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.Mars represents muscular action and the limb system, Gemini andMercury ears, eyes and the nervous system, and Sagittarius liver, giving a strikingdemonstration of the connection stated by Dr.Kolisko, while Mars opposite Sun is of coursecholeric.The liver is also under Virgo, and hence Mercury 8 , and Neptune from Virgo formsthe apex of the mutable T-Square - ear, liver and eyes, which also gave much trouble, linkedin a disharmonious configuration to Mars, the limb system.Afflictions to the Sun and Moon, such as the Mars opposition, are generally indicative ofhealth problems, while here Mercury is between them and receives the exact opposition fromMars, within one minute of arc.Mars comes from Gemini, Mercury's sign, and Mercury andGemini are directly linked with the nervous system.A contemporary surgeon from Salzburg,Dr.Alois Weissenbach, wrote that "his nervous system is irritable in the highest degree andeven unhealthy - the harmony of the mind so easily put out of tune.He once went through aterrible typhus and from that time dates the decay of his nervous system and probably also hismelancholy loss of hearing".In medical astrology all the signs, hence parts of the body, in agiven quadrature or mode are linked and can interact.In Beethoven's last illness he hadinflammation of the lungs (Gemini), liver (Virgo, Sagittarius), and feet (Pisces).He had"atonic dilatation of the stomach", excess fluid in the tissues and disorders of the lymphaticsystem (Moon square Neptune), bowel irritation (Mercury, ruler of Virgo, opposite Mars), andinflamed stomach, gastric ulcer and acute gastric trouble (Moon opposite Mars).In RonaldHarvey's "Mind and Body in Astrology" we find: "Meni r s Disease.This is assumed to bedue to a form of degeneration of the labyrinth of the inner ear.Often there is inner eardeafness and tinnituss.This would appear to involve symbolically the sign Taurus or itsassociated house, the second." The Mars opposition is from the second house, and Saturn(sclerosis) is exactly square the Taurus Ascendant - and we know that the throat (Taurus) isconnected to the inner ear.The second house also represents one's resources, bodily andmental, and the eighth often shows sickness, and death, and the causes thereof, so that thesituation could not be more graphically represented than it is here.The eighth house, inaddition, can show a giving out and self-sacrifice, and its emphasis is common in the case ofvery public figures.It is also of course the house of death and regeneration, the Plutonictheme so extraordinarily brought to life in the B flat quartet, op.130.It is the house ofautumn, of seed-formation, and the metamorphosis of a dark germinal motive is the basis ofthe quartet trilogy.Pluto itself is in the ninth house, which Brunhxbner says is "perhaps themost favourable position by house.Here it indicates evolution, exaltation, refinement,genius.It attracts towards extreme methods, untrodden domains.Pluto here points also to 129clairvoyance, ingenuity, the finest sense.In the higher types, they are idealists, spiritualfighters and pioneers, occultists."Ronald Harvey, on p.125 of the book mentioned, describes eight focal points round thehoroscope, of power or potential, and in that of Beethoven all the planets are on such focalpoints, except Saturn, but this is on 15 of Leo instead.Taurus is preeminently the sign ofmusic, the most powerfully sensation-based of the arts, and ruled by Venus, mostappropriately here in the tenth house and in Capricorn.Rudolf Steiner in "Man in the Light ofOccultism, Theosophy and Philosophy" correlates Taurus with "Orientation to the utterance ofSound".That Beethoven was Taurean in behaviour and appearance cannot be doubted byanyone who has read Thayer - it is the only sign that could fit him.Kolisko refers to "thestubborn energy" inherited from his father's side.His pupil, Ferdinand Ries, wrote: "In hisbehaviour he was awkward and helpless - (the Mars-liver connection, and retrograde Mars) -his uncouth movements were often destitute of all grace.He seldom took anything in hishands without dropping and breaking it".Also: "On the whole he was a thoroughly good andkind man, on whom his moods and impetuousness played shabby tricks"."Reservedness,mistrust, often towards his best friends, in many things want of decision.Gives free vent tohis feelings on the spur of the moment, intercourse with him is a real exertion, at which onescarcely can trust oneself" (Stefan von Breuning, friend from boyhood) and all of which ischaracteristic of Mars opposite Sun-Moon-Mercury.In his later years: "Venom and rancourraged within him.He defies everything and is dissatisfied with everything and blasphemesagainst Austria and especially against Vienna" (von Bursy).The most reliable portraits,especially those by M`hler, and his heavy and stocky build, show a Taurean, and the portraitof him as a young man shows clearly a certain type of Taurus features.He was not able to manage money, extravagant, and had no idea of the value of money(Wegeler) - Mars afflicted in the second house.The only planetary placement not so faraccounted for is Saturn in the fourth house, and of this Sakoian and Acker say: "heavyresponsibilities incurred through the home and family.a strugggle to achieve domesticsecurity and provide for their families.In the last years of their lives they often becomerecluses." Beethoven's father was an alcoholic, and while he was only a boy he was in theposition of having to support his mother and two younger brothers, and took on responsibilityfor them.And he was a recluse at the end
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