{maketoc}Saturn, in my opinion, represents the key to understanding the connection between the humans that make history and the planets that mirror it. Saturn's near thirty-year orbit best reflects human generations. Better yet, it represents those generations across time. Thirty years represents different things to a hunter-gatherer and a post-modern city-dweller, respectively. Thirty years also holds different meanings to women and men as well. Whether we are speaking three thousand years ago, however, or three hundred, Saturn still works as a collaboration device whose standard remains constant across time. ...page...<h2>Saturn and the Human Growth Cycle</h2>Saturn connects to humanity by more than mere generational coincidence. The diagram below, consistent with the wave model we already use, shows where human growth and Saturn merge.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.onesixfoureight.com/compendium/bitweaver/essential/images/saturnwave1.jpg" width= height= align="center" desc= ><br /><br />The first quarter of the Saturn cycle equates to the years between birth and seven years. This important portion of a human's holds different meanings according to culture. In the modern world, this time prepares a child for school and life outside the home; in a hunter-gatherer society a child must be proficient enough to not act as a burden to their clan. We see here how though the time span is the same, that the reality varies according to social circumstance.<br />A fourteen year-old girl in the Middle Ages will have different concerns and responsibilities than one in our time, but fourteen years always marks the halfway point of a Saturn cycle. Seen in this way, we can see how Saturn measures <em>reality.</em> For a fourteen year old girl the reality varies according to standards of the time. Reality deals with what happens in the physical world at a particular time of measurement. Though what we sense as real varies over time we can still measure what is real through understanding Saturn.