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LATIN NAME: Berberis fremontii (Barberry Hollygrape) Arizona GOOD FOR: Inflexible opinions essence. For highly opinionated people. For prejudice. High mental activity. Stubbornness. Inability to see anyone else's point of view. DID YOU KNOW? To say the least, you are a mental giant. You think a lot--maybe too much. Your mind is sharp, curious, quick to jump and make up your mind about something. You do very well in academic surroundings. And you're good at memorizing things. Able to learn in classroom situations, you are a "book learner" type. Verbal by nature, you can communicate well in speaking as well as writing. Your world consists of using logic and rationalization. A prove-it-to-me kind of person. THE HEALTHY YOU: You're a gut-hunch kind of person whether you realize it or not. A lot of your decisions are based upon primal instinct which may or may not even tweak you consciously. However, you're a wonderful amalgam of rational mind (left brain) and right brain (instincts and intuition) IF you want to be. If you are truly in balance, you become very "whole-brained", utilizing both hemispheres of your brain to a very high degree. Not only can you know the answer to an Algebra problem before doing the math on it, you can also do the math to prove how you know the answer! That's a pretty neat trick! THE UNHEALTHY YOU: Insomnia can dog your heels because you are the one that gets the "gerbil running on the wheel" at night, and you can't shut off your thoughts. They just keep rolling along even though you'd like some sleep! You can get dogged, stuck and very stiff-necked about your belief system. Worse, you will be arrogant about it and you're right and the rest of the world is wrong. It's "my way or no way...." kind of blinders-on attitude. The old saying: You are cut off from the neck down, implies that you allow your logic and rational to rule you and you suppress your emotions--not a good thing in the long run! 1. The "CEO" mentality: take no prisoners; downsizing is fine (they don't care about the workers, etc.) 2. Good for people who are shut off from their emotions for whatever reason; completely foreign to them (sort of like someone with AUTISM--so deep a repression they don't even know any longer they've got emotions or emotional blocks). They are coldly logic/mental/left brain. They don't use their right brained creativity; they don't have any compassion, any humanity--just want to be loners cut off from society. 3. Might be good for anyone with PTSD; particularly veterans of the military or anyone who has had a severe emotional trauma and has 'shut down' and cut themselves off from the rest of the normal workaday world. 4. Good for very selfish people. PROVING ARTICLE BARBERRY HOLLYGRAPE Copyright 1997 - 2004, Eileen Nauman When we did a Stage 2 proving (that means we had 5 people who made the essence and then made the mother essence tincture (half water and half brandy) and then took 4 drops under their tongue and then cataloged what they felt or what sensations occurred), on this bush, none of us wanted to do it. When you look at a Hollygrape bush, it reminds you immediately of mistletoe--only a desert variety instead of its more northern cousin. It is certainly not as pretty as northern holly, but it still has those nasty, leathery leaves with sharp thorns on them to remind it can prick you when it pleases. We have a number of Hollygrape bushes on La Casa de Madre Tierra. In the Spring, they become a bright yellow color, flooded with thousands of tiny, sunshiny flowers. And the fragrance from them is almost heavenly. The entire area is plunged into this delicate perfumed scent and its wonderful. I've often wondered that a bush that looks so dog-ugly and so threatening with its armed arsenal of thorny leaves, had to do and be something unique. Hollygrape is a thirstless desert denizen. It requires hardly any water year around and survives robustly--even when every other desert plant is dying, or wilting after months without rain, this bush is standing stalwart and tall; as if nothing Mom Nature threw at it, would make it flinch. It is with this background that I share the Stage 2 proving we did in 1997 on Hollygrape Barberry. You will quickly see "who" it can help as a Natural Essence. PROVING INFORMATION GC, Prover (female) Name: Grape Holly Time of Day Picked: 1 PM Weather Conditions / Temperature: about 75 degrees and variable winds. Flower Description 1. Petal Colors, Shape, How Many: yellow in small clusters frequently with 5 small flowers in a cluster. Each flower has 6 petals. Appears to be 3 lighter yellow and 3 darker yellow around another petal formation than stands dark yellow upright out of the center. In the center of this is a light yellow/green. Bulbous shape and several fine yellow stems. This is a bush - (I wrote this at the very last I guess I was anger with this plant for being so ungiving.) 3. Stem Description: Woody comes up from ground in many branches. I had a sense of the many branches of trunk of this plant had all means of protection. 4. Leaf Description: Elongated serrated with very sharp edges, new leaves soft, older one very ridged. Center vein lighter in color, underside lighter green. I can see lots of veins. Both sides dull in color. Flower Attunement Message:
Primary Chakra \ BC--brow chakra and Throat Chakra--throat chakra Patterns of Imbalance that it can address: Not wanting to speak up. No creative ability wanting to be left alone. Boundaries - but no communications. Depressed state. Symbols: I feel a real lack of dialogue. A guarded ability. The horse was frightened twice and took off on a dead run. Felt as if I had to look through something. Male energy. Essence Water Description Tasted Like: going sour/spoiled milk Affected me physically ? Where? Sensations: I can't get words to describe smell again lack of creativity. I really just did not want to have a conversation with such a pissed plant. I wanted to call it a day. NG, PROVER (female) Name: Hollygrape/Barberry KEY WORD - WORD POWER Date: March 27, 1997 FLOWER DESCRIPTION 1. Petal color, shape, how many: 6 petals with cup in middle, 4-5 flowers on every stem, buttercup yellow/sunshine yellow with 1 hair in middle with nodule on top 2. Inner color: same yellow inside and out 3. Stamens: 4-5 flowers on every stem 4. Fragrance: perfumed smell, like a very subtle jasmine 5. Stem: smooth, flexible, spring green, clusters of 4-5 flowers on each stem 6. Trunk: branches rough and brown, the further down, the rougher they are. 7. Leaf: In pairs of threes (at tip of branch), prickly spines, medium to dark green with one lighter green central vein and lighter edge underside slightly lighter. 8. Root: shallow but very far-reaching. FLOWER ATTUNEMENT MESSAGE 1. Your words shall not have barbs. Primary chakra: Throat Chakra--throat chakra-- (prickly feeling in throat, had to cough). Patterns of imbalance it can address: After drinking water: Those who speak insincerely, insincere flattery. Symbols: When journeying, message came quickly and then shut off - like "you've heard enough." Positive healing patterns: ESSENCE WATER DESCRIPTION After drinking mother essence water 1. Taste: tasted sweet, like candied violets or candied rose petals. 2. Taste in mouth: remained for a long time after drinking. 3. Affected me: Sensations: 4. Color to water: yellowish tinge, but that was possibly reflection of color of blossoms. 6. Word image "honeyed words." MF, PROVER (male) Name: Holly Grape Time of Day Picked: 1:00 P M Other Phenomena: Blue Jay made an announcement, Flies around us, Bees flying around, could hear the creek, Cinnamon (horse was around). I seemed to be unusually aware of everything around me. Weather Conditions/Temperature: 80 degrees, warm breeze. Flower Description: 1. Petal Colors, Shape, How Many: 6, yellow, small flowers. 2. Inner Color to Petals: light yellow to dark yellow on tips of petals. 3.a. Stamens (how many, color, shape, size): 3 green tear shaped. 3.b. Pistil: 1 large in center. 3.c. Sepal: 6 in center. 4. Fragrance: very sweet, yummy smell like sweet breads. 5. Stem Description: Straight with multiple stems (4 or 5) ending in a bloom for each. 6. Leaf Description: Typical Holly type of construction, sharp points on ends. 7. Root: NA Flower Attunement: Message: Primary Chakra: Throat Chakra--throat chakra (1), SPC--solar plexus chakra (2). Secondary Chakra: SPC warmth. Patterns of Imbalance: Protection of child like innocence - inquisitive child like happiness. (felt jovial). Symbols: Parents protecting innocence, False front - like a Trojan Horse, ridged outer - soft warm center, masculine overall energy, counter clock wise movement. Positive Healing Patterns: Lack of talking - open up the vocal, allow innocence to return - allow you to see the real meaning of things or to "see" through the eyes of a child. Help depression, Put a smile on your face. Break through a harsh exterior to let the gentle part out. Essence Water Description Tasted Like: Sweet grass. Any taste in mouth or Throat: Slight chalk still sweet but slightly so. Affected me physically ? Where? Sensations: Back of tongue slight swelling - upper chest lower throat, sensed a warmth or energy flow. Tightness behind ears - Back of neck stiff (on sides) - slightly uneasy - apprehension - keep wanting to look behind me - maybe the wind contributed to this. Felt like I wanted to get ready for a fight - ( wanted to draw my arms in like a fighter and make a fist). Very one way view - not comfortable at all. Tongue seemed thicker. Slight headache above and behind ears. Jaws seem to be getting tight, knot in bottom of stomach. Back of neck at base of skull very tight. Odor to water: Green sweet smell Dreams the night after drinking the flower essence: N/A Other: Seems to be the reverse of the Bartlett Pear essence. EN, Prover (female) Holly grape at La Casa de Madre Areas affected: Physical and emotional. Spinning counter-clockwise experienced. Male energy. Other: Grumpy, irritable and I didn't like or want to hear any sounds around me. Odor: sweet and delicate. Taste: Slightly astringent. After I took the essence: 1. slight tingle right side of throat. OTHER: This would be good for Saturn types or Aquarians or Sulphurs. RM, Prover (female) I felt like the bush was pushing me away from it. I didn't want to do this proving. The bush wasn't friendly. When I sat down I had to focus. I saws spears and violence. The leaf tips are red and I felt this bush could draw blood from others. I felt it would help people who have blood vessel problems, possibly poor circulation. Chakras involved: Solar Plexus chakra and Brow Chakra. "Barbed words" come to mind. I couldn't get comfortable with the bush during the proving. It didn't want my company. It wanted no one and nothing. There was clarity of mind to a degree. It's responses to me were frugal. "I can protect myself" is what it told. Physically: frontal headache, left to mastoid process of left ear. Emotionally: Stingy with emotions. Stoic. Self-sufficient. Mentally: helps to focus on someone who is too easily distracted. Patterns of imbalance it could address: Autism. Narcissism. A 'fortress' type person. Stone-faced people. Hyper vigilance types. |
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