Flower Essences

We have featured an extensive line of flower essences manufactured by FES Quintessentials from flowers that are dual-certified Biodynamic® and Organic.
Flower essences are liquid, potentized plant preparations which convey a distinct imprint, or etheric pattern of a specific flower. Just as foods sustain the human body, flowers nourish the human soul, enhancing emotional and psychological well-being.

FES Quintessential North American Flower Essences

Please note: When ordering Flower Essences, your order may take up to 2-3 weeks to receive.

Aloe Vera Aloe Vera
Balances and centers creative activity in vital life-energy, aids in “burned out” feeling from overuse of creative energy.

Alpine Lily Lilium parvum
Positive qualities: For women, acceptance of one's femininity grounded in a deepened experience of the female body.
Patterns of imbalance: Overly abstract sense of femininity; disembodied, alienation from or rejection of female organs as "lower.

Angel’s Trumpet Datura candida
Positive qualities: Spiritual surrender at death or at times of deep transformation; opening the heart to the spiritual world.
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of death, resistance to letting go of life or to crossing the spiritual threshold; denial of the reality of the spiritual world.

Angelica Angelica archangelica
Positive qualitites: Feeling protection and guidance from spiritual beings, especially at threshold experiences such as birth and death.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling cut off, bereft of spiritual guidance and protection.

Arnica Arnica mollis
Positive qualities: Conscious embodiment, especially during shock or trauma; recovery from deep seated shock or trauma.
Patterns of imbalance: Disconnection of Higher Self from body during shock or trauma; disassociation, unconsciousness.

Baby Blue Eyes Nemophila menziesii
Positive qualities: Childlike innocence and trust; feeling at home in the world, at ease with oneself, supported and loved; connected with the spiritual world.
Patterns of imbalance: Defensiveness, insecurity, mistrust of others; estrangement from the spiritual world; lack of support from the father in childhood.

Basil Ocimum basilicum
Positive qualities: Integration of sexuality and spirituality into sacred wholeness.
Patterns of imbalance: Polarization of sexuality and spirituality, often leading to clandestine behaviour or marital stress.

Black Cohosh Cimicifuga racemosa
Positve qualities: Courage to confront rather thatn retreat from abusive or threatening situations.
Patterns of imbalance: Being caught in relationships or lifestyle which are abusive, addictive, violent, dark, brooding emotions.

Black Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
Positive qualities: Awake consciousness capable of acknowledging all aspects of the Self; penetrating insight.
Patterns of imbalance: Avoidance or repression of traumatic or painful aspects of the personality.

Bleeding Heart Dicentra Formosa
Positive qualities: Loving others unconditionally, with an open heart; emotional freedom.
Patterns of imbalance: Forming relationships based on fear or possessiveness; emotional co-dependence.

Borage Borago oficinalis
Positive qualities: Ebullient heart forces, buoyant courage and optimism.
Patterns of imbalance: Heavy-heartedness, lack of confidence in facing difficult circumstances.

Buttercup Ranunculis occidentalis
Positive qualities: Radiant inner light, unattached to outer recognition or fame.
Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of low self-worth, inability to acknowledge or experience one's inner light and uniqueness.

Calendula Calendula oficinalis
Positive qualities: Healing warmth and receptivity, especially in the use of the spoken word and in dialogue with others.
Patterns of imbalance: Using cutting or sharp words; argumentative, lack of receptivity in communication with others.

California Pitcher Plant Darlingtonia californica
Positive qualities: Earthy vitality, especially integration of the more instinctual and bodily aspects of oneself.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling listless, anemic; disassociated from or even fearful of the instinctual aspects of the Self.

California Poppy Eschscholzia californica
Positive qualities: Finding spirituality within one's heart; balancing light and love; developing an inner center of knowing.
Patterns of imbalance: Seeking outside oneself for false forms of light or higher consciousness, especially through escapism or addiction.

California Wild Rose Rosa californica
Positive qualities: Love for the Earth and for human life, enthusiasm for doing and serving.
Patterns of imbalance: Apathy or resignation, inability to catalyze will forces through the heart.

Calla Lily Zantedeschia aethiopica
Positive qualities: Clarity about sexual identity, sexual self-acceptance; balance of masculine and feminine qualities.
Patterns of imbalance: Confusion, ambivalence about sexual identity or gender.

Canyon Dudleya Dudleya cymosa
Positive qualities: Healthy spiritual opening, balanced psychic and physical energies; grounded presence in everyday life; positive charisma.
Patterns of imbalance: Distorted psychic experiences; preoccupied with mediumism; overinflated involvement in psychic or charismatic experiences.

Cayenne Capsicum annuum
Positive qualities: Fiery and energetic, inwardly mobile, capable of change and transformation.
Patterns of imbalance: Stagnation, inability to move forward toward change.

Chamomile Maticaria recutita
Positive qualities: Serene, sun-like disposition, emotional balance.
Patterns of imbalance: Easily upset, moody and irritable, inability to release emotional tension.

Chaparral Larrea tridentata
Positive qualities: Balanced psychic awareness, deep penetration and understanding of the transpersonal aspects of oneself.
Patterns of imbalance: Psychic and physical toxicity, disturbed dreams; chaotic inner life, drug addiction.

Chrysanthemum Chrysanthemum morifolium
Positive qualities: Shifting the ego identification from one's personality to a higher spiritual identity; feeling oneself as transpersonal and transcendent
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of aging and mortality, identification with youth and lower personality; mid-life crisis.

Corn Zea mays
Positive qualities: Alignment with the Earth, especially through the body and feet; grounded presence.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to stay centered in the body; disorientation and stress, particularly in urban environments.

Cosmos Cosmos bipennatus
Positive qualities: Integration of ideas and speech; ability to express thoughts with coherence and clarity.
Patterns of imbalance: Unfocused, disorganized communication; overexcited speech, overwhelmed by too many ideas.

Dandelion Taraxacum officinale
Positive qualities: Dynamic, effortless energy; lively activity balanced with inner ease.
Patterns of imbalance: Overly tense, especially in the musculature of the body, over-striving and hard-driving.

Deerbrush Ceanothus integerrimus
Positive qualities: Gentle purity, clarity of purpose; sincerity of motive.
Patterns of imbalance: Mixed or conflicting motives; subconscious feelings which propel outer actions.

Dill Anethum graveolens
Positive qualities: Experiencing and absorbing the fullness of life, especially its sensory aspects.
Patterns of imbalance: Overwhelm due to overstimulation, hypersensitivity to environment or to outer activity, sensory congestion.

Dogwood Cornus nuttallii
Positive qualities: Grace-filled movement, physical and etheric harmony.
Patterns of imbalance: Awkward and painful awareness of the body; emotional trauma stored deep within the body.

Easter Lily Lilium longiflorum
Positive qualities: Inner purity of soul, especially the ability to integrate sexuality and spirituality.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling that sexuality is impure, unclean; inner conflicts about sexuality.

Echinacea Echinacea purpurea
Positive qualities: Core integrity, contacting and maintaining an integrated sense of Self, especially when severely challenged.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling shattered by severe trauma or abuse which has destroyed one's sense of Self; threatened by physical or emotional disintegration.

Evening Primrose Oenothera hookeri
Positive qualities: Awareness and healing of painful early emotions absorbed from the mother; ability to open emotionally and form deep, committed relationships.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling rejected, unwanted; avoidance of commitment in relationships, fear of parenthood; sexual and emotional repression.

Fairy Lantern Calochortus albus
Positive qualities: Healthy maturation; acceptance of adult responsibilities.
Patterns of imbalance: Immaturity, helplessness, neediness, childish dependency; unable to take responsibility.

Fawn Lily Erythronium purpurascens
Positive qualities: Accepting and becoming involved with the world; sharing one's spiritual gifts with others.
Patterns of imbalance: Withdrawal, isolation, self-protection; overly delicate, lacking the inner strength to face the world.

Filaree Erodium cicutarium
Positive qualities: Star-like vision, a cosmic overview which holds the events of ordinary life in perspective.
Patterns of imbalance: Disproportionate and obsessive worry; unable to gain a wider perspective on daily events.

Forget-Me-Not Myosotis sylvatica
Positive qualities: Awareness of karmic connections in one's personal relationships and with those in the spiritual world; deep mindfulness of subtle realms; soul-based relationships.
Patterns of imbalance: Loneliness, isolation; lack of awareness of spiritual connection with others.

Fuchsia Fuchsia hybrida
Positive qualities: Genuine emotional vitality, ability to express deep feelings.
Patterns of imbalance: False states of emotionality which cover more deeply-seated pain and trauma; psychosomatic symptoms.

Garlic Allium sativum
Positive qualities: Unitive consciousness, sense of wholeness which imparts strength and active resistance.
Patterns of imbalance: Fearful, weak or easily influenced, prone to low vitality.

Golden Ear Drops Dicentra chrysantha
Positive qualities: Contacting one's childhood experience as a source of emotional well-being; releasing painful memories from the past.
Patterns of imbalance: Suppressed toxic memories of childhood; feelings of pain and trauma about past events which affect present emotional balance.

Golden Yarrow Achillea filipendulina
Positive qualities: Remaining open to others while still feeling inner protection; active social involvement which preserves the integrity of the Self.
Patterns of imbalance: For outgoing people who are overly influenced by their environment and by other people; protecting oneself from vulnerability to others by withdrawal and social isolation.

Goldenrod Solidago californica
Positive qualities: Well-developed individuality, inner sense of Self balanced with group or social consciousness.
Patterns of imbalance: Easily influenced by group or family ties; inability to be true to oneself, subject to peer pressure or social expectations.

Hibiscus Hibiscus rosa sinensis
Positive qualities: Warmth and responsiveness in female sexuality; integration of soul warmth and bodily passion.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to connect with one's female sexuality; lack of warmth and vitality, often due to prior exploitation or abuse.

Hound’s Tongue Cynoglossum grande
Positive qualities: Holistic thinking; perceiving the physical world and physical life with spiritually clear thoughts.
Patterns of imbalance: Seeing the world in materialistic terms, weighed down or dulled by a mundane or overly scientific viewpoint.

Indian Paintbrush Castilleja miniata
Positive qualities: Lively, energetic creativity, exuberant artistic activity.
Patterns of imbalance: Low vitality and exhaustion, difficulty rousing physical forces to sustain the intensity of creative work; inability to bring creative forces into physical expression.

Indian Pink Silene californica
Positive qualities: Remaining centered and focused, even under stress; managing and coordinating diverse forms of activity.
Patterns of imbalance: Psychic forces which are easily torn or shattered by too much activity; inability to stay centered during intense activity.

Iris Iris douglasiana
Positive qualities: Inspired artistry, deep soulfulness which is in touch with higher realms; radiant, iridescent vision and perspective.
Patterns of imbalance: Lacking inspiration or creativity; feeling weighed down by the ordinariness of the world; dullness.

Lady’s Slipper Cypripedium parviflorum
Positive qualities: Integration of spiritual purpose with daily work, bringing spiritual power into the root chakra; spiritualized sexuality and grounded spirituality.
Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from one's inner authority, inability to integrate higher spiritual purpose with real life and work; nervous exhaustion, sexual depletion.

Larkspur Delphinium nuttallianum
Positive qualities: Charismatic leadership, contagious enthusiasm, joyful service.
Patterns of imbalance: Leadership distorted by self-aggrandizement or burdensome dutifulness.

Lavender Lavendula officinalis
Positive qualities: Spiritual sensitivity, highly refined awareness.
Patterns of imbalance: Nervousness, overstimulation of spiritual forces which depletes the physical body.

Lotus Nelumb nucifera
Positive qualities: Open and expansive spirituality, meditative insight and synthesis.
Patterns of imbalance: Spiritual pride, inflated spirituality.

Love-Lies-Bleeding Amaranthus caudatus
Positive qualities: Transcendent consciousness, the ability to move beyond personal pain, suffering or mental anguish by finding larger, transpersonal meaning in such suffering; compassionate awareness of and attention to the meaning of pain or suffering.
Patterns of imbalance: Intensification of pain and suffering due to isolation; profound melancholia due to the over-personalization of one's pain.

Madia Madia elegans
Positive qualities: Precise thinking, disciplined focus and concentration.
Patterns of imbalance: Becoming easily distracted, inability to concentrate, dull or listless.

Mallow Sidalcia glauscens
Positive qualities: Warm and personable, open-hearted sharing and friendliness.
Patterns of imbalance: Socially insecure, fear of reaching out to others; creating barriers.

Manzanita Arctostaphylos viscida
Positive qualities: Embodiment, integration of spiritual Self with the physical world.
Patterns of imbalance: Estranged from the earthly world; aversion, disgust or revulsion toward the bodily Self and physical world.

Mariposa Lily Calochortus leichtlinii
Positive qualities: Maternal consciousness, warm, feminine and nurturing; mother-child bonding, healing of the inner child.
Patterns of imbalance: Alienated from mother or from mothering, feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse.

Milkweed Asclepias cordifolia
Positive qualities: Healthy ego strength; independence and self-reliance.
Patterns of imbalance: Extreme dependency and emotional regression, dulling the consciousness through drugs, alcohol, overeating; desire to escape from self-awareness.

Morning Glory Ipomoea purpurea
Positive qualities: Sparkling vital force, feeling awake and refreshed, in touch with Life.
Patterns of imbalance: Dull, toxic, or "hung over," inability to fully enter the body, especially in the morning; addictive habits.

Mountain Pennyroyal Monardella odoratissima
Positive qualities: Strength and clarity of thought, mental integrity and positivity.
Patterns of imbalance: Absorbing negative thoughts of others, psychic contamination or possession.

Mountain Pride 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.

Mugwort Artemisia douglasiana
Positive qualities: Integrating psychic and dream experiences with daily life; multi-dimensional consciousness.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to harmonize psychic forces, tendency to hysteria or emotionality, overactive psychic life out of touch with the physical world.

Mullein Verbascum thapsus
Positive qualities: Strong sense of inner conscience, truthfulness, uprightness.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to hear one's inner voice; weakness and confusion, indecisiveness; lying or deceiving oneself or others.

Nasturtium Tropaeolum majus
Positive qualities: Glowing vitality, flaming, radiant energy and warmth.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling overly "dry" or intellectual; depletion of life-force and emotional verve.

Nicotiana Nicotiana alata
Positive qualities: Peace which is deeply centered in the heart; integration of physical and emotional well-being through harmonious connection with the Earth.
Patterns of imbalance: Numbing of the emotions accompanied by mechanization or hardening of the body; inability to cope with deep feelings and finer sensibilities.

Oregon Grape Berberis aquifolium
Positive qualities: Loving inclusion of others, positive expectation of good will from others, ability to trust.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling paranoid or self-protective; unfair projection or expectation of hostility from others.

Penstemon Penstemon davidsonii
Positive qualities: Great inner fortitude despite outer hardships; perseverance.
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling persecuted or sorry for oneself; inability to bear life's difficult circumstances.

Peppermint Mentha piperita
Positive qualities: Mindfulness, wakeful clarity, mental alertness.
Patterns of imbalance: Dull or sluggish, especially mental lethargy; unbalanced metabolism which depletes mental forces.

Pink Monkeyflower
Positive qualities: Emotional openness and honesty; courage to take emotional risks with others.
Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of shame, guilt, unworthiness; fear of exposure and rejection, hiding essential Self from others, masking one's feelings.

Pink Yarrow Achillia millefolium var. rubra
Positive qualities: Loving awareness of others from a self-contained consciousness; appropriate emotional boundaries.
Patterns of imbalance: Unbalanced sympathetic forces, overly absorbent auric field, lack of emotional clarity, dysfunctional merging with others.

Poison Oak Rhus diversiloba
Positive qualities: Emotional openness and vulnerability, ability to be close and make contact with others.
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intimate contact, protective of personal boundaries; fear of being violated; hostile or distant.

Pomegranate Punica granatum
Positive qualities: Warm-hearted feminine creativity, actively productive and nurturing at home or in the world.
Patterns of imbalance: Ambivalent or confused about the focus of feminine creativity, especially between values of career and home, creative and procreative, personal and global.

Pretty Face Triteleia ixioides
Positive qualities: Beauty that radiates from within; self-acceptance in relation to personal appearance
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling ugly or rejected because of personal appearance; over-identified with physical appearance.

Purple Monkeyflower Mimulus kelloggii
Positive qualities: Inner calm and clarity when experiencing any spiritual or psychic phenomenon; the courage to trust in one's own spiritual experience or guidance; love-based rather than fear-based spirituality.
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of the occult, or of any spiritual experience; fear of retribution or censure if one departs from religious conventions of family or community.

Quaking Grass Briza maxima
Positive qualities: Harmonious social consciousness, finding higher identity in group work, flexibility.
Patterns of imbalance: Dysfunctional in group settings, inability to balance individual sense of Self and higher needs of group.

Queen Anne’s Lace Daucus carota
Positive qualities: Spiritual insight and vision; integration of psychic faculties with sexual and emotional aspects of Self.
Patterns of imbalance: Projection and lack of objectivity in psychic awareness; distortion of psychic perception or physical eyesight due to sexual or emotional imbalances.

Quince Chaenomelis speciosa
Positive qualities: Loving strength, balance of masculine initiating power and feminine nurturing power.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to catalyze or reconcile feelings of strength and power with essential qualities of the feminine; distorted connection with the masculine Self or animus.

Rabbitbrush Chrysothamnus nauseosus
Positive qualities: Active and lively consciousness; alert, flexible and mobile state of mind.
Patterns of imbalance: Easily overwhelmed by details; unable to cope with simultaneous events or demanding situations.

Red Clover Trifolium pratense
Positive qualities: Self-aware behavior, calm and steady presence, especially in emergency situations.
Patterns of imbalance: Susceptible to mass hysteria and anxiety, easily influenced by panic or other forms of group thought.

Rosemary Rosmarinus officinalis
Positive qualities: Warm physical presence; embodiment; vibrantly incarnated.
Patterns of imbalance: Forgetfulness, poorly incarnated in body, lacking physical/etheric warmth; higher ego forces which are not integrated with the physical body.

Sage Salvia officinalis
Positive qualities: Drawing wisdom from life experience; reviewing and surveying one's life process from a higher perspective.
Patterns of imbalance: Seeing life as ill-fated or undeserved; inability to perceive higher purpose and meaning in life events.

Sagebrush Artemesia tridenta
Positive qualities: Essential or "empty" consciousness, deep awareness of the inner Self, capable of transformation and change
Patterns of imbalance: Over-identification with the illusory parts of oneself; purifying and cleansing the Self to release dysfunctional aspects of one's personality or surroundings.

Saguaro Carnegiea giganteus
Positive qualities: Awareness of what is ancient and sacred, a sense of tradition or lineage; ability to learn from elders
Patterns of imbalance: Conflict with images of authority, sense of separateness or alienation from the past.

Saint John’s Wort Hypericum perforatum
Positive qualities: Illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness and strength.
Patterns of imbalance: Overly expanded state leading to psychic and physical vulnerability; deep fears, disturbed dreams.

Scarlet Monkeyflower Mimulus cardinalis
Positive qualities: Emotional honesty, direct and clear communication of deep feelings, integration of the emotional "shadow".
Patterns of imbalance: Fear of intense feelings, repression of strong emotions; inability to resolve issues of anger and powerlessness.

Scotch Broom Cytisus scoparius
Positive qualities: Positive and optimistic feelings about the world and about future events; sun-like forces of caring, encouragement, and purpose
Patterns of imbalance: Feeling weighed down and depressed; overcome with pessimism and despair, especially regarding one's personal relationship to world events.

Self-Heal Prunella vulgaris
Positive qualities: Healthy, vital sense of Self; healing and beneficent forces arising from within oneself, deep sense of wellness and wholeness.
Patterns of imbalance: Inability to take inner responsibility for one's healing, lacking in spiritual motivation for wellness, overly dependent on external help.

Shasta Daisy Chrysanthemum maximum
Positive qualities: Mandalic or holistic consciousness, synthesizing ideas into a living wholeness
Patterns of imbalance: Over-intellectualization of reality, especially seeing information as bits and pieces rather than parts of a whole.

Shooting Star Dodecatheon hendersonii
Positive qualities: Humanized spirituality, cosmic consciousness warmed with caring for all that is human and earthly.
Patterns of imbalance: Profound feeling of alienation, especially not feeling at home on Earth, nor a part of the human family.

Snapdragon antirrhinum majus
Positive qualities: Lively, dynamic energy; healthy libido; verbal communication which is emotionally balanced.
Patterns of imbalance: Verbal aggression and hostility; repressed or misdirected libido; tension around jaw.

Star Thistle Centaurea solstitialis
Positive qualities: Generous and inclusive, a giving and sharing nature, feeling an inner sense of abundance.
Patterns of imbalance: Basing actions on a fear of lack, inability to give freely and openly, or to trust a higher providence.

Star Tulip Calochortus tolmiei
Positive qualities: Sensitive and receptive attunement; serene, inner listening to others and to higher worlds, especially in dreams and meditation
Patterns of imbalance: Feelings of being hardened or cut-off, inability to feel quiet inner presence or attunement, unable to meditate or pray

Sticky Monkeyflower Mimulus aurantiacus
Positive qualities: Balanced integration of human warmth and sexual intimacy; ability to express deep feelings of love and connectedness, especially in sexual relationships.
Patterns of imbalance: Repressed sexual feelings, or acting out inappropriate sexual behavior; inability to experience human warmth in sexual experiences; deep fear of sexuality and intimacy.

Sunflower Helianthus annuus
Positive qualities: Balanced sense of individuality, spiritualized ego forces, sun-radiant personality.
Patterns of imbalance: Distorted sense of Self; inflation or self-effacement, low self-esteem or arrogance; poor relation to father or masculine aspect of Self.

Sweet Pea Lathyrus latifolius
Positive qualities: Commitment to community, social connectedness, a sense of one's place on Earth.
Patterns of imbalance: Wandering, seeking, inability to form bonds with social community or to find one's place on Earth.

Tansy Tanacetum vulgare
Positive qualities: Decisive and goal-oriented, deliberate and purposeful in action, self-directed.
Patterns of imbalance: Lethargy, procrastination, inability to take straightforward action; habits which undermine or subvert real intention of Self.

Tiger Lily Lilium Humboldtii
Positive qualities: Cooperative service with others, extending feminine forces into social situations; inner peace and harmony as a foundation for outer relationships.
Patterns of imbalance: Overly aggressive, competitive, hostile attitude; excessive "yang" forces, separatist tendencies.

Trillium Trillium chloropetalum
Positive qualities: Selfless service, altruistic sacrifice of personal desires for the common good, inner purity
Patterns of imbalance: Greed and lust for possessions and power; excessive ambition, overcome with personal needs and desires; materialism and congestion.

Trumpet Vine Campsis tagliabuana
Positive qualities: Articulate and colorful in verbal expression; active, dynamic projection of oneself in social situations.
Patterns of imbalance: Lack of vitality or soul force in expression; inability to be assertive or to speak clearly, impediments in speech.

Violet Viola odorata
Positive qualities: Delicate, highly perceptive sensitivity, elevated spiritual perspective; sharing with others while remaining true to oneself.
Patterns of imbalance: Profound shyness, reserve, aloofness, fear of being submerged in groups.

Yarrow Achillea millefolium
Positive qualities: Inner radiance and strength of aura, compassionate awareness, inclusive sensitivity, beneficent healing forces.
Patterns of imbalance: Extreme vulnerability to others and to the environment; easily depleted, overly absorbent of negative influences, psychic toxicity.

Yarrow Special Formula
flower essences of Achillea millefolium, Arnica mollis, and Echinacea purpurea, with Yarrow and Echinacea tinctures, in a sea salt water base
Positive qualities: Enhancing integrity of etheric body, vital formative forces
Patterns of imbalance: Disturbance of life-force and vitality by noxious radiation, pollution, or other geopathic stress; residual effects of past exposure.

Yellow Star Tulip Calochurtus monophyllus
Positive qualities: Empathy, receptivity to the feelings and experiences of others; acting from inner truth and guidance
Patterns of imbalance: Insensitivity to the sufferings of others; lack of awareness of the consequences of one's actions on others.

Yerba Santa Eriodictyon californicum
Positive qualities: Free-flowing emotion, ability to harmonize breathing with feeling; capacity to express a full range of human emotion, especially pain and sadness
Patterns of imbalance: Constricted feelings, particularly in the chest; internalized grief and melancholy, deeply repressed emotions.

Zinnia Zinnia elegans
Positive qualities: Childlike humor and playfulness; experiencing the joyful inner child, lightheartedness, detached perspective on Self.
Patterns of imbalance: Overseriousness, dullness, heaviness, lack of humor; overly somber sense of Self, repressed inner child.