Age of Libra

[deviadah]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h18/deviadah/Bild2.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius)

In short the ages represent:
Age of Gemini: communication
Age of Taurus: agriculture
Age of Aries: conquest
Age of Pisces: religous
Age of Aquarius: enlightenment

Been sitting now thinking about the last age before the circle is complete (that is if we stick around for that long) trying to speculate what it would be. Of course all ages between the current and the last has to be taken into account, but I haven't done so.

Libra is the seventh Sign of the Zodiac. From an alchemical perspective I find this interesting. Add to the fact that Libra represents balance and harmony.

But it would be a tedious wait if we have to wait another 8000 years before the human race reaches such a state. Perhaps our planet will because the human race has moved into space and left it in peace?

Now the 13th Zodiac sign, The Serpent Holder, is not calculated into these ages. If it were the Age of Libra would occur even later.

Thoughts?

[Ci Celli Ddu]

I would have to know what decides when and why an astrological age begins before taking the whole thing seriously.

[deviadah]

I would have to know what decides when and why an astrological age begins before taking the whole thing seriously.
Well that is what can be discussed. There are no certain laws in this subject.

[Dragon]

Here are some useful links for understanding what causes the drift through the houses. That this is a simple natural occurance is not in dispute to anyone with a stopwatch and a telescope....so to speak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius

http://www.geocities.com/astrologyages/jungsplatonicmonth.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/precession.html

http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/archeo/india/india3.html


The two main contentions are on how to determine the length of an Age, either by the organic bounderies of the signs, or by even division within the houses - even then there are going to be descrepancies.. No two full "years" will be the same in duration, anymore then two years of our orbit will be exactly the same; the principle that causes the drift applies to all of creation.

Things spin.

Things drift.

Things....jiggle.

Such is the Dance.

~D~

[Kuroyagi]

Yes, interesting. The astrological ages are to me actually somehow useful as yet another pointer for time-division. They have proven useful to an extent, as other calendars have. I myself consider this not as a closed set but rather as a circlular movement that would simply start anew (if we humes havent been extinct by then.), at the end of it.

The possiblities you mention are also nice, "we have to mutate/transform ourselves also structurally in order to survive on the long run"- is also my conviction, and I think I'm not alone here. If you consider the thought that life itself as we know it actually has only a narrow time frame ("niche" both temporally and spaciously) in the history of the cosmos, the problem becomes eminent even if we were not to be extinct as a species in the near future...