Choose Your Own Flower Remedies - Part 3

Years ago, I walked into a supermarket in search of Bach Flowers. I knew very little, only that there were remedies for different mental and emotional states, for example; anxiety, jealousy, self-doubt, undue optimism or even arrogance. Going by the descriptions, I chose the ones that sounded like me. Since then I've discovered that my choice of remedies corresponds to the more influential signs in my birth chart: Moon in Capricorn, Soul Growth House in Cancer, Past and Present Life Suns in Aquarius (maybe I flunked and got a do-over?) Apparently, we can use our birth charts to narrow down the range of Bach Flowers, making the selection process easier. We can then leverage the healing qualities in the flowers to soften our limitations and unlock our strengths, which often coincide with our star signs.  

Below you will find Edward Bach's original remedies, known as The Twelve Healers. Bach hypothesized that they corresponded to the Moon Sign in our birth charts. He didn't connect the dots, however, and the correlations below are based on Peter Damien's book, The 12 Healers of the Zodiac. Before we continue, please read Part 2 for an intro to Astrology, or this post won't make much sense. Also, I should mention that the descriptions below are my interpretations, read the official Bach Centre explanations HERE.

Without further ado, the 12 Healers! 

For Aries: Develop the qualities of patience with Impatiens  

For those of us who want things done yesterday, patience is a virtue worth cultivating. Relax your sense urgency so that it doesn't isolate, rush or frustrate relationships. 

For Taurus: Banish feelings of doubt with Gentian   

Are you unusually discouraged by setbacks and obstacles? Do you feel like throwing in the towel when things go wrong? This essence can help put challenges in perspective. 

For Gemini: Learn to trust your own wisdom with Cerato

Do you look to others for permission, authority or wisdom? Cerato can help us trust our own inner guidance and personal power. 

For Cancer: Ground your gentle energy with Clematis

This essence grounds the dreamers in reality, bringing our attention back from plans for a better life, to the present moment where we can exert our influence. Time to take action. 

For Leo: Become more tolerant of different views with Vervain  

Sometimes we can be so passionate about an idea that we speak of it continually, trying to get others to agree. The truth is relative and subjective, we can all learn from each other.  

For Virgo: Boost your Self-Worth and Self-Care with Centaury

For those who go out of their way to help others, to the point of neglecting themselves. Centaury reminds us that we matter, just as much as anyone else. Please prioritize yourself. 

For Libra: For committed decision-making, try Scleranthus 

Do you spend hours going over options before making a decision? eventually, we have to go for A or B, and commit to making it work. This essence can help us be more decisive. 

For Scorpio: Possessive or too protective of loved ones? Try Chicory. 

We've all heard of smother love. Sometimes we "love" others so much that we go to extremes to care for them and protect them. Chicory gives us space, independence and self-reliance. 

For Saggitarius: Expecting the worst? Find your peace with Agrimony.  

This personality hides "what lies beneath" well. They may be fearful of conflict, or riddled with anxiety and a sense of dread. Agrimony makes it easier for us to admit our feelings.  

For Capricorn: What are you afraid of? Find courage with Mimulus. 

Does your fear of heights keep your from climbing the Eiffel Tower? Or does maybe fear of lack leads to hoarding. Mimulus helps us relax, it's is for fear of concrete (if irrational) things. 

For Aquarius: Team building, sharing and friendship with Water Violet. 

Everything you need to know, you learned in Kindergarten. It's a reminder that sharing is caring, we can accomplish more in teams than on our own. It's about community building.   

For Pisces: Keep your calm in crisis situations with Rock Rose.  

Pisces is the most sensitive sign in the Zodiac. When we feel emotions acutely, we may freeze as a Self-Defense mechanism. It might be an underlying sense of terror, overwhelm or dread. 

A Few Parting Words ... 

• Bach Flower Remedies are complementary to medical care, not alternative. Please see a doctor if you are worried about a medical condition or symptom. Take care of yourself =) 

• Birth charts have a lot going on, with aspects or conjunctions playing the planets and signs off each other to dial up (or down) the effects. Go by your intuition and self-awareness when deciding which remedies to take. For example, my sun is in Aquarius but Water Violet wasn't my first choice.

• I haven't explored the Zodiac in depth as that would take ages and I still feel like a beginner with astrology. If you'd like to know more about the meaning of the planets, signs or houses in your birth chart, visit CafeAstrology.com. See here for Sun Signs, Moon Signs and Nodes of the Moon/Past Lives. 

• Tell us about your impressions in the comment box below, thank you! 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Choose Your Own Flower Remedies - Part 2

Last year I booked a session with a flower healer in Mexico, hoping to ground my energy and cool my nerves. I had just landed a gig as a weekly radio host with A1R Psychic Radio, and truth be told, I was terrified about giving angel and tarot readings on air. What if I froze and couldn't say anything? In any other setting, it wouldn't matter if the messages took a minute or two. I cringed at the thought of radio silence. So I went to Cati the Flower Healer and asked her to give me liquid courage and clarity. Her consultation room is small but gorgeous. A glass desk full of angels, buddhas and flowers. Behind her, a bookcase filled with hundreds of flower essences: Bach Flowers, Australian Bush Flowers and a few Planetary Elixirs. 

Suddenly, I wasn't all that nervous and spent most of the hour asking about flower remedies and vibrational healing. This is what I learned: 

When Edward Bach created his flower essences in the 1930's, the original set was known as The Twelve Healers. The remedies corresponded to common personality types, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Bach's theory was that we could use flower remedies to soften each personality type's limitations, and tap into its strengths. If I'm not mistaken, Bach also hypothesized that our personality types may overlap with our Moon Signs, but he didn't connect the dots. Others have gone on to connect individual remedies with their corresponding essence. The big surprise that day, was that I had intuitively chosen the correct essence for my Moon in Capricorn. You wouldn't guess it, but I can be very fearful, prone to worst-case-scenario thinking. The Bach Centre tells us that Mimulus is for people with a: 

"Fear of worldly things, illness, pain, accidents, poverty, of dark, of being alone, of misfortune. The fears of everyday life. These people quietly and secretly bear their dread, they do not freely speak of it to others"

My first experience with Flower Remedies was at a supermarket shelf. I read the descriptions and chose the ones that were right for me. It wasn't until I had this impromptu Q&A with Cati the Flower Healer, that I realized these remedies corresponded to my Sun, Moon and Past Life signs. These essences soften aspects of our personality that get in the way of our happiness. I'm no expert on astrology, but as far as I can tell, we have the most to gain by balancing and healing these placements: 

• Sun Sign: How we channel our energy into the world. 
• Moon Sign: Inner feelings, emotions and personal life.  
• Ascendant: How we relate to the world and those around us. 
• Mercury: How we communicate our thoughts to others. 
• Venus: Our relationship with love, money and creativity. 
• Mars: How we channel desires into the realm of action. 
• South Node Moon: Lessons brought forward from a past life.

Your astrological chart will tell you what House and Sign the planets were in at the time of your birth (see here for a free birth chart). The zodiac sign refers to the attitude or energy that you bring to a particular situation, and the house is that situation (career, family life, spirituality, etc). The essences that I chose intuitively corresponded to the zodiac signs for my sun, moon and three other planets that are all placed in the same sign (Virgo). I think it was the preponderance of Virgo energy that made me gravitate to that particular essence, so keep an eye out for lots of planets in a particular sign or House. 

That's not all! The Houses also have intrinsic zodiac signs; and we can be influenced by their energy, rather than the transiting sign's. For example, my North Node is in the 4th House, and even though Leo was transiting through the 4th house at the time of my birth, I was drawn to the remedy for Cancer. My karma is theoretically in the 4th & 10th houses, and that's where I'd do well to focus my energy * 

Here is a quick summary of the Houses and their native signs:  

• 1st House:  Our personal identity, who we are in the world. ARIES. 
• 2nd House: The material world, riches, resources. TAURUS.
• 3rd House:  Our community environment, siblings. GEMINI. 
• 4th House:  Family life, the home, childhood. CANCER
• 5th House:  How we express our creativity: art, music & love affairs. LEO
• 6th House:  Vocations, teamwork, help, service to others (or not). VIRGO
• 7th House:  Marriage, romantic relationships, partnership. LIBRA
• 8th House:  Shared resources, monetary gain, legacies. SCORPIO
• 9th House:  What is the meaning of life? Philosophy. SAGITTARIUS
• 10th House: Social and career status, ambition, ripple effect. CAPRICORN
• 11th House: Do we identify with all of humanity? Oneness.  AQUARIUS
• 12th House: The realm of past lives, karma & family secrets. PISCES. 

If this sounds complicated, go by your intuition and let it guide you. Read the descriptions and see how they feel. We can take up to 6-7 remedies at a time, so its a good idea to choose the ones that sound like they will benefit us the most. We can also use a pendulum to select the remedies. I have done this in the past by putting eight or nine bottles on the table in front of me, turning them around so that I can't see the labels (I don't want to bias the results) and letting the pendulum choose them for me. Maybe it's magic, but the pendulum usually says Yes to the remedies that resonate with my life at the time. 

That's all for today! I hope this crash course in astrology was useful, and not too confusing. There is so much to learn, I am very much an amateur myself. Please have your birth charts ready for my next post. We'll explore Bach's original remedies and the Zodiac signs they've been linked to. If you don't know your star signs, generate a chart at Astro.com. 

Part 3: OM TIMES MAGAZINE

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Choose Your Own Flower Remedies - Part 1

Time and time again I have booked a healing session to soothe my nerves, only to receive the same intuitive message from the practitioner: Take Your Bach Flowers! It's like my spirit guides are pulling my ears for neglecting myself that way. Flower essences are part of a system known as vibrational healing, where we draw on the peace and love frequencies in the plant kingdom to balance our own energy. We can use them to cope with stressful situations or to heal our emotional footprint and become well-adjusted and emotionally sound folks. 

My experience with flowers remedies has been casual so far, I still have a lot to learn. It's a funny story, but I discovered Bach Flowers long before I had heard of energy healing or Reiki. Back in 2003, I was a full-time MBA student at one of Mexico's leading business schools. The stress levels were sky high, roughly 10% of each incoming class would flunk out during the first year. There was pressure to shine, tons of reading material and three debates to prep for every day. To make it worse, our comments were graded on the spot: A, B, or Fail. 

How To Keep Your Cool? 

Believe it or not, one of our corporate psychology professors held free, on-site Bach Flower consultations for overworked MBA candidates. At the time, I vaguely knew that flower remedies were similar to homeopathy; that they could help us cope with stress. Half of my classmates visited his office once a month to stock up on Bach Flowers. I was curious, but I didn’t take the bait just yet. 

Fast forward seven years, and one day, I found myself in a tricky situation at work. I had been phased out of a job that I loved, though I promptly found another in the same company. The new role was much better for my career, a promotion and a great move, but I had mixed feelings about the way things happened. I didn't want that sense of disappointment to undermine my new start. That’s when I finally decided to try Bach Flower Remedies. I have always been a Do It Yourself kind of gal, so rather than book a session with a practitioner, I went to Whole Foods Market to have a look at the Bach Flower Remedies. 

Remedies for Every Situation 

There are 38 Bach Flower Remedies, for different emotional and mental states. It's a simple system, we can read the descriptions and choose the ones that resonate. For example, Hornbeam is for "feelings of exhaustion and tiredness before an effort has been made," whereas Scleranthus promotes decisiveness in people who have trouble making up their minds. Impatiens is for hasty types who want everything done yesterday, and the frustration that can create. 

Given my state of mind at the time, the one that stood out was Willow, for self-pity, bitterness and resentment. This remedy gets us out of the "poor me" attitude so that we stop being victims and take charge of our lives. I also left with two additional remedies to help with motivation and energy levels. In this way, we can use remedies to deal with temporary setbacks or stressors. 

What About Personality Quirks? 

We all have personality traits that limit our potential. Maybe it's a tendency to doubt or underestimate yourself. Or to sabotage romantic relationships with unfounded jealousy. We all have our personal sticking points. The flower remedies can help us curb that those patterns before they cause problems. 

For example, I chose two remedies based on my personality:

• Clematis: Grounding for those of us who live in dream worlds. Clematis brings our attention back to the present moment, so we can take action. 
• Mimulus: Anxiety over specific things, in my case: public speaking. This helped tremendously, or I wouldn’t be hosting a weekly radio show.  

Reading the descriptions for the full range of remedies is one way to go; the book is available for free on the Bach Centre website. Another would be to look at our star signs and choose the vibrations that figure prominently in our birth charts. As luck would have it, the essences I chose to balance my personality were linked to my Moon and Past Life signs. Keep reading for a crash course in astrology! 

Reiki hugs,  

Regina 

Click here for Part 2. 

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Showing Our True Colors

So today, I’m going to tell you a little story about myself. It's about how I have taken baby steps– and I do mean baby steps – to get where I am now. Six years ago, I had just moved to London for work. Being new to the UK, I also wanted to meet people so I started signing up for a bunch of classes: starting with astrology, Kabbalah and meditation. Eventually these led me to my psychic school, where I signed up for a clairvoyance workshop. The thought of clairvoyant or clairaudient messages was exciting, but I kept it a secret so that people wouldn’t think I had gone completely mad. At that point, I myself had trouble believing it was real. 

The first class I attended was a clairvoyant workshop where we tuned into our classmates' homes and described them to each other. The teacher guided us through a meditation, asking questions like: Is it a building? A house? How many rooms? How many people? Do they have pets, etc.? Our intuition filled in the blanks. I was new so I didn't expect to get much. The person I was working with, however, described my apartment down to a T. He saw a massive building, the one I lived in had almost 1000 flats. He also mentioned walking through an endless corridor before getting to my “front door” He also described the decoration inside the flat. I was blown away; it proved these abilities were real. I just had to put in the time to develop them myself. 

I signed up for weekly classes right away, and eight months later, I started an anonymous blog to keep track of everything that happened in class. That blog was Diary of a Psychic Healer.  For the longest time, the blog was my little secret. I shared it with a few close friends, then with my siblings and after two years, I finally mentioned it to the rest of my family. By then I had had enough experience with intuition and healing to trust that these impressions were real. But I was still nervous about putting my name on my blog. On some level, I knew that if I wanted to remain in the corporate world, this part of my life had to stay off the Internet. Everything is on Google these days and I didn't want a potential employer ruling me out. It wasn’t until I finally worked up the courage to quit my job and pursue healing as a career, that I put my name on my Diary of a Psychic Healer Blog and Facebook Page, which by then had hundreds of thousands of views. Even then, if you Googled me, you wouldn’t find the blog so easily. 

A few weeks ago I was thinking back to my final days in the corporate world. My then boss told me the story of Christopher Columbus settling down in the New World. Going home may have been tempting for his team, but Columbus was determined to make it work. So much that he burned the ships to keep himself from going back (not sure if this is true). The moral of the story was that my career change would have better chances of success if I burned my bridges. 

That was nearly two years ago. 

This weekend I finally took the training wheels off my blog. For a while now, I have known that I had to upgrade my blog to make it more user-friendly, but also, make myself easier to find. A few days ago I started fiddling about with the landing page, template and design. Before I knew what happened, my familiar and somewhat anonymous template had disappeared. I also updated the URL on the About Regina tab (up top) so that it includes my full name - a small detail that means my blog will soon turn up in Google searches for my name. 

True Colors by Cindy Lauper 

Read my book to do-it-yourself!  

Reiki hugs, 

Regina

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Regina Chouza is an energy healer, angel medium and the author of A Personal Guide to Self-Healing, Cancer & Love and Chakra Healing & Magick. Blogging at Diary of a Psychic Healer since 2010, her passion is bringing the qualities of love, joy and empowerment to healing pursuits. Read her books to unlock your intuition. 

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Constant Craving by Doreen Virtue (A Book Review)

On January 3rd, I started an informal Sugar Detox. It was going to last all month, but I cut it short after 21 days when this beautiful tempura ice cream landed on the table at Sunday Brunch. That's not bad, I'm proud of how far I have come. My goal was not about weight loss (if anything, I think my waistline resents all of the unsweetened peanut butter I had for dessert), but to be more aware of the sugar in processed foods. Mission accomplished! My sweet tooth has also been curbed, and that means a lot. The most dramatic change has been in how I take my cappuccinos, no sugar! And the fact that I'm mostly OK with fruit for dessert. It's also been three weeks since I munched on processed cereal bars. Instead I've had tons of veggies, more veggies and unsweetened peanut or macadamia butter. Yummy! 

I also read a fantastic book by Doreen Virtue: Constant Craving. The food we eat fills our tummy but it often satisfies an emotional need. Especially when we tend to crave certain types of foods and not others. The ones I'm most drawn to paint an interesting picture of my personality. Here is what I discovered: 

• Spice up your life! If we're constantly craving hot sauce and spicy food, it might be excitement that we are after. Do I put hot sauce on everything because I'm bored, or because I'm from Mexico? Tough call. I might eat more spicy foods that most of my countrymen, and often I'll go looking for crunchy snacks just so that I can cover them with chilli powder. My favorite is cucumbers with lime and chili powder but potato chips work just as well. 

• Peanuts and Peanut Butter: This is about fun! Snickers and Reese's are my favorite chocolate bars. Barely any chocolate and lots of peanut. It also dawned on me that I am happy in jobs with a high fun factor. Other business school graduates look for high stakes positions and intellectual challenges. For me it's about fun. My favorite role was pribably sports and movie marketing at a cola company. Followed by product launches and advertising, which were both creative. I ended up leaving both of these jobs when the fun, creative side dried up. No fun, no joy. 

• Crunchy Snacks:  Stress buster! My jaw is often tense, and in her book Doreen tells us that crunchy snacks help us release that tension. The only thing that has made it go away for longer periods of time is acupuncture. 

• Salty Foods:  Another stress buster, if my memory is correct. 

This book is a fantastic read for healers. I would recommend it to therapists as well, you can ask your clients a few  questions to get an idea of what they're looking for on a subconscious level. It was written for personal use, healing, and to analyze our cravings.

I give it Five Stars! 

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What are Angel Card Readings like?

Today I would like to share a few examples of Angel Card Readings. As you might guess, readings usually start with a question from the client. It could be about romance, career or family dynamics. The cards give us clues about the message and our intuition fills in the gaps. I find that it is easiest to ask for guidance on a topic without going into too much detail about the circumstances. Saying too much upfront is called Feeding the Psychic, and can sometimes confuse the reading. Asking for general guidance on love, life or career is usually enough.  

A Romance Reading for Neece

Romance questions tend to focus on when a partner will appear, or if the current relationship is the one. The answer often includes emotional healing tools, and ideas on how to go about manifesting that romance. So for example, you might get the message to work on your self-esteem and self-worth so that you can attract partners with a healthier vibration. We often attract people who mirror or complement our issues. Self-healing is away to break those patterns. 

Today's reading is for Neece, who asked about romance. I pulled three cards, and the first was about finances. My intuition tells me there are trust issues where money and love are concerned. The word prenup came to mind, followed by a second card about Marriage. It feels like one of the parties needs assurances about the other’s affection. Professing their love isn't enough and maybe that prenup is insurance for a rainy day. This could be interpreted literally, hinting at a question about prenups, but its more likely to be about trust. What makes us feel secure in a relationship? The general advice is to balance the Heart, Brow and Root Chakras, because trust has to be based on more than a piece of paper. Self-healing can help Neece be more objective. 

A Career Reading for Armando

Our next question was submitted by Armando: Is he on the right path or is it time to move one? This is I am using two decks to answer it, the first is Doreen Virtue's Life Purpose Oracle deck. The second is the The Angel Tarot which can give us more clarity on the events leading up to this moment. Here they are:

                Image: The Angel Tarot Deck, by Radleigh Valentine

The Past - Six of Earth and Books/Study: The cards  came up, were Six of Earth and Books/Study. The first card shows a young fairy dividing her gold coins in two separate piles. She’s trying to make both “projects” work, and to do this she needs a delicate balance so as not to let things topple over. This was a good way to mitigate financial risks while we test the waters with a new endeavor. The second card tells us that Armando studied this situation carefully. This will serve him well in the future. 

The Present - Five of Water & Career Change: In combination, these cards tell us that things haven’t gone as planned. These cards point to the question: Does Armando need to revise his plans? I’m tempted to say “put your mistakes behind you” and chalk up any failed endeavors as personal growth lessons. The mistakes he's made so far will help Armando polish his business skills in the future. It's time to think about what could be done differently. Learn from the mistakes and build on them going forward. 

The Future - Queen of Earth & Teaching: The queen of earth is grounded, practical and good with people skills. She's an expert at manifesting. The teaching card that comes up is a sharp contrast to the 1st Books/Reading card. The first is about introspection, learning and cultivating our personal skills. The teaching card is what we send out to the world. I took it to mean that Armando could be more outgoing and vocal with his business efforts. The area to look at may be marketing and communications. 

A Health Reading for Tabbitha 

Tabbitha sent in the last question, inquiring about her health (especially spiritual health). The headlines on the cards were: Follow Your Heart's Desires, You have the Gift of Healing, Have Faith in your Abilities and finally, The Sun Shines On You. This message is probably meant to remove self-doubt and fear. Our spiritual health is as its best when we’re fearless in the pursuit of happiness. 

More on Angel Readings ... 

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