Astrologers believe that an astrological age affects humanity, possibly by influencing the rise and fall of civilizations or cultural tendencies.
Traditionally, Aquarius is associated with
electricity,
computers,
flight,
democracy,
freedom,
humanitarianism,
idealism,
modernization,
nervous disorders,
rebellion,
nonconformity,
philanthropy,
veracity,
perseverance,
humanity, and irresolution.
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Among other dates, one view is that the Age of Aquarius arrived around 1844, with the harbinger of
Siyyid ʿAlí Muḥammad (1819–1850), who founded
Bábism.
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Marcia Moore and Mark Douglas promoted the view that, although no one knows when the Aquarian Age begins, the
American Revolution, the
Industrial Revolution, and the discovery of electricity are all attributable to the Aquarian Age.
[11] Moore and Douglas make a number of predictions about the trends that they believe will develop in the Aquarian Age.
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Proponents of medieval astrology suggest that the Pisces world where religion is the
opiate of the masses will be replaced in the Aquarian Age by a world ruled by secretive, power-hungry elites seeking absolute power over others; that knowledge in the Aquarian Age will only be valued for its ability to win wars; that knowledge and science will be abused, not industry and trade; and that the Aquarian Age will be a Dark Age in which
religion is considered offensive.
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Another view suggests that the rise of scientific rationalism, combined with the fall of religious influence, the increasing focus on
human rights since the 1780s, the exponential growth of technology, plus the advent of flight and space travel, are evidence of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
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A "wave" theory of the shifting Great Ages suggests that the Age of Aquarius will not arrive on a given date but is instead emerging in influence over many years, similar to how
the tide surges forward incrementally rather than all at once.
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Rudolf Steiner believed that the Age of Aquarius will arrive in 3573. In Steiner's approach, each age is exactly 2,160 years. Based on this structure, the world has been in the Age of Pisces since 1413. Rudolf Steiner had spoken about two great spiritual events: the return of
Christ in the ethereal world (and not in a physical body), because people must develop their faculties until they can reach the ethereal world; and the incarnation of
Ahriman,
Zoroaster's "destructive spirit" that will try to block the evolution of humanity.
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In an article about
feminism in the French newspaper
La Fronde from February 26, 1890,
August Vandekerkhove stated: "About March, 21st this year the cycle of Aquarius will start. Aquarius is the house of the woman". He adds that is in this age the woman will be equal to the man.
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Gnostic philosopher
Samael Aun Weor declared February 4, 1962 to be the beginning of the "Age of Aquarius", heralded by the alignment of the first six planets, the Sun, the Moon and the constellation
Aquarius.
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