⌛The Shape of Time: Not a Ray, but an Ouroboros (Snake Eating Its Tail)
To ordinary traders, time is linear—yesterday, today, tomorrow—an endless race to the right. But to traders who understand astrology, time is a circle, or more precisely, an infinitely ascending spiral. 1. History Never Repeats, But It Rhymes Creepy Do you think you're experiencing a new bull or bear market? No, you're just on the same point of the circle. 2013, 2017, 2021, 2025… These numbers are not isolated years; they are slices on the spiral of time. Just like planetary retrogrades and direct motions, market sentiment also swings in a precise pendulum. When the greedy pointer crosses 12 o'clock, the seeds of a crash are already planted in that moment. The so-called “this time is different” is humanity’s greatest illusion. There’s nothing new under the sun—only different faces of the same old chives, making the same mistakes as four years ago, in the same spot. 2. Price is the Projection of Energy, Time is the Container of Energy Why does Gann say “When time arrives, price will reverse”? Because time is circular, and energy is conserved. You see candlesticks oscillating—that’s actually time breathing. Inhalation is accumulation, exhalation is distribution. Most people die before dawn because they don’t understand “the emptiness of time.” At the singularity of cycle transition, time distorts, prices fail, and only those who can endure loneliness can hear the crisp “click” when the circle closes—that’s the starting gun for a new cycle. 3. Fractal Geometry: A Grain of Sand, A World; A Moment, Reincarnation Open the 15-minute chart, and what you see is a miniature of the daily chart; Open the monthly chart, and you see a projection of the 15-minute chart. “As above, so below.” The laws of the universe are universal across all dimensions of time. A short-term plunge is just a mini bear market cycle. Those who don’t understand the big cycle are forever ants wandering in a maze, thinking they’re walking straight, but actually trapped in a Möbius strip, never reaching the end. 4. The Essence of Suffering: Trying to Walk a Straight Line in a Circle Why do you feel anxious? Because you try to fight the laws of the circle with linear thinking. You want prices to rise every day, to always win. But the nature of the circle is yin and yang—rise and fall. In this circle, the highest point is the beginning of destruction, and the lowest point is the womb of rebirth. True traders are surfers of time. We don’t predict the waves; we wait for the tide. We know that after winter comes spring—that’s not prediction, that’s the way of heaven. 5. The Ultimate Secret: You’re Not Earning Money, You’re Earning the Cycles’ Dividends All alpha strategies are essentially the monetization of time cycles. You think it’s because of your skill? No, it’s because you happen to be on the rising segment of the time spiral, standing on the elevator. Those who don’t believe in luck are like fools trying to push back the tide with their hands during a low tide. What we need to do is find our slot in this huge, slowly turning golden gear, quietly embed ourselves, and wait for time to carry us upward. In this market, candlesticks are surface, time is the soul, and the stars are the dealers. Understand the shape of time, and you understand the flow of wealth.⏳
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⌛The Shape of Time: Not a Ray, but an Ouroboros (Snake Eating Its Tail)
To ordinary traders, time is linear—yesterday, today, tomorrow—an endless race to the right. But to traders who understand astrology, time is a circle, or more precisely, an infinitely ascending spiral.
1. History Never Repeats, But It Rhymes Creepy
Do you think you're experiencing a new bull or bear market?
No, you're just on the same point of the circle. 2013, 2017, 2021, 2025… These numbers are not isolated years; they are slices on the spiral of time.
Just like planetary retrogrades and direct motions, market sentiment also swings in a precise pendulum. When the greedy pointer crosses 12 o'clock, the seeds of a crash are already planted in that moment.
The so-called “this time is different” is humanity’s greatest illusion.
There’s nothing new under the sun—only different faces of the same old chives, making the same mistakes as four years ago, in the same spot.
2. Price is the Projection of Energy, Time is the Container of Energy
Why does Gann say “When time arrives, price will reverse”?
Because time is circular, and energy is conserved.
You see candlesticks oscillating—that’s actually time breathing.
Inhalation is accumulation, exhalation is distribution.
Most people die before dawn because they don’t understand “the emptiness of time.”
At the singularity of cycle transition, time distorts, prices fail, and only those who can endure loneliness can hear the crisp “click” when the circle closes—that’s the starting gun for a new cycle.
3. Fractal Geometry: A Grain of Sand, A World; A Moment, Reincarnation
Open the 15-minute chart, and what you see is a miniature of the daily chart;
Open the monthly chart, and you see a projection of the 15-minute chart.
“As above, so below.”
The laws of the universe are universal across all dimensions of time.
A short-term plunge is just a mini bear market cycle.
Those who don’t understand the big cycle are forever ants wandering in a maze, thinking they’re walking straight, but actually trapped in a Möbius strip, never reaching the end.
4. The Essence of Suffering: Trying to Walk a Straight Line in a Circle
Why do you feel anxious?
Because you try to fight the laws of the circle with linear thinking.
You want prices to rise every day, to always win.
But the nature of the circle is yin and yang—rise and fall.
In this circle, the highest point is the beginning of destruction, and the lowest point is the womb of rebirth.
True traders are surfers of time.
We don’t predict the waves; we wait for the tide.
We know that after winter comes spring—that’s not prediction, that’s the way of heaven.
5. The Ultimate Secret: You’re Not Earning Money, You’re Earning the Cycles’ Dividends
All alpha strategies are essentially the monetization of time cycles.
You think it’s because of your skill?
No, it’s because you happen to be on the rising segment of the time spiral, standing on the elevator.
Those who don’t believe in luck are like fools trying to push back the tide with their hands during a low tide.
What we need to do is find our slot in this huge, slowly turning golden gear, quietly embed ourselves, and wait for time to carry us upward.
In this market, candlesticks are surface, time is the soul, and the stars are the dealers. Understand the shape of time, and you understand the flow of wealth.⏳