CAPÍTULO IV. Análisis e interpretación de resultados
4.1 Análisis descriptivo de los resultados
4.1.2 Encuesta dirigida a los estudiantes
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Earlier I said I did not believe the 8-year cycle of Gann was the "eighth square, or death zone."
For years I wondered what Gann was talking about when he referred to the "death zone." I have seen some of the works of other
writers on the subject and they seem to have some validity.
I am not an astrologer nor astronomer, but have read several
books on both subjects. But, it was when I was reading one particular book that it finally dawned on me what Gann meant.
And it should have been obvious all along!
Let's look at chapter 9 again, page 111 in the "old" course, bottom of the page (Section 10, Master Charts, page 2, Master '12' Chart, in the
"new" course). Gann is talking about the square of 12 or 12 times 12 or 144.
Among other things he notes that the eighth and ninth "zone" are hardest to pass because this is the death zone.
Let's first put the square of 12 in perspective to the circle.
It appears here that Gann has taken the circle of 360 degrees and divided it into 144 parts and each part would therefore represent 2.5 degrees.
The first 12 parts then would be 30 degrees since 2.5 times 12 equals 30.
The end of the 7th zone then would be 210 degrees and the
beginning of the eighth zone would be at 211 degrees. If we look at a diagram of the zodiac we can see that this would be the beginning of the zodiacal sign Scorpio.
There is an expression from the Bible of "Oh death, where is thy sting?" And we all know that scorpions kill with a stinger.
Let's look back again at Gann's private papers on soybeans, this time the third page, third paragraph, where he says that below 304 the price will be in the bear sign Scorpio, a fixed sign and will indicate lower prices.
I believe you will agree with me that a bear market or going down market would be described as a "dying market."
Back to the 12x12 square. We could make a case that the eighth year is the death zone if we base our 12x12 on the movement of Jupiter. Jupiter makes its cycle in approximately 12 years or 144 months or 2.5 degrees per month and through a sign of 30 degrees in one year. Starting from the zero point in Aires, Jupiter would be in Scorpio in the eighth year of its cycle.
Getting back to Venus, we noted that Venus makes its cycle in 225 days. If we started Venus and the earth in a helio circle (as seen from the sun) from 0, when the earth gets at 225, Venus is at 360.
Where is this 225? Looking at a design of the zodiac we find that 225 is in the exact middle of Scorpio since Libra ends at 210.
15 degrees more or 225 would be at 15 degrees Scorpio.
We might say that when the earth is dying in Scorpio Venus is being reborn in a new cycle at 0 degrees in Aires.
And as some would say, without death there is no life.
I mentioned earlier that I found the evidence for this in a book on astrology. It is a book easily found so that you can look it up for yourself without buying a book on astrology.
It is one of the Time-Life books you have seen advertised on TV, but is probably available at your local library as that is when I found mine.
The name of the series is "Mysteries of the Unknown" and the name of the book in the series is "Cosmic Connections." On page 120 it gives the qualities of the different houses of the zodiac and on the opposite page it shows the location of the different houses in the equal house system.
There are many "house systems" in astrology and Gann used at least two of them, as can be seen from his private papers, but for this purpose we will assume equal houses and make signs and houses the same.
You will notice that the eighth house is the house of death and the eighth sign or house is Scorpio! It should have been obvious to me a long time ago. But sometimes it take a long time for things to sink in.
I will venture to say that even those Gann writers who claim to have great knowledge of astrology never made that connection to Gann's death zone!
PATTERN! PATTERN! PATTERN!
We must never stop looking for PATTERNS when we study Gann or any other numbering system. If we do, even the obvious will get by us!
When we looked at the cube, we were looking for the relationship between the cube of 6 and the cube of 9.
Is there any other clue in the Gann material for the use of these two numbers?
In his novel, "The Tunnel Thru the Air," we see that his main
character, Robert Gordon, was born in the 6th month (June) on the 9th day in the year 1906. Dropping the 1 and the zero in the year we see that it is 9 and 6.
On page 194 of the novel we see that his office on Wall street was at 69! If we turn that number on its side we see that we have a zodiacal symbol, the crab or cancer.
An astrological writer before the turn of the century made much of the two numbers and noted their "sexual" connotation which I will not go into here, but just note it in passing.
That astrological writer also made much of the numbers 3, 5, and 7, which are Masonic numbers and Gann was a Mason.
If we add the numbers their total is 15. And by now I'm sure I don't have to tell you what that number is.
If we square them and multiply them we will have the square of 105 times 105. And if we divide that by 30 we will have 367.56.
Another way to put it is, the square of 105 equals approximately 30 years.
The answer is also the square of a triangle and that number is found in the ratio of the Great Pyramid and contains all the cubes one to 14.
More on that next time.
I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it. The search for the PATTERNS in Gann and other mystical number writing is a never ending search for PATTERNS.
You might not agree with all I have had to say and you might think that the relationship between Venus and the cube is coincidental.
But the coincidences in Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV and Book V are certainly piling up.
And remember. Gann had a square of 90 and a square of 144 and their ratio is 1.6, the same as the heliocentric Venus cycle of 225 and the degrees in a circle, 360, and Venus goes 1.6 degrees a day!