Strictly speaking the age of aquarius won't start until somewhere around 2450 give or take.
Indian astrology deals with this problem by using the Sidereal zodiac which is centred on the stars themselves. It starts at 0 Aries and from there, the rest of the zodiac is divided into equal chunks of 30 degrees each. So even here, the constellations don’t quite line up with the signs, and you’ve also got to define exactly where 0 Aries falls.
This is done using the ayanamsa, which means ‘part of a path’, to determine the distance between 0 tropical Aries (the vernal point) and 0 sidereal Aries. There are multiple ways of doing this, so again, there are no easy answers. One example is given on the Astrology Podcast by Kenneth Miller which gives the start date for the Age of Aquarius as 2,467, give or take 50 years. Listen to find out more.
If we take actual constellation size it won't start untill the 2600's
Other than the popular song from Hair. The age of aquarius as viewed semi-scientific has nothing to do with planets in signs, but with the precession of the equinoxes.
That said. 6 planets in aquarius is something special and does signify/starts of a timespan of few decades, especially since the jupiter/saturn conjunction of december.
Also for an older look on aquarius. stripped from the modern rebelious connotations listen the above podcast around the 1:09 mark. for a list of hellenistic significations
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