Neither yugas nor astrological ages are entirely standardized. They come when they come, and they tend to leave when it’s time.
Yugas are part of a very long cycle, and have evolutionary significance. When the world is due to turn from one yuga to another, the signs are extremely dire. Things become highly untenable. Usually mistakes are made that hint at decay in the old paradigm and the coming of a new one. The mistakes have solutions, and the new yuga grows alongside those solutions and the natural realignments that occur.
Some of us experienced yuga turns in past lives in other star systems or here on Earth. Earth records show that humans physically evolved on Earth during the Dvapara Yuga. The Dvapara Yuga ended with the Fall of Eden, along with various other mistakes that happened around that time. Gaining the Satya Yuga will require enough people making sure things go very right, since Kali Yuga to Satya Yuga is a huge leap in quality otherwise unknown. All the other yuga turns are actually downgrades, but the quality of existence itself in each past yuga (and during the main part of the Kali Yuga, when it was not too decayed) is still much better than the current bottoming out we’ve been experiencing in the late, late Kali Yuga.
Ages are a shorter cycle. The Kali Yuga has been in progress for multiple ages straight now. The Age of Pisces is ending. The signs that an age is decaying are subtler than with yugas. Ages often last more than a thousand years, and the distinctions between them have more to do with specific spiritual needs and subtle influences that come to the forefront as the energy of the previous age ebbs away. As the next age blossoms, new archetypes and iconographies come into sharper focus. The ages go in reverse zodiacal order (like North Node in astrology usually moves, with brief direct periods analogous to the retrograde periods occasionally observed in planets).
The story of Moses banning a gold statue of Apis (or another polytheistic sacred bull or calf) is often interpreted as both a statement about monotheism and its importance right then and as an intuitive understanding that the old Age of Taurus was over, and a new way must be sought.
Similarly, Christianity’s association between Satan (or the devil) and goats may have been a conscious or unconscious statement that the old Age of Aries and some of its ways contained pitfalls during the Age of Pisces.
There isn’t supposed to be any Satan nor devil (nor even Eshu) in the Age of Aquarius (and therefore no witchcraft). No lords of illusion here, out of the Piscean Age’s slippery grasp. No backwardness. The Age of Aquarius is that much about order and collective good.
So it isn’t really about how many years each age and yuga lasts. It’s more like watching a climate shift throughout the year and seeing weather systems roll through. The timing is more naturalistic than clockwork.
──── by Lync Dalton ────
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