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| Golden Yarrow 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 form vulnerability to others by withdrawl and social isolation. Goldenrod Solidago Positive Qualities: well-developed individuality, inner sense of Self balanced with group or social consciousness. Patterns of Imbalance: easily influenced by group or by family ties; an inability to be true to oneself, and subject to peer pressure or social expectations. Indian Paintbrush Positive Qualities: lively, energetic creativity, exuberant artistic activity. Patterns of Imbalance: low vitality and exhaustion, difficulty rousing physical forces to substain the intensity of creative work; inability to bring creative forces into physical expression. Iris Iris 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. Lotus Positive Qualities: open and expansive spirituality, meditative insight and synthesis. Patterns of Imbalance: spiritual pride, inflated spirituality. Love-Lies-Bleeding 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 over-personalizations of one's pain. Manzanita Positive Qualities: embodiment, intergration 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 Positive Qualities: maternial consciousness, warm, feminine and nurturing; mother-child bonding, healing of inner child. Patterns of Imbalance: alienated from mother or from mothering, feelings of childhood abandonment or abuse. Pink Yarrow 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. Pomegranate 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. Red Clover 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. Sagebrush Artemisia 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. Saint John's Wort Positive Qualities: illumined consciousness, light-filled awareness and strength. Patterns of Imbalance: an overly expanded state leading to psychic and physical vulnerability; deep fears, disturbed dreams. Star Tulip Positive Qualities: sensitive and receptive attunement; screne, 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 attunment, unable to meditate or pray. Sunflower Positive Qualities: balanced sense of individuality, spiritualized ego forces, sun-radiant personality. Patterns of Imbalance: distorted sense of Self; inflaton or self-effacement, low self-esteem or arrogance; poor relation to father or masculine aspect of Self. |
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