For the Love of Cats

Inspired by Victor Ciccone’s “The Inner Life of Cats” — Canadians for Homeopathy Webinar Series

The year has begun on a purr-fectly fitting note — soft-pawed, curious, and quietly enchanting. Canadians for Homeopathy welcomed 2025 not with a roar but with a purr. Victor Ciccone started the new webinar season. His topic was The Inner Life of Cats: An Introduction to the Homeopathic Treatment of Our Feline Companions.

It felt fitting somehow. The universe has a playful sense of humor. It wanted us to begin the year by learning from the masters of mystery themselves: the cats.

There are people who like cats, and then there are people who love them.
Victor Ciccone loves them — truly, contagiously. You can hear it in his laughter. It’s that unmistakable giggle that bubbles up. This happens when he talks about their moods, their mysteries, and their marvelous contradictions. To Victor, cats are not just patients. They’re friends, teachers, and emissaries of something ineffably tender. When he talks about treating them homeopathically, it’s as though he’s describing a reunion. It is a way of helping them remember who they already are.

Victor’s talk was less lecture and more love letter — not only to cats, but to homeopathy itself. He shared stories that began with trauma, fear, or confusion. These stories ended with trust, calm, and contentment. Through these narratives, he invited us into the healing conversation between remedy and creature.

One of the first stories was of Apricot, a stray kitten too frightened to be touched. She would bolt at the smallest sound — until one dose of Ignatia transformed her world. In Victor’s words, “She could finally trust in the loving presence that was around her.” It wasn’t only a physical calmness that came; it was a soft rediscovery of love.

Then there was Lilith, half-Bengal, half-wild spirit, trembling with fear of rain yet desperate for affection. Her remedy, Elaps — from the coral snake — restored balance to the storm inside her. The fear eased, the screaming stopped, and peace descended — like a snake shedding what no longer served.

What I love most about Victor’s way is his sympathy. It is the kind Hahnemann meant. We truly feel with the living being before us. His compassion extends beyond symptom and species; it’s as if helping itself is his remedy. He listens to the inner music of each cat. In doing so, we hear his music too. It embodies a gentle confidence that says, “There’s a remedy for this, and it works.”

From Ignatia’s heartbreak to Elaps’s longing to be seen, each case was a meditation on vitality. Stramonium faced a nightmare of light and dark. Meanwhile, Panda showed courage to stand up and be heard. Healing restores the soul’s natural dignity. In every story, we gain a deeper understanding of Victor. He is the healer who delights in life’s tender rescues. This includes both feline or human rescues.

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Epilogue: What the Cats Teach Us

Cats don’t come when called; they come when ready.
They remind us that healing, too, is not commanded but invited — through patience, presence, and love. When we meet a being on their terms, something shifts. The defenses soften, the fear dissolves, and the vital force begins to hum again.

Perhaps this is what Victor teaches most beautifully: that the art of homeopathy isn’t about control but communion. We don’t impose; we listen. Whether human or feline, healing begins when we are finally seen. We are perceived not as broken but as whole. We are simply waiting to remember.

And maybe that’s why cats find their way into our hearts, again and again. They hold up a mirror to the wild, intuitive part of us that refuses to be tamed. They ask us to love without condition, to observe without judgment, and to serve without owning.

In their quiet way, they lead us home. They guide us to ourselves and to the living pulse of love. This love moves through all things.

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