Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1490/en

The dandelion as a perennial herbaceous plant (lifespan approximately eight years) behaves in a quite different manner. It is governed through and through by the life-shaping astral inward working — comparable to the stinging nettle, yet in polar contrast to it. While the stinging nettle, asserting itself and presenting itself defensively outward, gives its magnificent inward working a protective sheath of its own, the outward appearance of the dandelion shows how completely it is given over both to earth and to cosmos. Although the astral organisation of the dandelion places the etheric forces powerfully in its service, its outward appearance is a model of surrendering will — not of self-will: "the innocent, yellow dandelion," as the spiritual researcher names it. An outward working in the sense described above scarcely touches it.