the Bach Flower Remedy:
Hornbeam

Hornbeam: Remedy from the set of the Second Nineteen

About this music

Piano score only – no realisation in performance as yet (may 09)

This piece really needs re-visiting to think about possible instrumentation.

Alternates 4/4 and 5/4 time. Off beat rhythms, open fifths and repeated melody notes.

Lyrics for Hornbeam

Hornbeam is an instrumental piece.

About Hornbeam, the Bach Flower Remedy

Hornbeam is the third remedy of a group concerning people who are holding back from involvement in life.

People in need of Hornbeam stand back through lack of determination and strength. The burden here is not too much responsibility as with Elm, but the sheer weight of work, the slog of it, the feeling that too great an effort is required. The work can be done, but only with great effort.

Hornbeam is a deciduous hardwood. When in flower it is a magnificent display of force, vitality and colour. A cloak of gold lame shimmers in the sunlight, a dazzling burst of energy. However, it doesn’t happen every spring and the flowers are sometimes altogether missing. Once every few years the tree puts on a truly memorable display.

Hornbeam only grows naturally in the SE of England; the ancient forests to the NE of London were Hornbeam. These were coppiced, and Hornbeam is prized for its heat. It takes fire easily – the burning is a transformation of energy. A person in the Hornbeam state needs to transform energy, to galvanize the will into action.

The trunk is small but shot through with vertical silvery lines, which waver like light. The tree branches low down, and it has an elegant forked form. The twigs are slender and covered by a density of leaf growth. The notched edge to the leaves indicates strength and vitality. This is what is needed to get the energy moving.

Hornbeam grows in any soil. It has a powerful intent to get on with life. When two branches cross one another, they often grow together and fuse as one.

Hornbeam seeds fly like helicopters and may be blown 100 metres away from the tree before coming to rest. The fruits stay on the tree in the winter. The Hornbeam person needs to get down into life, to get deeply involved with the world, with physical reality.

The sudden flowering of the Hornbeam is reflected in the sudden access to strength and determination which comes with the Remedy.

This account of this Bach Flower Remedy is based on the book Bach Flower Remedies : Form and Function by Julian Barnard.

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