Research & Reviews Regarding this final study, what immediately speaks to our soul is the cosmic identification of the importance of anthroposophy in our present complex and intense times. These rare planetary relationships are but outer indications of the urgent concerns of spiritual beings that are working through the planetary relationships described. What is always clear in relation to Pluto is that we are obliged to penetrate to the essence of things, even to the extent that all else must drop away in order that the essential spiritual truths remain. The crisis that Rudolf Steiner pointed towards in
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And with the following, Di a g r a m 3, the axis: 17 degrees Gemini/Sagittarius, is shown once more only now in relation to our present times. Here it is important to remember that because of Pluto’s slow movements, taking nearly 250 years to circle the zodiac of stars, Pluto’s alignments with this axis are extremely rare, yet they are able to span motifs of meaning that bridge crucial stages of human and world development. In this sense we take up, as shown in diagram 3, rare correlations that are indicated between Pluto’s tracking of Saturn’s movements during the years of Christ’s ministry and events of anthroposophic developments in the 20th century. Additionally the diagram shows correlations that exist with the spiritual drama unfolding in our times. These are referenced in Pluto’s movements leading up to and beyond its opposition to Saturn’s position at the Mystery of Golgotha. With this there is a marked intensity around the years 2032 to 2037. The span of years between 2009 and 2037 is important in that Pluto is moving opposite to its positions between 1912 and 1952. When a planet faces, via opposition, a significant area in the cosmos, as is found here with Pluto, it becomes an important period of recollection and acknowledgement of what shone forth in the realm being faced. This brings a perspective that highlights the spiritual demands that correlate with the 2030’s of our present century. 38 • b e i n g h u m a n
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his ‘Last Address,’ as featuring at the end of the 20th century, is one that bears the hallmark of Pluto where all that is not true must fall away if we are to make the human future possible, as nurtured within the intentions of spiritual being since Ancient Saturn. In relation to the cosmos, however, our task is to realize that behind the seemingly abstract and cold realm of the stars there exists nevertheless the profound accompaniment of spiritual beings and of the deep souls who follow human progress. The above article shows primary elements of a study that includes much additional detail. It gives a basis also to research further correspondences.