{"id":43712,"date":"2022-12-22T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=43712"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:15:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T11:15:59","slug":"a-silent-firework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-silent-firework\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>In December, hardly any bright stars are visible after twilight. Some may think that clouds must be preventing the view.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the night has progressed, every year the same miracle happens. The sky fills with the brightest stars, hour by hour: Aldebaran in the Taurus, Sirius in the Big Dog, Rigel and Betelgeuse in Orion! That\u2019s not enough: shooting stars from Gemini, at the zenith, illuminate the night. Every year, as it approaches midnight, silent fireworks happen in the sky. Christmas is a celebration of light. The German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke put it in a letter to this mother in the following words: \u00abNo Christmas has gone by without indescribable light behind my closed eyes for a second.\u00bb The stars remind us of this inner light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image<\/strong> How Beautyful Is Night, Barnabuz Chiponza, 1948. Photographed by G. Bartel at the Natinonal Art Gallery in Harare, Zimbabwe.<br><strong>Translation<\/strong> Christian von Arnim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, hardly any bright stars are visible after twilight. Some may think that clouds must be preventing the view. But when the night has progressed, every year the same miracle happens. The sky fills with the brightest stars, hour by hour: Aldebaran in the Taurus, Sirius in the Big Dog, Rigel and Betelgeuse in Orion! That\u2019s not enough: shooting stars from Gemini, at the zenith, illuminate the night. Every year, as it approaches midnight, silent fireworks happen in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":43784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8795,9224,2515],"tags":[11281,8803,8799],"class_list":["post-43712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-switzerland","category-astrology","category-nachricht","tag-2022-51-52-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}