Aquarius is also associated with the Age of Aquarius, a concept popular in 1960s counterculture and Medieval Alchemy.Astrologer Neil Spencer denounced the lyrics as “astrological gibberish”, noting that Jupiter aligns with Mars several times a year and the Moon is in the 7th House for two hours every day.August Vandekerkhove was one of the first persons to coin the term, “the Age of Aquarius”, in a French magazine, “La Fronde” in late February 1890.The expression Age of Aquarius in popular culture usually refers to the heyday of the hippie and New Age movements in the 1960s and 1970s.When the Moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.
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The Age of Aquarius, in astrology, is either the current or forthcoming astrological age, depending on the method of calculation. Astrologers maintain that an astrological age is a product of the Earth’s slow precessional rotation and lasts for 2,160 years, on average (one Great Year equals 25,920-year period of precession / 12 zodiac signs = 2,160 years).