The Pisces Age versus the Aquarian Age
By BoJenn
✨ A Note to My Readers
You might be wondering — why write about this now?
In a world trembling with uncertainty, where power gathers in the hands of the wealthy and new forms of control rise before our eyes, what could the stars possibly have to do with it?
Stay with me. The answers will reveal themselves as you read — clearly, unmistakably — even if you’ve never believed in astrology or understood its patterns. All I ask is that you pause, open your mind, and pay attention.
And so it seems that each age lasts 2000 years with on both sides of the 2000 years 300 to 500 years merging time. The 3 to 500 years in between the ages, are usually turbulence, meaning war, rebellions, hostile environments, and weather changes and geological, traumas or dramas such as volcanoes earthquakes, fires and disasters of all kinds. perhaps ruthless dictators show up on the scene and anything that causes mankind strife. Also, the ages flow counter clockwise rather than forwards. That means before pisces was Aries and after Pisces is Aquarius however, if it was flowing clockwise, it would be Aquarius behind us and flowing into Aries.
Here is where I will urge you to read this blog, even if, your religious beliefs tell you “no, this is of the devil, don’t read!” Read it, and relax, it’s not about the devil or anything religious. I promise you that you will gain insight into the questions you are asking yourself now, and scrutinizing your religious beliefs will not be done, as the explanation of why you believe in your faith will be answered and the knowledge that you and I are not alone, but we were born into the age of beliefs, Pisces. Believing in something was necessary, and not believing may have cost someone their life. Let’s go forward, shall we? Come on, and follow me back into time, back to The Age of Aries.
The next few paragraphs explains what the ages looked like and who was in charge of the world.
🌌 The Ages and Their Timing
The Age of Aries (roughly ~2000 BCE to 0 CE) and the Age of Pisces (roughly 0 CE to ~2000 CE) are based on the precession of the equinoxes — a slow, ~26,000-year wobble of Earth’s axis that changes which constellation the spring equinox points toward. Each “age” lasts about 2,160 years, though the exact dates are debated. I give both sides roughly 500 years, though I am generous, but the social aspect still holds onto beliefs of the previous ages and it could take 500 years to dissolve, for example, some of the Pisces traits like religious beliefs, art and music.
So, the transition from Aries to Pisces happened around the turn of the Common Era — approximately between 200 BCE and 200 CE.
To compare :
🐏 Age of Aries (the Ram): Characteristics and Symbols
Aries is associated with fire, leadership, conquest, and the ram — often seen as a time of warrior cultures and the rise of empires. Religiously, it was an era marked by sacrificial lambs/rams and solar deities associated with power and kingship.
And, the Pisces age
🐟 Age of Pisces (the Fish): Characteristics and Symbols
Pisces is a water sign associated with faith, compassion, and spirituality. The fish became a key symbol in early Christianity — fitting the astrological theme almost perfectly. It is filled with art, music, riddles, deception and down right lies. It is a master deceiver because of the grand illusions of beauty, intrigue, mystery, legends, folklore, fantasy, astrology, science, fabrics and fables. So many gorgeous stories and things that have filled mankind with to the point of war, and killing others over beliefs. Something to think about.
To add, Aries, in my opinion was the first birth of humanity. Aries is the first, number one, and the beginning. However, it is my guess. Aries last 2,000 years.
🌍 Major Historical Events Around the Transition (~200 BCE – 200 CE)
1. Rise of the Roman Empire
Rome transitioned from a Republic to an Empire (Julius Caesar’s rise and the reign of Augustus, 27 BCE). Roman expansion unified much of the Mediterranean world. Establishment of the Pax Romana — a long period of relative peace and stability.
2. Decline of Hellenistic Kingdoms
The Hellenistic era (after Alexander the Great, 323 BCE) faded as Rome absorbed the Greek-influenced states of Egypt, Syria, and Anatolia. Greek culture, philosophy, and science spread across the Mediterranean — shaping intellectual life for centuries.
3. The Life of Jesus and Birth of Christianity
Around 4 BCE – 30 CE: Jesus of Nazareth lived, taught, and was crucified. Early Christianity began spreading within the Roman Empire — its symbol: the fish (Ichthys). This spiritual revolution aligns symbolically with the Age of Pisces’s themes of faith, redemption, and compassion.
4. Flourishing of Eastern Empires
In China, the Han Dynasty reached its golden age, developing paper, silk trade routes (Silk Road), and Confucian bureaucracy. In India, the Maurya Empire (Ashoka, c. 250 BCE) promoted Buddhism, followed by the Kushan Empire, which helped spread Buddhism to Central Asia. In Persia, the Parthian Empire controlled the major east-west trade routes.
5. Cultural and Religious Shifts
Widespread syncretism — mixing of religious and philosophical ideas (e.g., Greco-Egyptian cults like Serapis, Mithraism, and Gnosticism). A growing focus on personal salvation and inner spirituality — a distinct turn from the external, sacrificial religion of the Aries age.
The Age of Aquarius
Ah — the Age of Aquarius — one of the most intriguing and debated forthcoming epochs in human history! 🌍♒
If we follow the same astronomical precession pattern, we are transitioning now (roughly from the late 20th century onward) out of Pisces and into Aquarius. Just as the shift from Aries → Pisces coincided with a massive spiritual and cultural transformation (the fall of Rome, rise of Christianity, and new worldviews), the Pisces → Aquarius shift is expected to bring its own sweeping change — this time intellectual, technological, and collective.
Let’s look at what the mood, themes, and potential historical analogues of the Age of Aquarius might be:
♒ The Symbolism of Aquarius
Element: Air Mode: Fixed Symbol: The Water Bearer — one who pours out wisdom, knowledge, and renewal onto humanity. Planetary ruler: Uranus (modern) and Saturn (traditional) — representing innovation, rebellion, structure, and higher consciousness.
🌌 The Mood and Energies of the Aquarian Age
1. Collective Consciousness and Equality
Where the Age of Pisces was emotional, faith-based, and hierarchical, Aquarius is intellectual, communal, and egalitarian.
Expect a shift from spiritual devotion to universal cooperation. Emphasis on humanitarianism, global unity, and shared knowledge. The idea of the “global village” — humanity as one interconnected organism — is deeply Aquarian.
2. Technology and Knowledge as Sacred Tools
Pisces cherished mysticism; Aquarius venerates science and innovation. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and digital communication all mirror this shift toward collective intelligence. The “water” poured by Aquarius may represent data and information, nourishing the world with knowledge rather than faith.
3. Rebellion and Reform
Aquarian energy is revolutionary — it challenges old systems, hierarchies, and dogmas. We’re already seeing global movements for social justice, climate responsibility, and post-national cooperation. The mood is one of awakening — questioning authority, redistributing power, and redefining what “civilization” means.
4. Return to Ancient Knowledge through Modern Lenses
Interestingly, the Aquarian ideal isn’t anti-spiritual — it’s integrative.
Ancient wisdom (e.g., Hermeticism, Eastern philosophies, indigenous cosmologies) is being reinterpreted through science, quantum theory, and holistic medicine. This merging of ancient and futuristic mindsets is quintessentially Aquarian.
5. Potential Shadow Aspects
Every age carries challenges:
Over-dependence on technology, loss of privacy, or cold rationalism could overshadow empathy. Mass identity could lead to loss of individuality. The struggle between freedom and control (a Uranian vs. Saturnian tension) may define early Aquarian centuries.
🜍 The Historical Parallel
If Pisces began with the rise of Christ and organized religion, Aquarius may begin with the rise of the networked human — connected not by creed, but by consciousness.
Where Pisces said “I believe,” Aquarius says “I know.”
In the 1950s, beneath the surface of conformity and Cold War restraint, a quiet rebellion was forming. The Beat Generation embodied Aquarian traits long before the name was sung in Hair — a yearning for unity, authenticity, and freedom from rigid systems.
Here’s how those energies fit the symbolism of Aquarius, the Water Bearer:
Collective consciousness: The Beats sought shared truth and connection through art and experience, breaking the isolation of the postwar individual. Innovation and rebellion: They experimented with language, jazz rhythms in poetry, and Eastern philosophies — dismantling boundaries between sacred and profane. Humanitarian and visionary ideals: Many embraced pacifism, environmental awareness, and empathy for the marginalized — early echoes of the global consciousness that blossomed in the 1960s.
So, while astrologers debate celestial precision, the Aquarian impulse—intellectual freedom, global thinking, egalitarianism—was already awakening in human culture around 1950–1955.
🌊 The Last Convulsions of Pisces
At the end of its dominion, Pisces — the Dreamer, the Martyr, the Believer — began to tremble.
It had lived two millennia in devotion, faith, and sacrificial love. Its gift was compassion, but its curse was illusion.
As the stars shifted, Pisces sensed the coming exile — the Water Bearer standing at the threshold, calm yet electric.
So Pisces did what all dying gods do:
it tightened its grip.
The old order, frightened of dissolution, doubled down on its power — churches thundering, governments moralizing, the righteous policing the hearts of the free.
But the people, mirroring the cosmic unease, began to shake loose.
They raged, they marched, they sang, they burned draft cards and incense alike.
The faithful turned seekers.
The pious turned poets.
The obedient turned mystics of their own making.
Pisces’ anxiety spilled into the collective as war and protest, as ecstasy and escape —
drugs to dream, music to ascend, movements to dissolve old borders.
It was not madness — it was metamorphosis.
For when an age dies, its children inherit both its wounds and its wisdom.
The Piscean heart — compassionate, imaginative, yearning — was torn open so Aquarius could step through.
🜂 In essence:
Yes— the 1950s through the 1970s were not just a cultural revolt, but the psychological unbinding of the Piscean Age.
Its nervous system spasmed with fear of obsolescence, and humanity acted out that cosmic panic.
That’s why the period feels so charged — it was the death-throe of an entire paradigm.
The musical and pop crystallization (“The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius”) came later — Hair (1967) and the hit medley by The 5th Dimension (1969) — but those works largely named and amplified a movement that had been gestating for years.
The transition began in the 1950s as it was budding into a rose, so tracing the age to the cultural and spiritual seedlings that grew into the hippie/New Age explosion of the late ’60s. That’s historically and narratively
coherent.
And so, we can finally see the truth of what is unfolding in our world. The veil between ages is thin — shimmering, shifting — and those who look closely will sense the change in every heartbeat of the earth. If this feels distant or hard to understand, return to it. Read again. Let the meaning unfold slowly, like dawn breaking through mist. Seek the voices of other astrologers and seers who also read the heavens, for they too recognize this moment between worlds and remind us that wisdom is the only anchor worth holding.
Those of us born in the 1950s carry the deep waters of Pisces within us — faith, empathy, the longing for unity — while the generations that follow, the X and the Millennials, rise beneath the airy current of Aquarius, bearing vision, invention, and revolution. Yet truly, these are but notes in one vast celestial symphony. The ages turn, and we turn with them. We live, we die, and we are born anew — each time remembering a little more of who we have always been beneath the endless sky.
And it all comes down to…
“We are the bridge between ages — the dream of Pisces and the promise of Aquarius.”
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