Using flower essences in conjunction with astrology is a way of assuring that we use the energies represented by the planets in a way that empowers ourselves. The essences can help us to be responsible for our lives and to change problems into projects or difficulties into challenges. Alakananda and I researched and developed these formulas over a period of one year. The formulas were then used in our respective practices for several years before making them available to the public.
The essences in this kit help create harmony with the issues represented by the symbols of astrology. You can use them individually or by combining them with other essences to create balance. Each essence can be used for either transiting or natal aspects. For instance, if you have Pluto transiting your second house, you may want to use a combination of Pluto Cycles and the 2nd House – 8th House Formula together. Another example is if you are experiencing a challenge with Pluto conjunct your sun in the second house of your natal chart. You may want to use a combination of Pluto Cycles, the Sun Formula and the 2nd House-8th House Formula.
An astrology chart contains so much potential for understanding ourselves that at times it can be confusing to know just where to start. If you use an intuitive method for selecting flower essences, you can select essences from the Plants & Planets Kit to guide you in looking at a chart. They can help you to pinpoint areas that you might otherwise overlook. Another way to use these essences is to recognize transiting or natal aspects from your chart and then select the essences that can harmoniously integrate the opportunities represented by them.
The Plants & Planets Kit
This kit contains 26 essences in 10 ml stock bottles. Each formula is also available separately.
The House Formulas
The houses represent the arenas or areas in which we play out our lives. These formulas can help create harmony in the respective areas.
- 1st House – 7th House Formula
- Identity – Relationship: knowing ourselves and our identity on our own; knowing ourselves in relationship with others; committed or long term relationships.
- 2nd House – 8th House Formula
- Trust – Prosperity: our (especially material) values; possessions; what we own personally; what we own collectively or with others.
- 3rd House – 9th House Formula
- Knowing – Understanding: our mundane thinking or reality; higher wisdom; our philosophical foundation; short trips; siblings; long journeys.
- 4th House – 10th House Formula
- Rooting – Manifesting: our roots; relationship with home; that which helps us feel secure; outer manifestation; how the world recognizes us.
- 5th House – 11th House Formula
- Personal – Social Creativity: children; art; friends; groups.
- 6th House – 12th House Formula
- Awakening the Healer Within: our relationship to work; service; health and healing physically and spiritually; unconscious thoughts and patterns.
The Sun and Moon Formulas
These symbols represent the masculine and feminine or polarities within ourselves.
- Sun Formula
- individuality; vitality; personality; the principle of being; physical energy; the archetypal hero; the ability to impose our will on the world; activity; manhood; the yang principle.
- Moon Formula
- receptivity; emotions; feelings; passivity; our past or childhood; womanhood; the yin principle.
The Personal Planets
- Mars Cycles Formula
- The principle of assertiveness and self-affirmation; the drive for excellence; the desire for independence; the will to survive and to overcome obstacles and difficulties.
- Mercury Cycles Formula
- The capacity to learn and to make a symbolic representation of the world; the aptitude to communicate and to express ourselves with words, gestures and symbols; our logical and reasoning capabilities; curiosity and the joy of discovery.
- Venus Cycles Formula
- The capacity to appreciate and create beauty, harmony, and balance within ourselves and with others; the ability to bond and to establish relationships; love, union, and spontaneous, self-expressive attraction.
The Outer Planets and Chiron Formulas
These planets represent the transpersonal energies that show us the way beyond our personal perspective.
- Chiron Cycles Formula
- the wounded healer, our deepest wound, how we facilitate healing for others.
- Jupiter Cycles Formula
- the principle of expansion, humor, overindulgence.
- Neptune Cycles Formula
- spiritual consciousness; selfless service and sacrifice; substance abuse; transcendence; releasing; oneness; limitless.
- Pluto Cycles Formula
- death and rebirth; regeneration; transformation; transmutation; transitions.
- Saturn Cycles Formula
- structure; form; manifestation; limitation; foundation; taskmaster.
- Uranus Cycles Formula
- change; revolution; individuality; uniqueness; sudden insights.
The Asteroids Formulas
The asteroid formulas work with different aspects of the inner feminine. You can use the formulas to balance the issues connected to each archetype.
- Ceres Cycles Formula
- the Earth Mother; nurturing; being grounded; how we nurture ourselves and others; our relationship to food; pregnancy; menstruation; birth; relationship between mother and child; woman's cycles; enmeshment; the ability and capacity to work.
- Juno Cycles Formula
- the Divine Wife; the principle of relatedness; committed relationships; our relationship to relationship; the ability to make and honor commitments; fear of abandonment; sexuality; betrayal; giving away power; manipulation.
- Pallas-Athena Cycles Formula
- the Goddess of Wisdom; the ability to support ourselves; fear of success and failure; intelligence; healing powers; music; the domestic or practical arts; writing; creative art.
- Vesta Cycles Formula
- the High Priestess; the ability to focus and be steady; our relationship to spirit; our ability to experience something in life and then withdraw to contemplate its significance; alienation; sacrifice; dharma; centeredness; our relationship to sex.
The Element Formulas
In astrology there is an understanding of the balance of the four elements from which our universe is composed. If we have an abundance or lack of planets in a particular sign, it may be balanced by using one or more of these formulas.
- Air Element Formula
- intellectual; thought; inspiration; ideas; defining and communicating to yourself and others what you want; unlimited by form; infinite possibilities; the seed of a new form; letting go; flighty; ungrounded; nervous.
- Earth Element Formula
- form; structure; physical manifestation; slowness; holding on; building; grounded; the ability to manifest an idea; the ability to be steady and consistent; obstinate; rigid; obsessed.
- Fire Element Formula
- passion; conviction; the strength to survive; enthusiasm; faith; open to direction from your higher power; knowing the source; spirit; burned out; intense; don't know when to stop.
- Water Element Formula
- receptive; feelings; compassion; allowing feels to flow; no shape of your own; holding onto emotions; taking on feelings or emotions of others.
Deep Space Astrology
- Galactic Center Formula
- a point in the astrology chart that represents the center of our galaxy; presently at about 27° Sagittarius; how we are a mouthpiece for universal energy; the method through which we manifest our higher purpose.
Kit Contents
This kit contains the following 26 flower essences in 10 mL (1/3 fl. oz.) stock bottles:
- 1st House-7th House Formula
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Identity – Relationship: knowing ourselves and our identity on our own; knowing ourselves in relationship with others; committed or long term relationships.
- 2nd House-8th House Formula
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Trust – Prosperity: our (especially material) values; possessions; what we own personally; what we own collectively or with others.
- 3rd House-9th House Formula
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Knowing – Understanding: our mundane thinking or reality; higher wisdom; our philosophical foundation; short trips; siblings; long journeys.
- 4th House-10th House Formula
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Rooting – Manifesting: our roots; relationship with home; that which helps us feel secure; outer manifestation; how society recognizes us.
- 5th House-11th House Formula
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Personal – Social Creativity: children; art; friends; groups, ways in which we express our creativity; romance.
- 6th House-12th House Formula
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Awakening the Healer Within: our relationship to work; service; health and healing physically and spiritually; unconscious thoughts and patterns; subconscious; collective consciousness.
- Air Element Formula
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This formula helps balance an excess or deficiency of the characteristics associated with the air (metal) element: intellectual; thinking; logic; aesthetics; ideas; inspiration; original; creative; vision; detached; impersonal; objective; unlimited by form; infinite possibilities; the seed of a new form; flighty; ungrounded; nervous.
- Ceres Cycles Formula
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the Earth Mother; nurturing; being grounded; how we nurture ourselves and others; our relationship to food; pregnancy; menstruation; birth; relationship between mother and child; woman’s cycles; enmeshment; the ability and capacity to work.
- Chiron Cycles Formula
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the wounded healer, our deepest wound; how we facilitate healing for others.
- Earth Element Formula
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This formula helps balance an excess or deficiency of the characteristics associated with the earth element: physical; material; form; structure; the ability to manifest an idea; practical sense; building; determined; holding on; grounded; anchored; stable; cautious; careful; conservative; steady; consistent; slow but sure; stubborn; obstinate; rigid; obsessed.
- Fire Element Formula
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This formula helps balance an excess or deficiency of the characteristics associated with the fire element: energy; action; transformation; enthusiasm; passion; will; motivation; conviction; the strength to survive; faith; open to direction from your higher power; knowing the source; spirit; burned out; intense; don’t know when to stop.
- Galactic Center Formula
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a point in the astrology chart that represents the center of our galaxy; presently at about 27ยบ Sagittarius; how we are a mouthpiece for universal energy; the method through which we manifest our higher purpose.
- Juno Cycles Formula
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the Divine Wife; the principle of relatedness; committed relationships; our relationship to relationship; the ability to make and honor commitments; fear of abandonment; sexuality; betrayal; giving away power; manipulation.
- Jupiter Cycles Formula
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the principle of expansion; humor; overindulgence.
- Mars Cycles Formula
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The principle of assertiveness and self-affirmation; the drive for excellence; the desire for independence; the will to survive and to overcome obstacles and difficulties.
- Mercury Cycles Formula
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The capacity to learn and to make a symbolic representation of the world; the aptitude to communicate and to express ourselves with words, gestures and symbols; our logical and reasoning capabilities; curiosity and the joy of discovery.
- Moon Formula
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receptivity; emotions; feelings; passivity; our past or childhood; womanhood; the yin principle.
- Neptune Cycles Formula
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spiritual consciousness; selfless service and sacrifice; substance abuse; transcendence; releasing; oneness; limitless.
- Pallas-Athena Cycles Formula
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the Goddess of Wisdom; the ability to support ourselves; fear of success and failure; intelligence; healing powers; music; the domestic or practical arts; writing; creative art.
- Pluto Cycles Formula
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death and rebirth; regeneration; transformation; transmutation; transitions; deep psychological changes.
- Saturn Cycles Formula
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structure; form; manifestation; limitation; foundation; taskmaster.
- Sun Formula
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individuality; vitality; personality; the principle of being; physical energy; the archetypal hero; the ability to impose our will on the world; activity; manhood; the yang principle.
- Uranus Cycles Formula
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change; revolution; rebellion; individuality; uniqueness; sudden insights.
- Venus Cycles Formula
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The capacity to appreciate and create beauty, harmony, and balance within ourselves and with others; the ability to bond and to establish relationships; love, union, and spontaneous, self-expressive attraction.
- Vesta Cycles Formula
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the High Priestess; the ability to focus and be steady; our relationship to spirit; our ability to experience something in life and then withdraw to contemplate its significance; alienation; sacrifice; dharma; centeredness; our relationship to sex.
- Water Element Formula
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This formula helps balance an excess or deficiency of the characteristics associated with the water element: emotional; receptive; feelings; compassion; the unconscious or subconscious; intuitive; cleansing; dissolving; no shape of your own; communication through feelings; holding onto emotions; taking on feelings or emotions of others; strong ties with the past.