The zodiac exists as a shorthand to human eras during the Societies and just before, for the benefit of spanners considering travel or adventures in such times. It also tends to broaden the minds of new spanners when they consider that people - spanners and levellers - are very much alive and active in each of these times. Despite various conflicting leveller astrological calculations, the zodiacal eras correspond roughly to 2,000 years each:
Aquarian Era
c. AD 2000 - 4000
The hallmark of this time is unity and self-discipline, and the inevitable
control over all the forces of the universe.
Piscean Era
c. AD 1 - 2000
This is the time of the power of Rome, Christendom, and the crossing of
the oceans in great migrations.
Ariesian Era
c. 2000 - 1 BC
The era of independent states, each with aloof philosophies. The rise
of strategic warfare among levellers.
Tauran Era
c. 4000 - 2000 BC
The perfection of cattle breeding and the worship of the corralled herd;
conformity in levellers and envy of level simplicity in spanners. The
Hunt of the Sun brought to an end.
Geminid Era
c. 6000 - 4000 BC
A time of narcissist intrigue and great wars between spanners. Time
of the elder human gods known to later levellers.
Cancerian Era
c. 8000 - 6000 BC
Receding ice and rising seas are the themes of this span, and the hardness
of the people. The Hunt of the Sun begins.
Leonid Era
c. 10000 - 8000 BC
The time of the first domestication of cats, and of the return of individual
prowess as a general standard.
Virgin Era
c. 12000 - 10000 BC
The early Societies, of which much is secret, potential, and unwritten.
Libran Era
c. 14000 - 12000 BC
The era of decision and measured, meted justice. The collapse of
Antedesertium, Interregnum, and the Atlantean Councils.
Scorpiod Era
c. 16000 - 14000 BC
The time of the narcissists seeking hellish chaos, revenge, and pain.
The great sickening of the level population.
Sagittarian Era
c. 18000 - 16000 BC
A more noble time of Antedesertium, but determinedly at odds with
the Continuum.
Capricornic Era
Further information on this era is not available here.
This material was written by and is copyright © 1998 Barbara Manui, Chris Adams, and Dave Fooden. All rights reserved.