Cherry - Renewal
The spirit of cherry has emerged to reconnect you with your sweetness.
Your heart, although hurt, at its core radiates the softest love, emanating from your truest essence.
Cherry bark tones the heart muscles, relieving palpitations & increasing circulation. It soothes anxiety & promotes restful sleep. It is anti-inflammatory, cooling excess heat, & antioxidant, helping the body to rid itself of cellular waste. It's potent astringency, the ability to bring cells together, is one of it's trademark traits & the reason why it tonesthe blood and gut. It has often been used by herbalists historically for coughs & fevers.
nothing is permanent; the good times pass just as the bad. impermanence can trigger anxiety because it forces you to ground in the now.
the present is precious. take a moment to smell the cherry blossoms while they're still in bloom.
the spirit of the cherry tree reveals itself to you now to symbolize the spiritual renewal of your sensuality.
you are sweet, pure, innocent, & beautiful regardless of what happened to you.
even the parts of you that you hide out of shame are sweet & pure & worthy of tender love.
embrace your sensuous nature sweetly & lovingly, open your petals tenderly, drop your blossoms gracefully.
there may have been harmful experiences that convinced you that you are impure, ugly, unloved & unlovable.
you still remain pure, whether or not you can believe it yet.
I'm sorry you've been fed lies, stealing from you the opportunity to see your full beauty. know that you are preciously beautiful still.
many of us have experienced violations of our sexuality & sensuality, robbing us of feeling safe in our softness.
many of us have determined it is safer to be hard-hearted.
I'm sorry you've been hurt for being beautiful.
I promise you: the world needs your beauty & that's why it created you.
Forgive yourself for hardening your heart. Forgive yourself for hurting or neglecting yourself when you were in survivor mode.
Forgive yourself for being a survivor; you didn't choose this & it isn't your fault. Breathe deeply, calmly.
It is safe to be soft again.
