Sedum

Sedum

Sedum

Gemini

Strength, Steadfastness

Also called Stonecrop, Sedum refers to a variety of  perennial plants that have thick, succulent leaves that store water along fleshy stems and grow flower clusters in pink, red, white or yellow in summer and fall.  The plants very from 3 inch tall creeping sedums that are frequently used as ground cover to tall sedums that grow up to 3 feet in height.

As flowering plants, Sedum attracts birds and butterflies. The plants are deer and rabbit resistant.  Sedum can be easily divided for propagation into more plants. Once established, Sedum is drought tolerant and requires very little watering. Sedum will grow in rocky soil.

Sedum plants have thick stems and leaves that are symbols of strength.  Sedum bring to us several concepts of strength.  The first is the concept of inner strength.  Call on the energy of sedum when you need to fine tune your inner strength or to shore up the strength you need to carry a project to completion.  These energies can also be used to remind us of our own strength when surrounded life challenges.

Tall sedum plants have many stalks bearing flowers.  Think of these stalks as a group of people who are like minded who are standing together.  They can also represent your family group or friend group.

The strength sedum brings also carries the energy of steadfastness.  If the family of sedum is of interest to you, you likely have beliefs that have evolved over time into a solid base of who you are.  You use this base of beliefs to make sense of the world around you and the world of spirit and can use that base to navigate both easily. Sedum energy also introduces the question of whether your beliefs are too firmly based.  Can you see the perspective of someone else introducing a new idea or are you willing to discard old beliefs that no longer serve you? 

Sedum points out the choices we have in how we progress through life. What do you prefer?  The relative safety of growing close to the earth, safe from the wind, or taller and more visible, yet vulnerable to more risks? Or do you choose a combination of both?

• Creeping Sedum - produce clusters of star-shaped flowers in yellow, pink or white.
• Tall Sedum - grow up to 3 feet with succulent leaves along the stems with flower clusters in summer or fall.

Baby's Breath

Gypsophila

Capricorn

Baby's Breath

Creation, Eternalness, Profusion of Life

Available as an annual or perennial, Baby's Breath is a dense plant with very small white flowers.  Some varieties produce small pink flowers. The plants prefer full sun but will grow with 4 to 6 hours of direct light per day. The plant grows to 3 feet in height and width.  Baby's Breath blooms for weeks during the summer, often from May until August, and attracts bees and butterflies.

The flowers are commonly used in bouquets and flower arrangements.  Single stalks can be used to augment a bouquet, bringing to mind the value of one single flower type and the compatibility it has when matched with others - the Baby's Breath is a compliment to them.  The flowers are also used to make bouquets - and when observed, the bouquet is composed of many slender stalks with a profusion of flowers. The whole is greater than each of the stalks.  This shows us how, when like-minded individuals grouped together, they can effect a paradigm shift.

The plants are salt, drought and deer tolerant.  he profusion of flowers both on plants in a garden and in those grouped into a bouquet is symbolic of the profusion of life.  It mirrors the profusion of plant life in all of its forms from the plants that propagate through root systems to the weeds that find a toe hold in the crack of a sidewalk.  It shows that life is perpetual and persistent.

The plants like soil with few nutrients, such as sandy soil areas, and enjoys being left alone once established. Like all of creation, the process knows what to do and does not need any encouragement or influence from human kind.  The role of humans is to expand the eternalness of the process of creation by taking thought into new areas.

Baby's Breath grows quickly from seed and it can also be propagated from cuttings.

The plant originated the area from Eastern Europe to Western Siberia. The scientific name, Gypsophila’ means "likes gypsum" in the earth. Gypsum contains calcium which helps plants absorb other essential nutrients.