{"id":11082,"date":"2009-02-12T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T15:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2009-02-12T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T20:19:24","slug":"dawning-age-aquarius-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/dawning-age-aquarius-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Aquarius? Come up with another reason…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

And what was that, that we all just experienced? In the past week, we had a lunar eclipse followed by the Sun making conjunctions to Nessus, Chiron and Neptune. Neptune was the last of the series. What we bounced through – this patch of rattling celestial movement – was the Earth and Sun aligning with these planets. There was plenty more – Uranus and Saturn of course still in a tight opposition, which is like bouncing reality on a trampoline.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Sean Hayes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, Mars is moving through Aquarius at somewhat under one degree per day, close to the same pace as the Sun. It, too, will make conjunctions to Jupiter, Juno, the North Node, Nessus, Chiron and Neptune before entering Pisces on March 14. While that’s going on, Mercury will be back in Aquarius, making conjunctions to the same series of planets.<\/p>\n

As I started writing this, I saw an email go by about whether the Age of Aquarius would begin this weekend, when”Jupiter aligns with Mars.” A journalist contacted me last night with the same question, quoting the song by James Rado, Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot, and performed by the Fifth Dimension. It’s the one which begins, “When the Mooooooooooon is in the 7th house…”, which it is for about two hours every day. And Jupiter aligns with Mars once every four months, for about a week. By that reckoning, the Age of Aqarius has begun 447 times since 2000.<\/p>\n

I think we can admire this song for its bass line and cute hippies more than for the astrological wisdom of its authors. The song, which came out in 1969, is called “Aquarius\/Let the Sun Shine In.”<\/p>\n

Have you ever seen the website Engrish.com<\/a>? It’s the illuminated result of people in Asia who can’t speak English, trying to make signs that people who do speak English can read. Therefore you end up with a fire extinguisher with some Chinese lettering and a sign over it that says “Hand Grenade<\/a>.” That’s what the Fifth Dimension did to astrology. (The website has hundreds of these, from all over Asia; you will laugh for hours<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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This will get quoted on some website somewhere this weekend — these are the quotations that I gave to the journalist who contacted me about this issue:<\/p>\n

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Found in China. Photo courtesy of Nick Cunningham and Engrish.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The people who wrote this song did not know anything about astrology, that I can tell. But they were experts in groovy. The Age of Aquarius is not reckoned by planets, and certainly not by fast-movers like Jupiter and Mars. It’s generally counted by the movement of the sidereal vernal point through the constellations, in an approximately 25,771-year cycle. This is called the precession of the equinox.\u0412\u00a0 By this calculation, the Age of Aquarius would not begin for another 300 to 400 years. I do believe we are at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, but not because of Jupiter and Mars, and not because of precessional movement.<\/p>\n

They don’t quite have the energy of Aquarius down, either. There is a theme of brotherly love to Aquarius, though this is balanced by an almost obsessive drive to conform to what others are doing. Aquarius crystallizes patterns, and one of the reasons we are having a variety of breakdowns at this point is to break down some of the more dangerous patterns that have come to grip our society. If we are going to experience brotherly love, we need to recognize one another as individuals and not as parts in a machine or a crowd to conform to. We need to claim our freedom as individuals before we claim our freedom as a society.<\/p>\n

But maybe these guys know something I don’t.”<\/p>\n

Now, this being said, a Mars-Jupiter alignment in Aquarius sounds like fun. It sounds like a good time. It sounds like a party, and since Juno is there you can bring your wife. My theory, begun above, that (among other things) married people (Jupiter – Juno) will be able to hot up their sex lives with a little intellectual stimulation (available for free at my other website, Book of Blue<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Speaking of the Moon, it is in Libra.<\/p>\n

Yours and truly,<\/p>\n

\"Eric
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