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The #Astrology #of #Wolfgang #Döbereiner
by #Michael #McMullin

For some years now I have at various times been studying the system of astrology propounded by the Munich astrologer Wolfgang Döbereiner and called the #MunichRhythmTheory. I first came across this in a book on the use of astrology for diagnosis in #homeopathy brought to me from Munich by a friend, and later I found one of the earlier books of Thorwald Dethlefsen dedicated ''To my teacher Wolfgang Döbereiner". This provided the extra motivation to investigate Döbereiner further and to obtain a substantial amount of other material. He publishes his own works, which can only be obtained direct, and they are nearly all in the form of transcriptions of tapes of lectures (though not the homeopathic one). This gives a better over-all view of his personality and general thinking applied to all kinds of topics which crop up in the course of exchange with the audience.

Basic premises
In the beginning of the homeopathy book, first published in 1982 and so relatively recent, he gives us the premises from which he sets out: that the relation of the world of appearances to Time is no longer understood. That is, its relation to an inner content and development, of which the structure is reflected by its unfolding in time. The world of appearances is a picture or reflection of another pre-existing reality which unfolds according to a built-in order, and not a haphazard sequence of collisions in space (Brownian movement).

The Zodiac provides us precisely with the key pattern of the way life is structured in cycles and unfolds in time. In human terms this means that our attributes are tied to time, and particular attributes can only be inherited at a particular time of birth, the houses of the horoscope corresponding to the Zodiac on a day-for-a-year basis. These attributes (the planets) unfold according to this structure, in corresponding rhythms and on different levels. When the horoscope is divided into four quadrants defined by the horizon and meridian, we have the basic structural form of manifestation and development in Time. The signs and the houses are a sub-division of these and mark twelve developmental stages, in twelve basic forms expressed everywhere and in thing - the signs being collective and the houses individual.

His particular interpretation of these quadrants is the foundation of Döbereiner's quite original system of astrology, and is an integral part of his whole philosophy and understanding of reality, which is of an exceptionally high order and spiritual level - on the same level, let us say, as that of Plotinus, with whom he could have had no serious disagreements. This puts him probably in a category by himself among contemporary astrologers, whether or not we agree with him in all particulars and workings-out of his system - a thing no responsible person can reasonably demand from any one fellow human being. He is a person who can think, and think for himself, and who understands just what astrology means, for our whole thought system and its full implications for humanity. For this reason I regard him as not only one of the most important astrologers, but as one of the most important thinkers of our time.