Astrological Options - Age of Aquarius - When, Where, Why and How

When the Moon is inside the 7th residence and Jupiter aligns with Mars..." the words inside song Aquarius about the coming from the Age of Aquarius performed by the singing group The Fifth Dimension grabbed our attention over 20 many years ago.  Although I love the song and often sing it at the top of my lungs, astrologically it doesn't say much, it is just fun. There is so significantly controversy within the Age of Aquarius and after it should start that I notion a discussion was in order. What is an age? How is it produced? How lengthy does it last? What's there around the changing of an age that grabs our attention so thoroughly? We need to go back to basics and start of the truth that astrology is really a learn of cycles, extended term, short term, universal, multi-versal, cosmic, galactic, solar system, planet orbit, satellite or moon. Then add all the debris left over within the formation of our solar technique including dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and excellent old space dust. We surely have a range from which to choose. A few of the cycles are so large and involve such enormous time concepts that it's beyond our comprehension. I am going to dispose of those cycles simply so we can spend our time and thought on a more local and modern day activations. Think circle, big circle, with a whole bunch of slightly little circles contained within it and you'll get my picture with the universe. Additionally there might be several universes, only a single of that's ours. Regardless of whether they're in any way inter-related or on several wavelengths or dimensions is part of an ongoing discussion. Whatever the answer is, our universe is immense and it's growing at a rapid pace. The modern day astronomical notion is that what we call the universe began using a big bang 13+ billion many years ago and has been expanding ever since. What started being a singularity exploded out into multiplicity and everything is contained inside 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 between the internal content also expands. Believe large circle obtaining bigger, such as everything contained inside it on some level or in some manner. As the universe blasted out to the original void (space), pockets of activity developed and stellar nurseries spawned billions of stars - large ones, modest 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 a lot more of itself. Believe huge! These pockets of possibility over billions of years from the universe's life formulated into stars with planet entourages, galaxies, and all the amazing cosmic bodies. There is this sort of number that just cataloguing it is daunting to say nothing of identifying and explaining it all. The galaxies are in constant motion and sometimes run into every other. A single may cannibalize another, but constant motion and change is 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 much larger Andromeda Galaxy (not anytime soon, don't be nervous). We are part of a local cluster of about 30 galaxies that rotate close to a well-liked center and I have no thought how extended a cycle that would be, I only know that it's an very long cycle. In the modern political debate about immigration, I laughed when I read that our Sun and its entourage of planets and space junk is an immigrant into what we call our own galaxy absorbed from a prior galactic collision. Our galaxy spins around a well-liked center that is certainly concept being a black hole. We exist on an outer spiral band about in the way out within the center from the galaxy. The individual galactic spin takes over 200 million years to complete, a huge circle that exists inside the larger circle in the galactic cluster, again, circles inside circles. For our discussion our additional personal and manageable circles occur from within our solar system. Every world has an orbit (circle) at a specific distance during the Sun and people planets also have smaller bodies in orbit close to them. All of the matter inside this solar technique is bound by the gravitational attraction on the Sun. It is all in continual motion and that motion is essentially circular. Tiny circles within bigger circles within.... you get the picture. The particular 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 on the Earth. We are also orbited by a satellite (our Moon) that is certainly our size and exerts a magnetic pull of its own. As we rotate and orbit, we wobble slightly on our axis being a spinning top. That wobble is measurable and traces out a circle during the sky that takes just under 26,000 years to accomplish (different sources supply a variety of figures; the source I use was the first 1 I encountered many years ago, 25,858 years). The backdrop of that circle will be the constellational zodiac of twelve signs. The rounded off version is 26,000 many years divided by 12 signs or approximately 2,160 many years per sign and is what's commonly advised to your length of a single age. There's a trick for the ages. The polar wobble moves backwards through the zodiac signs rather than the forward order we are used to, so the age signs move backward as well. This astronomical measure is referred to as the Precession on the Equinox (the measuring principle). For your last couple of thousand years we have been from the Age of Pisces and we have already or are about to move to the Age of Aquarius. There is really a specific measuring principle that implies how the changing of the age will come from the 24 to 2600s AD. I have a issue with this dating because the event markers to your Age of Aquarius are already in evidence. My explanation is that because you will discover no written instructions, the assumption that all the ages are equal may well or may well not be true. If each age is exactly 2160 years (or so) marker to marker then we are still during the Age of Pisces. If every age is not exactly equal as the constellations themselves aren't equal, the starting of this new age may well already be upon us. I stand on a Age of Aquarius side of the debate. Why? As I stated earlier, evidence...Uranus, which has been given primary influence more than Aquarius, was known in 1781, 5 many years right after the begin with the USA Revolutionary War. That year also marked the starting of the French Revolution. Uranus had been sighted prior to discovery but had not been especially identified. Right after that amazing period for individualism and independence came the USA Civil War, the industrial revolution, the era of invention in the steam engine, the automobile, the plane, the bombs and rockets, space flight and more. All of they're based in revolution, independence and invention and flirted of the new era cleaving the way to the future. It is mentioned that the "2nd coming on the Avatar" (spiritual leader) will arrive as soon as the "sign of man is during the heavens." Well we have certainly done that. We now have left space debris scattered from here to out past the edges of our solar system. The space station recently had to decide regardless of whether to duck a piece of space junk. The most incredible picture to me is that on the black sky of space with the white-suited astronaut hanging more than the semi-arc in the earth below. Another profound image stands out as the familiar picture of Astronaut Ed White tethered to a Gemini spacecraft in 1965. The "tether" he was screening is anchored like an umbilical chord as the very first American man floated and turned during the vast expanse of space like an infant during the womb from the universe. The sign of man is already during the heavens and it's inventive, innovative, revolutionary, independent and futuristic... all Uranus/Aquarius keywords. Preserve in mind that Aquarius itself is named "the sign of man" and that is the symbolism that accompanies it Astrologically. Also, the changing of an age just isn't a single issue in time. You will find no fences between the signs in outer space. There is a falling off of a single sign energy and the initiation of an additional - a blending or merging that takes about 144 years to complete. Why? As it takes 72 many years for our north pole pointer to complete a single degree. Simply because the change happens between the last degree of an existing age and the first degree in the new age, that equals a couple of degrees by my math, or 144 many years of time, to end 1 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 1 age and also the commencing of its successor. That is traumatic. Glimpse close to you at our modern-day experience. And you volunteered to become here at this time...brave you. To my mind we have already left the Age of Pisces and have already entered the Age of Aquarius. We now have moved during the age of believing (emotion not necessarily based in fact) on the age of knowing (intellectual, knowledge as our friend). To me Pisces is our immediate history, our heritage that we had 2000 or so 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 maintain us locked inside past because-the dying age will try to cling to life. The coming age is getting stronger and will maintain dominance more than human development for your next 2000+ years. Perhaps you happen to be 1 who believes that we are even now from the Age of Pisces with its history steeped inside Age of Aries (always backwards from the zodiac). What would that be like? We would be driven by emotion, mystery, tremendous involvement in art types and religious beliefs, the savior/victim mentality with domination or war as our heritage. Perhaps we could possibly be on that pivotal moment of 144 years in which we adjust from one age to one more with all the mixed messages that occur from change. What are the possibilities a time of simultaneous death/birth may perhaps offer? Exactly where do you stand in this? Whether you "believe" (Pisces) or would prefer to "know" (Aquarius) it's going to happen with or without having our conscious participation. The ages unfold in a pattern, a predictable cycle of energy more strong than our understanding and it's not dependent on our individual beliefs. The development and also the unfolding in the universe is correct on schedule - the birth occurs with or with out our participation or belief. Where is your location in this unfolding cycle? The alternative is yours.