SILVERWEED (Potentilla anserina) Simplicity

Live lightly and simply. Transform that which keeps you bound to worldly things. Raise your consciousness through self-awareness.

The five-petalled yellow flower of Potentilla was a motif used by medieval knights who had achieved mastery over the self. The language of flowers lists the meaning of silverweed as naïveté. Silverweed teaches the merit of cultivating behaviour and habits that promote balanced living in harmony with yourself and nature.

As the lower personality seeks security, stability and the love of earthly things, it is a natural human trait to seek beauty and thereby find satisfaction in the gratification of your desires, pleasures and appetites. Silverweed flower essence is helpful when you become too identified with the physical being at the expense of your true self. When you become overly identified with the material world, you may lose contact with your purpose and intention. Over-identification with the form level of being may lead to excesses, instinctual drives, desires and behaviours that are not beneficial to personal harmony and wellbeing.

Silverweed essence supports mastery by enhancing self-realisation that leads to new ways of understanding and being. By non-attachment to the fascinations of the lower self, you realise that virtue and beauty is expressed on the ‘golden mean’ between the extremes, between needs and wants, sufficiency and deficiency.

The ability to let go and be non-attached is the way to happiness, according to the Buddha. Silverweed flower essence promotes vital enjoyment of, and interest in, the beauty of the simple things in life.

Attributes

· Simplify your life in order to focus on things that are most important

· Voluntary practices to simplify your lifestyle

· Avoidance of excesses or extremes

· Adopt a calm composure, command your impulses and master your behaviour

· Heightened awareness of your attachments

· Enlightened self-interest based on a prudent understanding

Indications

· Out of control, impelling or irrepressible impulses and desires

· Seeking fulfilment through gratification of the sense pleasures

· Emotionally attached to material things

· Attachments that are obstacles to a serene and fulfilled life

· Preoccupied with incidentals; finicky and pernickety

· Excessive desire to consume and acquire material goods

Affirmation

I live lightly on the earth and treasure all of nature’s gifts.

ANCIENT YEW (Taxus)

Emergence

Realise your life’s purpose. Cast off the burdens that bind you and take spontaneous action that leads to new directions for growth.

The yew is the longest-lived tree in the world, dating back two hundred million years. It is a symbol of everlasting life and perpetual renewal and transformation. Ancient yew flower essence can assist in letting go of whatever is standing in the way of achieving your soul purpose.

The soul is a vehicle and a catalyst for the energies of life and consciousness and is therefore the life force of evolution itself. The soul is light and this inner light can illuminate your life so that you see clearly. From expanded awareness, you remember who you are and where we are going in life. In that light you can see what must be done.

When you come to the realisation that the time has come to for you to release your attachment to someone or something that is holding you back, like the irrepressible yew tree you are propelled onwards to change, adapt, and make choices and that will allow you to be free to grow, expand and regenerate.

As new possibilities emerge, you can intuitively choose the path that leads in the right direction and which is in harmony with the soul’s plan

Attributes

· Follow your heart and trusts in the flow of events

· Realise your soul potential and destiny

· Stimulate mental perceptiveness and agility

· Assist the memory and powers of recall

· Cutting the ties that bind

· Allow probabilities to emerge naturally

Indications

· Loss of remembrance of one’s true identity & purpose

· Rigid patterns of thought and behaviour

· Dependent attachments to something or someone

· Obstacles to personal growth and development

· Outmoded patterns of being that hold you back

· Burdens weigh down your progression like millstones

Affirmation

I know who I am and where I am going. I emerge triumphant.

Cross-reference

Blocks Breakthrough Change Freedom Goal Habit patterns Karma Memory Non-attachment Purpose Relationship Release Surrender Thinking/Thought Patterns Transformation Will

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