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Gallery I / paintings by Angelika Oehrlein

The Zodiac - House One to Six The Zodiac - House Seven to Twelve
the zodiac I the zodiac II
  Hall of Stars Libra
Aries Scorpio
Taurus Sagittarius
Gemini Capricorn
 Cancer Aquarius
Leo Pisces
Virgo Exit

The Zodiac -  a Series of Paintings
First of all  - I do not believe in the influence of the stars to human live as assumed by the order of the zodiac. In my opion it's more like  this: of course there is a certain influence of the stars to all living creatures on this planet  -   one only has to look at the moon, watch the tides, the course of the stars at the nights sky etc. But drawing conclusions from a person's date of birth  to the same person's character and fate makes to me little sense. 

Nonetheless - for the believers:  I am a Sagittarius (or Celestial Goat, if you prefer the Chinese way), my planet is Jupiter, the element fire and we are said to be ardent in our judgements, speaking right out what we think, even if this is neither wise nor polite ...

Anyway. Of course  there is always another way of how to see the way of life.  For centuries educated people made up decisions with the help of the zodiac and in a way it worked very well. Had not an emperor  had Johannes Kepler as councellor of Astrology, and had Kepler not been trying hard to find out about this emperor's fate,  he on the other hand maybe never had found time and possibility to work out how the movements of the celestial bodies of the Solar system go. 

And consequently NASA maybe had not yet reached the moon, who knows ...

So remembering gratefully the past and being a great fan of it's motifs and art, I made my mind up to paint the houses of the zodiac, believing in it or not. You will perhaps find  no exact match or no match at all to the tradition of doing so - a real fan certainly has her or his own ideas of how the houses of the sun should look like. So please forgive me the liberties I took and give my humble attempts a friedly glance.

Follow with me  the houses of the zodiac on their course through the year of the sun, starting and ending the run with the gatehouse:  the  Hall of Stars under the Open Sky. 

enjoy the tour, best wishes to you all

Angelika

 



 

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