Sun
= 012
Mercury = 120
Neptune = 222
Venus = 240
Mars = 300
Uranus = 400
Jupiter = 401
Pluto = 410
Saturn = 420
Moon = 422
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Photo
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[Least-aspected
Sun] [Mercury]
While
his […] visit of 1920 had been intended as a reunion with the city [of Paris]
rather than with people, this sojourn was brimming with contact with old friends
and new. Rilke was sought after by so many people that he soon began comparing
himself to the sorcerer’s apprentice unable to quell the spirits he had invoked.
[…] The nameless German poet who had come to Paris a quarter of a century
earlier with the commission to write a monograph on the famous Rodin had meanwhile
become a celebrity himself.1
–Wolfgang Leppmann, Rilke:
A Life.
Oh
life, oh life: to be without such blaze.
But I am burning. No one knows my face.
–From Rilke’s last poem, written in December 1926, shortly before his death.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke,
the greatest twentieth-century German language lyric poet, was born almost
precisely under the vertical, midnight position of his Primary Sun in Prague,
Czechoslovakia. His Primary Sun / Secondary Mercury Transcendental Midpoint-Field
extends from eastern Europe (Sun) to Paris (Mercury). Within this field, he
traveled extensively in Italy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, North Africa, and
France. His experiences within this region had a great effect on the evolution
on his “self-identity” (Sun) and in expressing it in “writing” (Mercury).
Rilke’s Secondary Mercury
is positioned in a vertical, Midheaven line directly over Paris: a location
of especial importance in his life. In 1901 he married Klara Westhoff, a pupil
of the Parisian sculptor Rodin, and from 1905 to 1906 he was employed as Rodin’s
“secretary” (Mercury). Rilke’s association with Rodin had a lasting influence
on the poet, who learned from Rodin the importance of “honing the necessary
skills” (Mercury) in order to develop an “individual style of self-expression”
(Sun) in art.
Rilke returned to
Paris in 1913, but the First World War forced him back to Germany, to the
vicinity of his Primary Sun line. After 1919, he lived precisely in the center
of his Primary Sun / Secondary Mercury Transcendental Midpoint-Field, in Valais
canton, Switzerland. In 1920, another brief visit to Paris reunited the poet
with many old friends coincided with the publication of his poems in French
reviews and journals such as Commerce;
Revue Nouvelle; and Nouvelle Review Française.
Revised & updated:
5 August 2005
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I. Introduction
II. Transcendental Biographies
| III. Transcendental Events
IV. Psychic inflation
- Summary of Planetary Symbolism
- Transcendental
Planets
V. Nodes / the Triple-zero Transcendental | Appendices: Orbs / References / Data
Additional Maps | Bibliography | FAQ
Postscript:
I. Interview in Astrolore
| II. Transcendental Nations
| III. American Presidents
& LAP Saturn
IV. World Events | V. Numinous Consciousness
VI. The LAP as a metaphor of the soul | VII.
Zones of Intensity |
VIII. Complete Index of Names and Events
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