In Finey’s book, she seemingly had the same magnet pointed to her head, with the same fillings swimming around in there. What she discovered was a pattern between them. Still not as neat and tidy as the Venus-Sun synodic cycle, but still more than I had ever read or learned. She calls it “The Venus-Mars Saros cycle.” Similar to how you can study the life cycle of Eclipses, but instead, relating to Venus and Mars. This is beyond the scope of this article, but here are some of the basics:
A Cycle begins with a Venus/Mars conjunction in the morning sky
It can be while Venus is retrograde or direct
The direct ones last much longer…nearly a thousand years longer (A Saros that started with Venus Rx, on average is 300 yrs; When it starts with a direct conjunction: 1200. Rx cycles move backwards through the Zodiac, Direct ones move forward.
They slowly move from the morning to the evening sky over the timespan of the Saros (explaining one of my initial questions!)
As with Brady’s Saros-Eclipse work, you study the chart for the first conjunction in the series to understand the succeeding conjunctions every 32 years, seeing its evolution.
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