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141. Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture III 03 Dec 1912, Berlin
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, E. H. Goddard

Rudolf Steiner
During the period on Earth between birth and death, while the soul is living in a physical body, the life of soul which strictly belongs to the sun and the stars has no more to do with this physical body than time as such—which is in reality conditioned by the solar and stellar constellations—has to do with the watch and its mechanism of wheels. It is quite conceivable that if, instead of living on the Earth, we were born on some other planet, our soul would be adapted to a quite different planetary existence.
101. Myths and Legends, Occult Signs and Symbols: Norse and Persian Myths 14 Oct 1907, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
For man has been formed little by little according to the constellations of the great nature outside. If our Earth were not in the vicinity of the Sun, around which it moves in one year, if the Moon were not in its vicinity, moving around it in one month and showing itself in four phases, then man would be different, because all these things are strictly connected.
143. Experiences of the Supernatural: Towards a Synthesis of World Views: A Fourfold Mission 16 May 1912, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
In the illustrations for the calendar, which were created by a dear and beloved member of our group, you have a renewal of that which has already become dry and barren: the imaginations that relate to the constellations of the sun and moon and the signs of the zodiac, renewed for the soul of today, given in such a way that you really benefit from it when you look at the sequence of weeks and days.
179. Historical Necessity and Freewill: Lecture IV 11 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
In this length of time, in 25,920 years, the sun returns to the same constellation of the Zodiac. If the sun is in Aries in a certain year, it will rise again in Aries after 25,920 years.
180. On the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Times: The 33 Year Rhythmical Cycle 26 Dec 1917, Dornach
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
It is in fact the attack of materialism on one of the last and outermost ramparts of a spiritual view of the world,—on the arrangement of Easter according to the heavenly constellations of the Sun and Moon. But there is a yet deeper meaning in it, that the time between Christmas and Easter is made to vary in successive years.
196. Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity: Fourth Lecture 16 Jan 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
He not only experienced earthly nature in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but he also experienced cosmic events, he experienced the age of, say, a certain Sirius constellation, and so on. What was later calculated in an elaborate astrological way was experienced in the human being, just as today we experience satiety after a meal or hunger when we are expecting a meal.
163. Chance, Necessity and Providence: Consciousness in Sleeping and Waking States 27 Aug 1915, Dornach
Translated by Marjorie Spock

Rudolf Steiner
This alternation between outer and inner is one that belongs every bit as much to our life as the fact that the sun shines on the earth and then goes down, leaving it in darkness, belongs to the earth's life. In the latter case the spatial constellation is the factor involved in the alternation between light and darkness, bringing about the cycle of daytime and nighttime.
225. Cultural Phenomena — Three Perspectives of Anthroposophy: Jakob Böhme, Paracelsus, Swedenborg 23 Sep 1923, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
But the somnambulists pay very little attention to this physical body. Therefore, under certain constellations, they may experience moments when they are more given to the forces of the moon than to the forces of the earth.
233a. The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries: Lecture II 20 Apr 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
From all this one can understand why even today human beings calculate the date of Easter from a particular constellation of sun and moon. All that remains of the old consciousness is an interest in finding the first Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Ninth Lesson 22 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
Moving on, connecting with, experiencing the spiritual within us, that will be attained when we raise our spirit to the resting stars that beam down upon us in their grouped formations, in their constellations, in what becomes for us the handwriting of the heavens. When we realize just what is inscribed in this way in the starry heavens, then we become aware of our own spiritual nature within, of spirituality which speaks not just from person to person, but rather which speaks from the entire universe.

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