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Age of Aquarius

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The Age of Aquarius in principle is an astrological age that would start around the twenty-first century (approximately in 2010), representing a change that would occur approximately every 2 Ma, and would be the one that would succeed the age of Pisces. It began when the Sun at the time of autumnal equinox (southern hemisphere) or spring (northern hemisphere), moved in front of the constellation Aquarius. While the age of Pisces began with the advent of Christianity and it would have taken to limit the values identified with the Western way of life, the Age of Aquarius involved profound changes in ways of acting, feeling, and thinking, in that men started to relate to the nature and the supernatural, which would be possible due to the rebalancing between the poles that were in opposition and conflict (Magnani 2000).

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These issues gain greater visibility with the proximity of the arrival of the third millennium, when new utopias are drawn up, and even though we...

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  1. Department of Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Amurabi Oliveira

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Oliveira, A. (2015). Age of Aquarius. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_2-1

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