I received the following report from a client on her use of Columbine flower essence:

“At age 54 I became an empty-nester – three wonderful children with lives of their own, no longer needing me the way they once did. I felt low-grade depression, I gained weight, I started drinking. I felt restless. My career as a nurse midwife seemed to no longer compel my interest as it once did. I felt stuck but unable to take a risk to change. Enter Columbine flower essence. Taking this flower shifted my perspective on the possible. I felt inspired to write – and I’ve recently published a book. This has led to offers to teach… I feel alive again, a feeling that there is so much to do and give beyond my former role as mother.”

Columbine is an amazing flower essence that helps re-invent, and re-consider one’s life and destiny. It is typically used when we need to move into a new chapter of our life biography, yet feel weighed down by the “inertia” of a past identity.

The formative gesture of the fiery red Columbine flower points to its healing potential. Its reflexed petals are arched back, as though resistant and clinging to a former connection. Yet its powerful golden stamens of light are pointed firmly downward, impelling the will toward new forces of incarnation and earthly vitality.

The name Columbine is derived from the word “Columba” – or Dove. For it was deemed in the earlier folk-sensing of this flower, that it represented the tongues of fire sent from the Holy Spirit, infusing each human soul with new forces of fire and will to action in the world.

The affirmation for the Columbine by Patricia Kaminski eloquently portrays its vital and unique healing theme:

I am the only one who can be me in the world.
Everything is waiting for my gift.
I will shine with the Holy Spirit of inspiration.
I will ignite my creative flame of Love for the World.