Astrological Alternatives Age Of Aquarius When Where Why And How

By Gilbert Karlis "When the Moon is in the 7th household and Jupiter aligns with Mars..." the words during the song Aquarius on the coming with the Age of Aquarius performed by the singing group The Fifth Dimension grabbed our attention over 20 many years ago. Whilst I love 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 a lot controversy about the Age of Aquarius and when it should start that I thought a discussion was in order. What's an age? How is it produced? How long does it last? What is there for the changing of an age that grabs our attention so thoroughly? We must go back to basics and start on the fact that astrology is really a study of cycles, lengthy term, short term, universal, multi-versal, cosmic, galactic, solar system, planet orbit, satellite or moon. Then add all the debris left over inside formation of our solar program just like dwarf planets, asteroids, comets and very good old space dust. We absolutely have a range from which to choose. A few of the cycles are so huge and involve this sort of enormous time concepts that it's beyond our comprehension. I will dispose of those people cycles very easily so we can spend our time and notion on a much more local and modern day activations. Think circle, big circle, using a whole bunch of slightly tiny circles contained within it and you will get my picture of the universe. Additionally there could be quite a few universes, only one of that is certainly ours. Regardless of whether they are in any way inter-related or on numerous 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 notion is that what we call the universe began having a big bang 13+ billion many years ago and has been expanding ever since. What started as 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. Think large circle getting bigger, for example everything contained inside it on some level or in some manner. As the universe blasted out into the original void (space), pockets of exercising designed and stellar nurseries spawned billions of stars - big ones, small ones, long-lived, short lived - with number and variety beyond imagination. Each time our scientists believe they've a handle on it, it grows and reveals much more of itself. Think huge! These pockets of possibility over billions of many years on the universe's life designed into stars with world entourages, galaxies, and all the incredible cosmic bodies. There's such quantity 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. One may possibly cannibalize another, but constant motion and adjust may be the norm, with incredible differences spawned being a result. Individuality is universal and conformity is man-made. Locally our very own galaxy, the Milky Way, is really 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 around a well-liked center and I have no idea how extended a cycle that would be, I only know that it's an really lengthy cycle. With the modern-day 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 unique galaxy absorbed from a prior galactic collision. Our galaxy spins close to a well-known center that is certainly concept to become a black hole. We exist on an outer spiral band about with the way out inside center with the galaxy. The person galactic spin takes over 200 million many years to complete, a large circle that exists inside larger circle with the galactic cluster, again, circles inside circles. For our discussion our far more own and manageable circles come from inside our solar system. Each globe has an orbit (circle) at a specific distance within the Sun and those planets also have small bodies in orbit close to them. All of the matter inside this solar program is bound by the gravitational attraction with the Sun. It's all in continual motion and that motion is essentially 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 on the Earth. We are also orbited by a satellite (our Moon) that may be 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 during the sky that takes just under 26,000 many years to perform (different sources supply various figures; the source I use was the first a single I encountered many years ago, 25,858 years). The backdrop of that circle may 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 suggested for ones length of a single age. There is a trick for the ages. The polar wobble moves backwards from your zodiac signs instead of the forward order we are applied to, so the age signs move backward as well. This astronomical measure is called the Precession of the Equinox (the measuring principle). For ones last couple of thousand years we have been in the Age of Pisces and we have already or are about to move into the Age of Aquarius. There is often a particular measuring principle that means how the changing in the age will arrive from the 24 to 2600s AD. I have a dilemma with this dating because the event markers for the Age of Aquarius are already in evidence. My explanation is that because you can find no written instructions, the assumption that all the ages are equal may perhaps or may possibly not be true. If each age is exactly 2160 many years (or so) marker to marker then we are nevertheless during 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 of the debate. Why? As I mentioned earlier, evidence... Uranus, which has been given principal influence over Aquarius, was identified in 1781, five many years right after the begin with the USA Revolutionary War. That year also marked the commencing with the French Revolution. Uranus were sighted ahead of discovery but had not been specifically identified. Right after 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 may be based in revolution, independence and invention and flirted on the new era cleaving the way to the future. It is said that the "2nd coming of the Avatar" (spiritual leader) will come after the "sign of man is in the heavens." Well we have definitely done that. We have left space debris scattered from right here to out past the edges of our solar system. The space station recently had to decide whether to duck a piece of space junk. The most incredible picture to me is that from the black sky of space from the white-suited astronaut hanging more than the semi-arc of the earth below. Another profound image could be 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 inside the vast expanse of space like an child during the womb of the universe. The sign of man is already during the heavens and it's inventive, innovative, revolutionary, independent and futuristic... all Uranus/Aquarius keywords. Hold in mind that Aquarius itself is called "the sign of man" and that's the symbolism that accompanies it astrologically. Also, the changing of an age isn't a single factor in time. There are no fences among the signs in outer space. There's a falling off of 1 sign energy as well as the initiation of one more - a blending or merging that takes about 144 many years to complete. Why? Because it takes 72 years for our north pole pointer to try and do 1 degree. Since the change happens in between the last degree of an existing age and also the first degree with the new age, that equals 2 degrees by my math, or 144 years of time, to end one age and start the next. Death of an age would not be any simpler than ordinary death. Birth has by no means been regarded as simple and that would include the birth of an age. Birth and death are occurring simultaneously which happens at the end of one age and the commencing of its successor. That is traumatic. Look around you at our contemporary experience. And you volunteered being 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 now have moved within the age of believing (emotion not necessarily based in fact) towards the 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 must learn, know, explore, invent and move toward the future. The remnants of Pisces will kick and scream and try to preserve us locked inside past because-the dying age will try to cling to life. The coming age is obtaining stronger and will hold dominance more than human development for your next 2000+ years. Perhaps you are one who believes that we are still inside Age of Pisces with its history steeped in the Age of Aries (always backwards through 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 many years in which we adjust from 1 age to another with all of the mixed messages that occur from change. What are the possibilities a time of simultaneous death/birth may possibly offer? Wherever do you stand in this? Whether you "believe" (Pisces) or would prefer to "know" (Aquarius) it is going to happen with or without our conscious participation. The ages unfold inside a pattern, a predictable cycle of energy far more powerful than our understanding and it's not dependent on our person beliefs. The development and also the unfolding with the universe is appropriate on schedule - the birth occurs with or with no our participation or belief. In which is your location in this unfolding cycle? The alternative is yours. About the Author: Astrological Choices - Age of Aquarius - When, Where, Why and How - Check Out aquarius zodiac sign and aquarius compatibility