Fireweed
Themes: Resilience, renewal, resurrection.
“I rise again. I am restored and resilient.”
The red phoenix is veritably symbolic throughout mythology. The story is of a majestic bird of fiery colors who lives for centuries before dying by bursting into flames, only to rise again from its own ashes. This story aptly represents resurrection, resilience, renewal and restoration – even from the ashes of destruction can we be born again. Like the phoenix, Fireweed flowers blossom in areas of tragedy and loss, typically covering recently burned lands, creating a blanket of beauty and possibility in the wake of ruination. Fireweed’s medicine appropriately imparts the ability to rise from hardship, helping us to connect to the qualities of the flower itself, which resolutely springs from the ashes of calamity.
Information adapted from:
Flower Essence Services. (2020). Fireweed. Retrieved from http://www.fesflowers.com/catablog-items/fireweed/
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