Table of Contents
Foreword Virginia Sease 9
Preface 11
Out of the Creative Chaos 13
1 The Zodiac in Eurythmy 15
The cosmic human being in the zodiac 15
The gestures of the day and night colours 17
The origin of the archetypal colour gestures 20
The artistic elements and the colour zodiac gestures 22
Archetypal straight line and spiral tendencies in the zodiac 25
Forming the zodiac gestures out of colour, the part of the body and the spiral or linear force 29
The eurythmic characteristics of the zodiac 34
2 The Consonants in the Zodiac 37
The consonants as an echo of the cosmic formative forces 37
The six single and the six double sounds 41
The essence of the sound as a complete entity 44
Aries and the sound V 45
Taurus and the sound R 48
Gemini and the sound H 50
Cancer and the sound F 52
Leo and the sound T 55
Virgo and sounds B and P 57
Libra and the sounds C (Ts) and Ch 60
Scorpio and the sound S 62
Sagittarius and the sounds G and K 65
Capricorn and the sound L 67
Aquarius and the sound M 69
Pisces and the sound N 72
3 The Composition of the Totality of the Zodiac 75
The three crosses of the zodiac 75
The six axes and their polarities 77
The trines of the four elements in the zodiac 78
The post-Atlantean sequence of cultural epochs 81
The threefold human being within the zodiac 82
4 Forces of Order in the Sounds of the Zodiac 87
The sequence of consonants 87
The evolutionary sequence in the zodiac 88
The eurythmy figures 90
The spatial experience of form in the sounds of speech 91
5 Rudolf Steiner's Twelve Moods 92
The twelve zodiac verses 92
The three verbal moods 93
Special features of a eurythmy performance 93
The sequence of planets within the zodiac verse 95
6 The Zodiac as the Source of All Created Things 97
Insights into the zodiac given by Rudolf Steiner 97
The effects of the zodiac on the forming of human beings 99
The twelve senses in the zodiac 100
7 Work-Based Movement and Sound in the Zodiac 104
Introduction to the next three chapters 104
Traditional work-based movements and sounds 106
Work and movement - music and speech 119
The human being in movement and eurythmy 121
Human work in relation to the course of the year 125
8 The Zodiac and Technology 128
Twelve styles of technology 128
The one-sidedness of the zodiac animals as formative forces 136
9 Conversational Gestures and the Zodiac 142
The six speech gestures 142
Conversational gestures as an imitation of the speech gestures 143
The conversational gestures in the zodiac 144
The speech gestures and the colours 149
Dynamic variety in connection with the speech gestures 150
Overview and concluding remarks 153
10 The Connection of Artistic Practice and Training 154
Introduction 154
Meditation exercises and the zodiac in eurythmy 156
The path of knowledge and the zodiac in eurythmy 158
The shaping of gestures and the path of practice 161
11 Artistic Elements in Eurythmy and Their Twelve Metamorphoses 166
12 The Task of the Earthly and the Cosmic Human Being 175
Wonder, empathy and conscience and the meditations IAO and TAO 175
Notes 181
Bibliography 187
Index 189
