# When did the Age of Aquarius begin/end? What Age are we in now?

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**Created:** [January 12, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-age-of-aquarius-begin-end-what-age-are-we-in-now/709618 "2015-01-12T11:09:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-age-of-aquarius-begin-end-what-age-are-we-in-now/709618/21 "2015-01-13T17:13:50Z")

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If we use Freddy’s math, then an age of 25772 years is a bit over 9 million times as long as a day. So the roughly 50 years since this song was written corresponds to about .01 seconds of our day. If we’re dawning now, we were dawning in the 60s for all practical purposes.

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**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-age-of-aquarius-begin-end-what-age-are-we-in-now/709618/22 "2015-01-13T17:29:40Z")

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> [@OldGuy](#):
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> If we use Freddy’s math, then an age of 25772 years is a bit over 9 million times as long as a day. So the roughly 50 years since this song was written corresponds to about .01 seconds of our day. If we’re dawning now, we were dawning in the 60s for all practical purposes.

Off by an order of magnitude. It’s 25772 **months** , or just over 2100 years. 50 years would be 2% of that or 28 minutes of a full 24 hour day.

With a reasonable start of 2100AD, the 1960s would be an hour and a half before sunrise.

Even with the most optimistic figure near 2050, that’s still an hour before sunrise.

Basically, we’re still in Pisces and won’t be getting even reasonably close for a few decades.

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