Development in time, differences in standpoint, in rhythm, scale and duration

Trying to understand the structure and the workings of processes - how they can do what they do - I come back again to the time, but now to the progress and the development of processes in the course of time. Up till now my work with time has been limited to the description and illustration of place, time and movement from a standpoint on the world, like in parts three and four of this structure line. In the last part I went further into the matter of the relation between a process and the larger processes of which it forms a part, as every human and thing on earth takes part in and is in interaction with varying contexts within the time system that we call our solar system.
This time I want to go deeper into the distinction between the unique viewpoints of processes with their autonomous character and in their own relation with the actuality of the environment. I want to get a clearer view of the mutual relations between processes which are by definition different, with the question of how the points of contact work out in an actual process of interaction and what information that can offer about the limits of all those different single processes involved.
I continue from the earlier parts of this line mentioned underneath and start once again from illustrations and animations. I begin with a familiar manner of orientation, with a look at the horizon, from the moving earth we see the ongoing time of our co-ordinating environment's space.

Links to
structure #9/3 illustrations of space, time, relativity,
structure #13/4 orientation in space and time, with animations,
structure #29/9 networks 2: process and context.
 

1. The own time and properties of processes: the standpoint of a process

The development of the nature of the human process takes place in interaction with contexts, in dependence on the actual experiences on offer. Development always happens: we cannot escape that, 'The essence must come out' as Hegel would have said.
The development of the human being comes about in time. From the process that I am, I see the environment moving around me, I experience time. I gauge that time from light and dark, on the movements of the earth as part of our solar system that, as a process, in turn is determined in its development by our galaxy and its stars and other grouped parts, and so as well deeper into space.

Time and movement cannot be uncoupled.
 

1a. A planetarium, the sky all around, at 51º North latitude

The movement reproduced below, the rotation of the earth, is regular in time: every hour the MC proceeds the same number of 15 degrees. The movement of the Medium Coeli is such that it, at the beginning of the next day, has advanced one degree of the circle.

In this way the Midheaven follows the Sun's gradual progress through the zodiac as we observe it on earth and experience it in the seasons.
 

1b. The advance of the horizon through the zodiac

The advancement of the Ascendant through the signs of the zodiac is unequal. It coheres with the degree of latitude of the standpoint, as has been discussed and illustrated earlier in the parts 3 and 4 of this line, it is determined by both the time and the place on the globe. This means that in keeping with the place where we are, the pattern of beginning of events and their rhythm in the course of the day constantly and gradually changes in character.

Every day the time schedule moves over a bit. This also contributes to the fact that each process can have its own chronology.
 

Animation 2 shows in diagram the advance of the signs over the Ascendant at 51 degrees North latitude: the equal steps are of an uneaqual duration.

The exact information about the time differences as used in the above animation is to be found on a separate page (open in new window?).
 

1c. Actuality in interaction with a process in development

All parts of our solar system are - as I established earlier and I repeat it - processes which develop individually by interaction (by exchange of energy) between each other and with the earth and with the major and small processes within the galaxy. Everything is process.

The 'lifespan' at the level of our solar system within its context (the galaxy) is, as compared to that of human beings on earth, enormous. All of these processes develop according to their individual character in different tempi and rhythms. The functions of this type of process, for example the planet Pluto and the other parts of the Kuiper belt within the framework of the solar system, develop in interaction (e.g. moving) with the other parts of the system. This goes very slowly in a for us undiscernible speed. This holds for all elements of the system, they are all involved by the interactions within their system.
The 'lifespan' of human processes and the functions of human processes on earth are of a smaller scale and are derivatives of the functions of the earth as a whole and of her movement within our solar system.
 

Animation of the progress of a planet through the signs of the zodiac with the contacts it, from its consecutive positions, has with the different functions of a human process: Adolf Hitler's years of youth from 1889 to 1901 and his situation in 1916-'18, 1930-'31, 1944-'45 and 1945.

Links to
the birth chart of Adolf Hitler (open in new window?).
 

2. The collaboration of the properties of processes with differing time scales

A process is the gradual development of a coherent unity due to interactions of its parts (its potentialities) mutually and on account of interactions with its actual environment. The potentialities determine the individual character that has been put at the disposal of the system. The development of potentialities runs in phases. They develop into strong, positive, weak or negative properties by either attracting strengthening and destructive experiences in the actual environment or get them offered, and subsequently use and digest them in the course of time.
We can differentiate between two types of interaction:
- the type of the direct interaction (the essence, the heart, the unique core, the individual character): the interactions between individual processes,
- the type of the general interaction (the group, the spirit of the time): the interaction with a context or the environment in a wider sense.
Now I want to look at the factor which co-ordinates the different time scales: general interaction with the actuality. We look from the outside standpoint at a certain human process, some moments in the development of its own strengths, and at the forces available in the environment which play a role in its development. We will see how the process goes through its own experiences in course of time, collects them and develops its own history and in the actual now, in the variable actual environment, is engaged on its future and the realisation of its task.
 

2a. The perception of a person and the perception of an assembly

Two time systems get together in one point: the given aims of Adolf Hitler work together with those of the assembly of the Reichstag for the approbation of the conferment of full powers upon Hitler, for the appointment of a Chancellor of the Empire and for the proclamation of the Third Reich. I do not know the sequence of their agenda, I presume that Hitler delivered a speech at the beginning or at the end (or both). The chart with the astronomical data of the proclamation of the new German state is at the same time the chart of the energies which Hitler there at that time undergoes.
 

The aim of Germany's Third Reich is in this meeting - this NOW - in interaction with a purpose from the past: the plans of Hitler are going to be embraced with enthusiasm by the democratically elected representatives of the people. (It is rather doubtful that they still represented the German people as a whole because the political adversaries of the nazis were placed outside the law beforehand.) In the picture of the relations between the two, that predominantly positive reception - and some interesting gaps - is expressed.

On 24-3-1933 the time was ripe for Hitler's delusions (the Reichstag endorsed his dictatorial powers), while on 22-11-1942 at ±7h PMT, when the investment of the sixth army under general von Paulus at Stalingrad was a fact, the tide began to turn as he refused to bow to reality, stuck to his eroneous ideas and stuck to his deep need to revenge himself on the army command [ note ] .

Links to
the chart of Adolf Hitler (open in new window?),
the origin of the Third Reich (open in new window?).
 

2b. The interaction of two individuals: an actual occasion

Some members of the army command plotted in 1944 an attempt on Hitler's life. Klaus Schenk von Stauffenberg would carry it out and, when he would be certain of the result, go to the others in Berlin immediately, whereupon the army would take command.
 

3. Length of time and time scales: the development of properties of a process

The development of a process consists of series of events and experiences, it   proceeds in phases which are subsequently passed through one by one. The phases of development have their own rhythm, as they are part of and make use of the process' built-in clock.
Above I have used the examples of two far-reaching and reasonably documented occasions which played a role in the life of Hitler. The Reischstag in fact consists of an tremendously large number of events, the number of events around the attack is smaller but it is still hardly possible to lift out the crucial points although the moment itself is clear enough.
The events do form together the experience, they are stored together with the emotions concerned and the knowledge of the context. The experiences together form the history af a person, and the history of his environment, in this case of a whole nation and its environment.
 

3b. Interaction with the environment and with (dis)integrating forces (a lifetime)

Now I will look at the rhythmical character of a cyclic process, the personal chronology, on the scale of a human lifetime. For this purpose we can, in principle, take every function as jumping-off point and follow the events in their individual rhythms. I start off with the analysis of the development of the ASCENDANT, the physical presence in an environment. In this way both the different methods of the phases as well as those of the other functions can be clarified when they get in contact with the environment in different ways via the Ascendant. In the case of this person the choice for the Ascendant means that at the same time also his Sun, the self-control function, Neptune the integrate function and the synthesize function Mercury (secundary) show themselves and, in keeping with the varying duration of the phases, shift sooner or later to a following field of work and express themselves again some time emphatically.
At the same time I have indicated the progress of Neptune in the tempo of the actuality and at the dates corresponding with the development of the process as a whole. The consequence of Neptune's slow progress and yearly period of retrograde movement is that its characteristic influence cannot be pinned down to an incidental event as that can be the case with the actual Ascendant, Sun or Mercury, but rather that a period of influences of 'clarity and vagueness' on a specific field of work is hinted at.
 

3c. The evolution of emotional bonding, the fundament of humane nature

The following animation represents the evolution of the relatively fast forward moving Moon, the emotional basis function. We see how her contacts shift gradually, in order to end in a contact with Mercury, in this case representing his own hand.
 

Link to
the calculations for the series 3b and 3c (open in new window?).
 

Conscious use of duration and direction of time and of personal freedom

Use of time is not limited to being linearly directed at the future, to moving forward, just shuffling along behind the facts. Conscious development demands of a human being that he goes back in his history and takes the time (zigzagging?) to go through exeriences anew, to supply them with the present emotions and insights, in short, to be able to rethink, to renew them and give the development direction. Processes may in advance be defined, determined and directed at the given aims, but to reach those aims, to live by himself a humane life and be a responsible menber of society, it is necessary to regularly dwell a while consciously on former events and experiences.

The analyses of both the last series of diagrams of the process Adolf Hitler confront us with some important questions.
The first question is in how far freedom can still be a possibility for a process that does not have  a stable inner basis at its disposal. The precondition for freedom - as I described earlier in this series - is after all inner stability, a good fundament of the recognised own emotions (to be distinguished from sentiments and sentimentality: occasional feelings which are mainly determined by the effect they produce on the environment and can pretend or suggest or provoke emotions). Only upon such a basis can a private system of values, to which you can surrender yourself and that you can justify for yourself, be developed. Such a fundament is therefore not only necessary for developing, sooner or later, a personal system of values but also for a broader morality. Learning, as a pre-schooler, to handle limits and childish fears offers a firm footing for self reliance, bonding with and responsibility towards yourself and others [ note ] . Upon this then, and only then, can one really work at handling antitheses and at thinking about freedom and surrender. In case such a stable basis is not available morality can only be determined by the actual availability of resources in the environment.

The second question is straightforward: did Hitler have the choice to act differently?
Naturally there have been moments that he made a specific choice. That one cannot follow a choice can be because someone or something interferes; choosing and acting are as I observed earlier two distinct processes.
The information I found on the family in which he grew up comprises nothing that indicates that it could offer the emotional security that a child needs. That in itself says nothing. When I look at the information in his birth chart I establish the fact of a basis which from the start is dominated by fear and which remains instable till the end. (Choices and) parents cannot change much of that given fact. They answer the expectations of the child as they interpret them, supposing that they know what is going on (both parents and child see what they like to see or what they need to see).
Not every person has been given the means to learn how to handle one's own emotions and values, how to develop morality consciously and to avoid having to mask one's real intentions, having to hide behind others and to violate the depths of other people's heart; not everyone finds the right way to develop a strong emotional basis, a personal conscience, and can act respectfully and responsibly [ note ] . For that individual it can become very urgent to look in his environment for appropriate preys.

The third question is to what extent can or does society want to take responsibility for the individuality and the stability of its members, to what extent may and can people still be different (the basis of democracy). It seems important to distinguish between freedom and being able to make choices from being obliged to follow the law, respectively to manage the law at will in order to manipulate people for as much personal benefit as possible. Everywhere and all the time and without any respect for the individual's limits we see that in our present society the seduction- and demoralising techniques of demagoques like the hyper-sentimental Hitler and the sly Stalin are applied and further developed. The totalitarian language or Newspeak, the language of the dictatorial free market economy has been and is applied with the target of making the outlet store ideology of our STC-system (inclusive of a biennial series of free wellness therapies with self-certified guarantee) penetrate in the individual in order to exclude him from himself, from his own basis, the own essence, as Kertész and Marcuse explained. The legislator seems impotent or ignorant or both with regard to the capture of personal freedom by taking it away from others. The, in my opinion, most important question is whether mankind, at present, has a chance to resist the seductive, demoralising and parasitic techniques with which it is being flooded continuously, if it is not even allowed to learn how to acknowledge its own emotions and values and protest its moral limits. Looking back at the first fifteen years of the previous century the book 'The Vertigo Years; Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914'  [ note ] offers a clear and vivid picture of the situation before the Great War, of things new and fast, in which men and women in Western Europe were caught and which caused more and more trouble especially for the men. It gives a surprising insight into the general mental and emotional vulnerability at that time.

For me it is no question of whether insight into the psyche and the actions of AH, in its contexts and its historical backgrounds is of any use to us. The superior lust for freedom of the Age of Reason and of social trends, of Hitler and the likes of him and of the STC-system cannot take away the underlying fears and resentments, it can only lead to more and more exploitation and demoralisation and to further expansion of this corrupt ideology. The question is whether we are willing to dwell on indulging or undermining people's stability and levelling of democracy - want to turn the tide - or that we keep on looking away on purpose and let society continue to rot and be taken advantage of by this epidemic.
Let us stop running like blind men behind an enlightened unreal future.
 

Consistency in time, the connections of networks

With all this, not only the notions of time, direction, duration and development of processes, but also the coherence of processes and their contexts - each interacting mutually from their own space-time - have become more clear, understandable and manageable for me. Witness the example that it is, by means of the structure of the process, also possible to gain better insight in the workings of human processes, among which the psychic. The process has shown some of its underlying potential.

Hereafter I want to try to get a somewhat wider view of some groups of relations between our properties. I expect to find some rather unusual aspects.