Coming Home: The Birth & Transformation of the Planetary Era

by Kelly Sean M.

In the second diagram, titled “The Principal Arc as Middle Term between Origin and Goal” (page 163) we see the previous arc, dominated by the rise of the Solar principle, as the middle term or threshold between the Lunar arc: from (the unknown) Origin to the First Axial Period, and the arc of the marriage of the Solar and Lunar: from the Second Axial Period to (equally unknown) Goal. As per Korotayev, prior to the first Axial Period, objective factors (geography, ecology) predominate over subjective (culture), whereas the reverse is true during the Solar arc (where in our own day, most notably, the fate of the biosphere itself will largely be determined by human choices). In a manner already anticipated by the countercultural inflections of the previous cycles, the Second Axial Period points to a transcendence and transformation of the relation between the objective and the subjective, to a trans jective state (for lack of a better word) that mirrors the sacred marriage of the Lunar and Solar. 1. The Principal Arc with Spiral 2. The Principal Arc as Middle Term between Origin and Goal