Baumgruppe Anhang
Denn dieser Baum ist nur wenig
anders als Erde und Himmel.
Er ist die Erde, die sich in den
Himmel erhob, um die Berührungen des Windes und des Regens zu suchen,
und Himmel, der sich tief in die Erde tauchte, ihr Innerstes zu berühren
Bäume
sind die mächtigsten Bewohner unserer Erde. Bei den meisten Religionen und im
Brauchtum spiel(t)en die Bäume eine zentrale Rolle. Die Urvölker waren den
Bäumen sehr stark verbunden. Bäume wurden Gottheiten zugeordnet, die Kelten
z.B. hatten ein Baumorakel, nach dem jedem Sternzeichen ein Baum zugeordnet
ist. Sie sind allgegenwärtig und werden doch in der heutigen Zeit von den
meisten Menschen nicht mehr bewusst wahrgenommen. Dabei können wir von den
Bäumen sehr viel lernen, uns mit ihrer Kraft verbinden o. die Bäume um Rat und
Hilfe fragen.
Baumessenzen: nimmt die Kraft und die Schwingung des
jeweiligen Baumes auf. Dadurch erschließt sich dem Anwender der Essenz auf
einfache Weise die baumeigene Schwingung. Baumessenzen wirken in erster Linie
auf unseren feinstofflichen Körper ein. Die einzigartige Kraft und Energie der
'Baumseele' tritt mit unserer Seele in Resonanz und harmonisiert auf höchster Ebene.
Diese Energien beeinflussen gleichermaßen positiv unseren
Körper
und gebraucht zur Gesundheitsfürsorge.
Jüdische. Weisheit überliefert
von den Chassidim: Die 2 Bäume im Garten Eden, der
Baum der Erkenntnis [von Gut und Böse] (= Baum des Intellekts) und der Baum des
Lebens (= Baum der Dynamis) seien nur in dieser Welt
in
2 Bäume geteilt, denn in Wahrheit sei es nur ein einziger Baum, dessen
gemeinsame Wurzeln allerdings im Jenseits verankert seien. Weinreb
schreibt dazu weiter: "Da ist auch noch das Geheimnis des Baumes - ez -, der
mit
den Buchstaben Ajin und Zade
geschrieben wird. In diesem Wachstum, im ersten, das sich als Wachstum zeigt,
sind die beiden Seiten vereint. Deshalb spricht die Thora auch von den Bäumen
im Paradies, im Garten Eden.
Ajin [= das Auge], die Sicht auf das Leben, und Zade [= der Angelhacken], das Hinausgezogenwerden aus dem
Leben.
China.: Die fünf Elementenlehre
basiert auf fünf angenommenen Grundelementen (xíng),
vielleicht besser zu übersetzen als Wandlungsphasen oder Aktionsqualitäten.
Holz bzw. Baum Aufbruch, Entwicklung eines Handlungsimpulses, Expansion,
Steigen
Mythology: trees are often light bearers.
Maori: myth of Tane = God of
the forest separated his father and mother to allow light to come to the world.
(provings of Seq-g. Thuj. Guai. Agath-a
confirm this).
Trees are the ambassadors of time. Repetitive feelings
of being old and frail/tradition/longevity/aging/cycles and seasons.
Tree separates the worlds/in traditional cultures
holds up the sky and separates the mother earth from the father sky/separates
heaven and earth/mother and father/male and the female. Separation is a huge
theme in the tree family in Homeopathic medicine. A spontaneous proving of
Kauri (= Agath-a). Sent to me in June of 1999 by a
student. " I was conducting a spring clean of one of the rooms of a scientist
who works here and I spotted a box whose title caught my eye. It said ancient
wood samples. Being curious I found three bottles. The one opened was entitled
fossil Kauri and thinking to find a lump of petrified wood, I found instead a
fine powder which blew in my face as I took off the lid. Within seconds of
breathing in the powder, I became light headed and giggly [backed up by every prover in the proving of Kauri]. My first thought was Wow
this could be stuff like that from the wood between the worlds [CS Lewis „The
Magician's Nephew“] and it will transport me somewhere." Dream of Aladdin
on the carpet.
Trees always had a special magic calling us to
acknowledge a deep interconnectedness.
Rooted in the earth and reaching towards the sky, not
only are they a connection between the worlds, but they unify them. We know
this from our experience of using Thuja in the
clinic. = often used tree remedy. In Thuja is a
profound separation in the body. The soul is separated from the body, there is
something in the abdomen, that strange people stand beside the bed, that she is
pregnant, that there is something alive in the belly, that the legs are made of
wood, that there is a sense of brittleness and a liability to shatter. This
theme of separation, while being a major theme of Thuja
also belongs to the tree family. A prescription of Thuja
to the patient that describes his separation in this way has the effect of
connecting all the separate parts, it unifies the patient.
Sheltering, feeding, parenting and shading are
recurrent themes in Fic-m./common to the trees.
Mythologically worth
remembering: trees are home to spirits in a multitude of traditions.
Trees: Tradition, growth, old, wise, death, life after death. Stability, steadiness,
found, center, unchangeable, reserved, conservative,
stiff, rheumatism, rooted, strong, heavy.
Function: shelter, nourishment,
parenthood, shadow, caring for others, strong responsibility, oppressive
protectiveness, communication, danger/insecurity, judgment. Dominance, control,
wanting
to reach the sky (religious), dignity,
serene. Rough/rude, frail/brittle, transcendence, floating sensation. Ailments
from anticipation. Lack of creativity, inspiration. Isolation, resignation,
introvert,
emptiness. Connection, communication,
opposite, duality, loss of identity. Again we see some common themes here but
also big differences between the mineral/gem
world and the plant/trees world. The
common theme here would be death, life after death, rheumatism &
communication troubles.
Gilgamesch-Epos ist das
erste große Werk der Weltliteratur, erzählt Geschichte von Gilgamesch,
eines sumerischen Königs der 1. Dynastie von Uruk
(Bibel: Erech). Er erzürnte die Götter wegen brutalen
Frondienste, die er seinem Volk auferlegte. Sie hetzten den Wildmenschen Enkidu auf ihn. Enkidu und Gilgamesch haben einen Zweikampf Der Kampf bleibt unentschieden und beide
schließen Freundschaft. Später töten Gilgamesch und Enkidu den riesenhaften und bösartigen Wächter, Chumbaba, der heiligen Zeder. Mit Hilfe des Sonnnengottes, der Winden schickt. Sie fällen die heilige
Zedern.
In einem
anderen Abenteuer suchen Gilgamesch und Enkidu das Geheimnis des ewigen Lebens. Doch nachdem Gilgamesch es auf dem Meeresgrund gefunden hatte, stahl
eine Schlange ihm das Leben spendende Gewächs. Der Menschen, so die Botschaft
des Epos, der Mensch ist auf ewig den Tod bestimmt. Ihm bleibt nur der Stolz
auf seine Leistung.
Mythology: symbolic as the bearers of light. The New Zealand Maori myth of Tane for example bears out this point. Tane,
God of the forest separated his father and mother to allow light
to come to the world. Moreover the homeopathic provings of Seq. Thuj. Guai. and Agath-a all confirm the
symbolism of light bearing.
2. There is a strong aspect of time in the family
grouping of trees. Trees are the ambassadors of time. Repetitive feelings of
being old and frail, tradition longevity, aging, cycles and seasons
3. Tree that separates the worlds. Tree holds in
traditional cultures up the sky/separates the mother earth from the father sky.
Tree separates heaven and earth/mother and the father/male and female.
Separation is a huge theme in the tree family.
4. Trees have always had a special magic calling us to
acknowledge a deep interconnectedness. Rooted in the earth and reaching towards
the sky, not only are they a connection between the
worlds, but they unify them. We know this from our
experience of using Thuj in the clinic. Thuj can be the most used tree remedy. In Thuj. we know from its use over centuries, a profound
separation in the body. The soul is separated from the body, there is something
in the abdomen, that strange people stand beside the bed, that she is pregnant,
that there is something alive in the belly, that the legs are made of wood,
that there is a sense of brittleness and a liability to shatter. This theme of
separation, while being a major theme of Thuja also
belongs to the tree family. Prescription of Thuja
describes separation in this way has the effect of connecting all the separate
parts, it unifies the patient.
5. Sheltering, feeding, parenting and shading are
recurrent themes in Moreton Bay Fig and common to the
trees.
6. Mythology: trees are home to spirits in a multitude
of traditions.
Worshipped from Asia, N. America, Oceania to
‡
Baumstamm sind hoch
gestülpte Wurzeln (Erde) ‡
Bäume sind oft Mittelpunkt des Labyrinths.
„So lange der Baum gedeiht, gedeihen die Menschen“
In its more
extreme forms, this plant-like Calc force manifests as shrunken, withered
leathery, thorny and spiky plant stems as seen in the Cacti and many other
succulents, in Lithops the stone plant and, of
course, in trees.
But even
amongst trees, it manifests most typically in the dry, thorny, withered,
hardened and emaciated kind of tree that has adapted to extreme aridity.
[Maartje de Kok]
Physical characteristics of tree remedies in general:
Water system: kidneys, joints, perspiration.
a. Purifying the blood and the urine.
b. Regulation of the blood pressure
c. Making of red blood cells
d. Rheumatic complaints because of the stacking
of crystals where the amount of uric acid in the blood is high.
Air system: ailments of the bronchi, the
sinuses, colds.
Vascular system:
Need of sunlight; reaching enlightenment.
Common themes of the trees
The anatomy of the trees in general
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Deciduous |
Conifers / Taiga |
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Form |
Upwards, open canopy of leaves |
Downwards, closed canopy of leaves. |
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Chemicals |
Essential oils,
fragrances, nectars |
Turpentine, tars |
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Leaves |
Broad, flat, soft; seasonal change. Survive the winter by letting the leaves fall to prevent dehydration.
Here comes an end on the circulation of water. No deciduous tree can take
water at - 5° C. |
Survive the cold winters by minimizing their loss of water with their
hard waxy needles. The needles are ever green and are replaced after one or two years. |
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Ecological diversity |
Richer; offer more energy as dead leaves and provides more to other organisms.
More heterogeneous woods. Tree needs a lot of space. The canopy is so dense that just a few plants can survive. |
The ground is covered with slowly decaying needles which slowly offers
food to the soil. More homogeneous woods. |
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Flower |
Great variety of flowers, fruits, seeds. More than 60 families of angiosperms. The seeds are covered which biologically is an advantage. |
Cones (male / female) Gymnosperms, seeds are uncovered and found in the cones. |
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Animal |
Insects, bees, birds, mammals |
Ants (formic acids à veroudering) |
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Habitat |
Temperate, (sub-)tropical |
Boreal, North temperate Survive with hot and cold temperature, little amount
of sunlight and has only during 6 months water (can live in the desert). During 30 days the circumstances are optimal. |
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Soils |
Rich, moist soils or dry, well-drained rich humid soil, or dry soil. |
Mineral, sandy,
rocky. Pioneers. |
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Leeftijd |
100 million
years old |
300 million
years old. |
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Uses |
Foods, oils, furnishings, fine woods, instruments, spices, fragrance |
Softwoods, fuel, chemicals |
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The biodiversity in the (sub) tropical woods is large,
they contain about 80% of the species all over the world. Plants are growing
fast and are climbing at each other. They battle to survive like animals. Trees
in the subtropical
and the Mediterranean climates have more resistance to
heat than to cold. Their leaves are waxy, thick, like leather and have prickles
to protect them from being eaten by animals. In the tropical woods the trees
are green at all seasons. Heat and water are always there which stimulates a
fast growth. The growth however happens with short breaks which pattern permits
other plants to grow during the breaks.
Material functions of the tree for mankind
Herbert Erdlin mentions in “Bomen, bos en hout”
(= “Trees, forests and wood”) that trees are serving mankind in a lot more ways
than other organisms on earth: Trees are:
o Big recycler in the ecosystem.
o Holding the earth with its roots to prevent
erosion. Deciduous woods are holding 90% of the rain in the humus or organism.
o Offering place as a haven of refuge for
plants and animals.
o Offering special products like: wood,
charcoal, fibers (paper, cork), chemicals like gum, pain, wax, tannins, food
like resins, fruit, nuts, oils, sugar, medicines, psychoactive products like
coffee, cocoa, chocolate,
kola, poison, rubber, soap, cosmetics,
antiseptics and spices.
Features from the botany of trees
- Periodical growth in stages and cycles.
- Strength, leader: all organisms have to
adjust to changes in the woods.
- Survivor:
o Only a few seeds are developing into trees,
after a period of germination for two years. Only Salix and several others are
germinating faster.
o All trees are built to prevent dehydration.
Conifers survive extreme temperatures.
- An independent oneness: except for Thuja and several others which have offshoots, so these
ones have several new trees around them.
- Bound on his place; cannot move.
- Unselfish; caring for other organisms, for
example the production of oxygen, fruits, nuts, nectar.
- Large vascular system; which is holding a lot
of water preventing dehydration.
- Large breathing system; providing animals,
plants and humankind with oxygen.
- Protection and defence
function of the outer and inner bark due to the cork cells which do taste
bitter.
- Needy of:
o Sunlight for photosynthesis as a base of
growth.
o Plenty of water because of the strong
perspiration and therefore the great risk of dehydration.
o Minerals, like N, phosphor, kalium, C, H, oxygen, iron, magnesium, calcium, natrium and sulphur. Shortage or
abundance will determine the growth of the specific tree.
- Periodicity reproduction.
o Procrastinated reproduction. Trees will
blossom in adulthood where plants will blossom much earlier.
o The reproduction doesn’t differ much from the
plants; both need the help of insects, animals and the wind. Some deciduous
trees are producing nuts and conifers produce cones for reproduction.
o Only trees are known for mast years, the
periodicity of releasing a lot of seeds one year after a hot summer, thus in
the second fall.
The symbolism of the trees in general
People are having some kind of hatred to and a love
affair with trees. Trees are freely giving food, shelter and utilities and
meanwhile they are places of threatening danger and mystery. The woods do cover
a quarter of the
earth, but most of all in poor societies or where the
woods are not easily accessible. We are chopping them down for wood, paper and
other utilities. Treating the woods wisely with management they can exist
forever, but
fire or chopping down can destroy ecosystems for years
or forever. Woods seem to have no resistance and are slowly disappearing. In
all cultures trees take an important place as symbols of life and death, of
connection
and separation (from wholeness), of protection and of
responsibility. The tree seems to have an enormous archetypical power and are
often said to resemble mankind.
Paracelsus 1494-1541) described the human body in
terms of branches and roots:
Dieses Gewächs [...] gleicht dem Menschen. Es hat seine Haut, das ist
die Rinde; sein Haupt und Haar sind die Wurzeln; es hat seine Figur und seine
Zeichen, seine Sinne und seine Empfindlichkeit im Stamme. [...]
Sein Tod und sein Sterben sind die Zeit des Jahres.
Gisela Preuschoff described
mankind as:
the tree with the vertical axis and the
horizontal axis (shoulders, arms, hands). Fingers grow like new branches on the
trunk. The hand with its fingers does resemble the roots. The blood vessels
seem to branch like
nerves in a leaf and like the vessels in the trunk.
The bronchi branch like branches of the tree.
Dusty Miller, a talker to trees, agrees with this
resemblance, but in his opinion the tree stands upside down in the human body.
The roots are similar to the brains, the tree trunk is similar to our body and
the branches are similar
to our extremities. The leaves resemble the
lungs in his opinion.
We are using many words in our language which are
derived from the trees:
- ‘family tree‘ or in Dutch ‘stamboom´ or literally translated ´trunk tree´;
- ‘he is of the right stuff‘ or in Dutch ‘uit het goede hout
gesneden‘;
- rooted or earthy
- ‘a strapping fellow‘ or in Dutch ‘een boomsterke jongen‘ or literally translated ‘a boy strong like a tree‘.
- ‘not see the forest for the trees‘ or in
Dutch ‘door de bomen het bos
niet meer zien‘
- ‘high winds blows on high hills‘; hills is
replaced by the word trees in Dutch language.
The words and sayings are pointing to themes like
tradition and ancestry, stability with steadiness, found, centre and
invariableness and at last strength with being stoic, survival, conquering all
obstacles.
The theme of connection
In our temporary industrialised
society trees are slowly decimating what will give first of all loss of breath,
loss of life. Rainforest are known for having an ecosystem which is very
vulnerable. When one tree will die, other
species of plants and animals will also die. Deciduous
forests are less vulnerable than tropical woods but they have also refined
ecosystems which will take a long time to restore after destruction. This pace
of growing
indicates the long term working of the tree remedies.
Second, trees and forests are losing their meaning to
human life when you look at the loss of their value in social life. Some trees
were planted on social areas because of their symbolism and their mythology
(Lime-tree/oak).
It is interesting that people all over the world had
the same ideas about the trees. Trees in entirely different climates and
different cultures did have the same themes and mythology.
Jung: "The primordial image, or archetype, is a
figure (be it a daemon/a human being/a process) that constantly recurs in the
course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed.
Essentially,
therefore, it is a mythological figure. . . . In each
of these images there is a little piece of human psychology and human fate, a
remnant of the joys and sorrows that have been repeated countless times in our
ancestral history. . “
(CW 15: par. 127).
Jung tried to link the archetypes to heredity and
regarded them as instinctual. We are born with these patterns which structure
our imagination and make it distinctly human. Archetypes are thus very closely
linked to our bodies.
In his later work, Jung was convinced that the
archetypes are psychoid, that is, "they shape
matter (nature) as well as mind (psyche)". In other words, archetypes are
elemental forces which play a vital role in the creation of the world and of
the human mind itself. The ancients called them elemental spirits. Humans do
not have separate, personal unconscious minds. We share a single Universal
Unconscious. Mind is rooted in the Unconscious just as
a tree is rooted in the ground. We have our own
history as humans, but it is shaped according to universal patterns. Therefore
the tree is such an important and powerful archetype
Although mankind seems to be losing some connection
with the trees there are still stories and meditations about trees.
In the poem ´When you are a poet… ´ at the beginning
of this chapter Thich Nhat Hanh speaks of the "interbeing
nature of things." If everything is inter-related, then nothing has its
own self-contained existence. The centre
is everywhere. This is a non-dual view of the cosmos.
It strongly resembles Jung‘s concept of synchronicity – ―an acausal connecting principle." This perspective is
related to the Buddhist view of ´emptiness´. So pathology
in patients with themes about interrelatedness,
communication, connection and emptiness may be treated with homeopathic tree
remedies.
Trees were seen as mediators between heaven and earth
because of the roots reaching deep into the earth and the branches touching the
sky. The tree symbolically connects the upper world (the heavens), the middle
or the earth
world (like the Tolkien’s Middle Earth of the Lord of
the Rings) and the lower world (the regions below the earth realms). The
concept of the world tree or cosmic tree is not only known in shamanism but
also in Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. The cosmic tree was revered and
worshipped by the community. The shaman used the tree to journey from the earth
to the upper and lower realms. He would gain information for the benefit of the
community.
According to Jan Cicchetti
in Dreams, symbols & homeopathy the tree is the symbol of the process of
growth toward the Self and the cross section of the tree as mandala
representing the Self. The archetypal image of the tree
is associated with growth, nourishment and unfolding of
the individual, both physically and spiritually. Jung wrote of the tree in
alchemical studies as representing growth from below upward and from above
downwards and
finally being rooted to the spot in old age,
personality, and finally death and rebirth.
Besides the mediation between heaven and Earth there
is also the mediation between light and dark and good and evil. In Jungian
psychology from the psychodynamic theory we know the conscious, the sub
consciousness
and the unconsciousness. The latter represents the
darkness, the unknown, inside of people. For growth people do need to explore
the darkness within them. But overzealous attempts at reaching psychic heights
or delving into
the depths of the underworld can leave the seeker or
the adventurer in a very dangerous place.
Trees have also the theme of the drive of growing
upwards to God, to attain spiritual enlightenment. The danger for trees
literally spoken is being struck by lightning when growing up too high. The
enlightenment will then be sacrificed with death as the consequence. Trees will
take that risk of dying when reaching for enlightenment. This enlightenment
theme is seen in the myth of the Bodhi tree, where
Gautama Buddha is thought to have realized
his awakening under Ficus religiosa. In homeopathy it is known that all members of
the Ficus family are empty inside, lacking the hard
inner pith. An example of the darkness has been seen in the old days in some
cultures
that men were worshipping trees with the obligation to
bring even deadly sacrifices to honour the God of
ghost in the tree.
We learn from this enlightenment / darkness theme that
trees need to find a balance in growing up and rooting deeper into the inner
world to develop a healthier way of personal growth; physically and spiritually.
Kabir: 15th century
expresses the themes of conscious and the unconscious.
Between the conscious and the unconscious, the
mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between
these two trees, and it never winds down. Angels, animals, humans, insects by
the
million, also the wheeling sun and moon; ages
go by, and it goes on. Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire, and
the secret one slowly growing a body. Kabir saw that
for fifteen seconds, and it made him a
servant for life.
Sri Aurobindo (1872 – 1958)
expresses the conflict of rooting into the earth and reaching out for the sky:
A tree beside the sandy River-beach Holds up
its topmost boughs Like fingers towards the skies They cannot reach,
Earth-bound, heaven-amorous. This is the soul of man. Body and brain Hungry for
earth our heavenly flight detain.
The theme of connection between heaven and
earth and dark and light is one of integrating both sides, to transform those
sides into oneness or wholeness. The separation between the roots and the upper
branches, between heaven and earth, between dark and light has a noted similar
separation between good and evil. The tree appears in Christianity as the tree
of knowledge in the garden of paradise. Adam and Eve‘s fall from paradise for
eating the tree‘s fruit. Eve chose for knowledge and consciousness instead of
the immortality of the life tree. The inner peace, being safe in the creation,
free of grief and sickness en the Tree of Life in the paradise was lost. After losing
the innocence of the animal existence people learned to know distress,
suffering, disease, guilt, imperfection, being torn, fear of the future,
sexuality, not just following their instincts. People will learn to know the
opposites and have lost the sensation of wholeness.
The theme of protection is reflected in the
planting of holy trees in the central area of a town or settlement. They have
borne witness to many aspects of community life, from romantic meetings to
harsh trails by town fathers. The oak and the Lime-tree were sacred trees with
the Germans in the old days. They were used as guiding and protecting trees
when judging people at the central area.
They were also used for marking borders. Crossing
those trees was punished with an awful death penalty. Also bringing wounds to
or cutting trees was heavily punished.
In Christianity a lot of sacred oaks and Limes were
chopped down in those days because of the forbidden tree cult of the heathens.
With the Reformation in the sixteenth century there was another round of
cutting the trees down. In the line of these stories trees are known in
homeopathy for dominance and leadership.
The theme of the cycle of life and death
Knowing the central themes of connection and
protection we can understand that in mythology trees are seen as symbols of
life. Trees are a source of life and strength because of the oxygen animals and
mankind receive from trees and because of the mystery of the yearly cycle of
growing, blossoming and dying of the tree, especially the deciduous ones. The
cycle symbolizes nature and the transitory life.
The Ash was in Northern countries the Ygdrasil, the tree of life and knowledge. The tree of life
was associated with the rising of the juice, the creation, the spirituality. The tree
of knowledge was associated with the lowering of the juice, the salvation,
the energy out of rain and dew. Ygdrasil was also a
tree where judgment did take place.
The tree was often brought in connection with rituals
of transformation, from childhood to adult. With the birth of a child people
used to plant a young tree. The female Lime symbolised
the life force for boys and girls.
Children would have been born in trees in myths of
Germans, especially hollow trees, instead of being brought by the stork.
Nowadays in Italy still parents do urge their sons to climb through a cleaved
trunk 3x.
The cleavage symbolises a
vagina where the boys will rebirth in a ritual way. A picture of Virgin Maria
at the cleavage stays put when the tree grows older. As symbol of life people
used to plant may trees on the last Sunday of April, a symbol of fertility.
Dancing and games were held as a sign for joy and innovation. The Lime-tree
could have been such a tree.
The lights of the temporary Christmas tree did
represent in the old days the galaxies of stars as they revolve around the
polestar (the star at the top). The Christmas tree symbolises
the birth of the sun and the light won from the darkness. The ever green tree,
a conifer, fortifies this statement.
Death follows after life, which is represented by
Germans who buried their deaths in hollowed oaks and people like Buddha and
Indians who chose to die beneath a tree.
Trees are reaching out for the sky, what means that
patients who need a tree remedy may have sensations of floating, of floating
out of the body. They will come back out of sense of responsibility for their
loved ones. Think of the duty of trees to nourish other organisms in their
ecosystems. Trees are not feeling responsible for themselves in their search
for the Self, digging in the unconsciousness or reaching the sky for
enlightenment. They want to stay alive out of a feeling of responsibility, out
of a feeling to have to protect other people. When people have a weak middle
realm they can slip easier out of the body. Each tree has a different tone to
these feelings of responsibility and protection.
An overview of the themes of the trees in
general
Trees can differ enormously in size, outer look, blossoming,
structure, age, society of the wood and in dominance. Looking at the botany and
the history, the mythology and the archetypal value of the trees we can derive
essential themes for prescribing tree remedies in the
homeopathy. Each tree remedy has its own qualities and indications for
prescribing. All qualities have their positive and their negative side, as of
two sides of a medallion.
For this overview of features of the trees in general
I used the lecture of David Kent Warkentin and Asa Hershoff in 1999 about
‘Homeopathy & Trees‘. The symptoms in the right column are translations to
more useful characteristics for homeopathy. Therefore I used some notes of a
lecture of Alize Timmerman.
Themes of trees in general
Homeopathic themes of tree remedies
Time: tradition, growth, ancestry, cycles and seasons.
Old
Wise
Death. Life after death.
Stability: steadiness, found, centre,
unchangeable.
Reserved / conservative
Stiff, rheumatism
Rooted
Strong
Heavy
Function: shelter, nourishment, parenthood,
shadow
Caring for others
Strong responsibility
Oppressive protectiveness
Communication
Danger / insecurity
Judgement
Ruler: overview, supervision, leadership,
lofty.
Dominance
Control
Wanting to reach the sky
religious
Dignity
Serene
Earth: hard, dense, mineral, transcendent.
Rough / rude
Frail / brittle
Transcendence
Floating sensation
Strength: stoic, survivor; survives all
obstacles
Ailments of anticipation
Vitality: tree of life, source, inspiration
(also breath), healing, regeneration.
Lack of creativity
Lack of inspiration
Soloist.
Isolation
Resignation
Introvert
Emptiness
Connection / duality
Connection
Communication
Opposites
Duality
Loss of identity
Tree of Emptiness
"Attain to utmost Emptiness Cling single
heartedly to interior peace. While all things are stirring together I only
contemplate the Return. For flourishing as they do Each of them will return to
its root. The return to the root is
to find peace. To find peace is to fulfill one's
destiny To fulfill one's destiny is to be constant To know the constant is
called Insight." Who seeks the root of the Tree of the Tao Sinks to his
knees in humility. He who once
wrote epics Now spends his days Digging under the
Trunk To suck on roots of awe And spends entire nights kissing in meditation
The timeless fragrances of the leaves. Time becomes circular like the Wheel Of
his Being.
"The Five colours can
blind; The Five tones can deafen." Now on the page of his notebook The
Poet writes only syllables... Nuances Of the marriage of The Yin and The Yang
Within.
Michael Mathias, Collected Works, 1993-2005
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.