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.

More About Pluto in Aquarius

A year ago, in a post titled Pluto in Aquarius, I wrote the following in reference to Pluto's entry into Aquarius on March 24th 2023:

Pluto will remain in Aquarius only until June 11th 2023. It's return to Capricorn may mark a lull in the pace of change but when Pluto returns to Aquarius on January 21st 2024, to begin its twenty-year passage through the sign, the pace of change will accelerate and the technocratic dream will move closer and closer to reality.

This is not entirely accurate because, even though Pluto does reenter Aquarius on the date stated, it retrogrades to Capricorn yet again from September 1st 2024 until November 19th 2024. Once it reenters Aquarius, it will remain in that sign until 2043.

Dates may be a day off due to time zones

I also make the following observation in that post about Saturn's entry into Pisces on March 8th 2023:

... when Pluto enters Aquarius in March of 2023, Saturn has already entered Pisces. It will remain in Pisces until it enters Aries on May 25th 2025.  That two year period should mark a dissolution of many of the old systems and structures of the past as Pluto wipes the slate clean so that humanity can enter a technocratic utopia or dystopia, depending on your point of view.

In a later post in October of 2022 titled More About Pluto's Peregrinations, I wrote:

Getting back to Pluto's astrological significance, the great conjunction of mid-January 2020 that kicked the whole scamdemic nightmare involved the Sun, Ceres, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto. Clearly Saturn and Pluto are the long term players here and remarkably, given the divergence of the latter from the plane of the ecliptic, the latitudes were almost the same (+0°02' and -0°40' respectively) at the time of conjunction. The synodic cycle of the two planets is about 38 years and so the semi-square and square will be significant as well as the entry of Pluto into Aquarius.

Should we consider the semi-square of Saturn to the original conjunction point or should we consider the relative positions between the transiting Saturn and transiting Pluto. Probably both are significant. On June 17th of 2023, Saturn will turn stationary retrograde in 7°12' of Pisces with 7°50' of Pisces being the exact semi-square between Saturn and its original position. Pluto will enter Aquarius on March 24th of 2023 for a few short months before returning to Capricorn on June 12th 2023 ... Looking ahead I'd say that the period from March 2023 until June 2023 will be quite active as the global mafia attempts to push forward with its agenda.

Saturn will enter Pisces on March 8th 2023 which only adds more weight to the importance of the March to June period.

So far as March goes, we do seem to be getting a sneek preview of the transformations to come as some banks in the USA are collapsing and needing to be bailed out by the Fed. The movements of Pluto certainly give some idea of the rhythm of the transformation with deliberate overlap of months to show the gradual transitions.

• March 2023 to June 2023: a sneek preview of the new system with the frailties of the old system on full display. Pluto in Aquarius.
  
  
• June 2023 to January 2024: the old system struggles on but is clearly on life support. Pluto in Capricorn.
  
  
• January 2024 to September 2024: the new system reveals itself more fully and the inevitable death of the old system becomes more apparent. Pluto in Aquarius.
  
  
• September 2024 to November 2024: some changes are put on hold as a brief respite is called before the new system is rolled out. Pluto in Capricorn.
  
  
• November 2024 onwards: it's full steam ahead now as the old structures have been fully dismantled and the new system is embraced but perhaps "thrust upon us" is a more accurate description. Pluto in Aquarius.

The new system will inevitably involve CBDCs and most people will be grateful. Months of bank collapses, lost pension funds and financial chaos will dispose people to accept the promise of a solution in the form of a CBDC. The full implications of the system will not become apparent until the programmable nature of this digital money becomes apparent. Governments will begin to apply restrictions on how the money can be spent. Fines can be imposed instantly and it will up to the individual to challenge them and try to recover the money. Accounts can be frozen without notice or justification. The more dictatorial the government, the more extreme the restrictions but all governments will exercise this power to a greater or less degree.

2023 in Jakarta

Figure 1 shows the chart drawn up for the start of 2023 in Jakarta.

Figure 1

With Libra rising, the ruling planet is Venus in Capricorn in the 4th house, closely conjunct Pluto with Mercury nearby. It suggests to me some important developments in the relocation of the capital to Kalimantan.

There is a sharp quincunx between the Sun at the base of the chart and Mars on the cusp of the ninth house. Chiron mediates the aspect by square and sextile on the Descendant. I don't want to spend too much time analysing this chart because I don't know how influential the chart is.

It's probably better to refer to the Independence Chart of which I've written about in posts titled Indonesia's Independence Chart (December 7th 2016) and A Deeper Look at Indonesia's Independence Chart (April 6th 2018). Charts drawn up for the solstices and equinoxes or the start of the year will be important in as much as they affect the Independence chart.

Solstice in Jakarta

At a little before 5am in Jakarta, on December 22nd 2023, the Sun entered Capricorn. This marked the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. As Jakarta is the capital, the chart shown in Figure 1 should be indicative of events in general for all of Indonesia. 

Figure 1

One of the most outstanding features of the chart is the T-square between Ceres, Jupiter and the Sun with the Sun being at the apex. Ceres is in the first degree of Libra and Jupiter is in the first degree of Aries. This is a very active aspect that takes place in cardinal signs close to the angles of the chart. The Sun can be taken to represent the government and so there will be pressure on it to handle newly emerging and rapidly escalating developments domestically (Jupiter in the fourth house) that will involve food and other basic resources (Ceres in the tenth house). 

Saturn is in the third house and, to paraphrase from this source, it is associated with communication and travel, but short travel (by bus, car, bicycle, etc. It can show the way people move around, how they interact with one another, how communities come together, and things like traffic, mass transit, local newspapers. The presence of Saturn indicates that all these activities will be restricted to some degree, especially as Saturn is loosely aspected by Mercury. The close semisextile of Saturn and Neptune suggests that things will not quite be as they seem. There may be deception or chaos and confusion.

The population at large (represented by the Moon) will not be happy. The Moon is opposed by Mars and both are in mutable signs (Sagittarius and Gemini respectively) and close to the Ascendant-Descendant axis. Mercury, Venus and Pluto seem to crowd the second house, a house that represents finances, wealth, and possessions/property of the people as a whole. Both Mercury and Venus are in trine to Uranus at the cusp of the sixth house. There will be surprises and sudden developments in this department but with earth placement of these planets, hopefully stability will be maintained. Let's see how things play out.

I've never been sure how important these solstice/equinox charts are. The exact moment of their happening is largely ignored by the public unlike the start of the New Year which is tracked to the second by billions of people around the world. I'll make sure that I draw up a chart for the start of the new year in Jakarta.

ADDENDUM: December 23rd 2022

The chart shown in Figure 2 is cast for the day after the solstice when the Moon and the Sun were conjunct and when the T-square was made even stronger by the presence of the Moon at the apex.

Figure 2

Earthquake in Cianjur

An earthquake struck Cianjur, about 75km from Jakarta, at 1:31pm. The location of the epicentre was 6°50'S and 106°06'E. Figure 1 shows a chart drawn up for the time of the quake.

Figure 1

The most obvious feature of the chart is the T-square between Neptune, Ceres and Mars whose longitudes are as follows:

• Neptune in 22°41' R in Pisces
• Ceres in 21°12' of Virgo
• Mars in 22°13' R of Gemini

The square and opposition aspects are close and the T-square is closely aligned to the Ascendant-Descendant and MC-IC axes. Jupiter is also involved but less closely. Mars is also involved with the Moon and Saturn in a grand trine. The positions of the three are:

Mars in 22°13' R of Gemini

Moon in 23°53' of Libra

Saturn in 19°18' of Aquarius

Again, the trine aspects are fairly close. The Moon is ominously on the cusp of the eighth house in sextile to Pluto. However, Mars seems to be the key player here located very close to the nadir as befits a disaster than is generated beneath the earth. It is prominently aspected by four celestial bodies, the Moon, Ceres, Saturn and Neptune, that form two structures: a T-square and a grand trine. 

Minute by Minute

 

Figure 1

Figure 1 shows the external monitor connected to my laptop with a real time display of the planetary positions via Astrolog. As I work at my computer, the screen is constantly updated with the latest planetary positions. Minute by minute the Ascendant is changing and one can't help wondering about the charts of those born under these configurations. The chart shown has the Moon in Taurus conjunct Uranus and the North Node right near the Descendant. The Moon and Uranus are squared by Saturn at the Midheaven and opposed by Venus, Sun and Mercury in Scorpio on the Descendant. Quite a configuration.

The chart is configured for Jakarta and given the size of its population there's doubtless someone being born within a few minutes of the configuration shown. From the perspective of mundane affairs, it can be seen that Jupiter is still moving backwards through Pisces but not for much longer. On November 24th, it will station and then move forward again and back into Aries, reaching that sign very close to the solstice on December 21st. Jupiter will roar through Aries and reach Taurus on May 17th 2023 and not return to Aries till its next cycle. So the first five months of 2023 should see some rapid expansion of food supply problems. As Jupiter enters Aries it will be opposite the granary body of Ceres which gives some idea of what might be in store for humanity.

The chart drawn up for the moment of the Sun's entry into Capricorn, the Solstice, is quite revealing. It shows a very sharp T-square formed by the Jupiter-Ceres opposition and the Sun at right angles to both. All three bodies are in the first degrees of their cardinal signs, quite a powerful configuration and one that promises action. See Figure 2.

Figure 2

We'll see how things pan out in 2023. It should get off to an interesting start.

More About Pluto's Peregrinations

I want to revisit some of the points that I raised in my post of Saturday, 19th March 2022, titled Pluto in Aquarius. Before I do, it just struck me that Pluto is ocated in the middle of Leo in my natal chart and yet the planet (yes, planet) has an orbital period of 248 years. The reason of course for its rapid transit of half the tropical zodiac is its highly eccentric orbit. Here is the introductory information about Pluto from Wikipedia:

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was the first object discovered in the Kuiper belt, in 1930. It was declared the ninth planet from the Sun, though it was always the odd object out. Following the discovery of additional objects in the Kuiper belt and scattered disc starting in the 1990s, particularly the more massive dwarf planet Eris, Pluto's status as a planet was increasingly questioned. In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally re-defined the term planet to exclude Pluto, which was classified as a dwarf planet. (Many planetary astronomers, however, consider dwarf planets to be a category of planet.)

Pluto is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is slightly less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets. Compared to Earth's moon, Pluto has only one sixth its mass and one third its volume.

Pluto has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit, ranging from 30 to 49 astronomical units (4.5 to 7.3 billion kilometers; 2.8 to 4.6 billion miles) from the Sun. Light from the Sun takes 5.5 hours to reach Pluto at its average distance (39.5 AU [5.91 billion km; 3.67 billion mi]). Pluto's eccentric orbit periodically brings it closer to the Sun than Neptune, but a stable orbital resonance prevents them from colliding.

Pluto has five known moons: Charon, the largest, whose diameter is just over half that of Pluto; Styx; Nix; Kerberos; and Hydra. Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered a binary system because the barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body, and they are tidally locked. The New Horizons mission was the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moons, making a flyby on July 14, 2015 and taking detailed measurements and observations.

The artice goes on to give some interesting information about how Pluto got its name and associated glyphs:

The name Pluto, after the Greek/Roman god of the underworld, was proposed by Venetia Burney (1918–2009), an eleven-year-old schoolgirl in Oxford, England, who was interested in classical mythology. She suggested it in a conversation with her grandfather Falconer Madan, a former librarian at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library, who passed the name to astronomy professor Herbert Hall Turner, who cabled it to colleagues in the United States.

Each member of the Lowell Observatory was allowed to vote on a short-list of three potential names: Minerva (which was already the name for an asteroid), Cronus (which had lost reputation through being proposed by the unpopular astronomer Thomas Jefferson Jackson See), and Pluto. Pluto received a unanimous vote. The name was published on May 1, 1930. Upon the announcement, Madan gave Venetia £5 (equivalent to £336 in 2021 or US$394 in 2021 as a reward.

The final choice of name was helped in part by the fact that the first two letters of Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Pluto's planetary symbol (Pluto monogram symbol.svg, Unicode U+2647: ♇) was then created as a monogram of the letters "PL", though it is rarely used in astronomy today. For example, ⟨♇⟩ occurs in a table of the planets identified by their symbols in a 2004 article written before the 2006 IAU definition, but not in a graph of planets, dwarf planets and moons from 2016, where only the eight IAU planets are identified by their symbols. Planetary symbols in general are uncommon in astronomy, and are discouraged by the IAU. 

The ♇ monogram is also used in astrology, but the most-common astrological symbol for Pluto, at least in English-language sources, is an orb over Pluto's bident. The bident symbol has seen some astronomical use as well since the IAU decision on dwarf planets, for example in a public-education poster on dwarf planets published by the NASA/JPL Dawn mission in 2015, in which each of the five dwarf planets announced by the IAU receives a symbol. There are in addition several other symbols for Pluto found in European astrological sources, including three accepted by Unicode.

The name 'Pluto' was soon embraced by wider culture. In 1930, Walt Disney was apparently inspired by it when he introduced for Mickey Mouse a canine companion named Pluto, although Disney animator Ben Sharpsteen could not confirm why the name was given. In 1941, Glenn T. Seaborg named the newly created element plutonium after Pluto, in keeping with the tradition of naming elements after newly discovered planets, following uranium, which was named after Uranus, and neptunium, which was named after Neptune.

I wasn't aware of the naming tradition mentioned in the previous paragraph. Interesting. Getting back to Pluto's astrological significance, the great conjunction of mid-January 2020 that kicked the whole scamdemic nightmare involved the Sun, Ceres, Mercury, Saturn and Pluto. Clearly Saturn and Pluto are the long term players here and remarkably, given the divergence of the latter from the plane of the ecliptic, the latitudes were almost the same (+0°02' and -0°40' respectively) at the time of conjunction. The synodic cycle of the two planets is about 38 years and so the semi-square and square will be significant as well as the entry of Pluto into Aquarius.

Should we consider the semi-square of Saturn to the original conjunction point or should we consider the relative positions between the transiting Saturn and transiting Pluto. Probably both are significant. On June 17th of 2023, Saturn will turn stationary retrograde in 7°12' of Pisces with 7°50' of Pisces being the exact semi-square between Saturn and its original position. Pluto will enter Aquarius on March 24th of 2023 for a few short months before returning to Capricorn on June 12th 2023. It will enter Aquarius again on January 21st 2024 for a much longer stay. Looking ahead I'd say that the period from March 2023 until June 2023 will be quite active as the global mafia attempts to push forward with its agenda.

Saturn will enter Pisces on March 8th 2023 which only adds more weight to the importance of the March to June period. It's interesting to look at the chart that I drew up for the conjunction at sunrise in London on January 13th 2020.

Venus in 29°28' sits on the cusp of the second house opposing the Moon in Leo on the cusp of the eighth house. Transiting Saturn will pass over Venus as it enters Pisces. Saturn will turn retrograde later in the year but will remain in Pisces, turning stationary direct in 0°30' Pisces on November 5th 2023. The significance of Saturn in Pisces of course is the dissolution of the old structures and systems that we have gotten used to over the centuries. The abolition of cash is an obvious example but more generally the imposition of Communism by stealth will accelerate since Pisces is associated with selfless, idealistic notions of making sacrifices for the perceived "greater good". In reality, everyone will be poor except for our overlords who will benefit from the greatest wealth transfer in the history of the planet.

Some unexpected disruptions to their plans may come when transiting Uranus turns stationary retrograde in 27°15' of Taurus, exactly conjunct the Nadir of the London chart and aspecting the original conjunction as well as the Venus-Moon opposition. One can only hope.