Forest Pine
• Predominant energy / excess: Yang
• Notable Characteristic: Heart
• Governing planet: Mars
• Corresponding Chakra: 5° Chakra
• Source of Oil: Leaf
• Emotional benefits / properties:
The fortifying and anti-stress effects of this robust plant are derived from its capacity to govern or stimulate the suprarenal crust.
There are obvious advantages to controlling the fight or flight response in that it helps the body to maintain physical equilibrium.
However the greatest effects are in the sexual sphere of the psychic plane. Similar to Cypress in many respects, Forest Pine also expresses a funerary concept.
It also expresses phallic energy, metaphorically indicating to us its capacity to generate a sense of procreation and the cyclical nature of life.
Pine is a good friend to man in that it amplifies his physical strength, freeing him of the (self) guilt associated with male virility and arrogance.