Curiosonari

As a religious studies student, I found this piece of information fascinating. I’ve heard of the Age of Aquarius but didn’t understand these were true ages and not just a song. But then I found this on Wikipedia.

An astrological age is a time period in astrology which is believed by some to cause major changes in the Earth’s inhabitants’ development. It roughly corresponds to the time taken for the vernal equinox to move through one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. The Ages in astrology, however, do not correspond to the actual constellation boundaries where the vernal equinox may be occurring in a given time.

So each astrological age is thought to be approximately 2160 years. It isn’t a stretch to believe these ages effect humanity just as we are effected by the moon or planets. Right now we are in the Age of Pisces which is supposed to be more of a religious age starting around 90 BC. What fascinates me is how religious scholars have found links between the Age of Pisces (represented by fish) and Christianity.

Pisces has, as its symbol, two fishes swimming in opposite directions, connected by a line joining each of their mouths. This can be interpreted as each member of the Christian community being both fisher and fish within Christian responsibility, while attending to diverse activities - a complete reversal of the previous self-centred “me-first” approach of the previous Arian Age.

Jesus Christ is said to have been born around the time of the beginning of The Age of Pisces. The Age of Pisces is very close to the time Christianity emerged up to the present.

Jesus was reported, in Matthew 4:19, as saying to two fishermen brothers, (Simon called Peter, and Andrew) on the shore of Lake Galilee, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men” - a tradition that the Christian Church has continued even to today.

In the Book of Luke when Jesus is asked “where wilt thou that we prepare?” concerning the Kingdom of the New Age of Jesus’s return, Jesus says to follow a man “bearing a pitcher of water” into the house he enters. A man bearing a pitcher of water symbolizes the coming of the Age of Aquarius and is known as “the water bearer”. In Astrology, the Age of Aquarius comes directly after the Age of Pisces. The monastic tradition introduced during the Piscean age led to University education and the process of peer review, a vital component of the impending scientific-accented Aquarian Age.

Fascinating. It wouldn’t be the first time that symbols were used in complex writings.

- Shannon

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