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Rates/rhythms

We know that all the organic processes on ground are repeated in " time ". Many processes are renewed in regular rates/rhythms. Most known being that of the alternation of the day and the night, which causes enormous differences in state of consciousnesses in the human being : take care, sleep, dream.
The rate/rhythm day - night results from the rotation of the Earth on itself.
The course of the year is also a constantly being repeated rate/rhythm. The Earth makes a rotation around the Sun during one year. At the beginning of January, it is close to the sun (perihelion) ; at the beginning of July, it is far away from the Sun (aphelion).
The change of the seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter, results from the oblique position of the terrestrial axis. They are marked by the relation of the Earth to the Sun.
But the processes of life on the ground are also influenced by the rates/rhythms of planets and the moon. (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluton)

Principal cosmic rates/rhythms

Earth : the daily rate/rhythm
Each day, the Earth makes a full rotation on itself. This rotation of the Earth on itself has an important consequence : seen Earth, the Sun and all the planets, the Moon in particular, rise to the East and lie down in the West.
This daily rate/rhythm of breathing of the Earth with the Sun has a great importance in biodynamic agriculture : each morning is a kind of spring miniature and each afternoon, a kind of autumn miniature.

The Moon : the monthly rate/rhythm
The moon has a very great number of rates/rhythms which all are shifted the ones compared to the others, which has as a consequence that one cannot almost never have two exactly identical situations of the Moon in the sky.

● The synodical rate/rhythm : rate/rhythm of the increasing Moon and the decreasing Moon : it is the period separating two identical phases from the Moon. During fifteen days, the Moon is increasing : its crescent enlarges New moon to Full moon ; this period is called the young Moon. And during the fifteen days according to, the Moon decrease of Full moon to New moon : it is then called the old Moon.

● The sidereal rate/rhythm : the passage in front of the constellations zodiacales. While carrying out its rotation around the Earth, each month the Moon passes in front of the 12 constellations of the zodiac. The sidereal rate/rhythm thus corresponds to the period which separates two successive passages from the Moon in front of the same group of stars of the zodiac. That is to say 27,3 days. This rate/rhythm is shorter than the rate/rhythm of the Moon increasing and decreasing since while the Moon moves in front of the zodiac, the Sun also advances approximately 30° in one month to him, which explains why the Moon spends approximately two days more to find the same phase.

● The draconitic rate/rhythm : lunar knot. Twice per month, the Moon cuts the plan of the ecliptic which is the plan in which the Sun describes its apparent trajectory around the Earth. The Moon thus crosses once the plan of the ecliptic while going up : it is the ascending knot ; once while going down : it is the downward knot. This rate/rhythm is approximately 27,2 days.

● The anomalistic rate/rhythm : apogees and perigees. The moon, in its monthly rotation around the Earth, does not describe a circle but an ellipse. Once, it passes to more close to the Earth : to its perigee (approximately 360000 km) and fourteen days later, it passes at the point furthest away from the Earth : with its apogee (approximately 406000 km). This rate/rhythm is approximately 27,55 days.

Sun : the annual rate/rhythm of the seasons
Winter solstice to the summer solstice, the Sun is rising. It traces arcs of circles increasingly higher in the sky, in the Northern hemisphere. Summer solstice to the winter solstice, it is downward. In addition, in its annual trajectory seen of the Earth, the Sun also passes him in front of all the constellations zodiac, which gives a particular character to each one of these periods varying from 18 to 45 days according to the size of the constellations.

Other planets :
    ● Opposition : the planets are in an angle of 180°, seen Earth, i.e. one opposite the other with the Earth in the center.
    ● Conjunction : the planets one beside different, are seen Earth. When a planet hiding place the other, one speaks about screening or eclipse.
    ● Trigonal, squaring, quintile, sextile : the planets are in an angle of 120°, 90°, 72° or 60°, seen Earth.

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