AN ASTROLOGICAL MYSTERY WITH ANCIENT ROOTS – Part 1
For more than a century, astrologers have confidently spoken of the Age of Pisces, the coming Age of Aquarius, and the grand procession of astrological ages stretching back through history. But what if the entire framework rests upon a fundamental mistake?
This investigation traces the origins of the astrological ages back to Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer who discovered precession of the equinoxes in the second century BC. Surprisingly, neither Hipparchus, Ptolemy, nor any astrologer for the next two thousand years appears to have connected precession with historical ages. The familiar Ages of Aries, Pisces, and Aquarius simply did not exist in astrological literature.
So where did they come from? The average astrologer has no idea.
Drawing on astronomy, history, archaeoastronomy, and astrology itself, this article argues that modern astrologers adopted a mathematical technique never intended to measure astrological ages and built an entire worldview upon it. Research indicates that using the wrong technique delayed the Age of Aquarius by more than a thousand years.
The article introduces two “smoking guns” that challenge the conventional age doctrine, explores the forgotten importance of heliacal astronomy, and presents an alternative model suggesting that humanity entered the Age of Aquarius centuries ago.
The implications are profound. The conventional astrological ages are like a house built upon the sand. Much of what astrologers believe about the ages needs to be reassessed. This post is the first part of why the common approach to the astrological ages is a mistake, and also a mistake astrologers do not want to accept. This is not merely a debate about dates. It is a challenge to one of the most widely accepted assumptions in modern astrology.
Here is the opening chapter:
“This is a story that has been waiting for an age to be told. An astrological age, such as the Age of Aquarius, is around 2,150 years long. If we deduct the length of an age (i.e., 2,150 years) from 2026 we arrive at 125 BC. This is in the time period that scholars believe the Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus discovered precession of the equinoxes, the astronomical phenomenon that creates the astrological ages.”
More to follow soon.
The full post is available at: https://terrymackinnell.substack.com/p/an-astrological-mystery-with-ancient?r=2vc0ph