PLANETARY QUALITIES – an anthroposophical view by Bibi van Bussel
‘Mens op de Drempel’
Vrij Geestesleven, Zeist 1983
‘Levende Metalen’
Lemniscaat, Rotterdam 1969
‘Het nieuwe granenboek’
Vrij Geestesleven, Zeist 1983
‘Occult Science – an Outline’ (‘Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss’) GA 13
R.Steiner Verlag, Dornach 1989
‘Macrocosm and Microcosm’ (‘Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos’) GA 119
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| PLANETARY QUALITIES | |||||||
| SATURN | SUN | MOON | MARS | MERCURY | JUPITER | VENUS | |
| DAY OF THE WEEK | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| COLOR | Indigo Blue | White | Violet | Red | Yellow | Orange | Green |
| METAL | Lead | Gold | Silver | Iron | Quicksilver | Tin | Copper |
| GRAIN | Corn | Wheat | Rice | Barley | Millet | Rye | Oat |
| PEOPLE | Red Indian | (future) | Japanese | Mongol | Black | White | Malayan |
| TREE | Fir, Cypres, Beech | Ash | Cherry | Oak | Elm | Maple | Birch |
an anthroposophical view by Bibi van Bussel
To develop the 16-leaved lotus flower, or Vishuddha (throat) chakra R. Steiner advises exercising the eight-fold Path of Buddha. And to do this in such a way that on each day of the week the emphasis is placed upon one particular exercise along with an eighth exercise which is to be done every day.
The question arises what the specific day of the week has to do with the exercise indicated. And this is where the planetary qualities peep around the corner.
The names of the days of the week are derived from the planets: Saturday – Saturn, Sunday – … Read the rest
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(from ‘Macrocosm and Microcosm’ by R. Steiner)
Generally speaking the astral body and I emerge from the physical and etheric bodies during sleep. Man’s I and astral body are in the spiritual world while his ether- and physical bodies are in bed.
Also generally speaking one can divide the astral body or soul into the sentient soul, intellectual or mind soul and the consciousness soul. One must always bear in mind that these divisions overlap somewhat – there are no strict borderlines. (For explicit explanations of how the… Read the rest
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(from the book: ‘Levende Metalen’ [= Living Metals] by L.F.C. Mees)
| One can look at minerals to find and compare the following qualities: |
| 1. Shine 2. Conductivity of heat 3. Heaviness 4. Malleability, plasticity 5. Conductivity of electricity |
One should bear in mind that the whole is always more than the sum of the parts. In other words, there has to be an organizing principle before the qualities mentioned above can be used. Or, first there is an idea: a product is an idea which has been made visible.
| The use of minerals throughout |
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| In the chart you will find that every planet rules one of the species of grains. To clarify this excerpts from the following book are given: ‘HET NIEUWE GRANENBOEK’ (The New Book on Grains) by Udo Renzenbrink To grow grain one must cultivate the land. The Latin word ‘culture’ means ‘bringing culture in the land’. One has to cultivate the land so that culture can develop. In historical documents one finds that the first place where people cultivated the land was in the Persia of old, about 8000 B.C.. (It is said in |
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| Saturn – Fir, Beech, Cypress | |
 | Aphorism by Dr. Hemleben: Through the trees of dark woods speaks thus the leaden Saturn, through firs, beech and cypress: Oh Man, feel the responsibility for the needs of your times and of all mankind. Take upon you the task which life has given you in all profoundness and gravity. What would one look for to find Saturn qualities in trees? Saturn-ruled trees are dark, stately and impenetrable. Not much can grow beneath them. They would have deep roots and be unmovable. Saturn trees could make do with but little nourishment |
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We can divide our lives into 7-year periods, each with their own characteristics. These periods have the qualities of the planets.
In general, we start off with three 7-year periods in which we develop our physical-, ether-, and astral bodies. After that we start connecting these three bodies with the I-consciousness. This is a period of 21 years in which we first learn to take some responsibility for the astral body, then the ether body and lastly the physical body. Then we can say that we are more or less adults and start out conscious lives. Then the three… Read the rest
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The Sun consists mostly of hydrogen (92.1 %) and 7.8 % helium. These chemicals hardly exist on Earth in their free form. (H is mostly H2O = water).
There is magnetic activity on the Sun which forms sun spots in cycles of 11 years. Actually 22 years because they form first on one hemisphere, then on the other.
Sun quality is the most difficult to capture in words because it is an activity and a feeling. In anthroposophy the Sun represents not a special character of one individual but what… Read the rest
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The Moon has an elliptical orbit around the Earth with as consequence that we sometimes see a bit of the back of the Moon. Because we know the face of the Moon it thus seems as if the Moon nods ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to Earth.
The Moon’s trajectory is very complicated. It follows the Sun’s trajectory, only six months later; the full Moon in winter comes as high as the Sun in the summer. It takes the Moon 18.6 years to fulfil one complete orbit (back to its original position).
Moon’s surface consists of … Read the rest
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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest planet, but can hardly be seen with the naked eye. It is mainly known for its rings. Mainly there are 7 rings but astronomers have now discovered more than 100.000 separate rings. These rings do not always follow the natural laws as known to mankind: some are not round and at least two wind around each other. There are also ‘spikes’ which move in the direction of the rotation.
There are clouds, though not as interesting as those of Jupiter. There are little changing… Read the rest
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Mercury is the planet closest to the Sun. Till not so long ago astronomers thought that Mercury always showed the same ‘face’ to the Sun but now they have found that Mercury turns in a way so it rotates slowly. A Mercury day lasts 2/3rds of a Mercury year (88 earth days).
Mercury is the fastest mover of all planets, 48 km/s. It has phases as do Venus and the Moon. These phases dominate – just before or after a conjunction Mercury is the most visible.
Most of the year we cannot see Mercury. Sometimes it is visible at dawn or dusk,… Read the rest