01-01-2021, 03:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2021, 03:27 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-01-2021, 02:37 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: In response to Eric....
In regards to Sorokins cycle, I suspect that we are in a period of "plastic time". I believe that the spiritual currents that you mentioned are consistent with this, as are the continued existence of the old Senate and even older Ideational (in the form of traditional religion) currents.
All this seems to fit with the idea that we are in an in-between time, the transition between two ages. Call it the Interregnum.
It depends on what cycle you look at, and the time frame. Is there an Age of Aquarius? Can it really be defined by the backward-shifting equinox soon to occur or is now borderline-occurring in the constellation Aquarius? If so, somehow, it is 2140-2160 years long and we are in a time similar to the time of Christ. It took 3 centuries for his "Piscean" movement (symbolized by the fish) to grow and come to dominate the Roman Empire.
Is it the cycle of civilization? The approx. 500-year rhythm, which also has a 1000-year double rhythm? If so, the Neptune-Pluto alignment around 1892 (encompassing the late 1880s and early 1890s, and the 2T/early 3T that followed as Uranus opposed Pluto and then Neptune), is a minor beat in this cycle that shifts our society from the Renaissance outlook and powers into the green, global society, with the need for alternatives to European world and Earth conquest and nationalism). The modern arts, sciences, inventions, political conflicts, and religions/philosophy of that time propelled us into a 500-year "new age." By that measure, the interregnum is over, and what we have seen recently is just temporary backsliding-- which also happened in the 16th century and other such eras.
Is it the saeculum? That is an 80-85-year cycle attuned to the 84-year cycle of Uranus, and to the length of an average human lifetime. But before the 18th century, when Uranus was only a subconscious and undiscovered planet, the saeculum was a 100+year era that happened among the upper classes in times when civilization was less massive but still operational, such as in Roman and medieval/early Renaissance times, in which human lifetimes were usually shorter. In this current modern 84-year version of the cycle, we are in a dark 3T/4T phase, which may explain the above back-sliding. That jells with an interregnum, perhaps. But when we emerge from it at the end of this decade, it will only usher in a spirit-dead recovery, which will be followed by another brief "awakening" in the late 2040s and into the 2050s. The saeculum thus is really too short of a cycle to explain such long-term shifts that govern spiritual and religious currents. The above two cycles are more relevant in this regard.
Is it the cycle of the Establishment? That is what is starting now with the "great conjunction" we can now see in the sky. This resonates with the Skowronek cycle and others, in 20 and double-40-year rhythms, and perhaps with the ancient and medieval/renaissance saeculum. But these cycles, though significant, and their approx. 200-year shift through the ancient 4 elements (from earth to air this year), govern institutions and political and economic trends and outlooks, and to some extent the affairs of religious powers too, but not spiritual currents.