Cycle Phases
At the other extreme, the point of greatest outward-ness
or expansion represents the most physical or outer form
that this cycle will bring. If we are talking about the cycle
of the breath, then this is when we have filled our lungs
with air and they are fully expanded. If it is the cycle of
the lunar phases we are looking at, then it is the Full
Moon, and so forth. With the zodiac signs, it is the
summer sign Cancer, when, at last, in the Northern
hemisphere, everything is in bloom and full. If we are
looking at the cycle of aspect phases between two
planets, then it is the opposition, when the two planets
are fully extended and on opposite sides one from the
other. Whatever the cycle, small or large, the expanded
phase is as outward and external as it gets for this
round. It cannot get any more expanded, and, it is only
downhill, from a physical standpoint, from this point
forward.