on 2006-03-01 07:09 pm (UTC)
But I dunno. Within a year, you've gone through every part of the year. So why would the formative experiences be substantially different?

'Zacly. What the heck is the natural twelve-year cycle (or for the finer-grained version, sixty-year cycle) that would have enough physical effect (at least in China) to be *noticed*, much less shape people's personalities? Sunspots? Sandstorms? Precessional wobble? El Niño monsoons?

(I've got a book somewhere about Chinese geomancy, published before the recent feng shui craze, which describes actual wayback reasons for some of the precepts after all-- facing the house away from the dusty winds sweeping in from the Mongol steppe; arranging the solar exposure to shelter the house from summer heat but maximize passive heating in winter, and so on.)
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