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Dane Rudhyar, an American-Austrian composer, writer, and music theorist, was born on March 23, 1895, and passed away on September 13, 1985. His works spanned various genres including classical, jazz, and experimental music, profoundly influencing 20th-century music.

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“The Self awakens only as he contacts the Earth.”

Self Earth Contact

Book:New Mansions for New Men

Source: New Mansions for New Men

“Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.”

Men Able Hope Imagine Creating

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.”

Ifs Speak Language Sky Astrology

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.”

Humans Individual Goal Creative Human Nature Personality Chaos Cosmos Collectives Astrology Alchemy

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death”

Ifs Needs Wells May Spirit Social Born Creative Birth Drama Moon These Days Martyr Symbolic New Moon Creative Spirit Collectivity Incorporation

Author:Dane Rudhyar

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

Universe Holes Supposed To Be

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“The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.”

Persons Reason Purpose Individual Quality Type Needed Essentials Meetings Phases Astrology

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“The Birth-chart has to be understood as the archetype or seed-pattern of one's individual being - as the 'symbolic' form of one's individuality, and therefore also of one's destiny, for the two are identical.”

Two Form Individual Destiny Birth Understood Individuality Patterns Seeds Astrology Identical Symbolic Archetype

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“Everything is known through its opposite.”

Known Opposites

Author:Dane Rudhyar

“The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.”

Should May Persons Individual Divine Lenses Vessel Dharma Zodiac

Book:The astrological houses: the spectrum of individual experience

Source: The astrological houses: the spectrum of individual experience

“The #‎ Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual.”

Moments Lying Individual Speak Responsibility Destiny Groups Divine Supreme Definite

Author:Dane Rudhyar

About the Author

Born: March 23, 1895
Died: September 13, 1985
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