Wow! Something sure did happen. On January 19, 1881 there was a seismic shift in the natural forces guiding life on Earth. A quest to know became humanity’s new default option. Technology and scientific endeavor were on the ascendancy. One minute we were dreaming of flying and the next Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were walking on the Moon.
But, before this sensational 1969 Aquarian Age moment, there was blood on the carpet. From 1914 to 1918 mighty armies fought each other. They launched offensives and counter offensives, gained and lost ground, and killed each other by the millions.
In 1927 American poet, Max Ehrmann, wrote Desiderata informing you that ‘you are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars and you have a right to be here’. He advised you to ‘go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence’.
Aquarius was re-writing the book of life. As a human soul you have inalienable human rights. You belong to universal humanity – not just a state or society. You have the right to be free, equal and treated with dignity: and the right to pursue personal happiness and make personal lifestyle choices.
In 1930 Aquarius encountered peril and danger. The discovery of Pluto heralded the start of a period when drastic events, division, dictators, coercive control, organized crime, atheistic materialism, propaganda, disinformation and fact suppression defined the proceedings. Unity, cooperative effort, transparency and truth-telling would be severely challenged.
When the stock market crashed in 1929 misery and despair became the new normal for years and years. Then a cold war followed a hot war; the world got divided; and the movies taught us all the things our parents didn’t.
By the middle of the 20th century Cartesian duality was thoroughly dead. The psychologists were getting turned on by neurophysiology. The study of mind started with the brain. Brain and mind were identical. The mind was what the brain did. Science and psychology reduced you and your life to chemicals.
In the 1980s greed was good. That’s when Aquarius struggled through the most discordant Saturn cycle of the 20th-century. It commenced on March 30, 1981 and with Saturn opposition Sun self-serving conservative thinking tore the world apart.
Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan both acted to disempower government. They reduced the power of their respective governments, disempowered the public sector and gave more power to the private sector and self-interest.
In 1986, when the precessional pointer moved to form a high-discord square aspect with progressed Pluto in the Aquarian Age chart, things took a drastic turn for the worse.
In 1991 the World Wide Web arrived and by 2000 planet Earth was an orbiting supermarket, organized crime had gone global and the life sciences were dominated by electron microscopy.
People’s thinking about themselves underwent bizarre change. Many believed they were DNA in motion and in a spectacular display of personal power some imagined they could genetically design their own children.
The baby boomers extended that turbulent teenage chemical spurt called puberty for 50 years. Sixty-five became the new 15. And by 2020 the real 15 year olds were being traumatized by climate change.
By 2020 social media was the star attraction. It invited people to raise public awareness and do good, but too many just talked, gossiped and behaved badly. They clamored for attention by posting opinions, pictures and videos. From the get-go technology changed everything except the fundamental urges driving human behavior.
Related: Pluto square Mercury in the Pluto cycle
The world today
Planet Earth today is inhabited by billions of confused, stressed out, messed-up, imperfect human souls. There are countless problems. Millions of people are living a nightmare.
The world is conflicted and divided. There’s political discord and a cost-of-living crisis. Globalization isn’t cool, homeland economics is back; and the climate is changing faster than ever. Extreme weather events destroy lives and livelihoods. Record temperatures, droughts, floods and wildfires cause billions of dollars in damage.
There are too many people living lives programmed by 2000 year old religious beliefs or new age atheistic propaganda. Too many people think their brains are doing their thinking. They believe they’re soulless thinking machines.
It’s an age of weirdness when supersmart new age scientists know more about the atmosphere of Venus than they do about themselves; and superintelligent Artificial Intelligence specialists know more about intelligent algorithms than they do about their own minds.
AI tools are all the rage. There’s an AI arms race, a race to deploy killer AI driven robots that can make lethal decisions independently, an insatiable need for rare-earth minerals and talk of a flying car.
Some claim generative AI is a transformation technology and thinking computers are going to take over the world but you know not to believe all the hype.
Saving the world is all the rage. Technology is saving millions of lives. There’s a massive industry in surgical implant technologies. Mind-control technology is emerging as a promising way for managing many health problems like paralysis, stroke and mental health.
And there’s a good chance that you’re spending a lot of your time online satisfying your urge for information, novelty, entertainment and escapism using addictive technologies developed by Uranus and Pluto.
2023 was the hottest year ever and with Mars taking center stage in 2024 it could be hotter.
The world in 2024
In 2024 the knowledge industry is booming. Millions seek information while experimenters innovate. New is always better. In times of rapid change you go with the flow. Any piece of information, important and useful or unimportant and useless, can be called knowledge. The Aquarian Age web is a bank of knowledge. But knowledge isn’t wisdom. If it was the world would be a wiser place. If you’re a wise person you’d like to know where we are heading.
In 2024 Mars dominates global affairs
Mars – the king of the hot-heads – dominates in 2024. It has a multitude of followers. Their inner beasts are ever ready to blow a fuse. They regularly drop anger-bombs. Some self-destruct and blow themselves up.
Mars forecasts strife, conflict, surging violence, furious competition, hate, anger, rage, speed, accidents, searing heat and fire. Its unregulated aggression leaves a trail of death and destruction. Its trouble shooters aggressively hunt down the troublemakers. 2024 gets a catastrophic red flag warning.
Related: Mars in 2024: Red alerts and war drums
2024 is the biggest election year in history
In the Sun section of the Aquarian Age it’s a multipolar world with multiple centers of power or influence, especially in politics or foreign policy.
Politics – the activity of government – is where politicians and lawmakers do all they can to control the political discourse and the path a country takes. They’re delirious with power and often self-serving polarizers.
In 2024 70 elections are due to take place. Many won’t be free and fair. There are hundreds of ways to rig an election. In the age of Pluto dictators promote themselves as the good guys.
Elections will be held in Indonesia, India (the biggest), Pakistan, the EU, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Russia, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil and America (the most important). There’s a trail of winners and losers. By November 5, after 12 months of political fury, the atmosphere is at fever pitch.
In the Aquarian Age chart progressed Sun is parallel birth chart Mars so the political arena is a war-zone. There’s political strife, power abuse and ferocious competition for control. In 2024 the power crowd is living dangerously.
Jupiter’s morally challenging times
In 2024 that high-discord Jupiter cycle is creating a cost-of-living and a housing affordability crisis. Too many people haven’t received an invitation to the prosperity party. They’re rapidly running out of hope. The financial sector is cursed with disruption. The good news is that progressed Mercury square birth chart Jupiter in the Aquarian Age chart ends January 1, 2024.
In 2024 Jupiter’s moral compass has gone berserk. New science, new technologies and new medical ideas have blurred the picture. For those raised on genes and DNA ethics and what is right and wrong have become confusing issues. Aquarian age science is ethics neutral.
In 2024 the old religions are hopelessly out of touch. Religious behavior is often far from kind and benevolent. Religion is big business. Making money is the default option. It comes before helping humanity and many people are adopting a for-profit business lifestyle.
Jupiter is the cash provider so if you want to know where the world is headed in the age of Pluto follow the money. Jupiter’s diplomats find useful work cleaning up the mess Mars makes.
The future is a mysterious alternative and you hope it’s just a little bit better than the present. Mercury sextile Jupiter and Jupiter sextile Venus in the Aquarian Age chart keep your hope alive. Jupiter trine Uranus ends September 6, 2024.
Saturn’s despair and misery is escalating
In 2024 Saturn is leaving a trail of devastation and despair. Its fear, scaremongering and paranoid nationalism are playing a lead role in shaping human affairs.
Saturn is a bargain hunter and as Saturn economizes and tightens the purse strings Jupiter’s culture of mindless consumption is constrained. The ruthless pursuit of profits and markets ignites trade wars.
In the Aquarian Age chart progressed Mars is conjunction birth chart Saturn.
Related: Mars and Saturn come to Earth
Uranus is augmenting human mind power
Uranus is definitely a little weird and its high-frequency neuroelectrical activity has sparked a growth in crazy people, strange notions and bizarre explanations. Its leading lights influence the direction the world takes and they’ve decided that artificial intelligence is superior to the real thing. Regulation is needed. Governments are playing catch up.
Uranus, the planet of technology, is wickedly complex. Its fourth industrial revolution is underway. Its disruptive technology is disturbing the status-quo. Its discontentment erupts in civil unrest, protests, strikes and change.
Progressed Mars parallel birth chart Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart > peak power date was April 2023 > accelerated the growth in dangerous technologies and weird ideas. It turbo charged the development of artificial intelligence and now computers and robots can perform tasks commonly associated with human intelligence and ability.
Major global aspect notification: Progressed Mars parallel progressed Uranus in the Aquarian Age chart starts March 20, 2024 > peak power date is October 3, 2027.
Related: Big change is coming: Uranus 2021-2024
Neptune promises, hypes it up and distorts reality
Our unknown future is full of possibility and promise. Ehh? Fact-check: the spectacular life changing technologies that are just around the corner thrive on hype and exaggerated expectations.
Neptune overstates and inflates. It schemes and dreams. It tears down reality with fantasy. It promotes the idea that truth is an illusion. It injects an element of theater. It promotes the idea that each generation is shaped by its movies. It inflates the level of talent and importance. Its celebrity icons are headline grabbers. Their movies and private lives give ordinary people something to talk about.
Neptune is all about chaos, chaotic situations, drugs, drug busts, drug cheats, drug scandals, movie magic, easy money, the marketing of credit and the idea that you can buy a personal utopia with money that isn’t yours. It works hard at getting something for nothing and is a champion fraudster.
There are no aspects in the Neptune cycle but Neptune is conjunction the Sun in the Sun cycle. Events involving utopian schemes, inflation, aviation, oil, OPEC, scamming and fraud are frequent headline grabbers.
Major global aspect notification: Progressed Mercury sextile progressed Neptune in the Aquarian Age chart starts March 11, 2024 > peak power date is December 11, 2024.
This fortunate aspect supports the science and education agenda. It advocates for freedom of speech aka crazy talk by those who want to say whatever they think. Mercury turns thoughts into written words and Neptune turns stories into moving pictures. Expectations are exaggerated.
Major global aspect notification: Progressed Venus conjunction birth chart Neptune in the Aquarian Age chart starts April 30, 2024 > peak power date is January 21, 2026. It’s a pain reliever that antidotes Saturn’s despair and misery with romance, fashion, beauty, Barbie dolls, chocolate, escapist entertainment and drug induced hallucinations. It shouts about schemes for peace and idealistic, harmonious international relations.
Pluto is mass producing propaganda and fake news
In 2024 Pluto is tightening its grip on humanity. Its lower dark side is the major threat actor. Its propaganda machines are churning out disinformation twenty-four-seven. The world you live in is driven by people with dangerous prejudices. Lower-Pluto has saturated the world with fear and terror. It highlights the death card and atheism. Self-service is its anthem.
In 2024 Higher Pluto’s cooperative spirituality has been excluded from the decision making process. The solving of many world problems is being left to science and technology.
In 2024 Pluto polarizes. It causes members of a group or team with different sets of opinions and beliefs to split and divide. The world is irrevocably divided. Cybercrime is booming. Modern day banditry involves hackers stealing millions from digital business.
Major sign change notification: On January 21, 2024 Pluto moves to Aquarius till September 3.
If you’re a thinking person you’re likely to reason that in 2024 those in charge of the show are all a little messed-up; and that the movers and shakers shaping the world are all a little weird. That new age political messiah could be a lunatic. The new age scientists and tech-entrepreneurs could have very strange worldviews.
Democracy gives some assurance that humanity will go where the combined intelligence and ability of its individual members takes it, but in 2024 there are too many authoritarian dictators and too many people excluded from the democratic process.
During the Age of Aquarius humanity will liberate itself from authoritarian bigotry but it won’t happen in 2024. It’s the age of knowledge and the mind’s true liberation but with disinformation, fake news, deceit, distortion and ignorance running rampant it won’t happen in 2024. And with strife and warfare set to escalate there won’t be any peace.
You probably won’t like where the world is heading in 2024 but it pays to know. It avoids getting shocked and disappointed when you get there.
Astrology for Aquarius – sharing our knowledge
