BY JEMMA FOSTER
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Jemma Foster is an interdiscipinary artist, writer and creative consultant. Her work researches human and more-than human imagination, at the intersection of art and technology. Rooted in the healing arts, her practice draws from alchemy, geomancy and social dreaming, to create bio-therapeutic soundscapes, immersive installations and guided rituals for interspecies communication. Jemma is the founder and director of creative consultancy, experience design studio and mixed-media publishing house Wild Alchemy Lab. She is half of artist duo Semantica, whose practice incorporates sound, film, generative art and sculptural works to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds.
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BY JEMMA FOSTER
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Jemma Foster is an interdiscipinary artist, writer and creative consultant. Her work researches human and more-than human imagination, at the intersection of art and technology. Rooted in the healing arts, her practice draws from alchemy, geomancy and social dreaming, to create bio-therapeutic soundscapes, immersive installations and guided rituals for interspecies communication. Jemma is the founder and director of creative consultancy, experience design studio and mixed-media publishing house Wild Alchemy Lab. She is half of artist duo Semantica, whose practice incorporates sound, film, generative art and sculptural works to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds.
BY JEMMA FOSTER
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Jemma Foster is an interdiscipinary artist, writer and creative consultant. Her work researches human and more-than human imagination, at the intersection of art and technology. Rooted in the healing arts, her practice draws from alchemy, geomancy and social dreaming, to create bio-therapeutic soundscapes, immersive installations and guided rituals for interspecies communication. Jemma is the founder and director of creative consultancy, experience design studio and mixed-media publishing house Wild Alchemy Lab. She is half of artist duo Semantica, whose practice incorporates sound, film, generative art and sculptural works to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds.
BY JEMMA FOSTER
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Floromancy is an ancient form of earth divination that draws psychic impressions from flowers. A form of psychometry, where a felt sense of awareness of a plant provides a mirror to the soul of the beholder, through the expression of growth, shape, texture, colour and habitat. When paired with knowledge of properties of a plant, mythology and folklore, and floriography (the language of flowers), it becomes a potent exercise in interspecies communication.
FLOWER GAZING
Allow your body to guide you
Stay with the first flower that draws your attention
Relax your mind
Find a comfortable position
Breathe deeply
As you become witness to its
colour
texture
form
frequency
It becomes your mirror
reflecting back
sensations
memories
thought forms
that arise within you
Pyschometric flower map
Whole Flower → current state, personality
Roots → origins, foundational choices
Stem → life path (past → present)
Leaves / branches → opportunities and diversions
Flower (blossom) → identity and current state
Centre → inner self / soul
Stem (Life Path)
The stem represents a timeline of the past:
Read from bottom (past) → top (present)
Texture changes = events or emotional shifts
Smooth stem → Stable childhood, calm, patient,
may suppress emotions
Bumpy stem → Difficult or solitary past
Guarded, communication challenges
Irregularities → Unresolved experiences,
emotional complexity, relationship issues
Weak stem → Sensitive, fragile, avoids conflict
Prone to worry or emotional strain
Bloom
Large bloom → Openness, love of movement or travel
Small flowers → Home, intimacy, family
Symmetrical → Order, structure
Abundant blooms → Attraction to luxury or richness
Single small bloom → Focus on private happiness
Buds → New beginnings
Future opportunities (career, finances, life direction)
Petals
4 lines → hope
5 lines → fear
Curving right → prosperity
Curving left → difficulty
7 streaks → love compatibility
8 streaks → instability
9 streaks → emotional change
Pistil/Centre (Inner Core)
Ordered centre → methodical personality
Fine petals → sensitivity
Damaged structures → emotional difficulties
Whole Plant Reading
Limp or dull → low energy, depletion
Bright and expansive → vitality
Many flowers → social, connected
Single isolated flower → solitude
Tall dominant stem → determination
Colour Symbolism
White → healing, clarity
Red → vitality, passion
Yellow → emotional balance
Orange → energy, stimulation
Green → growth, recovery
Blue → calm, cooling
Purple → spiritual depth
Pink → nurturing, emotional healing
Brown → grounding
Jemma Foster is an interdiscipinary artist, writer and creative consultant. Her work researches human and more-than human imagination, at the intersection of art and technology. Rooted in the healing arts, her practice draws from alchemy, geomancy and social dreaming, to create bio-therapeutic soundscapes, immersive installations and guided rituals for interspecies communication. Jemma is the founder and director of creative consultancy, experience design studio and mixed-media publishing house Wild Alchemy Lab. She is half of artist duo Semantica, whose practice incorporates sound, film, generative art and sculptural works to examine ways of sensing and co-creating with more-than-human worlds.