" April 10, 1996 - was the day my world changed. It began with the reading of a statement found in “The Horoscope, The Road and Its Travelers”, by Alan Oken. The statement read; “According to occult philosophy, the life span of an individual is eighty-four years, which can be broken down into twelve; seven-year cycles, one for each sign of the Zodiac.” I read further, waiting for the explanation on this statement.   The explanation was; “In addition, eighty-four years is the length of one orbit of Uranus around the Sun. If we subtract 84 from 360 (the number of degrees of the ecliptic), we get 276, or the approximate number of days of the human gestation period.  Thus we can say that from conception to birth, the Sun travels through 276 degrees of the ecliptic, but in order to complete its journey through all 360 degrees, 84 degrees, or days, are necessary.  If we take each day after birth and equate that with a year of life, we have the symbolic basis for the predictive method known as Secondary Progressions”."