I recently purchased the book, The Secret Language of Flowers by Samantha Gray. (click here for a link) It is a lovely book, with gorgeous illustrations that appear to be water colors. The flowers are divided into sections labeled Courtship, Love and Affection, Beauty, and Friendship. I am sure that other authors might have different takes on the meanings, or maybe rather additional information about the meanings of flowers.
One of the reasons that I bought the book is that it has information on three of the five plants in my book Opening the Heart: Meditations on How to Be (information here). The three plants in the book are rose, water lily and honeysuckle, although the images in Opening the Heart are actually of honeysuckle berries. Unfortunately, it does not include information on chicory and loosestrife.
Samantha Gray says this at the top of the section for honeysuckle on page 54 of the book: "Bonds of Love; Generous, Devoted Affection; Fidelity; Spiritual Vision." I find this last one particularly interesting in light of the decision to use it in my book, which is about delving into self to see how you want to relate to yourself, others, the world, and the Divine. On the other hand, Gray says that Honeysuckle combines sweetness with resilience.
My angels and guides have this to say about honeysuckle:
"Honeysuckle provides a balance for you. It creates a sense of strength but brings with it a deep compassion for self and others."
Green Hope Farm creates flower essences (here). The farm's website says this about honeysuckle:
One of the reasons that I bought the book is that it has information on three of the five plants in my book Opening the Heart: Meditations on How to Be (information here). The three plants in the book are rose, water lily and honeysuckle, although the images in Opening the Heart are actually of honeysuckle berries. Unfortunately, it does not include information on chicory and loosestrife.
Samantha Gray says this at the top of the section for honeysuckle on page 54 of the book: "Bonds of Love; Generous, Devoted Affection; Fidelity; Spiritual Vision." I find this last one particularly interesting in light of the decision to use it in my book, which is about delving into self to see how you want to relate to yourself, others, the world, and the Divine. On the other hand, Gray says that Honeysuckle combines sweetness with resilience.
My angels and guides have this to say about honeysuckle:
"Honeysuckle provides a balance for you. It creates a sense of strength but brings with it a deep compassion for self and others."
Green Hope Farm creates flower essences (here). The farm's website says this about honeysuckle:
"Experiencing our memories as healing assets not liabilities.
Honeysuckle supports us to harvest the learning lessons and the kernels of genuine sweetness in our memories then leave the rest behind. This prevents us from getting stuck in memory quagmires of nostalgia and sentimentality as well as regret, remorse or an unending sense of sorrow and loss.
-Supports those of us who overly romanticize the past to let go and ground more fully in the present.
-Helps us experience a state of constant remembrance of the divine, a state of being we may not have experienced since childhood."
-Helps us experience a state of constant remembrance of the divine, a state of being we may not have experienced since childhood."
I look forward to continuing to explore this book as well as delve into additional meanings that are deep within the meditations in my book.
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