 |
It seems to me that there is some kind of Fuzzy Logic that conflates the 200-300 year period of the Grand Conjunctions with Millennial Aeons indicated by the "Age of Aquarius" concept. However in Aion Jung also goes on to give a somewhat reductive delination of Pisces in a Natal chart, where if you were born under the sign of the Fishes it would mean you would be employed as a Fisherman. This is also somewhat curious because historically Astrological Natal Charts were only done for the Noble Elite, and if you belonged to a class of people who earned a living doing peasant work such as food production, it's more likely that your fate to be resigned to this form of labour was determined more by being born into that class, rather than becoming a sailor based on the fact that your Sun sign is Pisces. |
| The Grand Conjunctions occur in signs of the same element over the course of periods of time that last somewhere between 200-300 years. The Astrological Ages as designated by the Precession of the Equinoxes indicate much longer periods of time, more to the scale of thousands of years. In Carl Jung's Aion he never the less uses an overlapping of these two ideas to indicate the Dawn of the Christian Era, as being indicated by the Grand Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces the Sign of the Fishes in the year of 7 BC. This is a chart for July 4th, 7 BC, when the two planets were conjunct by an orb of 2 degrees. This also brings to mind the complex relationship between Christianity and Astrology. According to some, to be "Saved" by Jesus, to accept Jesus as your saviour, means to accept the Grace of God as some kind of Transcendent Spirit that is beyond all causal laws of the Universe, including the Laws that govern Astrology, and the prediction of Fate and Fortune. However it is also said that Jesus himself was predicted by an Astrological Omen, and that the Three Wisemen or Three Magi of the Bible were Astrologers who had used this grand conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in Pisces to be an Omen fortelling of the coming of the Christian Era. This creates a complex dynamic where Christianity is sometimes interpreted as being fundamentally Transcendent to the old Pagan gods of Astrology but also somehow being rooted in it and growing out of it. If Christian Fish Symbolism really does have it's roots in Astrology, then the Achetype of Christ is somehow born out of the pre-existing Archetypal Gestalt.
|