The Spiritual Impact of Sunflowers- The Occult Language of Flowers

There is a Greek myth alluding to the sunflower being a transmuted water nymph called Clytie, who became besotted with Apollo. Her love was unrequited, and she suffered greatly through the rejection. In one version of the story, she starves herself through grief and slowly transmutes into a sunflower as a representation of her love for Apollo. A less macabre version tells that the other Gods take pity on Clytie, seeing that she is in such sorrow, so they change her into the yellow flower so she may match Apollo’s beauty.