Flower Essence And Gem Stone Report for Princess Diana of Wales July 1, 1961 7:45 PM Sandringham, England * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This report is based on the positions of the planets at the time of your birth. For the benefit of students of astrology, these positions, along with other technical information, are listed below: Sun 9 Can 40 Pluto 6 Vir 03 Moon 25 Aqu 02 N. Node 29 Leo 43 Mercury 3 Can 12 Asc. 18 Sag 25 Venus 24 Tau 24 MC 23 Lib 03 Mars 1 Vir 39 2nd cusp 18 Cap 25 Jupiter 5 Aqu 06 3rd cusp 18 Aqu 25 Saturn 27 Cap 49 5th cusp 18 Ari 25 Uranus 23 Leo 20 6th cusp 18 Tau 25 Neptune 8 Sco 38 Tropical Equal Daylight Savings Time observed GMT: 18:45:00 Time Zone: 0 hours West Lat. and Long. of birth: 52 N 50 0 E 30 Aspects and orbs: Conjunction : 4 Deg 00 Min Trine : 4 Deg 00 Min Opposition : 4 Deg 00 Min Sextile : 2 Deg 00 Min Square : 4 Deg 00 Min Quincunx: 3 Deg 00 Min Conjunct Asc : 6 Deg 00 Min Note: Most trine and sextile aspects are not interpreted because they do not present strong challenges and problems with one's well-being. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Shambhala Chart Service Hank Friedman 7622 Leviston Avenue El Cerrito, CA 94530 (510) 525-3399 This report is designed for those who are interested in tools which can support their own efforts toward growth and well-being on all levels. Using astrology, flower essences, gemstones and gem elixirs, color, music, aroma therapy, visualization, and other methods, one can transform difficult patterns in one's life and manifest more of one's positive potentials. Our emphasis is not so much on eliminating undesirable traits or experiences as on bringing one into balance so that the positive expression of one's astrological signature can manifest. A person who is essentially inward and shy and who has trouble making his way in the world will not become a dynamic, flamboyant world-conqueror, but he can build confidence in reaching out to others. Rather than attempt to get rid of his shyness, the focus would be on discovering the positive gifts his gentleness may offer him and alleviating the more extreme, isolating aspects of his shy nature. Using these "vibrational" tools, issues that one may have struggled with for years can be eased, and long-buried talents and loves can be awakened. Many of the tools suggested herein, including astrology, work on what esotericists refer to as the energy bodies, the chakras, or the aura. This subtle energy field, which emanates from every living thing, is where our energetic and emotional habits, thought patterns, belief systems, and so on reside. Introducing the energy pattern of a flower, plant, gem, or mineral into one's aura directly affects one's emotional and mental energies, and over a period of time this promotes long-lasting changes. The key factor in using any of these remedies or tools is one's positive intentions, willingness, and desire for harmony and health. They are not "magic". Used consistently and with conscious intention, they reinforce and accelerate desired changes. In the back of this report is a listing of resources where you can obtain the flower essences and other products suggested for you. There are also other tips and instructions. As you read over your report you may see a number of areas that you would like to work with. There is a lot of information here and the possibilities can be very exciting! However, it is usually best to attend to one issue or cluster of related issues (a theme) at one time. Choose whichever one is most meaningful or troublesome to you at present. Keep in mind that you will NOT manifest all of thepotential imbalances mentioned. Some issues may have already been resolved, and some will simply not be relevant. In deciding which issue to focus on, follow your intuition. Remember, too, that gentle, persistent effort is usually necessary in re-patterning and creating any real change. Best Wishes to You! Sun and Ascendant: General Characteristics The position of the Sun in your birth chart represents the person you are at heart and the path you must follow to fulfill yourself as a unique individual. It also indicates your personal strength and vitality, as well as what activities or life experiences you require to feel alive and to replenish your life force. The Sun represents your personal identity. Sun in Cancer: Key issues: Self expression through what is familiar; nurturing soulful connections to others and to the past. Key qualities: protective, nurturing, sympathetic, emotionally attached, retentive, devoted. When you are at your best, you radiate sympathetic understanding and mother-like caring and concern. Taking care of others, especially "your own" (family, neighborhood, etc.) is central to your very identity. You are apt to be tenaciously loyal and somewhat irrational in your attachments. That is, it is not easy for you to be detached and objective. Like the adoring mother who can't see or admit her son's delinquent behavior, or the patriot who stoutly defends his country's treachery simply because "it is my country". Emotional affiliation is what matters most to you. You value belonging, family solidarity, home, and continuity with the past. Cherishing what is familiar, it may be very difficult for you to leave home either literally or figuratively. You are also very tied to the women in your life. You are a feeling, sensitive person, easily hurt. Often you cover your tenderness with a self-protective shell to hide your sensitivity, moodiness, and emotional vulnerability. And you often hold on to feelings, hurt feelings or grudges as well as kindly ones, for a very long time. Learning to flow with your fluctuating emotions is important for you, also. Patterns of Imbalance: For worry, over-concern, and over-involvement in others lives: the flower essences RED CHESTNUT and CHICORY. For longing for and clinging to the past, inability to live in the present or create a positive future: the flower essence HONEYSUCKLE. For moodiness, emotional irritability and extremes: the flower essence CHAMOMILE. For willingness to confront life and its possibilities, and coming out of one's shell: the flower essence MEXICAN SHELL FLOWER. To balance and express mothering or nurturing qualities in a positive way, and to encourage self-nurturing: the flower essences MARIPOSA LILY, POMEGRANATE, and MILKY NIPPLE CACTUS. Gemstones that may be beneficial to wear, carry, or take as an elixir: MOONSTONES, PEARL, and CLEAR QUARTZ. Your Ascendant (or Rising Sign) describes your physique, as well as indicating how you relate to and are affected by your environment. It has a direct bearing on your physical health. Ascendant in Sagittarius: You have a "happy" demeanor and appear congenitally and perpetually upbeat and buoyant, with a certain physical frisky exuberance that belies any suffering you may have. Your energy level, though high, is not especially consistent or sustained. It comes in bursts of enthusiasm. You enjoy sports, games, gambling or taking chances, and fun physical activities like dancing, horse back riding, skiing, or skating, all of which you do with a free-flowing, willowy grace that makes it look effortless. Your secret is that you do it for fun or for joy and do not take it terribly seriously. Nevertheless, you are prone to your share of sports injuries, and indoors you can be downright clumsy. You are prone to be large and/or need quite alot of physical space around you in order to be comfortable. Small, cozy spaces feel cramped and even life-depleting to you. Your ideal environment is large, spacious, with high ceilings and windows, and alot of light. You thrive when you have a distant goal to aspire towards, a cause to serve, something larger than yourself to live for. You may be most prone to physical ailments when your faith in some cherished ideal is shaken or shattered, when you feel trapped in a situation that carries little higher purpose or meaning, or when there is a little inspiration, freedom, or adventure in your life. Flower and garden essences that can be of benefit to you include: SWEET PEA (for always seeking, wandering, unable to settle or make a commitment), COW PARSNIP (for the grass is greener elsewhere syndrome), and CORN (for a balanced, integrated relationship between heaven and earth, vision and reality). Moon and Venus: Emotions and Feelings The position of the Moon in your birth chart reflects your emotional nature, what you need to feel nurtured, what feels familiar and comfortable to you. It is also your deeply-held beliefs and mostly unconscious or instinctive responses, which play themselves out in your closest personal relationships. Your moods, memories, dream life, and feeling-self are depicted by the moon in your birth chart. Moon in Aquarius: Key issues: Needs for freedom and experimentation while still maintaining close, nurturant relationships. Breaking from societal or familiar rules, conventions, and "shoulds" to express one's unique self. Key qualities: independent, unorthodox; unusual or unconventional affiliations. You may well seem peculiar to other people, particularly those who live with you or know you well. You have odd habits, tastes, and rhythms, and you do not really care if you are "normal" or not. At times, you are oddly detached. Even in intensely personal or emotional situations, you can stay cool and objective. This can put other people off, especially when they want and expect sympathy and understanding. You try to be extremely fair, unbiased, and unprejudiced. You will not take sides, and a friend or family member may well wish that just for once you would! Emotionally you are rather unpredictable. You change, you run hot and cold, you are passionate about one thing, then another. You like to experiment. What you do not like is to be smothered or dominate in any way, which is why you often keep an emotional distance. You crave freedom. You will revolt against tyrrany of any sort, domestic or otherwise. You will also reject traditional gender roles or any tradition if it does not suit you; you do not want to be put into a box. At your finest, you are concerned about the welfare of all, not just yourself and your own immediate circle. You like to give people a chance. You feel for the underdog, and also for the larger "planetary family". You need a sense of community, kindred spirits, as much as you do a family. Patterns of Imbalances: When out of balance, you are simply cut off from your emotions and respond the way you think you should, rather than from your genuine feelings, your heart or your gut. You may feel numb, or simply be unaware of what you really do carry inside. Also, you may feel, deepdown, that you are "different" and do not belong or fit in anywhere. Flower essences which may be helpful include: For feelings of alienation, not feeling part of the human race, not feeling at home on earth: the flower essence SHOOTING STAR. For valuing yourself and your unique contributions, regardless of how you differ from others; for feeling you are "ahead of your time": the flower essences COLUMBINE, MULLIEN, LACE FLOWER. For repression of or aversion to deep feelings and emotional expression; for contacting and gaining awareness of emotions: FUSCHIA, SCARLET MONKEY FLOWER, and BLACK-EYED SUSAN. CHAPARRAL is good for gaining insight into your emotions through your dreams, and this can be a very good avenue for you. Paying attention to your dreams is an effective way for you to attend to your feelings and inner self, as dreams by pass your very logical, thinking self. (You may want to read Gayle Delance's "Living You Dreams" to get you started. Avoid books that tell you in dictionary-style what a given dream means. It is your own emotional connections you are aiming for). For fear of sexual intimacy and the inability to express deep, warm love: the flower essence STICKY MONKEY FLOWER. Music which stimulates the heart and the seat of the soul is very helpful for opening your feelings. Recommended are instruments featuring strings, (violin and harp, especially. And, of course, any other music you find moving.) Gemstones to wear, carry, or take as an elixir include: CLEAR, HERKIMER, and RUTILATED QUARTZ. Moon Square Venus: You are temperamentally predisposed to want a soft life, one that is filled with love and affection, beauty, pleasure, and comfort. You hunger for domestic and familial sweetness, happiness, and closeness. You may, in fact, be addicted to "sweets" from desserts to amours. Wanting to be pampered and babied, wanting one-sided support, or for the good things to be provided for you with no serious, sustained effort on your part may be your weakness. On the other hand, you may indulge others, be too lax and forgiving, adapt yourself too readily to others' wants and needs, be an overprotective parent to those you care for, be more concerned with others' happiness than your own, or sacrifice important personal values to avoid creating discomfort for others particularly family members. Flower essences that can ease some of these patterns include POMEGRANATE and MARIPOSA LILY (for the capacity to give and receive nurturing in a balanced way), and MILKY NIPPLE CACTUS and MILKWEED (for transforming dependencies into self nurturing autonomy). Moon Opposition Uranus: Your urge for liberation from all past influences, conditioning, and emotional encumbrances is pronounced. This may compel you to periodically make radical breaks from anything that ties you to the past and the person you "used to be", such as changing your name, having very little or sporadic contact with your family, or embracing highly unconventional and "far out" customs on lifestyles. You may feel constantly in flux, constantly in transition, ready to give birth to something new. To feel most content (not a word one could readily ascribe to you!), you need to be able to respond to your spontaneous inner impulses and inspiration. You need alot of stimulation and novelty. However, you also need to incorporate some steady rhythms and structure in your inner life, emotional life, and domestic affairs. Constant changes and emotional extremes can over-strain your nervous system, leading to states of anxiety and fear. Simple routines that include some earth-bound, mundane activities which bring you into the present moment are helpful, as are regular meals, sleep schedule, etc. When you are walking or you are going about your daily tasks, pay attention to your feet and your connection to the earth. Walk bare foot when you can. For grounding yourself, you may wish to try this visualization: Sit with your spine erect and your feet flat on the floor. Close your eyes. Take three slow, deep breaths, exhaling through your mouth. Then, imagine roots growing out of the soles of your feet. Imagine them reaching deep, down into the center of the earth. Imagine then that you are drawing a golden energy up through your roots and filling your entire body. Feel the earth's healing, strengthening, nourishing energies for as long as you would like. Do this until you feel complete. Some flower essences that may be appropriate for you from time to time include: SHOOTING STAR, for not feeling at home on earth, nor a part of the human family. COW PARSNIP, for contentment with present circumstances, "blooming where you are planted", and peace of mind during change or transitions. CORN, for grounded peacefulness, and ALMOND, for calmness of mind and nerves. You may also need to resolve some tension between closeness, attachment, and intimacy versus emotional yearnings for freedom, excitement, and openness to change. To facilitate resolving those issues, these essences can help: STICKY MONKEY FLOWER (for fear of intimacy and pain over early separations) and BASIL (for integrating spirituality with sexuality). You respond well to "vibrational" therapies such as those recommended here, but you are often not consistent, persistent, and patient enough to allow them to work as effectively as they could if you stayed on a program. Try to stay with an approach long enough to see if it is useful to you. The position of Venus in your birth chart reveals your capacity for love, intimacy, pleasure, giving and receiving, and relationships. Representing, also, your taste in beauty and your values, it is a key to how you can create harmony within yourself. Venus in Taurus: You are pleasure-loving and an extremely sensual creature, and respond deeply to physical appearances as well as to textures, flavors, aromas, all earthy delights. You enjoy making others comfortable and attending to the physical needs of the ones you love. Food is very important to you. In establishing harmony within yourself, contact with nature (especially lush, luxuriant green growth rather than a more austere or dry environment) is important. In love, you seek security, constancy, and stability. Having or providing material well-being is part of this. Emeralds, chrysoprase, and green or watermelon tourmalines are compatible with you, not necessarily to be worn when you are out of balance, but to promote a sense of being at harmony with yourself. Venus Square Uranus: You may well harbor a definite ambivalence about intimate attachments, and especially about the dependence that can arise or the limitations on your freedom. This inner tension may manifest as "commitment phobia", or somehow not finding "the right one", or repeatedly choosing cold or unreliable lovers or friends. To navigate successfully these often uncertain waters, you will have to acknowledge and honor both your need for sharing love and for separateness and independence. Otherwise you may hurt your loved ones and damage the trust between you when you abruptly turn cool, cut them off, or leave (emotionally or physically). If this pattern has prevented you from sustaining long term relationships or from getting as close as you would like, perhaps you would benefit from dialoging with both aspects (the part of you that longs for lasting love, and the part that prefers unattached freedom). Try to see or imagine a life for yourself in which both can be expressed. For instance, being in a committed relationship with a very liberal, open-minded partner who can happily satisfy your need for space and also your craving for "weird" or unconventional loving. Mercury: Thinking and Ideas The position of Mercury in your birth chart describes your intellectual qualities, how you communicate or express yourself verbally, and in general how your thinking patterns operate. Mercury in Cancer: You are very subjective, and your personal associations, past experiences, emotional prejudices, loyalties, etc. influence your thinking and your judgement a great deal. It is hard for you to separate thinking and feeling. You do have a good memory, and retain what you learn. Consider taking the flower essence HONEYSUCKLE if you are dwelling incessantly on the past. Mercury Quincunx Jupiter: Your thinking is philosophical, broad, expansive, wide-ranging, and exploratory. Your brow chakra is active and open, with the resulting capacity to envision the future, to sense future trends and developments, and to see, intuit, and understand the universal patterns or laws that operate in life. You have a great capacity for creative visualization, clearly picturing something you wish to create, energizing and affirming it until it is brought into form. You also have the gift of teaching, oration, and communicating broad principles and wisdom to large groups of people. (Gemstones which foster this teaching capacity include high quality SODALITE, TANZANITE, LAPIS LAZULI, and SAPPHIRE.) On the other side, however, you can be mentally restless or sloppy, disinclined to handle details, exaggerate or talk too much, prematurely disclose or brag about your plans, and are prone to the grass-is-greener-elsewhere syndrome. Flower essences that can help alleviate some of these imbalances: COSMOS (for inattentiveness to details, lack of mental focus or organization, being overwhelmed by too many ideas), CORN (when you are doing alot of long-range planning, and need grounding), and COW PARSNIP (for contentment with the present and one's immediate circumstances.). Mars: Ambition and Drive The position of Mars in your birth chart indicates your will power, physical vitality and sexual drives, and your capacity for decisive action and self-assertion, as well as the musculature and adrenals in the physical body. Mars in Virgo: Physically you tend to be timid and nonassertive and if you use force at all, you do it carefully, intelligently, with clear intent. (For you it is usually a last resort). You may worry about your health or other difficulties, and could become irritable and aggressively critical towards yourself (ie. turn your aggressive energies inward). Problems with nervous tension, irritable bowels, etc. could thus arise. The flower essences APPLE (to release the mind set of illness, doubt, worry about your health) and BEECH (for criticism, intolerance, perfectionism) can be very useful. Actively working on a craft or creating a product is a positive way to use your energies. MArtial arts or other body disciplines are also for you. Jupiter and Saturn: Opportunities and Challenges The position of Jupiter in your birth chart represents the principle of growth, improvement, expansion, faith, and the quest for ultimate meaning or broader understanding of life. Jupiter in Aquarius: You seek to grow and expand your understanding of life by experimenting with that which is new, innovative, and progressive. You also have strong altruistic impulses and humanitarian ideals, which give you a sense of being connected to something larger and more encompassing than yourself. You have a well developed appreciation for scientific and technical advances that benefit humanity as a whole. Jupiter Square Neptune: Positively you have great concern and hope for the world, an expansive faith in possibilities, and the ability to inspire other people to a larger, more encompassing vision. However it may be difficult for you to tolerate any sort of restrictions or to set limits in your life. When out of balance, you can be wastefully self-indulgent or easily seduced by visions of the good life gained without effort, grandiose dreams and schemes, or escapist fantasies. Disappointments may come through foolish overoptimism, naivete, over generosity, or relying on grace or luck alone. Unless other factors in your birth chart indicate practicality, it may be very challenging for you to try to actualize or concretize your dreams. An ungrounded or disembodied spirituality, or too much focus on a better future, can prevent you from living fully in the present. The flower essences which can help bring you into balance include: CALIFORNIA POPPY (for escapist or addictive tendencies, always seeking a better "high"), BLACKBERRY (for bringing ideals and goals into concrete manifestation), CLEMATIS (for day dreaming, poor concentration on the immediate; impracticality), SAINT JOHN'S WORT (for an overly expanded state leading to psychic vulnerability), and WILD OAT (for chronic dissatisfaction and restlessness, inability to make commitments). For learning how to set boundaries and appropriate limits, RHUBARB. Jupiter Quincunx Pluto: Your aspirations and ambitions, whether material or purely intellectual or spiritual, are great, and you can be quite zealous in pursuing them. On a psychological or spiritual level, you are drawn to pursuits or methods which focuses on purification and/or tapping the deepest resources of the psyche, hypnotherapy, shamanism, magic, rebirthing, or other transformative techniques which involve a journey into the depths. The colors PURPLE, VIOLET, or MAGENTA and the gemstones AMETHYST, SUGALITE, and AZURITE support and/or emphasize this aspect of your life. On a more worldly level, you are interested in social regeneration and you have the capacity to lead, organize, or manage massive enterprises. However you could threaten, undermine, or refuse to bow to the reigning powers-that-be. If you are working through resentment toward "the system" or those in authority, the flower essences SAGUARO is useful. TRILLIUM can help ease excessive ambition or misdirected ambition. The position of Saturn in your birth chart represents the bones, the skeleton, and the principles of hardness, heaviness, structure, stability, form, and boundaries. It shows what is hard for you, what you struggle with, where patterns of rigidity or fear hinder you, what is heavy for you, where you develop character, maturity, and depth through being tested. Saturn in Capricorn: A deep vein of conservatism, caution, shrewdness, and earthy pragmatism runs through you, no matter how intellectually curious or spiritually open you are. As a child you were serious and "mature" for your years, due either to a rather stern, authoritarian, rule-dominated upbringing, experiences of real deprivation, or simply close observation of "the ways of the world". Materialism, pessimism, or cynicism, as well as inordinate need to control your environment (so that it cannot control you) may have sprung from this. You are apt to have limiting beliefs that you must suppress or sacrifice some essential part of yourself to get anywhere in life, and this can lead to joylessness and chronic melancholia. Also, premature rigidity and sclerotic conditions may arise. Flower essences that address imbalances you are prone to include: ZINNIA (for over seriousness; a repressed inner "child"), HOUND'S TONGUE (for tendency to see the world in materialistic terms only), ORANGE BLOSSOM (for melancholia, thoughts of failure), and the gem essence FLUORITE (to help break up blockages and a tendency toward stiffness and rigidity on subtle as well as physical levels). Hatha yoga or stretching exercises done on a regular basis would also be beneficial. APPENDIX I FLOWER ESSENCES, COLOR THERAPY, AND AROMATHERAPY FLOWER ESSENCES: The following information will enable you to make up your own flower essence remedies. However if you wish to try them but are not interested in doing it all yourself, you can contact a flower essence practitioner. Many astrological counselors and other holistic practitioners use the flower essences and gem essences in their work. 1. Choosing your essences: Generally you can use up five essences at a time. Some people believe five essences is ideal, as the number five is associated in myth and folklore with the healing process. Others find using a single remedy at a time most effective. Follow your own intuition and impulses on this, but please do not try to address too many issues at once. Gem essences can be used with flower essences. 2. Making the remedy: Once you have chosen the essence or essences you wish to take, purchase them from the supplier in the concentrated form ("stock" bottles). You will need a grass dropper bottle such as pharmacists use for eye drops, which are sold at come pharmacies as well as through the flower essences companies. The one ounce size is standard. It should be sterilized by boiling it for a few minutes, then letting it cool. Then, put four drops of each concentrated essence into the bottle, close it, and shake it vigorously for about a minute so that the essences are well blended. Fill the bottle about 3/4 full with distilled or spring water. (For a more potent remedy you may wish to use color-solarized water instead, as described in the color therapy section). Then, close the bottle and, again, shake vigorously for about a minute. To preserve the mixture, add a teaspoon or so of either brandy or applecider vinegar. (They work equally well; it is a matter of personal taste and preference). 3. Using essences: The standard dosage of four drops four times a day, taken under the tongue. Taking more than four drops will not increase the remedy's effectiveness, and taking it more than four times a day is usually not necessary except in crisis situations. However, if you feel inclined to use it more frequency than four times a day, these remedies cannot be harmful in anyway. They are self-adjusting, meaning that you will simply not absorb more than you can use. To further activate the remedy's effect, you may wish to use a simple affirmation that corresponds with your intent and the nature of the remedy. For instance, if you are taking a remedy to increase your receptivity to love, you can say "I now let love and appreciation into my life", each time you take the remedy. Keep the words simple, positive, and framed in the present tense. Or, you may wish to put a self-adhesive label on your bottle, with a list of the essences it contains and a short phrase such as "receptivity to love" or "opening the heart" which will see each time you take the remedy. Other very effective ways to use your remedy are to add 7 drops to a bath and/or several drops to an atomizer or spray bottle filled with water and spray it around the rooms of your house or workspace. 4. What to expect: Please understand the flower essences do not "take away" troublesome feelings or attitudes. Some people actually experience a temporary intensification of the issues the remedy is designed to address, what is referred to as a "healing crisis", as strong emotions or other reactions begin to surface. Naturally you can temporarily stop taking the remedy if you get too uncomfortable. You can also get some support while this process is occurring, since a willingness to experience and feel what is actually there is an intrinsic part of the healing. Most people, however, find the remedies quite gentle. Insights into the nature of the problem and how you are contributing to or maintaining it may emerge. Or, you may simply notice a gradual attitudinal, emotional, or energetic shift, and more harmony in that area of your life. Some very sensitive people feel the effects of the remedies on their chakras (particularly the heart and solar plexus) immediately upon taking them. If the pattern you are working with is longstanding, as the ones which are related to your birth chart are apt to be, you may need more than one bottle of given remedy. Or, after one bottle, you may want to give it a rest, and then go back to that remedy later. If you frequently "forget" to take the remedy or simply lose interest in it, this may be a signal that now is not the time for that particular one. COLOR THERAPY: Color can be used to calm or energize, to cleanse, to stimulate a given energy center in the body, or to promote balance and an overall sense of well-being. In addition to paying attention to how color affects you and using that awareness in your choice of clothing and home or office decor, here are two methods to utilize color: 1. Color-solarized water: This is a very easy method. The supplies needed are a clear grass jar or bottle, colored cellophane (which can be purchased at an art supply store), drinking water, sunshine, and a clear quartz crystal (optional). Sterilized the jar or bottle, fill it with water, and if you wish add a clear quartz crystal (this magnifies the effects of the color). Then, close the bottle, wrap it in the colored cellophane, and secure the cellophane with a rubberband at the top. Place the bottle in a sunny spot for 2-6 hours, preferably outdoors. After removing the crystal, you can drink it freely and/or use it to make your flower remedies. 2. Color Breathing: This exercise can be used to clear your energy system of psychic debries stimulate a sluggish or blocked chakra, and promote healing. Choose a place that is well-ventilated. You may stand or sit as you prefer, keeping your spine erect. Begin by taking 2 or 3 deep, gentle breaths, inhaling slowly through your nose and exhaling trough your mouth. Then as you breathe in, see and feel the color filling your entire body. As you continue to breathe, imagine the color surrounding your body as well, extending out about two feet all round you, to create a beautiful egg-shaped bubble of colored light. Simply breathe in this color for 5-10 minutes. To work on a particular chakra, you may start by breathing clear, white, or golden light (as described above). Then focus your attention on the center that needs clearing or balancing. For the base or root chakra, imagine a glowing sphere of bright, apple red at the very base of your spine. As you breathe, imagine the light becoming stronger and brighter. For the sacral center (located about 2 inches above the pubic bone) the color is orange. For the solar plexus (halfway between the navel and sternum), the color is bright yellow. For the heart, green or pink. For the throat, sky blue. For the brow center (located between the eyebrows and up about one inch), indigo blue. For the crown center (at the top of the head), purple, violet, or white. (You may use which ever one you feel most attracted to). If you cannot "see" the color with your mind's eye, just imagine that it is there. An inability to visualize a certain color often indicates a particular need for that very color. To derive healing benefits from visualization and color breathing, it is not necessary to spend a great deal of time. Five to ten minutes once or twice a day is quite adequate. And, once again you decide when you have "had enough" of a given color or exercise. A change in your feelings about a given color (less attraction to or "craving" for it, or less repulsion towards it, for instance) can be a clue. AROMATHERAPY: Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils from plants and flowers. It is much different from flower essence therapy in that it is primarily the "healing fragrance" which influences body and emotions through the scents. (Flower essences are odorless). Aromatherapy can be utilized either as a perfume (especially applied to the chakras), in bath water, in massage oil, or diffused in the air via steam or incense. Read labels carefully and take precautions using these potent oils. APPENDIX II HOW TO ORDER FLOWER ESSENCES AND GEM ELIXIRS The companies listed below are reputable sources for high-quality essences: Flower Essence Services Desert Alchemy P.O. Box 1769 Box 44189 Nevada City, CA 95959 Tucson, AZ 85733 Alaskan Flower Essence Project Pegasus Products P.O. Box 1369 Box 228 Homer, AK 99603 Boulder, CO 80306 Master's Flower Essences Perelandra 14618 Tyler Foote Road P.O. Box 3603 Nevada City, CA 95959 Warrenton, VA 22186 Australian Bush Flower Essences Ellon USA Box 531 644 Merrick Road Spit Junction, NSW Lynbrook, NY 11563 AUSTRALIA 2088 Alaskan Flower Essence Project also carries fine quality gem elixirs. A good source for color therapy products is: Dev Aura, Little London, Tetford, Lincs., ENGLAND LN9 6QL. Given below is a listing of the flower essences that were mentioned in this report and where they can be obtained. The mailing address of each company is given above. Almond Blossom: Master's Flower Essences Basil: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod Beech: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod, Ellon USA Blackberry: Flower Ess Serv, Pegasus Prod, Master's Flower Ess Black Eyed Susan: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod California Poppy: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod Chamomile: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod Chapparal: Flower Essence Serv, Desert Alchemy, Pegasus Prod Chicory: Flower Essence Serv, Pegasus Prod, Ellon USA Clematis: Flower Ess Serv, Desert Alch, Pegasus Pr, Ellon USA Columbine: Flower Ess Serv, Alaskan Flow Ess Proj, Pegasus Pr Corn: Flower Ess Ser, Pegasus Pr, Master's Flow Ess, Perelandra Cosmos: Flower Essence Services Cow Parsnip: Alaskan Flower Essence Project Fuschia: Flower Essence Services, Pegasus Products Garlic: Flower Essences Services Honeysuckle: Flower Essence Service, Pegasus Prod, Ellon USA Hound's Tongue: Flower Essence Service Mariposa Lilly: Flower Essence Services, Desert Alchemy Mexican Shell Flower: Desert Alchemy Milky Nipple Cactus: Desert Alchemy Milk Weed: Flower Essence Service Orange Blossom: Master's Flower Essences Pomegranate: Flower Essence Serv, Desert Alchemy, Pegasus Prod Red Chestnut: Flower Essence Service, Pegasus Prod, Ellon USA Rhubarb: Flower Ess Serv, Alaskan Flower Ess Proj, Pegasus Prod Saguaro: Flower Essence Serv, Desert Alchemy, Pegasus Prod Saint John's Wort: Flower Ess Ser, Desert Alchemy, Pegasus Prod Scarlet Monkeyflower: Flower Essence Service Scleranthus: Flower Essence Service, Ellon USA Scotch Broom: Flower Essence Service, Pegasus Products Shooting Star: Flower Ess Serv, Alaskan Flow Ess Pr, Pegasus Pr Sticky Monkeyflower: Flower Essence Service Sweet Pea: Flower Essence Service Trillium: Flower Essence Service, Desert Alchemy Wild Oat: Flower Essence Service, Desert Alchemy, Ellon USA Zinnia: Flower Essence Service, Pegasus Products, Perelandra