astro novice: This is the Astrologer I was talking about who I read perhaps 10 years or more ago. He has written far more then when I left off with his theory of the macro-ages. There is nothing simple about it either....
However I did notice on Wikipedia, his name & theories/books remain there under Age of Aquarius, BUT not without one astrologer? complaining bitterly about his theories.
Apparently people get very "dug in" to their committed beliefs, so I haven't gotten a handle on it myself, other then to say MacKinnell is worth a look - and open minded one at that:
https://macroastro.wordpress.com/published-articles/the-dawning-of-the-aquarian-age-2/
https://macroastro.wordpress.com/blog-index/
Terry MacKinnell really put himself out there, with a radical version of the sidereal Ages. I could easily explain what's different about his method compared to other sidereal Age proponents, but I'm focused on explaining the tropical Ages, and it would be a distraction.*
I'm too reclusive for a public blog, and this tropical version of the Ages is still flying under the radar, confined to this one astrological community.
It's intuitively understandable though, without knowing the mechanism by which tropical Ages can be determined. For one thing, the tropical Ages are direct, and we're used to transits ultimately moving from Capricorn to Aquarius--not from Pisces, which is the constantly-retrograde situation regarding ALL of the sidereal Age-transits, no how much the timing may differ from one version to another (including Terry MacKinnell's).
Also, it's easy for a Modernistic tropical astrologer to label
as representing the "old", with
as the "new". For example, I saw an explanation for
conjunct
as: "The old meeting the new". So, not much of a stretch to envision Saturn as the ruler of the "old Age of Capricorn", which is now in the process of tranforming into the Uranian-ruled, "new Age of Aquarius".
Of course, Traditionalistic astrologers who reject the planets beyond Saturn as Sign-rulers can't see it that way.
*[Edit: Or, maybe not. In fact it might help with the tropical Age explanation. Thanks leomoon, I think it is time for me to mention Terry MacKinnell on the "Voyage of Discovery" thread.]