So what do you think of the age of Capricorn?

[david starling]

Tropically, using the Gaia's Trident method, the technology is this Age of (Tropical) Capricorn's culminating manifestation. Of course it's backfiring--it's under Saturnian rulership. The Age of (Tropical) Aquarius coming into view is when the problems caused by the technology will be solved, under Uranian rulership. It makes so much sense to me in terms of Western culture, I can't see it any other way. In the case of India, on the other hand, with its Sidereal, Vedic astrology, I can see that as an Age of (Sidereal) Pisces--notice its culture is much like one might expect from a Piscean Age under Neptunian rulership when you correct for Western interference: Spiritually, not technologically oriented. Two versions of the Ages occurring simultaneously and in different parts of the world, and both with an Aquarian Age coming up next. East is East and West is West and they'll meet in the Age of Aquarius! So many are (in my opinion) confusing the base-10, utilitarian technology of the Age of Tropical Capricorn here in the West with the Ages of Aquarius, which will manifest something quite different once they really begin exerting their full influence. The World as we now experience it really is Not all there Is! (In my own opinion).

 

[david starling]

I didn't mean to imply that Gaia's Trident can't be used to explain what's going on in what the West calls the "Third World", India included; similarly, Gaia's Hourglass, which is located using both ends of the Equinoctal Line (First Point of Spring+First Point of Fall) in a Sideral chart, can be used to explain Western civilization, in which case India becomes First World and the West becomes the "backwards" Third World. It just depends on which type of chart you're drawing, Tropical or Sidereal: Trident for Tropical or Hourglass for Sidereal. An "Age" is the result of the aggregate effect of shared World-View, which in turn is the result of what's in everyone's chart. These are Age generations, similar to the concept of Neptunian and Plutonian generations; except that Age generations last so long they alter World Culture over the course of centuries and millennia. Each chart aspects the Age indicator in a different way, so it isn't surprising that for some, the Aquarian Age is a vital topic, for some it's unimportant, and some aren't willing to go along with the whole idea of Astrological Ages. A new Age becomes effective--manifests a real cultural impact--when it becomes influential enough in enough charts. This, of course from someone (myself) who does believe that these Ages, as I've been describing them, are both real and incredibly important.