Qso much restlessness in the soul of Rainer Maria Rilkeone of the greatest German-language poets, born in Prague under the sign of Sagittarius, the sign of not only physical but also internal travel. «You always have to go: no feeling is ever too far away».
To escape “an anguished childhood” he will go everywhere: from Russia to Egypt passing through Italy, France and Switzerland. In its birth chart the Moon in Aquarius, combined with Saturn and Mars, reveals a disastrous relationship with his mother who dressed him like a little girl as a child. The distortion suffered will inevitably affect women.
Mercury and Jupiter in Scorpio talk about the vampire art of the polygraph who wrote letters “of gaudy splendor” to his lovers mesmerized by his words.
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague on 4 December 1875 (photo Imagno/Getty Images).
Venus and Neptune idealize love but then the desired female figures break down in everyday life. There are many “abandoned” women. His wife Clara Westhoff, a German sculptor, sacrificed her work for a short and gray married life. They had a daughter, Ruth, who Rilke refused to see.
Princess Marie Von Thurn und Taxis gave the poet the opportunity to work in the castle of Duino where he wrote the famous Duino elegies. But it will be the writer Lou von Salomé who will mark the poet’s life. She will make him fall in love with Russia: “It’s my homeland, everything else is a foreign country.”
Suffering from leukemia in the last month of his life he did not want to see anyone. He wrote the last verse, a fiery lapillus of his Venus in Leo: «And I am on fire./Recognized by no one».
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