An organism’s conscious awareness is a minor factor in its evolutionary adaptation. An organism will generally be more successful if it fits its niche, regardless of its conscious knowledge. This is the nature of destiny. My view is that our planetary niche can be articulated as a cultural and spiritual cosmic reality, structured by the long regular cycle of precession. This is a big advance on pre-modern theories of cycles because it is framed against a purely astronomical reality. The gravitational cycle of precession is not a ‘fluctuation’ but a regular – effectively permanent - rhythm. The absolute regularity of precessional cycles, adjusted for minor change of speed produced by the increasing pace of the earth’s wobble, has been a constant not only for Rome, not only for all human pre-history, but for all terrestrial genetics. The principle here is that weak permanent large scale regular factors produce pervasive effects. There are many features of evolution, notably the 80% of our genes classified as junk, which could well be partly the product of adaptation to weak hidden causes that are overwhelmingly drowned out by the ‘background noise’ of more immediate things - but are nonetheless real. Sub-measurable does not mean nonexistent. More immediate factors produce the bulk of visible effects, but the point is that big weak underlying trends can be detected by statistical analysis, as the trends incrementally favour everything that is attuned to them and disfavour everything discordant. The permanent cyclic wave oscillation of precession should, in my view, produce harmonic effects due to its permanence, and these effects will necessarily be much much bigger than could be imagined by looking at one precessional cycle in isolation. Such permanent harmonic oscillation within the cosmic environment of earth should be expected to produce strong similarities between the shape of history at points separated by one age, as well as a structure of time whereby the rhythm of the Great Year follows the same regular path, in reverse, as the annual rhythm of the seasons structured by solstices and equinoxes. The thread connecting precession to history is that precession is the major specific long term structure of time for our planet, it exhibits harmonic resonance with the whole solar system through the 178.9 year oscillation of the solar system centre of mass, and the whole system is therefore entrained to pulsate to this common rhythm. Our DNA has entirely evolved inside this purely scientific ‘music of the spheres.’ Through sensitive dependence on initial conditions, our DNA retains and amplifies the sensitivity the first life had to its cosmic context when it came into being four billion years ago on our planet.