Nasturtium

Fire (light and warmth) and water are the fundamental elements of life. Every form of life thrives only in a specifically balanced relationship of fire and water. For terrestrial organisms: if water is lacking, living beings wither; if water is in excess, they "drown".

Fire regulates these relationships. The element fire is inherently warm and dry, the element water is wet and cold. The degree of intervention of the fire element (sun) creates the conditions of warmth and cold as well as dryness and moisture adapted to each life form.

These elements also carry a higher significance. Fire stands for consciousness or self-force, water for life force. Kapuzinerkresse acts as a regulating power to bring about the right, appropriate union of the fiery with the watery.

It "tempers" the water, permeates life with powers of consciousness, connects the warmth element with the cold and wet, and in this way leads to a revival of areas in the body and consciousness that have fallen out of the life process. The Kapuzinerkresse type may find themselves on the shadow side of life, the place in the sun always already occupied. They grant other people too much power.

However, they also like to hide behind the back of a stronger person, going through life in their slipstream. This contains a certain timidity to face life. They lack the constant warmth of healthy self-confidence.

This human type secretly admires and envies the success of the strong. They share in the slipstream and identify with the successful. They themselves do not dare to present their ideas to the world, even though there is much creativity within them.

In their innermost being they know their worth, but they lack the courage, the character strength, the charisma to step forward externally. The described human type can be prone to chronic infections (e.g. of the urinary tract). Kapuzinerkresse supports them in the release of warming forces.