November 2007 - May 2008: The Thing That Hath Been??
“The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

...What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.”
Ecclesiastes 1:5-6 & 9-11 (New Int’l Vers. ©1986)

These words - first spoken by Solomon about 3,000 years ago - are well known to students of W.D. Gann. They express the principle that it is at the basis of cycle theory: “What has been will be again”. The never-ending challenge is to discern when those things will ‘be again’ AND to what degree will the similarity exist between the two (or three or four, etc.).

Ultimately, the most important feature in any cycle study is: Synergy. Borrowing from another of Solomon’s astute observations, “Two are better than one... and a strand of three cords is not easily broken.” The stronger the convergence of cycles - in a specific period of time - the more credible and reliable those cycles become (the whole is greater than the sum of its parts).

On many levels, late-2007 ushers in a cyclically-momentous and decisive time period. For over a decade, I have explained why the Jewish Year of 5768 (Sept. 2007 - Sept. 2008) and the adjacent period of 2007 - 2011 is the convergence and culmination of so many diverse cycles that a major geopolitical shift - particularly in the Middle East (think ‘oil’... and energy policy) - is inevitable.

Details on this corroborating discussion can be viewed on our website (www.insiidetrack.com) under the title: Focus 5768. The point is that there is a strong synergy of cycles converging in late-2007 through late-2008 that dovetail with our cycle-du-jour. This convergence of other cycles corroborates today’s topic-cycle... and today’s topic-cycle corroborates the convergence.