Glossary of Phrases, Terms, and Definitions
In the Cycle Chart you will find certain terms used to describe the cyclic conditions. Study the following glossary to guide your interpretation of the cycles.
1- Cycle — Seeding, sowing, or starting time
The 1-cycle is the beginning period of your 9-cycle pattern, a time to make a positive change, initiate action, and start something new.
Active conditions
The 1-cycle is a time to initiate new undertakings and to take advantage of the positive, progressive conditions.
Leave no stone unturned
The 1-cycle is the key time in creating your future success. Look for opportunities and take advantage of them. Initiate and create, for the cycle is conducive to active progress.
2- Cycle — Passive circumstances
The 2-cycle is a time to further your undertakings through people. You will experience easy- going, languid feelings because it is a more relaxed time. Avoid procrastination. It will spoil your potential results.
Indefinite conditions
The 2-cycle can bring passive conditions, causing you to respond to your feelings and mood swings and to miss opportunities because of laziness. Further your affairs through friendly association and congeniality with others. Do not consider these activities wasted effort.
3- Cycle — Starts out with great promise but ends with a disappointment
The 3-cycle is strongest in the first half. The end of the active part of the seeding period comes in the middle of the 3-cycle year. Put forth effort to complete major undertakings by the mid-point of the day, month, or year. There is a build-up to a peak, which wanes after the middle of the 3-cycle. A disappointment could occur because of earlier over-optimism and incomplete plans.
4- Cycle — Testing and adverse conditions
The 4-cycle is a time to be more practical and patient, to apply system, and to be consistent in your efforts. Do not start anything new of importance. Attend to technical details. Be watchful of decisions and strengthen your previous efforts. Do not be fearful but realize it is nature’s opportunity to show any weakness, be it in health, in decisions, and in actions, or in going against the natural rhythms of the cycles. Every cycle has a positive side, but it is the use and interpretation of the cycle that determines the result. The 4-cycle year is the time to build a solid foundation in preparation for active, changing conditions in the 5-cycle year.
4- Cycle— Retrench
The 4-cycle is a time to hold back from major changes, to attend to routine efforts, and to strengthen what you have already started. Observe the signs that indicate where attention is required. Hard work and self-discipline are the keynote and will bring progress.
Anything of an unfortunate nature could occur
The 4-cycle is a time to be particularly careful of your actions, health, and any commitments, for nature is testing you. While it is generally desirable to carry on with all your undertakings, you may be forced to decide whether you can or should. Do not have fear. Every cycle has a constructive and positive form of expression, but some cycles are unsettling and challenging to one’s mental control and individuality of thought and action. The 5-cycle brings new opportunities.
5- Cycle—Superhuman effort
The 5-cycle is a time for action. Nature is working with you. Use the power of creativity to lift yourself beyond the details, to expand and develop your efforts to a higher productive level. Make changes and be progressive. Do not waste this time; however, be careful not to be impulsive.
6- Cycle—Procreative, fruitful, productive, indication of something coming into form
The 6-cycle brings decisions and additional responsibilities. Something is pending in preparation for your fruition. Observe the conditions appearing during this period. Opportunities present themselves as a glimpse of the fruition time.
7- Cycle—First half is an unsettled period
The 7-cycle, be it a year, month, day, or hour, is the beginning of the fruition period. The first part of the 7-cycle is an indefinite period of waiting before the ultimate results. Watch your feelings and emotional stability at this time. It is a time for greater patience. Carry through with prior efforts in preparation for the results.
8- Cycle—Fruition
The latter half of the 7-cycle is the start of the harvest period and can bring success resulting from prior efforts. The fruition period continues through the 8-cycle and almost to the halfway point of the 9-cycle. Accumulative The 8-cycle is the time to benefit financially or personally from past efforts. Materialize The 8-cycle is the time to reap financial benefits or material rewards for your past efforts, and to bring into form the results you have been working towards.
9- Cycle—Indefinite and worrying conditions
The 9-cycle is a reflective period when you can experience heights of inspiration or depths of despair, depending upon your stability of mind and prior efforts. It is an indefinite period that can bring worry. This is a time to be watchful of your feelings and guard against being over-emotional.
7 and 9 Cycles — Reflective periods
The 7-cycle is a time for thoughtfulness and quiet contemplation away from distracting activities. The 9-cycle it is a period to plan and draw upon inspirational ideas and thoughts in preparation for generating new ideas for the coming 1-cycle. There is a tendency to feel more emotionally sensitive and motivated through ideals during these times. Create greater peace and relaxation.