Stages

4.0 StagesIntroductionThe eighteen Stages are Stages in a cycle. Each cycle consists of the beginning of a project, the successful accomplishment of this project and then its eventual decline and final breakdown. It describes the rise, the success and the fall of any undertaking, project, business or kingdom. The Stages could be seen as separate moments fixed in time in this overall process. They describe the continuing process as if it consisted of different steps that can be lifted out separately.
The Stages are the same for each Series, so they can be applied to all of them. We just need to bear in mind that the first few Series have fewer Stages, it is as if they have skipped a few. Further down the line we get progressively more Stages, as if there is more differentiation between each Stage of development in the later Series.
I have given each Stage a number instead of a name. It is easier to work with numbers than to remember 18 different names in the right sequence.Up DownThe ascending and descending aspects are very prominent for the Stages. The left side, Stages 1 to 9, are unsure and easily intimidated. They want to go up and try to reach their goal. Complaints are often worse when going up a staircase or mountain. This is also regularly seen in dreams where the problems arise at a certain point in going up. When it happens at the start of the climb it is mostly a Stage very much to the left, Stage 2 to 5.
The same is true for going down in dreams: it is a sign for Stage on the right. And the further one is down, the further the Stage on the right. The graph below shows the aspect of going up and down.