The Age of Aquarius

I've been writing about Pluto entering Aquarius and staying there for two decades but I got thinking about the so-called Age of Aquarius and when it might begin. The Platonic Year has a length of about 25800 years with each Age being about 2150 year in duration. Each Age can be divided into twelve subdivisions, each of 180 years duration. The subdivisions are named in zodiacal order. I first learned about this from Charles Carter, the famous British astrologer, in one of his books.

Bearing this in mind, let's consider the current Age of Pisces and when it might start and finish. If we can decide on this, then we will know when the Age of Aquarius will begin. We need to look for clear markers and one that stands out for me in the Black Death. To quote from Wikipedia:

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality or the Plague) was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Western Eurasia and North Africa from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the deaths of 75–200 million people, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis spread by fleas, but during the Black Death it probably also took a secondary form, spread by person-to-person contact via aerosols causing septicaemic or pneumonic plagues. The Black Death was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history.

This event clearly had to do with Scorpio and so what if we take 1350 as the start of the Scorpio subdivision of the Age of Pisces. This produces a timeline as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

This seems reasonable to me and the Aquarius subdivision begins in 1890 and closely coincides with the birth of Meher Baba is 1894. See my post The Awakener. In this timeline, the Aquarius subdivision will end in 2070 and the final Pisces subdivision will begin. It can be noted that Meher Baba dropped his body in 1969 and he said that he would remain active for a hundred years following his passing. After this, He said that the Perfect Masters of the time would become more visible.

Hopefully this final Piscean phase of the Age of Pisces will see an increase in compassion to counteract the soulless dystopia into which the Aquarian phase has led us. More likely though, it will usher in a period of disintegration brought about God only knows what. Disease, infertility, natural disasters? 

Let's not forget that the Scorpio subdivision of the Age of Pisces was not only about death and disease. To quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica:

There is some debate over the actual start of the Renaissance. However, it is generally believed to have begun in Italy during the 14th century, after the end of the Middle Ages, and reached its height in the 15th century.

The Sagittarian subdivision encompassed the so-called Age of Discovery:

The Age of Exploration (also called the Age of Discovery) began in the 1400s and continued through the 1600s. It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world. Source.

It also encompasses the so-called Enlightenment or Age of Reason:

The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects. Source.

The Age of Materialism certainly took hold in the 18th and 19th century, corresponding to the Capricorn subdivision and gave way to the Aquarian subdivision as the 19th century ended. I think the subdivisions from Scorpio onward accord well with history but I haven't looked closely at what happened beforehand.  I write more about that in a later post.