Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1667/en

Taking up the above passage on planetary working in the organism of the animal, the sub-solar planetary working of Moon, Mercury and Venus concentrates on the abdominal organs, from behind, toward the heart, and in doing so upon the kidney system in the widest sense. The kidney receives the in-raying forces of Venus. Closely bound up with these is the force-working of Mercury, and in the kidney-bladder system that of the Moon. The nature of the mercurial expresses itself in the strongly rhythmically shaped functions of the abdominal organs. In the kidney it is the processes of excretion and re-absorption. It separates out, in mercurial fashion, the primary urine from the arterial bloodstream, surveys this, regulates it afresh in terms of substance, and returns what has been harmonised — as usefully sifted — back into the blood. This process — a kind of fluid breathing — narrows in the function of the bladder to a pure excretory act of substances that have become unusable for the organism. Here the moon forces modify the working of Venus.