At the End of Pisces
Completing the Lesson That Makes the Next Age Possible
I’m currently taking an ancestral healing course with Daniel Foor, and in the last few weeks I’ve been in deep study and reflection learning about my ancestors. Vikings. Normans. Scots. Irish. Swiss. Indigenous Americans. Lineages of migration, conquest, survival, devotion, and loss. It has been grounding and disorienting in equal measure.
This past weekend I got sick- the kind of sick where my plans fell away and all I could really do was lie in bed. But with all that Mars/Venus cazimi energy in Capricorn, I couldn’t sleep, and TV felt too indulgent. So I spent that time researching, following lines of ancestry. And learning about my family line made me realize how little I truly know about the history of humanity on this planet, so I took my bed time to follow threads of curiosity beyond my family. I obsessively read histories, cross-referenced timelines, and followed biographies of men, women, and legends back through the worlds of Christianity, Islam, Judaism. Egypt, Greece, Babylon, and beyond. And during this search, I was slipping in and out of that half-dreaming state where information stops being abstract and starts to land in the body.
At times, when I paused, I noticed that my head was spinning, but my heart felt strangely full.
Instead of feeling fragmented by all this history, I felt connected. To humanity as a whole. To how long we’ve been asking the same questions. To how each generation inherits unfinished lessons and does its best to carry them forward.
That’s where this reflection on the astrological ages- and what we can learn from Late-Stage-Age of Pisces- began to organize itself.
What Astrological Ages Are (and Aren’t)
Astrological ages are long, slow shifts in collective consciousness, tied to the precession of the equinoxes.
Due to the Earth’s wobble on it’s axis, the background stars from our POV here on earth shift by 1 degree every 72 years. It takes about 25,700 to 26,000 years for the earth to complete one full cycle on its axis. This is called a Great Year, where the spring equinox slowly shifts through the constellations of the zodiac over millennia. A particular age is the time when the sun at spring equinox rises in a particular sign. Right now we’re in the final stage of the Age of Pisces.
Each age lasts roughly two thousand years each, depending on how you measure them. There’s a lot of disagreement about the exact start and end dates of any given age. Scholars, astrologers, and mystics all draw the lines slightly differently.
And honestly, that doesn’t really matter in the long run/scheme of things.
What matters is this: ages overlap. They bleed into one another. They arrive gradually and leave slowly. They are more like tides than timestamps.
Each age introduces a new organizing principle for being human. We don’t master it right away, we live into it awkwardly and imperfectly, often through structures inherited from earlier times. I believe that it’s only near the end of an age that we finally understand what it has been trying to teach us all along.
And here’s the insight that’s been crystallizing for me:
The next age is born from the full understanding and integration of the previous one.
This matters deeply right now, because (according to many astrologers, the human design system, and the constellation where the vernal equinox is currently situated in space) - we are at the end of the Age of Pisces.
And this year in particular makes the integration of Piscean themes all the more poignant. Neptune and Saturn are leaving Pisces for Aries, after 11 and 3 years in the sign of the fishes, respectively. The North Node is moving from Pisces into Aquarius after 18 months of hunger for the boundarylessness and spiritual merging that the fish bring with them. Currently we’re experiencing the end of some powerful planetary and lunar Pisces energy, and it’s all happening inside the much larger precessional transition out of Pisces altogether.
The end of Pisces is the end of the entire Zodiac- the wheel of creatures that begins with Aries the ram, representing spring, initiation, the sprout from the seed, the head, the infant. After traveling through all other signs, planets along the ecliptic arrive in Pisces, the final sign representing death, dissolution, compost, merging, surrender, the feet, the primordial soup that simmers before a new world is born.
And then the cycle starts again, with Aries the sprouting ram bursting forth into the unknown
Neptune and Saturn are moving along that path, landing at 0 Aries on February 20.
Interestingly enough, the north node and the precession of the equinoxes move in reverse direction around the Zodiac, heading from Pisces back into Aquarius.
Whichever way you look, it’s the end of Pisces. This piece aims to reveal what that could mean for us, collectively and personally. I’ll be writing more about Neptune/Saturn and the Nodal shift soon, but for now, let’s take a swim in the world of Astrological Ages- to get a sense of the background frequency humanity has evolved within for the past several thousand years.
I could go back further, but for now, let’s begin with the Age of Gemini, about 8,500 years ago.
The Age of Gemini
Approx. 6500–4500 BCE (Neolithic Period)
Learning to name the world
The Age of Gemini marks humanity’s great mental awakening. This is when we learned to think together.
Across the world, we see:
Cave paintings and handprints
The rise of oral storytelling and myth
Early trade routes and cultural exchange
Trickster figures, twin icons, and messenger gods
Language becoming a shared bridge
Gemini teaches us how to name, distinguish, and communicate. It gives us curiosity and connection across distance.
At its completion, Gemini offers a realization:
Knowing something isn’t the same as living it.
Words float, stories travel, and meaning longs for the fertile ground.
That longing for stability leads us into Taurus.
The Age of Taurus
Approx. 4500–2500 BCE
Learning to stay
The Age of Taurus (roughly c. 4000–2000 BCE) coincided with the rise of the first great sedentary, agricultural, temple-based civilizations, many of which centered bull symbolism as sacred, royal, or cosmic.
Core civilizations of the Age of Taurus
Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad)
Sumer: Temple economies, grain storage, and early writing
Bulls symbolized fertility, strength, and divine kingship
The Bull of Heaven appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Ancient Egypt (Early Dynastic & Old Kingdom)
Ancient Egypt
The Apis Bull embodied royal and cosmic vitality
Pharaoh as stabilizer of Ma’at, earthly order rooted in fertility and land
Monumental stone architecture tied to permanence and continuity
Minoan Civilization (Crete)
Minoan Civilization
Bull-leaping rituals as sacred theater
Taurus symbolism tied to earth power, regeneration, and divine femininity
Largely non-militarized, prosperity through trade and agriculture
Indus Valley Civilization (Harappa, Mohenjo-Daro)
Indus Valley Civilization
Bulls and cattle appear repeatedly on seals
Advanced urban planning, water systems, agrarian surplus
Emphasis on continuity rather than conquest
Neolithic Europe (Megalithic cultures)
Çatalhöyük
Horned bull shrines built into homes
Earth-centered ritual life, ancestor reverence
Cattle wealth as the foundation of status
Proto-Celtic and Atlantic cultures
Long barrows, stone circles, and seasonal rites
Cattle as economic and ritual backbone
Early expressions of land-based cosmology
The unifying Taurus themes
Agriculture and land ownership
Fertility, abundance, and bodily life
Temple cultures over empires
Stability, continuity, and material security
Sacred bulls, horns, and earth goddesses
This was a world where value meant what could grow, be stored, and endure.
At full embodiment, though, Taurus revealed its limit:
Belonging alone cannot answer the soul’s longing for more.
The end of the Age of Taurus is marked symbolically by bull-slaying myths and cattle taboos as humanity shifted toward the Age of Aries, with its emphasis on warriors, nomadic expansion, and sky-oriented gods.
Once land, lineage, and continuity were understood, a deeper question came into being: Who am I beyond where I come from?
This question was embodied by figures like Abraham, who was called to leave his ancestral land and individuate beyond stability.
And so Aries begins.
The Age of Aries
Approx. 2500 BCE – 0 CE
Learning to act
The Age of Aries (roughly c. 2000 BCE–1 CE) coincided with the rise of warrior cultures, nomadic expansion, conquest states, and fire-and-sky oriented religions, replacing earth-bound fertility worship with gods of will, law, and battle.
We see this in:
Babylonian law codes
Egyptian divine kingship
Patriarchal lineage systems
Warrior cultures across Europe and Asia
Hierarchical governance structures
Core civilizations of the Age of Aries
Mesopotamia (Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian Empires)
Assyrian Empire: Militarized states built on conquest and terror
Kings as divine warriors rather than fertility stewards
Iconography of rams, horns, and aggressive animals
Hittite Empire (Anatolia)
Hittite Empire
Early iron weaponry and chariot warfare
Treaties, law codes, and sovereign authority
Gods of storm and sky replacing earth mother cults
Ancient Israel (Iron Age)
Ancient Israel
Shift from bull symbolism to ram and lamb sacrifice
Yahweh as a god of covenant, command, and moral law
Exodus narratives encode departure from Taurus temple culture
Persian Empire (Achaemenid)
Achaemenid Empire
Imperial expansion through military organization
Zoroastrianism frames life as a cosmic battle between order and chaos
Fire as sacred, aligning with Aries symbolism
Vedic Indo-Aryan Culture (South Asia)
Vedic period
Warrior clans, horse culture, and ritual fire
Sky gods and heroic hymns dominate the Rigveda
Emphasis on lineage, honor, and conquest
Classical Greece (early phases)
Ancient Greece
City-states forged through conflict and competition
Mythic heroes as cultural ideals
Individual excellence replaces collective fertility rites
Roman Republic and early Empire
Roman Republic
Law enforced by legions
Expansion through disciplined violence
Mars, god of war, becomes a central civic deity
The unifying Aries themes
Warfare, courage, and initiation
Nomadism, migration, and empire-building
Fire, iron, weapons, and speed
Law imposed through force
Sky gods replacing earth goddesses
Where Taurus valued what could be grown and preserved, Aries valued what could be taken, defended, and commanded.
The end of the Age of Aries is marked by:
Ram and lamb sacrifice giving way to the Lamb as a symbol rather than a blood offering
The rise of compassion-based religions that reject conquest as the highest virtue
A gradual pivot toward Pisces, where salvation, suffering, and unity replace heroism
At its final integration, Aries reached this truth:
No law written outside the body can complete the soul that lives inside it.
Rules can organize society, but they cannot bridge the distance between human and divine.
This realization is embodied through figures like Jesus Christ and Buddha, whose life points to divinity lived from within, not enforced from above, and remembered through the devotion and witness of Mary Magdalene.
That understanding opens the door to Pisces.
The Age of Pisces
Approx. 0 – 2000+ CE
Learning to surrender
The Age of Pisces (roughly c. 1 CE–2000+ CE, with fuzzy edges) corresponds to the rise of salvation religions, martyrdom ethics, mass belief systems, and empire-scale spirituality. In the Piscean age, meaning is found through faith, suffering, and transcendence rather than land or conquest.
Core civilizations and cultures of the Age of Pisces
Early Christianity and the Roman-Byzantine world
Early Christianity: The fish (ichthys) as the primary symbol
Salvation through belief, sacrifice, and grace
The shift from heroic virtue to moral conscience
Empire-scale religion replaces local cults
Byzantine Empire and Medieval Christendom
Sacred kingship under divine authority
Suffering and martyrdom sanctified
Monasticism, pilgrimage, and devotion to the unseen
Islamic Civilization
Islamic Golden Age: Submission to divine will as a spiritual ideal
Unity of God emphasized over form or image
Preservation and transmission of ancient knowledge
Law infused with cosmology and faith
Buddhist and Mahayana expansions
Compassion for all beings
Liberation from suffering as the highest goal
Dissolution of ego and attachment
Medieval Europe
Collective identity defined by belief
Plagues and hardship interpreted through spiritual meaning
Cathedrals as metaphysical architecture
Colonial and Missionary Empires
Christianization paired with empire and trade
Moral justification for domination through salvation narratives
The paradox of compassion and violence coexisting
The unifying Pisces themes
Faith over proof
Salvation, redemption, and mercy
Suffering as meaningful
Collective belief systems
Dissolution of boundaries between self and God
Oceans, pilgrims, mystics, monks
Where Aries was about “I act”, Pisces is about “I believe.”
Pisces teaches us:
There is no true boundary between self and God
Love is a real organizing force
Compassion can extend beyond tribe
Surrender opens deeper truth
But for much of this age, these truths were taught more than embodied. Unity was preached, while patriarchy, hierarchy, and tribalism persisted.
What I’m noticing at the end of Pisces
As we move through this late Piscean moment, I’m seeing a very particular pattern emerge across cultures and spiritual communities.
There’s a renewed interest in esoteric layers of world religions. People are reading the mystics again. Poets, heretics, suppressed texts, like:
Early Christian gospels like Mary Magdalene and Thomas
Sufi poetry and ecstatic Islam
Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism
Gnostic cosmologies and embodied Christ consciousness
Buddhism returning to somatic presence rather than renunciation
Across traditions, the same realization keeps surfacing:
God is not distant, the sacred is not hierarchical, and the divine lives in the heart and the body.
At the same time, the shadow of Pisces is also impossible to ignore.
The late-Pisces shadow
Blurred boundaries
Codependency and savior dynamics
Spiritual bypassing
Confusing surrender with self-erasure
Victim-savior dynamics
Blind faith, illusion, and escapism
Here, in Late-Stage Pisces, these patterns are showing us exactly what we are ready to outgrow.
The late-stage Pisces gift
Alongside that, something luminous is rising:
Christ consciousness as inner knowing, not belief
God experienced directly, not mediated
True intersectionality that sees shared humanity without flattening difference
Less tribalism, more relational awareness
Spirituality that wants to live in the body, in community, in systems
None of this is new- it’s Pisces finally integrated and understood.
Why Pisces Has to Be Finished
If the sacred is directly accessible within each person, then no single authority can mediate reality anymore. That realization reshapes how we relate, how we organize, how we lead, and how we love.
Before we move into Aquarius, Pisces asks us to complete its work:
Compassion without self-erasure
Unity without loss of sovereignty
Spirituality grounded in the body
Love that doesn’t require disappearance
I feel that, in the midst of so much turmoil, this is why so many people feel tender, reflective, and quietly awake right now.
The Age of Aquarius
Emerging soon- Learning to live as individuals networked into a unified whole
Aquarius is born directly out of integrated Pisces.
Pisces teaches that all life is connected to Source, that separation is an illusion, and that compassion is a real force. Aquarius asks the next, more dangerous question:
What happens when many people know this at the same time?
It brings:
Decentralized systems that replace top-down authority
Peer-to-peer culture where legitimacy comes from participation, not hierarchy
Collective intelligence, where insight emerges from networks rather than prophets
Technology as connective tissue, amplifying awareness across distance, difference, and scale
This age will test whether humanity can translate an integrated unity consciousness into structure, whether shared awareness leads to shared responsibility, or whether domination simply reappears disguised as platforms, protocols, and algorithms.
The real question of Aquarius is whether we can share power without recreating the old gods inside new systems.
Why This Moment Matters So Much
On the near horizon, we can see the shift clearly. Neptune and Saturn are leaving Pisces and entering Aries, closing out a long chapter of collective sensitivity, dissolution, and spiritual reckoning, and beginning a new era that asks for action, definition, and responsibility.
At the same time, the lunar nodes are leaving Pisces and moving into Aquarius, redirecting our collective growth away from sacrifice and toward participation, contribution, and shared intelligence.
That alone would be enough to make this moment feel consequential.
But when you widen the lens, it becomes even clearer why things feel the way they do.
From a long-cycle perspective, we are also firmly in the last stages of the Age of Pisces itself. According to the Human Design framework, humanity moves into the final gate of Pisces in 2027, a culminating phase that emphasizes spirit, emotional truth, and inner authority. And a ways down the line ( in 2439, according to Human Design), we officially cross the threshold into the Age of Aquarius.
That may sound distant, but ages don’t turn on a single date- they overlap. The ending work happens long before the calendar says the shift is complete.
Which means this moment right now is not about rushing ahead into Aquarius. It’s about finishing Pisces well.
Understanding Piscean energy at this stage is deeply practical, and it looks like:
Learning the difference between compassion and self-erasure
Honoring sensitivity without dissolving boundaries
Letting spirituality live in the body, not just in belief
Releasing savior dynamics, both toward others and toward ourselves
Integrating unity in a way that strengthens individuality rather than erasing it
Pisces, fully embodied, gives us the emotional and spiritual maturity required for what comes next. Without that integration, Aquarius risks becoming cold, abstract, or overly mechanized. With it, Aquarius has the potential to express something far more humane: collective intelligence rooted in care, responsibility, and shared presence.
So if things feel tender, emotional, confusing, or unfinished right now, it is a sign that we’re doing end-of-age work. It’s important not to turn away, not to rush past it. We must not be afraid to look at the shadows of our age as well as the gifts.
This is a moment for listening, feeling, grieving, forgiving, and understanding what The Fishes have actually been asking of us all along.
Because how we integrate the themes of this age, and what we carry forward, will shape everything that comes next.