We once revered tall spirals on churches. Now we live with office towers. We no longer build “gingerbread” houses or elaborate Victorian houses. We build steel, glass, cement and practical buildings–much in the shape of squares and oblongs. Our religious worldview has been eclipsed by a popular secular one. The heavens are moving and gradually bringing us into the Age of Aquarius, ruled by the planet Uranus. Going away is the Age of Pisces ruled by Neptune. Although these transits consume approximately a few thousand years of a constellation, they continuously move and bring with them major changes to the earth. You are living in the final conditions of the Piscean Age where we see the dying ashes of religions, waning superstition, a more democratization of information, a more global village where geographical boundaries are being erased by technology. Our distant land peoples are now our neighbors.
Just as tectonic plates slammed into each other for earthquakes, Ages also slam into each other as the planets move inside and outside of constellations. The new eventually overtakes the old and we experience a different set of circumstances to sort out. Many of us speak of living in past times as if it was wonderful. We complain about the speed of everything, the complexity involved with technology, the constant focus on time. We never have enough “time”. Incidentally, the Aquarian Age has many characteristics including the focus on time. Technology is another focus of this Age as is the “practical over the sentimental”. We move along on a fast moving river of advances in communications, space travel, medical breakthroughs, enormous cultural changes, extreme focus on money, capitalism and value of workers in how much they cost, how much you make, investments etc. We see the world differently than did our ancestors. We no longer look at a lightening strike as something from Divine intervention but more so a reflection of mechanical laws. We don’t look at it as higher intelligence or karma.
We are learning to learn another of the Aquarian Age aspects, the quality of “detached understanding”. It can seem cold but in reality the rational detachment can allow one to stand back and look at all possibilities. It provides the basis of advanced breakthroughs in medicine and science, communications and the work and labor environment. We are learning how to balance the needs of the collective or the group with the needs of the individual. We are seeing the replacements of monarchies around the world. Monarchies and dictatorships can’t last in the Age of Aquarius. They have to be replaced with governments that honor the rights of the individuals in a group environment. The opposite constellation of Aquarius is the sign of Leo. We always see the polarity of these two signs in the world societies. Leo (kings) would rule monarchies and dictatorships, the opposite of Aquarius. We are watching them be replaced by citizens who want freedom and justice. We are watching it on the streets of the cities where protestors come out and march against authoritarian rulership.
Through all the coming changes to our society and the barrage of information that is being thrown at us, we will have to learn to step back from it all and think for ourselves. As more information is implanted in our environment, it is essential that we break free of the mass mind and create for ourselves.
Much of these current changes began back in the 1700’s with the birthing of the United States. It signaled to the world that it was time to throw off the imprisonment of traditional values and limitations. It was followed by the French Revolution and it hasn’t stopped through today. We have seen the Industrial Revolution, the rise of capitalism, the Internet, the breakthroughs of science and medicine, the beginning phases of AI and more to come. The power of rational thinking and enlightenment will infect the world. Today’s struggles are represented by a grip to hold onto the dying past and lack and fear of the direction forward. It can be painful to watch and experience but it is part of the birthing process to the future with a more equitable environment and a melding of the individual and the collective. Those who hang on to the past will suffer and will eventually be moved off and out of the spotlight.