Dane Rudhyar-a great astrologer

[Guest guest]

Friends,

I would like to introduce you to a great astrologer.I have taken the

material from a website on karmic astrology.

DANE RUDHYAR

 

March 23, 1895 to Sept. 13, 1985

 

the father of Karmic Astrology

 

 

 

 

Defining genius is never an easy task. So trying to define one of

the giants of 20th Century astrology, who also was a genius,

probably defies a few short words.

 

Born in Paris in the late 19th Century, Dane Rudhyar as a young man

quickly developed a reputation for his sharp mind and literary bent

in Parisian circles.

 

He turned his back on Continental culture and emigrated to the

United States at age 21, and stayed there the rest of life.

Biographers often comment that much of his life's work was an

attempt to come to grips with the carnage of World War I, which he

would have known about first-hand.

 

Over the years he explored philosophy, literature, mysticism,

astrology and an eclectic mix of cerebral topics which caught the

fancy of his extraordinary mind. To this day only a limited number

of people completely understand everything he wrote. Nonetheless all

of us who have sampled from his work are impressed with the breadth

and depth of his understanding. We each take from his writing that

which resonates to our personal lives.

 

My personal opinion is that Dane Rudhyar did more than any single

other modern astrologer to drag astrology out of the cesspool of the

Middle Ages fatalism and negativity to allow astrology to grow into

the modern age. It was a mammoth and life-long task, which is not

yet complete.

 

He wrote more than two dozen books, most of which are still in

print. However his prose is dense, complex, and layered with so many

subtleties of meaning that few have fully digested everything

contained within. No mean feat for any writer, but even more

remarkable given that English was his second language. The

astrological community is still coming to grips with the enormous

gift we were given by his incarnation.

 

Rudhyar turned out books faster than people could assimilate and

comprehend his multi-faceted interests. While he wrote on a wide

range of philosophical, literary, and astrological topics, it is his

astrological corpus for which he is best remembered.

 

Two books are particularly well-known. His 1936 book, The Astrology

of Personality, is still being digested by astrologers throughout

the Western world. Most have bought it, a few have read it, and

fewer still understand fully what Rudhyar was saying. His 1972 book,

Person-Centered Astrology has met much the same response, lots of

applause and little understanding.

 

Yet those books, as incompletely as they are integrated into

astrological thinking, set the stage for a significant shift (dare I

use the cliché, paradigm shift?) in the philosophical basis of

modern astrology.

 

Rudhyar's over-riding message was a great departure from what was

then the mainstream of astrology. His works say:

 

 

 

Here is what you are, and more importantly, here is what you can do

about it with your free choice.

 

 

 

Suddenly Medieval determinism and fortune-telling bite the dust (at

last). We are no longer enslaved by the stars, but instead are

liberated by them. Sadly, not every Western astrologer has yet

caught up with this.

 

His final book, The Astrology of Transformation (1980), was his

pièce de résistance, which he called " my astrological testament, in

the sense that it brings to a conclusion my attempt to reformulate

and give a new direction to modern astrology. "

 

Rudhyar was an old man by this point, well into his 80s, and he knew

he wouldn't be around much longer, so he was leaving his vision of

the future for a younger generation to pick up and work with. Unlike

his earlier books, which often dealt at length with detailed points

of philosophy and astrological analysis, he painted his vision with

broad strokes giving a sweeping vision of what astrology could

become for those willing to take the spiritual journey.

 

He called it transpersonal astrology, and while the prose sometimes

bogged down (often the case in his books), the message again was a

simple one:

 

The astrological chart is a person's roadmap to make the journey of

matter ascending and spirit descending complete. In other words,

anyone wishing to make the Great Spiritual Journey back to Source

need only look at his/her astrological chart to see how it would

best be done.

 

As is typical of Rudhyar's books, many astrologers have a copy of

the book but very few astrologers have actually read it, and fewer

still grasp his message. This is the signature of genius in writing.

 

At any rate, for reasons of public comprehension I call what I do

Karmic Astrology (a rose by any other name smells just as sweet),

but it's based on Rudhyar's last book. For me Dane Rudhyar is the

father of Karmic Astrology.

 

I like to think of myself as a " way-shower " , showing people the next

step on their path. That's what Rudhyar was writing about. Astrology

for the Seeker is the lamp which illuminates the darkness so that

The Path may be seen.

 

Thank you, Dane Rudhyar, for handing us the lamp.

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23 March, 1895

Stated time was between midnight to 1:00 AM LMT

rectified by Rudhyar himself: 0:42 AM LMT, Paris France

(source Rodden Database)

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narendra kumar dixit

Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:26 AM

Dane Rudhyar-a great astrologer

 

 

Friends,

I would like to introduce you to a great astrologer.I have taken the

material from a website on karmic astrology.

DANE RUDHYAR

 

March 23, 1895 to Sept. 13, 1985

 

the father of Karmic Astrology

 

Defining genius is never an easy task. So trying to define one of

the giants of 20th Century astrology, who also was a genius,

probably defies a few short words.

 

Born in Paris in the late 19th Century, Dane Rudhyar as a young man

quickly developed a reputation for his sharp mind and literary bent

in Parisian circles.

 

He turned his back on Continental culture and emigrated to the

United States at age 21, and stayed there the rest of life.

Biographers often comment that much of his life's work was an

attempt to come to grips with the carnage of World War I, which he

would have known about first-hand.

 

Over the years he explored philosophy, literature, mysticism,

astrology and an eclectic mix of cerebral topics which caught the

fancy of his extraordinary mind. To this day only a limited number

of people completely understand everything he wrote. Nonetheless all

of us who have sampled from his work are impressed with the breadth

and depth of his understanding. We each take from his writing that

which resonates to our personal lives.

 

My personal opinion is that Dane Rudhyar did more than any single

other modern astrologer to drag astrology out of the cesspool of the

Middle Ages fatalism and negativity to allow astrology to grow into

the modern age. It was a mammoth and life-long task, which is not

yet complete.

 

He wrote more than two dozen books, most of which are still in

print. However his prose is dense, complex, and layered with so many

subtleties of meaning that few have fully digested everything

contained within. No mean feat for any writer, but even more

remarkable given that English was his second language. The

astrological community is still coming to grips with the enormous

gift we were given by his incarnation.

 

Rudhyar turned out books faster than people could assimilate and

comprehend his multi-faceted interests. While he wrote on a wide

range of philosophical, literary, and astrological topics, it is his

astrological corpus for which he is best remembered.

 

Two books are particularly well-known. His 1936 book, The Astrology

of Personality, is still being digested by astrologers throughout

the Western world. Most have bought it, a few have read it, and

fewer still understand fully what Rudhyar was saying. His 1972 book,

Person-Centered Astrology has met much the same response, lots of

applause and little understanding.

 

Yet those books, as incompletely as they are integrated into

astrological thinking, set the stage for a significant shift (dare I

use the cliché, paradigm shift?) in the philosophical basis of

modern astrology.

 

Rudhyar's over-riding message was a great departure from what was

then the mainstream of astrology. His works say:

 

Here is what you are, and more importantly, here is what you can do

about it with your free choice.

 

Suddenly Medieval determinism and fortune-telling bite the dust (at

last). We are no longer enslaved by the stars, but instead are

liberated by them. Sadly, not every Western astrologer has yet

caught up with this.

 

His final book, The Astrology of Transformation (1980), was his

pièce de résistance, which he called " my astrological testament, in

the sense that it brings to a conclusion my attempt to reformulate

and give a new direction to modern astrology. "

 

Rudhyar was an old man by this point, well into his 80s, and he knew

he wouldn't be around much longer, so he was leaving his vision of

the future for a younger generation to pick up and work with. Unlike

his earlier books, which often dealt at length with detailed points

of philosophy and astrological analysis, he painted his vision with

broad strokes giving a sweeping vision of what astrology could

become for those willing to take the spiritual journey.

 

He called it transpersonal astrology, and while the prose sometimes

bogged down (often the case in his books), the message again was a

simple one:

 

The astrological chart is a person's roadmap to make the journey of

matter ascending and spirit descending complete. In other words,

anyone wishing to make the Great Spiritual Journey back to Source

need only look at his/her astrological chart to see how it would

best be done.

 

As is typical of Rudhyar's books, many astrologers have a copy of

the book but very few astrologers have actually read it, and fewer

still grasp his message. This is the signature of genius in writing.

 

At any rate, for reasons of public comprehension I call what I do

Karmic Astrology (a rose by any other name smells just as sweet),

but it's based on Rudhyar's last book. For me Dane Rudhyar is the

father of Karmic Astrology.

 

I like to think of myself as a " way-shower " , showing people the next

step on their path. That's what Rudhyar was writing about. Astrology

for the Seeker is the lamp which illuminates the darkness so that

The Path may be seen.

 

Thank you, Dane Rudhyar, for handing us the lamp.