With such long periods of time it probably makes sense to include fairly long transitional phases, from anywhere between decades to centuries.
Many supporters of the New Age theory believe that we are currently experiencing the transitional phase between the outgoing age of Pisces and the coming age of Aquarius.
From Astrodienst Astrowiki. Jump to: navigation , search. The early Christians felt themselves to live in the dawning Age of Pisces. Later, in the 5th-century, Macrobius Theodosius in his Commentary on the Dream of Scipio writes that the Great Year is not only a return of the planets but involves an even more longer period as a "proper" motion of the stars. Thus the connection between Perfect Year Great Year and the motion of the stars in long periods can be traced back as far as Plato.
Note: Nowhere in the Timaeus does Plato talk of precession. In section 38, Plato has clearly defined 2 sorts of celestial motion: 1 the motion of the planets through the sky from west to east, and 2 the diurnal motion of the entire sky from west to east. If Plato had known of precession and was referring to it he would undoubtedly had to explain it in terms of a 3rd motion. Plato never gives a figure for his Perfect Great Year. Plato's 'end of days' was based on astral myths.
Commentators later gave a figure and assumed the value of 36, years but a rationale was not given until the s. James Adam argued that various passages in the Republic could be read as a code justifying the 36, year figure.
A critical discussion of Adam's method of extracting a period of 36, years from Plato's Republic appears in Aristarchus of Samos by Thomas Heath , Pages Precession is not involved. The Stoics were interested in the Great Year concept. According to the Stoics, each age would end in fire, the purest of elements and the irreducible cosmic substance, and would be followed by a restoration of all things.
Aristotle called the same period the Greatest Year. Aristotle stated that in the winter of this Greates Year a flood kataklysmos takes place, in the summer a conflagration destruction by fire ekpyrosis. Neither Hipparchus or Ptolemy made any connection between the Great Year and precession. Ptolemy's Great Year was determined by the return of all heavenly bodies to the same position. The book is primarily an extensive compendium and synthesis originally written in Greek of the doctrines and techniques of the Hellenistic astrologers who preceded him; with some commentary and other explanatory material added in by Rhetorius himself.
It comprises one of the latest, if not the latest, major Hellenistic astrological treatises that has survived into the present time. Nothing was calculated from Jupiter-Saturn cycles as to when these events would occur.
Amongst the Greeks the estimated length of the Great Year varied. There were later variations in what was meant by the Great Year but basically it remained linked to a great cycle involving the sun, moon, planets, stars, and seasons returning to their original arrangement i. The duration of the Great Year was not reliant on exact astronomy - ideas of the time of a Great Year varied between very long cycles and in later Greek and Latin writers very short cycles.
Oenopidus of Chios and later Philolaus the Pythagorean both had estimates of 59 years for the Great Year. In 59 years Saturn returns to the same locations twice. The figure of 36, years that was later connected with Plato's concept of a Perfect Year was identified confused with - along with the Perfect Year - the Great Year. Further longer estimates include: 2, years by Aristarchus of Samos, 5, years by Aretes of Dyrrhachion, 10, years by Dion of Naples, , years by the mythical Orpheus, and 3,, years by Kasssandros of Salamis.
Prior to Hipparchus - and after him - the estimated length of the Great Year varied. Prior to Hipparchus circa BCE people would not have been readily thinking that the Great Year and precession Precessional year were the same - simply because most people were unaware of precession or rejected it.
The Great Year concept is not anchored in precession. The Great Year and the Precessional Year are entirely different in concept but get mixed. Because of this mix there were variations in what was meant by the Great Year. In some of the older astro-mythology books i. Clair it is common to see the cycle of precession referred to as the Great Year or Platonic Year and also as the Precessional Year of Hipparchus'.
Walter Cruttenden of the so-called Binary Research Institute which is criticised for its pseudoscience believes there is some connection between the 'Great Year' and precession. University Press Scholarship Online. Sign in. Not registered? Sign up.
Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Biblical references:. The Old testament - This idea finds substance in the old testament which has been interpreted as including the symbolic transference from one sign to another.
In the parable of the mount, wh en Moses came down from the mountain he saw the people worshipping a golden calf. This idol came from the Egyptians astrological worship of the sun. The calf Taurus the bull represents the age in which the Moses lived when he wrote the Torah.
When history moved into the next sign Aries the ram , the Hebrews celebrated the approach of their Messiah by blowing rams horns.
The sign of Aries influenced many religions to adopt the lamb of God concept. The new testament - It can be seen that the new testament is similarly endowed with symbolism in the figure of Christ, who can be identified as heralding the age of Pisces.
The first recorded recognition of procession in Greece was by the astronomer Hipparchus who, whilst compiling his famous star catalogue completed in BC , noticed that the positions of the stars had shifted in a systematic way from earlier Babylonian Chaldean measures. The Platonic Year was named after Plato - BC because of his conviction of the intimate relationship between space and time.
Plato believed that the heavens were "designed" by God for the measurement of time. He called one complete cycle of the bodies a 'Perfect Year'. He wrote of it in two texts: Timaeus and The Republic In this wise and for these reasons were generated Night and Day, which are the revolution of the one and most intelligent circuit; and Month, every time that the Moon having completed her own orbit overtakes the Sun; and Year, as often as the Sun has completed his own orbit.
Nevertheless, it is still quite possible to perceive that the complete number of Time fulfils the Complete Year when all the eight circuits, with their relative speeds, finish together and come to a head, when measured by the revolution of the Same and Similarly-moving. In this wise and for these reasons were generated all those stars which turn themselves about as they travel through Heaven, to the end that this Universe might be as similar as possible to the perfect and intelligible Living Creature in respect of its imitation of the Eternal.
Paragraph 39 c-d Timaeus. It is argued reasonably , that Plato was referring to was the orbits of the known planets, and not the constellations. Plato himself believed that knowledge of such a cycle was already known far earlier by the Egyptians and Babylonains. Guilio Magli. On the possible discovery of Precessional effects in ancient astronomy. The Platonic Year of 25, yrs would produce the following numbers: Biblical references: The Old testament - This idea finds substance in the old testament which has been interpreted as including the symbolic transference from one sign to another.
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