Some years ago while investigating astrology, I came across a fascinating anomaly: Mercury and Venus had a greater likelihood of forming either 30-degree or 60-degree relationships in 24- or 16-year intervals. The full cycle lasts 40 years and then repeats in the same way as the previous cycle. Below you will see 6-year transition periods between the two anomalies. Oddly enough, these transition periods seem to coincide with seminal turning-points of history. You be the judge.

Please note that what might be truly important becomes more and more obscured the closer the events come to the present. For instance, is Windows 95 really all that important? Are same-sex marriages going to be around for the long run? Are the mobile probes on Mars going to uplift humanity? It is bewildering to judge what is truly important in the present because most of us have more personal concerns to occupy our days and nights. 2-billion humans are more concerned about securing enough food from day to day. Homeless people, since they are immune to popular media, might be better judges than technocrats or so-called experts. Note also that transition periods coincide with human conflicts and encourage the development of more lethal ways for humans to slay other humans.

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1776-1781
American Revolution.

1792-1797
French Revolution. Mary Wollstoncraft’s "Vindication of the Rights of Women".

1816-1821
Simón Bolivar liberates Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
Guatemala, Panama and Santo Domingo declare independence from Spain.

1856-1861
John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry. Tensions build and erupt in American Civil War.

Inventions of burglar alarm, magneto-electric lighthouse, seismometer.

1872-1877
Economic crisis in Europe. Custer dies at Little Big Horn.
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
Inventions of barbed wire, electric candle, grain silo, hydroplane and hydrofoil craft, tubular steel bridge, mimeograph.

1896-1891
First modern Olympic games held in Greece. Spanish American War. Boer War.
Discovery of electrons.
Tesla’s alternating-current dynamos gain wide acceptance, replacing Edison’s direct-current systems.
Inventions of typewriter, 4-cylinder car motor, remote-controlled model boat, RDX (explosive), tape-recorder, alkaline storage cells, solid rubber tires, photo-electric cell, reliable submarine.

1912-1917
Balkan Wars. World War I, including the entry of USA. Seeds of the Russian Revolution brewing after shameful defeats at the hands of Austria-Germany.
Inventions of biplane, hydraulic hoist, stainless steel, assembly line process, quantum theory, aluminum foil, multi-engine heavy bomber.
Construction of Panama Canal.
Inventions of battle tank, water-cooled machine-gun, mustard gas.

1936-1941
Ascendance of the Third Reich which culminates in World War II.
Inventions of VHF television, vinyl polymers, electro-mechanical calculator, jet engine, helicopter, offshore oil well, radio telescope, pressurized high-altitude airliner, ejection seat, fluorescent lighting, color television, nuclear fission, nylon, DDT, FM radio. 

1952-1957
Korean conflict. Israel attacks Egyptian troops in Suez peninsula. Britain and France side with Israel while US brokers a ceasefire.
Inventions of atomic-powered submarine, earth-orbiting satellite, proton synchrotron, electronic calculator, hydrogen bomb, universal automatic computer, videotape, disc brakes, maser prototype, transistor radio, air-to-air guided missile, fiber optics, hovercraft, very large atomic-powered aircraft carrier, ultrasound, glass ceramics, ICBM, polio vaccine, silicon-grown junction transistor.
Discovery of DNA and RNA.

1976-1981
Pot Pot atrocities in Cambodia. Muslim clerics wrest control of Iran. Nicaraguan revolution. Iraq-Iran War.
Inventions of solar-powered boat, supercomputer, neutron bomb, space shuttle orbiter, telephonic fiberoptic cables, ABS brakes, electronic typewriter, maglev high-speed train, test-tube baby, satellite navigator (prototype GPS), CMOS (modern computer architecture), Dolby sound system, digital music-composer device.

1992-1997
Yugoslav confederation broken up resulting in bitter war among Serbs, Croats and Bosnians. Rwanda genocide.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff vis-à-vis scientific breakthrus. The posperity of this period resulting from the “peace dividend” and fiscal responsible government budgets (in Europe and North America) has given way to armed conflicts and mountains of government debt.

2016-2021
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