![]() ![]() Men born under this sign are malicious, haters of their own families, incorrigible, self-willed, deceitful, tricky, concealing everything, misanthropic, godless, accusers, betrayers of reputations and the truth, envious, petty, occasionally generous (because of flow of water), uncontrollable. It is mute, quite cold, free, upward-trending, feminizing, unchanging, base, with few offspring, the cause of troubles arising from athletic training, carrying burdens, or work in hard materials, an artisan, public. Verttius Valens was less than charitable in his assessment of the sign :Īquarius is the celestial sign which is masculine, solid, anthropomorphic, somewhat damp, single. But what is particularly Piscean about this list? Another wrote, “The more dominant core values of the Piscean Age of money, power and control must go to make room for the Aquarian Age values of love, unity, brotherhood and integrity.” Where do these attributes come from? Is the mere idea of the Age of Aquarius enough for us to deny everything we know about the signs? I recently read an article by an astrologer who claimed that Aquarius will get rid of greed, selfishness, war and all kinds of blights. How are they most likely to manifest? How are they to be recognized? Ultimately we have to ask ourselves what we mean by the Piscean or the Aquarian Age. The passage of Regulus into Virgo, joining the other Royal Stars of Persia in mutable signs (2012) is highly significant but I’d be reluctant to take that as the single defining event without substantial corroborative evidence. I proceed with the tentative assumption that the Great Ages do exist and might be known, among other things, by considering the nature of the age in relation to the unique and agreed-upon traits of the sign. There are dozens of other reasons as well. The Precession of the Equinox is not perfectly constant. There are a number of reasons for this confusion: the constellations are not the same size. You can see how many will stake a claim on the beginning of the age based on a singular event. Rudolph Steiner believed that the Age of Aquarius wouldn’t arrive until 3573.ĭavid Williams claims that the Age of Aquarius arrived around 1844, with the harbinger of the Siyyid `Alí Muḥammad (1819–1850), who founded Bábism. ![]() I’ve seen dates as early as the 15th Century and as late as the middle of the third millennium. Astronomers have no definitive date either. Regarding the date marking the Age of Aquarius, there is no consensus among astrologers. Charles Carter wrote: “it is probable that there is no branch of Astrology upon which more nonsense has been poured forth than the doctrine of the precession of the equinoxes” (Campion 1999) Neil Spencer is of the opinion that the idea of astrological ages is “fuzzy”, “speculative” and least defined area of astrological lore.[ (Spencer 2000) Others have simply given up on the whole idea. It should be noted that this concept has not been embraced universally by any means. Since the constellations have no precise boundaries, the points of beginning and ending are mere approximations.” Would it were so simple: Nicholas de Vore defines Astrological Ages in his Encylopedia of Astrology: “As anciently considered, a period of roughly 2150 years during which the point of the Spring Equinox recedes through one sign of the Zodiac of Constellations. Precession works in retrograde motion so Pisces follows Aries, Aquarius follows Pisces which in turn is followed by Capricorn. One complete revolution of all twelve astrological signs is called a Great Year or Platonic Year. ![]() Astrological ages occur due to a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. ![]()
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