Plant Meditation Club: This week we meditated on orange flower essence.
Meditation1
My daughter: There was some bread baking in an oven. Someone dropped some of the flower essence on the bread while it was baking. The bread started fluffing all over the place. It was expanding and foaming, all over the place, overflowing, way more than normal (like snakes on the fourth of July).
Me: I felt like there was steel triangle in front my heart (point downward). Two of the corners were "push" and "punish" and I don't know what the third one was. Maybe my heart. I had a realization that the person I am interested in, is thinking about things from his perspective. This allowed me to let go of the situation. My heart chakra started moving more freely again, and my third eye.
Meditation 2
My daughter: I didn't experience very much but my temperature was pretty elevated during the meditation. It's not really anymore. I was mostly thinking about hair. When I opened my eyes I was thinking about the song "Bottled Violence" by Minor Threat.
Me: Again I was sort of asked to think about the steel triangle in front of my heart. When I let it go, I saw the different people in my life who I could let in. I felt my heart chakra move, more happily again. I think this is a good essence to use to feel the energetic impact of releasing this stuck energy.
Summary and Traditional Use
Orange flower essence is associated with joy, renewal, and rebirth. It is for being steadfast, and uninfluenced by external forces. It is supportive to the third chakra and renewal of life force energy. It is a fresh burst of life that comes early, often budding in early Winter, and blossoming in mid Spring. I have particularly low energy these days. from past experiences with this essence I would have expected more buoyancy. But it did point out the reality in my life, which is that there are plenty of buds that might actually bloom and not to be stuck on something that wishes to remain stagnant. Because of the association with the third chakra, the color orange, early in the year energy...warmth seems like an outcome that this essence could bring. The bread experience reminded me of my favorite flower essence story. A friend of mine brings brownies to potlucks. Everyone oohs and aahs over them. When asked, she laughed, and explained they came from a box, but she adds flower essences to the mix, and everyone is happy. Try adding some orange blossom to your next bit of bakery.
Invitation
Have you played around with orange blossom flower essence? It is one of the most joyful essences. Tell us your experiences in the comments or try it here: