1365 occurred on November 1, at 7 Scorpio. Dr.

Lee has thus confirmed, regarding the Jupiter-Saturn rhythm, that

when the conjunctions are in Water and Fire, all is well; while in Earth and Air' all is not so well. Thus it can be inferred
that in the first half, Jupiter predominates; and in the second half, Saturn. This indicates that the astrological study of the
broader influences which affect the rise and fall of civilization is best approached through recurrence cycles of position
and relation of the major planets.

Pluto Cycles. The application of Bode's Law roughly coincides with the distances of the planets from the Sun; except in
the case of Neptune, where it breaks down entirely. However, D. E. Richardson, of the Armour Research Institute, as
noted in Popular Astronomy for January 1945, has discovered a formula which accurately yields the planetary distances.
The only discrepancy of over 0.1 per cent between distance values computed from this formula, and the observed
values, occurs in the case of Pluto. Furthermore, his formula confirms what Wilson found from a study of medieval
records as to the knowledge of the ancients, viz., that there are 13 orbits in the Solar System: one within the orbit of
Mercury (Vulcan), and two beyond the orbit of, Pluto. According to this formula the planet next beyond Pluto should
have a mean distance of 74.2 astronomical units, and a sidereal period of 640y; the outermost planet, 137.4 A.U., and
1608y. The mean values in tropical years would then be 625y and 1515y.

Recent discoveries by certain outstanding non-astrological investigators are interesting, even if as yet speculative, in the
fact that they check with the periods of the two planets which there is some reason to believe lie beyond the orbit of
Pluto. Studies of the Culture Cycle, by Jean Bradford, and by Petry, the great Egyptologist, indicate a period of about
1500 years as the duration of a Culture: subdivided into 6 culture -- phases of about 250 years each, in each of which
certain psychologically different basic components receive special emphasis. She has correlated recognizable
physiological differences with endocrine imbalance, based on the work of Dr. Berman, recognized endocrinologist,
revealing wherein both the psychological and the physiological characteristics of a culture-phase display a different
sense of Space, dimensional in nature.

The work of Dr. Ellsworth Huntingdon of Yale, outstanding geographer, climatologist and cyclologist, indicates a cycle
of about 640 years in the migrations of peoples.

Clearly these suggest a Pluto cycle, of a sidereal period of 247.7 years, or 245 1/3 tropical years, the interpretations of
which agree with certain conclusions reached by Dane Rudhyar, astrological student of cultures and civilizations,
concerning the Pluto period and its correlation with the style of a period. The sidereal period of the planet next beyond
Pluto correlates to the Migration cycle of Dr. Huntingdon. The 1500-Year Culture period of Bradford and Petry
correlates to the tropical period of the hypothetical outermost planet. Since in all Culture-cycles, Mrs. Bradford finds
that changes of phase occur in years divisible by 250, it is notable that close to these dates Pluto is at its perihelion (13
+) - its nearest point to the Sun. Its next perihelion passage will be in 198g, 11 years before her date. The first perihelion
passage of this epoch was 8 A.D., 8 years after her date. This is highly significant, since Pluto is nearer to the Sun than
Neptune during nearly 5 years before and after its perihelion pas- sages. Thus, as Rudhyar has suggested, Pluto
"fertilizes" Neptune once in each cycle by crossing within its orbit. It is also of interest to note that Neptune's aphelion
nearly coincides with Pluto's perihelion. Thus of all planetary orbits theirs are the most singularly related.

Neptune Cycle. We have found no study which has discovered Neptune's recurrence period of 164 years. In any case
this would be rendered difficult by the fact that 3 cycles of Neptune are nearly equal to 2 cycles of Pluto. Their
recurrence of relation, a cycle of aspect that is known as the synodic cycle, has a mean value of 492 1/3 years, although
now and for a long time to come it is nearer 493 years. It also develops that the Culture-phases alternate - one
centripetal, and next centrifugal - yielding a double cycle of about 500 years: probably the Neptune-Pluto cycle, wherein
every 247 years they are alternately in conjunction or opposition. From this we deduce that the outer planets exert a
powerful influence on Civilization. According to the analyses of Mrs. Bradford, the first 1500 years of each CultureCycle is predominantly extrovert; the next 1500 years, predominantly introvert: a double cycle of a value of roughly
3,000 years. This can be related to the 3,100-year period of 3 conjunctions of the two outermost planets, in which time
they return not only to the same relation, but also to nearly the same position in the Zodiac. Even the single Neptune-