Encyclia cordigera
A Proving and Case of Encyclia Cordigera
First attempt at proving Panama - March 24, 2012.
Second proving Florida - November 6, 2013; Four provers, 2 male, 2 female.
Sally Williams RSHom(NA), CCH, HMC
Healing Arts Association
524 Rhode Island St.
Buffalo, NY 14222
USA
sawrshom@msn.com
“It is interesting though- to see how we are the same as human beings- the same blood cell make-up. But the depth of perceptions is different. It will take us to be willing to break through the depths. Because we are all somewhere on a journey, but at a different place. It also goes beyond each lifetime for each one of us- and that’s a concept hard to grasp. This little orchid has some kick!!!” Prover 4.
Abstract: This article presents the proving and a case of the Central American orchid Encyclia cordigera. Features of the proving are discussed along with a case of vertigo and scoliosis, including an analysis using the Plant Theory.
Keywords: Encyclia cordigera, orchids, vertigo, scoliosis, balance, harmony, Fibonacci’s number, sacred geometry.
Encyclia Cordigera 633.73.10
Source
This orchid was gathered in its natural environment in Boquete Panama in 2012. During the proving there were many interruptions from a member of the group and the provers were finding it hard to concentrate. We triturated to a 3c and stopped the proving. Twenty months later we began another proving starting with the 4c.
The typical orchid themes of beauty, sex, deception, fungus (zombies) and insects were very strong in the proving, as well as the stage 10 themes of balance and harmony.
Balance/Spirals/Fibonacci/Golden mean:
“Finding balance. Thinking about polarity and perception and righteous indignation. We as a people have a sense of what is right and wrong for ourselves and whatever that sense is, is not shared by everyone. Level of opposition. Great and small. Given that, thinking about what percentage of people are really interested and look introspectively. Stay balanced by living what YOU know.”
“There is a spiral. The golden mean…….when I meditate I do spirals I go from the center of my being out and or the other way.”
“Picture of spirals that represent basically the shape the same stuff that we have been talking about with Fibonacci” “When ferns start out they are all curled up in that spiral and then they fan out and each of the fronds are in perfect relationship with in themselves and then with in the entire plant.” “Each of the fronds has a relationship to the numerical series and then as a whole the fern itself and all of their fronds have that relationship to each other, so this is like 1 +1 and then 1+2 and it continues to go up like that.”
Attunement:
So, you know how sometimes we might not be aware of complete attunement, but we have the vision of how it is going to go. And somehow the enthusiasm can give you an end result and you fall into a pattern of it all falling into place and you become the creator. So, when you take the polarities to the center you create that reality. And there is no right or wrong. Which gives me Goosebumps because that would be what I can see how humans are here. The whole insect idea becomes interesting because then it is about ourselves finding enough of our own center that we can influence what we are perceiving to fall into place. We are bringing the negative and positive human world to the center. The path in the middle of the center in that Chinese symbol yin and yang. Past complete balance. If you then look at it that way, then you don’t have to be freaked out by the cockroaches!
“Attaining attunement will let us perceive what is truly right and wrong. Physics holds the truth.”
Harmony:
“You change the level of vibration so that everything else is vibrating with you in a more harmonious way.”
“Government and extremists bother me to no end…. that there is no common ground or balance. So, it all shuts down because of no compromise or harmony. We as society should be striving for that instead of being extreme.”
Beauty:
“Perceptions and how people perceive one another, it comes down to beauty in everything.”
Deception:
“That is the basis of it, you are afraid to step out of the lines that confine you, because the confines are very reassuring within it. But at some level you know you are fooling yourself or else you wouldn’t be so desperate and so crazy and fooling others.”
“So we feel we need not being seeing reality, hence we can make black and white decisions that are not based on truth or true reality. We may never know what that true reality is.”
Despair/Feeling separated:
“It is a spiritual and emotional and physical thing. I got poison ivy for 3 months and my emotion is ARGGGG (frustration) and you want to get out of it and you cannot. The thing I hate most about that state is feeling so separated. We are not separated no matter stage we are in, but there is despair, like there is no redemption. That we are fucked up any way. (weeping). So that is the dark side of this. The picture of the lower wall (Dahli reference). In a way there is a lot of doubt around where you are going.
“We can manage it (the despair) by coming back to the center… go to the beach! Stick my feet in the Garden… get back to the ground, celebrate health thru homeopathy and come back to good.”
Zombies:
“Soulless, the undead, the underworld, they kill people. They have a virus. You get bit, you turn. All of them are contagious. Element of being contagious. That element creates fear. Something can get you. Illness too……… penetrate your defenses and penetrate your life… and they can make you sick or kill you, it is the element of fear. Which is destructive and horrible for humans.”
Music:
“Things apply to life as well as music. Nature informs music. So much of it is that people think music is going to be about the physical and it is about the metaphysical.”
Disgusted/Sex/Insects:
“I wonder why Dali equated the grasshopper with something disgusting?
“There was the Dahli painting, it was an underworld at the bottom of the painting with a lot of sexual deviation and above that he painted the grasshopper upside down. He hinted to the fact that the lion the top was the head of the church and it represented all that is disgusting with the catholic church. That they condemned it all, but were a part of it. It makes sense in light of the years of repression and pedophiles.”
“So, I was thinking about insects. People in general have a disgust to insects, but insects are amazing. But I do not feel that way to cockroaches. I am not disgusted by a scorpion but the cockroach, gosh how am I disgusted with cockroaches. The insects are not bad it is our perception. We manifest organic. We are polarized, and it is disgusting or purified. But it is our perception. When we come into organic matter we polarize.”
Scorpions:
“I am thinking about a dream last night. I was in a car and it was warm like it is here and a spider on the passenger side window. I am like that is why they call it black widow. It was in a web on the window of the car. It was a big spider it had a woven silk on top of it like a hat a widows cap. Then I was out of the car and under the front of it and I am looking at the cross that supports the engine. There are 4 bugs. Like little scorpions and I am like I should get out of here and two of the fall into my shirt AHHHHH. That is unusual to remember my dreams.”
“Scorpions I have seen. I got stung and it hurt like hell. There was this big round circle with a red patch that lasted for months. People get the numb tongue from a bite I did not get that. I am a good healer I heal well from things. But it took 4 months.”
“I have not seen one, but it is my sign! I am a Scorpio! Scorpions must hang around this plant!”
Anxiety to get things right:
“Lump in my throat but not choking, shaky nervous feeling like anticipation of something, sweaty palms but I’m not anxious. I want the right info put down here for this orchid for someone to use. That’s my anxiety.”
Vertigo:
“Sense of vertigo……….still anticipation anxiety going on.”
“Feeling spacey and tired, spinning, light headed.”
Enchiladas and a beer:
“We are 20 minutes away from enchiladas!!!!”
“A salad with fried beans and enchiladas and a beer!!!!”
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.