By D.H. Van den Berghe
When we look at the world around us, we see change almost everywhere. In some places change seems to be slow, while in other parts of the world there are significant events that become turning points in the history of a country or even entire continent. We see such events every year in different parts of the world, but there is no obvious regular pattern as to when these events happen.
Various forms of astrology try to understand and predict these changes within the framework of cycles. Western astrology uses cycles based on the movement of the planets in our solar system.
Chinese forms of astrology work with fixed cycles of 9, 10, 12 and 60 years, and even longer..
Other cultures have still different systems.
And while each of these systems has merit and useful applications, none of them has been used very successfully in predicting the major turning points in a country's or region's history.
It is as if we are missing some important key. In this article I will present a method that may provide a new key, and allow us to predict upcoming changes more accurately.
Could we have predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall, or the September 11 attacks, or the Tiananmen Square massacre? All these examples and more, will be explored further on..
Gann's Square of Nine
The tool we are going to use in this study is called 'The Square of Nine' and was developed by W.D. Gann
W.D. Gann was a legendary trader in the stock markets, and he used this tool to make his predictions, which turned out to be amazingly accurate quite often. You can just google for “Gann square of nine” and you will easily find more about it. Although he did not publicly share the full details of his methods, it was known he used and studied this 'Square of Nine' intensively, and there were several copies of it in his office.
Here is a picture of such a Square of Nine:
The construction of the diagram is so easy, a child can do it.
You start with 1 in the middle and just spiral outwards, either going clockwise or counterclockwise (which doesn't matter for the use of this tool), filling up all the spaces..2, 3, 4..
In this example we stop at 361 in the lower right corner, but of course you could go on with 362 next to it , and then continue further upwards in the counterclockwise direction used here.
You can make it as large as you want, but this size is sufficient for our purposes in this article.
While this simple diagram looks like nothing very special at first sight, it does have rather unusual numerical relationships hidden in it.
For example if you start from the center 1 and go diagonally towards the bottom right corner, then you find all the squares of the odd numbers lining up:
9 = 3*3
25 = 5*5
49 = 7*7
81 = 9*9
121 = 11*11
and so on till infinity.. See that?
In the other direction, starting with the 4 above our center 1, we find all the squares of the even number lining up in direction of the top left corner.
4 = 2*2
16 = 4*4
36 = 6*6
64 = 8*8
100 = 10*10
and so on till infinity..
This is what makes this diagram unusual. Much more could be told about it, but that is beyond the scope this article.
Gann used it to study the movements in the stock markets, and what he discovered was that major events, climaxes and turning points had a strong tendency to occur at times that are in a “square relationship” to an earlier important date, event or turning point. To see what that means we have to turn to our diagram:
Suppose we have a major event in some 51st year (or day) (from where to count will be explained later). We have marked position #51 in clear orange in our diagram. Now what we do first is draw a straight line from #51 right through the center #1. This line will cross through all the years that are either conjunct or in opposition with our starting #51 event.
Then we draw a second line through the #1 center and exactly square on the first line. This line marks all the years that have a 90 degree square relationship to our starting #51. We can see that only a rather small selection of the numbers is on these lines, we have marked some with blue circles. Gann discovered that major events and changes happened much more frequently in the years that are on these lines. So, after year 51, the next major window of change would be year 59 (thus 8 years after the first major event).
Next year 67, then 75, 84, 93, 103, 113, 124, 136, 148,...
Notice how the first interval is 8 years, but expands and there is already a 12 year gap between 136 and 148.
That's what makes this system so different from any fixed length cycle.
And that could be the reason why sometimes our cycles seem to work and sometimes not.
I hope the basic approach is clear from above picture, but we have one question left before we can start using it.
How do we count the years or days? What is the starting point?
Gann himself reportedly used the Spring Equinox day as start and counted from there.
He mostly worked with daily numbers for his stock market forecasts, so that made sense.
But if we want to work on larger scale with yearly numbers, then we need some starting year.
Fortunately the Chinese astrology provides us.
In Chinese astrology it is the Yang Wood Rat year (Jia Zi) that marks the start of every new 60 year cycle. The most recent Jia Zi year was 1984, before that we had 1924.
These Jia Zi years also mark the start of a new major 20 year Period in Feng Shui.
So they are the first logical choice if we want to use Chinese astrology in combination with Gann's Square of Nine. How this works out you can see from the following examples.
Rise and fall of the Soviet Union
The October revolution in 1917 was the major event that marked the fall of the tzars and soon led to formation of the communist Soviet Union.
Year 1917 is in the cycle that started with Jia Zi year 1864. So it is year #53
In the late 1980's reforms started but it was not until 1991 that the Soviet Union was officially abolished.
Counting from 1864 cycle the year 1991 is #127
Looking in our diagram we see that #127 is exactly conjunct with the starting event #53.
So this was a year that strongly favored major change in the country.
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