the Bach Flower Remedy:
Walnut

Walnut: Remedy from the set of the Second Nineteen

About this music

One of the first Remedy pieces to be performed, in July 2004.
An extract from a recording of this performance can be found on this web site.

A lively youthful energy to this piece in 2/2 time centred around A minor. At two points in the piece, a fast 3/4 waltz takes over for a short burst before the opening theme returns.

Presently realised only in a simple version for flute and piano.

Lyrics for Walnut

Walnut is an instrumental piece.

About Walnut, the Bach Flower Remedy

Walnut follows on from Crab Apple in that having cleared the poison out of the system, Walnut closes the door and makes sure that it does not return.

‘This remedy gives constancy and protection from outside influences’

Outside influences here could include such different things as advertising, electro-magnetic signals, peer pressure or psychic attack.

‘For those who have definite ideals and ambitions in life and are fulfilling them, but on rare occasions are tempted to be led away from their own ideas, aims and work by the enthusiasm, convictions or strong opinions of others.’

One of the arrangements which Bach gave to the 38 Remedies put Walnut opposite Wild Oat – suggesting that Walnut had a function in giving or maintaining the direction of the life.

Walnuts have the perfect signature of the Head: the outer husk or green covering representing the Pericranium or outward skin of the skull whereupon the hair groweth… …The kernel hath the very figure of the Brain and therefore it is very profitable for the Brain….

Although not native the walnut has been grown in Britain since Roman times. The tree is linked to the Greek hunter goddess Artemis. At weddings in Rome young boys scrambled after walnuts thrown by the bridegroom ‘as a sign that he had laid aside childish amusements’ according to some authorities. Thus in classical tradition Walnut is linked to rites of passage and the developmental stages in human society.

‘Walnut is the remedy of advancing stages, teething, puberty, change of life. For the big decisions made during life such as change of religion, change of occupation, change of country. The Remedy for those who have decided to take a great step forward in life, to break old conventions, to leave old limits and restrictions and start on a new way.’

Every new life and every stage on the path of life can be a ‘great step forward’ and needs protection. At times of change the structure of our energy patterns is loosened to accommodate the new situation ; without that loosening people cannot change. But this leaves them more open to interference and the intrusion of distorting forces which may throw them off course. Walnut then acts as a shield, a defensive barrier within which it is safe to assemble the new pattern of identity.

When the walnut germinates it quickly puts down one thickened root like a slim carrot with many smaller fibrous roots attached. The seedling tree remains attached to the old shell for some time, continuing to take nourishment from the kernel of the nut. There is a tenacity here holding to the past while yet growing strongly with a deep-diving intent to anchor in the physical world.

The purple bronze colour of the spring leaves deters all animals which might otherwise eat the fresh young shoots. The Walnut remedy takes from all this a quality of isolation and deterrence. Walnut offers isolation where an individual may develop alone without the influence of outside forces.

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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