TIN – Jupiter’s Thunderbolt
There is a higher tin content in the liver than any other organ, but the greatest amount of tin is found in the mucous membranes and tongue, another organ of Jupiter with which we mould our thoughts into words or song.
In the mouth starch is dissolved and changed into sugar, a process which is reversed in the liver. In the mouth we see the relationship of tin to fluorine, silica and calcium as it is found in the ancient granite rock, where the tongue and mucous membranes are together with the teeth, high in fluorine and combined with these other minerals.
JUPITER THE GREAT HEALER
“Tin may be broadly described as a remedy that regulates opposing fields of force, on the one hand, those that appear in construction, growth, and swelling, and on the other hand those of solidification and drying up.”
Wilhelm Pelikan With its powerful beneficent rays Jupiter has always been regarded as the great healer, in traditional astrology ruling the liver, the hip joints and pituitary gland. Goethe, who was so fascinated by tin, often stayed in the region where tin was mined and said he always felt well and happy there.
While tin as a poison is deposited in the softer parts of the body such as the liver, the muscles and brain tissue, so these parts are most susceptible to tin’s healing forces when specially prepared.
Homeopathic tin is known by the latin name stannum, which along with the word tin and the Germanic zinn are derived from the Celtic ystaen or sten. This remedy strengthens and regenerates. “Its play between fluidity and form enables tin to intervene between the etheric and the physical processes.”2
Stannum can be highly beneficial for disorders of the liver, for congestion, hardening and cirrhosis, and in illnesses where the balance of the fluid system is upset, such as in the brain with hydrocephalus, in meningitis, tuberculosis, and bronchitis. It is also a remedy for the joints, the cartilage and ligaments joining the bones, in such degenerative diseases as arthritis.
JUPITER, TIN AND SUNFLOWERS — The Kolisko Experiments
To bring the relationship between tin and the planet Jupiter back into the more rigid discipline of science, we can turn to the work of Lilly Kolisko who carried out many experiments with tin salts and published the results back in 1932. They clearly demonstrate the changes occurring in the crystallization of silver nitrate and tin chloride, or gold chloride and tin chloride during conjunctions and oppositions of the Moon and Jupiter, the Sun and Jupiter, conjunctions of Jupiter and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, etc. These studies also showed that the formative forces working in tin were strongest during midsummer, in the months of June, July, and August, when there is the greatest light in the atmosphere.
To explore Jupiter’s influence not only in the metallic realm but also in the world of plants, Lilly turned to the old herbals, such as Culpeper’s well known herbal encyclopedia. In the old herbal tradition, each plant is said to be governed by a particular planet— it is the embodiment of specific planetary forces on earth. To explore the truth behind these occult correspondences, Lilly chose the sunflower as a test, a plant said to be ruled not by the Sun as its name suggests, but by the planet Jupiter. Steiner had mentioned that the planetary forces could be seen at work in the colour of the flowers, for example, the forces of Mars could be seen in the red rose, Saturn in blue flowers, and Jupiter in white and yellow flowers.
Having already discovered that solutions of tin are influenced by and reflect the forces of Jupiter, Lilly carried out experiments involving tin and sunflowers. She made dishes out of the various metals, filled them with rainwater and placed seeds from the same sunflower in each. She discovered that the seeds in the tin dish started germinating first after only 24 hours, twice as fast as mercury and over three times as fast as lead.
In another series of experiments Lilly treated the sunflower seeds with the seven different metallic salts, from the 1 st to the 60th potency, over 2000 plants in one experiment alone. Again, the seeds treated with tin were taller, stronger and healthier than the others and, in fact, the sunflowers treated with the Sun’s metal gold grew quite poorly.
To take this study a step further, Lilly also germinated seeds during the opposition of Jupiter with the Moon and during the conjunction of these two planets. Using tin chloride she discovered that the sunflowers grew much higher and better during the conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon, than during their opposition. Even the control plants in rainwater grew better during the conjunction.
Exactly the same experiments were carried out with other plants of Jupiter including marigolds, with Jupiter’s golden-yellow flowers, and maple tree seedlings said by Culpeper to be ruled by Jupiter. Again the best results were obtained with tin chloride at the conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon.
These studies of Lilly’s, done with her husband Eugen, which are detailed in their wonderful book Agriculture of Tomorrow, give a new perspective to an ancient field of knowledge that deserves much wider recognition among modern scientists and farmers than it has so far received.
JUPITER- the “Light-Bringer”
One of the most interesting things about tin, and something that sheds some light on the deeper nature of Jupiter’s metal is its affinity for silica — first as quartz in the granite where tin-veins are found, then again in the organism where the shaping processes of tin and silicic acid are interconnected “to create and maintain the boundary between the inner and outer world.” High concentrations of tin and silica are found in the skin, our own individual physical boundary with the world. Silica is also present in the eyes which allows the outer light to penetrate within and the inner light to probe without.
That silica is connected with light is obvious, as anyone can see who has gazed into the clear depths of a pure rock crystal which, “like a sense organ, is fully open and pervious to the cosmic forces, to light, to warmth.’ ‘2 We even find silica’s companion tin-ore in crystalline rather than metallic form, sometimes transparent but usually discoloured with dark-brown or black.