What does a year look like to you? I’m a very visually-oriented person, and many abstract concepts find a spatial representation in my minds eye.

An hour looks like a clock face with a sweeping minute hand, and parts of an hour slices in that pie chart. A day looks different depending on the day, thinking about it now. It’s as if every day is a path, and that path looks different depending on the things I’ll be doing that day. The path usually heads southwest though.

The weird one though is a year. As far back as I can remember I’ve had a clear idea in my head about how the months relate to each other. I don’t know if this will make sense to anyone but me, but months seemed to have relationships with each other, a years journey followed a constant path, and more importantly, at every given moment I always view the year from my perspective on the present point on that path.

I’ve never plotted it out outside my own head until this morning, but here it is, a sort of downward path with a lilting jag in the summer. What I want to know is if this makes sense to anyone? Do you have a representation of what a year looks like? Does it look anything like this, or is it completely different?

Thinking more about it, I’m realizing I could probably do the same thing for a decade (or at least ones that have passed) and maybe as little as a minute (returning to the clock face).

Part of me wonders if this is what astrology is about. I was born in July and you can see that this is where the big jag starts. What could it mean if other people have similar perceptions of their year-path (whether represented spatially, emotionally, by color, or whatever synesthetic oddity), with a significant change around their birth-month? How could this affect how people act over the cycle of a year?