The
WORLD CLOCKS pages give a simple visual and easy to assimilate picture
of the current state of the geometric relationship between the Sun,
the Moon and the eight planets and each other. They also give the
broadest definition possible of the significance Astrology proposes
exists in the synchronicity between these planetary cycles and human
and societal development. WORLD CLOCKS does not cover personal development
- only collective human development.
These pages are directed at non astrologers as well as astrologers
so it is important to note that many astrologers are not claiming
that the planets influence us, merely that they appear to reflect
or parallel human development. It is also important to note that
while robust evidence has been advanced for the synchronicity between
some cycles and human development - for instance the Saturn/ Neptune
and Jupiter/Saturn cycles in respectively the ideological and socio-economic
area - the evidence for the synchronicity of other cycles has been
weaker, less detailed and more disputatious.
The Conjunction of any two planetary bodies occurs anywhere between
every 29.5 days in the case of the Sun and the Moon (what we call
a 'New Moon') and every 493 years in the case of the two planets
furthest from the Sun - Neptune and Pluto. Between conjunctions
the relationship between any two planets passes through a number
of geometric points of which astrology considers three the most
important - 90 degrees, 180 degrees and 270 degrees sequential distance
from the conjunction. If the conjunction signifies the birth of
a new cycle, 90 degrees corresponds to a major obstacle or challenge
to its development, 180 degrees to where it reaches its greatest
fruition but where inherent contradictions appear and 270 degrees
to an ultimately terminal challenge to its survival. 360 degrees
is of course 0 degrees - the end of the old cycle and the beginning
of the new.
For simplicity, objectivity and comparability each planet is given
only two conceptual meanings, which are related but have a different
descriptive application. Pluto for instance represents 'Transformation'
and 'Intensity', and Neptune 'Idealism and Inspiration'. In describing
a cycle between two planets, the two sets of planetary concepts
are combined in the most applicable way. For instance the Neptune/Pluto
cycle is generically defined as 'The Transformation of Collective
Idealism'.
Any professional dealing with cycles -historians, economists, and
financial analysts- can readily check out these astrological cycles
against the evidence to see whether there is a fit. Most professionals
to date have not even attempted this because of scepticism as to
the scientific basis for any synchronicity. Other more pragmatic
non-astrologers such as stock market analysts regularly use some
of these cycles as a tool. At a time when human and societal development
has never been more difficult to forecast, there is every reason
for non-astrologers to seek to disprove or evidence any synchronicity
in these cycles.
Finding stages of human development - in the case of the more rapid
cycles actual political, economic or other events - that match the
key points in any of these planetary cycles is certainly persuasive
- the Uranus/Pluto conjunction in 1965 marking the beginning of
the Computer revolution for instance - but hardly conclusive. It
is the repeated stages of a definable development throughout a cycle
that is more likely to attract general intellectual interest.
The synchronicity between the Saturn/Neptune cycle (defined here
as 'The Implementation of Collective Ideas') and the birth, growth
difficulties, peak of influence, terminal crisis and death of Communism
as an ideology is much more testable. The parallels between the
Saturn/Neptune conjunctions of 1846 (the publication of the Communist
Manifesto) and 1989 (the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the USSR) and
all the matching conjunctions in between are certainly worthy of
professional analysis. However to be convincing the analysis of
synchronicity should stretch back in history to the previous Saturn/Neptune
cycles to demonstrate ideological developments that preceded and
led into the cycles from 1846. If historians have ignored such parallels,
astrologers' analysis of long-term historical synchronicity
has been sketchy to say the least.
The first three web pages in the WORLD CLOCKS series deal respectively
with planetary cycles whose duration lasts 12 years or more (Slow
Planets), 2 years or more (Mars-Planets)
and whose duration lasts 12 months or more (Sun-Planets).
The fastest clock, the Lunation
cycle is then displayed as the best example to the principle of
the World Clocks. Too rapid to be updated on this site, this cycle
can be viewed through This Month Page
(watch for the Sun - Moon angle).
