Hi Camille, thanks for the write up, always appreciated to have as many different takes as possible.
I have a problem (I think). I haven't done any research to try and figure it out yet, but perhaps you can help. You wrote:
"Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac—where everything dissolves and returns to oneness before beginning again in Aries."
I understand that, and it's how I read charts and their houses (though I'm just a baby, started in late 2022) - anticlockwise - but it's strange that we've just been through the age of Pisces and enter the age of Aquarius... Not Aries. How do you make sense of this? I can't intuitively grasp it.
Thank you Aria for reading and commenting! So the way I understand it is that it's due to the precession of the equinoxes, which completes a full cycle approximately every. 25,000 years. The wobble in the earth's axis causes the vernal equinox to move west/backwards through the constellations of the zodiac. There's a great book on the astrological ages by Alice O. Howell called The Heavens Declare. She describes the precession as the "clockwise march of the intersections (equinoxes) of the ecliptic and the celestial equator around the sidereal zodiac of the constellations'. I'm not sure how well I explained the astronomy but that should get you in the ballpark.
Hi Camille, thanks for the write up, always appreciated to have as many different takes as possible.
I have a problem (I think). I haven't done any research to try and figure it out yet, but perhaps you can help. You wrote:
"Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac—where everything dissolves and returns to oneness before beginning again in Aries."
I understand that, and it's how I read charts and their houses (though I'm just a baby, started in late 2022) - anticlockwise - but it's strange that we've just been through the age of Pisces and enter the age of Aquarius... Not Aries. How do you make sense of this? I can't intuitively grasp it.
Thank you Aria for reading and commenting! So the way I understand it is that it's due to the precession of the equinoxes, which completes a full cycle approximately every. 25,000 years. The wobble in the earth's axis causes the vernal equinox to move west/backwards through the constellations of the zodiac. There's a great book on the astrological ages by Alice O. Howell called The Heavens Declare. She describes the precession as the "clockwise march of the intersections (equinoxes) of the ecliptic and the celestial equator around the sidereal zodiac of the constellations'. I'm not sure how well I explained the astronomy but that should get you in the ballpark.
Brilliant, thanks for the lead. I wasn't even sure I'd asked the question correctly. :)