Case:
Female age 55
C.C. Incapacitating vertigo, vaginal yeast infections, scoliosis.
She is a weaver and teaches sacred geometry. She loves nature and beauty. She strives for harmony and balance in her weaving.
“As a child I remember there were patterns in nature. When I was outside I could look at patterns in themselves. I got into tenth grade and geometry had a huge impact on me. I saw that numbers, shapes, patterns and music were all the language of the universe. I got to college I got away from that.”
“As a child when I doodled I doodled in triangles and spirals. Also as a child I was aware that stones and rocks had special quality about them. Gem stones and crystals. I put that aside. Five years ago, the crystals started to speak to me. There is the sacred geometry. It is coming stronger and stronger. I design tapestries around it. In 2010 I went out with my cup of tea and walked in our garden and started noticing close up the details of plants. The shapes, the patterns the structure. I took photos. I am coming to it through the spiritual aspect. As above so below. There is a spiritual element to it.”
She has a conflict with her relationship in that her husband is a pastor and she does not believe in the religion, but she pretends she does so to fit in as his wife and the congregation, but feels restricted.
“My role in the church is a pastor’s wife. I am trying to figure out how to hold on to my truth, but where I worship and who I am married to does not embrace that. How can I be my true self without pushing these ideas on others and then people will find out?”
“I work with a team of celestials to bring harmony. The spiritual enlightenment is there and I need to use them and trust them.”
With the yeast infection she feels as if “there is a fight between good and bad in my pelvic area”.
Difficulty with intimacy with her husband. Not feeling feminine. Sexual dreams of prostitutes sleeping with her husband and she is watching shocked and disgusted. Dreams of having threesomes with her husband.
Her mother was negative and mean and she never felt loved by her. Her father loved her, but wished she was a boy and so she adapted by doing all the things with him a son would.
“I felt rejected. I never fit into my family except my father. I never felt a part of my mother or siblings. I was alone a loner. Most of the time I wanted to be alone. I shut them off, especially after college. Emotionally I cut them off, but not my dad.”
What she wants is balance. “Balancing myself. Balancing my spine, my art, balancing my spiritual self with my intellectual self with my artistic self with my physical self.”
Favorite colors are bright turquoise, orange reds and lime green.
Follow up after 6 months:
Taught sacred geometry in Oregon over the summer. “There was a 3 Celtic spiral labyrinth. It was my meditation and answers were coming to me. That is where my designs came from.”
“I began to sense that the core issue is of the unwanted child. I have always felt that I had to gain people’s attention. To get them to like me or love me I had to gain it, justify it. That is a core issue for many years now. I finally came to terms with it. I do not need to justify my existence to anyone. I released that toxin in the labyrinth.”
She is slowly opening up to her husband about her true beliefs, but still puts on a front in church.
Yoga seems to be working now to help heal her scoliosis along with Rolfing where it did not work before. “I am now finding my posture is naturally better. Some poses that were so difficult to do is a pleasure to do now. It is still an issue, but it is getting better.”
“The one thing that is still an issue is the sexual. I had lost everything; the libido was just gone with the yeast infections. Now that the yeast infections are gone I still have pain during intercourse, but I have talked to my husband for the first time about it. He is understanding and we found other ways to please each other, but where I felt nothing before, I feel a loss. I miss having intercourse and I am beginning to recognize that I need that intimacy. But I feel hope now not despair about it.”
Vertigo is much better.
“I can still feel woozy or light headed, but it is not the full-blown crawl on your hands and knees vertigo.”
Follow up 1 year:
“From a physical thing. My spine is now straight. But all my muscles have to come into alignment with my spine. My chiropractor told me that my muscles are mush, and I need to work hard at building my muscles. I became committed on this remedy. I am doing it daily. My SI still slips out, but I am able to slip it back in. I am stronger, and I feel the strength. It is going to take time, but I am committed.”
“In order for me to survive I need community. That was a big awakening for me. I thought I did not need anyone but myself. I am human, and I need interaction with other people. To truly be there for someone.”
Wolf moss. Lichen, I was smitten with it. I knew I need to weave something that was about that because it was so profound for me. I wove 6 hours and I got 2 inches done. I could not sleep that night. I went to the labyrinth I knew something was wrong. The message was you need to get in touch with the sacred geometry. Get in touch with the spirit with in you. I ripped apart that tapestry. I went out and gathered wolf moss and brought it back and I looked at it and I looked at it and studied it. I figured out the sacred symmetry. It is a regenerational plant. It is a fractal. Each part is a reflection of the whole. There are three fibers coming out of it, but it plays out as a pentagram. The three is all about balance. The three-legged stool. Security, stability and balance. Left and right a middle that mediates. All that came to me and I was ready to start a tapestry.
The vertigo is 99 percent gone!
Follow up 18 months:
I have gotten away from trying to be someone else.
I am not involved with my husband’s church anymore and we are getting along better than ever.
Socially it is really great.
Many strong creative women and our paths are crossing.
It is the hand of god!
They want to start an artist group.
I have continued to teach sacred geometry.
I am teaching the sunflower and Fibonacci’s number!
No vertigo!!
I am walking strong and straight.
There are key things that I have learned to keep me in balance.
Creativity, music, nutrition, community, exercise, grounding and a key thing; nature is my guide. Nature will teach me what I need.
At the core of all that is I need for stillness and meditation, to stay connected with spirit and to stay in balance.
Plant Theory Analysis:
The number associated with Encyclia cordigera according to the Plant Theory is 633.75.10. The Orchidaceae are all within 633.7, although it may be difficult to see the silica nature in the proving and the case due to the emphasis on spirituality and the depth of thinking. I believe the confusion lies within the strength of the stage; balance, imbalance, harmony, centered.
Phase 7 can clearly be seen within the proving in the feelings of despair and the discussion of zombies. In the case, she felt rejected, not belonging to her family.
The sub-phase 5 is harder to perceive and could be mistaken for sub-phase 3 due to the vertigo and the patients need to adapt to be accepted by her father. But a strong characteristic of all orchids is vertigo and adaptation. The patient adapts in a very orchid-like way, she behaves like a boy to feel close to her father. The strong adaptation quality over-shadows the symptoms of sub-phase 5. That being said, you can see the feeling of restriction in the patient by her husband and the religious community and in the proving the desire for enjoyment, food and drink.
Lastly, stage 10 is very clear. The desire for balance and harmony is very strong throughout the proving and case.