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Dane Rudhyar

( Daniel Chennevière)

1895 – 1985 CE

Agent of cultural evolution

Modernist composer, transcendental artist, science fiction writer, philosopher, and founder of transpersonal astrology; Rudhyar thought of himself as a “seed” spreading a new era of cultural evolution. Prolifically creative his entire life, scholars consider his most fruitful period beginning when he was 74. During the next 10 years, he published several books a year including many insightful works on planetary consciousness. After performing one of the first original polytonal orchestral pieces in the United States, he met a Zen teacher and began studying Eastern philosophy. This led to an emersion in Theosophy, Jungian psychology, humanistic astrology, and the New Age movement. Living and teaching in 1960’s San Francisco, he became a major influence on the counter culture. He helped transmute much of the time’s superstitious allurements into symbolic interpretations and psychological insights.

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Astrology of Personality, 1936

Quotes by Dane Rudhyar (10 quotes)

“When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.”

Themes: True Self

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“Astrology is a Language. If you understand this language, the Sky Speaks to You.”

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“The Golden Age is an age of innocence and bliss; for to live wholly within the limits and cyclic boundaries of one’s own wholeness is true innocence and bliss… tragedy coming only as one attempts to go beyond these boundaries”

from Astrology of Personality, 1936

Themes: Oneness Shambhala

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“Symbols are representations of qualities that pertain to wholes… more or less universal life situations become spontaneously identifiable with a particular psychological state and become the symbol of that state… the more vicarious and remote the experience, the less significant the symbol—because the less power it has to rouse the psychological state with which it is meant to be identical”

from Astrology of Personality, 1936

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“not based on the overcoming of time, but on the identification with the creative power of every moment… through participation in consciousness, the individual may become an organic part of a greater whole, and thus achieve immortality within that whole”

from Astrology of Personality, 1936

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“Intuition begins with biological instinct and with awareness of self becomes holistic perception… a sudden identification of particular wholes with basic qualities in the unconscious”

from Astrology of Personality, 1936

Themes: Wu Wei

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“We can only become what we are able to consciously imagine,”

Themes: Imagination

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“Everything is known through its opposite.”

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“The reality of time is identified with the reality of the wholeness of wholes. The quality of the moment when a group becomes an operative whole determines the quality of the wholeness... and the span of wholeness cannot be isolated from the essence of the whole.


from Astrology of Personality, 1936

Themes: Reality Time

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“Every applied science becomes an art whenever the element of individual interpretation enters in. The more predominant it is, the more trurly is an art—an interpretative art.”

from Astrology of Personality, 1936

Themes: Science

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