this is more satisfying as a take on tarot than on astrology; it only attempts to explain chart reads and has nothing to say about e.g. mercury retrograde. to go further we need to go beyond just humans having good intuitions to talking about cyclic phenomena in nature
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so, there are three particularly obvious cycles in nature: day and night, the phases of the moon, and the seasons. it would not be at all surprising to see, and we do see, nature time all sorts of stuff according to these cycles, much animal behavior, etc.
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(actually this would not be a bad time to link to this “astrology is rational” subpiece of a larger piece by )
meaningness.com/no-cosmic-mean
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for the vast majority of the history of life on this planet there was no light pollution at night so nature would be exposed to a brilliant sea of stars every night. the stars generally move in concert, except for a small handful - the wanderers, or “planetoi” (“planetai”?)
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the planets move sometimes together with the other stars and sometimes opposite (“retrograde”). the timing of when specific patterns of stars are in specific places in the night sky (constellations), and of the movements of the planets, are both also cycles available to nature
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so plausibly nature could also sync more subtle phenomena to these more subtle rhythms. insofar as this is happening it would be happening in the entire biosphere at once, potentially producing coordinated changes in many organisms, including humans
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this would be stuff happening at a low level biologically, similar to but more subtle than circadian rhythms, with a genetic component - not stuff it feels like you have any conscious control over. insofar as this affects the state of a mother through pregnancy and at birth…?
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do we actually know of any cycles in nature that are not solar, lunar, or circadian?
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cicadas have 13-year and 17-year cycles; supposedly they’re prime to avoid overlapping as much as possible with predator population cycles (and each other?) which is neato
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yess, I was thinking of this!
I would still count this as a solar (yearly) cycle though
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hmm yeah idk of anything long off the top of my head that isn’t a multiple of a year. the sun has some kind of 11-year cycle apparently?
