Introduction to Primitive Cabalistic Science

...travels, Saturn only covers 5 signs, and before he has visited 3 of these, Jupiter has already moved 8 signs further. Thus, in the twentieth year, Jupiter meets again with Saturn in a sign of the Trigon The symbol △ refers to a "Trigon," a grouping of three zodiac signs associated with one of the four elements; here it represents the "Great Mutation" cycle where conjunctions stay within signs of the same element for about 200 years., which serves as their meeting hall for conjunctions and oppositions for 200 years. Therefore, every 20 years, an opposition or conjunction arises; for example, in the Year of the World original: "Jahre der Welt" — also known as Anno Mundi, a calendar era based on the biblical account of the creation of the world. 3918 a conjunction occurs, 10 years after that an opposition, 10 years after that a conjunction again, and then in the following 10th year another opposition.

In the precise calculation, these cycles take 19 years, 313 days, 16 minutes, 13 seconds, and 49 thirds of a day; consequently, the cycle falls just 52 days short of a full 20 years.

The distance from one opposition in the Zodiac Zodiac: the "circle of animals," the belt of constellations through which the sun and planets appear to move. is 8 signs, 2 degrees, 58 minutes, 11 seconds, and 29 thirds. These regular occurrences (for we are not speaking of the extraordinary ones) always fall exactly midway between two regular conjunctions.

Extraordinary conjunctions of both planets, which might repeat several times within a single month or year This refers to "apparent retrograde motion," where planets seem to move backward and pass each other multiple times due to Earth's own orbit., are not considered here; we focus only on the twenty-year cycles.

The great revolution of both planets, which occurs every eight hundred years—specifically returning to the exact point where the first one occurred—amounts according to precise calculation to: