The Role of the Least Aspected Planet in Astrocartography.
Planetary Symbolism in Astrocartography and Transcendental Astrology,
by Rob Couteau.
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Saturn
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His greatest,
and most admirable, quality was to be content with limited success.
–Alan J. Taylor, Bismarck.
The Man and the Statesman.1
Otto von Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck
was the German ambassador to France in 1862. He later “instigated” (Tertiary
Pluto) the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the following year “dictated” (Pluto)
the terms of peace to France. France is located directly under the “restrictive
influence” of his Primary Saturn, which curves over France in a Transcendental
Setting position.
Bismarck’s “achievements”
led to “increased professional success” (Saturn). After the war, he was crowned
a prince (1871) and appointed imperial chancellor. The “conservative chancellor”
(Primary Saturn) is remembered for the Austria-Hungary alliance of 1879: “the
first formal alliance [Saturn] between two Great Powers concluded in peacetime
since the outbreak of the French revolution and the end of the ancien régime [which] set a rigid pattern
[Saturn] which shaped international relations until the First World War.”2
Bismarck’s final years were
marked by a decidedly “conservative streak” (Saturn). His domestic policies
were anti-Socialist while his “retrograde” (Saturn) foreign policy led historians
to regard him as “the man who sought to preserve Europe’s traditional [Saturn]
civilization.”3
1. Alan J. Taylor,
Bismarck. The
Man and the Statesman, p. 211.
2. Ibid., p. 192.
3. Ibid.
