We of the West tend to break up our lives in terms of separate events, happenings, episodes. We lose sight of the larger cycle. He is passing through the changes we call adolescence. Astrology is built upon the premise that any given moment contains within it the geometry of that which will unfold in precise and sequential periods of time. Considered as parts of a unit of activity, these periods together form a cycle.
All cycles relate to wheels, to endlessly moving circles becoming spirals.
But whether we consider a Great Kali Yuga cycle of 432,000 years or a lunar revolution of two and a half days, a life cycle of an individual or the fate of a nation, all cycles, hence all change, follows the same pattern. Every life, like a play, has a central theme, a major dramatic question, if you will, which is played out in repetitive, interrelated and yet distinctive cycles, all leading to a moment of climax, a crisis of some sort, from which springs resolution and finally transmutation. Let us look at the unfoldment of a cycle even as we would look at the unfoldment of a play. Ideally, in any drama, the audience identifies with the characters, forgetting for the moment that they are spectators to a play. Somehow Romeo's plight becomes our plight, Othello's anguish our own.