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Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! Read more for a quick snapshot of your sign, your forecast in the Year of the Metal Ox & a flower elixir to boost your good fortune!

Having worked with flower essences for over 15 years, I’ve observed that there are several methods of selecting flower essences that work for nearly everyone. Here are five different ways to select which flower essence to work with.

Are you ready to stop playing small and unlock the full range of your creativity and potential? Here's an exercise inspired by the Shell Ginger flower essence, found in our new Inner Knowing blend, that is designed to open up your mind and bring in more freedom and creativity into your visioning.

Discover our different flower essence modalities & how to use them here. Traditionally, flower elixirs are taken internally (like a tincture) -- and we've pioneered new applications infused with aromatherapy: aura mists, anointing oils, balancing serums & bath salts. 

Infused with a bouquet of the most exquisite flowers for inner wisdom and self-trust, this blend helps us take things one step at a time, trusting in our inner resources. Instead of looking outside, we can trust our capacity to envision and feel our way into it from the inside out. In projects or life goals where we cannot see the final outcome, we trust in our ability to discover and reveal our vision as it comes to us.

Also known as Dancing Ladies, this orchid is known as Lluvia de Oro in central Costa Rica: Rain of Gold. The essence of this orchid inspires boundless generosity, kindness and open-heartedness. It helps us open our hearts to the possibilities and surrender to the surprises of the present moment. It boosts our courage to extend ourselves and form new bonds of love.

*FLOWER NERD ALERT* — I discovered something that can help us all move through challenges with more ease. Over the years, I’ve created several flower essence blends in a particular order & with specific dilutions of mother essence. Each blend has different characteristics, from foundational & acute to more ethereal & nuanced. I realized recently — that the different levels of blends offer a key, or unlock, to broader sets of patterns when taken in a particular way.

Infused with a bouquet of the most powerful flowers for bold acceptance and expressive freedom, this powerhouse blend helps us accept ourselves wholly, express and embody our full exquisite and beautiful self and to set firm boundaries with no pressure to be or act in a certain way. It allows us to express facets of ourselves that are challenging: magnetic, sexy or fierce. Reinforce the feeling that what makes you different, makes you beautiful, sensual and whole. 

Radiance Orchid teaches us how to release tension and resistance around loss. It dissolves fear of getting hurt, missing out on something or separation/abandonment. When we let go of denial or fighting reality, we experience total acceptance of the way things are -- without grasping or clinging. We experience deep relief and a wildness to truly be ourselves, supported by a visceral sense of our own spiritual nature. We can tune into the ‘holy’ all around and within ourselves: our spiritual power. 

In celebration of the launch of our new blend Open Heart, here are two of our favorite 3-ingredient beverage recipes to crack your heart wide open: Cherry Amaretto Kombucha Float & Hot Cherry Almond Coffee.

The great thing is that flower essences work together synergistically to target your current state of being from all directions! If, however, you want to hone in on a particular pattern or feeling you are experiencing and want to target the results from a flower elixir, you may decide it to be best to take one at a time. In this way, it can be a lot easier to track your results specific to that elixir.

Pink Melastoma expands our aura into greater warmth, compassion and gentleness. It helps us acknowledge and accept all parts of ourselves, even our shame, anger and self-perceived limitations. It helps us welcome our own true inner nature, as well as the sticky, rocky, edgy aspects of our character. Embracing the challenging, irritable parts of ourselves with love speeds up resolution.

Flower essences for open-heartedness. Awaken your raw, vulnerable, beautiful self. Engage with life. The timing is perfect. Push past boundaries & forge your own path. Nurture ideas. Embrace curiosity & wonder. Fearlessly dive into intimacy in all your relationships.

Purple Wishbone digs deep into what’s stored in our underbellies, pulls it up and liberates it from our mouths, dissolving fear of judgment. We are better equipped to face our fears of being exposed to aspects of ourselves or the underbelly of the world that contains deep, dark secrets. It softens our fears of danger, darkness and destruction, and removes the electrical charge from what we perceive as ‘scary’.

The Taiwanese Azalea helps us see from a higher perspective: the moment we think we have it all figured out, something else arises. It dissolves the sense that there is only one way, or that what we want is unattainable, or too much to ask for. It helps us let go of holding back, so we can offer ourselves more generously to the world.

Star Flower allows us to not only recognize our special qualities but also to share them with the world. It helps us be fully comfortable with the best aspects of ourselves and to embody our inherent magic, beauty and radiance.

Acupuncturist Erin Borbet walks us through super simple acupressure rituals to follow with our anointing oils to magnify the transformative effects of flower essences.