Astrological Options – Age of Aquarius – When, Where, Why and How
“When the Moon is inside 7th home and Jupiter aligns with Mars…” the words inside the song Aquarius on the coming in the Age of Aquarius performed by the singing group The Fifth Dimension grabbed our attention more than 20 years ago. Although I adore the song and usually sing it at the top of my lungs, astrologically it does not say much, it is just fun. There’s so much controversy around the Age of Aquarius and when it ought to start that I notion a discussion was in order. What is an age? How is it produced? How long does it last? What is there about the changing of an age that grabs our attention so thoroughly?
We have to go back to basics and begin on the fact that astrology is often a find out of cycles, lengthy term, short term, universal, multi-versal, cosmic, galactic, solar system, entire world orbit, satellite or moon. Then add all the debris left over within the formation of our solar technique for instance dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and good old space dust. We undoubtedly have a variety from which to choose. A few of the cycles are so huge and involve such enormous time concepts that it’s beyond our comprehension. I am going to dispose of those cycles effortlessly so we can spend our time and concept on the much more local and contemporary activations. Think circle, big circle, using a whole bunch of slightly smaller circles contained inside it and you will get my picture with the universe. Additionally there could be numerous universes, only a single of which is ours. Regardless of whether they’re in any way inter-related or on a variety of wavelengths or dimensions is part of an ongoing discussion. Whatever the answer is, our universe is immense and it is growing at a rapid pace.
The contemporary astronomical idea is that what we call the universe began with a big bang 13+ billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. What started as being a singularity exploded out into multiplicity and everything is contained within this expanding bubble of activity. The matter is distributed irregularly so some parts of our universe are denser than others. As this bubble expands, the distances in between the internal content also expands. Believe big circle owning bigger, including everything contained inside it on some level or in some manner. As the universe blasted out into the original void (space), pockets of workout designed and stellar nurseries spawned billions of stars – large ones, little ones, long-lived, short lived – with variety and variety beyond imagination. Each time our scientists believe they have a handle on it, it grows and reveals additional of itself. Think huge! These pockets of possibility over billions of many years in the universe’s life created into stars with world entourages, galaxies, and all of the incredible cosmic bodies. There is this sort of number that just cataloguing it’s daunting to say practically nothing of identifying and explaining it all.
The galaxies are in constant motion and sometimes run into each other. 1 may well cannibalize another, but constant motion and change stands out as the norm, with amazing differences spawned as a result. Individuality is universal and conformity is man-made.
Locally our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is often a hybrid of merging galaxies and will eventually be swallowed up by the significantly larger Andromeda Galaxy (not anytime soon, do not be nervous). We are component of a local cluster of about 30 galaxies that rotate close to a common center and I have no thought how lengthy a cycle that would be, I only know that it’s an quite long cycle. With the modern political debate about immigration, I laughed once I read that our Sun and its entourage of planets and space junk is an immigrant into what we call our personal galaxy absorbed from a prior galactic collision. Our galaxy spins close to a well-known center that is idea to be a black hole. We exist on an outer spiral band about with the way out inside the center of the galaxy. The person galactic spin takes more than 200 million many years to complete, a huge circle that exists inside larger circle from the galactic cluster, again, circles within circles.
For our discussion our much more personal and manageable circles occur from inside our solar system. Every planet has an orbit (circle) at a particular distance within the Sun and individuals planets also have smaller bodies in orbit around them. All of the matter within this solar method is bound by the gravitational attraction of the Sun. It is all in continual motion and that motion is basically circular. Little circles within larger circles within…. you get the picture.
The specific circle that sets the “ages” of our discussion is measured from Earth’s north pole. As Earth orbits our Sun, our north/south poles are tilted compared to our orbit. We are physically irregularly shaped (the water nicely covers up the uneven contours with the Earth. We are also orbited by a satellite (our Moon) that’s our size and exerts a magnetic pull of its own. As we rotate and orbit, we wobble slightly on our axis like a spinning top. That wobble is measurable and traces out a circle in the sky that takes just under 26,000 years to accomplish (different sources offer numerous figures; the source I use was the very first one I encountered many years ago, 25,858 years). The backdrop of that circle stands out as the constellational zodiac of twelve signs. The rounded off version is 26,000 years divided by 12 signs or approximately 2,160 many years per sign and is what’s normally advised for your length of a single age. There’s a trick for the ages. The polar wobble moves backwards through the zodiac signs instead of the forward order we are used to, so the age signs move backward as well. This astronomical measure is named the Precession of the Equinox (the measuring principle). For your last couple of thousand years we have been inside the Age of Pisces and we now have already or are about to move to the Age of Aquarius.
There is often a specific measuring principle that indicates how the changing from the age will arrive within the 24 to 2600s AD. I have a trouble with this dating mainly because the event markers for ones Age of Aquarius are already in evidence. My explanation is that mainly because you’ll find no written instructions, the assumption that all the ages are equal may possibly or might not be true. If each age is exactly 2160 many years (or so) marker to marker then we are nevertheless within the Age of Pisces. If each age is not exactly equal as the constellations themselves are not equal, the starting of this new age may already be upon us. I stand on the Age of Aquarius side with the debate. Why? As I said earlier, evidence…
Uranus, which has been given primary influence more than Aquarius, was known in 1781, 5 many years after the start with the USA Revolutionary War. That year also marked the starting in the French Revolution. Uranus have been sighted before discovery but had not been specifically identified. Following that incredible period for individualism and independence came the USA Civil War, the industrial revolution, the era of invention of the steam engine, the automobile, the plane, the bombs and rockets, space flight and more. All of they are based in revolution, independence and invention and flirted from the new era cleaving the way to the future.
It is mentioned that the “2nd coming in the Avatar” (spiritual leader) will occur once the “sign of man is in the heavens.” Well we have surely done that. We have left space debris scattered from the following to out past the edges of our solar system. The space station recently had to decide whether or not to duck a piece of space junk.
The most amazing picture to me is that from the black sky of space in the white-suited astronaut hanging more than the semi-arc on the earth below. An additional profound image could be the familiar picture of Astronaut Ed White tethered to a Gemini spacecraft in 1965. The “tether” he was testing is anchored like an umbilical chord as the first American man floated and turned from the vast expanse of space like an infant during the womb in the universe. The sign of man is already inside the heavens and it’s inventive, innovative, revolutionary, independent and futuristic… all Uranus/Aquarius keywords. Retain in mind that Aquarius itself is referred to as “the sign of man” and that may be the symbolism that accompanies it astrologically.
Also, the changing of an age just isn’t one thing in time. You will discover no fences between the signs in outer space. There is a falling off of one sign energy and the initiation of an additional – a blending or merging that takes about 144 many years to complete. Why? Because it takes 72 years for our north pole pointer to perform a single degree. Simply because the adjust happens between the last degree of an existing age and the very first degree of the new age, that equals 2 degrees by my math, or 144 years of time, to end one age and begin the next.
Death of an age would not be any easier than ordinary death. Birth has in no way been regarded effortless and that would include the birth of an age. Birth and death are occurring simultaneously which happens at the end of one age as well as the beginning of its successor. This really is traumatic. Seem around you at our modern day experience. And you volunteered being right here at this time…brave you.
To my mind we now have already left the Age of Pisces and have already entered the Age of Aquarius. We have moved from the age of believing (emotion not necessarily based in fact) towards age of knowing (intellectual, knowledge as our friend). To me Pisces is our immediate history, our heritage that we had 2000 or so many years to learn, It includes our habits, our knowledge, our beliefs, our existing environmental patterning – all that we have been during the age. To me Aquarius is our now and our future. We have to learn, know, explore, invent and move toward the future. The remnants of Pisces will kick and scream and try to retain us locked inside the past because-the dying age will try to cling to life. The coming age is getting stronger and will retain dominance more than human development for the following 2000+ years.
Perhaps you’re a single who believes that we are even now inside Age of Pisces with its history steeped in the Age of Aries (always backwards from the zodiac). What would that be like? We would be driven by emotion, mystery, tremendous involvement in art forms and religious beliefs, the savior/victim mentality with domination or war as our heritage. Perhaps we could be on that pivotal moment of 144 years wherever we transform from a single age to another with all the mixed messages that arrive from change. What are the possibilities a time of simultaneous death/birth may well offer? Where do you stand in this? Regardless of whether you “believe” (Pisces) or would prefer to “know” (Aquarius) it’ll happen with or with out our conscious participation. The ages unfold inside a pattern, a predictable cycle of energy additional strong than our understanding and it is not dependent on our person beliefs. The development and also the unfolding on the universe is right on schedule – the birth happens with or with no our participation or belief. Wherever is your location in this unfolding cycle? The option is yours.