The Movement of the Astrological Ages

Further Information: The Movement of the Ages conjures up a great cosmic dance of the Zodiac Signs around us. It's a nice picture, but in fact it's not like that that at all. Why should the stars dance around you or me or even the Earth in particular? This is just human-centred astrological hubris on our part. In fact the Movement of the Ages refers - as do many things in astrology - to how we see the stars in the heavens from the view point of Earth, and how this view point changes with the centuries. The stars themselves don't change - well certainly not every couple of millennia anyway!

In the astrological truth is stranger than fiction department... the ultimate cause of the Movement of the Ages is... that the Earth is not quite a sphere. This sounds like a very weird cause, but it is very true. Without this there would be no Movement of the Ages at all. [And the Tropical and Sidereal Zodiacs would stay forever equal to each other.]

Astrological Ages: 

How to understand this Animation The animation shows the Movement of the Vernal Equinox Point, as the centuries pass. The white line is the Celestial Equator; the red line is the Ecliptic. Where they cross is the Vernal Equinox Point. Whichever Constellation that point lies in shows which Astrological Age it was at that time. The Constellation borders are shown in green; the lines representing the Constellation's figure are shown in white; Constellation names are shown in yellow. Individual stars are coloured white and their symbols are shown in red.