Barbault's Cyclic Index
How concentrated or dispersed the outer planets are, the slow rhythm of collective crisis and relaunch.
The cyclic index was devised by Henri-Joseph Gouchon and developed by André Barbault; computed here from our own ephemeris.
Aunt Starling's Reading
You’re in the breathing-out part of a long cycle. The planets that scattered wide are beginning, slowly, to bunch back toward one side of the sky, but not for another decade. Right now you live in the middle distance, where the pressure eases.
That 2020, 2022 gathering, the one that shook the world hard: that compression is loosening. You can feel it in how things have shifted, how the urgency changed shape. There’s no crisis waiting in 2026, the sky is actually opening wider then, dispersing further still.
What you’re moving through now is the long unspooling. Not comfort, not chaos, but the ordinary work of living in a world that’s learning to hold itself differently. The next real tightening won’t come until 2034, and that’s far enough away that it invites something steadier: attention, preparation, presence.
You have time. Use it well.
