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Astrological history is full of the genius of Johannes Kepler for it was Kepler who formulated the extraordinary laws that govern planetary motion. His work shows a mystical union of numerological and scientific thought. Like the greats before him such as Plato and Pythagoras, Kepler believed the world was ruled by numbers. It was Kepler who worked diligently to prove that the distances of the planets from the Sun coordinated with the Five Solids of Euclid. He also believed that musical harmony when mathematically expressed was the same as the harmony of the spheres (planets).
He said, “I affirm and demonstrate that the movements of the planets are modulated according to harmonic proportion.” Kepler believed that each planet “sings” a harmonic tune and that by calculation involving the angle it describes in a day (as seen by the Sun) he could work out each planetary tune. Earth’s tune for example is mi-fa-mi which according to Kepler meant, “… in this our domicile misery and famine obtain.” \
Musical accompaniment for the seven known planets in Kepler’s time are Sun: “D”=D-F#-A-D, Moon: “F”=F-A-C-F, Mercury: “B”=B-D#-F#-B, Venus: “E” =E-G#-B-E, Mars: “C”=C-E-G-C, Jupiter: “A”=A-C#-E-A and Saturn: “G”=G-B-D-G. In the 1940’s occultist C.C. Zain extrapolated that Uranus, Neptune and Pluto “vibrations” belonged to Divine Consciousness and the song of the Cosmos and therefore had no particular tones.