Inner Units of Emotional Time by P.Q. Wall

CYCLIC YEARS: PEAL SEQUENCE

Imagine that hoofed animals embody desire and their predators embody a countering will which must perform an elaborate killing ritual before dining. Instincts would thus follow a sequence within a day:
  1. Dawn, gloomy fearful desire causes early spread of grazers,
  2. Noon, desire grows joyful and overconfident,
  3. Sunset, gloomy and fearful will brings early predation, trimming and ordering the grazers.
  4. Midnight, joyful runaway will brings wholesale predation and clear-cut marking out of turfs.

Using ANIMAL SYMBOLS to represent this sequence we could label it:
DAWN NOON SUNSET MIDNIGHT
Gloomy Desire Joyful, runaway desire Gloomy Will runaway will
PYTHON ELEPHANT ANT LION

(We picture the elephant here as a party animal.) So using the first letters of the ANIMAL SYMBOLS we call the natural sequence of instincts within a day the P.E.A.L. sequence, like a peal of thunder.

CYCLIC SEASONS: LEAP SEQUENCE

But what if instincts came and went in a very different sequence within a time of day? To represent this suppose we called each time of Day a Year (capitalizing them so as not to confuse them with real days and years.) We would thus have the Year of Dawn, Year of Noon, Year of Sunset, Year of Midnight within one Day.
But the Seasons within each Year could appear in a different sequence from the four Years themselves.

Imagine that each Year launches the Spring Season by triggering a huge explosion of plunging will, joyful reckless will, like pushing a huge cradle as far as it can go in one direction. Then the Summer will simply be an answering plunge of the most violent joyful desire. The answering cradle rock to that is a less forceful more mechanical return of gloomy will for Fall, and answering that the also milder return of gloomy desire for Winter.

SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER
Joyful Will Joyful Desire Gloomy Will Gloomy Desire
LION ELEPHANT ANT PYTHON

CYCLIC MONTHS: A STATEMENT MONTH, COUNTER MONTH AND CLIMAX MONTH WITHIN EACH SEASON

Each rock of the Seasonal cradle is not a simple rock but consists of three Months, opening, counter and climax.