david starling
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The Age of Capricorn is of the cardinal-mode, so there is an overlap of Age seasons: Shared Individualistic winter conflicting with shared Traditionalistic fall. It was the same for the cardinal-sign Age of Libra (from about 4850B.C. to about 3100B.C.) in which the conflict was between Individualistic fall and Traditionalistic summer. Attachment to Tradition causes tremendous resistance against the new seasonal theme. For the Libran Age it was nomadic hunter-gathering versus locational city-state; for our own Age, it's the winter season's globalism versus fall's city-statism that pushed the true manifestations to the last part of the Age, which ends about 2150A.D. The "electronic global village" is replacing the locationalism which is so important to our shared Traditionalism of fall. Ancient Rome was the last of the fall season's pure city-states; it collapsed around the beginning of the Age of Capricorn (about 400A.D.) because it was too individualistic: The first point of the Age Interval (A.I.), describing the First World of shared Individualism, had entered the Winter quadrant. Social/traditional institutions developed that demanded submission to the old (fall-seasonal) ways. Halfway through (about 1300A.D.) Social orientation joined Individual in Capricorn (the Renaissance); last decant (about 1600A.D.) the rise of modern-science followed by the industrial revolution, and now in the final portion of this Age: The Saturnian-ruled First World, with its global military-industrial complex, which won't completely collapse until the Aquarian Age comes into full effect (about 2150A.D.).