Makar Sankranti, Kite and Homoeopathy

Today is Makar Sankrati, Kite festival in Maharashtra.

What is Kite?

What is the relation of Kite with us?

What Kite has to do with Homoeopathy????

These questions hovered in my mind today. When I sat with these questions, something very different and surprising facts came out in my search.

What is Kite?

Kite means PATANG.

What is the relation of Kite with us?

A kite holds various spiritual meanings across different cultures and belief systems. Spiritually, it often symbolizes freedom, aspirations, and the connection between the earthly and the divine.

ascending from the worldly beings to the Higher SELF.
Patang signifies our aspirations, desires, and ambitions to be as high as the sky which is the limitless.
Manja signifies DOOR, a thread that ties us to the ground. Whatsoever our ambitions be, howsoever high PATANG they may be but it should be CONNECTED with MANJA. It signifies BALANCE AND HARMONY. Wind is, a key element for a kite to fly. It can also represent the connection to the natural world and the forces of nature.
The act of flying kite expresses personal growth and development.
Realizing inner self and consciousness.

Second KITE:

The Kite is an exquisite bird of prey and one of my personal favorites. It is associated throughout the world with various positive and negative meanings, ranging from thievery and vermin to divinity and motherhood.

The Kite is breathtaking in the air and unmistakably intelligent and social when observed in pairs or family units.

The possible meanings for a kite include:

Family
Loyalty
Foresight
Vigilance
Protection
Creativity
Compassion
Courage
Flexibility

What Kite has to do with Homoeopathy???

In Homoeopathy, there is a remedy named Falco peregreius.

Proving date: 1997
Proving completed by: Misha Norland & The School of Homeopathy
Common name : Falcon

The proving

There is a prologue to the proving that is worthwhile mentioning. Patient X, after receiving homeopathic care, had become director of a charity that provided homeopaths for projects in developing countries. She had felt increasingly hemmed in at work, while others, being funded by her efforts, were setting up homeopathic care projects. During this time her tormentor – her father – reappeared, stalking her. Menaced by fear, wanting to escape, yet bound by obligation to the charity, she consulted Misha again. He could find nothing new except an intensification of her state for which AIDS 200c had been prescribed previously. Although repeated, it had not continued to act as before. Misha remembered X’s love of running and climbing the rugged rock face. An image came before his mind’s eye – a picture of training the falcon, which involves starvation, being tied by the ankles and kept prisoner in a dark place. He thought of the perverted bond of persecutor and victim – the ‘no escape’ situation of the bird until, once trained, it is allowed its flight, yet returns when summoned by conditioned reflex to whistle and lure. Mentioning his ruminations to X, led to an interesting revelation that she knew a vet who ministered to an aviary of hunting birds! Thus, the source was procured, and sent to Helios Homeopathy. The pharmacist provided a report of her experiences – the first proving – while X greatly benefitted from the dose. She lost her fear, sense of disempowerment, quit the charity and is currently living in her beloved Scotland where she can roam carefree, making her peregrinations.

This remedy is used for various diseases. It has a theme of a deep sense of isolation. There is a very strong feeling of being excluded. The patient feels neglected and repudiated by friends, family and society as a whole. Patients may well have been actually deserted by their birth parents. They will usually have experienced severe abuse of a physical, emotional and/or sexual nature.

As a result, there is a great deal of anger, which may either be suppressed or expressed. The anger is often directed at family members. There is often a feeling that siblings were more loved, more accepted, considered more important. There is also a very strong aversion to injustice.

The negative feelings are internalised. There is a very negative self-image with feelings of disgust at oneself and at one’s body, a feeling of ugliness. There is a very deep sense of shame, humiliation and resentment.
These feelings can lead to a deep sense of hopelessness and apathy. The patient may become discontented, discouraged, indifferent and lazy. There is indifference to household duties, to work, to family members, to everything.

Mythology

Symbolism: of falcon is about success, victory and power to rise above a situation. North American Indians believe the falcon is a messenger that brings us guidance from the spirit world. The Ancient Egyptians believed it brought the sun in the morning and dragged it away in the evening. In Egyptian mythology, the falcon finds its most powerful expression in Horus. Images of Horus are chiselled at the top of all Ancient Egyptian obelisks where it appears in its role as god of kingship and the sky. Horus is depicted with one eye as the sun and the other as the moon, thus containing and appeasing the opposites. In European tradition the falcon represents the hunt and huntsman, and arose as a symbol during times of the war.

Violent rages of wilfulness in the face of opposition.

Few Rubrics:

MIND – AWARENESS heightened 2
MIND – AWARENESS heightened – body; of – sensuality, with 1
MIND – AWARENESS heightened – consciousness expanded – stillness, with 1

MIND – DELUSIONS – children are changelings and will leap up and attack her, her 1

MIND – DELUSIONS – floating – air, in – kite, like a, or a balloon on a

MIND – DELUSIONS – danger, impression of – fear; but without 1
MIND – DELUSIONS – disintegrating, the world is 1
MIND – DELUSIONS – division between himself and others 1

REFERENCES.

https://qjure.com/remedy/falco-peregrinus/.
https://worldbirds.com/kite-symbolism/?unapproved=106460&moderation-hash=ff7a4c9893cdbc784ddcfdd5b28a5116#comment-106460
https://www.schoolofhealth.com/docs/Peregrine_Falcon_Falco_Peregrinus_WEB.pdf
https://www.homeopathyschool.com/the-school/provings/falcon/