Plants and Stadiums
[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.
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 learn 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.
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.
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 7th 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 (and therefore every plant remedy) is named after its Genus and
Species name – for example: Pulsatilla pratensis (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.
Vorwort/Suchen. Zeichen/Abkürzungen. Impressum.