71. However, by concentrating on measuring the synodic cycle - i.e. how many days it will take before Mars will be seen again at the same place among the fixed stars - we can simplify, and say that so far we have counted from heliacal Mebsuta in April 14 AD 2023 to June 6 AD 2024, and this means from day 104 to day 365 + 157 = 522 (↔ 2 * 261 ↔ 18 * 29).

And 522 - 104 = 418 (↔ 19 * 22) days, which is 53 days more than a year measured as 365 days. Or we could rather say 418 = 54 + 364.

ORBIT OF MARS AD 2023-2024
April 14 (180 - 76)	*16	April 30 (196 - 76)	*141	Dec 7 (*261 = 341 - 80)
Mebsuta (*100)	*16	Pollux (*116)	*133	ω Ophiuchi (*249)
Ga2-6 (36)		Ga2-22 (52)		Ga7-16 (185 = 265 - 80)
APRIL 26 (116 ↔ 464 / 4)		MAY 12 (132 ↔ 264 / 2)		SEPT 22 (EQUINOX)

*37	Jan 13 (378 = 454 - 76)	*9	Jan 22 (378 + 9 = 387)	*82	April 14 (104)
*30	Kaus Borealis (*279)	*3	Mebsuta (*100)	*70	Φ AQUARII (*352.0)
	Ga8-12 (215)		Ga8-15 (36 + 182)		Gb2-33 (229 + 59 = 288)
	OCT 22 (295)		OCT 25 (464 / 4 + 364 / 2)		JAN 3 (368 = 295 + 365 / 5) = March 8 (67) - 64

*53	June 6 (157 = 314 / 2)
*33	Ο PISCES (*20 = *321 + *64 = *385 = *365 + *20)
	Gb4-1 (229 + 92 = 321 = 288 + 33)
	368 + 33 = 401 = 80 + 321 = 67 (March 8) - 64 + 33 = 36 (FEBR 5)

To make the star maps produced by Cartes du Ciel more easy to read I decided to change the assumed observatory down in the south from 65º S to the same latitude up in the north (65º N).

... For the Maori the past is an important and pervasive dimension of the present and future. Often referred to as the 'ever-present now', Maori social reality is perceived as though looking back in time from the past to the present. The Maori word for 'the front of' is mua and this is used as a term to describe the past, that is, Nga wa o mua or the time in front of us. Likewise, the word for the back is muri which is a term that is used for the future. Thus the past is in front of us, it is known; the future is behind us, unknown. The point of this is that our ancestors always had their backs to the future with their eyes firmly on the past. Our past is not conceived as something long ago and done with, known only as an historical fact with no contemporary relevance or meaning. In the words of a respected Maori elder: The present is a combination of the ancestors and 'their living faces' or genetic inheritors, that is the present generations. Our past is as much the face of our present and future. They live in us ... we live in them ...

Predictions can only be based on past experiences and the imagined futures cannot carry any knew knowledge to us.