The mainstream model of how history is supposed to work is one of linear progress, from the supposedly primitive past to the technologically advanced present and future.

But many thinkers have posited that history, the rise and fall of civilizations, as well as economic cycles, are actually cyclical.

These range from ancient ideas like Hesiod’s Ages of Man, and the Hindu Yuga cycle, to Ibn Khaldun’s belief that civilisations last about 120 years, to Oswald Spengler’s vision of civilisations as organisms with a lifespan of about 1,000 years, to more recent ideas like Strauss-Howe Generational Theory and Peter Turchin’s theory of cliodynamics.

In this talk, we’re going to survey major thinkers ideas about cyclical history and see how many of them can be related to astrological cycles.

We’re going to consider what this tells us about the nature of history and time itself and see how it actually provides validation of astrology.

This will be an approximately two-hour talk. You will be able to ask questions during and after the stream. You will be able to access a recording of this talk for one month via YouTube following the live event.