Leo is a Fire sign, ruled by the Sun in astrology. Ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Gemini is an air sign, ruled by Mercury in astrology. The arrival of farming from about BC had a profound effect on every aspect of daily life for the people who lived at this time.
Taurus is an earth sign, ruled by Venus in astrology. Monotheism : one god — the power of multiple gods now as one single god-head. The Age of War, Fire, and the Ram Aries is associated with the metal iron, and iron ore was for the first time smelted and worked into iron swords in Anatolia Aries is a fire sign, ruled by Mars in astrology. Saint Peter is recognized as the apostle of the Piscean sign.
Up Next. Prev Next. What would be better fitted to start Aquarius than the Age of Reason and the birth of modernity? And what about Newton? What would be piscean about the start of seeing the world through objective measuring, thus marking the break with the classical world?
Also, with lining up the ages like this, that volatile and disintegrating final degree of a sign matches well with a great divide in christianity that took place in the final 72 years of Pisces. Luthers reformation and the subsequent violent religious strife in the whole of Europe would be another perfect marker for the transition into a new age. The birth of modern democracy, exploration, globalisation then — all these themes are aquarian imo.
Also, Aquarius is associated with trauma. It makes a lot more sense to me to have the 20th century, with its weird mixture of soulless individualism and the mass movements of fascism and communism, be aquarian.
We then have to introduce a 13th sign and accept that certain ages last a lot longer Virgo, Leo than others Libra, Capricorn. As a final remark: I do think the Great Conjunction of is a major beat and influx of new aquarian energy. Bliss, compassion, love — that is very piscean. Aquarius on the other hand, is all about indviduality, reason, sudden awakening. It seems to me many are wearing their rose-colored piscean glasses when talking about the new age, and not the objective, individuating filter of aquarius.
I think this is because Neptune is in its own sign of Pisces. When it moves into Aries starting it might get much clearer for us all. Glad you enjoyed the post! Who knows?!
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Get a cup of tea, cos this is a long one…! Yonaguni in Japan Our understanding of history is limited and so much has been lost or hidden.
Does the rest of it hold up when mapped to historical developments? Age of Virgo — 12, to 10, BCE Virgo is associated with farming and harvest, fertility and grain goddesses, and the alchemical process of turning wheat and barley into beer and bread.
A fierce animal found at Gobekli Tepe — could it be a lion? Age of Cancer — to BCE Cancer is associated with the Great Mother goddesses, family and home-making, domestication, protection, and floods.
Age of Gemini — to BCE Gemini is associated with twins and dual goddesses, as well as writing and trade. Clay tokens found at Abydos, Egypt c. Age of Taurus — to BCE Taurus is associated with bulls and cows worshipped as representations of a Mother goddess, as well as fertility cults, agriculture and farming.
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Email required Address never made public. It also was a period of classical Baroque architecture, with the Palace of Versailles as the supreme example. This period is an even more profound example of the recurring nature of the eras.
Not only was this a mirror of the Classical Greeks 2, years prior to BC ; the Old Kingdom in Egypt, 2, years before that, between and BC, was the classical height of Egyptian accomplishment during the Age of Taurus.
Genius and science, revolution, brotherhood, utopian ideals, immortality, and world culture. One of the most powerful indicators supporting the validity of this model of history and of the power of the smaller eras is the history that was made during the Aquarius Era. This era was revolutionary on all fronts, the most obvious being the Industrial Revolution. The steam engine invented by Watts was used in Robert Fulton's steam ship and sailed up the Hudson River in This venture was the first commercial success for any engine, and it proved that the Industrial Revolution could henceforth be financially successful.
This was a turning point that ensured the success of the revolution. In , Maudslay invented the industrial lathe, and eight years later the world's first large-scale mass production unit was in operation in England at the Portsmouth block- making yard. Skilled engineers came to America to escape the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars, and in the Boston Manufacturing Company was formed.
Traditional industry depended on workers performing various tasks from various locations, often from home.
For the first time in history the whole operation of a company was centralised under one roof, and the American system of manufacture was born. Eli Whitney began making interchangeable parts for muskets in , and in his idea was accepted by other industries. In Henry Ford invented the assembly line, whereby a worker dealt with only one small part of the product. In the 19th century, industry had become mechanised, and this was a revolution in the creation of goods. In the 20th century, workers became extremely specialised, and this was an even more radical revolution.
The Industrial Revolution brought with it radical change, for better or worse, in many other important and basic areas of our lives, including economics. The means of livelihood for most non-farmers was the ability to create and sell crafts or other goods. Machine-made articles, many with replaceable parts, replaced traditional craft industries. With the centralisation of industrial operations, people had to move to where the factories were in order to survive.
Cities began to grow rapidly, both in number and in size. Factories and the factory smokestack replaced the church and steeple as the prominent village or city landmark. As cities grew, so did poverty-stricken slums. Prior to the 20th century, land had been the primary indicator of wealth. From the land came the food that kept one free from hunger and the raw materials for the small home-based crafts industries.
At the top of the social ladder, the aristocracy was traditionally hereditary, mainly because of large tracts of inherited land, and the economy was land- based. Industrial capitalism began to revolutionise that economy, as the machines' ability to produce goods from raw materials became more important than the raw materials from the land themselves.
Around , finance capitalism began to replace industrial capitalism. Money became the most important raw material in any industrial venture. The investment of money began to gain in importance, even over the needs of industry.
Industry was no longer there to fill an existing need. Need had to be created in the minds of the purchasing public in order to support industry. Industry thus began to advertise its products, and department stores were created as centres where industry could show off its wares.
Advertising and fashion industries grew up around the sales of new products. The revolutionary idea of credit expanded the purchasing power necessary to support a hungry industrial appetite. In , 'Morris Plan' banks, as they were called after their founder, first began to make loans to private citizens. Following World War II, personal credit began to spread out to the entire population.
Today credit cards such as Visa and MasterCard allow private citizens the revolutionary freedom of buying all sorts of manufactured goods and services far beyond our means to immediately pay for them. A third area of revolution was transportation. The Watts steam engine provided a means of power other than traditional power sources such as animal, wind or water.
In , the high-pressure steam engine, designed for over-the- road transportation, was invented. In , the first steam locomotive was created, and in the first modern railway was built in England to transport heavy loads of coal from the Durham coalfield in Stockton to Darlington. In ,. From there, railway service expanded at a tremendous rate. In , there were only a few dozen miles of railway track in the entire world.
By there were 4, miles of track, and ten years later there were 23, miles of track. Around , the internal combustion engine was invented. Following several attempts at building a personal passenger car, Henry Ford built the first commercially successful automobile in , the Model T. At the same time, men were experimenting with the idea of flight. The Wright Brothers are credited with the first successful flight of an airplane.
Humanity's speed and means of transportation have radically changed. We have even gone to the moon. Truly revolutionary! Technology has revolutionised virtually every aspect of our lives, from communication and knowledge to the home, personal fulfilment, world interaction and culture, art, and warfare. Volta harnessed electricity, ruled by Uranus, for the first time with the invention of his storage battery in Electricity allowed the invention of the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, and the personal computer.
Access to knowledge has been revolutionised through the various media of radio, television and the computer. Avenues for personal fulfilment have been revolutionised through the vast expansion of a workplace and career driven by technology.
Even warfare has been revolutionised. In , Henry Shrapnel invented the exploding artillery shell that replaced the solid cannonball.
In , Alfred Nobel invented dynamite, a much more explosive material than black powder. With the increase in mechanisation, war began to change dramatically after the turn of the century.
In , the Japanese attacked Russian forces at Port Arthur in southern Manchuria, launching the largest war ever fought to that date. This was the first war to employ armoured battleships, self-propelled torpedoes, rapid-firing artillery, modern machine guns, and land mines. Ten years later, World War I, 'the war to end all wars', broke out in Europe.
Tanks and aircraft, as well as toxic chemical weapons such as mustard gas, were added to the arsenal. A mere three decades later, World War II introduced even more revolutionary weapons to the list, including rockets and the atom bomb. Industrialisation has revolutionised family structure. In , the Boston Manufacturing Company began hiring young farm girls as workers. Other companies found that they could cut costs if they hired women and children, replacing men as the breadwinners in family life.
At the same time, children began to learn trades other than those of their fathers. In an increasingly industrial and technological workplace, knowledge was changing rapidly. Traditional knowledge held by parents and elders became increasingly less important. The value of parental wisdom was replaced by the new knowledge of science, as well as the news and stories transmitted through the new media of radio and television.
In , the gas lamp was invented, revolutionising the work cycle of the modern man and woman. This invention allowed industry to work their employees for longer hours, and eventually to keep production going well into the night.
This change has thrown the natural circadian cycle out of balance. We no longer work according to the rising and setting of the sun. We now live in a revolutionary new and artificial environment. Food has undergone a radical revolution.
In , Nicholas Appert opened the world's first cannery, or vacuum-bottling factory, near Paris. Food processing would totally revolutionise the new food industry. In , England's Donkin-Hall factory created the first foods to be sold in tins. In , pasteurisation was introduced in order to kill any harmful bacteria present in food to be bottled or canned. As the industry began to grow, chemists in the 20th century created artificial flavours, chemical preservatives, free-flowing agents, and artificial colours to help create more tasty and convenient products.
Aquarius rules genius and science. Advances in science have fuelled industry and technology during this era. The natural philosophers of the previous era, including Sir Isaac Newton, gave way to the pure scientist in this era. These theories have radically revolutionised the way science looks at the universe we live in.
We now know that we live in an expanding universe of uncounted galaxies, speeding quasars, and deadly black holes, where a particle of matter is simply trapped energy. We may also live in a universe containing more than ten dimensions.
Aquarius rules global communications and world culture. Napoleon structurally united all of Europe and reorganised European countries to conform to the organisational ideals of the French Revolution. He consolidated all of the old and confusingly disparate political patterns that had come into being throughout Europe into more manageable patterns. These nations then went on to create wholly new states with a feeling of belonging to a fresh European cohesiveness of identity that would lead to a unification of the world that was previously unknown.
Europe opened China and Japan to a burgeoning new level of world trade. With the invention of the steam engine, international and even global transportation soon became a reality.
The telegraph began the push toward forming today's global communications network. An international money economy was developed to support international projects, along with the creation of multinational corporations.
Utopian ideals, brotherhood, equality, and progressiveness are all traits of Aquarius. The focus on individual civil rights within government in the previous era culminated in the American Revolution in and the French Revolution in The political ideals of a basic right to the pursuit of happiness, liberty, equality, and brotherhood were born.
America became the utopian ideal for much of the rest of the world, with idealistic images such as America's streets being paved with gold. The new ultimate dictatorship of this era, Communism, was created by Karl Marx, based on the utopian ideal of workers' communes, all toiling in the spirit of equality and brotherhood for the greater good of all.
The Cold War during the last decades of this era was a clash of ideals between the utopian promise of capitalism of the West and that of utopian Communism in Russia. The Aquarian ideals of equality have spread to cover a wide range of people and of all life in this era. Beginning with 'Fanny' Wright in , women have fought for and gained a degree of equality to men in almost every area of life in the West. The Equal Rights Amendment was gaining ground until the end of this era, when the energy changed and it was then finally stalled.
Slavery was abolished and Blacks have at last legally been granted equal rights in this country, as have other minorities. The rights of the mentally and physically handicapped are protected by law, as are the rights of the poor and unemployed. Libra marks the passing through middle age, as they begin to truly prioritize partnership and connection in their lives.
No more games or pointless dates, these individuals are looking for true love. Libras are also excellent at mediation, and at this age, folks have been through enough conflict and aggression to last them a lifetime. Scorpio is the age of transformation, the moment you emerge into your retirement years and consider how much your life has and will change. Scorpios are pros at transforming, but also tend to resist change, so there can be personal conflict once people reach this age.
Scorpios are excellent at consistency, but sometimes it can lead to being stagnant. This age is all about rediscovering your passions in life in order to be your best self. Sagittarius represents the age group 56 to 63, when people have the capacity to move away from social norms, conformity, and career responsibilities in search of their own personal and universal concerns. During this phase of evolution, a person begins to broaden their horizons, and consider ways of life that they never have before.
Society teaches people that work and capitalism are the only choices, but at this age, you start to step into your own personal power and freedom. Representing the age period of 63 to 70, the age of Capricorn is here to build structural support and security. However, this age period also symbolizes a hardening of ideas and thoughts. During this phase of evolution, a person will become inspired to create and solidify a legacy. This is an age of hard work, to build something that feels authentic to you outside of any corporation or job.
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