LOTUS CACTUS FLOWER ESSENCE

July 23, 2025

Do you often experience...

Obligation to explain yourself
Inability to explain yourself
Allowing others’ small thinking to affect your expansive creativity
Needing a logical or rational explanation for everything
Feeling beholden to others
A sense that your ideas are held hostage
Frustration or exasperation when others don't understand you
Self-doubt or getting yourself in a bind
A lack of magic in life
Life as 2D, black & white

If these resonate with you, you're likely drawn to the Lotus Cactus Flower.

WHAT IT REVEALS

If you’re drawn to the Lotus Cactus flower, you may experience a pressure to explain yourself or the logic behind the choices you’re making, yet simply feel that there is no rational explanation or step-by-step plan.

You may feel frustrated that others do not understand your method of madness. You may have a sense that your ideas are held hostage, or that others’ small-mindedness affects your ability to spread your creative wings. You may feel beholden to others or sense that you owe someone an explanation.

When asked to explain yourself, if there is no explanation, it may leave you feeling some self-doubt. A sense of life being two-dimensional or black and white may arise, leaving you longing for more magic.

WHAT IT CATALYZES

The Lotus Cactus Flower magnifies our ability to trust ourselves. Even when our inclinations and creative impulses make no obvious sense to ourselves or other people, we can still trust, try a new method or take a road less traveled. Whether or not others understand why something might turn out to be of value – even if we ourselves don’t understand – we can still take action.

We feel more and more comfortable following the bread crumbs, the golden threads. In the future, when we look back, we’ll be able to see and understand the inextricably interconnected web of decisions, chance meetings, synchronicities, introductions and actions taken to weave together the tapestry of opportunity and creation of our lives.

Lotus Cactus flower amplifies our sense of knowing and ability to take action. We can put together the bigger picture, and have a deeper understanding of our simple creative impulses.

It magnifies our ability to weave together chance meetings and synchronistic intertwinings, without the need for a logical explanation or step-by-step plan. It helps us follow the golden threads presented to us and develop unwavering trust in the seemingly random steps on the path to fruition.

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FUN FACTS

The ephemeral Lotus Cactus is native to southern Brazil and Uruguay at low altitudes, and even then is a rare occurrence. In the wild, it is critically endangered due to fires, deforestation and lack of reproduction. However, it’s not unusual to see the Lotus Cactus as a houseplant around the world – from Brazil to Arizona to Italy – and it’s fairly easy to care for.

The flowers are a luminous pink color, and bloom on the crown of the cactus during springtime in Arizona. In milder, tropical climates they bloom through the summertime. The ribs of this cactus grow in a slight spiral pattern, and the fuzzy brown flower buds resemble mini coconuts popping out through the spines.

Better known by its latin name, Parodia herteri, the Lotus Cactus is one of nearly 30 botanicals named in honor of Wilhelm Herter, the German botanist who discovered it ~ an extremely important contributor to the record of botanicals throughout Uruguay & Europe.