Esoteric Astrology and Human Development

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By Kim Graae Munch. 06/16/2022 22:36:56
Esoteric Astrology and Human Development

Everything in the physical world have developed in accordance with the planets of the Solar System, and the field of the Sun, the Zodiac, as
their corresponding powers were the ruling force behind the development up through the history of the solar system. I try to show the
connection between astrology, esotericism and the physical world within various areas.
Astrology stand in many ways isolated from the esoteric and spiritual traditions, here I try to show its connection to the religious and esoteric
traditions. Steiner have told about astrology from a number of different views, like the World Outlooks, the Calendar of the Soul, the Senses
and the Animal Development and I use this as the central point from where I connect other spiritual and religious traditions.
Content
Our Solar System - Describes the solar system from an esoteric view.
Planetary Movements - Movement of the Earth axis as a lemniscate.
The Building Blocks of Earth Life - All the time since the Big Bang was needed for life on Earth to develop.
The Zodiac and the Seasons - The Zodiac follows the seasons of the Earth.
Man as a Projection into the Third Dimension - Man is a microcosm created in the picture of the universe.
Man as an Upside Down Plant - This is the connection between Astrology and Esotericism.
The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac
Hierarchies and the Planets
Sun-spots and the Current Michael Period
Esoteric Astrology - The Star signs describe twelve outlooks on the world, that's what's central in astrology.
World Outlooks - Star signs, twelve ways to see the world.
The Psychic Moods - Planets, how we express our outlook.
World Outlooks and Senses - Comparison between outlooks and senses.
The Universe and human development
Astrology and the Introduction of Senses - The senses developed under specific star signs.
Astrology and the Hierarchies
Inner Movements and the Planets
Senses Grouped in Three - The Three Pre-Earthly Deeds
Senses Grouped in Four
Senses related to Animal Development - The senses developed together with the development of the animal forms.
Astrology and Animal Development - The connection between star sign and animal development.
The Alphabet
Astrology and the Hebrew Alphabet
Kabbalah
Art of Asha
Trigrams and Western esotericism
The Fano Plane
Trigrams and Star of David
Cree Teaching - Tipi Structure
Nidanas and the Zodiac
Nidanas and the Signs
Skandhas
Three Gunas
Stations of the Cross
The Spiritual Planes
Modalities
The Twelve Senses and the Seven Movements
Literature
In the following I have changed Ego to 'I' in all texts as Ego is a wrong translation of the German Ich, that means 'I', where Ego is associated with
the Sentient soul and the astral body, where the 'I' are associated with the Intellectual soul.
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Our Solar System

The physical world is the result of a projection of the two dimensional seven layered Astral (Star) world through the form giving four layered
etheric world. This reminds about string theory, that our universe in reality is a holographic projection of a 2D plane universe into a 3D
universe. Astrology describes this threefold world. The planets was in old time called stars, so the astral world could as well be called the
planetary world.
The most characteristic feature of this experience — I shall have to go into it more closely to-morrow — is that, because the whole thing
is like a picture, one still has a certain feeling of space, but only a feeling. For the space now experienced lacks the third dimension; it is
two-dimensional only, as with a picture. For this reason I call this cognition Imaginative — a picture-cognition that works, as in a
painting, with two dimensions.
...
The truth is that when we go on from the physical to the spiritual, no fourth dimension appears, but the third dimension drops away. ...
And we shall see how, eventually, we go back to only one. Steiner: Evolution of Consciousness I
A clairvoyant friend told how she could see all the outer walls of houses in the spiritual world, at the same time, so I guessed it was the astral
world she talked about, as it must be a 2D world for us to see all the outer walls at the same time.
Each physical planet corresponds to a plane in the astral world, with Saturn as the deepest material layer. Each plane have different
influences on the physical world, and the lower the plane the more heavy the influence. In the astral world Saturn is a plane, not a planet, and
the physical planet Saturn is spiritually seen a boat sailing on the ocean of Saturn, that is the sphere with it's center in the Sun.
The outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto originates from earlier development phases than the human, and are outside the human
development, so they are not part of our astral world, but they are influencing our development. What they then are part of is the obvious
question.
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I once thought that the 2D astral plane was a projection onto a torus, but I don't believe in it any longer, it's unnecessarily complicated. As the
solar system and the galaxies are flat the torus seems to be wrong, but the solar system could easily be projected out from a plane
holographic negative, the astral plane.
Everything in the universe lies in a plane, if it's galaxies or solar systems.
Here we see that the planets lie in a plane, with Pluto having the greatest difference:
Seen a little from above:
Seen from the plane. It is quite interesting that all the planets are in the same plane, except Pluto.
The creation is a recursive process that expands the plane in three dimensions through time, more and more detailed. See The Golden Mean
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as the Key to the Universe, the creative interaction between the Three Logoi. This is visible in the galaxies.
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Planetary Movements
It's interesting that the solar system move through space with the flat side forward:

The following, from the Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner, explains why the planets have this sequence in many documents: Saturn,
Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, and Earth. Mercury and Venus changed identity when going from Earth centered astronomy to
Sun centered astronomy by error or to hide the spiritual knowledge.
A teacher: Would you say something more about the planetary movements? You have often mentioned it, but we don’t really have a clear
understanding about the true movement of the planets and the Sun.
Dr. Steiner: In reality, it is like this [Dr. Steiner demonstrates with a drawing]. Now you simply need to imagine how that continues in a
helix. Everything else is only apparent movement. The helical line continues into cosmic space. Therefore, it is not that the planets move
around the Sun, but that these three, Mercury, Venus, and the Earth, follow the Sun, and these three, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, precede
it. Thus, when the Earth is here and this is the Sun, the Earth follows along. But we look at the Sun from here, and so it appears as
though the Earth goes around it, whereas it is actually only following. The Earth follows the Sun. The incline is the same as what we
normally call the angle of declination. If you take the angle you obtain when you measure the ecliptic angle, then you will see that. So it
is not a spiral, but a helix. It does not exist in a plane, but in space.
A teacher: How does the axis of the Earth relate to this movement?
Dr. Steiner: If the Earth were here, the axis of the Earth would be a tangent. The angle is 23.5×. The angle that encloses the helix is the
same as when you take the North Pole and make this lemniscate as the path of a star near the North Pole. That is something I had to
assume, since you apparently obtain a lemniscate if you extend this line. It is actually not present because the North Pole remains fixed,
that is the celestial North Pole.
A teacher: Wasn’t there a special configuration in 1413?
Dr. Steiner: I already mentioned that today. Namely, if you begin about seven thousand years before 1413, you will see that the angle of
the Earth’s axis has shrunk, that is, it is the smallest angle. It then becomes larger, then again smaller. In this way, a lemniscate is
formed, and thus the angle of the Earth was null for a time. That was the Atlantean catastrophe. At that time, there were no differences
in the length of the day relative to the time of year.
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A teacher: Why should the celestial pole, which is in reality nothing other than the point toward which the Earth’s axis is directed, remain
constant? It should certainly change over the course of years.
Dr. Steiner: That happens because the movement of the Earth’s axis describes a cone, a double cone whose movement is continuously
balanced by the movement of the Earth’s axis. If you always had the axis of the Earth parallel to you, then the celestial pole would
describe a lemniscate, but it remains stationary. That is because the movement of the Earth’s axis in a double cone is balanced by the
movement of the celestial pole in a lemniscate. Thus, it is balanced.
[Sequence: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Earth.]
A teacher: I had changed my perspective to the one you described regarding the movement of the Earth’s axis. I said to myself, The
point in the heavens that remains fixed must seem to move over the course of the centuries. It would be, I thought, a movement like a
lemniscate, and, therefore, not simply a circle in the heavens during a Platonic year.
Dr. Steiner: It is modified because this line, the axis of the helix, is not really a straight line, but a curve. It only approximates a straight
line. In reality, a circle is also described here. We are concerned with a helix that is connected with a circle.
A teacher: Can we derive the spiral movements of the Sun and the Earth from astronomically known facts?
Dr. Steiner: Why not? Just as you can teach people today about the Copernican theory. The whole thing is based upon the joke made
concerning the three Copernican laws, when they teach only the first two and leave out the third. If you bring into consideration the
third, then you will come to what I have spoken of, namely, that you will have a simple spiral around the Sun. Copernicus did that. You
need only look at his third law. You need only take his book, De Revolutionibus Corporum Coelestium (On the orbits of heavenly bodies)
and actually look at the three laws instead of only the first two. People take only the first two, but they do not coincide with the
movements we actually see. Then people add to it Bessel’s so-called corrective functions. People don’t see the stars as Copernicus
described them. You need to turn the telescope, but people turn it according to Bessel’s functions. If you exclude those functions, you
will get what is right. Today, you can’t do that, though, because you would be called crazy. It is really child’s play to learn it and to call
what is taught today nonsense. You need only to throw out Bessel’s functions and take Copernicus’s third law into account.
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The Building Blocks of Earth Life

Life on Earth is very sophisticated, and it's possible because of the great amount of atomic elements available. These are created through
many generations of stars since the Big Bang, where each generation of sun's added new atomic elements.
The star, named 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B, is an approximately 13.5 billion-year-old

tiny star in our neighborhood. Credit: ESO/Beletsky/DSS1 + DSS2 + 2MASS
Astronomers have maybe found one of the universe's oldest stars in our neighborhood, a body almost entirely made of materials from the Big
Bang. The approximately 13.5 billion-year-old tiny star is part of the Milky Way's thin-disk, the part of the galaxy in which our own sun
resides. It's possible that our solar system builds on materials created over a period at least 3 billion years longer than previously thought.
This means that the Earth have more different atomic elements available than many other planetary systems in the universe, without which it
would have been impossible to create life on Earth.
See Science Daily and New Atlas.
The Zodiac and the Seasons

In Job 38:31, God asks Job, "Can you bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the bonds of Orion? Can you bring forth the
Mazzaroth in their seasons?" As Mazzaroth is the twelve signs of the zodiac in Hebrew, it connects the signs with the seasons.
Astrology describes the influence of the solar system on Earth. It's not about influence from stars far away that may even not exist anymore.
The Sun is creating the scene where all the planets are the players, and the Moon is the instructor. The Zodiac is the periphery of the solar
system. Spiritually the light rays of the Thrones in the Sun are sent out to the Cherubin in the periphery who returns them as the rays from
the Zodiac. The Archangels of the seasons work tightly together with the Cherubim, the Cherubim is kind of the souls or parents of the
Archangels.
..we can look up to the sun and say that when we stand here at a certain moment, the sun is between us and the constellation of Aries.
That is the direction where these strong cosmic forces work from. It is not Aries itself, of course. This constellation merely indicates the
direction where the strong forces come from.
..
You see, I can read the entire zodiac like a clock from which I can see what happens on earth. But I must always keep in mind that it is
not the constellations that cause these events; they are only indicators. — Rudolf Steiner.
“You may have noticed that I have only spoken about four names of the zodiac. They represent the four principal expressions of the
Cherubim, but in reality each of these cherubic beings has to the right and the left of it a kind of follower or companion. Thus we have
twelve-fold forces in the Sun's periphery belonging to the realm of the Cherubim. They were already present in a rudimentary form on
ancient Saturn. The twelve powers belonging to the realm of the Cherubim accomplished their task in the way indicated. - Foundations
at the Periphery: Rudolf Steiner's Observations on Star Knowledge.
The star signs are connected to the seasons, not to the stars, and the seasons is an interplay between the planets, and especially the field
created by the Sun. This is also the reason why festivals have been celebrated all around the world in connection with the seasons. The
characteristics of the star signs are connected with the seasons, so it would be meaningless to move the star signs away from their seasons.
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From "Working together of the Four Arcangels of the Seasons."
… as I described them to you — the Autumn Imagination of Michael, the Christmas Imagination of Gabriel, the Easter Imagination of
Raphael, and the Midsummer, St. John's Day, Imagination of Uriel. You must really picture to yourselves how from all these Beings,
Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Michael, forces stream out through the cosmos and as formative forces stream again into man. In order to
understand this, we must see how man stands within the cosmos in — I might almost call it — a purely material way.
There is a sine wave line on the map called the ecliptic or “path of the sun”. Every year the ecliptic passes between the Tropic of Cancer and
the Tropic of Capricorn, that you can see as the reddish curved lines north and south of equator.
When the sun passes over (Passover) the equator heading up to the tropic of cancer it gives us the spring and summer months where days are
longer than nights, the “dark forces” of autumn and winter are defeated, the light of the world is here.
Here we can see the movement of the sun through the Zodiac.
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We have four seasons each split in three, giving twelve partitions of 30°. This is quite logical as it comes from the motion of the Earth around
the Sun. It would be meaningless if it was based on the movement in relation to the stars, as the partitions would change with time as the Sun
moved through space. The Zodiac based on the seasons is called the Tropical Zodiac.
From AstroLibrary.org:
The ancient Babylonians created the zodiac wheel by first splitting our sky into four sections designated by the yearly equinoxes and
solstices (the turning points of the four yearly seasons).
Each of these four sections of sky were split into 3 sections measuring 30 degrees each. This gives us a full 360-degree zodiac circle
with 12 equal sections of 30 degrees each. Each 30-degree section is one zodiac sign, for a total of 12 zodiac signs. These 12 zodiac
signs are not star constellations. The zodiac signs are 30-degree sections of space that were mathematically calculated in a way that
was, and still is, intimately connected to our yearly seasons.
The zodiac circle always assigns zero degrees of Aries (the zodiac sign, not the star constellation) to the Spring Equinox (Vernal
Equinox,) the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere.
This zodiac wheel, also known as the tropical zodiac or western zodiac, is still accurate because we always align/begin it, as the ancients
Greeks did, with the first day of Spring. This is not a mistake. The zodiac wheel is intimately aligned with our Earth’s seasons.
The ancient Babylonians used the constellations that appeared in the general area of each zodiac sign as placeholders. They designated
12 constellations to represent the 12 zodiac signs in the sky. The star constellations, with their varying degrees and sizes, are not the
actual zodiac signs. These constellations were named after the zodiac signs they represent, not the other way around!
The signs correlated with equinoxes and solstices are all Cardinal signs, here starts something new and powerful.
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The inner wheel shows the tropical zodiac, which is aligned with the
equinoxes and the solstices. The middle wheel shows the sidereal zodiac,
which is roughly aligned with the constellations, being about 24 degrees
off of the tropical zodiac at this point. The outer ring is a rough sketch of
the constellations that fall on the ecliptic. Chris Brennan
Signs and Seasons by Chris Brennan:
This alignment of the seasons with the signs of the zodiac is important because astrologers made symbolic associations between the
nature of the seasons and the nature or meaning underlying certain signs of the zodiac. So, it wasn’t just about the appearance of the
constellations or the myths associated with them, but information was also derived from the specific part of the season associated with
certain signs.
For example, the cardinal signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn are thought to reflect the initiation of new activities and changes
because they coincide with the beginnings of the seasons, just after the equinoxes and solstices, where there is a distinct change in the
weather and the things that depend on it.
On the other hand, the fixed signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are said to reflect the stabilization of existing activities and
circumstances since they coincide with the middle of the seasons, when there is a sense of stability in the heat and temperature.
The mutable signs Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces are thought to reflect circumstances in which things are in transition because
they lie at the end of the seasons, when there is a transition from one season to the next.
So, there are symbolic associations being made between the nature of different parts of the seasons and certain types of actions,
circumstances or qualities that share a formal similarity. This is the basis of what is referred to as the tropical zodiac, which is measured
relative to the seasons, with its starting point at the vernal equinox.
The Spring Equinox falls on March 20 and marks the start of a new astrological year when the Sun crosses the equinox into the Cardinal
zodiac sign Aries, and here we prepare the growing of our corn and vegetables for the coming season. At the Summer Solstice we have the
longest day of the year, and in the northern hemisphere it falls on June 21 and it starts with the Cardinal sign Cancer. The Fall Equinox falls
on the September 23, on the cusp between Virgo and the Cardinal sign Libra. This time of year is connected with harvesting the fruits of our
labor. The Winter Solstice occurs at December 21, the shortest day of the year, and the sun begins moving north in the Cardinal zodiac sign
Capricorn. This is the rebirth of life.
The Masons have a symbol called the Royal Arch symbolizing the Mystical Lamb, the seven first signs of the Zodiac, from Aries to Libra,
the body of the Cosmic Christ.
The Royal Arch is a Masonic symbol for the Cosmic Christ. The Triple Tau.
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Calendar of the Soul

Steiner describes the seasons in his Calendar of the Soul. We see here Aries at the Spring equinox and Cancer at the Summer solstice just as
in the Masonic symbol for the Cosmic Christ. See RS Archive.
Without the influence of the moon the seasons would look like this.
The Moon modifies the seasons as shown through the church year, where Easter is placed after the position of the moon. Easter Sunday is the
Sunday following the paschal full moon date. The paschal full moon date is the ecclesiastical full moon date following 20 March, the spring
Equinox. See Computus.
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Man as a Projection into the Third Dimension

Following Steiner, man is a projection in the same way as the solar system, there is a plane inside man from where the rest of man is a
projection:
And if to the question: Where are you? you want to find an answer, not in accordance with Maya, but in accordance with reality, then you
must not point to the space where your body is standing and say: “I am here,” but you will have to say: “I am in the place where my left
man and my right man meet.” From The Balance in the World and Man, Lucifer and Ahriman, Lecture II
(GA158 chap 5)
It was necessary to create a 3D world to create independent beings, they should see themselves as separate from others, and there we need to
touch ourselves. It's also interesting that space is not something the spiritual world have any experience with before, that they learn through
our living understanding:
From Steiner: Man and the World of Stars VI
Imagine that you stretch out your left hand. The Divine lives in everything terrestrial. In your muscles, in your nerves, lives the Divine.
Now with the fingers of your left hand you touch the fingers of your right hand — this can only be done in Space. The fact that you feel
your right hand with your left, your left hand with your right — this is something which the divine-spiritual Beings do not follow. They
follow the left hand and right hand up to the point of contact, but the feeling that arises between the two is an experience which the
faculties possessed by the Gods do not make possible; it is something that arises only in Space.
Just as little as the Gods behold Saturn, Sun, Moon and Earth [periods] simultaneously but only in succession, in Time, so they have none
of the purely spatial experiences known to man.
When you look with your left and right eyes and have the lines of vision from right and from left, the activity of the Gods is present in
the vision from the right eye and again in the vision from the left eye, but in the meeting of the two lines of vision lies the purely human
element.
Thus we experience as men, because we have been placed into the world of Space, something that is experienced in a state of
emancipation from the activity of the Gods.
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Man as an Upside Down Plant

Another thing is that man is upside down, which I thought was a little curious, but then remembered that Steiner once told that man was an
upside down plant, which I never really understood before I made this drawing. The Kabbalah tree should be seen as the Tree of Knowledge
growing downward, the creation happens at the bottom, and the Tree of Life growing upward, as the beings develop and raise.
The Avayata-tree of Krishna growing downward
The Bhagavad Gita and the Epistles of St. Paul, lecture IV by Rudolf Steiner.
If we observe this condition more clearly we come to a place in the Gita which, if we have already been amazed at the great and mighty
contents of the Gita, must infinitely extend our admiration.
We come to a passage which, to the man of the

present day, must certainly appear
incomprehensible; wherein Krishna reveals to
Arjuna the nature of the Avayata-tree, of the Fig-
tree, by telling him that in this tree the roots grow
upwards and the branches downwards; where
Krishna further says that the single leaves of this
tree are the leaves of the Veda book, which, put
together, yield the Veda knowledge. That is a
singular passage in the Gita.
What does it signify, this pointing to the great tree

of Life, whose roots have an upward direction, and
the branches a downward direction, and whose
leaves give the contents of the Veda? We must just
transport ourselves back into the old knowledge,
and try and understand how it worked. The man of
today only has, so to say, his present knowledge,
communicated to him through his physical organs.
The old knowledge was acquired as we have just

described, in the body which was still etheric, not
that the whole man was etheric, but knowledge
was acquired through the part of the etheric body
which was within the physical body. Through this
organism, through the organisation of the etheric
body, the old knowledge was acquired.
Just imagine vividly that you, when in the etheric

body, could perceive by means of the serpent.
There was something then present in the world,
which to the man of the present day is no longer
there. Certainly the man of today can realise much
of what surrounds him when he puts himself into relation with nature; but just think of him when he is observing the world: there is one
thing he does not perceive, and that is his brain.
No man can see his own brain when he is observing; neither can any man see his own spine. This impossibility ceases as soon as one
observes with the etheric body.
A new object then appears which one does not otherwise see — one perceives one's own nervous system. Certainly it does not appear as
the present-day anatomist sees it. It does not appear as it does to such a man, it appears in such a way that one feels: “Yes! There thou
art, in thy etheric nature.”
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One then looks upwards and sees how the nerves, which go through all the organs, are collected together up there in the brain. That
produces the feeling: “That is a tree of which the roots go upwards, and the branches stretch down into all the members.”
That in reality is not felt as being of the same small size as we are inside our
skin: it is felt as being a mighty cosmic tree. The roots stretch far out into the
distances of space and the branches extend downwards.
One feels oneself to be a serpent, and one sees one's nervous system
objectified, one feels that it is like a tree which sends its roots far out into the
distance of space and the branches of which go downwards.
Remember what I have said in former lectures, that man is, in a sense, an
inverted plant. All that you have learnt must be recalled and put together, in
order to understand such a thing as this wonderful passage in the Bhagavad
Gita.
We are then astonished at the old wisdom which must today, by means of new
methods, be called forth from the depths of occultism. We then experience what
this tree brings to light. We experience in its leaves that which grows upon it;
the Veda knowledge, which streams in on us from without.
The wonderful picture of the Gita stands out clearly before us: the tree with its
roots going upwards, and its branches going downwards, with its leaves full of
knowledge, and man himself as the serpent round the tree.
You may perhaps have seen this picture, or have come across the picture of the Tree of Life with the serpent; everything is of
significance when one considers these old things.
Here we have the tree with the upward growing roots, and the downward-turning branches; one feels that it goes in an opposite
direction to the Paradise-tree. That has its deep meaning: for the tree of Paradise is placed at the beginning of the other evolution, that
which through the old Hebrew antiquity passes on into Christianity.
If we observe this condition more clearly we come to a place in the Gita which, if we have already been
amazed at the great and mighty contents of the Gita, must infinitely extend our admiration.
We come to a passage which, to the man of the present day, must certainly appear incomprehensible;
wherein Krishna reveals to Arjuna the nature of the Avayata-tree, of the Fig-tree, by telling him that in
this tree the roots grow upwards and the branches downwards; where Krishna further says that the single
leaves of this tree are the leaves of the Veda book, which, put together, yield the Veda knowledge. That is
a singular passage in the Gita.
What does it signify, this pointing to the great tree of Life, whose roots have an upward direction, and the
branches a downward direction, and whose leaves give the contents of the Veda? We must just transport
ourselves back into the old knowledge, and try and understand how it worked. The man of today only has,
so to say, his present knowledge, communicated to him through his physical organs.
The old knowledge was acquired as we have just described, in the body which was still etheric, not that
the whole man was etheric, but knowledge was acquired through the part of the etheric body which was
within the physical body. Through this organism, through the organisation of the etheric body, the old
knowledge was acquired.
Just imagine vividly that you, when in the etheric body, could perceive by means of the serpent. There was something then present in the
world, which to the man of the present day is no longer there. Certainly the man of today can realise much of what surrounds him when
he puts himself into relation with nature; but just think of him when he is observing the world: there is one thing he does not perceive,
and that is his brain.
No man can see his own brain when he is observing; neither can any man see his own spine. This impossibility ceases
as soon as one observes with the etheric body.
A new object then appears which one does not otherwise see — one perceives one's own nervous system. Certainly it
does not appear as the present-day anatomist sees it. It does not appear as it does to such a man, it appears in such
a way that one feels: “Yes! There thou art, in thy etheric nature.”
One then looks upwards and sees how the nerves, which go through all the organs, are collected together up there in
the brain. That produces the feeling: “That is a tree of which the roots go upwards, and the branches stretch down
into all the members.”
That in reality is not felt as being of the same small size as we are inside our skin: it is felt as being a mighty cosmic
tree. The roots stretch far out into the distances of space and the branches extend downwards.
One feels oneself to be a serpent, and one sees one's nervous system objectified, one feels that it is like a tree which sends its roots far
out into the distance of space and the branches of which go downwards.
Remember what I have said in former lectures, that man is, in a sense, an inverted plant. All
that you have learnt must be recalled and put together, in order to understand such a thing
as this wonderful passage in the Bhagavad Gita.
We are then astonished at the old wisdom which must today, by means of new methods, be
called forth from the depths of occultism. We then experience what this tree brings to light.
We experience in its leaves that which grows upon it; the Veda knowledge, which streams in
on us from without.
The wonderful picture of the Gita stands out clearly before us: the tree with its roots going
upwards, and its branches going downwards, with its leaves full of knowledge, and man
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himself as the serpent round the tree.
You may perhaps have seen this picture, or have come across the picture of the Tree of Life with the serpent; everything is of
significance when one considers these old things.
Here we have the tree with the upward growing roots, and the downward-turning branches; one feels that it goes in an opposite
direction to the Paradise-tree. That has its deep meaning: for the tree of Paradise is placed at the beginning of the other evolution, that
which through the old Hebrew antiquity passes on into Christianity.
Man as a small Cosmos

Steiner made a horoscope analysis of two albino children during lectures on Curative Education in 1924 and it was made with the Tropical
Zodiac of the European tradition. As man is a projection of the large cosmos, the tropical zodiac is used in the small as in the large. It was
Astronomicon that made me aware of the children!
From Cosmosophy, Volume 2, GA# 207, by Steiner:
"The nature of our internal organs is truly such that a whole cosmos is alive in them. If we merely consider those organs the way they are
presented in ordinary anatomy and physiology, this is maya to a much higher degree than the maya we face in the world around us."
From An Occult Physiology, GA# 128, by Steiner:
"For this reason they called the spleen "saturnine," or an inner Saturn in man; and, similarly, the liver they called an inner Jupiter; and the
gall-bladder, an inner Mars."
"The position is entirely different, however, when a man can see clairvoyantly inside himself by means of the sympathetic nervous
system. He does not in that case see at all the same things that one sees when looking from the outside; rather, he now sees something
which caused seers throughout the ages to choose such strange names as I cited in the second lecture. . . . He now gradually realizes
why the seers of all times connected the activity of the spleen with the action of Saturn, the liver with the action of Jupiter, and the
activity of the gall-bladder with the action of Mars. For what he sees in his own inner self is, indeed, fundamentally different from what
presents itself to the external view. He becomes aware that he actually has before him portions of the outside world enclosed within the
boundaries of his inner organs.
"For this reason occultists of all ages have seen in the Saturn forces that which secludes our solar system within itself, thus making it
possible for the solar system to develop a rhythm of its own which is not the same as the rhythm outside the world of our solar system."
"The forces that are in the spleen isolate the circulation of our blood from all outside influences, and make of it a regular rhythm within
itself, a system having its own rhythm."
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"In the following lectures I shall have occasion to show you that the occultists have actual reasons for conceiving the relationship of the
sun to Mercury and Venus as being similar to that which we must necessarily think of as existing between the heart and lungs and
kidneys respectively, within the human organism."
By Manly P. Hall:
“Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic system with its myriads of
suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe existed in miniature.”
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The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac

From Steiner we have ".. there are ascending and descending forces — forces that are ascending to the Zodiac and forces that are descending
from the Zodiac." The Ladder of Jacob is a symbol for this, just as the Kabbalah Tree of Life is.
The whole Zodiac represents the hierarchies that precedes the development of humanity, the steps necessary to create the needed
environment for our development. Each sign represents a hierarchy under development and an Æon. They are projected down into detail
development of everything on the Earth and of the single life of man, everything follows this development sequence. The development can
be described in various ways, and this is a very interesting description:
The creative force of mankind is the Cosmic Christ, the Mystical Lamb, who is a seven layered being with the physical body in Buddhi. We
also know Buddhi as Sophia or the Son, the feminine and masculine side of the Second Logos. This being is the etheric sun that gives
wisdom and energy that drives our development. See The Cosmic Christ and the Etheric Sun (Steiner.)
The Trinity - The Three Logoi

The Cosmic Christ works within the Zodiac through the Trinity. The planets outside the earth sphere, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, is working on
man from the outside and the planets inside the earth sphere, Moon, Venus and Mercury, works from within man. The Trinity is related to the
six inner planets, except the Sun, as:
The First Logos, the Father,

Works from outside into the physical world through Saturn. The planet Saturn represents the minerals created on the old
Saturn.
From our inside through the Moon. The Moon represents Atma we received as a seed on old Saturn.
The Second Logos, the Son.
Works from outside into the etheric through the outer planet Jupiter, the benevolent god. Jupiter represents the old Sun
and the etheric that was added to our body at the old Sun. Also connected to the plant life.
From inside through the inner planet Venus. Venus represents Buddhi we received as a seed at the old Sun.
The Third Logos, the Holy Spirit or Hermes.
Works from outside into the astral through the outer planet Mars, the fast-moving agent that operate as a scalpel on earth.
Marts represents the old Moon, where the astral was added to our body. Related to animal and elemental life.
From inside man through the inner planet Mercury. Mercury represents Manas received as a seed on the old Moon.
The trinity is defined by
1. Saturn is connected to the mineral, to the old Saturn development and to the Father. So Saturn is the Father's hand into the
physical world.
2. Jupiter is the benevolent god, connected to the etheric, to the old Sun and to the Son, the Logos, and is the greatest power
in our solar system.
3. Mars is the young and very speedy god Hermes or the Holy Spirit acting into the astral world, and connected to the old
Moon development.
Saturn is also known as Brahma, Jupiter as Vishnu and Mars as Shiva. Incarnations of Earth.
This diagram shows the Trinity in three octaves, the inner planets, Moon, Venus and Mercury working within in the daily cycle, the outer
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planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars working on humanity from outside in the yearly cycle, and the outer planets Pluto, Neptune and Uranus
orchestrating the century cycle:
These six planets interacts with our Sun that represent ourselves in totality where the houses represents our soul and our I AM. The planets
interact with each other to create the needed effects.
Saturn, the Father, makes the large changes in the physical world preparing the work of Jupiter. The Son, Jupiter, goes in and work on the
etheric bodies of man. Jupiter is the Logos, the Son, the power behind creation. He works with our opinions, habits, inspirations, courage and
new ideas. Mars, the Holy Spirit, takes care of the details and feelings, like a scalpel he manipulates the world, the Wind in the Willows.
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Æons - Planetary incarnations

Each hierarchy is created downward through an Æon. This picture shows where we are now. More on the planetary periods here Esoteric
History of Man.
An interesting detail, the last half of the Earth period and first half of Jupiter period is called the Mercury Æon, and here the inside becomes
the outside and the outside becomes the inside. This corresponds nicely to Scorpio who has to transform himself fully, turning the inner the
out. More on the periods and the meaning of the seals here Spirits of Form and the Creation of Humanity.
The description of the creation of man exists in all religious and esoteric traditions as I have described here: Sophia Created in the
Beginning.
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The Planetary Seals

The seals describe the Three Logoi weaving through each other in our reality, to further the development, the creation.
See Spirits of Form and the Creation of Humanity.
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Cultural periods
The major periods in the time of the current humanity is Taurus, Aries, Pisces and Aquarius, where we have lived in Pisces for a long time.
This describes the ascend up through the Zodiac.
The Etheric Sun is the driving force of our development. The dark period Kali Yuga is the time where we are the farthest away from the
Etheric Sun. We have now left Kali Yuga, and are beginning to move toward the Etheric Sun, with increasing speed.
Kali Yuga consists of two parts, the lesser and the darker Yuga. The first starts with the death of Krishna, the etheric gods don't walk the earth
any longer, they become invisible to man. The second and darker Yuga starts with the death of Buddha, the angelic beings who had stayed
back as human teachers of humanity, the Father's or Luciferic teachers, raised and became angels, they couldn't any longer incarnate as
avatars, now humanity was alone on earth, but the spiritual world could still work through the old souls and pioneers of humanity. The
twelve around Buddha, Christ and Christian Rosenkreutz are the leaders and archetypes of humanity.
See The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac (Steiner.)
The etheric sun is diametrically opposed the physical sun, it goes north when the physical sun goes south, and the etheric sun goes up when
the physical goes down, the physical shines on us by day and the etheric sun shines on us by night, and in that way energy is sent down to us
all around the clock. So midnight is midday in the etheric world, where the etheric or pranic energy is at its highest. It also explains why it is
easier to sleep between 9 and 10 pm than from 10 pm and forward, the etheric sun rays are much stronger after 10pm so the energy we
receive is much more intense and makes it difficult to sleep.
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And it explains why its better to sleep at night, where our body can replenish its energies. When we sleep in daytime there is very little
etheric energy available, so our etheric body don’t restitute correctly and it often leads to stress and depressions. Another thing is that certain
beings use the darkness in the etheric world to gain access to our lone etheric body, some taking away the energy of the etheric body and
others trying to get into the body, so we wake feeling weaker.
See The Etheric Sun and the Rhythm of the Day.
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Hierarchies and the Planets

When the Sun came out of Pralaya it had the size of our solar system. It contracted and left what later formed Saturn outside. Saturn
contained the beings with mineral consciousness. It contracted even more and left Jupiter outside, the beings with plant consciousness. It
contracted again and left Mars outside, the beings with animal consciousness. Thereafter Earth was left outside, with human consciousness.
Mars hit Earth and the Moon was created from the collision. The Iron on Earth came from Mars. The Moon was the origin of the Luciferic
beings, Yang, and Mars the origin of the Ahrimanic beings, Yin. The Luciferic beings was the dragon cast down to man and the Ahrimanic
beings was the dragon cast up from the deep darkness.
The Moon contained the Angels, they was a kind of cocoon around mankind, an eggshell, all influence from the Zodiac has to pass through
the sphere of the angels before it reached humankind. When the Sun contracted again and left Venus outside, the Archangelic beings was
staying with Venus. When the Sun contracted again and left Mercury outside, the Archai stayed with Mercury.
On the inner planets, from Willi Sucher, Cosmic Christianity:
the Archai in astronomical Mercury,
the Archangeloi in astronomical Venus, and
the Angeloi in the sphere of the Moon.
The Exusiai or Spirits of Form work out of the Sun.
The elemental beings of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars is under supervision:
Thus the Thrones work into the sphere of Saturn—the total sphere, not only the planet. This concerns all the implications contained in
the astronomical elements of the sphere, for instance, the lines of the nodes and perihelion-aphelion. The Kyriotetes work through the
sphere of Jupiter, the Dynamis through Mars.
Sun-spots and the Current Michael Period

Steiner says that the more the power of Michael is influencing the world the fewer sunspots.
An attack from the adverse powers starts typically at the top of sunspot activity and ends at the bottom, when the energy have been taken out
of the process, when karma have been understood. When it takes more than one cycle the second top is usually lower, as the energy is
somewhat depleted.
Luciferic angels had formed a barrier to the spiritual worlds to keep human consciousness out of the spiritual world since 1250 AD. They
were cast down to earth by the Michael forces in 1879. The new Michael period was starting in 1879, and the forces was slowly descending
to earth, permeating earth.
The Luciferic forces tried to hinder the descent trying to win humanity over to their side through materialism. Until 1960 the powers of
darkness was increasing, but from then their powers became lesser and lesser while the Christ powers was increasing.
The top tells where the dark powers are extremely active and the bottom where the Michael powers are strong.
Each sun-spot cycle is 11 years long and three cycles give 33 years, another known cycle.
Here a diagram over sunspot minima thousand years back in time.
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Interestingly, Michaels's fight from around 1841 to 79 is at a local maximum. Goethe (1749-1832) has a local minimum from his fiftieth
birthday to his death, and shortly thereafter starts Michaels's fight. The Napoleonic Wars starts on a top 1803 and ends in a valey 1815, but
consists of more wars in the period. Both the School of Chartres and Scholasticism are placed in large minima. It's typically that there are
minima where the cultural expression is big.
There may come a minima in the future:
Examples of Major Historical Dates
WW1 starts in 1914-15.
From September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 we have WW2.
1930-31 The return of Christ, where the Christ powers slowly began to permeate the earth, to take power when the new yuga starts. This was
met with the great depression and the rise of Nazism.
In 1948 Korea was split into two states and the war started in 1950 and ended in 1953. Mao defeated the Nationalist Chinese in 48-49.
The Vietnam war started at the end of 1955 and ended in spring 1975, two cycles. The Vietnam war was aggressive in the first cycle, but the
world grew weary in the second cycle.
In 1982 AIDS became known and we had the depression with the US Savings and Loan Crisis, the Falklands Island War and the Lebanon
War.
Normally epidemics is starting at the top, but sometimes they are starting at a low, like in 2020, where they are not evil in themselves.
In early 1841 to late 1879 the adverse powers rebelled against the Michael powers, and they were thrown down to the physical plane.
The new Michael period was starting in 1879, and slowly descending to earth. The Luciferic forces tried to hinder the descent trying to win
humanity over to their side through materialism.
The old Michael raised to Archai, a spirit of time and personality. He became the face of Christ, and this is the background for the return of
Christ, he is the most powerful spiritual being in our reality, if not at all.
The Michael Principle and Sunspots

From The Evolution of the Michael Principle
“My dear friends, that which goes on externally, which the astronomers describe, is after all only the outer side.
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You know that approximately every 11 years we have a period of sunspots when in the shining of the Sun upon the earth certain places
are darkened, covered with spots or blotches.
This was not always so. In very ancient times the Sun shone down as a uniform disc of light. There were no Sun-spots.
Moreover, after some thousands of years, the Sun will have very many more spots than it has today. The Sun is growing ever more
spotted.
This again is the outer manifestation of the fact that the Michael Power, the Cosmic Power of Intelligence is still decreasing.
In the increase of the Sun-spots in the course of Cosmic Evolution is revealed the Sun's decay; the Sun within the cosmos grows
increasingly dim and old.
And at the appearance of a sufficiently large number of Sun-spots, the other Planetary Intelligences recognised that they would now no
longer be ruled by the Sun.
They resolved no longer to allow the earth to be dependent on the Sun, but to make it dependent henceforth on the entire cosmos
directly.
This took place through the planetary Counsels of the Archangels. Notably under the leadership of Oriphiel, this emancipation of the
Planetary Intelligences from the Sun-Intelligence took place.
It was a complete separation of Cosmic Powers that had hitherto belonged together. The Sun-Intelligence of Michael and the Planetary
Intelligences gradually came into cosmic opposition one with another.”
Calculated values back in time.

From Grand minima and maxima of solar activity: new observational constraints
Michael’s fight of the Ahrimanic Powers

From They will seek to push these in the wrong direction. - Rudolf Steiner
“You have been given images which may serve to demonstrate the intentions of the spirits of darkness in the 1840s, 50s, 60s and 70s
when they fought the followers of Michael.
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These spirits have been down here among human beings from the autumn of 1879. They have failed to achieve their aims: spiritualism
will not become the general human persuasion; people will not grow so clever from the materialistic point of view that they fall over
themselves with their cleverness. The spiritual truths will take root among human beings.
On the other hand, the spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when
we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found.
The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are
definitely present. For it makes no difference to their reality whether they are recognized or unrecognized.
It will be the main concern of these spirits of darkness to bring confusion into the rightful elements which are now spreading on earth,
and need to spread in such a way that the spirits of light can continue to be active in them.”
A Decade of Sun
1841 - 1879 Michael throwing the Spirits of Darkness down to Earth

From Behind the Scenes of External Happenings, 6Nov1917, GA 178 - Rudolf Steiner
The year 1841 was, in truth, the critical year in respect of the onset of the age of materialism, for at that time a very definite battle
began in the spiritual worlds — a battle waged by certain Spirits, Spirits of Darkness as we may call them, belonging to the
hierarchical rank of the Angeloi.
In the spiritual worlds they fought out this battle until the autumn of 1879. They were striving for many and definite aims, only one of
which shall be mentioned today.
Between the years 1841 and 1879, decision was to be taken as to whether a certain store of spiritual wisdom could be made sufficiently
mature to trickle gradually down to the Earth from the last third of the nineteenth century onwards, that is to say, to enter into the souls
of men as a stimulus to spiritual knowledge, to the knowledge described today as that of Spiritual Science, which has only been
possible since that time.
The aim of these Angeloi-Spirits between the years 1841 and 1879 was to prevent what was thus to flow down to the Earth, from
coming to maturity in the spiritual world. But these Spirits of Darkness were defeated in the war they waged against the Spirits of
Light during this period.
In the year 1879, on a smaller scale, an event came to pass of the kind that has several times come to pass in the course of evolution,
and has always been pictured symbolically as the victory of Michael, or St. George, over the Dragon.
In the year 1879, too, the Dragon was overcome in a certain realm. This time the “Dragon” was the Angeloi-Spirits who were striving
for but could not achieve the aim I have indicated.
In 1879, therefore, they were cast out of the spiritual world into the world of men — and here, in this world, they wander among
humanity. They are present here, sending their forces into men's thoughts, feelings and impulses of will, egging them on to this
undertaking or another."
The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness

From Fall of the Spirits of Darkness - Rudolf Steiner
“The event I have been referring to in the preceding lectures, the occasion when certain spirits of darkness were cast out of the spiritual
realm and down into the human realm in the autumn of 1879, holds great importance.
We have to reflect again and again what it really means to say that a battle raged for decades in the spiritual realms.
The battle started in the early 1840s and ended when certain spiritual entities, which had been acting like rebels in the spiritual world
during those decades, were vanquished in the autumn of 1879 and cast down as dark spirits into the realm of human evolution.
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They are now among us and the effect of this is that they send their impulses into our view of the world, not only into the way we think
about the world, but also into our inner feelings, our will impulses and even our temperaments.
Human beings will be unable to get even a partial understanding of the significant events of the present time and the immediate future,
unless they are prepared to recognize the relationship which exists between the physical world and the spiritual world and take as
much account of important events like this as they do of natural phenomena.
At the present time people generally give validity only to natural phenomena, phenomena of the physical world which are part of
historical evolution.
They will have to give validity again to spiritual events, which can be perceived with the aid of spiritual science, for only then can the
events in which human beings are caught up be really understood. ...
The Christ, who is to appear in a specific form in the course of the twentieth century, will know nothing of the ideals proclaimed by
people today.
In earlier times Michael, the spirit from the hierarchy of Archangels was the representative of Yahveh; thanks to the functions given to
him in 1879, he will be the earthly representative, the vicar, of the Christ, of the Christ impulse to create spiritual bonds between
human beings which will take the place of the purely physical blood bonds.”
The Return of Christ - Meeting in the Etheric

From The Second Coming of Christ in the Etheric World, Lecture II - Rudolf Steiner
“The great and momentous feature of the coming era will be that many human beings will experience this event. The Christ, now to be
found in the spiritual sphere of the earth, will be perceptible to those faculties which, as we have said, will make their appearance.
When men become able to see the etheric body, they will learn to see the etheric body of Christ Jesus, as did Paul. This is what is
beginning as the characteristic trait of a new age, and between the years 1930-40-45 it will already become evident in the first
forerunners of human beings possessed of these faculties.
If men are alert they will experience this event of Damascus through direct spiritual vision and therewith clarity and truth concerning
the Christ Event.”
December 2019 confirmed as starting point of the new solar

activity cycle
“Over past years, the rather weak cycle that had peaked in 2014 has been progressively declining, heralding the approach of the
minimum that marks the transition to the next cycle and is characterized by long fully quiet and spotless periods. Month-after-month,
SILSO has carefully monitored the general trend in the activity.
A February without sunspots:
In January 2020, the 13-month smoothed sunspot number rose for the first time since the maximum of cycle 24 (April 2014). Now, by
September, this reversal of the trend was firmly confirmed, officially placing the minimum between cycles 24 and 25 in December
2019. The Sun has thus now started its ascending phase towards the next maximum. This date also sets the duration of the past solar
cycle at exactly 11 years, as the last minimum occurred in December 2008, thus almost exactly the average length of all past sunspot
cycles, which ranges from 9 to 14 years. ...
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Another indication of the transition between the two cycles can be drawn from counts of individual sunspot groups belonging to the
old and new solar cycles. While most sunspot groups belonged to the last solar cycle until September 2019, the dominance switched to
groups of the new cycle in November 2019.
So, this transition in terms of the number of active regions falls in October 2019. This matches rather closely the above date of the
lowest sunspot number, and demonstrates in a different way that the new sunspot cycle has definitely taken the lead since the start of
2020. This late-breaking upward trend is now expected to accelerate over the coming months. So, be prepared for a more eruptive and
interesting Sun!”
NASA 25 Sun-Spot Cycle

NASA 25TH sun-spot cycle
NASA a decade of Sun-spots.
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A Decade of Sun
A Decade of Sunspots - Science Mission Directorate.
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Esoteric Astrology
On Brother Mark's entrance to the house:
"He is made welcome and hears that in this house a brotherhood of twelve brothers lives in perfect seclusion.
These twelve brothers are representatives of different human races from all over the earth. Every one of these brothers is the
representative of a different religious faith.
None is accepted here in the immaturity of youth. but only when he has explored the world, when he has struggled with the joys and
sorrows of the world - when he has worked and been active in the world and won his way to a free view beyond his narrowly confined
domain. Only then is he accepted in the circle of twelve.
And these twelve, each representing one of the world religions, live here together in peace and in harmony. They are led by a thirteenth
who surpasses them all in the perfection of his human self. The thirteenth surpasses them all in his broad view of human
circumstances."
Rudolf Steiner, The Secret Stream. Goethe's Rosicrucian Poem 'The Mysteries', December 25, 1907, Cologne
The Cosmic Christ - the Mystical Lamb - defines the Zodiac.
Cosmos and the Zodiac
In Rudolf Steiner's Words before the Eurythmy Presentation of the “Twelve Moods” in Dornach, August 29, 1915 Cancer is connected to
summer solstice where the sun is highest, so the moods uses the Tropical Zodiac.
If you take the mood in Cancer, for example, in which after the ascent there again follows the descent, where one has the feeling that
the sun comes to rest for a moment…
It was Astronomicon that made me aware of this text!
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World Outlooks
From Foundations at the Periphery, Steiner's observations on Star Knowledge:
“Let us begin with Idealism, and let us mark it with the mental-zodiacal sign of Aries; in like manner let us mark Rationalism as Taurus,
Mathematicism as Gemini, Materialism as Cancer, Sensationalism as Leo, Phenomenalism as Virgo, Realism as Libra, Dynamism as
Scorpio, Monadism as Sagittarius, Spiritism as Capricorn, Pneumatism as Aquarius, and Psychism as Pisces. The relations which exist
spatially between the individual zodiacal signs are actually present between these shades of world-outlook in the realm of spirit.
Connection to the
Signs World-outlook Definition Virtues 1 Becomes 2
Universe
Sole belief in ideas manifesting through Power of We take in the universe
Idealism Devotion
reality and giving it purpose. sacrifice and look back.
We look out into the
Sole belief in the ideas discovered in external
Rationalism Equilibrium Progress universe. We take in its
reality.
mobility.
Sole belief in the mathematical ordering of We grasp ourselves.
Mathematism Perseverance Faithfulness
reality. (Touch ourselves.)
Sole belief in the crudest impressions, valid We encompass
Materialism Unselfishness Catharsis
for the material world and its laws. ourselves.
Sole belief in sensual phenomena as the basic
Sensationalism Compassion Freedom That which fills us out.
reality, with thought a mere addition.
Sole belief in sensual phenomena as
Steadiness in
Phenomenalism representing a world of appearance to be Courtesy Ripening.
feeling
thought over.
Fitting ourselves into
Sole belief in what can be perceived and
Realism Contentment Self-composure the inorganic world and
thought about as the external world.
seeking the balance.
Sole belief in the power of external and
Dynamism Patience Understanding Poisonous sting.
internal forces in reality.
Control of
Sole belief in abstract spiritual monads with A feeling for
Monadism speech and Hunter.
varying powers of perception. the truth
thinking
Sole belief that material reality is only
The power of
Spiritism illusion and that all genuine reality is found Courage Breeder of animals.
redemption
only in the Spirit.
Sole belief that beings with ideas need to The power of
Pneumatism Discretion Farmer.
embody an active spirit able to do things. meditation
Sole belief in the need for ideas to be
Psychism Magnanimity Love Trader.
embodied in beings to be real.
1 Blavatsky
2 Steiner
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The Psychic Moods

From Foundations at the Periphery, Steiner's observations on Star Knowledge:
And the relations which are entered into by the planets, as they follow their orbits through the Zodiac, correspond to the relations which
the seven world-outlook-moods enter into, so that we can feel Gnosticism as Saturn, Logicism as Jupiter, Voluntarism as Mars,
Empiricism as Sun, Mysticism as Venus, Transcendentalism as Mercury, and Occultism as Moon.
Psychic
Planet Description Chakras
Mood
The first psychic mood will render the greatest service for the
healing of souls when the Gnostic frame of mind is applied to Lead Root Chakra
♄♄Saturn Gnosticism
Spiritism, Gnosis is thoroughly at home in Spiritism, it's true Phys. Muladhara
home.
Svadhistana
The second psychic mood enables the soul to connect Tin
♃Jupiter Logicism
♃ Sacral
thoughts, concepts and ideas with one another. Etheric
Hara
The third psychic mood, Voluntarism, the forces of nature, the Manipura
Iron
♂Mars Voluntarism hardness of a stone, have this character for him; the whole of Navel
Astral
reality is a manifestation of will. Solar Plexus
Is the fourth psychic mood, an empian empiricist, a man with a Gold Ahanhata
☉
☉Sun Empiricism
world-conception based on experience. Soul Heart
But when the soul has become quiet and seeks inwardly for the Mercury Vishuddha
☿☿Mercury Mysticism
divine Light, this soul-mood can be called Mysticism. Manas Throat
The Transcendentalist has the feeling: 'When I perceive things, Ajna

Transcenden- Copper
♀Venus their nature approaches me; but I do not perceive it. It hides Third Eye
talism Buddhi
behind, but it approaches me." Pineal
This world is Maya, and one must seek the inner being of
Silver Sahasrara
☾☾Moon Occultism things by another way than through external sense-perception
Atma Crown
and the ordinary means of cognition. 'Occultism'!
Planets and chakras in connection with the bodies of man:
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World Outlooks and Senses

Senses show the development sequence of man together with the World Outlooks relating to the mental development, as the signs works on
our development on all levels.
Sign Sense of Is'ms Mythology Nature Elements Modalities Star sign

The first Sign,
Inner - Cardinal Aries
Life Idealism Seed of the Fire
Physical Zilpah Gad
Zodiac
Movement,
walk to eat
Inner - Fixed Taurus
Movement Rationalism grass. Earth
Physical Leah Reuben
Digestive
Mathematics system.
Balance
Inner - Mutable Gemini
Balance Mathematism between two Air
Physical Leah Simeon
persons
Modern The Claw Inner - Cardinal Cancer
Touch Materialism Water
Science Holding things Physical Leah Issachar
Fire - Here the Fixed Leo

Warmth Sensationalism Inner/Outer Fire
Sun is at home Leah Judah
Outer - Mutable Virgo

Taste Phenomenalism I Analyze Earth
Etheric Leah Zebulun
Outer - Cardinal Libra

Smell Realism I Evaluate Air
Etheric Zilpah Asher
Thrown out Eagle with Outer - Fixed Scorpio

Sight Dynamism Water
of Paradise Sight Etheric Bilhah Dan
Half man half

Half man horse - Mutable Sagittarius
Tone Monadism Outer/Higher Fire
half animal Gilgamesh Bilhah Naphtali
Lyre - Orpheus
Materialism Higher - Cardinal Capricorn
Words Spiritism Sentient Soul Earth
and Ahriman Astral Rachel Benjamin
First whole
Intellectual Higher - Fixed Aquarius
Thought Pneumatism human starsign Air
Soul Astral Asenath Ephraim
Free thinker
The Moon
gods/Angels
Consciousness Higher - Mutable Pisces
'I' Psychism was Fishmen. Water
Soul Astral Asenath Manasseh
Empathy and
Healer.
It's interesting to see that the longest work was on the physical body into the middle of Leo, from then the work continues on the etheric body
into the middle of Saggitarius, and lastly, the least development on the astral body. The physical body is the most complex body, have been
worked on through three æons, while the etheric only have been worked on in two æons and the astral only in one.
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.
See also The Sons of Jacob and the Zodiac
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Man as an Octahedron
I worked with the Platonic solids in connection with astrology to see if there was a relation, and I found out that I got meaningful results with
the cube, octahedron and dodecahedron. Later I found out that it was known by the Hebrew. Especially the octahedron was interesting in
connection with the senses, as the figure explained what the text didn't explain, but more later. That the signs fit into these figures was a little
surprising, it shows their deep immersion into the physical world.
Or as the Foundation Stone
Steiner have used the Foundation Stone in the architecture of Goetheanum.
Foundation Stone - Dodecahedron
Date of the laying of the foundation stone for the First Goetheanum, Sept 20, 1930.
The foundation stone was laid when the Sun was in Virgo and Mercury at the start of Libra, where Mercury is the ruler of Virgo. Virgo is
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analytical and detail oriented where Libra can see things from above and from more sides, this hinders the opinionated. It was a shame the
first Goetheanum burned. Calculations were done in the Tropical Zodiak. It was Astronomicon that made me aware of the laying of the
foundation stone. See also Four Hares.
A 2D projection Connection between octaeder and dodecaeder Solids. The dodecahedron is also called Ether.
Something to explore and the foundation stone for Goetheanum
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Table based on Modalities and Elements

This table is one of the central tables of Astrology, it is good for the understanding of the underlying structure of the signs.
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The Universe and Human Development

In the lecture The Universe (1921) Steiner described the connection between the star signs and our development:
Today we shall study the human being in regard to his form, and from this standpoint widen and deepen what we have recently
considered. If we envisage, to begin with, the fact that the human form, of course, depends in the widest sense on the whole life of
man, we should then consider first of all man's life as a whole, in order to grasp the human form from within, in a concrete way. To
begin with, the human being forms part of the whole universe, of the whole cosmos. And if you bear in mind that in regard to the
formation of the head, the human being is in reality an image of the sphere, of the cosmic universe, you will find, as it were, that as
regards the head, he is placed into the whole universe. But we can only understand the way in which he is placed into it, and is at the
same time a self-contained being, by bearing in mind man's connection with the whole environing world.
Relation to the
Sign Star sign Sense of Mythology - Keywords Nature Elements Modalities
Universe
We take in the
Fire Cardinal
Aries Life universe and look The first flame ignited, Seed of the Zodiac. I Am. Inner
Passion Active
back.
We look out into the Movement, the flame begins to move, that's what a
Earth
Taurus Movement universe. We take in cow does, moving after the grass. Digestive system. Inner Fixed
Act
its mobility. I Have.
Balance between two persons, it raises up on legs
We grasp ourselves. Air
Gemini Balance and needs to find the balance, thinking, nerves. I Inner Mutable
(Touch ourselves.) Cognition
Think.
We encompass The crab can grab things with it's claw, it can Water Cardinal
Cancer Touch Inner
ourselves. manipulate it's environment. I Feel. Feeling Active

The second fire sign, hot red blood. Here are the shift
That which fills us Inner/ Fire
Leo Warmth from the objective to the subjective, the seed of the I. Fixed
out. Outer Passion
Here the Sun is at home. I Will.
Earth
Virgo Taste Ripening. I Analyze. Outer Mutable
Act
Fitting ourselves into
the inorganic world I Evaluate, I Relate or We Are. Air Cardinal
Libra Smell Outer
and seeking the Element Air! Cognition Active
balance.
None have a sight as the eagle, none see the details
Water
Scorpio Sight Poisonous sting. as the Scorpion. Here we were thrown out of Outer Fixed
Feeling
paradise. I Desire

Half man half horse. He is playing on the Lyre. I Outer/ Fire
Sagittarius Tone Hunter. Mutable
See. Higher Passion
Words are connected to Ahriman and karma,
Earth Cardinal
Capricorn Words Breeder of animals. Capricorn is connected with the devil, with Higher
Act Active
materialism. I Use.
Aquarius is the idealistic thinker and the first full
Air
Aquarius Thought Farmer. human in the circle and thinking is the mark of Higher Fixed
Cognition
humanity. I Know.
Pisces is the healer of the zodiac, the one who sees Water
Pisces 'I' Trader. Higher Mutable
the you. I Believe. Feeling
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Astrology and the Introduction of the Senses

The senses are sequenced by their entry into Earth development.
Steiner wrote this in "Twelve Human Senses - Lecture 3 Berlin 20-6-2016":
"I explained that, as far as our senses are concerned, what is spread out over our nerve substance is organized according to the number
twelve because the human being is in this most profound sense a microcosm and mirrors the macrocosm.
In the macrocosm the sun moves through twelve signs of the zodiac in the course of a year, and the human I lives here on the physical
plane in the twelve senses. Things are certainly rather different out there in the macrocosm, especially in regard to their sequence in
time. The sun moves from Aries through Taurus, and so on, and back again through Pisces to Aries as it makes its yearly course through
the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Everything we have in us, even everything we experience in our soul, is related to the outer world through our twelve senses. These are
the senses of touch, life, movement, balance, smell, taste, sight, warmth, hearing, speech, thinking, and the sense of the I.
Our inner life moves through this circle of the twelve senses just as the sun moves through the circle of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
But we can take this external analogy even further. In the course of a year, the sun has to move through all the signs of the zodiac from
Aries to Libra; it moves through the upper signs during the day and through the lower ones at night. The sun’s passage through these
lower signs is hidden from outer light. It is the same with the life of our soul and the twelve senses. Half of the twelve are day senses,
just as half of the signs of the zodiac are day signs; the others are night senses."
There are three places in the sequence where a sense is misplaced, touch is of course not the first sense, life, movement and balance must
come before touch, they are self-centered, where touch is reaching out, having physical contact with other beings, just like Leo and Virgo.
Movement is not possible before life, and balance is not possible before movement, and to touch others we need balance, coordination of our
movements.
The second is smell, it must come after taste, as taste is physical and should come before the non-contact sense, smell. The third is warmth,
its Leo, it comes before sensing.
The third trinity are Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius, that are non-contact sensing, that is smell, sight and tones. The last trinity are Capricorn,
Aquarius and Pisces, that is consciousness sensing: words, thought and 'I'.
Why the sequence is not accurate may be because Steiner didn't thought it was necessary to be precise or the referent couldn't remember the
sequence fully when writing it down. The true sequence is self-evident with a little thinking.
Aries is life, this is where God enters the creation. Taurus is movement, walking around on the large green field. Gemini is a double sign,
balancing between right and wrong. Cancer is touching or manipulating the world with its arm. Leo is the sun, introducing warms into the
creation. Virgo is analyzing the world and taste is the most precise analytical sense we have. Libra or the Scales can smell if its good or not.
Scorpio or the Eagle looks on the world with sharp eyes. Sagittarius introduces the sound, the lyre, the shift from animal to man. In
Capricorn God become sentient, man acquires the spoken word. In Aquarius God become intelligent, become a thinker, intellectual soul. In
Pisces man becomes altruistic, can sense the 'I' in others, consciousness soul.
Here a picture of the senses connected to the signs and the movements connected to the stars
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Astrology and the Hierarchies

The Zodiac is a representation of the hierarchies from man an up to the highest conscious hierarchy. As human we consist of bodies in the
hierarchies from Pisces up to Virgo. The highest being in the universe, the Sacrificial Lamb, goes from Aries downto Libra. This being is the
energy source for all of creation. Here we also see the Senses in connection with the hierarchies, verifying the sequence I have described
above. See also http://work.tree-of-life.dk/TheEthericSun.html.
Relation to the
Sign Star sign Sense of Keywords Spirits of Mythology and Comments Body
Universe
The first flame ignited, Seed of the Zodiac. Ain We take in the
Aries Life I Am Ain Soph was non-existense. Became into being through universe and look
Existense
necessity. back.
Ain Soph We look out into the
Aur Movement, the flame begins to move. The Bull
Taurus Movement I Have universe. We take in
Limitless moves after the grass. Digestive system.
Light its mobility.
Balance, it raises up on legs and needs to find We grasp ourselves.
Gemini Balance I Think Love
the balance, thinking, nerves. (Touch ourselves.)
The crab can grab things with it's claw, it We encompass
Cancer Touch I Feel Harmony
manipulates its environment. ourselves.

The second fire sign, hot red blood. Here are
That which fills us
Leo Warmth I Will Will the shift from the objective to the subjective,
out.
the seed of the I. Sun at home here.
Virgo means self-contained, it contains
Virgo Taste I Analyze Wisdom humanity. The harvest, the result when the Ripening. Atma
human development cycles has ended.
Fitting ourselves
I Evaluate
Sophia or the Mystical Lamb. The element is into the inorganic
Libra Smell I Relate Motion Buddhi
Air! world and seeking
We Are
the balance.
None have a sight as the eagle, none see the
details as the Scorpion. We are thrown out of
Scorpio Sight I Desire Form Poisonous sting. Manas
paradise. The Spirit of Form gives us his lowest
body each time he raises to a higher level.

Half man half horse. He is playing on the Lyre.
Personality
Sagittarius Tone I See The gift of Christ, Wordless thinking. The soul Hunter. Soul
and Time
is related to sound.
Words are connected to the astral world, is the
Capricorn Words I Use Fire Breeder of animals. Astral
gift of Lucifer.
Aquarius is the idealistic thinker and the first
Aquarius Thought I Know Twilight full human in the circle and thinking is the Farmer. Etheric
mark of humanity.
Pisces is the healer of the zodiac, the one who
Pisces 'I' I Believe Humanity Trader. Physical
sees the you.
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The Zodiac in relation to the hierarchies, senses, world-outlooks, keywords and Steiner's pictures of the signs. Life started with Aries, the
first consciousness. Aries created Taurus, Taurus created Gemini and so forth down to Pisces, the physical world. The Cosmic Christ have
Aries as highest body, Libra as lowest body and Cancer as I. See Mystical Lamb.
"There are seven grades of human consciousness: trance consciousness, deep sleep, dream consciousness, waking
consciousness, psychic, super-psychic and spiritual consciousness.
Actually these are in all twelve stages of consciousness; the five others are creative stages. They are those of the
Creators, of the creative Gods. These twelve stages are related to the twelve signs of the zodiac.
The human being must pass through the experiences of these twelve stages. He ascended through the trance, deep
sleep and dream consciousness up to the present clear day consciousness.
In the succeeding stages of planetary evolution he will reach still higher stages. All those which he has already passed
through he will also retain within him." ~Rudolf Steiner, Lecture 1. 26th September 1905
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Inner Movements and the Planets

Steiner on the inner movements that are expressions off the planets (Foundations at the Periphery):
“If the seven movements we have described are correctly understood, then with them are exhausted the inner movements of man. The
others are outer movements. When man moves his feet or his hands, that is an external movement. The inner movements man brought
with him when he came to Earth, though Earth has, it is true, changed them very much. And just as we had to refer the whole complete
form of man to the fixed stars of the Zodiac, and connect the Signs of the Zodiac with the several members of the human form, so now
we find that the several movements have their source in the entire planetary system. From our planetary system we have to derive these
seven members of what we may call the man of inner movement. And since the relationship of these movements to one another
corresponds to the relationship of the planets of our planetary system, we can also designate these several movements with the Signs
that belong to these planets.”
Table of Movements:
Psychic Initiation Christian Rosicrucian

Planet Movement I AM the Chakras
Mood steps Schooling Schooling
into Root Earth, survival,
Washing the Door of the
♄♄Saturn upright Gnosticism Raven Study Chakra grounding,
feet Sheep
posture Muladhara stillness.
Svadhistana Emotional
Imaginative Good
♃Jupiter of thinking
♃ Logicism Occult Flagellation Sacral problems or
knowledge Shepherd
Hara sexual guilt.
Inspired Personal
Crowning knowledge or Resurrection Manipura Power, anger
♂Mars of speaking Voluntarism Fighter Navel
with Thorns reading the and the Life or a sense of
Solar Plexus
occult script victimization.
Preparation of
the Way, Truth Ahanhata Lack of
☉
☉Sun of the blood Empiricism Lion Crucifixion
Philosophers and Life Heart compassion.
Stone
Pressure when
Correspondence
you are not
Mystical between Vishuddha
☿☿Mercury of the breath Mysticism Persian True Vine communicating
Death macrocosm and Throat
your emotions
microcosm
properly.
Clairvoyance,
Ajna psychic
Transcen- Burial and Into life in the Bread and
♀Venus of the glands Sun Hero Third Eye abilities,
dentalism Resurrection macrocosm Life
Pineal imagination,
dreaming.
of Light of the Sahasrara

☾☾Moon Occultism Father Ascension Godliness
reproduction World Crown
Steiner continued:
“And now, when the pupil, as it were, steps forth out of his man of inner movement, he meets with seven forms. He makes the
acquaintance of seven spiritual Beings, and he knows that these seven spiritual Beings correspond to his own inner movements in the
very same way that Sun, Moon, and Venus correspond to what we spoke of yesterday.
He comes to understand that he himself has grown out of our planetary system, and that since the physical stars of the planets are
directed by the Spirits of the planets, man is only able, for example, to lift himself upright through the fact that the Spirit of Saturn
prevails in him, the Spirit who has his scene of action on Saturn as Lucifer has his on Venus.
He knows too that his movement of thought has connection with the Regent or directing Spirit of Jupiter, the movement of speech with
the directing Spirit of Mars, the movement of the blood with the directing Spirit of the Sun, the whole movement of the breath with the
directing Spirit of Mercury, all the glandular movements with the directing Spirit of Venus, and finally the whole movement of
reproduction with the directing Spirit of the Moon.
He knows furthermore, that all these Spirits work with and through one another. They have their seat, their base of operations, in man,
and one kind of movement works upon another. The Spirit of Saturn, for instance, while it works chiefly through the movement made by
man in lifting himself upright, takes part indirectly in all other movements.”
The planets and chakras defines seven development steps for man, initiatory levels:
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Senses Grouped in Three - The Three Pre-Earthly Deeds

Man has twelve senses, and the soul relates to them in three groups: Thinking, Feeling and Willing.
Willing - Movement into upright posture - First Logos, the Father ♄
The first four senses, the lowest, are called physical senses, or senses of the will because they are used to perceive one’s own body. These
will be transformed to the consciousness soul when we are ready, as they are the most difficult to transform, the most physical.
Sleeping in
1. Life Sense - Sense of overall wellbeing - We take in the universe and look back
2. Sense of Self Movement - We look out into the universe. We take in it's mobility.
3. Sense of Balance - We grasp ourselves, touch ourselves.
4. Sense of Touch - Connection to the world - We encompass ourselves.
These four show the gradual process of man's formation from outside towards inside. We have, to begin with, the whole universe; but
we are still outside. The imitation of the universe; but we have not yet reached our own being, for we imitate the universe. If we touch
ourselves, we reach ourselves from outside. Only in the fourth stage we encompass ourselves.
These were the result of the first pre-earthly deed of Christ in the old Lemurian epoch. Here humanity gained upright position and was
wrestled from the spiritual forces of Earth, Steiner calls it Astrology. Here humanity worked on the physical body. Here the Scythian god
Ram or Rama was the creator, who ended the dominion of Shiva or Lucifer.
Feeling - Movement of thinking - Second Logos, the Son ♃
The middle four senses are the senses of feeling. Observations made with these senses arouse feelings. They are also reflected in our
language: a tastefully furnished house, a sourpuss, hard to swallow, heart-warming, cold thought. These will be transformed into intellectual
soul when we are ready. They are the second most difficult to transform, they are etheric in their functionality.
Dreaming in
5. Sense of Warmth or Temperature - Includes emotional warmth/coolness - That which fills us out.
6. Sense of Taste - Everything you eat becomes you - Ripening.
7. Sense of Smell - Fitting ourselves into the inorganic world and seeking the balance.
8. Sense of Sight or Vision - Poisonous sting.
This brings us to the point of absorbing what is outside. Consequently we began with the forming of man out of the universe,
proceeded to the forming of man from within, and arrived at the point where his inner life develops by offering resistance to the
external world.
The second deed of Christ, in the Atlantean period, gave humanity the ability to utter more than interjections. Here Humanity worked on the
etheric body. This is related to Krishna, the flute player, to the etheric element, Steiner calls it Chronology. Here we also have Zarathustra
with another name for of Krishna or Adam Kadmon, Zervan Akarana.
Thinking - Movement of speaking - Third Logos, the Holy Spirit ♂
The last four senses, the highest. These are the knowledge senses, and they are used in the observation of other people. These will be
transformed into sentient soul as the first, as they are the easiest to transform, they are astral in their functionality.
Awake in
9. Sense of Tone or Hearing - Sound tells us the inner nature of things - Hunter
10. Sense of Words or Language - Breeder of animals
11. Sense of Thought or Concept - Farmer
12. Sense of 'I' - Perceiving the 'I' of another person - Trader
Man's primary occupations are: Hunter, breeder of animals, farmer and trader. This characterizes man in regard to his form and the
way he lives upon the earth as a hunter, breeder of animals, farmer, or trader. These are forms of human activities, of human
occupations upon the earth.
The third Christ event, at the end of the Atlantean period, gave humanity the ability to create language, based on words, as a means of
communication. Here Humanity worked on the astral body, giving the abilities for God to enter fully down into the physical. Steiner calls it
Meteorology. Here the name Apollo stands for Krishna and Orpheus for Arjuna.
The Hebrew prepared the fourth deed of Christ through Geology, the descend of God into the physical. This is connected with the Sun,
"Movement of the blood."
The Zodiac didn't consist of twelve star signs from the start, they came in three steps, starting with the four fixed signs in connection with the
First Deed of Christ. The names for the constellations are between the oldest. In connection with the Second Deed of Christ appeared the
cardinal signs, whose constellation names are younger than the fixed star constellations. Lastly, in connection with the Third Deed of Christ,
the mutable star constellations became named.
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The fixed signs are the foundation the creation builds on, the four elements of the Father. The cardinal signs are grown out of the fixed signs,
and are the leading power behind the development and the archetype of humanity, the Son. The mutable are grown out of the cardinal and the
fixed signs. The Mutable is the four elements of the Holy Spirit, the Third Logos.
The Alchemist Mountain with the Three Logoi:
See The Logos Walks the Earth
The First Logos creates the physical world and the seed to Atma. The Second Logos fills the physical world with life, creates the etheric and
the seed of Buddhi. The Third Logos ads movement to the physical world, the astral world and the seed of Manas.
Steiner from The Logos Walks the Earth
This corresponds in the Third Logos to the three parts:

a spiritual darkness= Tamas
b the absolute desire = Rajas
c the simple reflection of the first logo = sattva
Tamas, Rajas, Sattva are the three gunas, the three parts of the Third Logos. ~Steiner
• First, a, b and c are present.
• If a alone exists, it is Tamas.
• When a – the spiritual darkness or Tamas – combines with b – rajas, the absolute desire – darkness combines with desire, and it is a
striving for the first logos.
• When a and c – Tamas and Sattva – are combined, we have created the image of the first logo out of the darkness.
• Likewise, we can combine b with c. It can each occur individually and be combined with one of the others.
• All three combined are what the first logo itself is.
The astral is the most flexible layer, most conscious, and therefore easier to transform. The etheric layers consciousness is not as flexible so
it’s less easy to transform. And the physical layer is the least flexible and therefore most difficult to transform. Atma need all three layers
(abc) to develop before it can be developed, and the consciousness soul is the channel developed.
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Development of the spiritual bodies:
ab • The soul is the result of the work between the physical (a) and etheric body (b).
ac • The Spirit Self or Manas is the result of the experiences of the physical body (a) transforming the karma of the astral (c).
bc • Life Spirit or Buddhi is our wisdom, the result of the transformation of our etheric body (b) our opinions by the speculative thinking
of the astral body (c).
abc • Spirit Body or Atma is the result of the transformation of the physical (a) by the work of the Etheric (b) and the astral (c).
Through the work in the physical and the etheric we create the soul. Through the work in the physical and astral we create Manas, develop
the higher I. Through the work in the Etheric and Astral we create Buddhi, wisdom. Through the combined work we create Atma, the
resurrection body.
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Senses Grouped in Four

The senses can be split in the four groups: personal senses, contact senses, contactless senses and sentient senses. Each group consists of one
of the three Modalities: Cardinal, Fixed or Mutable.
Sense Type Cardinal Fixed Mutable

Personal senses Life Sense Sense of Self Movement Sense of Balance
Sense of Warmth or
Contact senses Sense of Touch Sense of Taste
Temperature
Sense of Tone or
Contactless senses Sense of Smell Sense of Sight or Vision
Hearing
Sentient senses Sense of Words or Language Sense of Thought or Concept Sense of 'I'
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Senses related to Animal Development

Animal
Sign Star sign Sense of Mythology - Keywords Nature Elements Modalities
Development
The cellular system
is developed. The first flame ignited, Seed of the Fire Cardinal
Aries Life Inner
Reproductive Zodiac. I Am. Passion Active
system dominates.
Movement, the flame begins to
The digestive
move, that's what a cow does, Earth
Taurus Movement system is Inner Fixed
moving after the grass. Digestive Act
developed.
system. I Have.
Balance between two persons, it
The rhythmic
raises up on legs and needs to find Air
Gemini Balance system is Inner Mutable
the balance, thinking, nerves. I Cognition
developed.
Think.
A harmony of all
The crab can grab things with it's
the organs occurs Water Cardinal
Cancer Touch claw, it can manipulate it's Inner
however still at an Feeling Active
environment. I Feel.
embryonic stage.

The second fire sign, hot red blood.
The reproductive Here are the shift from the objective Inner/ Fire
Leo Warmth Fixed
system dominates to the subjective, the seed of the I. Outer Passion
Here the Sun is at home. I Will.
Digestion process
Earth
Virgo Taste are the dominate I Analyze. Outer Mutable
Act
process
Respiration is the I Evaluate, I Relate or We Are. Air Cardinal
Libra Smell Outer
dominant feature Element Air! Cognition Active
The blood
circulation is
developed. None have a sight as the eagle, none
Early stages of the see the details as the Scorpion. Here Water
Scorpio Sight Outer Fixed
heart exist and the we were thrown out of paradise. I Feeling
harmony of all the Desire
organs is at a higher
stage

The reproductive
Half man half horse. He is playing Outer/ Fire
Sagittarius Tone system again is Mutable
on the Lyre. I See. Higher Passion
highly developed
Words are connected to Ahriman
The digestive
and karma, Capricorn is connected Earth Cardinal
Capricorn Words process are again Higher
with the devil, with materialism. I Act Active
emphasized
Use.
Aquarius is the idealistic thinker and
The respiratory
the first full human in the circle and Air
Aquarius Thought system is further Higher Fixed
thinking is the mark of humanity. I Cognition
developed
Know.
Animals that have a
Pisces is the healer of the zodiac, the Water
Pisces 'I' true heart, warm Higher Mutable
one who sees the you. I Believe. Feeling
blood.
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Senses in Octahedron
Steiner connects Inner Nature with Upper Nature like this [2]: Movement with Words, Touch and Sense of 'I', Life and Thought, ...
Willi Aeppli mentions it first in "The Care and Development of the Human Senses", but it wasn't explained very deeply, and it had no
corresponding astrological relation, but this diagram shows the relation clearly, and that confirms the usability of this thesis :
Inner nature corresponds to first pre-earthly deeds of Christ, outer nature corresponds to second deed of Christ and upper nature corresponds
to third deed of Christ.
Steiner writes about the connection between Inner and Upper nature here:
The Riddle of Humanity, LECTURE FOURTEEN, Dornach, 2 September 1916
Pythagoras, Alchemy and the Zodiac

Pythagoras used this well-known triangle to describe the major powers in the Zodiac:
The three qualities or modes corresponds to the elements of alchymia and to the three Logoi, the Father, Mother and Son.
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The Symbolic Approach

Another approach to astrology could be called the symbolic approach, which considers the planets and signs to be symbols of cosmic
processes and universal principles. As an example of this approach to astrolory, the following outline is derived partly from Ebertin's (1960)
attempt to correlate the yearly rhythm of the seasons with the signs of the zodiac. - Stephen Arrayo
Signs Season Psychological Correspondence Sense of

The will, the urge toact, the spirit of
Aries Germinating time, unfolding energy enterprise, self-consciousness, the desire to Life
lead.
Invigoration and strengthening, the Perseverance, consolidation, the power to
Taurus Movement
creation of form shape, sense of form.
Gemini Vivification, blossom-time Vivaciousness, versatility, superficiality. Balance
Wealth of feeling, the feeling of fatherhood
Cancer Fecundation and fertilization Touch
and motherhood.

The will to create, self-confidence, all
Leo The maturity of the seed Warmth
offspring.
The harvest, utilization of what has Diligence & care, tidiness, a domesticated
Virgo Taste
been grown nature, the critical faculty.
Balance & adjustment in nature's Sense of justice, striving for harmony,
Libra Smell
economy communal sense
Life-terminating pro-cesses of
Endurance and perseverance, the ruthlesss
Scorpio nature, continuation of life in the Sight
truggle for survival.
seed

Cultivation of the inner or spiritual side of life,
Winter sleep of nature Tone
Saggitarius hopeful planning for the future.
Untiring struggle for self-preservation,
Capricorn Crystalization of forms in winter patience, attachment to crystallized social Words
forms.
Expectant attitude,good powers of
Aquarius Waiting time, before spring Thought
observation, wealth of plans.
First stirrings of new life within the remains of
Pisces The swelling of the seed in the earth 'I'
the old.
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Astrology and Animal Development

Here we look at the animal development and what animal groups connects to what development. We again have the three groups based on
the three pre-earthly deeds of Christ.
Sign Sense of Animal Group Animal Development Elements Modalities Star sign Subplanes - Work needed
The cellular system is developed.
Life Protozoa Fire Cardinal Aries Physical
Reproductive system dominates.
Chemical Ether, medium
Movement Coelenterata The digestive system is developed. Earth Fixed Taurus for assimilation and
excretion
Life Ether, medium of
Balance Echinodermata The rhythmic system is developed. Air Mutable Gemini
propagation
A harmony of all the organs occurs Light Ether, medium of
Touch Tunicata Water Cardinal Cancer
however still at an embryonic stage. sense perception

Reflecting Ether, memory
Warmth Mollusca The reproductive system dominates Fire Fixed Leo
of nature
Passion and low Desire -
Taste Vermes Digestion process are the dominate process Earth Mutable Virgo
astral - repulsion
Impressionability - astral -
Smell Insecta Respiration is the dominant feature Air Cardinal Libra
repulsion
The blood circulation is developed.
Sight Pisces Early stages of the heart exist and the Water Fixed Scorpio Wishes - astral - repulsion
harmony of all the organs is at a higher stage

The reproductive system again is highly Feeling - astral -
Tone Amphibia Fire Mutable Sagittarius
developed interest/indifference
Soul-Life - astral -
Words Reptilia The digestive process are again emphasised Earth Cardinal Capricorn
attraction
Soul-Light - astral -
Thought Aves (Birds) The respiratory system is further developed Air Fixed Aquarius
attraction
Soul-Power - astral -
'I' Mammalia Animals that have a true heart, warm blood. Water Mutable Pisces
attraction
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The twelve senses relates to the twelve lower sub-bodies of man in the physical, etheric and astral body:
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Animal groups in Latin and English Correlated with Senses

Here the animal development put into the Pythagorean triangle with the senses.
Look at the star-fish. It has not this symmetrical form. It has five rays. Of course you can pass it by without any inner feeling. But if you
perceive it feelingly, you could never say that the star-fish has a united feeling-life. The star-fish cannot possibly relate a right-hand to
a left-hand side, or grasp a right-hand with a left-hand member. The star-fish must continually relate the one ray to one or two or
three, or even to all four remaining rays. What we know as Feeling cannot live in the star-fish at all.
See Steiner: On the Dimensions of Space
The ascent of the evolution
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Octahedron with Animal Stages and the Senses

The octahedron with the twelse senses, the animal development groups and star signs.
Inner nature corresponds to first pre-earthly deeds of Christ, outer nature corresponds to second deed of Christ and upper nature corresponds
to third deed of Christ.
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The Alphabet
From The Alphabet, An Expression of the Mystery of Man
It may be said that if a Man could look through himself inwardly he would have to admit: I am an etheric body, in other words, I am the
echo of cosmic vowels; I am a physical body, in other words, the echo of cosmic consonants. Because I stand here on the earth, there
sounds through my being an echo of all that is said by the signs of the Zodiac; and the life of this echo is my physical body. An echo is
formed of all that is said by the planetary spheres and this echo is my etheric body.
1. Physical body = Echo of the Zodiac [The first pre-Earthly deed of Christ]
2. Etheric body = Echo of the planetary movements [The second pre-Earthly deed of Christ]
3. Astral body = Experience of the planetary movements [The third pre-Earthly deed of Christ]
4. 'I' = perception of the echo of the Zodiac [The deed at Golgotha]
Nothing is said, my dear friends, by repeating that Man consists of physical body and etheric body. Those are no more than vague,
indefinite words.
If we want to speak in a real language, which can be learned from the mysteries of the cosmos, we would have to say: Man is constituted
out of the echo of the heavens, of the fixed stars, of the echo of the planetary movements, of what is experienced of the echo of the
planetary movements, and of what knowingly experiences the echo of the fixed star heavens.
Then we would have expressed in real cosmic speech what is abstractly expressed by the words: Man is made up of physical body,
etheric body, astral body and 'I'. We remain entirely in the abstract by saying: Man is composed first of physical body, secondly of etheric
body, thirdly of astral body, fourthly of 'I'.
But we pass into concrete cosmic speech if we say: Man consists of the echo of the Zodiac, of the echo of the planetary movements, of
the experience of the impression of the planetary movements in thinking, feeling and willing, and in the perception of the echo of the
Zodiac. The first is abstraction, the second reality.
When you say ‘I’, what is that exactly? Now just imagine someone had planted trees in a beautifully artistic order. Each individual tree
can be seen. However at a distance all the trees resolve into a single point. Take all the individual things — all that resounds from the
Zodiac in the way of world consonants, then go far enough away: Everything that is formed as inward sound, in the most manifold way,
is compressed within you to the single point ‘I’.
It is an actual fact that this name which Man gives himself is really only an expression for what we perceive in the measureless spaces of
the universe. Everywhere it is necessary to go back to what, as reflection, as echo, appears here upon earth. Thus, when the matter is
seen in its reality, before Man's higher and inward experience, everything out of which Man builds himself up as a phenomenon, as pure
experience, melts away. If we look upon Man and gradually learn to know his true nature, then his physical body actually ceases to be in
the way it normally confronts us and otherwise stands before us, our vision widens and Man grows into the heavens of the fixed stars.
The etheric body, too, ceases to be before us. Vision is extended, experience is extended, and we arrive at a perception of planetary life,
for this human etheric body is a mere reflection of planetary life.
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Kabbalah
The Tree of Life shown as an octahedron
Following Steiner Mercury and Venus was exchanged when moving from earth centric to the solar centric world view, and it means that we
need to exchange Venus and Mercury in the old descriptions for it to be in accordance with today, and it's logical when we look at Netzach,
Mercury must be in the pillar of wisdom. Besides that, when we look at the projection of the astral plane into the physical, the projection will
only be right with this exchange.
The soul moods and worldviews placed in the Tree of Life

The Kabbalah Tree of Life is a central model that connect all esoteric traditions.
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Astrology and the Hebrew Alphabet

Associations between the Hebrew Alphabet and the Planets
Planet Hebrew Keywords Description Chakras Movement Mood's

Fate, it brings the traveller steadily forward, from Root
Foot, Camel into upright
♄♄Saturn ‫ ג‬Gimel Gather, Walk one place to another, linking places together. Links Chakra
posture
Gnosticism
Kether with Tipharet. Muladhara
Is the palm of a hand symbolizing the accept of
Open palm Svadhistana
whatever comes to you. Understanding that all is
♃
♃Jupiter ‫ כ‬Kaph Bend, Open, meaningful. Don't waste energy fighting the Sacral of thinking Logicism
Allow, Tame Hara
universe. Is also the divine force we receive.
Head of man It's life everywhere and in everything. It's the Manipura
♂Mars ‫ ר‬Resh First, Top, movement of things by destruction and Navel of speaking Voluntarism
Beginning regeneration. Solar Plexus
The cross divides the universe into four directions,

Crossed
and encloses the universe. It symbolizes the
sticks
absolute, perfection of creation, everything in Ahanhata
☉
☉Sun ‫ ת‬Tau Mark, Sign,
everything. As the last letter in the alphabet it Heart
of the blood Empiricism
Signal,
symbolizes the furthest development in the
Monument
physical world.
Door
A door to the inner light, to knowledge and Vishuddha
☿☿Mercury ‫ ד‬Daleth Move, Hang, of the breath Mysticism
wisdom, to a new foundation. Throat
Entrance
From the mouth comes the breath of life, from
Mouth Ajna
where the light of the higher self shines. Here man of the Transcen-
♀Venus ‫ פ‬Pe Blow,
perceives his higher being, from here a well of
Third Eye
glands dentalism
Scatter, Edge Pineal
energy, knowledge and wisdom are flowing.
The house or dwelling of the body, protecting it
Tent against the hazards of the physical world. It
floorplan contains the light, the etheric energy and form that Sahasrara of
☾☾Moon ‫ ב‬Beth Family, give the physical body sustainability. It's the Crown reproduction
Occultism
House, In sanctuary, the temple (Holy Spirit,) it's Gnosis,
knowledge.
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Associations between the Hebrew Alphabet and the Star Signs
Relation to the
Star sign Hebrew Hebrew Meaning Sense of Nature Elements Modalities
Universe
We take in the
‫ה‬
A window ot to breathe, allowing air and light, to Fire Cardinal
Aries He Life universe and look Inner
see and to breathe, life. Passion Active
back.
We look out into the
Taurus ‫ו‬ Vau
Is a nail or connecting hook, as used when the
Tabernacle was assembled.
Movement universe. We take in
its mobility.
Inner
Earth
Act
Fixed
A sword, to defend, to attack, to cut

Gemini ‫ז‬ Zayin
into.Generating and ruling principle over
universal movement. It learns to control its
Balance
We grasp ourselves.
(Touch ourselves.)
Inner
Air
Cognition
Mutable
opposites by will.
A hedge, a fence, tailor, sewing, making of a
Cancer ‫ח‬ Cheth
garment. The soul has taken a physical body on.
Equilibrium, reservoir of energy, breathing the
Touch
We encompass
ourselves.
Inner
Water
Feeling
Cardinal
Active
vital breath, attraction and repulsion.

Coiling of a serpent. Potential power. Spiritual
Leo ‫ט‬ Teth awareness, divine origin. Contains potential for Warmth
good and evil.
That which fills us
out.
Inner/ Fire
Outer Passion
Fixed
A hand with stretched fingers. Power of creative

and directed energy that maintains individual
existence. The open hand is the symbol of
Virgo ‫י‬ Yod
microcosmos and microcosmic hand. The closed
hand of the center, the unity from where
Taste Ripening. Outer
Earth
Act
Mutable
everything has emanated and everything
revolves. As the smallest letter it refers to the
point, the primal vibration of the universe.
An ox-goad. Knowledge of all experiences on the Fitting ourselves into
Libra ‫ל‬ Lamed
physical plane. Needed to attain detachment from
the physical making a bridge to the spiritual by
Smell
the inorganic world
and seeking the
Outer
Air Cardinal
Cognition Active
sacrifice. The central letter of the alphabet. balance.
A fish. Is one with its environment with a
Scorpio ‫נ‬ Nun
spherical way of perception. A reference to the
astral. Universal life, constantly changing but
Sight Poisonous sting. Outer
Water
Feeling
Fixed
always remaining the same, as flowing water.

A prop, a support. Both what strains the string of
the bow and the humming of the string. The
hissing of a snake, physical life force, the egoistic
Sagittarius ‫ס‬ Samech impulses and the seductive instincts. As a prop it Tone
is the life force that sustains everything, links the
Hunter.
Outer/ Fire
Higher Passion
Mutable
above with below. It's the spinal column with life

fluidum, where the Kundalini serpent rises.
An eye. The source and the nothingness out of
which everything has emanated. It's also
Capricorn ‫ע‬ Ayin destruction by antagonism. It's the principle of
the individual's revolt through materialism and
Words Breeder of animals. Higher
Earth
Act
Cardinal
Active
putting importance on sensory satisfaction.
A small swath. Both hierachical distribution and
matter in it's crystallization.The refuge of the
Aquarius ‫צ‬ Tsade being toward which the hopes are directed. The Thought Farmer.
creation of the physical, the senses and the
Higher
Air
Cognition
Fixed
illusions.
Back of the head. When the last hindrance has
Pisces ‫ק‬ Qoph
been removed the Kundalini will rise to the back
of the head. The Ax, especially the doubleheaded
'I' Trader. Higher
Water
Feeling
Mutable
ax, used to indicate revelation or enlightenment.
Octahedron with Hebrew letters and the Senses or esoteric astrological terms
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Art of Asha
"The Art of Asha" are the origin of chess and was introduced by Zarathustra as a kind of teaching aid describing the spiritual powers or
hierarchies behind the physical world. Professor Edmond Bordeaux Székely have described the Art of Asha in "The Essene Book of Asha".
Today most knowledge of it's spiritual background have been lost, only names and a few comments about each piece is known today, and the
movement rules of Asha is the same as for chess today.
As all religious and spiritual traditions describe the same reality I set myself the goal to find the relation to the Kabbalah Tree of Life, as the
Tree relates to all spiritual traditions, and I have described my result here: The Art of Asha, an Analysis.
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Trigrams and Western esotericism

The difference between the Trigrams of Taoism and other traditions is that Taoism includes the Earth, where other traditions only have the
seven visible planets of the sky, and the reason may be that Taoism is more a philosophy than a religion, where the religions looked at the
seven outer gods and especially in connection with astrology.
A more physical way to look at the planets shows how the Earth disappears in the projection:
The creation of the eight Pa Kua or trigrams at the root of the sixty-four principles, hexagrams, are ascribed to the legendary Fu-Xi, who
ruled during the third millennium BC.
The creation:
Tao gives birth to One,

One gives birth to Two,
The Two gives birth to Three,
The Three gives birth to all universal things.
All universal things shoulder the Yin and embrace the Yang. The Yin and Yang mingle and mix with each other to beget the harmony.
This reminds very much on the creation story around the Three Logoi. Here a drawing of the creation:
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The trigrams are build from below, where the lowest line represents the First Logos, the middle line the Second Logos and the top line the
Third Logos. Here another representation of the development of the trigrams, and related to western symbolism.
Here’s how the children was created (from the Book of Change):
The Creative (☰ Qian) is heaven, therefore, it is called the father.

The Receptive (☷ Kun) is the earth, therefore, it is called the mother.
In the Trigram of the Arousing (☳ Zhen,) she seeks for the first time the power of the male and receives a son. Therefore, the Arousing is called the Eldest Son.
In the Trigram of the Gentle (☴ Xun) the male seeks for the first time the power of the female and receives a daughter. Therefore, the Gentleis called the Eldest
Daughter.
In the Trigram of the Abysmal (☵ Kan) she seeks for a second time and receives a son. Therefore, it is called the Middle Son.
In the Trigram of the Clinging (☲ Li) he seeks for a second time and receives a daughter. Therefore, it is called the Middle Daughter.
In the Trigram of Keeping (☶ Gen) Still she seeks for a third time and receives a son. Therefore, it is called the Youngest Son.
In the Trigram of the Joyous (☱ Dui) he seeks for a third time and receives a daughter. Therefore, it is called the Youngest Daughter.
Inserted into the figure of the Alchemist Mountain:
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See The Taoist Triad and the Three Logoi
Trigram Octaeder
Here the trigrams shown in the previously used octaeder. See again the symmetries and opposites.
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The Fano Plane

The trigrams can also be put into a Fano Plane (for the math inclined Wikipedia). Those who know the octal number system will see that all
opposing trigrams add to Qian (☰). Like ☰= ☶ + ☱. This symmetry exist in all the diagrams.
The relation to the Kabbalah Tree of Life is clear too.
The Fano plane is an interesting construct that have many interesting mathematical symmetries and transformations that give new
symmetries, see Wikipedia and The Fano Plane:
Especially interesting is the summing of trigrams, two endpoints give the middle point. Thesis and antithesis gives the synthesis.
Duality in the Fano plane, each point corresponds to a line and vice versa, see Wikipedia:
Trigrams and Star of David
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Cree Teaching - Tipi Structure

The following quotes are taken from "Cree (Nehiyawak) Teaching" by Elder Mary Lee, if not anythin is noted.
The Tipi is seen as a woman covered with a shawl:
That is what the tipi is - it is the spirit and body of woman, because she represents the foundation of family and community. It is
through her that we learn the values that bring balance into our lives. That is why, when you construct a tipi, it involves ceremony:
because the ceremony of making a tipi represents the value of women’s teachings.
Tipi Poles
The Cree uses fifteen poles to build the Tipi. The first three are used to make a tripod, they represent the three creative powers of the
universe: the Father, the Mother and the Son.
The three poles represent obedience, respect and humility and balanced properly they reinforce each other and are the foundation for the tipi,
for the family of the father, mother and son.
The three main poles:
Tipi Poles Definition The Creators

Idealism Sole belief in ideas manifesting through reality and giving it purpose. The Mother - Form
Rationalism Sole belief in the ideas discovered in external reality. The Son - the Created
Mathematism Sole belief in the mathematical ordering of reality. The Father - Idea
The twelve poles of the zodiac:
Tipi Poles Definition

Idealism Sole belief in ideas manifesting through reality and giving it purpose.
Rationalism Sole belief in the ideas discovered in external reality.
Mathematism Sole belief in the mathematical ordering of reality.
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Materialism Sole belief in the crudest impressions, valid for the material world and its laws.
Sensationalism Sole belief in sensual phenomena as the basic reality, with thought a mere addition.
Sole belief in sensual phenomena as representing a world of appearance to be thought
Phenomenalism
over.
Realism Sole belief in what can be perceived and thought about as the external world.
Dynamism Sole belief in the power of external and internal forces in reality.
Monadism Sole belief in abstract spiritual monads with varying powers of perception.
Sole belief that material reality is only illusion and that all genuine reality is found only
Spiritism
in the Spirit.
Pneumatism Sole belief that beings with ideas need to embody an active spirit able to do things.
Psychism Sole belief in the need for ideas to be embodied in beings to be real.
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Nidanas and the Zodiac

The twelve Nidanas are the karmic powers keeping man reincarnating on the Earth. This is an experiment where I test the thesis: “They are
the powers of the Zodiac, but they are not following the same sequence around the Zodiac as the star signs.”
The twelve Nidanas consists of three groups, the first group of four is the Cardinal signs, the next group are the Mutable and the last group
are the Fixed star signs. In the following tables and zodiac I have placed the Nidanas on the zodiac following these principles. The following
paragraph is by Rudolf Steiner, the tables are extended by me and the figure is my design, and I had reformatted and added star signs.
Nidanas and the Signs

The following is from Steiner's: Foundation of Esoreticism Lecture XIV and following lectures. As e-book.
When man returns from Devachan, the astral, etheric and physical forces arrange themselves around him according to twelve forces of
karma which in Indian esotericism are called Nidanas:
In Indian esotericism twelve forces are differentiated which draw man down again into physical existence.
1. Aries – The first of these forces is Avidja: ignorance. Avidja is what draws us down again into physical existence for the simple reason
that we shall only have fulfilled our mission on the Earth when we have extracted from it all possible knowledge. On the other hand we
have not fulfilled our mission as long as everything that we should learn from physical existence has not yet been extracted.
2. Taurus – After Avidja what next draws us back is what the earth contains because we ourselves have made it, which therefore belongs to
our Organisation. When a mason, for instance, has worked on the building of a cathedral, this has become a part of himself. There is a
reciprocal attraction between them. What has an organ-creating tendency for the original instigator, whether it be the work of Leonardo
da Vinci or the smallest piece of work, forms an organ in the human being and this is the cause of his return. All that the man has done,
taken together, is called Sanskara or the organising tendency which builds up the human being. This is the second thing which draws
him back.
3. Gemini – Now comes the third. Before the human being entered into any incarnation he knew nothing of an outer-world. Self-
awareness first began with the first incarnation; previously man had no consciousness of self. He had first to perceive the outer objects
on the physical plane before he could develop consciousness of self. True as it is that what a man has done draws him back to the
physical plane, so is it true that knowledge of things draws him back. Consciousness is a new force which binds him to what is here.
This is the third element that draws him into a new earth-life. This third force is called Vijnana = consciousness.
4. Cancer – Up to this point we have remained very intimately within the human soul. As the fourth stage appears what comes towards the
consciousness from outside, what was indeed already there without man, but what he had first to learn to know with his consciousness-
this was present outside in his previous existence, but only disclosed itself after his consciousness opened to it. It is the separation
between subject and object, or, as the Sanscrit writer says, the separation between name and form (Namarupa). Through this man
reached the outer object. This is the fourth force that draws him back, for instance the memory of a being to which he has attached
himself.
5. Leo – Next comes what we form as mental image in connection with an external object: for example, picturing a dog is merely making a
mental image, which is however the essential thing for the painter. It is what the intellect makes of a thing: Shadayadana.
6. Virgo – Now there is a further descent into the earthly. The mental picture leads us to what we call contact with existence: Sparsha.
Whoever depends on the object stands at the stage of Namarupa; whoever forms pictures stands at the stage of Shadayadana. The one
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however who differentiates between the pleasing and the unpleasing will reach the point where he prefers the beautiful to the
unbeautiful. This is called contact with existence: Sparsha.
7. Libra – Somewhat different however from this contact with the outer-world is what at the same time stirs inwardly as feeling. Now I
myself come into action: I connect my feeling with one thing or another. That is a new element. Man becomes more involved. It is
called Vedana: Feeling.
8. Scorpio – Through Vedana something quite new again arises, that is, longing for existence. The forces which draw man back into
existence awaken more and more strongly within himself. The higher forces compel all human beings to a greater or lesser degree; they
are not individual. Eventually however, quite personal forces appear which draw him back again into the earthly world. That is the
eighth force. Trishna = Thirst for existence.
9. Sagittarius – Still more subjective than the thirst for existence is what is named Upadana: Comfort in existence. With Upadana man has
something in common with the animal, but he experiences it more spiritually and it is the task of man to spiritualise what is gross in this
soul element.
10. Capricorn – Then comes individual existence itself, the sum of all the earlier incarnations when he was already on the earth: Bhava =
individual existence, the force of the totality of earlier incarnations. Previous incarnations draw him down into existence.
11. Aquarius – With this we have retraced the stages of the Nidanas up to individual birth. The esotericist differentiates two further stages
which go beyond the period of individual existence. Here he differentiates a previous condition that gave the impetus towards birth,
before man had ever been incarnated. This is called Jata: what before birth gave the impetus to birth.
12. Pisces – The impetus towards birth is interconnected with a different impulse. It brings with it the germ of dissolution, the urge to
extricate oneself from individual birth. What interests us is that this earthly existence of ours falls again into decay and we are freed,
able to become old and die (jaramarana).
These are the twelve Nidanas which work like strings, drawing us ever and again down into existence. (The meaning of Nidana is string,
loop.)
There are three groups which belong together:
Consciousness Intellectual
Element Sentient Soul
Soul soul
Fire Avidya Shadayadana Upadana
Earth Sanskara Sparsha Bhava
Air Vijnana Vedana Jati
Water Namarupa Trishna Jaramarana
The soul has three members: the consciousness soul as the highest member, then the intellectual or mind soul and the sentient soul.
The first group of the Nidanas from Avidya to Namarupa is connected with the consciousness soul: the second group with the
intellectual soul and the third, from Upadana to Jaramarana, with the sentient soul.
Vijnana is characteristic of the consciousness soul; Shadayadana of the intellectual soul and the last four are bound with the sentient
soul. These last four are present in both animal and man.
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Sign Sense of Is'ms Mythology Nidanas Keywords Wikipedia Modalities Star sign
Not knowing suffering,

not knowing the
origination of suffering,
The first Sign, not knowing the
Non-knowledge,
Life Idealism Seed of the Avidya cessation of suffering, Cardinal Aries
Ignorance
Zodiac not knowing the way of
practice leading to the
cessation of suffering:
This is called ignorance.
Movement, These four are
walk to eat A sense of clingings: sensual
Movement Rationalism grass. Sanskara comfort in clinging, view clinging, Fixed Taurus
Digestive existense practice clinging, and
system. self clinging.
Balance What the The eyes, ears, nose,
Balance Mathematism between two Vijnana intellect makes tongue, body and mind Mutable Gemini
persons of the things are the six sense media.
These three are
fabrications: bodily
Organizing
The Claw fabrications, verbal
Touch Materialism Namarupa tendencies, Cardinal Cancer
Holding things fabrications, mental
desire
fabrications. These are
called fabrications.

These three are
becoming: sensual
Fire - Here the Birth, individual
Warmth Sensationalism Shadayadana becoming, form Fixed Leo
Sun is at home existense
becoming, formless
becoming
The coming together of
the object, the sense
Contact with medium and the
Taste Phenomenalism I Analyze Sparsha Mutable Virgo
existense consciousness of that
sense medium is called
contact.
These six are classes of
consciousness: eye-
Consciousness, consciousness, ear-
understanding, consciousness, nose-
Smell Realism I Evaluate Vedana Cardinal Libra
intellectual consciousness, tongue-
knowledge consciousness, body-
consciousness, intellect-
consciousness.
Birth is any coming-to-
be or coming-forth. It
refers not just to birth at
Eagle with The urge the beginning of a
Sight Dynamism Jati Fixed Scorpio
Sight towards birth lifetime, but to birth as
new person, acquisition
of a new status or
position etc.

Feeling or sensations are
of six forms: vision,
Half man half
Feeling, karmic hearing, olfactory
horse -
results of sensation, gustatory
Tone Monadism Gilgamesh Upadana Mutable Sagittarius
feelings and sensation, tactile
Lyre -
sensations sensation, and
Orpheus
intellectual sensation
(thought).
Feeling, perception,
Names and intention, contact, and
form, distinction attention: This is called
Materialism between name name. The four great
Words Spiritism Bhava Cardinal Capricorn
and Ahriman and form elements, and the body
(subject and dependent on the four
object) great elements: This is
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called form.
Birth[s] is any coming-
to-be or coming-forth. It
First whole refers not just to birth at
human What frees from the beginning of a
Thought Pneumatism Jaramarana Fixed Aquarius
starsign earthly existense lifetime, but to birth as
Free thinker new person, acquisition
of a new status or
position etc.
There are these six
forms of cravings:
Empathy and Thirst for cravings with respect to
'I' Psychism Trishna Mutable Pisces
Healer existense forms, sounds, smells,
tastes, touch (massage,
sex, pain), and ideas.
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Skandhas
A person can affect his Karma to the degree in which he himself possesses Intuition; or he must receive it from the high initiates in the
form of great moral laws. Vijnana is the name used for the consciousness necessary for the overcoming of Karma. And now let us think
of a man living in the world, carrying out his actions and dying. After his death something of him nevertheless remains here in this
world which he has woven into it: Rupa, Vedana, Sanjna, Sanskara and Vijnana. These five are the balance of his account: his personal
destiny as Rupa; the destiny of the nation into which he is born, as Vedana; the actual fact of his birth on this earth as Sanjna. In
addition, working with Sanskara, the desire nature, and Vijnana, the consciousness. These are the five Skandhas.
What a man gives out into the world remains as the five Skandhas in the world. These are the foundation of his new existence. They
have progressively less effect when he has consciously developed something of the last two. The more he has gained conscious power
over Vijnana, the more does he gain the power of consciously incarnating in the physical body. In their essential nature the Skandhas
are identical with Karma.
1. Rupa: Corporality, Actions.

2. Vedana: Feeling.
3. Sanjna: Perception.
4. Sanskara: Desire.
5. Vijnana: Consciousness necessary to the overcoming of Karma.
The above was from Steiner's: Foundation of Esoreticism Lecture XIV and following lectures. Here as e-book.
The Three Gunas in connection with the Creative Powers

In the Aurvedic tradition the three Gunas are the three principles of the world. The “trinity”, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, represent the gunas,
or qualities of tamas, sattva and rajas.
See The Three Logoi as defined in Theosophy
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Stations of the Cross

Sign Description
Jesus Is Condemned to Death by Pontius Pilate.
Jesus willingly accepts and patiently bears his cross.
Weakened by torments and by loss of blood, Jesus falls the

first time beneath his cross.
Jesus Meets His Sorrowful Mother, who is filled with grief.
Simon of Cyrene Helps Jesus Carry the Cross.
Veronica steps through the crowd to wipe the face of Jesus.
Jesus falls beneath the weight of the cross a second time.
Jesus tells the women of Jerusalem not to weep for him but

for themselves and for their children.
Weakened almost to the point of death, Jesus falls a third

time.
The soldiers strip Jesus of his garments, treating him as a

common criminal.
Jesus’ hands and feet are nailed to the cross.
After suffering greatly on the cross, Jesus bows his head

and dies.
The Spiritual Planes
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Modalities
The modalities, also called Quadruplicities, consists of three types: Cardinal, Fixed and Mutable.
They represent in reality three creative principles, the three creative Logoi: The Father, the Mother and The Son or The Father, Son and Holy
Spirit. The Father gives the idea, the Mother gives it form and the Son harvest the result, or the Father starts the creation, the mother creates
it's antithesis, and the Son creates the synthesis.
In astrology it is also said that two consecutive signs are each others opposite, not the opposite sign in the wheel! The simplest example is
Scorpio, both Sagittarius and Libra is clear opposites of Scorpio, everything that Scorpio takes oh so serious they take very easy, like
sexuality and power.
In the start of the development there were only the fixed signs, Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and Scorpio, but out of them separated the cardinal
signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. And lastly the mutable signs separated out of the fixed signs. It can be seen from when they got
named.
These four are also known as the four human group souls or the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Humanity is the result of four development
streams, that of the human stream, Man, and the stragglers of the angelic stream, the Bull, and the stragglers of the archangelic stream, the
Lion, and the stragglers of the Archai stream, the Eagle.
Each of the signs correspond to a hierarchy, to a Logoi, and out of one signs develops it's antithesis, and out of these two, a synthesis is
developed, but it's more complex than this, the antithesis is also a thesis creating an antithesis, that creates a new synthesis, and so forth.
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Basic keynotes to remember about the Modalities (Quadruplicities) are:
Cardinal: Beginning of a Season/process. Idealism. Freshness. Breaking new ground. Grappling with new energy. Kinetic action.
Confidently bringing an element "out of hibernation." Optimistic. Forward moving.
Fixed: Middle of a Season/process. Fixity. Centerdness. Stillness. Individuality. Perspective. "Stand alone." Archetype of "the process"
itself, being neither at the beginning nor the end.
Mutable: End of a Season/process. Grounding. Preparing for great change. Changeable, malleable, mutable. Sensing the highly
energetic Cardinal "twin" on the other side of the Solstice or Equinox. Worldly. Experienced. Wise. Natural. Deeply grounding a
particular element for "hibernation" as it will not be expressed during the following season.
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The Twelve Senses and the Seven Movements

From The Riddle of Humanity, Lecture VII
The situation of these powers of perception is different from the situation of forces that could be said to reside more
deeply embedded within us. Seeing is bound up with the eyes and these constitute a particular region of a human
being. Hearing is bound up with the organs of hearing, at least principally so, but it needs more besides — hearing
involves much more of the organism than just the ear, which is what is normally thought of as the region of hearing.
And life flows equally through each of these regions of the senses. The eye is alive, the ear is alive, that which is the
foundation of all the senses is alive; the basis of touch is alive — all of it is alive. Life resides in all the senses; it flows
through all the regions of the senses.
If we look more closely at this life, it also proves to be differentiated. There is not just one life process. And you must
also distinguish what we have been calling the sense of life, through which we perceive our own vital state, from the
subject of our present discussion. What I am talking about now is the very life that flows through us. That life also
differentiates itself within us. It does so in the following manner (see diagram). The twelve regions of the twelve
senses are to be pictured as being static, at rest within the organism. But life pulsates through the whole organism, and
this life is manifested in various ways. First of all there is breathing, a manifestation of life necessary to all living
things. Every living organism must enter into a breathing relationship with the external world. Today I cannot go into
the details of how this differs for animals, plants and human beings, but will only point out that every living thing must
have its way of breathing. The breathing of a human being is perpetually being renewed by what he takes in from the
outer world, and this benefits all the regions associated with the senses. The sense of smell could not manifest itself —
neither sight, nor the sense of tone — if the benefits of breathing did not enliven it. Thus, I must assign ‘breathing’ to
every sense. We breathe — that is one process — but the benefits of that process of breathing flow to all the senses.
The second process we can distinguish is warming. This occurs along with breathing, but it is a separate process.
Warming, the inner process of warming something through, is the second of the life-sustaining processes. The third
process that sustains life is nourishment. So here we have three ways in which life comes to us from without:
breathing, warming, nourishing.
Following the process of nourishing, the first internal process is the process of secretion, of elimination. When the
nourishment we have taken in is distributed to our body, this is already the process of secretion; through the process of
secretion it becomes part of our organism. The process of elimination does not just work outward, it also separates out
that part of our nourishment that is to be absorbed into us. Excretion and absorption are two sides of the processes by
which organs of secretion deal with our nourishment. One part of the secretion performed by organs of digestion
separates out nutriments by sending them into the organism. Whatever is thus secreted into the organism must remain
connected with the life processes, and this involves a further process which we will call maintaining. But for there to
be life, it is not enough for what is taken in to be maintained, there also must be growth. Every living thing depends on
a process of inner growth: a process of growth, taken in the widest sense. Growth processes are part of life; both
nourishment and growth are part of life.
And, finally, life on earth includes reproducing the whole being; the process of growth only requires that one part
produce another part. Reproduction produces the whole individual being and is a higher process than mere growth.
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There are no further life processes beyond these seven. Life divides into seven definite processes. But, since they serve
all twelve of the sense zones, we cannot assign definite regions to these — the seven life processes enliven all the
sense zones. Therefore, when we look at the way the seven relate to the twelve we see that we have 1. Breathing, 2.
Warming, 3. Nourishing, 4. Secretion, 5. Maintaining, 6. Growth, 7. Reproduction. These are distinct processes, but all
of them relate to each of the senses and flow through each of the senses: their relationship with the senses is a mobile
one.
The human being, the living human being, must be pictured as having twelve separate sense-zones through which a
sevenfold life is pulsing, a mobile, sevenfold life. If you ascribe the signs of the zodiac to the twelve zones, then you
have a picture of the macrocosm; if you ascribe a sense to each zone, you have the microcosm. If you assign a planet to
each of the life processes, you have a picture of the macrocosm; as the life processes, they embody the microcosm.
And the mobile life processes are related to the fixed zones of the senses in the same way that, in the macrocosm, the
planets are related to the zones of the zodiac — they move unceasingly through them, they flow through them. And so
you see another sense in which man is a macrocosm.
From The Riddle of Humanity, Lecture VIII https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/Places/Dornach/19160813p01.html
And the life processes are even more spiritualised than these lower senses. More than a few persons who claim to
represent a particularly lofty mystical point of view speak of the life processes as something ‘lower’. To be sure, they
are low here, but what here is low is high in the spiritual world, for what lives in our organism is a reflection of what
lives in the spiritual world. This is a very noteworthy statement.
Outside us in the spiritual world there are significant spiritual beings whose nature is reflected within us — within the
bounds of the zodiac of our senses through which the planets of our life processes move.
So we can say: the four life processes of secretion, maintenance, growth and reproduction are reflections of what
exists in the spiritual world — as are the processes of breathing, warming and nourishing. The fourfold process of
secretion, maintaining, growth and reproduction mirrors a lofty region of the spiritual world. That region receives us
after death and there we live and weave, spiritually preparing our organism for the next earthly incarnation.
Everything in our physical organism that is comparatively low corresponds to something that is high and can only be
perceived through the faculty of Imagination. There is a whole world that can be perceived through Imagination,
through imaginative knowledge. This world that is accessible to imagination is reflected from beyond the constellations
of the zodiac into the senses of the human organism. To picture this, imagine that Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon are
reflections of what exists beyond the limits of the zodiac: they have spiritual counterparts that exist there and the
astronomical bodies we can observe within the bounds of the zodiac are only reflections of these counterparts.
And then there is yet another super-sensible region. It is beyond the limits of the human senses and perceptible only
through the faculty of Inspiration. This is the world of Inspiration. The processes of breathing, warming and nourishing
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are a reflection of this world, just as Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are reflections of their spiritual counterparts from
beyond the limits of the zodiac. Moreover there is a profound relationship between what is out there in the cosmos and
what, as lower nature, is present in man. These spiritual counterparts of the life processes actually exist. And this is
how we should mark out the boundaries of the human senses and life processes.
Steiner connects Inner Nature with Upper Nature like this:

Movement with Words, Touch and Sense of 'I', Life and Thought, ...
Steiner writes about the connection between Inner and Upper nature here:
The Riddle of Humanity, LECTURE FOURTEEN, Dornach, 2 September 1916
Now, I can assure you that a man cannot die as a result of the thoughts he forms under the influence of his inner zodiac
— one certainly cannot die of such thoughts. Thoughts do not penetrate so deeply into the life processes. And the other
case I just mentioned — I mean the hysterical pregnancy — cannot be the result of mere thoughts, any more than it is
possible to die of the mere thought that you have blood poisoning.
Literature:
Willi Aeppli: "The Care and Development of the Human Senses"
Content (computer generated):
1.1.A general conception of the sense organism

1.2.Perception and thinking
1.3.The threefold nature of the human organism
2.1.The origin of the sense organs
2.2.Number and grouping of the senses
2.3.The four lower senses
The sense of life
The sense of balance, or of orientation
The sense of touch
The sense for our own movement
2.4.The four middle senses
The sense of sight
The sense of smell and sense of taste
The sense of warmth
2.5.The four upper senses
The sense of sound or hearing
The sense of language, word or speech
The sense of thought, concept or representation
The sense for the I of oneself and of others
2.6.The relation between the lower and upper senses
3.1.Human development
3.2.Individual development
The loss of the sense organism
3.3.Enlivening and ensouling the sense organism
4.1.Stages of lessons that cultivate perception
4.2.Cultivation living thinking
Contents note continued:
4.3.Cultivation the will senses
Three educational tasks
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The importance of rhythm

The effect of different subjects
4.4.Cultivation the feeling senses
4.5.Cultivation the cognitive senses
The sense of sound
The sense of language
The sense of thought
The sense for the I.
RS Notes: http://www.fourhares.com/anthroposophy/twelve_senses.html
Tom van Gelder have made a nice site, with following content:
"On this website you will find information on Observing, Phenomenology (Goethean science), the Twelve senses, Rudolf Steiner's Basic
exercises, Threefoldness of man and animals and Embryology from an anthroposophical point of view."
Phenomenology he introduces with:
"The starting point for phenomenology is observing.

How to observe, how to make your observations richer, what is important in observing and what are your limitations are discussed."
http://tomvangelder.antrovista.com/welcome-to-my-phenomenology-site-99m10.html
And that observing is necessary for all studying, to see the patterns behind the physical reality.
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Esoteric Astrology and Human Development

Our Solar System

Everything in the universe lies in a plane, if it's galaxies or solar systems.

Seen a little from above:

A teacher: Wasn’t there a special configuration in 1413?

[Sequence: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Moon, Earth.]

The Building Blocks of Earth Life

The star, named 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B, is an approximately 13.5 billion-year-old

See Science Daily and New Atlas.

The Zodiac and the Seasons

From "Working together of the Four Arcangels of the Seasons."

Signs and Seasons by Chris Brennan:

Calendar of the Soul

Man as a Projection into the Third Dimension

From Steiner: Man and the World of Stars VI

Man as an Upside Down Plant

The Avayata-tree of Krishna growing downward

We come to a passage which, to the man of the

What does it signify, this pointing to the great tree

The old knowledge was acquired as we have just

Just imagine vividly that you, when in the etheric

himself as the serpent round the tree.

Man as a small Cosmos

From Cosmosophy, Volume 2, GA# 207, by Steiner:

From An Occult Physiology, GA# 128, by Steiner:

The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac

The Trinity - The Three Logoi

The First Logos, the Father,

The trinity is defined by

Æons - Planetary incarnations

The Planetary Seals

See Spirits of Form and the Creation of Humanity.

See The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac (Steiner.)

See The Etheric Sun and the Rhythm of the Day.

Hierarchies and the Planets

On the inner planets, from Willi Sucher, Cosmic Christianity:

the Archai in astronomical Mercury,

the Archangeloi in astronomical Venus, and

the Angeloi in the sphere of the Moon.

The Exusiai or Spirits of Form work out of the Sun.

The elemental beings of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars is under supervision:

Sun-spots and the Current Michael Period

Here a diagram over sunspot minima thousand years back in time.

There may come a minima in the future:

Examples of Major Historical Dates

WW1 starts in 1914-15.

From September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 we have WW2.

The Michael Principle and Sunspots

Calculated values back in time.

Michael’s fight of the Ahrimanic Powers

1841 - 1879 Michael throwing the Spirits of Darkness down to Earth

The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness

The Return of Christ - Meeting in the Etheric

December 2019 confirmed as starting point of the new solar

A February without sunspots:

NASA 25 Sun-Spot Cycle

NASA a decade of Sun-spots.

A Decade of Sunspots - Science Mission Directorate.