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Since modern times one of the key techniques for analyzing any problem centers around breaking it down into ever smaller portions. ((The Wave Model)) follows this dictum but also show the wave in its entirety. Another difference is that astrology already presents a model built around halves, quarters (and other divisions) that welcomes comparison of one portion to another. The idea of halves starts with the basics such as day/night, girl/boy, light/dark and similar dichotomies. Indeed, the practice of astrology centers around the act of comparing with what we don't know to what we do. The halves and quarters we see here represent an astrological standard used in many different circumstances. Thankfully the model holds for using astrology as tool for interpreting history.
<h1>Halves</h1>
We cannot have a half without a whole. That a outer planet waves provides meaning we can use to interepret history is discussed elsewhere, but for now we need to assume that the whole, the wave h, provides insight we can use. With that in mind lets look at how halves represent two sides of the same thing.
<h2>Number One, Number Two</h2>
The number two connotes both number one and the two. Two brings awareness one with another or one against another. Two represents opposites that can both contrast and complement s night does with day, winter does with summer. Each acts or exists separately but also requires the other to operate normally. Of course, these observations seem to make sense with things, with simple events like passing ofg night and day, but how does this apply over time?
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A look at some dates demostrates what halves mean over time. The time near 1398 shows a prominent contrast to that around 1648. In England in 1397 Richard II was disposed and eventtually dies at the behest of the population and Parliament. In 1649, the English beheaded the King, Charles I.  While of course the circumstances differed greatly at the English Civil War, some reflected thoes near 1398. At both times an influentilal Parliament competed with a powerful monarch. 


<h1>Quarters</h1>