Modern history has its own seasons

We connect our lifecycle with the seasons of nature not only to link our personal past to our personal future, but also to locate our own life within a larger social drama. Modern history has its own seasons—its own wets, hots, drys, and colds. Now consider what happens when one group of people grows up in a wet season and comes of age in a cold, while a later group grows up in dry season and comes of age in a hot. Because the seasons of history shape the seasons of life differently, the result is different generations. More fundamentally, because the seasons of history arrive in a fixed pattern, generations will also arrive in a fixed pattern—a recurring cycle of four archetypes. Rooted in ancient temperaments and enduring myths, these archetypes connect personal time with social time. Created young by the seasons of history, the four archetypes recreate those seasons, in the same order, as successive generations pass through life. ~ Source