NIETZSCHE Friedrich

NIETZSCHE Friedrich (FN)

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life, and he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889, at age 44, he suffered a collapse and a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897, and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, and died in 1900.

It is likely that Nietzsche was not infected with syphilis, but rather with a neuro-degenerative disease that also affected his father: Cadasil syndrome (autosomal dominant cerebral arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). So, the beginning of the illness seems to be 1870 and the stroke 1889.

I. Natal chart

• ASC SAGIT, ruler JU - MO in I
• MC VIRGO, ruler ME - ME in X
• radix SU # SA, SU detrimental - JU opp MC and MA, detrimental.
• VE (VIRGO) and SU (LIBRA) are detrimental +.

- HYLEG MO
- ANAERETA SA
- ALCHOCODEN JU

Morinus gives (Ibn Ezra algorithm) MA for ALMUTEN. The ALMUDEBIT is ME.

II. Primary directions

A. For 1876

On January 2, FN submits a request to be relieved of his teaching responsibilities at the Pädagogium for semester due to health reasons. It is granted with retention of salary. For the same health reasons, FN has difficulty conducting his university courses due to headaches.

// MA conj SU

It is a converse ray.

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The direction : PLACIDUS 1/EQU orb 0.27.

B. For 1889

1. SU conj // ME

According to Bonatti, the almudebit is the planet that receives the maximum importance in the theme (kind of ruler of the theme) but which seems not to be confused with the almuten (which in this case is MA). The almudebit is here ME. that is notably to say, it does not merge, for example, with SU or MO, or even with the hyleg. So it seems interesting to compute the rays relatively to ME for the date of 1889.

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As we observe, the weighting scheme tells us, as long as the symbolic method gets the highest score, the overall rank is better with the primary methods (1.34 vs 0.92).

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2. SA opp ME

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As we observe, we have uniquely PLACIDUS directions.

3. SU conj ASC

It is perhaps the most notable direction for 1889. Unfortunatly, it is not a 'good' direction as SU is detrimental, because of radix # from SA and because SU in LIBRA.

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So we have an apparently conflictual result, that is to say a SU-ASC ray with a misfortune. But we ask you to read Argoli and his De Diebus Criticis [see biography]. Argoli exposes a whole series of cases with so-called beneficial aspects between ASC and SU that coincide with an illness or death.

C. 1878 : 

In 1875 already, these headaches take on a serious character; they are particularly violent during the winter, especially around December and January. The winter of 1876 to 1877 spent by Nietzsche in the south brings to his health no lasting improvement. In 1879 the crises come back closer and more violent than ever; From January 1879 to January 1880, Nietzsche had one hundred and eighteen days of violent attacks.

 'In February 1878, Nietzsche had to resign permanently from his teaching duties at the Pedagogium for health reasons. The medical certificate produced on this occasion stated that "the professor suffered for several years from intense nervous overwork".
Dr. Eiser (the doctor who had dealt with Nietzsche with more or less awkwardness) was at the same time of an otherwise pessimistic view. He wrote to Franz Overbeck "that one could not dismiss the hypothesis of a direct and material attack on the brain, and therefore a dark prognosis'. [Le Syndrome de Nietzsche, Jacques Rogé, 1999, Odile Jacob]

This case is very interesting if if we turn our attention to the ASC to MC direction, which is, so to speak, analogous to that between ASC and SU. And we have to look to another ray : #MO conj SU.

1. SU conj MC

 So we see that 2 rays : two aspects are present simultaneous in 1878: one impinge the SU (#MO conj SU) and the other is detrimental because of the accidental nature of SU in this chart.

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2. #MO conj SU

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D. 1900 : death

The end coincides with two major directions: C SA conj MO and JU conj SA.

1. SA conj MO

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'The unfortunate Nietzsche has finished dying. For twelve years already his reason had collapsed, and no trace remained of an intelligence which had formerly been infinitely active, varied, and brilliant; but the body persisted in living. Congregation finally overthrew it, on August 25, in the house of Weimar which served as a shelter at the same time as it was the seat of the Nietzschean Archives, founded, as we know, to spread throughout the world. the glory of his name.' [Th. de Wyzewa
Revues étrangères. — À propos de la mort de NIETZSCHE Revue des Deux Mondes, 4e période, tome 161, 1900 (pp. 697-708).]