Pflanzen Wondrous Order of Plants
Table of Plants: the fourth column
[Michal Yakir, Koby Nechustan]
Theme: feminine, nourishing element, and
the unbalanced states shaped around it.
Column four is the midpoint of the table of plants. It represents the
balance between the masculine and feminine qualities of giving and receiving.
The lesson of the column is the ability to give and receive without
experiencing a lack. This often relates to issues of fertility and to female
pathologies in general.
The column is associated with maturity of the feminine quality and its
primary nurturing function in any manifestation. Physically, it is represented
in the organism’s attitude toward food intake - manifesting as digestive
problems anywhere: from the mouth to the anus. There are lots of food and
eating issues - and the related metabolism (slow or too fast). Psychologically,
the 4th column is focused on the question of what it takes to balance the
nurturing, receiving and giving one needs in order to develop, so that one can
fullfill all aspects of one’s life.
Poales order: the basic food plants (wheat/rice/corn/sugarcane and other
staple sources), serving as fundamental nutritive sources for all mammals -
belongs to this column.
Human beings require more than physical food for their development;
other nurturing ‘fuel’ sources are required: emotions, impressions, and so on.
A fundamental force in human development is the family unit within which
one is nurtured early on and subjected to the formative influences which come
to shape one’s future. Thus, the column deals with the entire range of family
dynamics as one matures along the stages (rows) within the column.
For example, early on in the column Thea (order Theales), uncertain of
its ability as a mother, fearing she might succumb to her urges and throw the
child into the fire.
Sarraceniales order of carnivorous plants, which lack basic nutrition
(‘maternal nurturing’) and have become predators; an example is the Drosera
case appearing in this issue, or another, where an undernourished teenage girl,
whose mother gave her money but not warmth, stopped eating, out of a sort of
revenge.
These examples point toward the basic human need for maternal love,
which is just as important as physical nutrition. Thus, in relation to this
column we may ask: “How much love was there at home? Did the mother give enough
love? Was it provided appropriately, or might it have been overly smothering or
distant?”
In the Malvales order, these questions are apparent in the picture of
Chocolate.
As one matures along the stages of the column, the issue of nurture
becomes increasingly associated with giving (not receiving), especially to
one’s immediate family. Accordingly, questions arise about being an ample
provider for one’s partner and family - whether
emotionally, financially, or materially - and to one’s ability to handle
and manage abundance (i.e. whether one’s prosperity nurtures and allows one to
grow, or leads to deterioration). These questions reflected in the Cucurbitales
order represented by Bryonia.
Nearing the end of the column, the stage of later adulthood (Salicales),
the issue of nurturing concerns one’s capacity to contain abundance - whether
in the form of food, relationships, or love, as well as to the question that
emerges toward the end of every row, namely as to whether one’s life has borne
fruit. Specifically, one evaluates family and intimate relationships: whether
or not they are satisfactory, what is their essence, what keeps them alive, and
whether they are sustainable.
The Capparales order, at the stage of old age, completes the column.
In general, the end of every column represents the completion of that column’s
process of evolution: the path has come to an end, is blocked and done with.
The end of column four represents the end of the stage of Ego development in
the context of being immersed within one’s family. At this stage, nurturing
cannot come from outside the family, which is perceived as its essential and
only source. Thus, the order represents the very end of the evolution of the
feminine quality through the early columns, and everything which to date has
been positively nurturing now becomes unbearable. Accordingly, we observe
qualities of being stopped, blocked, smothered, stuck, and unable to move
forward (themes observed by Sankaran) - as opposed to the flow to be seen in
the beginning of column five.
On the physical plane, we observe the theme of blockage of every
feminine quality which normally flows, leading to tissue sclerosis, scarring,
infertility, dysmenorrhea, retarded digestion (flatulence, constipation),
sensation of heaviness, and stoppage of body fluids, as in the case of blocked
nasal passages.
Emotionally, we see (at the end of the column) all that was previously
warm and nurturing - whether the home, family, or intimate relationships -
become restrictive and suffocating, turning from supportive to hindering,
disabling, and potentially emasculating. In this context, we may observe a man,
previously able to feed and support a whole family, now feeling that he can no
longer continue in the role of the provider and develops an aversion to the
ongoing demands of his role - indicating an end of 4th column remedy.
Consequently, a man (or equally a woman) may develop a deep aversion to family
members, as in a Raphanus woman who becomes averse to her own daughter. It is
as if they carry on their shoulders the cross of the family in silent suffering,
but internally, they already wish to move on to the next stage of Ego
differentiation - only the pathology prevents this change from coming.
Every remedy of the column expresses those fundamental themes in a
unique way, and it is therefore crucial to study the differentiating symptoms
of each and every remedy. The main concerns of remedies from this column,
however, will always revolve around one of the themes just described.
[Michal Yakir]
Key words
Case of a Child Suffering from Ear Infections
This is a case study of a four-year-old child, arriving with his mother
for a first consultation on 28.4.10.
Observation: a delicate looking child, with an adorable smile. Plays
with the fairies and butterflies on my desk.
The problem: repetitive ear infections.
The child suffers from a common cold most of the time. The mother tells
me that since he was a baby he suffered from recurring ear infections, a
condition accompanied with secretion from the ears.
He constantly suffers from the common cold, which became a chronic
condition with a constantly stuffed nose.
The last ear infection occurred a month ago, when he was found to have
enlarged adenoids, a third tonsil and an air blockage.
The teacher in his playschool thought his hearing was decreasing.
Medical findings showed a slight decrease.
He grinds his teeth at night, especially when it is noisy - for
instance, when his baby brother cries.
Still wets his bed at night.
The mother narrates:
“He has two older brothers (8 and 11) and a younger one-year-old brother
(received him relatively well, pretty much ignores him …)
He is an amazing child, he becomes acclimatized quickly everywhere. He
is very cool and gets along with everything. He has no anxieties during
day-to-day life. He was always a calm child, and this is why I decided to have
yet another baby … but perhaps, something which is suppressed during the
day surfaces at night? During the day he is calm, but a medium we consulted
suggested his anxieties are related with a past life. … He is occupied
with what happens when one dies, what will happen when he dies? When his mother
dies?
He is a sensitive child, and highly sociable. He is friends with
everyone in his playschool; when he sees someone from afar he will call him
even if he is on the other side of the street. He is also quick to befriend new
children.
He has a highly developed imagination and a high ability to concentrate;
he can occupy himself on his own.
He likes cuddling, falls asleep at night while stroking me. He is good
with girls. He is not a fighting, physical boy. (Strokes himself with a feather
at my office.) Knows how to express love, to cuddle and hold, can even hug and
kiss his friends from time to time.
Communicates, like my husband, something optimistic, happy and safe.
However, like him, he is addicted to control: he is bossy, tries to dictate the
course of events so that things will go the way he intends them to. He dislikes
changes. Rigid, even though from the outside he appears soft and sweet.
Highly competitive - he has to be in first place, it is very important
to him, to be number one - with his siblings in particular, even though he is
younger than they are. When his siblings fight he tells them - he is friends
with both of them. On the one hand he competes with them and on the other, it
is highly important that everyone likes him. Should one brother tell him, “I am
not your friend” - he wants to die. This really threatens him. It is highly
important that they will not be angry with him. If I am angry with him - he is
worried about it, from a young age”.
He is short for his age.
Cravings: Sweets (3) especially lollipops, purple, pink and red ones. He
likes to eat chocolate and cheese. Otherwise he is not much of an eater.
He is not fond of tomatoes (recently) and potatoes.
Pregnancy was desired and healthy but the labor was induced (Pitocin)
since he was not yet born by his due date. “The hospital pressured us to induce
the labor, but it was unnecessary. The birth was horrific, and I went through
immense pain. I felt horrible contractions - the worst pain I ever felt.”
Speech late: it took a while until he spoke. To this day he
mispronounces words.
Pimples? The mom suffered from them as a teenager, the father did too.
Case Analysis
In approaching this case I used the Table of Plants structure, as the
case demonstrates clear indications of the fifth column in the Table: the
competitiveness, bossiness, his need to control others, to be the first, to be
“taller”. All that points to the fifth column. His need to establish
relationships, his needs to please others, to be likeable in a charming way
along with excessive emotional sensitivity, occupation with the world beyond,
thoughts about death and ghosts - all point to the first row, particularly with
the history of an early-induced labor, which is a clear indication of a “pre”
process, or the first row.
There is an excessive need to please, the gentleness, the desire to hug,
kiss and cuddle, and the desire for sweets; the “pink” aura that surrounds the
entire case. All these point to the Rose family (which is situated in the
beginning of the fifth column).
Out of the Rosales, Rosa damascena has a known affinity to ear
pathology, and issues with height and competitiveness. It was chosen as the
remedy for the case.
Table 1 Repertorization using RADAR program.
Repertorization
Ros-d. Nux-v. Sil. Staph. Lac-leo. Aur-met.
3/3 2/3 2/3 2/2 2/2 1/3
MIND - ANGER from contradiction 1 2 2 1 1 3
MIND - COMPETITIVE with 1 - - 1 - 3
brother or sister with*
(A symptom I added to the repertory, based on my clinical experience and
Chetna Shuklaʼs proving)
EAR - EUSTACHIAN TUBE; 1 1 1 1 - -
Prescription: Rosa damascena C 12 once daily
Follow-up after two months
A day after taking the remedy for the first time he developed a high
fever which, within one day, was gone, on its own. Since then he has been
healthy, apart from one occasion on which the parents went abroad and he was in
playschool. He got sick but recovered two days after his parents returned. He
was healthy until a flu epidemic erupted at school a few days ago. His parents
travelled and left him with his grandparents: he woke up saying that his body
hurts and he cannot go to playschool. Has a cough, which is rather deep, but no
sinusitis even though he suffers from a slight common cold.
He does not eat well. He only eats candies and cakes.
The teeth grinding decreased, but it still exists.
He does not wet his bed that much.
The competitiveness is still there: he must be first to receive the
food; he fights over his place with his elder brother, even though he loves
him. Apparently, the issue is his young brother; it seems now that he would
have been happy to give him away. The jealousy is out.
He is more insolent and rebellious than before. He used to be a
conformist child. He used to do anything to make you like him. Now he threatens
to leave the house when things are not done his way.
Prescription: Switch to fluid Rosa damascena C 12, 1 drop daily
Two months later
Bed-wetting ceased entirely: one day he simply asked to sleep without a
nappy and has been dry since.
Teeth grinding has almost stopped. His sleep is calmer.
He no longer suffers from the cold.
Mentally - he is calmer, less agitated, has less tantrums, is still competitive
with his brother and sister but the most clear change is individualism, which
was absent beforehand. This can be seen with his friends: if they do not want
to play his games - he goes on to play by himself, and does not try to please
them.
He began taking his remedy by himself (with a shy and engaging smile he
tells me that his mother helps him. So this quality of the remedy is still
there).
Prescription: Raise potency to Rosa damascena C 15 - 1 drop a day.
Later on, we further increased the potency to C 18.
Again two months later
Physically he is fine. Hearing is normal. Sinuses clean. No cold. The
jealousy for his brother also passed and he is very nice to him. Also, the anxiety
level decreased significantly. In playschool he is highly popular, a leader.
Wants things to be done his way - rather spoiled …
In the following winter they came for an additional session as he had a
slight cold and some teeth grinding. He has fears of ghosts. Again his mother
tells me he is very popular among his friends; he is bossy but in a sweet
manner (he intervenes and says: “I am going to dress up as a king.”). He likes
to feel soft fabrics, strokes his motherʼs sleeve before falling asleep. Again,
he is jealous of the attention that the older sibling provides his sister.
Now we refer to his eating habits: he is still a very picky eater and
will not touch many types of food. Eats a small variety of fruits and
vegetables and still prefers sweets.
Prescription: Increase to Rosa damascena C 30 1 drop daily
Fifteen months after intake
Still takes Rosa damascena C 30.
The cold is gone and for the rest of the winter he did not suffer from
it.
Sleeps well.
His eating habits have improved. All of a sudden he has an appetite.
It turns out that there was something they never reported: a tendency
for weakness with heart involvement: it appears he would get tired easily.
Also, when he competed
with a friend, if the friend was about to beat him, he would complain
that his heart aches. This has improved as well.
He remains bossy.
Treatment: continue for another month with Rosa damascena C 30 and
then increase to C 200. Single dose.
Two months later
The parents report that all is well. Should the need arise, they will
give a single dose of Rosa damascena C 200.
Plants are the source of natureʼs ability to evolve and develop.
Observing nature, we learn that development is inherent to the essence of the
plants kingdom.
Continuously growing and ever evolving, plants adapt to nature and
create it at the same time.
Plants were the first to fashion the idea of separation in nature:
Unlike minerals, plants have a membrane separating them from the environment,
an attitude that allows them
to develop along their own evolutionary lines and pace, which is a
quicker one than the mineralsʼ. The evolutionary changes plants go through
propel evolutionary changes
for the whole biosphere, including the atmosphere, minerals and animals.
More so, plants are the foundation for the existence of life, providing
oxygen, carbon and nutrition. Plants propel minerals from earth outward and
from the air inward into
the earth, availing it to the biosphere, allowing growth and
continuation of life on earth. In this sense, the plants kingdom acts as a
stirring mediator between the worlds, expressing an archetype of continuous
growth and development.
In accordance with its developing nature, the plant kingdomʼs
evolution can be seen to correspond with human psyche development, seeing that
both share the innate nature
of growth and development. At times where development is halted,
manifesting as a disease, the corresponding plant can be summoned. This is one
more gift the plant world offers.
The Plants schema structure expresses this correspondence in a manner
akin to the homeopathic understanding of the Periodic table of elements; its
axes founded on evolutionary stages of botanical development. The building
block of the table is not a single plant or a remedy, but a whole botanical
group. Thus every square of the table contains one or few Orders or Families.
The reason the Plants schema doesnʼt present specific remedies as its
building blocks is that while the Mineral Kingdom contains
118 elements, the Plant Kingdom consists of thousands of plants which
necessitated aggregating them by groups - namely Families and Orders.
I found Cronquistʼs systematics suitable for the tableʼs
scheme as it is led by evolutionary vision, being grounded mostly on
homeopathic-like “signs and symptoms” of function and sense in the Plant
Kingdom.
When the table is systematized in such an order, with vectors of botanic
evolution, it becomes quite easy to decipher the homeopathic sense of it by
assembling the Materia Medica information from all the remedies within each
family - “as if one remedy”, and interpreting it according to its location in
the table. In an astonishing order, the axes
of botanical development and their correspondent remedies are found to
parallel stages of human development.
This way, each square in the table presents a convergence point of two
axes - Ego construction and levels of growth and development: the horizontal
axis is formed by separation and individuation stages while the vertical axis
forms maturation levels. This provides physiological, emotional and mental
content to each family of plants.
While Families of plants present the collective themes that correspond
to any given location on the table, a single remedy describes only certain
variations of those themes.
The Table of Plants thus provides a schema that links plantsʼ
developmental stages to human developmental stages. The table refers to the
challenges and obstacles met
during the developmental journey of the Ego from a primary stage of
union and oneness to an advanced stage of individuality. Learning and absorbing
the lessons of the feminine and the masculine elements.
The Plants table provides reason and explanations to remedies, as well
as to qualities of families of remedies. It allows better understanding of
cases, as well as promoting understanding of small remedies and new provings.
The Plants table can provide an understanding as to why the remedy displays
certain characteristics as well as to why
a case calls for a remedy belonging to a certain Family. The beauty of
the plant tableʼs systematics is that, without contradiction, it
complements and adds depth to case analysis, regardless of whether the approach
is of a conservative or modern homeopathic method.
Extended description of the essence of the columns
1st Column (Unity): initial state of awareness to the unified
feminine quality element that, by its nature, gives birth and initiates
processes. Represents a unity with the infinity from which everything bursts,
and is symbolized by water, first chakra and more. Problems or lessons related
to the 1st column can be expressed as a lack of boundaries and
discrimination, a weak, dependent and influenced Ego, spaced out and
inattentive.
A state of awareness might be there, yet the inability to act.
Typical remedies are: Op. Staph. Arist. Nel. Asar. Nux-m. Acon. Puls.
2nd Column (Here or There) the initial separation begins (a
first masculine impulse enters the process of the table), followed by a sense
of smallness and weakness, as effort
is put into “standing by oneself”. Issues presented are related to being
small or big, being in this world or remaining in the other world (or remaining
in any other previous state). Here or there, indecision, “should I return to
the unified state or should I separate?” “Will I create boundaries or will
I have them blurred?” The
struggle and lessons are still in the territory of the feminine quality.
Typical remedies such as Cann-i. Urt. Ficus and Quercus are characteristic to this column.
3rd Column (The Hero), there is a strong and intensive battle
to separate from the feminine-maternal quality that though before gave life, is
now perceived as strangling
and limiting. Expressed as a struggle to separate from anything that
appears “controlling”, the developing Ego fights for its individuality: with
the characteristic statement:
“I want to do it my way”. Characteristic remedies are the various Cacti.
4th Column (Nurturing and Maturity), the maternal element is
attaining maturation. After the previous columnʼs journey in the feminine
element, the individuation process reaches a stage where it necessitates
gaining equanimity: an ability to nourish or be nourished, provide, give or
take without being belittled for it. The lesson obtained is maturity of the
maternal quality, an ability to give or receive yet keep your separate
individual identity. Imbalance at this final maternal column would be expressed
as mother/daughter issues, family issues, complications related to motherhood
and elements of abandonment and dependency. We shall often see
over-responsibility for the family, anxiety about family matters and carrying
the burden of family, which sets the ground for exhaustion of personal energy,
fatigue and back pains. Eating and
digestive disorders will often ensue.
Typical remedies: Ars. Bamb. Sacch. Trit. Cypr. Thea. Choc. Bry. Brass. Sin-a.
5th Column (The Other), the Ego is already solid and
constructed. In order to continue its development, the Ego must attend fully
the lessons of the masculine quality, which creates boundaries, rules and
separation, giving purpose and direction. By the masculine borders, the Ego is
enabled to realize what is apart from himself, to separate from what is not
himself - and thus come to meet the other, as an individual by itself. This
separation allows a mature relationship to be created, so that is why the
subject of relationship is of utmost importance, especially in its beginning
(i.e., the Rose family). Later on the emphasis turns to the expression and
fulfilment of oneʼs role outside the family, to doing and acting. The
split of the masculine from the feminine element is the strongest issue here,
causing rigidity, stiffness, and in the end (Conium family) to dryness and
suppression of the feminine, emotional level. Relationship will be an issue in
the beginning of the column, later to be shifted to suppression of the heart
and relationships, competition, work, duties, rules, religion and rigidity.
Typical remedies are Rose. Crat. Anac. Rhus-t. and Con.
6th Column (The Group), one meets the world at large, stands
up to it, fights with it, conquers oneʼs place and defines oneʼs
place in it. Fits our time: an age of individuality that verges on egotism.
Here the feminine and masculine had not recovered from the split, thus fighting
amongst themselves, always on guard, causing the intra-relationship to be
difficult and physical infertility at times. Also the need of the now fully
developed Ego to display itself, prove oneʼs worth and find oneʼs
place in society can escalate to a clash with the world. Physically this can be
expressed as allergies or a tendency to get worms: any other thing that
violates oneʼs boundaries or is even perceived to do it. On the one hand
it has over sensitivity to the worldʼs impressions, on the other hand it
shows ambition and aggression: “the developed Ego fights back”. This column
expresses a battle to function within a group, while yet maintaining oneʼs
hard-earned individuality.
Typical remedies: Verat. Lil-t in the Monocots and Bell. Stram.
Coff. Chin.
Nux-v. Ign. Menth.
Abrot. Cham and Arn. -
in the Dicots.
This is the end of our journey, and, perhaps, a preparation for the 7th
stage, where all will be returned to the unified state, keeping a complete
awareness of the uniqueness that will have been attained.
Development across the Columns
All columns are divided by levels of development - The rows (follow E.
Eriksonʼs levels of development), express the lesson of each column,
initiating the journey at a juvenile and unprepared state, evolving to maturity
and eventually growing old and ending. Priming itself to begin the next step in
the journey.
The columns are constructed according to Jungian developmental stages
and Kabbalistic lore. The human journey toward acquiring awareness finds its
parallel in a number of developmental sequences: the developmental stages of
the minerals, the progress of the history of humanity, the first six chakras
and the six first days of creation. Like a gigantic fractal, the world
demonstrates its patterned rules of creation in every aspect of life, all in a
wondrous order.
[Michal Yakir]
MATERIA MEDICA AND CASES
guard, causing the intra-relationship to be difficult and physical
infertility at times.
Also the need of the now fully developed Ego to display itself, prove
oneʼs worth and find oneʼs place in society can escalate to a clash
with the world.
Physically this can be expressed as allergies or a tendency to get
worms: any other thing that violates oneʼs boundaries or is even perceived
to do it.
Table 2 Wondrous Order: The table at a glance.
Old age No
Remedies Arales Empty
column Zingiberales Dioscoreales
Young adult No plants here Orchidales Liliales
Juncales
Adolescence Graminales
School age Aracales
Early childhood
Babyhood - basic trust
Beginning of life
Before birth
ALISMATIDAE ARECIDAE
COMELIDS LILIDAE
Monocotyledons
Before separation Here or there The
Hero Nourishing The Other The Group in the World
Maturity Relationship
Dicotyledons
Magnolids Hamamelids Caryophyllids
Dillenids Rosids
Asterids
Birth, before life, Urticales Dileniales Rosales Polemoniales
connection to the neither Theales Myrtales
world, unwillingness to be
born, difficulties in confronting
the self or the inner world. Deep
connection to the subconsciousness,
myths. The shaman.
Beginning of life [oral stage] Piperales Urticales Saraceniales Fabales
feeling secure about existence,
experiencing basic stability,
first connection to mother.
Acknowledging the other
versus autistic isolation,
suspicion, disbelief, hopelessness.
Infancy [Anal stage], autonomy, Laurales Hamelidales Malvales Geraniales Gentianales
dependence, [mother time] Malphigiales
separation borders (skin diseases),
getting control. The Will formation,
shame, criticism, being oneself
versus self-doubt.
Early childhood, play, curiosity, Aristolochiales
Hamamelidales Caryophylales Malvales Malpigiales
Gentianales
inquisitiveness, pulling apart. Ranunculales Violales Scrophulariales
Initiative - or
none. Paralysis, sex, Euphorbiales
penetration. Unable to take a role
or set a goal.
School time, latency, capability Ranunculales Juglandales Caryophylales Sapindales
Scrophulariales
sense, preparation for life Cornales
[father time],
learning norms and Rhamnales
rules, beginning of social learning.
Unreadiness to learn, feeling
Inadequate/-feriority. not fitting in,
Not recognizing roles. No purpose
Adolescence, identity integration or Myricales Polygonales
Primulales Rhamnales Rubiales
confusion. Self-image reflected Plumbaginales
from outside. Body image.
Themes: freedom, excitement,
search for meaning, imaginations,
fancies and planning. Dependence
on group. Looking for meaningful
figures.
Early adulthood, young adult, Santanales Lamiales
establishment of independence,
of position. Breaking out of
dependence, developing capability
to real friendship and caring to
the other, > inability to intimacy,
isolation. Forming love
relationships and partnership.
Adulthood, creativity and fertility. Papaverales Fagales Ericales Celastrales Dipsacales
Ability to care and concern about Cucurbitales Apiales Campunalales
the other, to give. Able to devote Capprales Asteridales
to ideas, to higher ideal. Finding
self-expression. Versus selfishness,
not changing, conserving.
Old age, completion and wisdom. Papaverales Capparales Apiales Asteridales
Retirement, preparing for death, Salicales
towards unification of the I.
Inability to collect, understand
and unify life impressions, leads
to bitterness, hostility,
dissatisfaction, life has been a waste,
despair. Dependency and fear
of death. End of any process.
[Michal Yakir]
The Table of Plants; a brief overview
From oneness to duality and back to oneness - the feminine and masculine
role
The course of the columns in the table also describes a developmental
journey traversing nature’s duality, from its feminine to its masculine pole.
The columns offer feminine lessons earlier on and masculine lessons later on,
in a journey meant to reveal the range of experiences invoked by the two
polarities and combine them into one, dynamic whole - a dynamic that begets all
that there is in this world.
The feminine and the masculine should complement and support each other
in the internal dynamic that takes place in each of us, woman or man, but
because the imbalance
is expressed as pathology in one or the other quality, each of the
columns has a definite feminine or masculine character.
The dynamic between the elemental feminine and masculine as they emerge
and grow, mature, absorb their counterpart, react to one another, reach their
prime and bear fruit
is the power that sets the table’s process in motion.
1st column: Dominant feminine Element. Containing, in oneness,
yet shapeless and undiscerning.
2nd column: The feminine element is still dominant but the
masculine first impulse starts to divide it and shape it.
3rd column: The masculine fights for its release but feels as
if under control.
4th column: The feminine and masculine reaches equanimity.
Feminine reach maturity.
5th column: The masculine element is dominant. It splits from
the feminine and suppresses it.
6th column: Feminine and masculine elements are to be
re-united, but the dominant masculine cannot easily accept the feminine into
it- so war and battle ensue.
In column one, the feminine is active in its primal aspect:
life-bringing, all-containing, unifying, shapeless and ever-flowing. From here
on, it starts to incorporate into itself
the masculine aspect that shapes it and gives it direction. The feminine
thus develops and establishes itself, reaching its peak and maturity in the
fourth column, so it can l
earn to contain the masculine in equanimity. From here on, the masculine
becomes dominant, dictating the nature of further soul-advancement in a process
of splitting from
the feminine, whose activity is now suppressed.
The feminine aspect (represented in the left side of the table, namely
columns 1-4) describes the process of constructing and integrating the Ego and
establishing the basis for existential confidence and the ability to love and
be loved. This is done through the support of motherly love and the other
feminine qualities - representing the first dimension of love as defined by
Didier Grandgeorge.
From the 5th column on (represented at the right side of the
table), development continues through the masculine aspect whose task is to
teach active doing in the world, as well as to transition the Ego into
Grandgeorge’s second dimension of love: the love for another. Once the Ego’s
foundation is secure, the masculine quality can further strengthen it by
creating within the oneness a complete split, a separation that enables
otherness. The Ego now develops into recognizing the other, the world and
anything beyond the personal ‘I’, and is supposed to be able to act consciously
by integrating the two aspects of its nature.
Sadly, in the 6th and last column there is little integration
between the feminine and the masculine, and a development to the next level is
still required.
The next level - the highest dimension of love - is associated with
unconditional love and integration between the reality of personal and communal
existence, between the feminine and the masculine. The inherent drive toward
the consummation of a new level of love that is both conscious and self-aware
is the ultimate agency behind the development and evolution seen in the table.
Thus the table points toward the 7th column: the end of the octave, the seventh
day of creation (the Sabbath), the coming of the Messiah, the attainment of
Christ or Buddha consciousness, and so on.
During this journey, the qualities of the feminine and masculine,
positive or negative, balanced or unbalanced, are the power that motivates the
table:
Female archetypal qualities (columns 1-4)
Vitalizing, stimulating, radiating free-flowing energy
Influencing, affecting energy, focused, distinct, selective, and
exclusive
Enlivening, animating, changing energy
Directing, designating, creating borders, decisive energy
Containing, permeable, communicative
Shaping, penetrating, probing
Nurturing and birthing life, motherhood
Here and now, existing actuality, presence
Challenge, fullfillment of destination, future aimed
Emotions and intuition
Devotion, surrender and ecstasy
Association, joining, merging, unity
Love is the essence of life
You are what you feel
Fluidity
Being
Life emanating from love
Feminine imbalance in columns 1-4
Lack of balance, shapelessness, stagnation
Inconstant changeability, fickleness
Baseless anxieties
Lack of boundaries and distinctiveness, undistinguished, loss of self
Penetrated, swallowed, dissolved, engulfed
No capacity to contain, weak vessel, lack of discernment
Lack of clarity
Inability to regulate emotions, drowning in emotions, addictions,
escapism
Deceiving, luring, ensnaring, seductive
Male archetypal qualities (columns 5-6)
Fertilization, life-forming, fatherhood
Cognizance, thinking, rationalizing, clarity
Determination, resolve, courage
Life is intended by goals and missions
Life-mission is the essence to life`s meaning
Separation and uniqueness
You are what you do
Solidity
Doing
Masculine imbalance in columns 5-6
Ideas and forms become rigid law
Unwilling to change
Superstitious
External framework substituting for inner strength, Hysterics
Religious fanaticism, rigidness, obsessive compulsiveness (OCD)
Restriction and law, criticism, suppression or oppression, dictatorship,
hierarchical outlook
Invading, intrusive
Narrow minded, tightening, moving toward paralysis
Lack of determination and purpose
Lost in daily routine, abandoning purpose and vision
Cowardice, dictatorial, fighting, war
Conclusion
The stages of development are established in the fabric of the
man-world. This is why the same pattern can be seen repeated in the evolution
of the mineral kingdom, in human development, and in the evolution of humankind
and civilization. Every phase of this evolution finds its expression in man’s
life lessons: in his relationship with himself, with family and others, in
partnership and sexuality, and in matters of work, money, belief and religion.
Even in the six chakras of the body we find a parallel to those stages of
development. On the macroscopic level, every column has analogous expressions
in the history of mankind, in cultural development, and even in the literature
and other documentation that records this journey of apprenticeship toward
maturity and manhood: in myths, legends, folklore and creation stories, and in
all the tales by which man has described himself to himself. In a Fractal-like
manner, the universe is expressing the same patterns or templates in
innumerable shapes and fashions. Careful observation will reveal the order that
the archetypes and patterns of creation recount and retell - the story of the
wondrous order of the world.
The plant kingdom botanic divisions
Species is the basic unit of living nature, upon which classification
and systematics are founded: plants are sorted, in ascending order, as follows:
Species > Genus > Families > Orders > Subclassis >
Classis > phylum > kingdom: every plant belongs to a species, then to a
Genus, a wider Family, Order, Subclass and so on.
• Species - the basic unit. A group of closely related organisms that
can inbreed and produce a fertile offspring.
• Genus - comprised of closely related species. Every plant (therefore
every plant remedy) is named after its Genus and Species name - for example:
Puls. (like first and last names for people).
• Family - of comprise closely related Genera. The name of a Family
always ends with the suffix “aceae” - like “Liliaceae”.
• Order - a higher hierarchy, comprised of closely related Families. The
name of an Order always ends with the suffix “ales” - like “Liliales”.
• Subclassis - contains evolutionary linked Orders, arranged by
ascending developmental order (from the oldest to the youngest). Subclasses is
a column in the Plant Table. The name of a Subclass ends with the suffix “ides”
(“Hamamelides”), or “dae” (“Hamamelidae”), the older fashion of nomenclature.
• Classis (Class) - denotes a large group of plants that has a certain
basic trait in common - like one or two cotyledons. A cluster of Subclasses,
arranged in an advancing evolutionary order, constitute a Classis (or Class).
• Classis is one hierarchy below the plant kingdom.
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Key words
Case of a Child Suffering from Ear Infections
This is a case study of a four-year-old child, arriving with his mother
for a first consultation on 28.4.10.
Observation: a delicate looking child, with an adorable smile. Plays
with the fairies and butterflies on my desk.
The problem: repetitive ear infections.
The child suffers from a common cold most of the time. The mother tells
me that since he was a baby he suffered from recurring ear infections, a
condition accompanied with secretion from the ears.
He constantly suffers from the common cold, which became a chronic
condition with a constantly stuffed nose.
The last ear infection occurred a month ago, when he was found to have
enlarged adenoids, a third tonsil and an air blockage.
The teacher in his playschool thought his hearing was decreasing.
Medical findings showed a slight decrease.
He grinds his teeth at night, especially when it is noisy - for
instance, when his baby brother cries.
Still wets his bed at night.
The mother narrates:
“He has two older brothers (8 and 11) and a younger one-year-old brother
(received him relatively well, pretty much ignores him …)
He is an amazing child, he becomes acclimatized quickly everywhere. He
is very cool and gets along with everything. He has no anxieties during
day-to-day life. He was always a calm child, and this is why I decided to have
yet another baby … but perhaps, something which is suppressed during the
day surfaces at night? During the day he is calm, but a medium we consulted
suggested his anxieties are related with a past life. … He is occupied
with what happens when one dies, what will happen when he dies? When his mother
dies?
He is a sensitive child, and highly sociable. He is friends with
everyone in his playschool; when he sees someone from afar he will call him
even if he is on the other side of the street. He is also quick to befriend new
children.
He has a highly developed imagination and a high ability to concentrate;
he can occupy himself on his own.
He likes cuddling, falls asleep at night while stroking me. He is good
with girls. He is not a fighting, physical boy. (Strokes himself with a feather
at my office.) Knows how to express love, to cuddle and hold, can even hug and
kiss his friends from time to time.
Communicates, like my husband, something optimistic, happy and safe.
However, like him, he is addicted to control: he is bossy, tries to dictate the
course of events so that things will go the way he intends them to. He dislikes
changes. Rigid, even though from the outside he appears soft and sweet.
Highly competitive - he has to be in first place, it is very important
to him, to be number one - with his siblings in particular, even though he is
younger than they are. When his siblings fight he tells them - he is friends
with both of them. On the one hand he competes with them and on the other, it
is highly important that everyone likes him. Should one brother tell him, “I am
not your friend” - he wants to die. This really threatens him. It is highly
important that they will not be angry with him. If I am angry with him - he is
worried about it, from a young age”.
He is short for his age.
Cravings: Sweets (3) especially lollipops, purple, pink and red ones. He
likes to eat chocolate and cheese. Otherwise he is not much of an eater.
He is not fond of tomatoes (recently) and potatoes.
Pregnancy was desired and healthy but the labor was induced (Pitocin) since
he was not yet born by his due date. “The hospital pressured us to induce the
labor, but it was unnecessary. The birth was horrific, and I went through
immense pain. I felt horrible contractions - the worst pain I ever felt.”
Speech late: it took a while until he spoke. To this day he
mispronounces words.
Pimples? The mom suffered from them as a teenager, the father did too.
Case Analysis
In approaching this case I used the Table of Plants structure, as the
case demonstrates clear indications of the fifth column in the Table: the
competitiveness, bossiness, his need to control others, to be the first, to be
“taller”. All that points to the fifth column. His need to establish
relationships, his needs to please others, to be likeable in a charming way along
with excessive emotional sensitivity, occupation with the world beyond,
thoughts about death and ghosts - all point to the first row, particularly with
the history of an early-induced labor, which is a clear indication of a “pre”
process, or the first row.
There is an excessive need to please, the gentleness, the desire to hug,
kiss and cuddle, and the desire for sweets; the “pink” aura that surrounds the
entire case. All these point to the Rose family (which is situated in the
beginning of the fifth column).
Plants are the source of natureʼs ability to evolve and develop.
Observing nature, we learn that development is inherent to the essence of the
plants kingdom. Continuously growing and ever evolving, plants adapt to nature
and create it at the same time.
Plants were the first to fashion the idea of separation in nature:
Unlike minerals, plants have a membrane separating them from the environment,
an attitude that allows them to develop along their own evolutionary lines and
pace, which is a quicker one than the mineralsʼ. The evolutionary changes
plants go through propel evolutionary changes for the whole biosphere,
including the atmosphere, minerals and animals.
More so, plants are the foundation for the existence of life, providing
oxygen, carbon and nutrition. Plants propel minerals from earth outward and
from the air inward into the earth, availing it to the biosphere, allowing
growth and continuation of life on earth. In this sense, the plants kingdom
acts as a stirring mediator between the worlds, expressing an archetype of
continuous growth and development.
In accordance with its developing nature, the plant kingdomʼs
evolution can be seen to correspond with human psyche development, seeing that
both share the innate nature of growth and development. At times where
development is halted, manifesting as a disease, the corresponding plant can be
summoned. This is one more gift the plant world offers.
The Plants schema structure expresses this correspondence in a manner
akin to the homeopathic understanding of the Periodic table of elements; its
axes, however, are founded on evolutionary stages of botanical development. The
building block of the table is not a single plant or a remedy, but a whole
botanical group. Thus every square of the table contains one or few Orders or
Families. The reason the Plants schema doesnʼt present specific remedies
as its building blocks is that while the Mineral Kingdom contains 118 elements,
the Plant Kingdom consists of thousands of plants which necessitated aggregating
them by groups - namely Families and Orders.
[Michal Yakir]
Wondrous Order book and schema
The Table of Plants cannot entirely be explained in one article, the
above is only the essence, a short portrayal, but the information perceived
through the plant table schema can be easily validated by being compared to oneʼs
knowledge of remedies and cases.
An extensive description and much more information is available in my
book “Wondrous Order”. Sadly, for the time being, the book is only available in
Hebrew. However, it is in the final stages of translation into English so it
should be published in a few monthsʼ time. For those interested in making
first inroads to using the Plants schema, please consult my website.
Table of Plants Attributes
Columns
The columns present the 10 botanical Subclasses of the table, portraying
a transformative journey of differentiation, separation, independence and
individuation, while aspiring toward freedom from the Ego boundaries. The “Ego”
is transported from a state of oneness, from the whole, indistinctive “Self”,
towards formation and realization as an individual Ego - preparing to shed its
Ego layer again, wiser than before. From unity to individuation and back to
unity again. The journey is initiated by contending with the feminine element.
Once the lessons are learned, separation and a split from the feminine element
occur, the struggle shifts, and the Ego has to face the masculine element.
Gaining the masculine elementʼs experience and lessons allows departure
from the Ego closure and progression toward interaction and a relationship with
“the other” and with the world at large. From union and oneness to a
differentiated Ego, now able to be part of the outer world, to cooperate and
unite again, yet retain its distinctiveness and unique presence.
In the developmental journey as presented by the columns, the human soul
aspires to acquire awareness, consciousness, identity and uniqueness,
subsequently returning to the source, this time though as a conscious part of
the whole, a witness of creationʼs wondrous harmony.
The Columnsʼ attributes are loosely linked to C. G. Jungʼs
stages of development of the Ego. More about that in Wondrous Order, the
systematic table of plant remedies.
Rows
The Rows present large botanical groups describing levels of development
and maturation within each column, beginning with pre-birth and proceeding with
infancy, childhood, adolescence maturity and finally old age. Rowsʼ
attributes are based on Erik Eriksonʼs human development stages.
Intersections
Meeting points of rows and columns: Each column presenting as a stage of
Ego separation and individuation progresses accordingly, expressed within
itself through nine levels of readiness and maturity, presented by the rows.
The Structure and Methodology of the Plant Table
Plants are the source of natureʼs ability to evolve and develop.
Observing nature, we learn that development is inherent to the essence of the
plants kingdom. Continuously growing and ever evolving, plants adapt to nature
and create it at the same time.
Plants were the first to fashion the idea of separation in nature:
Unlike minerals, plants have a membrane separating them from the environment,
an attitude that allows them to develop along their own evolutionary lines and
pace, which is a quicker one than the mineralsʼ.
The evolutionary changes plants go through propel evolutionary changes
for the whole biosphere, including the atmosphere, minerals and animals.
More so, plants are the foundation for the existence of life, providing
oxygen, carbon and nutrition. Plants propel minerals from earth outward and
from the air inward into the earth, availing it to the biosphere, allowing
growth and continuation of life on earth. In this sense, the plants kingdom acts
as a stirring mediator between the worlds, expressing an archetype of
continuous growth and development.
In accordance with its developing nature, the plant kingdomʼs
evolution can be seen to correspond with human psyche development, seeing that
both share the innate nature of growth and development. At times where
development is halted, manifesting as a disease, the corresponding plant can be
summoned. This is one more gift the plant world offers.
The Plants schema structure expresses this correspondence in a manner
akin to the homeopathic understanding of the Periodic table of elements; its
axes, however, are founded on evolutionary stages of botanical development. The
building block of the table is not a single plant or a remedy, but a whole
botanical group. Thus every square of the table contains one or few Orders or
Families. The reason the Plants schema doesnʼt present specific remedies
as its
building blocks is that while the Mineral Kingdom contains 118 elements,
the Plant Kingdom consists of thousands of plants which necessitated
aggregating them by groups - namely Families and Orders.
I found Cronquistʼs systematics suitable for the tableʼs
scheme as it is led by evolutionary vision, being grounded mostly on
homeopathic-like “signs and symptoms” of function and sense in the Plant
Kingdom.
When the table is systematized in such an order, with vectors of botanic
evolution, it becomes quite easy to decipher the homeopathic sense of it by
assembling the Materia Medica information from all the remedies within each
family - “as if one remedy” and interpreting it according to its location in
the table. In an astonishing order, the axes of botanical development and their
correspondent remedies are found to parallel stages of human development.
This way, each square in the table presents a convergence point of two
axes:
Ego construction and levels of growth and development:
the horizontal axis is formed by separation and individuation stages
the vertical axis forms maturation levels.
This provides physiological, emotional and mental content to each family
of plants.
While Families of plants present the collective themes that correspond
to any given location on the table, a single remedy describes only certain
variations of those themes.
The Table of Plants thus provides a schema that links plantsʼ
developmental stages to human developmental stages. The table refers to the
challenges and obstacles met during the developmental journey of the Ego from a
primary stage of union and oneness to an advanced stage of individuality.
Learning and absorbing the lessons of the feminine and the masculine
elements.
The Plants table provides reason and explanations to remedies, as well
as to qualities of families of remedies. It allows better understanding of
cases, as well as promoting understanding of small remedies and new provings.
The Plants table can provide an understanding as to why the remedy displays
certain characteristics as well as to why a case calls for a remedy belonging
to a certain Family. The beauty of the plantʼs systematics is that,
without contra most of the plants continue to grow and gain mass all their
life.
Order is a higher taxonomic rank above Family.
In the 1980s, the botanist Arthur Cronquist (1919 - 1992) postulated a
systemic scheme of classification that defined the evolutionary processes of
plants in a way that created a clear association between families, orders and
higher taxonomic rank. Cronquistʼs system places flowering plants into two
broad classes, Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons, divided into subclass
categories, where related Orders, Families and Species are placed by certain
morphologic order.
Arranged from primitive to advanced, the inner order is decided by
appearances, signs, and symptoms (as in homeopathy), by the evolutionary advancement
of the flower, fruit, pollen and seed structures. In this narrative, the most
primitive plants are positioned in the base of the tree;
the most advanced plants appear in the topmost part of the tree.
https://www.thieme-connect.de/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0032-1328235.pdf
A Case Study
Extended description of the essence of the columns
1st Column (Unity) depicts an initial state of awareness to
the unified feminine quality element that, by its nature, gives birth and
initiates processes.
The first column represents a unity with the infinity from which
everything bursts, and is symbolized by water, first chakra and more. Problems
or lessons related to the first column can be expressed as a lack of boundaries
and discrimination, a weak, dependent and influenced Ego, spaced out and
inattentive. A state of awareness might be there, yet the inability to act.
Typical remedies are: Op. Staph. Arist. Lotus. Asar. Nux-m. Acon. Puls.
2nd Column (Here or There) the initial separation begins (a
first masculine impulse enters the process of thetable), followed by a sense of
smallness and weakness, as effort is put into “standing by oneself”. Issues
presented are related to being small or big, being in this world or remaining
in the other world (or remaining in any other previous state). Here or there,
indecision, “should I return to the unified state or should I separate?” “Will
I create boundaries or will I have them blurred?” The struggle and lessons are
still in the territory of the feminine quality.
Typical remedies are: Cann-i. Urt. Ficus. Quercus.
3rd Column (The Hero), there is a strong and intensive battle
to separate from the feminine-maternal quality that though before gave life, is
now perceived as strangling and limiting. Expressed as a struggle to separate
from anything that appears “controlling”, the developing Ego fights for its
individuality: with the characteristic statement: “I want to do it my way”.
Characteristic remedies are the various Cacti.
4th Column (Nurturing and Maturity), the maternal element is
attaining maturation. After the previous columnʼs journey in the feminine
element, the individuation process reaches a stage where it necessitates
gaining equanimity: an ability to nourish or be nourished, provide, give or
take without being belittled for it. The lesson obtained is maturity of the
maternal quality, an ability to give or receive yet keep your separate
individual identity. Imbalance at this final maternal column would be expressed
as mother/daughter issues, family issues, complications related to motherhood
and elements of abandonment and dependency. We shall often see
overresponsibility for the family, anxiety about family matters and carrying
the burden of family, which sets the ground for exhaustion of personal energy,
fatigue and back pains. Eating and digestive disorders will often ensue.
Typical remedies: Bamb. Sacch. Trit. Cypr. Thea. Choc. Bry. Brass.
Sin-a.
5th Column (The Other), the Ego is already solid and
constructed. In order to continue its development, the Ego must attend fully
the lessons of the masculine quality, which creates boundaries, rules and
separation, giving purpose and direction. By the masculine borders, the Ego is
enabled to realize what is apart from himself, to separate from what is not
himself - and thus come to meet the other, as an individual by itself. This
separation allows a mature relationship to be created, so that is why the
subject of relationship is of utmost importance, especially in its beginning
(i.e. the Rose family). Later on the emphasis turns to the expression and
fulfilment of oneʼs role outside the family, to doing and acting. The
split of the masculine from the feminine element is the strongest issue here,
causing rigidity, stiffness, and in the end (like in the Conium family) to
dryness and suppression of the feminine, emotional level. Relationship will be
an issue in the beginning of the column, later to be shifted to suppression of
the heart and relation-ships, competition, work, duties, rules, religion and
rigidity.
Prominent remedies: Ros-d. Crat. Anac. Rhus-t. and Con.
6th Column (The Group), one meets the world at large, stands
up to it, fights with it, conquers and defines oneʼs place in it. This
column fits our time:
an age of individuality that verges on egotism. Here the feminine and
masculine had not recovered from the split, thus fighting amongst themselves,
always on
The columns present the 10 botanical Subclasses of the table, portraying
a transformative journey of differentiation, separation, independence and
individuation, while aspiring toward freedom from the Ego boundaries. The “Ego”
is transported from a state ofoneness, from the whole, indistinctive “Self”,
towards
formation and realization as an individual Ego - preparing to shed its
Ego layer again, wiser than before. From unity to individuation and back to
unity again.
The journey is initiated by contending with the feminine element. Once
the lessons are learned, separation and a split from the feminine element
occur, the
struggle shifts, and the Ego has to face the masculine element. Gaining
the masculine elementʼs experience and lessons allows departure from the
Ego closure
and progression toward interaction and a relationship with “the other”
and with the world at large. From union and oneness to a differentiated Ego,
now able to
be part of the outer world, to cooperate and unite again, yet retain its
distinctiveness and unique presence.
In the developmental journey as presented by the columns, the human soul
aspires to acquire awareness, consciousness, identity and uniqueness,
subsequently returning to the source, this time though has a conscious part of
the whole, a witness of creationʼs wondrous harmony.
The Columns attributes are loosely
linked to
C. G. Jung
stages of developmentof the Ego. More about that in Wondrous Order, the
systematic table of plant remedies.
Rows
The Rows present large botanical groups describing levels of development
and maturation within each column, beginning with pre-birth and proceeding with
infancy, childhood, adolescence maturity and finally old age.
Rowsʼ attributes are based on Erik Eriksonʼs human development
stages.
Intersections
Meeting points of rows and columns:
Each column presenting as a stage of Ego separation and individuation
progresses accordingly, expressed within itself through nine levels of
readiness and maturity, presented by the rows.
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MATERIA MEDICA AND CASES
guard, causing the intra-relationship to be difficult and physical
infertility at times.
Also the need of the now fully developed Ego to display itself, prove
oneʼs worth and find oneʼs place in society can escalate to a clash
with the world. Physically this can be expressed as allergies or a tendency to
get worms: any other thing that violates oneʼs boundaries or is even
perceived to do it.
Table 2 Wondrous Order: The table at a glance.
Old age No
Remedies Arales
Empty column Zingiberales
Dioscoreales
Orchidales
Young adult No
plants here Orchidales Liliales
Juncales
Adolescence Graminales
School age Aracales
Early childhood
Babyhood - basic trust
Beginning of life
Before birth
ALISMATIDAE ARECIDAE
COMELIDS LILIDAE
Monocotyledons
Before separation Here
or there The Hero Nourishing
The Other The Group in the World
Maturity Relationship
Dicotyledons
Magnolids Hamamelids Caryophyllids
Dillenids Rosids Asterids
Birth, before life, Urticales
Dileniales
Rosales Polemoniales
connection to the neither Theales Myrtales
world, unwillingness to be
born, difficulties in confronting
the self or the inner world. Deep
connection to the subconsciousness,
myths. The shaman.
Beginning of life [oral stage] Piperales Urticales Saraceniales Fabales
feeling secure about existence,
experiencing basic stability,
first connection to mother.
Acknowledging the other
versus autistic isolation,
suspicion, disbelief, hopelessness.
Infancy [Anal stage], autonomy, Laurales Hamelidales Malvales Geraniales Gentianales
dependence, [mother time] Malphigiales
separation borders (skin diseases),
getting control. The Will formation,
shame, criticism, being oneself
versus self-doubt.
Early childhood, play, curiosity, Aristolochiales
Hamamelidales Caryophylales Malvales Malpigiales
Gentianales
inquisitiveness, pulling apart. Ranunculales Violales Scrophulariales
Initiative - or
none. Paralysis, sex, Euphorbiales
penetration. Unable to take a role
or set a goal.
School time, latency, capability Ranunculales Juglandales Caryophylales Sapindales Scrophulariales
sense, preparation for life Cornales
[father time],
learning norms and Rhamnales
rules, beginning of social learning.
Unreadiness to learn, feeling
Inadequate/-feriority. not fitting in,
Not recognizing roles. No purpose
Adolescence, identity integration or Myricales Polygonales
Primulales Rhamnales Rubiales
confusion. Self-image reflected Plumbaginales
from outside. Body image.
Themes: freedom, excitement,
search for meaning, imaginations,
fancies and planning. Dependence
on group. Looking for meaningful
figures.
Early adulthood, young adult, Santanales Lamiales
establishment of independence,
of position. Breaking out of
dependence, developing capability
to real friendship and caring to
the other, > inability to intimacy,
isolation. Forming love
relationships and partnership.
Adulthood, creativity and fertility. Papaverales Fagales Ericales Celastrales Dipsacales
Ability to care and concern about Cucurbitales Apiales Campunalales
the other, to give. Able to devote Capprales Asteridales
to ideas, to higher ideal. Finding
self-expression. Versus selfishness,
not changing, conserving.
Old age, completion and wisdom. Papaverales Capparales Apiales Asteridales
Retirement, preparing for death, Salicales
towards unification of the I.
Inability to collect, understand
and unify life impressions, leads
to bitterness, hostility,
dissatisfaction, life has been a waste,
despair. Dependency and fear
of death. End of any process.
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MATERIA MEDICA AND CASES
On the one hand it has over sensitivity to the worldʼs impressions,
on the other hand it shows ambition and aggression: “the developed Ego fights
back”.
The 6th column expresses a battle to function within a group,
while yet maintaining oneʼs hard-earned individuality.
Prominent remedies: Verat. Lil-t. in the Monocots
And Bell. Stram. Coff. Chin. Nux-v. Ign. Menth. Abrot. Cham. Arn. in the
Dicots.
This is the end of our journey, perhaps a preparation for the 7th
stage, where all will be returned to the
unified state, keeping a complete awareness of the
uniqueness that will have been attained.
Development across the Columns
All columns are divided by levels of development
The rows (follow E. Eriksonʼs levels of development). The rows
express the lesson of each column. initiating the journey at a juvenile and
unprepared state. evolving to maturity and eventually growing old and ending.
Priming itself to begin the next step in the journey.
The columns are constructed according to Jungian developmental stages and
Kabbalistic lore. The human journey toward acquiring awareness finds its
parallel in a number of developmental sequences: the developmental stages of
the minerals, the progress of the history of humanity, the first six chakras
and the six
first days of creation. Like a gigantic fractal, the world demonstrates
its patterned rules of creation in every aspect of life. all in a wondrous
order.
Wondrous Order book and schema
The Table of Plants cannot entirely be explained in one article. the
above is only the essence, a short portrayal, but the information perceived
through the plant table schema can be easily validated by being compared to oneʼs
knowledge of remedies and cases.
An extensive description and much more information is available in my
book “Wondrous Order”.
Sadly the book is only available in Hebrew. However, it is in the final
stages of translation into English so it should be published in a few monthsʼtime.
For those interested in making first inroads to using the Plants schema.