Niccolum

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 two 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.

Next: Cuprum

Cobaltum

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-expression of leo.

Scholten calls it the finishing touch, but they get stuck there and never get to the final completion.

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-confidence. They know they can do it, but are afraid that it will go wrong. That they will fail. Close, but not yet there. Canceling of a project. The feeling it would have been a failure. Get a black out because of their fears. Typical is give up just before the exam because they think it will go wrong. Feeling of failure before the community. Feel isolated. 

Next: Niccolum

Ferrum

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.

Next: Cobaltum