The Twelve Moods of the Zodiac
In Gemini, we meet the twins of our lower and higher selves: Castor and Pollux. Castor represents the lower self—our mortal, physical body tied to the earth and the senses. Pollux represents the higher self—our immortal, intuitive consciousness connected to the divine and universal truth.
The transformative power of the light-filled surrounding world, the Christ, unites the divided power of Love of Pisces (♓︎) into the united power of Love (♊︎). The forces of Gemini work within us in the symmetry of the Twins—head and feet connected through the shoulders and spinal column. We begin to resemble the Holy Grail, with the cup being the shoulders and the base at the feet. Our lower and higher aspects are united through love in the heart.
Rudolf Steiner offers twelve verses of the zodiacal moods revealing the human experience as a reflection of the cosmos. He says, "Thus an attempt has been made to offer a sequence of feeling, sensing, and speaking, which, as it is presented, gives, as it were, another version of the inner soul-feeling in relation to what has flowed into the movements of our solar system. The structure of twelve verses, each with seven lines, corresponds, you could say, to the outer skeleton. If you take this attempt at a twelve/seven-membered poem, however, you will see that what wishes to reveal itself is present in every detail."
Read more about the twelve moods of the zodiac in Rudolf Steiner's Twelve Moods, a lecture given on 29 August 1915 in Dornach.
The Calendar of the Soul Zodiac Signs
The first edition of the Calendar of the Soul (1912) contained reproductions of new zodiacal images made by Imme von Eckardstein according to indications given by Dr Steiner. Rudolf Steiner says of them, "In this Calendar will be found signs that differ from those handed down by tradition, because the latter are no longer suitable for modern consciousness. These pictures of the Zodiacal constellations are representations of actual experiences connected with the waking and sleeping of particular spiritual Beings. We have in these pictures a renewal of certain knowledge that needs to be renewed at the present time, because the third post-Atlantean culture-epoch must as it were rise again in the fifth epoch."
Read more: Rudolf Steiner, The Calendar of the Soul, Volume II, Lecture II, GA 143, 7 May 1912, Cologne