I read recently and have cited in a couple of posts of my own, Jes Kerzon's metaphor of a carnation and its petals representing the amalgam of a soul's incarnation experiences. I see reading your post, that the same metaphor works for each human lifetime, with each petal being a life-shaping experience forming the whole of the flower. Here's Jes's post. https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/re-in-carnations-97d1dcda9539

Here's one of my poems partially inspired by it: https://medium.com/write-under-the-moon/my-highest-powers-spoke-to-me-a8ab489fb263