Eurythmy and the New Star Wisdom

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“I was born of the shining of distant stars,
I drew their beams with me from afar…….”
 
 

The New Star Wisdom and Eurythmy
In my public eurythmy classes this month, we are exploring the relationship between the human being (the microcosm) and the starry world (the macrocosm).

    Before birth and after death, we live in a body-free state, as a spiritual being amongst other beings. We dwell “in the stars,” in a condition of being that is free of matter, but still imperfect in consciousness. We return to earth again and again to grow towards freedom, towards spiritual maturity.
    In the body-free state, we live amongst the planets and constellations in their body-free reality. When we are born, however, we see them as points of light and imagine them to be only balls of gas in the sky. We forget their great majesty and radiances.
    Yet our understanding is incomplete if we think of the constellations and planets as only physical objects in the sky. Indeed, they are the homes of mighty spiritual beings, heavenly hierarchies, most of them more ancient and far more lofty than we. Since the beginning of time, since the most ancient of days, they have spoken and sung the Word of God into the stream of time and space, creating heaven and earth as they do so. If we wish to find our way “back home” through spiritual studies, the wisdom of the stars will illuminate our way.
   In eurythmy we can draw closer to understanding the stars by learning how they “speak” through the sounds of language. The constellations, the “fixed stars,” are the architects of form. Each of the constellations sends its forces to earth through the power of one of the consonants. In nature, the working of consonants can be found in the shapes of objects: crystals and trees, butterflies and clouds. In us, the consonants have shaped the sacred forms of our body.
   The planets, the “wandering stars,” are in ceaseless movement. Working through the vowels, their effects are experienced in the human being through our organs and in our personalities.
   This picture from the medieval text “The Book of Hours” show how there was an understanding of our relationship to the stars even in ancient times.
  Through eurythmy, our understanding goes even further.    
       Thus: Aries has formed the head through the power of “V.

    Taurus has formed the throat through the power of “R.”
    Gemini has formed our bilateral symmetry through the “H.”
    Cancer has formed our ribcage through the power of “F.”
    Leo has formed the heart through the power of “T” and “D.”
    Virgo has formed the digestive organs through “B” andP.”
    Libra has formed the pelvis (hips) through “Ts.”
    Scorpio has formed the reproductive organs through “S.”
    Sagittarius has formed the thighs through “G” and “K.”
    Capricorn has formed the knees and joints through “L.”
    Aquarius has formed the lower legs through “M.”
    Pisces has formed the feet through “N.”
    Of course, merely charting these correspondences does no more than scratch the surface of our understanding. But by learning the eurythmical gesture for each constellation in eurythmy and how it evolves into the corresponding consonants, we awaken deep somatic experiences of who we are as human beings. Through this, we begin to understand the deepest mysteries of creation, namely, how to understand ourselves and the universe as the holy word of creation. We enter into new paths of understanding of our connection to the forces of nature, and how to use the spiritual correspondences for health and healing. We learn to honor the temple of the body, in which we dwell for the decades of our life on earth.
   In our eurythmy classes we are plunging into rich studies of these formative forces. If you would like to learn more, please contact me!

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