Passiflora caerulea is the most otherworldly blossom I’ve seen. The first time my vine bloomed and I attuned to it, I had an intense experience, with powerful sensations in my heart chakra. What came to me in that initial contact with the deva was a profound connection to Source. The gesture of the stiff central shaft felt like a spear piercing my heart direct from spirit, like the Centaur Hylonome’s anguish when her beloved is killed–so extreme she drives herself onto the same spear.

Astrologically Hylonome is the place in the chart where we’ve become agonizingly separated from whatever represents that ultimate connection, whether a person, place, something else in life, or what represents the connection to spirit such as religious faith. This is the deep pain Blue Passionflower essence heals. It assists in recognizing our choice to experience this apparent separation, when of course we can never actually be separate. We can acknowledge our creation of this illusion rather than continue to believe suffering is real.

The essence brings the experience of increasing unity with Source. Another gesture of the blossom is the space created by its structure, which represents incarnation, embodiment. Our big challenge here on Earth now is to simultaneously experience the reality of our infinite divine beingness while in human form. This is what this flower is all about.

So first there’s a clearing and healing of shock, trauma, pain, all the feelings of that separation. The deva is enthusiastic in digging into the healing work, with love for life as an opportunity for spiritual development. Just ask and be willing to let go of ego and attachments. The flower essence carries a deep, strong-acting vibration for core, heart and connection issues/barriers. There’s an affinity for the mental and causal bodies.

The second time I made the essence I had another extraordinary experience, more focused on knowledge and understanding of blocks to unity with Source. The deva showed me how our bodies are energetic fractals of our solar system, with each organ, system, gland, etc. resonating with a planet or other celestial body, in an exquisite, moment-by-moment ballet of time and space.

This was awesome, but the crux of why I needed to be shown this is because I learned I’d been a Vedic astrologer in six lifetimes, and had a pile of residual judgements from those about my current horoscope. Yikes! My cellular memories of those lives coming into my subconscious with nasty points of view about my “afflicted” planets had disrupted my health. Zap–gone! So cool.

This other-dimensional tour of my chart included seeing how squares are bases of a pyramid with its apex in a higher dimension. So it may look “hard” in our 3D worldview, but actually where we aren’t so equipped to see, there’s an amazing unity and power.

I was also blessed with the message that the myriad newly discovered objects in our outer solar system, from Chiron way out beyond Sedna, are extra-dimensional capacities of our infinite beingness, and attempts to force them into the sort of mental-emotional polarized modes as the inner planets is misguided. They are way different.

Another wonderful healing ability of the Blue Passionflower essence is in soul retrieval. What the deva showed me was how I’d left scraps of my soul-stuff all over the universe and other universes, and other dimensions, wherever I’d believed I “owed” help. The gesture of the central pillar of the blossom, and all those wildly fringed edges, is of gathering those soul energies into the center, the Me, which is not my mind, or awareness, or even consciousness, but the conduit between Source-Spirit-Self-in-body. (Anyone else notice a distinct lack of words for these sorts of things?)

Finally, when I actually got around to sampling the completed essence, a lovely relaxed feeling came over me for about 10 minutes or so, almost a drowsiness. Passionflower herb of course is an excellent relaxer and sleep inducer.

Blessed be the flowers….