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A lot of these transitions will be marked probably of major planet aspects instead of precession of the equinox, but I'm curious to explore how both land.
With only a little irony, I suggest that the last two thousand years is too recent to have the kind of perspective we have on earlier times. Not just my perspective, but that of scholars who have labelled it. I'm keenly aware of how the data we value comes from habitual ways of modelling and thinking about the 18 centuries (thus far) of the Pisces Age. Nonetheless, it's what we have - so here goes.
Classical Era (Classical Antiquity): 600 BCE to 476 CE. "It marked the beginning of a philosophical period in world history as well as the first recorded sources of human history. Politically, the Classical era saw the rise – and fall – of most world empires." Multiple empires.
This is the wrap-up of the Aries Age: Empires that grew and flourished in the Aries Age had momentum (as did the idea of empires), but Rome's imperial reach (by most measurements) had ended by 476 CE when the SVP was 26°29' Pisces. (The Persian Empire also had fallen, Greece extended a little further. Only the Byzantine Empire continued into the 15th century, finally crumbling during the Crusades.)
Middle Ages (Medieval or Post-Classical): CE 476-1450. Began with the Dark Ages (post Roman Empire collapse and "loss of recorded history"). Breaks down into Early Middle Ages or Late Antiquity (476-1000), "shows most powers rebuilding after the collapse of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Islam in the Middle East." High Middle Ages (1000-1250), "the height of the Catholic church’s power in the Crusades.'" Late Middle Ages (1250-1450), "the Black Plague, the beginning of European exploration and the invention of the printing press."
This begins the
effective Pisces Age. The question is, what motive forces had begun shaping humankind's direction and development? I'm looking for something as fundamental as the shift from hunter-gatherer to settled farming; the social structures and inventions that arose from settled communities; the invention of metallurgy with the path through copper, to alloyed copper, to steel, with traceable cultural evolution along the way. What came next?
That is: What is the post-221 CE equivalent to the progress from stone to copper to brass to steel in making tools and weapons? It is tempting to start getting abstract - to suggest that Pisces Age paths have been through psychological factors such as belief, science-technology, and an expanding worldview. Yet, wasn't this true (in its own scale) of every prior period, too? One force that eventually drove much of the Pisces Age so far was seafaring - that's clear enough! - and perhaps it's the successor to iron. I just don't have that certainty, though.
Looking at the Middle Ages, we begin with the Dark Ages, a collapse of records and communication that buffered the transition. (Some such transition has marked other periods, too, but the informational vacuum for Pisces is interesting.) Islam arose, Christianity spread and unfurled itself, the Crusades (a fine Pisces symbol!) brought their competition to a head. Then came the plague.
I'm dwelling on this first era because I suspect the seeds are here. What I find so far is that two gigantic religious waves arose in Europe and the Middle East that then came into great confrontation which also bridged across the region much as Rome had. Marco Polo was late 13th and early 14th centuries, during the post-Crusades era, and I think symbolizes the extension of trade and communication across Europe and Asia, igniting in turn the massive European exploration by sea.
Risking sounding like an ignorant amateur of history, it seems that the imperial, international reach of entities like Rome has been democratized into broad expansion and communication tying the world together beyond the bounds of local nations. In that case, we would see the march of the Ages as explicitly showing the move from individual families to communities, from that to cities and regional hubs, then nations... with the Pisces Age (as passionately as it has preserved nations and boundaries and the wars of them) being a process of transcending boundaries and uniting more of the world interactively. (Or so I see it at the moment.)
Trade from Europe to the Far East. Ocean-faring exploration. And the printing press. Things just exploded!
By the end of this period, the SVP was 13° Pisces: We were just a little more than halfway through the Age. - It was 19° Pisces when the Early Middle Ages ended in 1000 CE. It moved from 16° Pisces to 13° Pisces during the Late Middle Ages (1250-1450, the Black Plague, oceanic exploration, and the printing press). This seems to have been history's tipping point.
I think PUBLISHING or INFORMATION was the new iron!
Early Modern Era: CE 1450-1750 that "saw a resurgence of the values and philosophies from the Classical era. When you think of Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Christopher Columbus, you’re thinking of the Early Modern Era." Renaissance Humanism (1400-1500), Protestant Reformation (1517-1600), European Renaissance (1450-1600), The Enlightenment or Age of Reason (1650-1800).
The printing press is responsible for most what happened here - directly, or by the consequences of its consequences. The era was marked by astonishing creativity and thought of an impact and single importance probably not seen since 5th century Greece. This period shows a maturing (reaching puberty and adolescence, so to speak) of what is happening in this Age.
Thought was unleashed from the definitions of ancient formalism, religion burst out of the strictures of a single government, the
arts renewed and exploded, and all human institutions began to be re-examined.
The New World was discovered by Europe. This forced dramatic changes in scientific models especially of astronomy. In contemporary terms, people's entire view of the nature of the universe (inwardly and outwardly) was rewritten as the VP moved from 13° to 9° Pisces. We were two-thirds of the way through!
Modern Era: CE 1750 to present. "The influences of both the Renaissance and the Enlightenment led to a technological boom in the Modern era, also known as the Late Modern era. The world of politics was rocked by wars, revolution and the end of the monarchy in many countries. The Modern era is truly a cumulation of millions of years of human development." Includes the First Industrial Revolution (1760-1840), Revolutionary Period (1764-1848), Age of Imperialism (1800-1914), Victorian Era (1837-1901), Second Industrial Revolution or Technological Revolution (1869-1914), World War I (1914-1918), Great Depression (1929-1939), World War II (1939-1945), and the Contemporary Period (1945 to now).
In the Modern Era - so called because it's where we currently live LOL - the VP has moved from 9° to 5° Pisces thus far. Our line of vision is too short, or focal length a bit blurred, when it comes to examining this time in contrast to the whole course of history.
Nonetheless, I do see basic trends continuing and expanding. Absorption of the whole Earth into our view has become routine (and we've started considering space). An Age that began with the collapse of all records and communication has flourished in expanded information reach, starting with printing, then expanded and revisioned science, then technology, with two industrial revolutions, expanding democracy (a major struggle of the Age), accelerated urbanization (as part of the world-encompassing cosmopolitan reach plus social efficiency). Printing, science, and technology have grown into the current Information Age.
Yes, I do think that in the Pisces Age - which is really the Pisces-Virgo Age - INFORMATION is the new iron.
I think I'm done for now.