CONCLUSION
Floromancy is one of those divination methods which, like cloud scrying or kleidomancy, can be performed on the spur of the moment. A couple forms of Floromancy I’ve covered here are a good way of doing an ‘at-this-moment’ assessment of yours or somebody else’s state of mind. The Spirits are always willing to communicate with us, and They’ll use anything in our environment to do it. Just ask them to communicate with you this way. Floromancy is a safe method of divination, as negative entities aren’t likely to use it as a means of harassment. If you feel drawn to a flower whose meaning doesn’t appear in the PDF or in any book on the Language of Flowers, then you’ll have to intuit the meaning. What does its appearance tell you? It’s color? Does it have any uses? What do you know about its growing habits, life cycle, or the family or genus it’s from? Such details could have a message for you.
For those who want to take up the regular practice of floromancy, I recommend acquiring books on the ‘language of flowers.’ At the end of this lesson, I will list the ones I have in my personal collection, but these are by no means the only books out there on the subject. Some books on the language of flowers may yet differ a little on the meaning of a particular plant, so you’ll have to use your intuition to determine which meaning applies in your case.
I hope the practice of floromancy brings you years of lovely and enlightening moments.
EXERCISES
- Walk through a garden and pick or record whatever plant catches your eye. When you’ve looked up their meaning, try to form their message into a sentence or paragraph. Does the message resonate with you?
- Decide you’re going to ask about somebody else you have in mind, then do the exercise again. What message do the flowers convey about that person?
- Walk through the produce department of your local supermarket and note whatever fruits or vegetables catch your eye. What collective message are they conveying to you?
- EXTRA CREDIT: look at the pictures in this lesson and try to determine what flowers they are, and their meaning. If you could sum up each picture in a sentence, how would it read?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kleager, Brenda Jenkins. Secret Meaning of Flowers. Including Trees, Shrubs, Vines and Herbs. Huntsville, Alabama: Treasured Secrets Publishing Company, 2013. ISBN: 978-0979376436. 288 pages.
Though not illustrated, it’s chock-full of flower-lore. A large chunk of the book is devoted to a meaning-corresponding plants and plants- corresponding meanings glossary.
McCabe, James D. The Language and Sentiment of Flowers. Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 2003. ISBN: 978-1-55709-384-4. 96 pages.
This is a smaller, more portable and illustrated guide to flowers and their meanings, more easy to slip into a pocket, although not as comprehensive as some other such books.
Laufer, Geraldine Adamich. Tussie-Mussies:The Victorian Art of Expressing Yourself in the Language of Flowers. New York: Workman Publishing, 1993. ISBN: 1-56305-106-0. 158 pages.
Though largely given-over to how to put together a variety of meaningful bouquets, this glossy, full-color book does have a glossary of flower and plant meanings from pages 132 to 158.