Harun al-Rashid (March 17, 763 – March 24, 809)

Rudolf Steiner attaches great importance to the connection between Bacon and the court of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad, where Harun al-Rashid reigned from 786 until 809 AD. Harun al-Rashid was a patron of the arts and learning and was, according to Steiner, the bearer of the individuality who later incarnated as Francis Bacon, thereby making Western Europe accessible to a renewed stream of Arabian thought.

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So, who am I to argue with that knowledge?

This is as close to a correct date as is possible from this great distance of time and space. Harun al-Rashid might be a shadowy figure from the 1001 Arabian Nights, but he was a real flesh and blood person. The timing of his birth chart is randomized, so everything about it might be wrong, and yet there are four inconjuncts, two linked from Pluto to his Saturn and Uranus conjunction and two linked from the Midheaven to his Mars and Neptune conjunction. They are very powerful aspects, if true.

Let’s Compare Harun al-Rashid’s Charts to Francis Bacon’s Birth Chart

Every time, before the results are displayed, I have a small doubt that it will never work out: but I’m wrong yet again. Because these two are closer together in time, their charts are more closely aligned.

As I’m very big on North Node connections, the one in Francis’ chart is conjunct both Harun’s ‘fatal’ Mars, and his natal Moon/Mercury conjunction. Francis’ Moon is conjunct Harun’s natal Saturn/Uranus conjunction and Francis’s Neptune is conjunct Harun’s ‘fatal’ Moon. Both Harun’s ‘fatal’ South Node and his natal North Node are in Francis’ 12th House (of the Unconscious). And finally, Francis’ Mars is conjunct Harun’s ‘fatal’ Saturn, an echo of his relationship (although reversed) with Elizabeth I.

Amen.