Flower & Gem

Flower Essence And Gem Stone Report for
Phil Collins
January 30, 1951
12:05 AM
Hounslow, England

This report is based on the positions of the planets at the time of your birth. For the benefit of students of astrology, these positions, along with other technical information, are listed below:

Sun 9 Aqu 17 Pluto 18 Leo 53
Moon 1 Sco 10 N. Node 21 Pis 15
Mercury 15 Cap 29 Asc. 27 Lib 38
Venus 27 Aqu 42 MC 6 Leo 55
Mars 5 Pis 52 2nd cusp 24 Sco 39
Jupiter 10 Pis 42 3rd cusp 28 Sag 27
Saturn 2 Lib 05 5th cusp 10 Pis 59
Uranus 6 Can 12 6th cusp 7 Ari 27
Neptune 19 Lib 31
Tropical Placidus Standard time observed
GMT: 00:05:00 Time Zone: 0 hours West
Lat. and Long. of birth: 51 N 29 0 W 22
Aspects and orbs:
Conjunction : 4 Deg 00 Min Trine : 4 Deg 00 Min
Opposition : 4 Deg 00 Min Sextile : 2 Deg 00 Min
Square : 4 Deg 00 Min Quincunx : 3 Deg 00 Min
Conjunct Asc: 4 Deg 00 Min

Note: Most trine and sextile aspects are not interpreted
because they do not present strong challenges and
problems with one's well-being

This report is designed for those who are interested in tools which can support their own efforts toward growth and well-being on all levels. Using astrology, flower essences, gemstones and gem elixirs, color, music, aroma therapy, visualization, and other methods, one can transform difficult patterns in one's life and manifest more of one's positive potentials.

Our emphasis is not so much on eliminating undesirable traits or experiences as on bringing one into balance so that the positive expression of one's astrological signature can manifest. A person who is essentially inward and shy and who has trouble making his way in the world will not become a dynamic, flamboyant world-conqueror, but he can build confidence in reaching out to others. Rather than attempt to get rid of his shyness, the focus would be on discovering the positive gifts his gentleness may offer him and alleviating the more extreme, isolating aspects of his shy nature. Using these "vibrational" tools, issues that one may have struggled with for years can be eased, and long-buried talents and loves can be awakened.

Many of the tools suggested herein, including astrology, work on what esotericists refer to as the energy bodies, the chakras, or the aura. This subtle energy field, which emanates from every living thing, is where our energetic and emotional habits, thought patterns, belief systems, and so on reside. Introducing the energy pattern of a flower, plant, gem, or mineral into one's aura directly affects one's emotional and mental energies, and over a period of time this promotes long-lasting changes.

The key factor in using any of these remedies or tools is one's positive intentions, willingness, and desire for harmony and health. They are not "magic". Used consistently and with conscious intention, they reinforce and accelerate desired changes. In the back of this report is a listing of resources where you can obtain the flower essences and other products suggested for you. There are also other tips and instructions.

As you read over your report you may see a number of areas that you would like to work with. There is a lot of information here and the possibilities can be very exciting! However, it is usually best to attend to one issue or cluster of related issues (a theme) at one time. Choose whichever one is most meaningful or troublesome to you at present. Keep in mind that you will NOT manifest all of the potential imbalances mentioned. Some issues may have already been resolved, and some will simply not be relevant. In deciding which issue to focus on, follow your intuition. Remember, too, that gentle, persistent effort is usually necessary in re-patterning and creating any real change. Best Wishes to You!

The position of the Sun in your birth chart represents the person you are at heart and the path you must follow to fulfill yourself as a unique individual. It also indicates your personal strength and vitality, as well as what activities or life experiences you require to feel alive and to replenish your life force. The Sun represents your personal identity.

Sun in Aquarius:
Key issues: Community, humanitarian concerns and social welfare, fulfilling your role in the larger scheme of things, change and breaking precedents.

Key qualities: airy, impersonal idealism; innovative or eccentric; electric; urge to experiment.

You have an innate understanding of interdependence, of how each part effects and contributes to the whole system, and at your finest you are interested in the good of all, not only your own personal progress or well being. You cannot feel fulfilled as an individual if you are not meaningfully contributing to some group (or cause), something larger than yourself. You find yourself replenished and energized by working with others for some common purpose. However you are often more devoted to an abstract concept or ideal than to individuals, and you use your intellect to guide your actions. You may ignore or be aloof from your heart, human feelings, emotional needs and attachments, and other people's as well. You may thus be more suited to brotherhood, sisterhood, comradeship, or friendship than to intimate love.

In some significant way, you break from tradition or conventional norms. You can feel like an outsider, the black sheep, the oddball, or way ahead of your time. Part of your purpose has to do with introducing or supporting innovative change in the world. There is also a touch of the extremist in you, at least a stubborn adherence to doing things in your own peculiar or idiosyncratic way.

For feeling different and socially alienated because of it, rather than cherishing your uniqueness: the flower essences COLUMBINE, MULLEIN, and SHOOTING STAR.

For feeling pressured or overly influenced by peers or social expectations, uncertainty of who you are outside of the group: the flower essence GOLDENROD.

For conflict with figures of authority, and feeling a sense of separation; alienation from the past, ancient spiritual traditions, or elders: the flower essence SAGUARO.

For feeling ungrounded, cut off from the instinctive self or body: the flower essences MANZANITA and CORN.
For more warmth, heart, empathy, and feeling, the flower essences: ALPINE AZALEA, PEONY, MALLOW, and YELLOW STAR TULIP.

For being overly opinionated, willful, intolerant, fanatic, and judgmental: the flower essences VERVAIN and BEECH.
Gemstones which may benefit you to wear, carry, or take as an elixir are:

CLEAR QUARTZ and RUTILATED QUARTZ CRYSTALS, which amplifies your positive intentions and aligns you with higher sources of inspiration.

LARIMAR, for freeing yourself to pursue new, innovative, or unconventional ways of thinking and doing things, especially as these may be related to service or your contribution to life.

BLUE TOPAZ and YELLOW TOPAZ, both of which harmonize and strengthen your creative mental abilities and expansive, clear thought.

Your Ascendant (or Rising Sign) describes your physique, as well as indicating how you relate to and are affected by your environment. It has a direct bearing on your physical health.

Ascendant in Libra:
Your body is symmetrical, well-proportioned, often graceful, and possesses much physical charm and appeal. Your key to maintaining good health is BALANCE and MODERATION in all things, avoiding extremes. For you, having a well-rounded existence is ideal. Spartan physical regimens or strict purist diets are not for you, and will not be sustained for long. For you, aesthetic pleasure and enjoyment are necessary ingredients in any health program: food that is not only nutritious but presented in an appealing way, exercise that is graceful or done in a beautiful natural setting, the little niceties after the workout. Unless other factors in your chart indicate otherwise, you are actually somewhat averse to sweating or getting dirty. The buddy system is your best motivation to keep health maintenance programs going (playing tennis or walking regularly with a friend, for instance).
In truth, the state of your personal relationships has a tremendous impact on your overall sense of well-being. Unlike some people who can set aside the personal aspect of things to get the job done, or who are even invigorated by conflicts and confrontations, you really need harmony and peace (at least on the surface) to function well. You also invest a great deal of yourself into a primary relationship (usually with a spouse) and if that is rocky or unfulfilling your physical health is often adversely affected. Sometimes, however, it is your efforts to avoid conflict in a relationship that can undermine your health, (for example, what you are NOT saying, what you would like to do but do not). Finding a BALANCE between your needs as an individual, and feeding the relationship, is crucial.

Flower essences that can be beneficial to you include GOLDENROD (for being true to yourself and not overly influenced by peers or family members), and CENTAURY (for acting to please others, neglecting your own needs).

Asc. Conjunct Moon:
Your feelings, vulnerabilities, and personal reactions are right there on the surface for all see, and people like you for that. You are also moody, and your emotions profoundly affect your physical health. When feeling hypersensitive or mood-dominated, consider taking the flower essences QUEEN OF THE NIGHT or RED CLOVER.

Asc. Trine Venus:
Your good looks and agreeable manners are apt to win you friends and smooth your path throughout life. You know how to harmonize with and please people. Many things are offered to you, or come easily to you and as a result you may become rather jaded. Vanity, narcissism, and superficial values and relationships are potential deficits. Your health, though, is apt to be good.

The position of the Moon in your birth chart reflects your emotional nature, what you need to feel nurtured, what feels familiar and comfortable to you. It is also your deeply-held beliefs and mostly unconscious or instinctive responses, which play themselves out in your closest personal relationships. Your moods, memories, dream life, and feeling-self are depicted by the moon in your birth chart.

Moon in Scorpio:
Key issues: Sexuality and intimacy; emotional initiation through pain.

Kay qualities: intensity, passion, deep feeling, instinctiveness and intuitiveness.

You are drawn, instinctively, into the depths. With your acute emotional and psychic sensitivity, you are able to see deeply into other people, perceiving the true nature of their needs and motivations, and you are simply not capable of relating superficially. You tend to be all or nothing with friends, lovers, anyone or anything you care for. You may be suspicious, untrusting, or cynical, with a tendency to hone in on a darker side of things. You are also prone to emotional compulsion or to relationships with people who confront you with your demons, with issues of obsession, jealousy, loss, abandonment. If your personal life is uncomplicated and free of such things, you will seek this side of life in your choice of entertainment (horror stories, "noir" films) or work (with, for instance, animals or people who have been abused.) Rather to the bewilderment of those folks who prefer life nice and pretty and full of light only, you seem to need this to feel fully alive and emotionally fulfilled. At your finest, you have healing abilities and the capacity to transform and shine light up on the darkness. This assumes you have made peace with your own shadowy, dark emotions and energies. These must be truly accepted and integrated.

For intense "nasty" emotions such as hatred, jealousy, vindictiveness, spite, envy or a desire for revenge, and especially useful or self-hate: the flower essence HOLLY is excellent.

Also helpful would be MOUNTAIN WORMWOOD and WILLOW for resentment and unforgiveness towards yourself or others. BLACK COHOSH is helpful if you are caught in an abusive or addictive relationship or lifestyle.

For emotional imbalances resulting from a painful childhood, for releasing memories and feelings related to wounds from childhood, and allowing such feelings to be felt and released: FUSCHIA, GOLDEN EAR DROPS, and YERBA SANTA. (Reading and doing the exercises in Wayne Mueller's "Legacy of the Heart" is also recommended.)

For healing old angers: the flower essences FIREWEED, WHITE FIREWEED, and SCARLET MONKEY FLOWER are useful. Rage, or fear of becoming destructive, can be eased with CHERRY PLUM.

Gemstones to wear, carry, or take as an elixir to clear out your energy-bodies of residual effects of old traumas: BLACK TOURMALINE, RHODOLITE GARNET, and SMOKY QUARTZ. The darker green shades of JADE also harmonize with your energies.

If you are working with others with very negative energies, the following flower essences and gem elixirs are good for psychic protection, repelling negatively and/or transmuting it: the flower essences FRINGED VIOLET, YARROW and PENNYROYAL, and the gems AMETHYST, TIGER'S EYE, and CLEAR QUARTZ.

The position of Venus in your birth chart reveals your capacity for love, intimacy, pleasure, giving and receiving, and relationships. Representing, also, your taste in beauty and your values, it is a key to how you can create harmony within yourself.

Venus in Aquarius:
You have progressive or unconventional ideas about relationship, and may experiment with unusual arrangements with an aim to satisfying emotional needs that perhaps can not be met in more traditional forms of relating. Ideals of true friendship, community, equality, and respect for each individual's freedom color your approach to love, and in truth friendship may well be more instinctive and natural to you than passionate attachment to one other person. In fact you can be peculiarly detached at times. You do not like to admit to any sort of possessiveness or jealousy, and do not like to be possessed.

Your tastes are unusual, with an appreciation for asymmetry, novelty, and deviations from classical forms. You can promote harmony within yourself by cultivating a loving community of friends.

The position of Mercury in your birth chart describes your intellectual qualities, how you communicate or express yourself verbally, and in general how your thinking patterns operate.

Mercury in Capricorn:
Intellectually, you are hardheaded, unsentimental, and interested in what works; a theory with no practical application or usefulness holds little appeal for you. You have good organizational skills, also, but when out of balance you tend to think in rigid categories, which limits your understanding. The flower essence SHASTA DAISY can help promote a more holistic understanding. Also useful is the flower essence SCOTCH BROOM to alleviate pessimistic thinking about the world, and your own relationships to larger impersonal events.

The position of Mars in your birth chart indicates your will power, physical vitality and sexual drives, and your capacity for decisive action and self-assertion, as well as the musculature and adrenals in the physical body.

Mars in Pisces:
You are gentle, nonaggressive, and essentially disinterested in competing, fighting, or winning at someone else's expense. You lack any sort of cutthroat or killer instinct, and may fall prey to more dominant or predatory individuals. At best, you express sensitivity and compassion while still being assertive, and you can devote yourself to a purpose that transcends your own narrow self-interest.
You need to build your physical vigor, stamina, and resistance. Healthy habits are a must, sound nutrition, plenty of rest, and especially some form of regular exercise (something you may not be inclined to do). When out of balance, you are prone to lassitude, inactivity, low vitality, giving up too easily. Flower and garden essences that can help: GARLIC (to increase strength and vitality, and resistance to outside influences), MOUNTAIN PRIDE (for fear and withdrawal in the face of challenges, lack of assertiveness), ROSEMARY (to strengthen ego forces and warmth), and SUMMER SQUASH (for increased courage; helps with shyness or timidity). Some energy work on the root chakra, to increase potency and physical vitality, could also be quite helpful.

The position of Jupiter in your birth chart represents the principle of growth, improvement, expansion, faith, and the quest for ultimate meaning or broader understanding of life.

Jupiter in Pisces:
You seek to expand your sense of connection to the Universe by your kindness, compassion, and willingness to emotionally enter into another's world. You are essentially a spiritual person whether or not you choose to give yourself that label, or follow any formal religion. Your openness, nonjudgmental attitudes, and generosity of spirit keep you open to the Tao, or flow of life.
The position of Saturn in your birth chart represents the bones, the skeleton, and the principles of hardness, heaviness, structure, stability, form, and boundaries. It shows what is hard for you, what you struggle with, where patterns of rigidity or fear hinder you, what is heavy for you, where you develop character, maturity, and depth through being tested.

Saturn in Libra:
You take commitments, promises, obligations, and responsibilities towards other people very seriously, so much so that these can feel like overwhelming burdens at times. You may have rigid expectations of how you and/or others should behave. Too much emphasis on form, doing the right thing, or social acceptance can hinder you considerably. Fear of committed partnership can be equally inhibiting, but a willingness to enter into relationship with all of its attendent shadows, problems, and potential pain is part of your inner development.

Flower essences that can be particularly useful to you include: DOGWOOD (for "flow" and flexibility in relationship) and BASIL (for easing tensions; facilitates negotiations and getting to the essence of a problem in relationship).

The following information will enable you to make up your own flower essence remedies. However if you wish to try them but are not interested in doing it all yourself, you can contact a flower essence practitioner. Many astrological counselors and other holistic practitioners use the flower essences and gem essences in their work.

(The chart includes detailed instructions on how to prepare Flower Essences, Colour Therapy and and how to use them)

APPENDIX II
HOW TO ORDER FLOWER ESSENCES AND GEM ELIXIRS
The companies listed below are reputable sources for high-quality essences: