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350. Rhythms in the Cosmos and in the Human Being: The Work of the Ethereal and Astral in Man and on Earth 02 Jun 1923, Dornach
Translated by Steiner Online Library

Rudolf Steiner
And this astral is rarefied by the far-out forces of the stars, the planets. So when a certain constellation of stars is above Vesuvius, as it often is – it doesn't usually occur that way, it occurs precisely at this point – then, just as here through the paper, here through the constellation of stars, because the astral is thinned above, that which is below is torn out.
Falb did not just say that earthquakes, but also volcanic eruptions, for example, come from the star constellations. That was true. But he was also a terribly vain man and liked to act important about the matter.
He indicated the so-called critical days. When special star constellations occurred, when there were special positions of the sun and moon, he said: “There must be firedamp on that day” or “There must be an earthquake.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XIII 08 Oct 1905, Berlin
Translated by Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
This happens in that period of cosmic time when the sun has progressed from one constellation of the Zodiac to the next. For instance, about 800 BC the sun in spring entered the constellation of the Ram or Lamb and this continued until 1800 AD. Now, at the beginning of spring, it stands in the constellation of the Fishes. Two thousand, six hundred years elapse before the sun passes from one constellation of the zodiac to the next.
90a. Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge I: Further Development of our Planet 10 Jul 1904, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Now it depends on when a certain stage of Pitri is reached. Imagine you remain behind, a certain constellation of the stars comes, in which violence has a different relationship to the realm; the spirit to the son in another relationship, and that is decisive, as we are in our state of development.
Our Christ was the twenty-fifth; in every kingdom the Son reveals Himself once. 49 times in a planetary development. The Father reveals Himself in the constellation. On our Earth it is the fourth, on the planetary chain the twenty-fifth. 7 x 49 = 343.
265a. Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924: The Twelve Senses 12 May 1913, Cologne

Rudolf Steiner
Just as the Sun is something quite different - when viewed occultly - when it is in a different constellation, so man is quite different depending on whether he is connected to one or other sense organ.
The division of the senses into seven and five is like the division of the starry sky when the sun rises in Aries and seven constellations are above the horizon and five are hidden below the horizon. And just as two of these seven stand at the boundary points, half on and half below the horizon, namely Aries and Libra, so among the seven inner senses there are also two that stand on the boundary between the inner and the outer, namely the sense of balance and the sense of self, which nevertheless already relate our inner being to something else that is outside us.
87. Ancient Mysteries and Christianity: The Apocalypse 22 Mar 1902, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
It is not without reason that the twelve labors of Heracles have been related to the twelve constellations of the zodiac. It is a repetition of what happens in the sky above. The upper and lower correspond to each other.
There the sun enters the constellation of the Lamb of Aries. In summer we have the lion reflected in the course of the sun. What takes place in the individual personalities first took place in the celestial vault.
This has to do with the fact that these ideas were formed at a time when the position of the constellations was different [from today]. They are always shifting. Our astronomical data is also no longer correct today.
123. The Gospel of St. Matthew (1965): Lecture XI 11 Sep 1910, Bern
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond, Mildred Kirkcaldy

Rudolf Steiner
To characterize these forces in any detail is of course only possible by studying the difference in cosmic constellations, and it is this mystery, as presented in the Gospel of St. Matthew, to which we shall give attention to-day.
Now certain processes in the Cosmos can be understood if the constellations are used as means of indication. The constellations are then like letters of a script. When we pass into the Cosmos in a particular direction we come to know the jumps that occur from forefather to successor—whether it be in the plant, animal or human kingdoms, or even in the realm of planetary existence.
This was meant to represent the actual transition from one condition to the other. Ancient delineations of the constellation of Cancer often consist of the figure of an ass and its foal. To know this is by no means without importance.
34. Essays on Anthroposoph from Lucifer and Lucifer-Gnosis 1903-1908: Theosophy and Astrology

Rudolf Steiner
Calculation methods are given by which certain star constellations can be determined at the moment of a person's birth, or for the time of another important fact. Then it is said that these constellations mean this or that, without any explanation being given as to why this should be so, or even how it could be so.
207. Cosmosophy Vol. I: Lecture VI 07 Oct 1921, Dornach
Translated by Alice Wuslin, Michael Klein

Rudolf Steiner
By relating the positions of the sun to these stars, to the heaven of the fixed stars in general, in the constellations of the sun with this heaven of fixed stars we have the laws that prevail in the realm of the will of the archai.
If we were to look outside for natural laws corresponding to our natural laws, as natural laws correspond to us here on earth during earthly existence, we would have to look to these constellations of the stars. We remain a long time in the kingdom where we are dependent on the star constellations—though not more dependent than we are dependent here on earth on natural laws where our will works also, which is something higher than the laws of nature. There too we may not speak of the cosmos in the sense of a cosmic law that works with mechanical necessity. What we find in the constellations of the stars, however, is the expression, as it were, the image, of these laws that work upon us there.
235. Karma: Karma Studies, Introductory Lecture 16 Feb 1924, Dornach
Translated by Henry B. Monges

Rudolf Steiner
If, however, I wish to find the cause of what acts in the animal as sensation, then I cannot look for it in simultaneousness, but I must look for it in what preceded life; in other words, the stellar constellation must have changed, it must have become different. It is not the stellar constellation in the universe which exists simultaneously with the animal that has its influence upon the actual animal nature, but the constellation of the stars preceding its life.
These do not come out of simultaneously existing stellar constellations, they come from the constellations existing prior to birth. Thus, if we speak of the animal kingdom, we cannot speak of the simultaneousness of the causes in the physical and super-physical, but we must then speak of past super-physical causes passing over to the present effects in the physical.
You will note that we can place the human physical body in its lifelessness alongside lifeless outer nature in respect of causation; we can place the human ether body in its life and its expansion after death into the ether spaces alongside the ether life of the plant, which also comes hither out of the reaches of the ether, but, indeed, out of the simultaneous constellations of the super-physical, of the super-earthly. And we are able to place the human astral organism alongside of that which exists outside in the animal nature.
140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: Life Between Death and Rebirth I 26 Nov 1912, Munich
Translated by René M. Querido

Rudolf Steiner
When a person passes through the gate of death he dies under a certain constellation of stars. This constellation is significant for his further life of soul because it remains there as an imprint. In his soul there remains the endeavor to enter into this same constellation at a new birth, to do justice once again to the forces received at the moment of death. It is an interesting point that if one works out the constellation at death and compares it with the constellation of the later birth, one finds that it coincides to a high degree with the constellation at the former death. It must be remembered that the person is born at another spot on the earth that corresponds with this constellation. In fact, he is adapted to the cosmos, members himself into the cosmos, and thus a balance is established in the soul between the individual and the cosmic life.

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