Friday, January 25, 2008

“And Surely I Am with you Always, to the Very End of the Age” Matt 28:20

Throughout the scripture there are numerous references to the Ages. What this is talking about is a astrological age that occurs because of a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. Like a wobbling top, the direction of the Earth's axis is changing. While today, the North Pole points roughly to Polaris, over time it will change. Because of this wobble, the position of the earth in its orbit around the sun at the moment of the equinoxes and solstices will also change. Although astrologers consider it very important, modern day astronomers care little about it. Yet it is this phenomenon alone that give many answers to the myths and legends in the scripture.

Every 2150 to 2160 years the sunrise on the morning of the Spring Equinox occurs at a different sign of the zodiac. This has to do with the slow wobble that the earth is on. Its called a precession because the constellations go backward rather then forward like a regular cycle. One complete period of this precession is called a Great Sideral Year of about 25,800 to 25,950 years and it is divided in twelve astrological ages of 30 degrees each (2150 to 2160 years). Ancient cultures believed that during the course of one Great Year, civilization will rise for about 12,000 years, culminating in a Golden Age, then fall for 12,000 years, culminating in a Dark Age, before rising again.

The changes upon Earth are caused and marked by the influences of the given astrological sign, related to the northern hemisphere at the same time that the vernal equinox is occurring in the northern hemisphere. The present age that we live is the Age of Pisces (the fish), vernal equinox, and is complemented by the astrological sign of Virgo ( the Virgin), autumnal equinox. For this reason the current Piscean age is called in astrology the “Age of Pisces-Virgo”; which is the age of Monotheism, Spirituality, and the fish.

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