barbault cyclic index

André Barbault's cyclic index and the Barbault basket: what he actually wrote about 2020 and 2026

Barbault's 2011 essay named a pandemic at the 2020 to 2021 cyclical low. His 2014 book framed the 2026 Saturn-Neptune conjunction as a reflowering, with the late-July 2026 Barbault basket configuration as its crescendo. Here is the arithmetic behind both claims, what it is and is not showing, and how the decade is likely to test it.