The Frequency of Venus

In Sacred Number I suggest that prehistoric people learnt about the natural structure of number through counting the periods of celestial events, most simply using the day as the counting period. The problem with counts is that they are periods and not frequencies; we are more familiar with musical tones and not the wavelengths of the sounds that we hear.

Frequency is just the reciprocal of wavelength so that when a period A is say twice as long  period B then the frequency A is half that of frequency B. Whilst unfamiliar then, it is possible and necessary to transform counts into the more familiar frequency view.

When looking at Venus and the Earth, the practical year is the fundamental frequency and is higher at 365 days than that of Venus at 584 days because the reciprocal of 584 is smaller than the reciprocal of 365. We should remember that

• 365 is 5 x 73 days and
  
• 584 is 8 x 73 days and also,
  
• as in Matrix of Creation, 73 days is
• 4 times 18.25 days which is
  
• 0.618 of a lunar month, i.e. related to the Golden Mean, and
  
• 1/20th of the practical year.

Venus, in terms of frequency, is held between the frequency of one year and that of two years, the latter forming low do for an octave with the year itself as the high do, as below.

 

The numbers in the blobs are times 73 days period lengths,
the lower frequencies having a larger number 

Chapter 2 explains how these sorts of octave come into existence due to relatively small numbers, for example this one with this sequence of intervals (the arrows such as 9/8, the whole tone and 16/15 the half tone) emerges out of the numbers between 24 and 48.  As a scale this would be the Ionian Mode - two tones then a semi tone - three tone then a semi tone - to make up the octave.

The Venus ratio of 8/5 becomes, in frequency, Venus has a frequency of 5 units relative to the Earth's year "frequency" of 8 units, i.e. it is lower, more bass. The Earth is 8/5 above Venus in frequency and this equals a number of familiar interval sequences shown: 8/5 = 3/2 (the fifth) times 16/15.  A fifth is itself 9/8 times 10/9 times 9/8 times 16/15. And so on, there are many intervals that seamlessly form the octave in general but in this case it can show the position of Venus as a relative frequency.

The essence of Venus is reciprocal that of the Earth, in many ways. If the Venus synod is set up within an astronomy program to trace the lines between where the earth and Venus are, the following picture emerges:

 3D view of the inner solar system, the sun central,
tracing between successive Earth and Venus positions
with a time period of 584 days (cross eyes to view in stereoscopic)

 The two planets experience the other describing a pentagon within the Zodiac or ecliptic. I hope everyone is enjoying the Evening Star as Venus rides high above the sunset, as she does every 8/5 or 1.6 years - which is not that often! As the planet swings around the Sun, on an inner orbit, she will shoot past the Sun to become a Morning Star.

Venus is locked into a Fibonacci orbital relation to Earth, with a synodic period of 8/5 and an orbital period of 13/8 solar years (0.615).