tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post2391740506192362821..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Arty Farty Friday ~ Xul Solar's draw to the Occult, Astrology and Language.Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-48699142834360733332013-12-13T12:38:13.289-06:002013-12-13T12:38:13.289-06:00mike ~ I suppose he was obscure to us in the nort...mike ~ I suppose he was obscure to us in the northern hemisphere partly due to there being less easy communication and air travel in his day, and the fact that "the occult" wasn't/isn't mainstream anyway. Language translation from the Spanish is needed too....though language didn't prevent most European artists from becoming known in the English-speaking world.<br /><br />I did notice the peculiar method of numbering the zodiac signs.<br />I wonder if he started with Gemini because that's where the longest day (shortest in the southern hemisphere) falls - though right at the end of the sign.<br /><br />Yes, I see what you mean about the "Moving Astro House" post.<br />That theory came from theosophy - with Capricorn as 8th house.<br />Xul Solar has Cap at 7th, so while not the same the method of counting, his might stem from some other ancient doctrine he studied?<br /><br />He has given a nod to the elements. Earth signs have the structural cross hatching pattern, Water signs have little wavy lines, Fire signs are not as clearly linked. 2 Air signs have little dots, but he has given Aquarius a watery symbol - has he fallen into the trap of assuming it's a Water sign? Surely not. And why an elephant for Aquarius?<br /><br />I agree, he must have had wealthy parents or influential connections to have done so much travelling. I haven't found anything indicating this, so far.<br /><br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-70896837717724406302013-12-13T11:11:25.968-06:002013-12-13T11:11:25.968-06:00A very fascinating dude, Twilight...another that w...A very fascinating dude, Twilight...another that was an unknown til your post! I'm surprised that he hadn't come-up in some occult reading references of mine in the past.<br /><br />He seems to embody a lot of Sagittarius, re your post yesterday. He had a strong need to not utilize pre-existing tools and methods in common use...I'm not quite sure what motivated that in him. Sorta like he was the master of his own game, with rules unknown to others:<br /><br />"I am a world champion of a game that nobody yet knows called panchess (Panajedrez). I am master of a script that nobody yet reads. I am creator of a technique, of a musical grafía that allows the piano to be studied in a third of the usual time that it takes today. I am director of a theatre that as yet has not begun working. I am creator of a universal language called panlingua based on numbers and astrology that will help people know each other better. I am creator of twelve painting techniques, some of them surrealist, and others that transpose a sensory, emotional world on to canvas, and that will produce in those that listen a Chopin suite, a Wagnerian prelude, or a stanza sung by Beniamino Gigli. I am the creator, and this is what most interests me at the moment, apart from the exhibition of painting that I am preparing, of a language that is desperately needed by Latin America.”<br />Solar quotation from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xul_Solar)<br /><br />Re: Solar's version of the signs of the zodiac<br /><br />Did you catch his numbering sequence in that painting? Gemini starts at 1, Taurus 2, backward through Scorpio 8...then it becomes fuzzy. Libra appears to be "4", but maybe that's a weird "9" (there are nine stairs up)...Leo is 8, Cancer is 10, Virgo appears to have the Leo glyph and no number. Hhmmm. It's a bit like your reverse houses post, "Moving Astrological House" (11-14-2013). What do you think?!<br /><br />According to Wiki, the guy did a lot of traveling and was well connected. Must have had rich parents or a financial connection.mikenoreply@blogger.com