Astronomy for Astrologers
The Straighter the Line, The Finer the Curve
We are right in the middle of a seeming endless line of
years stretching back before we can remember and
stretching on into the future as far as we can imagine.
This is illustrated, in Fig. A. in the accompanying
diagram, as a long line of years. This is what is called a
linear representation—a simple line.
In most respects, every year is the same—exactly 365
days of sunlight and darkness. Fig. B. shows the year
2003 as a segment taken from the endless line of years.
The dictionary has this to say about what a cycle is:
“Any process or sequence of states, in which the initial
and final states of a system are the same.”
Well, this makes sense. The end of one year (a
particular day) is the exact beginning of the next year...
and so on...and all 365 days in between each year are
also more or less equal. This ‘cycle of the year’ is