THE CYCLICALITY OF TIME
In African Spiritual Sciences ("AS"), we consider the duality of Time & Space as a divine marriage with the two in a constant act of intimacy / friction that creates cycles of rebirth (in AS, death and birth work in correlation). Time offers us an opportunity to experience the omnipresent infinity of Space through a series of moments – more so, we get to experience the cycles of Space through Time. Our Ancestors mastered this concept of cyclicality and applied to all spheres of their lives, including commercial efforts. Today on “The Other Side with Sihle Sibeko”, we investigate AS concepts of Time and how they can be applied in modernity.
TIME AS A CONSCIOUSNESS
Time is an incredible lens to view our evolution and the evolution of our environment as a whole. Time gives us a foundational understanding of reality. Time is a hyper-loop for perception – it allows us to experience a thing, the evolution of a thing and our relationship to the thing through a series of moments. Depending on how we’ve integrated wisdoms from our past into our present so we may create our future, we can perceive an entire experience through a higher consciousness (eg: leaving an abusive relationship because you have learnt and now consciously know you deserve better) or through a low consciousness (eg: remaining in an abusive relationship because you are unaware that you deserve better, or you are tied subconsciously to conscious manifestations of abuse). Either way, the same lesson will appear in different forms until you have the wisdom given by Time to make a different choice.
This is an example of cycles. Our Ancestors understood cycles as the evolution of a thing that experiences constant rebirth, with Time serving as the storyboard for that evolution to unfold. In the above example, the relationship either ends OR resumes (birth) until the next time a decision must be made on the relationship (death) that ultimately ascribes whether the individual has evolved past the relationship (rebirth) or evolves in other areas of their life but remains stagnant in their abusive relationship (rebirth). Whilst our Ancestors recognized Time as a conveyer belt for order, they were OBSESSED with the effect Time has on the evolution of cycles – and that filtered into everything.
AS TIME CONCEPTS
The obsession with exactitude in AS is because everything mirrors the Multiversal creation process stemming from an Infinite Source of Blackness. In Kemet (aka Ancient Egypt), a calendar consisted of 12 months. In a month, you had 3 weeks with 10 days each – a total of 30 days. The calendar was structured this way to be in harmony with the cosmos, allowing for a higher consciousness of reality & perception. A year was exactly 360 days, signifying the completion of a cycle (think a 360° revolution) and completion (3+6 = 9). 12 months representing 12 Multiversal Gods (as seen in the Kemetic Ennead) and 12 Dimensions of our Universe, with each God & Dimension ascribed a month. 3 months of 30 days representing sustainable creation & creativity (3 in Kemet was the number of creativity). 36 weeks in a year – again representing completion (3+6 = 9). Even days were different – a day consisted of 12 hours (from 6 am – 6pm) and a “new day” in the form of night consisted 12 hours (from 6pm – 6am); this was done to embrace duality and how its mergence leads to sustainable creation.
Lastly, in AS, Time and its cycles aren’t universal because our perceptions of moments within the universe differ from different stations in the universe. This brings us to the cycle of nature within the Kemetic Calendar System. The cycle under investigation is the seasonal cycles – in Kemet, life was organized in accordance to the seasons and their underlying meaning. For instance, winter was a time when economic production was at its lowest due to hibernation, summer was the season accompanied by the most festivities. The keen interest was spring, because in spring everything blossomed & bloomed into life. Hence in AS, the New Year is celebrated in spring because spring sees the (re)birth of the New Years in accordance to the rebirth of nature. This then leads us to how Time as a moderator of cycles is expressed today
THE QUARTER QUAGMIRE
I always wondered why the most common financial year-end date is 28th February until I remembered that in the Northern Hemisphere, spring begins on the 1st of March. I chuckled a bit when realizing this, then I remembered that Ancient Greece & Rome both followed a similar calendar system. The most impressive part about this however is how calendar systems translate to financial earnings.
Earnings seasons: Since 2010, in the months of March & April, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) rallied an average of 2.97% (297 basis points), whereas in September & October (aka the transition from autumn to winter), the NYSE sheds an average of 1.46% (146 basis points). Those represent the greatest two month-swings in a year, both in terms of rallies and shedding, over the 12 year period. More so, companies listed on the NYSE generate an additional $138million in Q1 (March into April) in headline earnings compared to $-27.8 million in earnings in Q3 (September into October). The phenomenon is not restricted to NYSE either - on the London Stock Exchange, only on 3 occasions since 2010 have September-October months outperformed the March-April months, and one of those years was due to Covid-19.
It is not exclusive to companies either. Eurozone economies in Q1 & Q2 (spring & summer quarters) tend to perform better in both GDP growth & productivity than in Q3 & Q4 (autumn and winter quarters). USA experiences the same story.
How about South Africa? Well, it’s the inverse. Since 2010, September-October months have outperformed the March-April months 10 times. What of South African GDP growth & Productivity – again, since 2010 September-October months have outperformed the March-April months 8 times. Why is this so? Because South African subscribes to a Time format that is not indigenous to its station. Remember I said in AS Time & its cycles are relative to your station in the Universe? The Northern Hemisphere & Southern Hemisphere are inverse of each other – meaning when it is spring in the North, it is autumn in the South and vice versa. Southern Hemisphere nations are following Time in a way that is antithetical to its nature; thus the reality and perception of reality that Southern Hemisphere (largely African) nations are tethered to is alien to its own indigenous consciousness. We may be more likely to see greater enterprise on the continent by a simple shift of having a financial year-end declared at the end of 30 September, in time to bloom with the natural cycle of rebirth that the African calendar shall pass through.
For Africa to fully express its power, then our reality and perception of it must align to an indigenous culture. Time, our understanding of it and its cycles, must be incorporated to everything we do, before it’s too late. The clock is ticking… evolve or perish to the same cycles!
Siyabonga!!!
This week's affirmation: Time manifests my ambitions into reality with ease and joy
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