Purple Loosestrife

Purple Loosestrife: Love’s Embrace

Lythrum salicaria; Lythraceae

Purple Loosestrife supports the compassionate, visionary heart that allows us to truly love our enemies. Whether our enemies are other people, challenging circumstances, or evolving parts of ourselves, the essence shifts our world-view from narrow judgments to larger heart understandings. Helping us hold contradiction and paradox, Purple Loosestrife supports us in allowing a third way to emerge. The essence gives us courage to face enormous shifts at the personal, societal, and ecological levels. Within love’s embrace, we find the compassion to address violence, evil, and adversity in our personal lives and the larger world.

Flower color: purple; Musical term: a choral fugue