  We construct a new solar cycle phase clock which maps each of the last 18
solar cycles onto a single normalized epoch for the approximately 22 year Hale
(magnetic polarity) cycle, using the Hilbert transform of daily sunspot numbers
(SSN) since 1818. The occurrences of solar maxima show almost no Hale cycle
dependence, confirming that the clock is synchronized to polarity reversals.
The odd cycle minima lead the even cycle minima by ~ 1.1 normalized years,
whereas the odd cycle terminators (McIntosh et al. (2019)) lag the even cycle
terminators by ~ 2.3 normalized years. The mimimum-terminator interval is thus
relatively extended for odd cycles and shortened for even ones. We re-engineer
the Sargent(1985,2021) R27 index and combine it with our epoch analysis to
obtain a high time resolution parameter for 27 day recurrence in aa, <acv(27)>.
This reveals that the transition to recurrence, that is, to an ordered solar
wind dominated by high speed streams, is fast, occurring within 2-3 solar
rotations or less. It resolves an extended late declining phase which is
approximately twice as long on even Schwabe cycles as odd. Galactic Cosmic Ray
flux rises in step with <acv(27)> but then stays high. Our analysis also
identifies a slow timescale trend in SSN that simply tracks the Gleissberg
cycle. We find that this trend is in phase with the slow timescale trend in the
modulus of sunspot latitudes, and in antiphase with that of the R27 index.
