<ul class="toc"><li> <a href='#Four_Corners' class='link'>Four Corners</a><ul><li> <a href='#Change_of_Direction' class='link'>Change of Direction</a></li></ul></li><li> <a href='#Universal_Model' class='link'>Universal Model</a></li><li> <a href='#Saturn_s_Orbit_in_Human_Terms' class='link'>Saturn's Orbit in Human Terms</a></li><li> <a href='#Saturn_s_Quadrate_Alignments' class='link'>Saturn's Quadrate Alignments</a><ul><li> <a href='#_1st_Quadrant_0_to_90_' class='link'>      1st Quadrant: 0° to 90°</a></li><li> <a href='#_2nd_Quadrant_90_to_180_' class='link'>      2nd Quadrant: 90° to 180°</a></li><li> <a href='#_3rd_Quadrant_180_to_270_' class='link'>      3rd Quadrant: 180° to 270°</a></li><li> <a href='#_4th_Quadrant_270_to_360_' class='link'>      4th Quadrant: 270° to 360°</a></li></ul></li><li> <a href='#_Interdependent_Points' class='link'>       Interdependent Points</a></li><li> <a href='#_Examples_in_History' class='link'>      Examples in History</a></li><li> <a href='#Quadrate_Alignment_Conclusions' class='link'>Quadrate Alignment Conclusions</a></li></ul><br /><br /><a name='Four_Corners'></a><h1>Four Corners</h1><br /> We arrive at quadrate alignments when we divide any cycle by four. These divisions match ones that we see and use all of our lives. Businesses use quarters to gauge performance. We schedule our years in accordance to the four seasons. Each month  we see four phases of the moon. As it turns out these divisions by four works out as valuable measuring device across time. The quadrate model used here comes directly from nature. We simply are looking for metaphors to reflect this reality and seeing how they extend to longer-range models.<br /><br /><a name='Change_of_Direction'></a><h2>Change of Direction</h2><br />The metaphor we see does more than equate to these quarterly measurements. Human life equals change and how well a human or a collective deals with change reveals conditions all along the way. Both models used here, the wave and a circle both clearly depict that conditional change appears at four points along the way.<br />The Wave Model<br /><br /><i>basic wave form diagram goes here</i><br /><br />    * The wave model begins at 0° depicting an agreed to starting point or in many cases in this study the point in space where two or more planets share the same degree conjunction<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=conjunction" title="Create page: conjunction"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>. If this point were a continuation of a previous wave this point would represent the crossing on the x-axis, a move of one condition to the next.<br /><br />    * Moving down the wave we reach the bottom of the trough at the 90° mark. Here the conditional change is directional. Astrologers term it a lower square<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=lower+square" title="Create page: lower+square"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>.<br /><br />    * The next stop brings us to the 180° mark at another axis crossing. It's relation to 90° equals the same as the conjunction to the lower square. Like the 0°, the opposition<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=opposition" title="Create page: opposition"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> crosses the x-axis.<br /><br />    * The wave zenith at 270°, upper square<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=upper+square" title="Create page: upper+square"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> mirrors the lower square; it also shares the same relationship to the opposition (180°) as the lower square (90°) does to the conjunction.<br /><br /><a name='Universal_Model'></a><h1>Universal Model</h1><br />Universality makes this model a cogent one. It works for lunar cycles as seen below:<br /><br /><i>lunarwave</i><br /><br />      or for a Neptune=Pluto wave that lasts between 492 and 495 years:<br /><br />      <i>nepplu wave image</i><br /><br /> On the  next page we will uncover how the quadrate works in real life across time<br /><br />      ...page...<br /><br /><a name='Saturn_s_Orbit_in_Human_Terms'></a><h1>Saturn's Orbit in Human Terms</h1><i>saturn wave form here</i><br /><br />Saturn's year covers approximately twenty-nine and half earth years. This time span closely matches the human development cycle: in general human metabolic rates peak about this age. In social terms, a Saturn cycle equals a human generation no matter the historical period making it a useful measuring device. Beyond matching human generations, Saturn's connection to humanity helps us see why quadrate alignments make great measuring tools and how we can apply to all aspects of social study.<br /><br /><a name='Saturn_s_Quadrate_Alignments'></a><h1>Saturn's Quadrate Alignments</h1><br />  Using the same scale as before we can segment Saturn's orbit into the following wave quadrants. This list will also include generalities based on ages.<br /><br /><a name='_1st_Quadrant_0_to_90_'></a><h2>      1st Quadrant: 0° to 90°</h2><br />This stretch equates to ages between birth and seven years. Any child development expert would agree that these years prove critical in how a child moves forward in life. Most pertinent to our study how well a child adjusts at the second quadrate alignment (age seven/90°) ties into many factors found at the first. Social status, parental health, mental and physical, originating environment and many other factors found at birth go a long in determining how a child handles the transition around school age.<br /><br /><a name='_2nd_Quadrant_90_to_180_'></a><h2>      2nd Quadrant: 90° to 180°</h2><br />This stretch from what school age to puberty of course was seen differently in hunter gatherer societies , for instance, but the dynamic still applies; at this age a child must be less dependent on parents and showing progress. But school age makes more sense to us.<br /><br />   Around seven, children move from under their parents' wings. Again how well they adjust depends on the previous stage, and will test both the children and the parents. More and more children gain independence but still fall under parental responsibility. The challenges grow especially as sexual hormones become a factor.<br /><br /><a name='_3rd_Quadrant_180_to_270_'></a><h2>      3rd Quadrant: 180° to 270°</h2><br />As the wave crosses the x-axis the child reaches puberty bringing up new issues. Obviously these will vary for boys and girls (going back to the reality set at birth (0°). For women menstruation and pregnancy arise. For young men hormones and confusion reign. Parents must deal with these in the best possible while also facing growing independence. The now teenager must also begin to make his or her plans for the future, all of course dependent on social mores and expectations--in Middle Age societies this planning fell to parents who arranged marriages, in the USA teenagers looking to enroll in college must consider a plethora of factors including outside activities as well as grades. Most important to remember here is that the former child now takes on her/his lifelong appearance and behavior though the march to adulthood is far from over.<br /><br /><a name='_4th_Quadrant_270_to_360_'></a><h2>      4th Quadrant: 270° to 360°</h2><br />At this point the now adult moves into the final stages of adulthood. Both the parents and the &quot;child&quot; long for exit from the nest. Depending on previous stages along the wave our subject nears college graduation, has entered the job market or begins this independent stage dependent on others. By the end of Saturn cycle (29 1/2 years) many become or consider becoming parents. Women face the biological clock. At the very least those nearing thirty are expected to fend for themselves if not contribute to society. At this point, known as the Saturn Return<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Saturn+Return" title="Create page: Saturn+Return"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> people also begin to face their mortality, the invulnerability of youth disappearing with each day.<br /><br />      ...page...<br /><br /><a name='_Interdependent_Points'></a><h1>       Interdependent Points</h1><br />       We discuss Saturn and the Human Growth Cycle<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Saturn+and+the+Human+Growth+Cycle" title="Create page: Saturn+and+the+Human+Growth+Cycle"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> elsewhere. The emphasis here belongs on how each point on the wave, especially the crossing of axes (x at 0°/180; y at 90°/270°) depends on every other point.<br /><br />How a child adapts to their first release into the world around seven depends on conditions set at birth (0°) and what and how the child fares up to age seven (90°) contribute to how the child takes the next step. The same goes the 180° mark around 14-15 but with the added checkpoint of 90° added in.<br /><br /> This proceeds all the way through the cycle until the Saturn Return<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Saturn+Return" title="Create page: Saturn+Return"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>, starting over with different concerns until the next return around age fifty-eight. No one point on the entire wave, including those not at quadrate alignments. operates alone, just as someone does not turn twenty-one, for example, without a history to go with it. Each point on the wave belongs to the wave and cannot be considered separate from it. Seeing this integrity proves easy for known history, a bit trickier for projecting into the future. Projecting into future has its own concerns and receives separate treatment.<br /><br /><a name='_Examples_in_History'></a><h1>      Examples in History</h1><br /> An example that relates to electronics Uranus, Neptune and the Development of Electricity<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Uranus%2C+Neptune+and+the+Development+of+Electricity" title="Create page: Uranus%2C+Neptune+and+the+Development+of+Electricity"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> shows how electricity moved from theory to 1821<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=1821" title="Create page: 1821"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> to electronics 1992<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=1992" title="Create page: 1992"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> and mass acceptance. Two short examples covering recent events will not only help show how outer planet quadrate alignments tie to history, but provides material for later use<br /><br /> !!1953Saturn-Neptune1989<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=1953Saturn-Neptune1989" title="Create page: 1953Saturn-Neptune1989"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> and Iran<br /><br />      <i>1954Saturn-Neptune1989 diagram</i><br /><br /><br /><br />  *1951-1953-360°/0°: A joint US/'UK secret plan overthrows Iran's democratically elected government to control Iranian oil; install Shah; this begins many shadow operations by US government.<br />      *1962-90°: Shah implements land redistribution; implements literacy program in armed forces; some lose land to Shah's favorites; middle class grows very quickly through the 60s; Shah exiles to Khomeini to Paris<br />      *1971-180°/0°: Massive inflation undermines Iranian economy; the middle-class previously torn between rising incomes and state oppression turn against Shah,  but cannot unite; the lower classes coalesce around Islamic insurgents; in response Shah cracks down leading to many groups to turn against Shah<br />      *1979-270°: Revolutionary Guards seize American Embassy, hold hostages; Khomeini returns, sets up Islamic Republic;  Carter and Reagan secretly negotiate with kidnappers, Reagan offers deal that leads to Iran-Contra<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Iran-Contra" title="Create page: Iran-Contra" class="wiki wikinew">?</a> affair; in 1980, Iran and Iraq enter into bitter war that lasts until 1988; Shah goes into exile.<br />     *1988-89-0°/360°: Though the Iraqis won military victory, Iran's survival established its Islamic government as legitimate at least in the region. From this point on Iran has struggled to balance western inspired ways delivered by the Shah and Sharia law<br /><br /><br /> Here we can easily see how events at each quadrate alignment relates to another. The 1979 Revolution at 270° still carries elements of the 360°/0° (1953 overthrow) and 90° (1962 land redistribution/Khomeini exile) forward; none of the events makes sense alone.<br /><br />  ...page...<br /><br /> !!1915Saturn-Pluto1947<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=1915Saturn-Pluto1947" title="Create page: 1915Saturn-Pluto1947"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>:  Setting the Stage for The Cold War<br /><br />      <i>1915Saturn-Pluto1947 diagram</i><br /><br /><br /> *1915-360°/0°: WW I that exploded in 1914 sounded the final death knell for the Imperial Russia. Much of Russia suffered from an inability to modernize compared to the West, a top heavy and inefficient government structure and heavy war casualties (almost two million dead, close to six million injured).<br /><br /><ul><li>1922-90°: The US overthrow of Iran's government (see above) probably inspired the USSR to seek partners across the globe; China and the US fought their own version up to 1953 in the Korean War; around this time the Soviets demonstrated both nuclear and transcontinental missile capabilities that rattled the West.</li></ul>      *1930-180°/0°: Near the opposition Stalin consolidated political control by eliminating his rivals.  From here forward the Soviet Union removes any illusions of utopia with its prosecution of the large bourgeois class know as the kulaks, either through incarceration in the gulags or execution; estimates vary between 700,000 to 60 million. Also from this point forward Stalin proves able to establish a large and productive industrial sector that later allowed him to supply the war machine. Most importantly, his First Five Year Plan industrialized farming, boosting agricultural output and thereby releasing workers to the factories. The end result came with the establishment of Revolution into a productive state.<br /><br /><br /><ul><li>1940-270°: This period of course conjures up the Non-aggression pact, its subsequent violation by Hitler and the beginning of WWII. But we should remember that a quadrate alignment speaks not just of a moment in time; it displays developments that occur from one such alignment to the next. In this case this points to the effects of the First  and Second Five ear Plan. From A History of the Modern World<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=A+History+of+the+Modern+World" title="Create page: A+History+of+the+Modern+World"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>:</li></ul><br />No ten years in the history of any Western country ever showed such a rate of industrial growth as the decade of the first two Plans in the Soviet Union...from 1928 to 1938, production of iron and steel expanded four times, and that of coal three and a half times. In 1938 the U.S.S.R. was the largest producer of farm tractors and railway locomotives. Four-fifths of all its industrial output came from plants built in the preceding ten years.<br /><br />We can see in retrospect that machinations around the Non-aggression pact and the German invasion of the Soviet Union meant nothing without the latter's industrial might--the same lines that can produce tractors and locomotives can produce tanks and ammunition. Any quadrate alignment points to a test of how previous actions play out in the light of day. Certainly could know at the upper square<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=upper+square" title="Create page: upper+square"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> how the industrial might of Germany would fare against that of the USSR. As we can see, the struggle eventually played out that the Red State ended up controlling the lands that Germany coveted leaving them in position to create the Eastern Bloc that played such a big factor during the Cold War. Of course, this fact is easy to write in a sentence. We need remember that the span between 1940 and 1947 included the horrors of Stalingrad, the frozen deaths of millions of hapless fighters on both sides and enslavement and extermination of millions of Jews and others the state deemed undesirable on both sides.<br /><br />Again we the lesson here revolves around seeing that while each alignment along the wave stands by itself, we glean more by seeing each alignments place as part of the greater whole.<br /><br /><br /> *1947-0°/360°: Though Churchill and, to a lesser degree, Roosevelt knew they could not trust Stalin, their reliance on the Soviet state gave the latter leverage the other two lacked. At the time of the 1945 Yalta conference, the USSR controlled much of what soon morphed into the Eastern Bloc. This level of control encouraged the embryonic Communist superpower to adopt a policy of seeding new nations who could now emerge from colonial control. These factors represent both conclusion and seed. The former coming from the Soviet's triumphs during WWII, the latter from the fact that it now put friendlies in power in soon to be satellite states.<br /><br />Most importantly at this end time we see all of the elements of 1915Saturn-Pluto1947 neatly summarized: the rise of the a Communist Russia through successful overthrow of the Imperial Russia in 1917 at start of the wave; this led to the Russian Civil War where the Bolshovieks prevailed leading to creation of the USSR in 1922 at the lower square<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=lower+square" title="Create page: lower+square"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a> of 90°; around the halfpoint--((opposition), 180°--we see Stalin establish power while also (literally) exteriminating the kulaks who represented the most potent opposition to Stalin's plans; from here we move to the upper square<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=upper+square" title="Create page: upper+square"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>, 270° near 1940, which brings us to the period of the Non-aggression Pact and Germany's violation thereof, with its invasion the USSR, bringing us back to the end of the wave where the shadow all of the events mentioned here help define the picture seen around 1947.<br /><br />Keep in mind here as well that the entire 1915Saturn-Pluto1947 wave sets up the next: 1948Saturn-Pluto1981<a href="tiki-editpage.php?page=1948Saturn-Pluto1981" title="Create page: 1948Saturn-Pluto1981"  class="wiki wikinew">?</a>, the period that encompasses the main section of the Cold War mentioned later  at  <a title="Saturn and Outer Planet Waves" href='tiki-index.php?page=Saturn+and+Outer+Planet+Waves' class='wiki'>Saturn and Outer Planet Waves</a>.<br /><br /><a name='Quadrate_Alignment_Conclusions'></a><h1>Quadrate Alignment Conclusions</h1><br /> Each of the alignments, whether as depicted along a wave or a circle represents a change of direction, both physically and as seen here, historically, . Though all the other transits, 30°, 60° and 120° also relay important information, the quadrate alignments more easily display themes that relate to history in connected, holistic manner. Compare a quadrate alignment to a historical event, fill in the five axis crossings points along the wave and it clearly limns the full historical picture.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />