“WE know that 2,500 years ago, a Babylonian astronomer realized that eclipses come in cycles that are 6,585 days long. Babylon is long gone but the eclipse cycles, which we call the saros, continue to beat.”
At one saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative geometry and a nearly identical eclipse will occur. It will not, however, occur in the exact same location because the saros cycle is actually 6,585.32 days long. That extra 0.32 of a day means that the earth moves an extra ⅓ of a spin on its axis.
Solar eclipse facts. The longest total solar eclipse during the 11,000-year period from 3000 BC to at least 8000 AD will occur on July 16, 2186, when totality will last 7 minutes 29 seconds. The Book of Joshua 10:13 describes the sun staying still for an entire day in the sky; a group of University of Cambridge scholars concluded this to be the annular solar eclipse that occurred on October 30, 1207 BC.
Cycles are inevitable, consistent, and just as applicable to humans and stars, moons, and plants. And yet we treat events as extraordinary occurrences. But with a historical perspective and view, we can see the pattern as clearly as backtracking the biblical eclipse.
The political chaos turning point came in October 2015 followed by the economic/monetary chaos turning in January 2020. The next will be a political panic chaos turn in March 2022, and what we see happening in Ukraine is just the precursor, as is the chaos in Canada.
Note this. Russia says it will not allow Ukraine to be a part of Nato because the defense alliance could then put its troops and armaments at the Russian border. Sixty years ago—October 1962—the world nearly suffered a nuclear war because the US would not allow Soviet missiles in Cuba as part of a proposed Cuba-USSR defense pact. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”—Mark Twain.
The large cycles are always dotted with “panic periods,” which we think are all economic related and that is primarily true. But the nastiest ones are the political panics. France, Australia, South Korea, and the US have major elections this year. Canada will elect critical provincial leaders in Ontario and Quebec. Other significant national elections will take place in the Philippines and Brazil, and regional elections in Germany.
What do politicians do when their economies are falling apart? They look for a foreign conflict in order to rally the ignorant masses around the flag. Further, because political divides are so strong and pronounced in these elections, and with the panic cycle coming, we could easily see a considerable breakdown of order. It is also interesting to note that six weeks ago governments were still saying, “we’re all going to die.” Now its “Pandemic over. Thanks for playing.”
In March, the US Federal Reserve is set to start increasing interest rates. Against the backdrop of the current beginning of the political chaos, the economic picture will potentially be like something out of a nightmare. The US and Europe have been talking big about “the most punishing sanctions ever” on Russia. But Russia also is the largest wheat exporter in the world by double over both Canada and the US, not to mention mineral fuels and oil. China is Russia’s largest export buyer, so Putin is not too worried about these sanctions.
However, if the US economy takes a hit from the Ukraine chaos, what does the Fed do about interest rates?
In March of 1918, the Spanish flu reared its head in America when more than 100 soldiers fell sick at Fort Riley, Kansas. March 2020 is when Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, triggering the first lockdowns in the Philippines and the US. And of course, Julius Caesar is to have been assassinated on March 15th.