WD Gann, horologist, and his greatest invention

Whether he considered himself a speculator first and student of the time second or a student of the Bible with coincident interests in its application in speculation, prophecy....well, these are academic questions subject to the scholarly never ending debate.  The unifying interest, I'd submit, is time and its repetition.

Re reading "OROLO and WD Gann" last night, I was struck this time more so than on first reading, when I didn't "observe," that WD Gann's pen name for his 1909 advertisements, OROLO, needed only an 'H' and a 'GY' to create the word Horology:

What a thought Mr. superromeman, WD Gann, a master in the art of creating time-keeping devices.

A time piece, repetition of history....  Our simplest time piece, having displaced the sun dial, the clock, be it a grandfather clock or an iWatch.  Horology, the art of making instruments for indicating time.  Perhaps a square of 9, Master Financial Timetable, Circle Chart....  Perhaps a "Map of Time?"

Simple instruments for the weak, complex instruments for the strong just as milk for the weak and meat for the strong.  Stock market courses, guidance in how to lay out the exact dimensions of a chart to a fraction of an inch for each cell... for the weak and 'seeing.'  Mysteries, enigmas, riddles to inspire and teach deeper understanding... for the strong, for those who 'observe.'

Simple time discernment and event repetition; the grandfather's clock strikes 6 and the sun rises or sets.  Less simple time discernment, the planting of the crops according to the calendar in March and harvesting in September.  Complicated discernment, an eclipse....

Are we a whole heck of a lot further in our understanding of time and event repetition than correlating 5pm with impending dinner?  It does not appear so to me.

Is the digital reflection of an iWatch any more accurate in highlighting the correlation between time and an event than a sundial?  Only if you are indoors I'd submit.  In contrast, the sundial will tells us directly whether we are closer to the summer or winter solstice.  The iWatch can't do that without referring to its iCalendar.  The sundial can provide, theoretically, an infinite division of time directly according to the spacial position of the Earth relative to the Sun and depending only on your ability to read the tiny increments of light and shadow on the circle's dial.  The iWatch needs to refer to an atomic clock somewhere to check its time discernment (at irregular intervals) and the atomic clock needs to check the Earth/Sun alignment; the iWatch is once removed, at least, from the source of time.

Of course, the sundial works, err, not so good at night.

All those charts and devices Mr. Gann created, timepieces of sorts but ones tailored to predict a certain type of event; a financial event(s).  Unlike the mechanical watch in which we can see its inner works, count the wheels, see where they interface and count each tooth on each wheel, WD Gann's virtual time pieces have unknown mathematic wheels with keys we can't count or see.

Buy as many books as you wish, read as many all knowing blog posts and my experience is that you won't find a person who knows how to infallibly work a 'square of 9' chart to predict consecutive market pivots.  I read "its just a square number generator."  I don't think so.  Oh, I've pledged the "Gann learning ritual" of navigating the square of 9, navigating around the square to find the next root or square, degrees of rotation and the like.  But predicting time and price?  Not even close.

Can we mystically, luckily, statistically find the "answer" without knowing the cause...the math?

Trying to reverse engineer something you can't see; pretty difficult I'd imagine.  But if you think its governed by something other than cause and effect, it would seem you're starting in the wrong place. If you think a WD Gann virtual device is governed by mystical properties of the square, triangle and circle then I expect you'll rotate that translucent triangle near endlessly, as I did, trying to predict time and price....well, until the cows come home.

It appears to me, after years of study, understanding the device without seeing it root cause...well, its vastly unlikely to occur.  Would a watchmaker replace a gear without counting its teeth?

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We have the devices but not a person has demonstrated they infallibly know how to use any of them.  We have the greatest device, the Great Pyramid of Giza which WD Gann ruminates as being created according to a "divine plan."  And yet, in only the last decade or so did any mathematician discover the Pyramid's symbolizing not just Pi, Phi, roots 2, 3 and 4, but Euler's constant as well.  

We've had WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air" for approaching a century and not a person, until these pages, has found the math of the Pyramid, all of it and then some, in "Robert Gordon's seven days."  For goodness sake, Mr. Gann posed "Robert Gordon's seven days" as the greatest of enigma's he posed in the Foreword of TTTTA.  And the only comment of any insight I have read has been Mr. Gann sadly miscounted the chapter number as XXXIX when it was actually chapter 34.  My, how the enigma's of Chapter XXXIX have exceed the great "Gann experts."

The math of Robert Gordon's seven day is that same math as that of the Great Pyramid of Giza but its virtual, not physical.  The Great Pyramid, now thousands of years old will visibly disappear some day.  As long as words, measurements and thought exist, there will not be any degradation in the deep enigmas and mathematic truth of "Robert Gordon's seven days." 

WD Gann's "Map of Time" is the greatest of time pieces that horologist WD Gann created.  We have his many charts and devices, we can see them but we can't explain them.  Unlike the other time devices, the "Map of Time" is hidden in "The Tunnel Thru the Air." Unlike the other time devices, it is not a mysterious artifact someone found while rummaging through his papers.  It is mathematically provable according to his encoded design parameters and encoded markings and consistent with and in my opinion based upon prophetic Biblical time periods and the perfect math.  It is as Mr. Gann told us point blank, he owed his knowledge to the Bible.    

I am convinced the WD Gann "Map of Time" is the finest time piece Mr. Gann invented, formed out of his understanding of math rising to at least that level of the Great Pyramid of Giza and, more likely, the still unseen math of the Bible.

WD Gann's "Map of Time," his great timepiece, his greatest invention.  If I am unable to achieve an understanding of how to use it, someday, someone will.

Jim Ross