‘The New Age movement is based on astronomical theory that each star age lasts for 2000 years. It is claimed that we are moving from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius. The age of Pisces lasted 2000 years. The word ‘Pisces’ means fish – the symbol of Christianity. We are now moving, we are told, to the age of Aquarius, symbolised by a rainbow. The watershed was around the year 2000. The New Age is already dawning. In the memorable words of the musical Hair which hit London in the 1960’s:
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.
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding.
No more falsehoods or derision, golden living dreams of visions,
Mystic crystal revelation, and the minds true liberation.
Aquarius! Aquarius! Aquarius!
The age of Pisces was the age of Yang, the masculine. The age of Aquarius will be the age of Yin, the feminine. The age of Pisces was the age of assertive and rational. The age of Aquarius is the age on intuitive and the spiritual. New Agers believe that this scientific, materialistic, mechanistic era is coming to an end and humanity is progressing into a time of greater spirituality and world harmony.’
Nicky Gumbel
Nicky Gumbel, Searching Issues, 2004 edition, Kingsway, p.53-54