The Apollonian Course VII

> Rudolf Steiner: “Twelve Moods” > Aries > Arise, O light of day, [Sun] > Seize the becoming being, [Venus] > Seize the web of forces, [Mercury] > Shine forth, awakening him [Mars] [1916: awakening him] > Gain strength through resistance, [Jupiter] > Flow in the stream of time (Saturn) [1916: flow away] > O light, remain! [Moon] > Taurus > Shine forth, radiance of being, > Feel the power of becoming > Weave the thread of life > Into the essence of worldly being, > In meaningful revelation, > In luminous awareness of being. [1916: awareness of being] > O radiance of being, appear! > Gemini > Unlock yourself, sun-being, > Move the urge to rest, > Enclose the urge to strive > To powerful life forces [1916: Lebewalten] > To blissful understanding of the world > To fruitful maturity, > O sun, remain! > Cancer > You resting shining light, > Generate the warmth of life, > Warm the life of the soul [1916: warm] > To vigorous self-proving, [1916: oneself] > To spiritual self-penetration, [1916: oneself] > In calm light-bringing > You shining light, grow stronger! > Lion > Flow through with powerful meaning > Become worldly existence, > Feeling essence > To willing decision of being > In flowing light of life, [MW] Afternoon mood > In reigning pain of becoming, > With powerful meaning arise! > Virgo > The worlds behold soul! > The soul grasp worlds, > the spirit create beings, > From life forces work, > In the life of will build, [Jupiter calmly powerful] > Trust in the blossoming of worlds. [1916: Blossoming of worlds] > O soul, recognize beings! > Libra [MW:] Equilibrium > The worlds sustain worlds, > In beings, beings experience themselves, > In being, being encompasses itself. > And beings bring forth beings > To become action, > In tranquil enjoyment of the world. [1916: In tranquil] [MSt:] Saturn: which makes power endure. [MW] Saturn makes it lasting > O worlds, bear worlds! > Scorpio [MSt:] which dampens everything and leads to death [MW:] which dampens everything and brings about death > Being consumes essence, > Yet being remains in essence. > In action, becoming disappears, > In becoming, action persists. > In punishing world rule, [1916: In punishing] Jupiter: ruling justice > In punishing self-formation. [1916: In punishing self-formation] [MSt:] Karmic self-fulfillment // [MW:] Karma > In being, being is preserved. [1916: Being preserves beings.] [MSt:] The moon responds to the sun > Sagittarius Becoming reaches the power of being, > In being, the power of becoming dies away, > What has been achieved concludes the striving > In the ruling power of the will to live. > In dying, world power ripens, > Forms disappear into forms. > The being feels the being! > Capricorn > The future rests on the past, > The past feels the future > To a vigorous present being. [1916: To a vigorous present being.] > Inner resistance to life (1916: inner] [MSt:] Even in this pressure, Mars is still > Strengthen the world's creative power [1916: world's creative power,] > Let the power of life flourish. > Let the past bear the future! > Aquarius [MSt:] the flowing creative // [MW] flowing creatively The limited sacrifices itself to the limitless. What lacks boundaries, let it establish > Its own boundaries in the depths; > Let it lift itself up in the stream, > Holding itself as a flowing wave, > Shaping itself into being in the process of becoming > Limit yourself, O boundless one! > Pisces [dying becoming] > In what is lost, find loss, > In gain, lose gain, > In what is grasped, seek grasping [1916: understanding] > And preserve yourself in preservation. [MSt:] Mars powerful > Through becoming to being raised [Jupiter mighty] > Through being so interwoven with becoming. [1916: to becoming] [MSt:] Saturn makes it lasting > Loss is gain in itself! [1916: Gain for itself!] [MSt:] Saturn concludes in egoism // [MW:] Moon, which concludes everything in innermost egoism