All about Flower Essences: Archangel Raphael

“You are a guide of those who journey by land or sea or air, consoler of the afflicted, and refuge of sinners. I beg you, assist me in all my needs and in all the sufferings of this life, as once you helped the young Tobias on his travels. Because you are the medicine of God, I humbly pray you to heal the many infirmities of my soul and the ills that afflict my body. Angel of health, the Lord has filled your hand with balm from heaven to soothe or cure our pains. Heal or cure the victim of disease and guide our steps when doubtful of our ways. Amen.” -Prayer to the Archangel Raphael

I’ll never forget the first time Archangel Raphael came into my life. I had just gone through a huge series of shifts in my personal, professional and spiritual life, and was feeling particularly run down, exhausted, and scared about the future. In many ways, my life felt like a war zone— and I was almost scared of hoping for improvements as I spent several months waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Then, I started to have incredible, magical dreams.

In them, I was shown very precise, symmetric arrangements of specific flowers— like hydrangea, hyacinth, and lily of the valley- set in vases. The number of the flowers were always in 3’s, 6’s and 9’s. A beautiful Kelly green light would fill the space, and no words were exchanged— either verbally/ audibly or telepathically.

After a few days of these dreams, after which I always woke up feeling better, more balanced and “tuned” in some vague, indescribable way, I decided it was high time to figure out what— and who— I was in psychic contact with. So, I sat down to undertake a Shamanic Journeying Meditation but, just a few seconds into hearing the drumming music begin to play, Archangel Raphael was seated right in front of me, clear as day.

I shut the music off, looked at him and, after a brief internal back-and-forth about whether or not this experience was an overt symptom of a psychotic break, I decdied to “talk” to him via two of my most dominant “clairs”: claircognizance and clairsentience. Archangel Raphael confirmed that he had been healing me using the vibrational energies of various flowers, numbers, and sacred geometry (the shapes and formations of the flowers in their otherworldly vase). He showed me that his style of healing is more about removing “gunk”: noise, toxins, energies, behaviors, and other environmental factors to enable the body to regain balance— which, he asserted, was the body and energy body’s default setting.

Since this memorable introduction, I’ve worked with Raphael many times, both in my personal practice and in my client-facing sessions. His energy is always supportive, quiet, gentle, and inevitably brings along images of various aspects of nature: his unique green light; flowers, plants and trees; and various animals, of whom he seems to have tremendous influence!

I kept all of these experiences in mind when formulating our new Archangel Raphael TOTEM Flower Essence Premium Blend, which is now available on our TOTEMReadingsATX Etsy Shop. This new blend brings together the vibrational energies of these flower essences:

Queen Anne’s Lace just feels like the most Archangel Raphael flower there is, offering insights into the unseen healing powers and attributes of various plants, trees, flowers, and herbs within the practice of intuitive, spiritual and medical herbalism. This is the flower essence that gives this new archangel-inspired blend its notably positive, supportive, and “on the side of light” bent on “kitchen witchery”.

Nasturtium Flower Essence acts as the optimal uplifting and grounding energetic support system, encouraging a warm and sustainable connection to the earth grid, nature, and one’s own natural rhythms and systems. This is the essences that gives our new Archangel Raphael blend its healing, vitalizing, and grounding aspect.

Archangel Raphael seems to have a unique relationship with nature spirits, fairies, and the creatures of the earth, so our Fig Tree Flower Essence injects a bit of elemental nature magic into our new archangel-inspired blend.

I’m so pumped to honor this wonderful, sweet and supportive archangel with this flower essence, and can’t wait to hear about the results in the comments right here on Substack!

-Rachel