The Baby Blue Eyes flower essence has the unique ability to address our earliest experiences of the father/masculine archetype and how it has imprinted the soul’s identity.
This flower speaks to the manner in which we trust with utter innocence and profound vulnerability, that one who is wiser, older and stronger, will be an anchor for us as we find our way into the fragility of bodily incarnation and human being-ness. Just as we look up to the Blue Dome of Heavenly Sky to trust in a spiritual protective presence, so do we in our tender childhood look up in a gesture we might call “Baby Blue Eyes,” to that which guides, protects and embraces us. This kind of secure knowing and resting into a Presence which is strong and stable, is the very essence of the masculine father archetype.
Knowing how essential this condition is for our early years of incarnation, we can also understand with heartfelt compassion, the aching insecurity, anxiety and mistrust of one who has not been able to establish that deep foundation of human-being. So many differing circumstances are addressed by Baby Blue Eyes: a father who abandoned or was otherwise not present for the family, a father who impacted the family in frightening or degrading ways such as physical or sexual abuse or drug addiction, a father who withheld love or made it conditional, a father who was unable to support or otherwise uphold and contribute to the family, a father who died and could no longer provide physical and emotional presence and support. This archetype also includes those who operated as a significant masculine influence in early childhood and youth – and possible betrayal, exploitation or abuse – such as a grandfather, uncle, older brother, teacher or a trusted minister or priest.
Transforming a Father Wound: A Case Report
Recently we received this touching report from Ellen Heddleston of Portland, Oregon, regarding Baby Blue Eyesflower essence:
“One of my most profound flower essence experiences was with Baby Blue Eyes. I used it personally to work through the ways my father abandoned me. Because of that experience, I held a lot of resentment towards men in general, and viewed them in a poor way.
When I took the essence consistently, I would have dreams about a man who would give me flowers in a garden. He had a very gentle, spirited energy. It was the first time I had a dream about a man that wasn’t violent. I could tell the essence was working to heal my view of men through my dreams.”
It is significant to observe from this report how the Baby Blue Eyes facilitates an inner alchemy in the soul. For Ellen, the process was initiated in the dream state through archetypal symbols. The original picture or soul imprint of abandonment and violence from the father is transformed into a new archetype of a nurturing male presence within a healing garden. As this new image of the masculine is anchored in the soul, a real change of perception and experience of the masculine in daily life can then take hold.
Positive Vulnerability as a Soul Gift
The quality of “positive vulnerability”—of being able to receive and trust a father or similar masculine presence who provides protection, strength and guidance—is a quality that is sadly damaged, distorted or otherwise deficient in so many familial and cultural experiences of childhood and youth. It is a wound that harms not only our social capacities, but also our spiritual ability to trust in higher guidance and protection (connection with the Heavenly Father). The Baby Blue Eyes type who carries this wound attempts over time to cover such vulnerability with a falsely hardened exterior that can present as emotional distancing, cynicism, lack of social trust or connection, generalized resentment or hostility, or spiritual alienation.
Baby Blue Eyes flower essence is equally beneficial for men or women. A man who used Baby Blue Eyes to heal his relationship with his partner expressed, “. … I have realized so much taking this flower and doing the related cognitive therapy. Most importantly, that I cannot hope to have a genuine relationship with a partner if I do not let her in. I have always thought that to be strong means not showing your feelings, maybe not even having feelings. But I have learned that it requires far more strength to actually feel pain, and to show uncertainty and vulnerability… .”
Soft Chalices of Blue Flowers
Like Eyes of Heaven
Baby Blue Eyesis a delicate ephemeral flower belonging to the Waterleaf family. It blooms in mid-spring and favors a vernal meadowscape, or the sun-dappled periphery of an oak woodland. Its soft chalices of blue flowers are truly like an inverted eye of heaven that we are blessed to gaze down upon. Being with these flowers fills one with a gentle yet expansive sense of the Blue Infinite, as though we could give ourselves to the whole of heaven in pure trust and surrender. See a video filmed on location in the Terra Flora Gardens that illumines these qualities.
Distinctions: Sunflower and Mariposa Lily
Baby Blue Eyes heals the masculine archetype in a manner distinct from Sunflower. With Baby Blue Eyes, the qualities of trust and protection that one needed from the father or other masculine figure was abused or denied. The tall radiant Sunflower which exalts is the high summer sun is a very different flower essence quality, instilling yang, masculine forces of cohesion, confidence and positive self-identity.
Baby Blue Eyes is often used along with Mariposa Lily to heal early childhood trauma. But in the case of the beautiful Mariposa Lily, we are addressing the soul’s primal experiences regarding the mother archetype and its quality of unconditional love, warmth, and nourishing embrace.
To install this Web App in your iPhone/iPad press 
and then Add to Home Screen.
