Chromium is in stage 6 and is the first remedy from the individual part of the ironseries. The previous stages belonged to the primordial part and missed an individual focus.
The sign that is similar to stage 6 is leo.
Ego development, setting yourself apart from the rest of the world. Self-
And the complement is aquarius.
Progressive view of things and rarely follow the beaten path. An insatiable urge for discovering that which isn’t known.
Taking this together with the ironseries, being similar to virgo.
Perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical. Reacts to defeats and setbacks by pulling back and altering approach.
Scholten about stage 6:
They love challenges and even go looking for them. A great need to prove themselves, to show what they can do. If someone challenges them they feel an even greater urge to do it. They have to convince themselves and others that they can do it.
So with Chromium you get an individual who discovers that he has an inner urge (leo) to do things in an unconventional way (aquarius) again and again until he is good enough (virgo).
But the process itself is not something they want others to see. About Chromium in homeopathy and the elements:
Very embarrassed about mistakes, feel very uncomfortable if others see their mistakes. Keep up appearances. Become langwinded about all kind of innocent details.
Manganum is in stage 7 of the ironseries and is in stage as well as in series, similar to virgo.
Problems of adjustment dealing with the world and others. Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional.
But also the complement pisces is a well known characteristic.
Compassion and empathy, selfless work. Very receptive, sensitive, even psychic. Co-
Manganum in Homeopathy and the elements.
Want to build out their knowledge and skills. Need a lot of feedback from teacher or guru. Need compliments. Benevolence. Great need to help others. They are very friendly and try to please others. They adjust easily. Inclined to make others feel comfortable, very caring. Sensitive to everything, even clairvoyant. Can bare criticism rather well, can learn from it.
The next three stages repeat the previous ones. The previous three stages where similar to cancer (stage 5), leo (stage 6) and virgo (stage 7). But the emphasis was more on the complements capricorn (high goals), aquarius (challenge) and pisces (benevolence).
With Ferrum in stage 8 of the ironseries, there are the signs cancer and leo. And as a result the compliments capricorn and aquarius.
Words that Scholten uses for stage 8 are:
Persevering, force, pressure, heavy, tension, compress, resistiance, obstruction, through, oppression.
These are all qualities that belong to capricorn and aquarius.
But the difference with the remedy where capricorn also played a role, Vanadium, is that here, with Ferrum there is the combination with leo.
With Vanandium there was the alternation between society (capricorn) and the security of home (cancer).
Here with Ferrum there is the individual focus of leo which makes it a capricorn quality that comes from the inside of the individual. And gives it the power to push through.
And the difference with the remedy where aquarius also played a role, Chromium, is that here with Ferrum, there is the emotional sensitivity of cancer.
And this together with the accomplishment of the task and the critical attitude of the ironseries.
Ferrum in Homeopathy and the elements:
Feeling they have to push through in their work. They push through, go on, no matter how heavy their task is. Very forceful and robust, do not hesitate. It is not so much that they want to practise power, but their task has to be done good. It has to be durable. What they do has to be useful. A heavy task, have to persevere to get it done. Work with great discipline. Hate a bad organisation and disorder. Very sensitive to criticism. See it as obstruction and get very irritated. Have to do their job and can not be distracted and disrupted. Failure because of being too forceful.
Scandium is the first remedy in stage 3. The previous series did go from stage 2 to stage 13, but here in the ironseries the 10 stages in between are filled with the transition metals. The zodiacsign that belongs to stage 3 is gemini.
Clever, curious, communication. Making connection with surroundings. Trying to figure out, intelligence. Talkative, sociable, loves to interact with others on a superficial level. Unemotional, impersonal, ruled by rationality. Requires great mental stimulation. Playfull, inconstant, attention easily drifts so something new, seeks novelty.
Here with Scandium it has to do with the polarity between curious and anxious in combination with the profession or task (virgo). Scholten talks about trying all kinds of possible jobs.
Don’t know which task to choose. Can not decide, but it has to be perfect. Start all kind of professions, but do not persevere. When something goes wrong, they withdraw and do not go on.
The complementary sign of gemini is sagittarius. With the previous complementary signs there was a projection of their own inner nature on the outside world with Kalium (libra), and the carefull attempt to integrate their own contradictions with Calcium (scorpio).
Now with Scandium (sagittarius) there is an expansion of the worldview. Start looking around but not really get involved yet.
Titanium is in stage 4 of the ironseries and is a transition. The previous stage was similar to gemini, the primordial mind and the next stage is similar to cancer, the primordial soul. So stage 4 is in between and has the characteristics of both.
A word that describes it is double-
Stuck in the initial stage of a project. Always stuck in the beginning of something, always on the point of choosing. We could imagine the situation of someone getting into a boat: one foot is already on board and the other foot is still on land.
So here in stage 4 it is not so much about the polarity of a sign (gemini between curious and anxious, or cancer between claiming and abandon) or the integration of the complementary sign (sagittarius the complement of gemini, and capricorn the compliment of cancer) but more about learning how to let the mind work together with the soul.
The final quality of stage 4 is the ability to talk about and explain emotions and experiences in a logical way.
And with Titanium this is on the individual level of virgo:
Embodiment of the individual in the world. Problems of adjustment dealing with the world and others. Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical.
Vanadium, the next remedy in the ironseries is in stage 5 which is similar to cancer.
Nurturing, support, emotional bonding, belonging, roots, source. Ground of your being. The unconscious, feelings, emotion, first emotional attachments to the world. Mothering, emotional and physical nurturing. Experiences and imprinting during infancy and childhood. Family, ancestors, heritage, relationships to the past. Belonging, feeling at home, caring. Feeling supported, that needs are provided for. Insecurities and fears if your needs haven’t been fulfilled.
But these are not exactly the qualities people need in their professional life. Scholten talks about high goals and the alternation between succes and failure.
Feel they have to accomplish a lot, high goals, especially in their profession, but do not know if they will succeed. Fear of failure, they think they will make mistakes, and get blamed for not doing it right. Not dare to take responsibity for their choices. If they fail they feel guilty. Accomplishment and failure are two basic expressions. Have to be successful and do their best for that, with success in the beginning. Also the duality strong and weak.
These characteristics much more resemble the complement of cancer, which is capricorn.
Ambitious, feels pride in accomplishments. Reality, hard facts. Relationship to authority. Serious, determinded, disciplined, focused. Authority figures. Seeks certainties in life. Want things in concrete. Concerned with the practical relationships to support yourself within society.
So here with Vanadium it is not so much the polarity of claiming and abandon (cancer) which is at front, but more the polarity of the totality of cancer with the totality of capricorn.
So with Vanadium there is the struggle with the primordial and the universal part of the zodiac. Alternating between ambition in society (capricorn) and the security of home (cancer).
What is needed is a strong centre, which can take over and bring focus. Here is where the next remedy comes into play, where we enter the individual part of the zodiac in the totality of the ironseries.
The next remedy of the ironseries is Calcium. It is in stage 2, the same as Beryllium and Magnesium, and is similar to taurus.
Calcium is a combination of two earthsigns with the complement of two watersigns. Earth and watersigns are both passive, which is a well known characteristic of Calcium in homeopathy.
Another important item of Calcium is fear (taurus) of criticism (virgo). In homeopathy and the elements:
Fear of what others might think of them. Especially watched in their work. Afraid that it will not be good enough. The fear that others will not find them good enough, shows in a strong sensitivity for criticism. Undergo the criticism passive, have no defense against it, except closing off. Try to do their work as good as possible, so that nobody can criticise it. Try to cover up their mistakes. The cause is often that others criticised them openly. Feeling that everything has to be done according regulations, inclined to check everything.
The essence of Calcium is the delusion that others will observe their confusion. Confusion is, like laziness, also a form of pisces, the complementary sign of the whole ironseries.
So with Kalium in stage 1 this complement is only seen in the outside world. Here with Calcium in stage 2 there is an awareness of their own inner nature, but not something they want to be part of their personality.
With Kalium we arrive at the ironseries of the periodic table. The previous series of the human development, where about the manifestion of a strong personality in the carbonseries, and learning how to interact with others in the siliciumseries. With Sulphur and Chlorine, the personality transformed into an individual, which acts from an inner source.
Here in the ironseries the duty begins, it is the start of a profession, learn how to accomplish a task. So the central theme of the ironseries is function, the alternation between critical and indifferent.
Kalium is in stage 1, the same as Hydrogen, Lithium and Natrium. It is similar to aries, which is the polarity between irritable and exhaustion. Getting started with a task, impulsive function. Scholten talks about just doing their duty.
Very conscious about their task. They work best alone. Stoic they go their own way, and do not like others to interfere with their task. Naive follow their own routine, which makes them rigid. Not reflect their principles. No need to talk about it, just have to do their job. With their impulsiveness and optimism they can accomplish much. But it can get overdone and lead to failures. They do not think their way of working through.
The complementairy sign of the whole ironseries is pisces. In the first part of the series this is seen in the outside world and in stage 1 this goes together with libra, the complement of aries.
So Kalium has to work hard, because laziness (pisces) and ignorance (libra) are not recognised as a part of the self.
Selenium is in stage 16 of the ironseries. Oxygen and Sulphur are also in that stage which is similar to pisces.
Surrender to the universe, to higher goals, ego sacrifice. Compassion and empathy,
selfless work. Seeing the unity of all things. The end of cycles, forming seeds for
the next cycle of growth. Mysticism, fails to make normal distinctions. Laziness,
victim, martyr, servant. Tends to escapism. Fantasy, drugs, alcohol, religion. Very
receptive, sensitive, even psychic. Co-
The complement of pisces is virgo, which is similar to the whole ironseries.
The ironseries has the polarity between critical and indifference with the purpose of function after integrating the quality of pisces. And stage 16 has the polarity between laziness and confusion with the purpose of compassion after integrating the quality of virgo.
Scholten mentions indifference and lazyness in their work.
Feel indifferent to their task. Do not have a sense of duty anymore. Always behind with their work, but always come up with an excuse. Inclined to work shortly, until they have enough to live from. Sloppy, let everything become a chaos. Feeling that they can get things done even if they do not work so hard. Inclined to fantasise about their work. All kind of ideas and fantasies about how it would have been if they had chosen another study or job. Do as if everything is easy for them. When criticised they are inclined to neglect that. Become cynical to those who criticise them.
Cobaltum is in stage 9 of the ironseries. Like Manganum in stage 7 and like the whole ironseries, stage 9 is similar to virgo.
Embodiment of the individual in the world. Problems of adjustment dealing with the world and others. Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical. Interested in crafts and projects, true to self in a simple, unassuming manner. Reacts to defeats and setbacks by pulling back and altering approach. Lacks confidence in the face of opposition, lives up to duties and responsibilities. Interested in maintaining the body as a fit vehicle.
But along with the perfection and improving of virgo, there is also the insecurity, the isolation and irrational fear of cancer.
Cobaltum misses the confidence and self-
Want to do everything perfect. Have to test everything. Details can give problems.
Do not want to make mistakes. Afraid it can all go wrong. Irrational fear, as if
they did something wrong, but they do not know what. The feeling easy to make mistakes.
Little self-
With Niccolum we arrive at the top of the ironseries. It is the first remedy where the individual is totally separate from his primordial background. With the 2 previous stages cancer still played a role, but here in stage 10 the emotions are left out. Scholten talks about being cut of from their emotions.
Should not have strong and negative emotions. Think that others will not appreciate their emotions and will not appreciate them if they show those emotions. Hide their negative emotions. Can not feel anything so will not look at emotions. Go on until they do not know anymore what they feel. Do not know what is the matter with them.
The signs that play a role here are leo and virgo. It is the combination of confidence and perfection.
Want to be successful in their work, with their task. There is no doubt about their function. Hard workers. Do their noble duty and want to do that. Are good at it. Want to be the best, at school, at home and at their job. Want to do their job as good as possible, at best perfect, get the best grades at school. Can become haughty. Have to keep themself under control.
But also the compliments aquarius and pisces are seen here.
Restlessness and tense feeling. Do not want to be confronted with something suddenly. Distance to others, no deep relations. Hate being controled. Need to escape of all the rules. Hate bureaucraty, do not hold to rules. Want to go into the wide world. Or go into a complete fantasy world.
Cuprum is in stage 11 of the ironseries, which is similar to libra.
Individual entering into relationship with others, partnership. One-
Libra is the first sign above the horizon of the zodiac. With aries the process started with a new moon phase, and here with libra it is full moon, the process turns around.
But now it is in the outside world, and libra represents the ‘other’, as opposed to the ‘me’ of aries.
Libra is the polarity between projecting and ignorance with the final purpose of reflection. And this in the ironseries which is similar to virgo.
Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical. Interested in crafts and projects, true to self in a simple, unassuming manner. Reacts to defeats and setbacks by pulling back and altering approach. Lives up to duties and responsibilities.
So at this point the skills are developed, but now others react to that. And how far do you go in maintaining your own approach. This might explain the cramping state of Cuprum.
In Homeopathy and the elements:
Very serious. Not want to loose control. Keep emotions under control, stay friendly
and kind. Hold on to thoughts. Precise and rigid. Rules have to be followed, than
nothing can go wrong. Rules give a sense of safety. Others also have to follow the
rules. And if others do not follow the rules they will tell. Need to double-
Zincum is the last remedy in the individual part of the ironseries. It is in stage 12 which is similar to scorpio.
Transformation, change, ego-
The individual part of the ironseries started with expression (leo), develop skills to function (virgo) and then reflection (libra) from the outside world. Now with scorpio, the repressed part of the self has to be integrated.
With Zincum this integration goes along with virgo. In Prisma:
Pure zincum obstinately resists attacks, which gives rise to two conflicting philosophical conclusions: the praise of purity, which protects from evil like a coat of mail. And the praise of impurity, which gives rise to changes, in other words, to life. In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed.
Scholten mentions the endless repetitions which result in pollution.
Succeed in their work, but overdo it. Restless. Tics en restless movements. Aggravation
when resting. Stressed with study and school. Because of the over-
Here at this point is the transition from the individual part of the zodiac into the universal part, seen in the totality of the ironseries.
The previous transition was the individual becoming separate from his primordial background. It was the transition from the primordial soul (cancer) into the individual spirit (leo).
With this transition the individual soul (scorpio) goes over into the universal spirit (sagittarius). It is the point where the experiences of the individual have to be seen in a bigger whole.
Becoming a member of a wider society. Experiences that lead to consciousness expansion. Being receptive to new points of view, wisdom, enlightenment. Using your talents for the benefit of the greater whole. Freedom loving, idealist, unfetterd by small thinking, inspiration, religion, philosophy, the law. Awareness of connections to the rest of the world, can be distant from others. Afraid to give up freedom, reluctant to be tied down, aware of the value of the social contract. Enthusiastic, generous, loves abstract, theoretical ideas, sees the big picture, ignores the details. In love with an ideal, strong opinion. Foreign travel, liberating experiences.
But with Gallium this is in the limited totality of the ironseries and therefore a limited expression of the sagittarius principle.
Narrow-
Gallium is in stage 13 which is the same stage as Boron (carbonseries) and Aluminium (siliciumseries).
The purpose of sagittarius is to develop a vision after exploring the polarity of judgement and withdrawal. The vision has to go beyond the individual viewpoint.
Gallium in Homeopathy and the elements:
Hold on to their known methods. Can not see other possibilities because they are trapped in their own pattern. See that their pattern does not have optimal results, technique is obsolete and see that others have better results. Can not keep up with new techniques and feel threatened to loose his job to someone younger. Try to hold on, but everything changes. Withdraw on old routines. Nostalgia. Want to do everything their own way. Stay independent. Withdrawing to their own island of self opinionated safety. There is no point in entering a discussion.
The complement is gemini which is about interaction. Instead of judgement and withdrawal there has be an exchange with other visions about individual experiences.
Next remedy of the ironseries is Germanium. It is in stage 14, like Carbon and Silicium, which is similar to capricorn.
Bring about the perfect society. Making practical, efficient connections with others on the physical plane. Ambitious, feels pride in accomplishments. Reality, hard facts. Relationship to authority. Serious, determined, disciplined, focused. Fathering, disciplining love. Authority figures. Seeks certainties in life. Want things in concrete. Concerned with the practical relationships to support yourself within society. Not interested in blue sky ideas, needs to bring theory into concrete reality. Knowing the rules and playing the game.
Stage 14 in Homeopathy and the elements is about an empty shell and wearing a mask.
Lost control. Makes them feel empty, as if all life has drained away. Paced on a side track. Still there for the show, but their real role has come to an end. Masters in changing the subject when things get a bit too close. Al energy has been absorbed. Inclined to hand their responsibility over to others. Hide behind norms and rules. Formal and distant. The outer form becomes more important than what is inside. Great importance to etiquette, protocol, ceremonies and standard procedures. Conventional, conforming to the rules. Cover up all their actions. Only see the outside, a facade, a mask. This mask makes them stiff, reserved, stoic. All you see is an empty shell, the inside has gone. Pretend that nothing is wrong. Conservative.
This is like the capricorn principle taken too far, without integrating the emotions of the complementary sign of cancer.
Germanium is the combination of capricorn (stage 14) with virgo (ironseries). Scholten talks about a formal profession.
Germanium is the classic type of civil servant. Maintain the order but aren’t really interested. Hiding behind formalities. Work with lots of official forms, so they can be sure they won’t personally be held responsible for anything. Hold back information, hiding behind a mask of perfectionism. Restricted, a prisoner of controlled movement. The outside appearance may still be there, but it is only an empty shell. They are powerless to carry out their task, but they pretend everything is fine and running as normal.
Arsenicum album is one of the best known remedies in homeopathy. The picture comes from Arsenic trioxide, which is Arsenicum (ironseries, stage 15) and Oxygen (carbonseries, stage 16).
This means an emphasis on the astrological signs virgo (ironseries and complement of stage 16) and pisces (stage 16 and complement of ironseries).
These explain the fastidiousness and tidiness (virgo) and the decline and decay (pisces).
The other signs that play a role with Arsenicum album are taurus (carbonseries), aquarius (stage 15), scorpio (complement carbonseries) and leo (complement stage 15). These explain the possessiveness and many fears (taurus), the extreme restlessness and destructive processes (aquarius), the obsession and suspicion (scorpio) and the selfishness (leo).
The picture of pure Arsenicum is a combination of virgo (ironseries) and aquarius (stage 15).
It is in the same stage as Nitrogen and Phosphorus. Stage 15 is the polarity between destructive and nervousness (aquarius).
Freedom and cooperation between individuals. Free-
And the ironseries is the polarity between critical and indifferent (virgo).
Embodiment of the individual in the world. Problems of adjustment dealing with the world and others. Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical. Interested in crafts and projects, true to self in a simple, unassuming manner. Reacts to defeats and setbacks by pulling back and altering approach. Lacks confidence in the face of opposition, lives up to duties and responsibilities. Interested in maintaining the body as a fit vehicle.
The final purpose is inventive function.
Accomplished by integrating the complementary signs leo (expression) and pisces (compassion).
With Bromium the ironseries is coming to an end. It is in stage 17 like Fluor and Chlorum. Stage 17 is about finding the balance between holding on and release. With Bromium it is about the release of the function.
Perfection of the approach to life. Development of mundane skills, ability to change to adapt to life better. Service, helping, perfectionist, always seeking to improve, efficiency, practical, functional, analytical. Reacts to defeats and setbacks by pulling back and altering approach. Lacks confidence in the face of opposition, lives up to duties and responsibilities.
The individual has become as skilled and perfect as possible, up to the point where it would go at the cost of others. This might explain the guilt, because of doing things totaly ‘my way’.
The complement pisces plays an important role here.
Compassion and empathy, selfless work. Seeing the unity of all things. The end of cycles, forming seeds for the next cycle of growth. Mysticism, fails to make normal distinctions. Laziness, victim, martyr, servant. Tends to escapism. Fantasy, drugs, alcohol, religion. Very receptive, sensitive, even psychic.
The polarity of pisces can be seen between laziness and confusion, but also between deceive and disappear. Scholten talks about guilt and escape.
Have to let the work go. Because of a disease, their age, or are dismissal. A typical situation is that of pension. Would like to go on, find it difficult to sit still, want to have something to do. Or can not release the work and are convicted to work. Guilt because not doing their work or duty. Feeling they are disapproved and convicted. Can not stand being watched. Think they will be found guilty. Tendency to escape. Feel haunted, by people or ghosts. In the most extreme case they become psychotic. Sit quiet, just stare, or are restless with their hands. Delusion that God wants to punish him.
This religious side is also a characteristic of pisces, which has the final purpose of compassion.
