"๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ซ. These forces begin to move out into the world through our forearms and lower legs. Here we meet the periphery of the body as the blood comes closest to the skin. Thus, we begin to feel a sense of inner warmth in the cold winter.
Rudolf Steiner presents twelve verses of the zodiacal moods revealing the human experience as a reflection of the cosmos. "Thus an attempt has been made to offer a sequence of feeling, sensing, and speaking, which, as it is presented, gives, as it were, another version of the inner soul-feeling in relation to what has flowed into the movements of our solar system. The structure of twelve verses, each with seven lines, corresponds, you could say, to the outer skeleton. If you take this attempt at a twelve/seven-membered poem, however, you will see that what wishes to reveal itself is present in every detail. "
Rudolf Steiner, Twelve Moods, Rudolf Steiner's Words before the Eurythmy Presentation of the โTwelve Moodsโ, GA 40, 29 August 1915, Dornach.
"The first edition of the Calendar of the Soul (1912) contained reproductions of new zodiacal images made by Imme von Eckardstein according to indications given by Dr Steiner. Rudolf Steiner says of them, "In this Calendar will be found signs that differ from those handed down by tradition, because the latter are no longer suitable for modern consciousness. These pictures of the Zodiacal constellations are representations of actual experiences connected with the waking and sleeping of particular spiritual Beings. We have in these pictures a renewal of certain knowledge that needs to be renewed at the present time, because the third post-Atlantean culture-epoch must as it were rise again in the fifth epoch."
Rudolf Steiner, The Calendar of the Soul, GA 143, 7 May 1912, Cologne.