I was about to give a tarot reading. To prepare, I went out into my garden and asked for help in order to help.
Next second, all I could see (in my mind’s eye) were forget-me-nots. I felt their gentle and warm healing presence, but I wondered why they showed up. Why this particular sweetness?
I heard: Soften heart. Open ears. Feet to ground.
Let’s go deeper into those qualities…
- Soften your heart
Let love and compassion bloom, even when life feels cold or armored. - Open your ears
Not just to words, but to what people are really feeling and sharing with you. - Ground yourself
Return to your body. To the breath. To your feet. To the Earth. Let your presence root you.
They remind me of hexagram 36 – the state of conflict, upheaval, when life throws us around, and we are given a choice: do we resist and go cold, or do we stay present and soft? In the latter, the journey becomes one of emotional transformation into deeper compassion. That is the positive state of 36 – relating to life with embodied compassion for yourself, and others, which then lead us to hexagram 37 – community and tenderness.
The forget-me-not’s presence is a nudge to reconnect to self, to the sacredness of connections, and from there to spirit.
Energetic Properties of Forget-Me-Not
Flower essence practitioners may work with them to support:
- Emotional integration
Especially where grief and loss is involved. - Healing soul wounds
In particular those that feel old or ancestral, where the pain is persistent.
Their baby blue hue connects them to the throat chakra (expression). They encourage us to speak our inner truth with softness.
The Tarot Reading
That tarot reading? It ended up being a gentle, enlightening session.
The cards were clear. The messages, precise, supportive, and right on topic.
And it held the sweet magic of synchronicity. In the beginning, after preparing the tarot cards, I got up to choose a crystal—one I felt wanted to be present during the reading. Later, when we reached the end, I wanted to offer her something more—a little light to carry forward. So I pulled a crystal card for her.
And yes—you guessed it.
It was the exact same crystal I had picked before the reading. The one that had been with us all along:
Citrine.
Bright, warm, encouraging. Full of joy. Exactly the energy that is available to us, when we continue to heal grief, when we choose to transform and move forward with openness.
