The significance of the Saturn-Uranus cycle for the political economy appears clear, especially at and near their cyclic
oppositions. The opposition of 1692 Was immediately preceded by the first demo- cratic revolution: Britain's Glorious
Revolution of 1688 and 1689. The next opposition, of about 1736, was marked by the War of the Polish Succession. The
opposition of 1783 followed the American Revolution. (Uranus was discovered when opposition to Saturn, in 1781.)
The opposition of 1829 was followed by revolutionary upheavals which started in France and spread throughout Europe
in 1830. The opposition of 1874 followed the first Communist revolu- tion, the Paris Commune of 1871. The opposition
of 1919 followed the Russian Revolution of 1917. The next opposition will come in 1965.
Dr. Lee found that 540 Years after the start of each Chinese Cycle the country became split between North and South,
and the capital was shifted from North to South. Two of his cycle dates are 3 years later than the Jupiter-Saturn
Mutation conjunctions, hence the split occurs 543 years after the Mutations. The second order recurrence cycle for
Saturn-Uranus is 1,088.72 years, or 24 conjunctions. Half of this 's 544.36 years. At the end of 544 1/3 years there has
been a conjunction in each of the 12 Signs and Saturn-Uranus are exactly 180¼º from their initial position: thus the shift
of 180° suggests the "split" of China. Adding 544 1/3 to the conjunction of 1365 gives us 1919; but actually, because of
the eccentricities of the Saturn-Uranus orbits, they did not reach the oppositions to the places they occupied at the
beginning of the cycle, until late 1911 or early 1912, which marked the Revolution of October 10, 1911 that brought
into being the Republic and caused the capital to be shifted from Peking south to Nanking, and later led to the split
between the Communist North and the Kuomintang South. In this, Dr. Lee appears to have identified the significance of
the second order cycles of Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus; Mrs. Bradford, to have identified the meaning of the first order cycles
of Neptune-Pluto and the two trans-Pluto planets postulated by the Richardson formula; and Professor Wheeler to have
identified the importance of the first order Uranus-Neptune cycle. It should be mentioned as the best work on the
Uranus-Neptune cycle by an astrologer, Margaret Morrell under "Research" in American Astrology Magazine, in April,
May and June of 1939.
A study of the vast and vital subject of planetary cycles thus illuminates other cycles, such as the Naros and the
Precessional Ages, the existence of which have been long traditional but whose full meanings have not always been
clear. The prime importance of these two cycles is in the fact that they involve the two planets of the "creative
minority": the bearers of Culture (Uranus-Neptune), of "institutional society," and of the "established and
conventional" (Jupiter-Saturn). As a result, in both cases we have the combination and interaction of the two different
psycho-social levels which represent the process of "civilization": the creative vs. the practical. The most perfect
illustration of this was the start of the Mission of Jesus at the age of 30, in 25 A.D.)., at the Full Moon of April 1 of that
year, in Libra opposing the Sun in Aries, Saturn with the Sun and Jupiter with the Moon, close to the Equinox, the
intersection of the Equator and Ecliptic, hence on the same level. Squaring this was Neptune in Capricorn opposing
Uranus in Cancer, near the line of intersection of the Invariable Plane and the Ecliptic, the other and universal level of
Christ. Thus one can consider the Crucifixion to be the archetypal pattern of the conflict of the universal, intangible and
creative against the local, institutional and concrete. Organized society always denies and persecutes its creative
redeemers, whether they be artists, true statesmen, inventors or teachers.
At the 25 A.D. grand cross, Mars conjoined the Sun and opposed the Moon, indicating the Naros cycle, a recurrence
cycle of the Sun, Moon and Mars. Only once in 180,000 years, a sub-race in Theosophy, does a Naros date coincide
with the start of a cycle of Precession of the Pole, as it did in 25 A.D. Count back one Naros cycle to Buddah, and you
find a different and equally rare configuration: for in the 570s (577 to 574 B.C.) the three "creative" planets - Uranus,
Neptune and Pluto - were in a close conjunction, which occurs once in about 120,000 years. The fact that this fell in
Taurus is striking, since tradition states that Gautama Buddha was born, was illumined under the Bo tree, and died, in
each case at a Full Moon in May - with the Sun in Taurus. Thus the advent of Buddha correlated to the other great
celestial event in the recent millennial history of Man, and as a result was followed by the most intellectually and
spiritually creative Century in the recorded history of Civilization - 575 B.C. to 475 B.C. Truly a study of planetary
cycles casts much light on the evolution of Society. v. Invariable Plane. -- CHARLES A. JAYNE, JR.
These Solar recurrence periods with respect to the Equinox assume a mean rate of precession of 25,694.8y, as given by
Stockwell: all the planets moving at mean motion. Variations will result in consequience of: (a) eccentricities and