Insufficient interest in present circumstances

Chestnut Bud

Helps when you from making the same mistake over and over again, do not learn by experience. They may be impatient and always thinking ahead. You do not take full advantage of observation and experiences and therefore it takes longer for you to learn a lesson, failing to base actions on past experiences.    Potential following transformation: Mentally flexible, a good learner.  Mentally active, also learning by observing the behaviour of others.  Attention is always focused on the present, with every experience and inner gain. Getting the best out of what daily life has to give. Able to see oneself and ones faults from a distance, as others see them.

Clematis 

People are dreamers, absent – minded, lack of concentration and vitality, quiet people without proper interest in present, absorbed in thoughts and fantasy, sleepy and unobservant, romantic, imaginative, unrealistic.  Symptoms may include drowsiness, constant inclination to sleep, distant drifting feeling, marked pallor, slowness, sensitivity to noise, numbness, faintness, indifference, make little effort to get well and may even welcome the prospect of death, often stumbling, drop things through inattention, ‘float off’ in conversation, laxadaisical air.   Potential following transformation: Has control of thought world and is daily finding new interest in the real world, because the connections between the different worlds and the deeper meaning behind them is understood and accepted. Purpose in bringing creativity to physical realisation, as a writer, actor, designer etc. 

Honeysuckle

For nostalgia, homesickness, those who live much in the past, past loves, happiness, unhappiness, regrets, success or failures, those who live on their memories, desiring to escape present in romanticised view of past. Potential following transformation: Has a living relationship with the past, but is living in the present.  Has learnt from past experience but does not cling to it.  Able to preserve what was beautiful in the past for the present.  Able to bring the past back to life ie: as a writer, historian, archeologist.

Mustard

Helps when you feel suddenly depressed without any reason. It feels like a cold dark cloud that destroys normal happiness and cheerfulness.  Gloom, melancholy.  Depression is intense and cannot be alleviated until it lifts as unexpectedly as it came.   Potential following transformation: Inner serenity, cheerfulness and stability on bright and cloudy days.

Olive  

For those who suffer from complete mental / physical exhaustion, who have drained their reserves of energy so that they have no more strength.  Applicable after prolonged illness, lengthy sickbed nursing, a personal ordeal (war, divorce, crisis etc.) after overwork or overworry, when a superhuman effort has been made.  When we are mentally and physically rundown.   Potential following transformation: Great strength and vitality.  During periods of stress, relies completely on inner guidance. and is thus able to cope with even extreme demands with cheerfulness.

White Chestnut

For a pattern of thoughts that constantly repeats and gives no rest to the mind, continual internal argument, worry and chatter, mental congestion.  Thoughts circulate without resolution, going over and over the same conflict, preoccupation that obstructs clarity, a drama is forever re-enacted in the mind and gives no rest.  Symptoms may include tiredness, insomnia, confusion, lack of calmness, nervous worry, often causes headaches.   Potential following transformation: Balanced state mind, head clear and calm.  Solution for every problem comes up of its own accord from a calm mind.  Able to use ones powers of thought constructively.

Wild Rose 

For resignation, apathy, surrender, failure to make effort, fatalism, just drift downhill, dullness, lack of interest, no spark or vitality, sense of monotony, expresionless drone to voice, weariness, dull companion.   Potential following transformation: Finds new vital interest in life daily.  Everyday life is coped with without it becoming a paralysing routine.  Able to follow the inner laws of life happily.  Lives in a feeling of inner freedom and flexibility.