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Star Musings of a Wayward Astrologer

Welcome to The New Age

Part II: The Astrological Ages & Their Avatars

“There is an ancient Indian saying that Age of Pisces and paving the way for the
something lives only as long as the last person new global/universal perspective defined
who remembers it. My people have come to by Aquarius. As the song from the 1970’s
trust memory over history. Memory, like fire, Broadway musical, Hair, tells us: “This is the
is radiant and immutable, while history serves dawning of the Age of Aquarius…”. Based
only those who seek to control it…” on the astrological circumstances of 2020,
(Albert Hosteen in X-Files, Season 3, I propose that this year is a “quantum
Episode 1) leap” year in that process. This reality

is becoming increasingly obvious as we
The astrological ages are periods of time rapidly approach the extremely significant
lasting for approximately 2000 years. These conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at 0
ages are based on The Precession of the degrees of Aquarius in December of 2020.
Equinox, an astronomical phenomenon
relating to Earth’s “wobble” around the polar The ages move backward through the
axis like a spinning top. This changes the zodiac, so symbolically, the Piscean Age of
Earth’s orientation to the celestial ecliptic the past 2000 years, resetting our Gregorian
approximately 1 degree of the zodiac every calendar to 0 AD, was the first sign of a
72 years. One complete revolution on this new 26,000-year cycle, and, according to

axis takes about 26,000 years, the length of the Mayan Calendar, the end of the “5th
the “Great Year”, according to the Mayans. Kingdom” of Humanity, a period of 5125
We can not exactly delineate the time span years, which began in 3113 BC and ended
of each age as the wobble changes speed in December of 2012. Although much
throughout the cycle, sometimes moving speculation over the past several decades
faster and sometimes slower. The length of was devoted to “end of the world” scenarios
any given age can vary by 100-200 years. symbolized by this event, it is also possible
Furthermore, the “cusping” of an age, or to think of The Aquarian Age as the
the process of leaving one age behind and beginning of the 6th Kingdom of Humanity,

ushering in the new age to come, takes which will take us through the next
several hundred years. At this time in 5125 years. Such a leap in the collective
cosmic history, we are in the throes of just consciousness of Humanity requires an
such a cusping event, saying farewell to The evolutionary “jump”, a relatively sudden

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