Welcome to Desert Alchemy Flower Essences

Producing quality flower essences from the unique plants of the Arizona deserts since 1983


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Upcoming Workshops & Presentations

FLOWER ESSENCE CIRCLE

A Community of Support for Self-Awareness
Thursday, July 31, 2025

with Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer

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The FLOWER ESSENCE THERAPY COURSE 2025
Autumn Edition

16-Week Online Flower Essence Training
August 21 to December 11, 2025

Updated with the latest research and new insights into specific healing issues!

The Flower Essence Therapy Course is a unique opportunity to experience the healing power of the desert in a safe and protected environment and to develop the skills for working with yourself and others with flower essences.

This course provides a solid foundation for using flower essences while presenting an opportunity to contemplate and discover your inner gifts, talents, and challenges.

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Timely Flower Essences

A selection of universally applicable flower essences for this time.
You can use them in any combination or any of them on their own.

Cane Cholla Cactus

Finding a new and fresh perspective

If every day you find that there are problems that must be wrestled into submission, perhaps this essence can help you. When something is a problem, it means that the outcome might not be favorable.

Cane Cholla Cactus can help us change the way in which we view a situation. This is what I like to call the “Ah, hah!” essence, because we usually find ourselves allowing a new and fresh perspective of the situation. We find that just by changing the way we define a situation, we change our concept of it. We no longer have problems to deal with. They become projects in progress.

When you know that something is a project, it means that from the outset it has a resolution that you can create. With this attitude you can use your creative intelligence to find solutions rather than wrest with problems.

Desert Holly

Journeying from the head to the heart

One of the tiniest desert plants can help free you from one of the biggest problems you may have, that of placing conditions on love. You may have been taught that you have to be good to deserve love. Or, that you don’t deserve love for one of many different reasons, some of which might be unconscious or the result of dysfunctional parenting.

Desert Holly flower essence is a simple gift of grace. It helps us take the longest trip we will ever take, the journey from our heads to our hearts. It brings us the experience of unconditional love.
Desert Holly purifies and opens our hearts. It gently clears away emotional debris that obscures the natural flow of love. It helps us find unconditional love for ourselves. We find ourselves able to easily make heart connections with other people. This essence shows us the path to our hearts where we find that there is no way we can ever lose love. Love is not a commodity that we run out of or that we ever stop receiving. The love we feel from others is actually the love we feel for ourselves.

Pencil Cholla Cactus

When you feel you’ve gone off your path

Have you felt that you were on your path and then, somehow, find that you have gone astray? How did you get off your path when you clearly knew the general direction you wanted to go?

This essence helps you find your direction by invoking your higher power to show you the way. It shows you that it is through surrendering to Divine will that you are ultimately able to get back on your path. By asking for support from your higher self, you can find your way through the maze of life experiences. Quite often we say that we are willing to surrender our personal will to our higher self. Yet a short time later we insist upon things being the way that we want them. Pencil Cholla Cactus can bring you the patience to surrender repeatedly until you’ve found the way of your soul.

White Evening Primrose

Staying grounded during times of spiritual opening

Are you experiencing internal spiritual shifts but find it difficult to stay grounded? Or, do you feel that a spiritual power is missing from the world and chaos is reigning? Perhaps this flower essence can help.

This flower essence has also been shown to be effective for those who, when experiencing a spiritual opening or shifting, may be ‘spaced out’ or ungrounded. As we touch in with the angelic realm, it is easy to live with our heads in the clouds. When we vibrate with higher octave energy, we may feel disconnected from our mundane existence. White Evening Primrose can help us experience and maintain a spiritual connection while simultaneously maintaining a firm consciousness of earthy existence.

Sometimes the workings of the universe are mysterious.

Of all the flower essences I know, perhaps White Evening Primrose is best at helping us experience the perfection of the underlying flow of life. By this I mean the sense that everything is in perfect order and that we are flowing with our destiny. Its delicate flowers open the way to experience the deep joy that comes from spirit.

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And the ESSENCE of the YEAR 2025 is…

Every year Cynthia asks the devas to indicate a flower essence that is universally applicable that supports our continuing evolution and sets a theme of focus for the new year.

Read the announcement of the Flower Essence of the Year 2025:

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Updated Article!

Using Flower Essences with Pets

We updated our article on using flower essences with pets with a mini cross reference.

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About Us

We produce quality flower essences from the unique plants of the Arizona deserts, and make them available to holistic health practitioners and self-help users.

As pioneers of desert flower essences, our extensive research began in 1983 and continues today. Our publications are dedicated to sharing this research with others.

We provide flower essence therapy courses to health practitioners and individuals who wish to add flower essences to their repertory of healing tools.

We offer private flower essence consultations to individuals interested in using flower essences for emotional support, attitudinal changes, and self-awareness.
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