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Let's look at the
Ninth Symphony as an example of how the outer planets work through the
aesthetic principle of Venus. Of course, the Plutonic can be heard throughout
the Ninth and all of Beethoven's music—not only in the timpani but
in all sections of the orchestra. Uranus grants the power of innovation,
novelty, genius and tremendous creativity. The Uranian archetype and the
Ninth Symphony could be the subject of an entire book. Suffice it to say that
the utter genius and brilliance of Beethoven's final symphony blew away
the audience upon its premeire as it still does today. The archetypal
dimension of Neptune is not so much heard as developed thematically. Schiller's
"Ode to Joy" which Beethoven borrows as the chorus for the fourth
movement beautifully captures the Neptunian ideal of a brotherhood amongst
mankind--"All men shall be brothers...O you millions, let me embrace you.
Let this kiss be for the whole world."
It was the Mars principle
that Napoleon(birthchart) was to carry out with all its creative
and destructive possibilities. Napoleon had a close Mars-Neptune conjunction
trining Pluto and Uranus tightly. The archetypes of Uranus and Pluto Napoleon's
Mars is quite obvious. The Pluto-Mars combination is the aspect of the military
leader, pushing a natural assertiveness to titanic intensity.
Uranus stimulates Mars
and often creates great risk-taking ability. Uranus-Mars is also associated
with an impulse toward freedom. Napoleon was not only a strategic genius but
emancipated Europe from outworn models of government, so in this capacity
he was the great liberator of Europe in the early 19th century.
What then of the Neptune-Mars
conjunction? Napoleon was by no means what we would consider to be a Neptunian
personality. He had a particular disdain for organized religion and little, if any, compassion for
the welfare of others--he was no spiritual warrior. However, as Neptune dissolves
boundaries, Napoleon was the assertive principle which temporarily united
Europe, albeit under tyrannical rule.
Hegel(birthchart)
is considered to be one of the most abstruse of philosophers, maybe that's
because Hegel's task of summarizing the absolute nature of reality is
not the easiest thing to put into words. However, those scholars and students
who are both privileged and masochistic enough to attempt his work have
discovered the thoughts of highest genius.
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