12 Cananga odorata
Number: 3-622.43.13
Clades:: Annonaceae; Magnoliales; Magoliidae; Magnolianae., Angiospermae.
Name: Cananga odorata, Ylang ylang.
Introduction
The situation is that of women out of balance. They feel they need to restore their female power, together with other women. Men are felt as an intrusion in this process.
An important issue is that of purity. Women can feel impure or dirty from their menstruation or after labour. The culture can impose this stigma of dirtiness on women in such situations.
The situation can be that of cultures where men and women are living mostly separated, the women working together in the household and the men going out to work or hunt. The sexes meet only in the night for sex, but there is little further communication between. The sexes live their own lives, not knowing much of each other.
Disccusion Cananga odorata
Theme is that it has to do with women.
Teaching in the beginning (?); very tired; women; talked about all the smells, smell of a toilet, smell of a village; heavy, dirty, not elegant; shy; sit in a village together, in a circle.
Prover 9: relaxed, no guilt feelings, if there is some nice good looking and nicely smelling man is coming along, I will follow, stay for a few hours, then leave him, no boundaries.
Women, proud of themselves. Preparing rituals for women, who cannot get children; prepared something for Prover 9’s face; good smells against bad ones. They are preparing to protect a woman with a smell.
Prover 22 felt they had to dance; with the spatula quite rhythmic; shaking the bottle rhythmically, Prover 22 could not stop; Prover 18 stood up dancing to their rhythm; all do their rhythm thing.
In C3 differently, but still good music; felt all together; stand with your rhythm; still keeping it; ritual for getting children.
Problem: women who cannot get children; infertility. Everyone is expecting; pressure from outside.
Very content and solid in their feelings, singing a capella, altogether.
What they are doing is very good, but they have to be protected, for example for those ideas that you have to have a child before a certain age.
Prover 22: has to do with maturity and menopause.
Theme: women came out of their center, why? Focus on your own femininity. What is the stage? How did you handle the problem? Helping each other, would be 07; proud: 10? Living in old villages, men go hunting, women stay at home, feel good.
So the number is 622.4?3. 07? 10?
Annonaceae: being focused on yourself. As if man and woman do not have con- tact, you have your work and you just do your things.
Proving
Trituration proving, Nosy Be, Madagascar 26-9-2013. Provers: Prover 18, Prover 22, Prover 9.
Notes: Prover 9, reviewed by Prover 18 and Prover 22.
Prover 9 writing
In the beginning we are rather disorientated: we do not know if Prover 17 will prove with us and we forgot the book to write in, then the pen as well.
Ylang Ylang smells strong, Prover 22 is not sure, if it’s the same smell in the toilet. I think, that this smell is sensuous, not delicate. We think it is too vulgar, reminds of a whorehouse. Matches perfectly to this humid climate right now. This odour is not fresh.
Prover 22’s mouth feels dry.
Ylang is easy to to scrape up in the bowl, is absolutely not sticky, in contrast to the odour.
Prover 18 feels awake, but an inner lassitude is expanding.
Exotic seems the best description for this odour.
Prover 22 feels a bit sick while triturating, the humid heat and the odour are oppressing.
Prover 18 thinks we are in a kraal sitting together.
Prover 22 scrapes, she sees a volcanic crater.
Prover 18 feels rather relaxed.
Prover 22 writing
It is all about the odor. It reminds us, together with the sound of the others, of a local village. Only the smell of fire is missing.
Prover 9: feels, that she has arrived, feels welcome and familiar with the setting. Prover 18: We are at women’s work, men are fishing or looking after the cattle a.s.o.
Prover 9: The blossom looks as if it does not care about its appearance. It lets it all hang out. No matter what others think.
Prover 22: Its beauty is the odour, not the blossom.
Prover 9: “rotten”.
Prover 18: Clarity, job routine. Prover 22: Blossom rotten, decayed.
Prover 9: Have to scrape over the time set, because it doesn’t look nice enough. I let myself go, can show feelings without liability, commitment.
Prover 18: “House of pleasure”, release from morality.
Prover 9: Acting out one’s feelings, moods, doesn’t feel used, doesn’t look for the perfect man. Makes her own choice.
Prover 18: Gender equality, accomplishes her duty a bit slow, but in a good mood, routinely.
Prover 9: Sex, natural, not personal.
Relaxed, no guilt feelings, if some nice good looking and nicely smelling man is coming along.
I will follow, stay for a few hours, then leave him, no boundaries.
Prover 22: Self-evidently sitting together, women’s issues, everyday’s stuff, accompanying work, banality.
Prover 18: Has fun doing the work, likes the sound.
Prover 22: no fresh smells,more like rotten shit from the toilet bags up the hill, makes it weary
Prover 18: The smells, odours come back.
Prover 18 started the day with thorough body care and serenity.
Prover 22: The day started quite differently, many people were on the move, etc.
Prover 18: In spite of the humid heat around she feels awake, relaxed, because things are good as they are. She misses only the smell of fire.
Prover 22: It comes to her mind, that we are preparing something, a women’s thing, for a ritual, maybe. What men do is less important, but it is good that they have their “thing” while we have ours.
Prover 18 writing
Prover 22’s scraping sounds like music, too, rhythmic, a clear beating, almost like triangle! It is part of the preparation for our ritual.
Prover 9: thinks that the petals look lascivious and it looks like Prover 9 starts with a ritual dance. She begins to loosen.
Prover 18: has dust in her throat.
While the others getting some supplies I need more of this light rhythm with its high, clear sound, almost like triangels. Part of our ritual. African drum music.
C2
Now we are very lazy, but we need a rhythm, the triturating respectively the sound will do it. Now it’s the scraping again, and its sounds.
Prover 22 gets very tired, it’s quiet and the air is sticky, no feeling of missing anything.
She lets just go, it comes by itself, we are just doing it.
It’s something women put on their face and body.
Prover 22 avoided to come close to Prover 20, because we are in the middle of a women’s ritual, we don’t like to be close to men, that doesn’t feel right now, it would interrupt the ritual.
Prover 18: tender contact in our group.
Prover 22: charming ritual for Prover 9.
Prover 9: liberating feelings, no moral barriers.
Prover 18: stirs “good wishes” into the bowl, no further definition, explanation Prover 22: liberation ritual, Monica: breaking the spell, that seems to be on her. Prover 22: fleshy, hanging breasts, slack skin.
Prover 18: likes to get in trance with the noise of the scraper.
Prover 9: realizes, that the blossom doesn’t have its own colour, that it acts only by shape and smell, odour.
Prover 22: Prover 23 disturbs, because it’s about women, he shouldn’t be told our secret, if there is one.
The leaves of the plant are well structured, but not dominant.
Prover 22 does something for the women’s community as part of a circle. What? what for? Is not yet clear, but it’s definitively about women’s bodies. Prover 18: feels quite well, very “physically”, applies sun cream.
Spell is an important element, Prover 18 wants to break it, whatever it will mean in our case.
We are preparing a “tincture”, which will break the inner spell.
Prover 22 writing
Prover 18: asks our permission to take off the smallest blossom from the branch We are preparing a drink. We do something “illegal”. Fertility! We put some blossom and other parts of the plant in the bottle with water.
Prover 9 is the woman for which we are preparing the ritual and the medicine. She cannot get children
Prover 22: Body, movement, rhythm.
Prover 9: slinky, easy going.
Prover 18: devotion.
Matureness, overripe, pass on something, loosen, rhythm, relax, chill out, no hurry (leisurely).
Prover 9 writing
Prover 18: rhythm is very important, it seems to be disturbed.
Prover 22: vibration, alternation of heavy and light.
Prover 22 cannot stop shaking the bottle with our tincture in a certain rhythm. Prover 22’s and Prover 18’s back hurt simultaneously.
Prover 18 keeps on scraping while standing.
Prover 22: doesn’t let go off the bottle, has to go on shaking, thinks it is part of the trituration.
Prover 18 writing
Everything we do is a ritual which takes the day, the evening, the night, it will last even longer.
Prover 9 beats the rhythm with the bottle, but then she realizes, it is much easier if she does it with the body. We are standing now, Prover 18 beats a 3, 1, 3 rhythm. Prover 22 triturates, then she stands up as well and scrapes while Prover 9 begins to hum!
Prover 18’s back relaxes!
Prover 22 doesn’t focus any longer, seeing sharply is not important; she doesn’t see the bowl properly. She only wants rhythm and movement.
C3
Prover 18 writing
We move into the shade!
Prover 9 and Prover 18 want to lie down, (because of their backache
As if a relaxing phase began, but not exhaustion, rather consideration and meditation.
Prover 9 doesn’t think while triturating, she gently sways back and forth, also the pestle sways, it may do what it likes, very gently, like gentle waves.
Wind, clouds, water, gentleness
Our doing is predetermined by a deep inner knowledge, there is no question what, how, when, it develops itself naturally with deep silence and serenity. Very female.
With devotion to an inner task, to pass on something, to solve (a task?).
Prover 22 writing
Prover 22: Confidence, certainty, feeling for time (?)
Prover 18: dervish, rotating dance, spiral
The body sets the velocity (speed) and the mode of triturating, hand gets slower Prover 18: (rhythm of breathing faster and slower?) up and down.
C2 = preparing of the medicine. Now silence, meditation, consideration Older petal smells like putrefaction, faeces, vanishing
Prover 18: cycle, conception, birth, death.
Prover 22: feeling of vastness, openness (sincerity).
Prover 9: To be one with oneself.
Prover 18: Zen.
We reached the climax, I (Prover 9) found my own rhythm.
Prover 22: All of us do the rhythm, so Prover 9 does her own too.
Prover 18: We are self absorbed in a great power, Prover 23, who arrived right now, doesn’t disturb us anymore.
We are confident about our knowledge, when we have to stir, when we have to stop, we hardly need a watch.
Each one of us thinks, that through this trituration she has found her rhythm.
Prover 22 writing
Prover 9: it is important to pass it on.
Prover 22: with affection.
Prover 18: responsibility is shared, everybody is careful
Everyone is equally important, respected, without effort. We are unique and together at the same time.
Everyone of us has her own rhythm and we swing together.
Skills and knowledge of the others are not important, we are on the same level. Prover 9: I don’t have to make myself noticed.
Prover 22: Contentment is the result of the ritual. Prover 9 sings and hums, that makes me happy.
Prover 18: To bring Prover 9 in her full rhythm, made me serene and content. Prover 9: scratching goes without effort, without power, letting go is important. Prover 18: To be one with myself and with (both of) you is wonderful.
We want to stay in our rhythm. We feel disturbed by what comes from outside, like “lunch is ready” or trip is planned.
Prover 18: we defend our space.
Prover 22: without remorse.
Prover 22: It’s important for me that it’s my turn again, so the balance is maintained.