35 Connect with Your Angels Through Flowers
Angels love flowers. Flowers are highly sensitive to energy and resonate with the angelic realm. Make it a ritual to offer fresh, pretty flowers to your angels whenever you can afford to. Choose blooms that are bright and beautiful.
Certain flowers are dear to angels. You can display them on your angel altar, or find a greetings card or flower photo you have taken and frame it. Or, grow them in a special part of your garden dedicated to your angel practice (see Tip 31). Here is a selection of flowers and their associations:
• Gardenia: Joy and abundance; prosperity
• Honeysuckle: Love; ability to listen
• Rose: Love and passion
• Iris: The divine messenger of God; represents the Annunciation
• Violet: Simplicity
• White lily: Peace. Archangel Gabriel has been depicted holding a fleur de lys, or three-petaled lily, when visiting Mary for the Annunciation of her child. The three petals stand for the Holy Trinity
• Snowdrop: Hope. This flower was given to Eve by an angel who turned a snowflake into a snowdrop to reassure her that her misery would not last.
MAKING A FLOWER ESSENCE
Flowers have a unique vibration, or energy “signature.” The vibration of a flower can be transferred into water to make a flower essence. Sprayed from a mister bottle, a flower essence can banish negative energy and raise your vibration, helping you connect with the angelic realms.
To make an essence, parts of a flower are bathed in spring water and left in sunlight or moonlight for hours or days until the energies are imprinted in the water. These essences are different from essential oils (see Tip 26), which are the distilled concentrate of aromatic plants; flower essences are infusions of flowers in water—they are very gentle, diluted preparations that work on the mind and emotions. Some popular flower essence brands are Bach Flower Remedies, Vie de la Rose, and Australian Bush Flower Essences. You can also make your own flower essence, as follows.
* Take some fallen rose petals. Float them in a large bowl of spring water or tap water, and place the bowl on a windowsill or in a sunny spot outside. Let the sunlight play on the petals for up to three hours. Then discard the petals and decant the flower essence into a mister bottle.
* Dedicate the flower essence to your work with angels by calling your angels to you and asking them to bless the flower essence (see Tip 26).
* When you have finished, thank your angels, and close down (see page 11).
You can spray your aura before your angel rituals (spray twice over the crown of your head, about 6 in./15 cm above it), and spray around your angel altar and elsewhere in your home to keep the atmosphere gentle and harmonious.
Keep your essence bottle in a cool place away from sunlight and heat to protect its energy. (Do not ingest the essence.) It will keep for up to seven days.