Events and Eras – Part 16 of the Chemistry of Time
Not long ago we discussed an unfortunate event, about a local girl who found herself in a tragic encounter with another girl. The action of Mars on that day with Taurus was said to generate an excess, resulting in a wound with a knife to the neck which proved definitive for her. This event was notable in and of itself but it also served as a demonstration of how the calendar and the system can reliably describe the character of a time and produce events which are known to occur upon the combination of certain elements. Your knowledge of that event anticipated a much larger and impactful event of great significance for our times. It was on the calendar after all, and those who know the elements and their signatures could see it coming even months away. How is one to describe what is not yet, but is sure to be? In practice it is necessary for us to live through time and to accustom ourselves to its manner of presenting itself. On your first day at the job you don’t know that Monday is the busiest night for the evening shift, but on your second Monday you know what to expect. You’ve made it through your first week and we are delighted to see that you’ve chosen to stay a little longer, despite those occasionally chaotic Mondays.
As with all times in life it is not the specific events that stay with us but rather the result of having experienced them. A chaotic Monday evening on the job can be described in that way to your friend the next day and they may listen and intellectually understand. The same conversation shared with your coworkers on that shift will be something else entirely. The friend is also probably more interested in telling you about their crazy Monday evening, and like, OMG, it must have been a full moon or something. Your Mother on the other hand says she had a quiet night in with Dad, how nice for them. Their charts must consist of significantly different elements from yours – are you sure you’re not adopted? They had you and your day of birth and your resulting chart was quite the Monday evening shift for Mom and Dad – they were never the same again – and now after decades of the elements of your chart tumbling through all seven days of their weeks, all thirty days of their months, and all 365 days of their years, they know exactly what your shift was like because they saw you have many just like it over the years under their care. They know that it was the sum total of those events which shaped you into who you are now and sometimes they even look back upon those nights fondly while enjoying a quiet night in together.
Time proceeds from one moment to the next and there is usually another Monday or something resembling it around one of the next corners. It is the sequence of events which accumulate and generate the narratives of a time, which create an era, and which define a life. As such we cannot understand the times by looking only at the specific events but instead must know the greater context of a moment. When we pull back and examine the calendar in this way we find that it is not the events which drive the times forward and create the era, but rather the opposite seems to be the case. Events turn out to be symptoms of the era, and catalysts for its formation. The calendar shows us that a long period is changing into a new period and the system explains how this will fundamentally alter the elemental combination going forward. How to proceed from one type of world, made up of a certain type of substances, into one that works dramatically differently? For that we require the events or rather the experience of the events. After the Monday evening shift it felt like things had changed, didn’t it? Your eyes do not deceive you – things most certainly have changed, and have been changing. Next, I will tell you just how it is changing, and what to expect around the approaching corners. You wouldn’t have understood prior to working a Monday evening shift, but now you might.
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