MYTHIC CYCLE - a mythic cycle is an archetyped story seen throughout many pantheons.

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CYCLES (life, death, rebirth) - In Wicca & Paganism, there is a belief that all life follows the specific cycles manifested in nature: birth, life, death & rebirth.

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Cycle of Necessity. See CIRCLE OF NECESSITY

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Unavoidable Cycle.

See KUKLOS ANANKES

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Upward Cycle.

See ARC(S), ASCENDING AND DESCENDING

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cycle

A series of occurrences which repeats itself in a specific pattern with precision timing and no regard to outer changing conditions; an action of anything in the universe that repeats itself with a similarity at constant intervals; all life is held together in concentric patterns

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Messianic Cycle Theosophical literature gives this cycle both as a period of 2,160 years, and as a grand cycle or cosmic year -- the cycle of the precession of the equinoxes -- totaling 25,920 years. This grand cycle is one of the fundamental and most important of the great periods of cosmic history and evolution.

The Messianic cycle is therefore a recurrent time period, at whose opening (or close) a new spiritual and intellectual effort is made publicly by the Great Brotherhood, but strictly in accordance with nature's own cyclic vital periods or life-pulse.

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Cycle. From the Greek Kuklos. The ancients divided time into end less cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or the end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical.

There were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great Orphic cycle, referring to the ethnological change of races, lasting 120,000 years, and the cycle of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary influences and their correlations between men and gods - a fact entirely lost sight of by modern astrologers.

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Definition and meaning of Business Cycle

Business Cycle - [Economics]

There are two phases of business cycles. Recession is a period of decline gauged by changes in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A recession occurs when the real GDP declines over two quarters or six months. It begins when the GDP reaches its highest point prior to a steady decline over at least six months. A recession continues until the GDP reaches a low point, the trough. The second phase of a business cycle, expansion, starts when the GDP rebounds after hitting a trough.

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Definition and meaning of Business Cycle

Business Cycle - [Economics]

There are two phases of business cycles. Recession is a period of decline gauged by changes in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). A recession occurs when the real GDP declines over two quarters or six months. It begins when the GDP reaches its highest point prior to a steady decline over at least six months. A recession continues until the GDP reaches a low point, the trough. The second phase of a business cycle, expansion, starts when the GDP rebounds after hitting a trough.

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NINETY MINUTE CYCLE - a normal REM pattern of dreaming that repeats ever hour and a hay. (NAD)

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Cycles (from Greek kyklos circle, wheel)

The law of cycles arises out of the ever-unceasing alternations of the Great Breath of spirit in the universe. Abstract absolute motion, as the worlds evolve, assumes an ever-growing tendency to circular movement.

Hence arise the wheels and globes of cosmic evolution and the rounds of the evolutionary life-waves. Motion is repetitive, ever returning to similar, but not identical, points. The geometrical symbol is the helix, which combines the cyclic with the progressive motion; if the axis of the helix is itself a circle, a vortex results, and thus wheels within wheels as the process advances to further degrees of complexity.

"The ancients divided time into endless cycles, wheels within wheels, all such periods being of various durations, and each marking the beginning or end of some event either cosmic, mundane, physical or metaphysical. There were cycles of only a few years, and cycles of immense duration, the great Orphic cycle referring to the ethnological change of races lasting 120,000 years, and that of Cassandrus of 136,000, which brought about a complete change in planetary influences and their correlations between men and gods . . ." (Key 327).

See also BRAHMA'S DAY; HESIOD, AGES OF; ROOT-RACE; ROUND; YUGA; etc.

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Definition and meaning of Krebs cycle:

Krebs cycle - a series of enzymatic reactions in mitochondria involving oxidative metabolism of acetyl compounds to produce high-energy phosphate compounds that are the source of cellular energy ; also known as the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle and as the citric acid cycle

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Definition and meaning of biogeochemical cycle:

biogeochemical cycle - the chemical interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere

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Definition and meaning of biochemical cycle:

biochemical cycle - the flow of an element through the living tissue and physical environment of an ecosystem, e.g., the carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus cycles

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Definition and meaning of carbon cycle:

carbon cycle - the cycling of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide, carbonates, organic compounds, etc., between various reservoirs, e.g., the atmosphere, the oceans, land and marine biota and, on geological time scales, sediments and rocks

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Definition and meaning of nutrient cycling:

nutrient cycling - all the processes by which nutrients are transferred from one organism to another. For instance, the carbon cycle includes uptake of carbon dioxide by plants, ingestion by animals, and respiration and decay of the animal

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Definition and meaning of cell cycle:

cell cycle - the period between the formation of a cell by the division of its parent cell and the formation of two new cells by cell division

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Definition and meaning of hydrological cycle:

hydrological cycle - the movement of water in all of its phases (gas, liquid, solid) from the Earth to the atmosphere and back to the Earth

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Definition and meaning of nutrient cycle:

nutrient cycle - the cyclic conversion of nutrients from one form to another within biological communities

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