{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 201/1920-04-16/p018","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"You are aware that the Earth's axis lies obliquely upon the Ecliptic, and that the Astronomers speak of an oscillation of the Earth's axis around this point and they call this ‘Nutation’. The axis completes one revolution around this point in just about 18 years (it is really 18 years, 7 months, but we need not consider the fraction, although it is quite possible to calculate this too with exactitude.) But with these 18 years something else is intimately connected. For it is not merely on the fact of ‘Nutation’—this ‘trembling’, this rotation of the Earth's axis in a double cone around the Earth's centre, and the period of 18 years for its completion—it is not only on this fact that we have to fix our minds, but we find that simultaneously with it another process takes place. The Moon appears each year in a different position because, like the Sun, she ascends and descends from the ecliptic, proceeding in a kind of oscillating motion again and again towards the Equator ecliptic. And every 18 years she appears once more in the same position she occupied 18 years before. You see there is a connection between this Nutation and the path of the Moon. Nutation in truth indicates nothing else than the Moon's path. It is the projection of the motion of the Moon. So that we can in actual reality observe the “breathing” of the Macrocosm. We only need notice the path of the Moon in 18 years or, in other words, the Nutation of the Earth's axis. The Earth dances, and she dances in such a manner as to describe a cone, a double cone, in 18 years, and this dancing is a reflection of the macrocosmic breathing. This takes place just as many times in the macrocosmic year as the 18 human respirations during the microcosmic day of 24 hours.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture Four","site_heading":"The Breathing Cosmos: Lunar Rhythms and Spiritual Worlds","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Nicht nur geschieht dasjenige, was die Astronomen diese Nutation, dieses Erzittern der Erdachse, dieses Drehen der Erdenachse in einem Doppelkegel um den Mittelpunkt der Erde nennen, nicht nur verläuft dieses in 18 Jahren, sondern mit dem gleichzeitig geschieht etwas anderes. Der Mond nämlich, der erscheint ja jedes Jahr an einem anderen Orte. Ebenso wie die Sonne, auf- und absteigend in der Ekliptik, eine Art pendelnder Bewegung vom Äquator fort und zum Äquator zurück durchläuft, so der Mond. Er braucht 18 Jahre, um wieder an der Stelle am Himmel anzukommen, wo er vor 18 Jahren erschienen ist. Sie sehen, diese Nutation hängt mit dem Himmelsgang des Mondes zusammen, so daß man sagen kann: diese Nutation zeigt überhaupt nichts anderes an als den Himmelsgang des Mondes. Diese Nutation ist nur die Projektion dieser Bewegung des Mondes. Wir können also tatsächlich das Atmen des Makrokosmos beobachten. Wir brauchen nur den Gang der Mondenbahn während 18 Jahren zu beobachten, beziehungsweise die Nutation der Erde zu beobachten (Tafel 8, links oben). Die Erde tanzt, und sie tanzt so, daß ihre Achse einen Kegel, einen Doppelkegel beschreibt in 18 Jahren. Dieses Tanzen, das spiegelt ab das Atmen des Makrokosmos. Es ist im platonischen Jahr gerade so oft vorhanden, wie 18 menschliche Atemzüge in einem Tag. Sie haben also eigentlich ein einminutiges Atmen in dieser Nutationsbewegung. So daß wir sagen können: wir schauen in das Atmen des Makrokosmos hinein durch diese Nutations- beziehungsweise Mondbewegung. Da haben wir das Entsprechende für das Atmen. Aber was besagt denn dieses? Das besagt, daß geradeso wie wir, indem wir in das Schlafen hinübergehen oder beziehungsweise nur von dem völlig Wachen in das Träumen hinübergehen, wie wir da in eine andere Welt hinübergehen, so liegt uns - gegenüber den gewöhnlichen Gesetzmäßigkeiten von Tag, Jahr und so weiter, auch dem platonischen Jahr - in diesem Hereinstellen einer Mondregelmäßigkeit etwas vor, was sich verhält im Makrokosmos, wie sich das Atmen, also das Halbbewußte zu unserem Vollbewußten verhält. Wir haben es also nicht bloß zu tun mit einer Welt, die sich da ausbreitet, sondern mit einer zweiten Welt, die da hereinragt, und die die unsrige durchdringt. Geradeso wie wir ein zweites Glied der menschlichen Wesenheit, nämlich den rhythmischen Menschen, im Atmungsprozesse vor uns haben gegenüber dem Wahrnehmungsmenschen, so haben wir in dem, was als Mondbewegung, JahresMondbewegung erscheint, eben ein Jahr dann wie einen einjährigen Atemzug. Das haben wir da als eine zweite Welt in die unsrige hereinragend vor uns.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":511,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/201/1920-04-16/p016"}],"english":["GA 201/1920-04-16/p018","GA 201/1920-04-16/p019","GA 201/1920-04-16/p020"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":511,"en_words":527,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false,"evidence":["length","anchors"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.0,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":5456,"original_word_count":5443,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"George and Mary Adams","identified_edition":"RSP1972","book_title":"Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA201/English/RSP1972/19200416p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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