Sun spots, solar storms and planetary mass

A site on historical anomalies has a section on the cycles of the sun.
"It is quite a coincidence that Chinese astronomers/astrologers saw influences coming from the cyclical partial alignments (over 12 years maybe originally, 11 to 12 now) of the solar system's planetary bodies - which are the Chinese horoscope segments

These also just happen to be the simplest/basic part of the sunspot cycle, the sun "weather" cycle and the sun's magnetic field cycle, all of which we now suspect are caused by those same alignments of mass in the solar system, driven probably by the approximately 12 year orbital period of Jupiter, the most massive planetary body. [The Chinese traditionally paid great attention to the 'stations' of Jupiter]

We also believe - from uef/footnotes - this grand cycle to be the main driver of tectonic and earthquake events on Earth"

So perhaps all the solar activity is because of a gravity well? No, that's not right... the harmonic concordance is a bunch of planets spread around evenly. Hm. Maybe the lunar eclipse has something to do with it? Nope, not remotely massy enough. Well golly gee, I'm stumped!

-just being silly today-