Most of us by now have heard of spirit animals, spirit guides, or a spiritual support system, but what about our spirit flower?
A Note About Spirit Animals & Guides
The term spirit animal has taken on a whole new meaning in the social media and pop culture sphere, but if we go back to the basics of the term, it’s a sacred guide in animal form that assists an individual on their life path and usually has traits of the person. In popular culture it basically means something or someone that someone identifies with in a humourous way.
My spirit animal would probably be a rabbit. Rabbits were my favourite animal growing up and I’m still obsessed with them today. The rabbit spirit animal to me indicates creativity, abundance, gentleness, and sometimes fear or anxiety. The way they live in cosy holes in the ground also appeals to me – they’re very connected to the earth, they listen deeply and are attentive to the natural world.
I’d love to know, what’s your spirit animal?
I find more solace and support in nature than in people. When I meditate or ask for help from my spiritual support team, they come to me in the form of animals or natural elements.
While people portray angels as people-looking beings with celestial light and wings, I see in my mind’s eye (and feel as a clairsentient person) different animals.
Spirit Flowers
In delving into the Flower Therapy work of Robert Reeves, looking up the language of flowers in high school because I was curious (and opting to create artworks of flowers whenever I could), and recently taking online courses in herbalism, I came to understand flowers on a deeper level. As a writer my laptop desktop picture is a field of daffodils.
I enjoy sitting with flowers individually, observing them, and listening to them.
From this, I’ve discovered that not only does the flower itself have energetic and healing properties, but the colour can also provide some energetic variations.
For example, according to Flower Therapy, the sweet pea indicates dreams coming true. I have deep purple sweet peas growing, and my mum has vibrant red sweet peas growing. There’s a similar energy to the different coloured sweet peas, but there are variations. The deep purple sweet peas seem to emphasise spiritual dreams coming true, while the red sweet peas seem to emphasise physical dreams coming true on the earthly plane (and that you may need to get grounded or ground your dreams in action for them to be realised).
Another example is freesias that carry an energy to heal spinal issues. I find that the yellow freesias in my garden are more joyful and encouraging when it comes to healing, while the pink freesias in my garden feel more nurturing and supportive. Red freesias are more pizazzy and seem to say in an exuberant way that still manages to be nurturing, ‘Get a backbone!’ and to have more courage to develop healthy boundaries. White freesias seems to purify and uplift the energy enabling someone to grow a strong spiritual spine from the base up, and purple freesias seem to bring a calm and serene quality to healing.
In listening to and observing flowers with their many colours and perfumes, and getting familiar with their energetic healing properties as laid out in Flower Therapy, I was looking at a white daisy bush with its lovely simplicity and thought, if I had a spirit flower, it would be a daisy.
This got me thinking about the concept of spirit flowers, and how maybe we all have spirit flowers that we’re drawn to whether it’s because of their colour, perfume or therapeutic quality that resonates with us on a deep bones and soul level.
For me, daisies are all about simplicity, and I’m all about simplicity. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I just want to live a slow and simple life harmoniously with animals and nature.
Daisies are also gentle and delicate and make wonderful companion flowers. They aren’t over the top trying to get attention and have a very mild scent if any. They have simple petals and sometimes small flower blooms, and just go about their growing simply and quietly.
I love a great many flowers and enjoy them all for different reasons. I resonate most with the energy of daisies, and use this energy to help keep me on track with the simplicity I’m seeking in life.
Final Thoughts
So what would your spirit flower be? What flower resonates with you? Or do you have a combination of flowers? A posy or bouquet of spirit flowers?
Let me know in the comments!
And keep an eye out for a quiz coming soon…
Much love from me and take time to smell the flowers,
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