatic leadership, contagious enthusiasm, joyful service Patterns of imbalance: Leadership distorted by self-aggrandizement or burdensome dutifulness; inability to motivate or inspire others
Lavandula angustifolia Positive qualities: Spiritual sensitivity, highly refined awareness intact with stable bodily health Patterns of imbalance: Nervous or high-wired energy states, over-stimulation of mental or spiritual forces, depletion of physical forces; insomnia
Nelumbo nucifera Positive qualities: Expansive and inclusive spirituality, ability to synthesize diverse life experiences in service to the spiritual worldPatterns of imbalance: Spiritual pride, inflated sense of Self, out of touch with ordinary personality and humble tasks
Amaranthus caudatus Positive qualities: Transcendent consciousness, the ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish; transpersonal vision; compassionate acceptance of life karma Patterns of imbalance: Intensification of pain and suffering due to isolation; profound melancholia or despair due to the over-personalization of one’s pain
Madia elegans Positive qualities: Precise thinking, disciplined focus and concentration Patterns of imbalance: Easily distracted, inability to concentrate, splintered activity that is unproductive
Sidalcea glaucescens Positive qualities: Warm and personable, open-hearted sharing, trust in social process Patterns of imbalance: Insecure in relationships, paralysis in reaching out to others, resulting in social barriers
Arctostaphylos viscida Positive qualities: Joyous embodiment, spiritual identity integrated with the physical body Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion or revulsion toward the body and physical world; eating and sleeping disorders
Calochortus leichtlinii Positive qualities: Maternal consciousness, warm, feminine and nurturing; mother-child bonding, positive connection to mother and similar female figures Patterns of imbalance: Alienated from mother or from mothering role, feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse; orphan state of consciousness
Asclepias cordifolia Positive qualities: Healthy ego strength; independence and self-reliance Patterns of imbalance: Neediness and emotional regression, dulling the consciousness through drugs, alcohol, overeating; creating dependency or sickness to receive attention
Ipomoea purpurea Positive qualities: Sparkling vital force, awake and refreshed; in touch with natural life rhythms Patterns of imbalance: Dull, toxic, or “hungover,” inability to fully enter the body, especially in the morning; addictive or erratic living habits that deplete life force
Monardella odoratissima Positive qualities: Strength and clarity of thought, mental integrity and positivity Patterns of imbalance: Unconscious absorption of negative programming, psychic contamination or possession
Penstemon newberryi Positive qualities: Forthright masculine energy; warrior-like spirituality which confronts and transforms Patterns of imbalance: Vacillation and withdrawal in the face of challenge; lack of assertiveness, inability to take a stand for one’s convictions
Artemisia douglasiana Positive qualities: Integration of psychic or dream experiences with daily life; flexible, multi-dimensional consciousness, warm and expansive soul qualities Patterns of imbalance: Tendency to hysteria, fantasy or projection, overactive psychic life unable to distinguish or integrate trans-physical experiences
Verbascum thapsusPositive qualities: Strong sense of inner conscience, truthfulness, uprightnessPatterns of imbalance: Inability to hear one’s inner voice; moral weakness and confusion, indecisiveness; lying or deception to oneself or others
Tropaeolum majus Positive qualities: Glowing vitality, radiant warmth; living thinking Patterns of imbalance: Overly “dry” or intellectual consciousness; depletion of life-force and emotional verve from too much study