Richard Wagner
Composer, Music-Dramatist, Author


Michael D. Robbins © 2002

May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Germany, about 4:00 AM, LMT. There is a rectification to 4:11 AM LMT by Bailey from "sunrise" given in a biography by A. Ellis. Appears in BJA 10/1928. The author proposes consideration of another rectified time of 4:02:35 AM. Several charts are shown, each having different features worthy of consideration.

Listed above are four charts for Richard Wagner. They are as follows:

1.     The chart for 4:02:35 AM, provisionally rectified by the author, provides an Ascendant in the last degree of Taurus and retains a Capricorn MC.

2.     The chart for 4:11 AM, rectified by E.E. Bailey in 1928 from a “sunrise” time given in a biography on Wagner by Ellis, has a Gemini Ascendant and a Capricorn MC.

3.     A original chart for “sunrise”, 4:00 AM has a Taurus Ascendant and a Capricorn MC.

4.     A chart for 4:11:15 AM is offered; at this time the MC changes from Capricorn to Aquarius. Given Wagner’s status as a musical revolutionary, the possibility of an Aquarius MC must be examined. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is “An Old Adobe Mission in California” and reveals, according to Dane Rudhyar, “the power inherent in all great human works to endure far beyond the workers’ life span”. It further signifies “The Concretization of an Ideal”. The aptness of this symbol is apparent given Richard Wagner’s lasting impression upon the psyche of humanity. Again, however, if the time is unsupported by other evidence, it cannot be used with confidence. The ascending degree necessitated by the choice of an Aquarian MC is, however, less appropriate, and even, inappropriate as it suggests “formalism” rather than the expansive, romantic, revolutionary spirit.

5.     Somewhere within this time span, however, if not shortly before, Richard Wagner was, in all probability, born.

(Some probable and some definite positions are as follows: Ascendant, Taurus or Gemini Midheaven, either Capricorn or Aquarius; Sun, Gemini; Moon and Mars in Aquarius; Mercury and Venus in Taurus; Jupiter, Leo; Saturn, Capricorn; Uranus, Scorpio; Neptune, Sagittarius; Pluto, Pisces.

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