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The Sun requires, on its ecliptic path in retrograde movement (precession), 25,920 years for a passage through the zodiac (the Platonic World Year). In each 1/12 of this period of revolution, that is in 2,160 years, it receives the workings of forces of one zodiacal region. From this measure of time there results the duration of a cultural epoch (cf. Elisabeth Vreede: Astronomie und Anthroposophie, Dornach 1980, S. 100 ff.). Each of the twelve regions of the zodiac bears a sign, a constellation, that has a name going back to ancient wisdom-teachings.