Jupiter's Great Time

Jupiter's claim to being the king of the gods is more than just a story. From my books, some of the numerical synchronicities that place Jupiter as controlling time in some way are summarised and extended.

For instance Jupiter is synchronous with the lunar year and hence with the Moon itself, forming a 9/8 whole tone to the lunar year. We also know that Jupiter and Saturn interact to generate a near 60 year cycle that defines the 12 sign Zodiac and also generate between them an accurate golden mean ratio.

Here I will discuss the relation that then ensues to the Metonic period of nineteen years in which the Moon, Sun and stars accurately recur in configuration. Nineteen is an important prime number that some even call the "signature of the creator".

The synodic period of Jupiter is 398.88 days whilst the solar year is 365.242 days. The ratio is then 1.0920978 and this, times 19, equals 82.9994 years, 83 year to one part in nearly 150,000. This means that there are 4 times 19 Jupiter synods in 83 solar years.

4 Metonic periods of 19 years were called the Callippic period, important in the past as the main way to synchronise a lunar calendar with the solar year. There are 235 lunar months in the Metonic, 940 therefore in the Callippic.

The ratio 83/76 is 1.0921052 which is an integer way of expressing 1.0920978 (Jupiter's synodic period) to this accuracy of one part in 150,000.

The 83/76 ratio can then be reduced to the ratio 35/32 by multiplication by 665/664 which is an adjacency of numbers involving 19 and 83. The relationship is mediated by the difference between the lunar and solar year but cannot be stated clearly enough to write this here yet.

One has to remember that all of the relations between celestial bodies are inter-related but achieve different, quite simple results. This displays some kind of causation that prefers simple numbers and certainly lies behind much of the traditional concerns that became known as sacred number.