Age of Aquarius

[I, Brian]

The New Age - the Age of Aquarius - is something we are apparently entering into - an age of peace and prosperity.

Only it won't hit properly until around 2016.

However, what does the Age of Aquarius actually represent, and what can we actually expect of it?

[arielmessenger]

is a general overthrow of spiritual mumbo-jumbo and a focusing in on the problems of traditional spiritual paths that historically haven't delivered the goods societies need to organize themselves into cooperative federations instead of warring groups.

The generalizing spiritual paths don't really help as when God is only a transcendent Something, a Source beyond human comprehension let alone involvement, then God is stripped of "eyes" and "hands" as well as parental attributes, i.e. in effect as if there were no God at all. This is why the earlier pagan polytheistic religious paths were superceded by monotheistic ones, only the monotheistic ones were developed by tribal societies too immersed in intertribal warfare to understand God could never be the property of any single human group.

The Aquarian Aeon will be characterized by cooperative social organization and the ending of inter-faith, inter-national warfare. However, that does not mean spiritual battles will not take place. They will, as they are doing so now with the traditional Christian West in cahoots with Judaism to take territory away from Islamic nations and with Islamic peoples convinced their religion will topple the Western depravities, much like the old Communists agenda only Marx and Lenin have been replaced by Mohammad.

[neoxenos]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

The New Age - the Age of Aquarius - is something we are apparently entering into - an age of peace and prosperity.

Only it won't hit properly until around 2016.

However, what does the Age of Aquarius actually represent, and what can we actually expect of it?

Hello,

What is in 2016? As far as I am concerned the congregation of ALL the planets and the Moon, in February 4, 1962 entered us into the Age of Aquarius.

The entire sexual and technological revolution, culture as we know it today, occurred after 1962.

Aquarius is the water holder, it is the Revolutionary. Think of the Flood. It is also related with Uranus, or Ur-Anas, Fire-Water. Again, revolutionary. Fire Renew Nature Incessantly (INRI). Saturn is the Ray of Death. Crows are evolving through the Ray of Saturn.

There is the Age of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron. We are in Iron, we are in the Kali of Yuga, and next we once again return to the age of gold. Of course, civilization as we know it will be destroyed beforehand.

Regards,
Steve

[Pet Zepi]

Originally Posted by I, Brian

However, what does the Age of Aquarius actually represent...

Galactic Winter.

Originally Posted by I, Brian

...and what can we actually expect of it?

Snow.

[Pet Zepi]

Anybody got a snow plow?




(God Bless America.)

[pseudonymous]

Those more learned in the terminology are welcome to please correct my understanding. For those who are not familiar with the idea of "ages", it is based in the physical, although many sense a metaphysical effect from it. To ascertain the age, one need only see which astrological sign the sun rises in on the spring equinox on the 30th parellel (egypt, maine, idaho, etc)(halfway between north pole and equator). Since there is no actual dividing line in the sky, it is mostly conjecture as to when an age actually ends or begins. It is likely it can be narrowed down to several decades.

The particular age we find ourselves in delivers some of the symbology of the age. Since the Earth rotates counter-clockwise, the astrological signs are changing in reverse. In this, the Age of Pisces, with Christianity being the primary earth religion, they use the symbol of the fish - although I would imagine few know the reason behind it. Previously the ram was worshipped (Aries) & the bull (Taurus) and the myth of the twins plays heavily in many ancient cultures (Gemini).

I recall reading some time ago that the original collective astrological sign following Pisces was the phoenix rising from the ashes. In some ancient writings handed down, this was the accepted symbol. I am not certain as to when the waterbearer became the modern (per se) symbol, but it is out there somewhere that the phoenix predates it. The phoenix would be more accurate for the common sensing of an age of causal (or christ) consciousness.

Again, I may be waaay off, but what I wrote above is based on what I have read in various sources - likely Parabola or science magazines, as they tend to be my only reading material over the past 5 years or so.

dcv-

[Karehndiujo Mohmid]

Originally Posted by Pet Zepi

Anybody got a snow plow?




(God Bless America.)

Ezekiel Chapter 1

10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

and:

Revelation Chapter 4

7In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. 8Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come."



Is this what you are referring to, Pet Zepi?
The Byzantine Zodiac? Plato's Great Year?

[Pet Zepi]

Originally Posted by Karehndiujo Mohmid

Is this what you are referring to, Pet Zepi?
The Byzantine Zodiac? Plato's Great Year?

[Avinash]

Originally Posted by neoxenos

There is the Age of Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron. We are in Iron, we are in the Kali of Yuga, and next we once again return to the age of gold. Of course, civilization as we know it will be destroyed beforehand.

Namaskar,

This idea of Yuga's or Spiritual Ages is interesting but not very realistic if you take the idea as meaning literally that humanity has moved backwards from a (mythical) "Golden Age". The number of people who are ready for serious spiritual practices has increased rather than decreased over time, especially in the last hundred years or so.

[neoxenos]

Originally Posted by Avinash

Namaskar,

This idea of Yuga's or Spiritual Ages is interesting but not very realistic if you take the idea as meaning literally that humanity has moved backwards from a (mythical) "Golden Age". The number of people who are ready for serious spiritual practices has increased rather than decreased over time, especially in the last hundred years or so.

The Golden Age occurs because it comes after everyone but the cream of the crop is wiped out. From there the other three "seasons" occur due to the convolutions and degeneration of the original religion.

It is absolutely realistic to think that society is moving backwards. We like to call it "modern" mostly, but the fact is that most of it is just degeneration. Take classical music for example. This music is far superior, in a completely objective sense, to anything on popular radio today, because music today does not posses any transcendental properties anymore. We can verify this by meditating to Beethoven’s 9th, for example, to anything on local pop radio station. The results are obvious.

[I, Brian]

John Williams is the new Beetoven - and actually better, in my opinion.

However, not everyone in the 18th to 19th century listened to Beetoven - it was pretty strictly limited to the Nobility and upper classes.

The general peasantry had their own music - a lot of which is lost - but if found, would probably sound a lot like modern pop music in tone.

[Avinash]

Originally Posted by Neoxenos

It is absolutely realistic to think that society is moving backwards. We like to call it "modern" mostly, but the fact is that most of it is just degeneration. Take classical music for example. This music is far superior, in a completely objective sense, to anything on popular radio today, because music today does not posses any transcendental properties anymore. We can verify this by meditating to Beethoven’s 9th, for example, to anything on local pop radio station. The results are obvious.

The question whether Western culture has crudified in the last hundred years or so is a quite complex one. In some respects I would say the opposite has happened with e.g. the increase in the call for human rights as well as for animal rights, the increase in vegetarianism, the increase in the numbers of people involved with some type of spiritual practices (don't mean religious practices) and the increase in ecological awareness. I agree with Brian that percentage-wise more people than ever in Western society are listening to classical music and other types of subtler music.

It may however also be true to say that increasingly liberal attitudes after the collapse of Christianity have created a crudification in certain sections of morality. This may however be just a temporary thing tied to this age of "money-first".

[MatTheCat]

Erm....
Although I am very interested in 'macro-astrological' matters, cant say that I have ever read much about it.

As for the debate whether modern day culture is on a progressive or a regressive path. I would take the view that in developed cultures, there is no longer anything be it false or true, that binds society together. The only thing that holds everything together in the western world is our immense and unprecedented wealth. If that wealth were to run dry, we would soon all witness the sorry fragmented state that we are actually in. As for much of the rest of the worlds population I would imagine that things have never been worse both from a material and spiritual point of view. How much longer can things go on like this?

[Sacredstar]

Dear Brian

"The New Age - the Age of Aquarius - is something we are apparently entering into - an age of peace and prosperity."

Yes I feel it's early approach was in the 60's some say it takes up to 200 years to move fully into it a new age.

"Only it won't hit properly until around 2016"

As far as peace is concerned this could well be true. There are many old structures and realities to fall away first I feel. New Science, new physics and new biology is uniting spirituality and science at last. This new paradigm shift will go through some teething problems as the old orders fall away. Like Jesus said the old heaven and earth will fall away. I feel this is because the way we perceive everything will change. I was guided in October 2003 that the 23rd November 2003 heralded the first day of the incoming golden age.

At the beginning of that month there was the Harmonic Concordance the planets created the symbol of Christ Consciousness in the heavens. I have written quite abit about all of this, if you would like me to post more information from previous articles published please let me know,

"However, what does the Age of Aquarius actually represent, and what can we actually expect of it?"

First 'Emotive Social Evolution' it is the end times as predicted in the Bible and the Qu'ran. If we get past 2006 without WW3 or major disaster I will be very happy. 2006 concerns me the most right now!

Big transition, as existing infrastructures collapse making way for the new.
Eco-villages and living in community is going to be a priority for the forthcoming generations. The best we can all do, in the short to medium term is support each other through the chaos. Which many of us are being prepared for, to be able to stay in peace while everything is falling away around us. All is meant to be!

2/3rds of the world population will cease to walk the earth beyond 2050. Already becoming fact in Europe, due to the drop in the birth rate now. Interesting a couple of weeks ago front page news Daily Mail government minister was demanding that it is our duty to have children, business leaders shouted that is Orwellian........!!! So time for the people to take their power back, take responsibility for what we co-create.

Kali Yuga, there was a big debate about this on another forum and in the end we decided that due to the power of conscious intent, Kali Yuga will end when we decide it is over! Enough is enough!

For sure we will be creating a new plane of existence, a Kingdom of Love.
I am learning to walk between the worlds and the different realities while we go through this transition to Christ Consciousness. 2012 is a key date also as I am sure that you are aware.

Love beyond measure

Sacredstar
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[Hyksos]

LOL, when I saw that you, Brian, put in the 2016 date, I thought that there'd be a few disparate views. There are scores of opinions about when Aquarius did or will begin. The best approach seems to be just to say it is gradual - so we are partly in it now for sure.

Sacredstar, still another date and not 2016.

"2/3rds of the world population will cease to walk the earth beyond 2050". It would be nice to have some substantiation. Then again, not! Such prophecies don't impress as they change year to year and everyone with such a prophecy has a different one, so they can't be taken seriously.

Among all the predictions and opinions about the coming new era, I do agree that eventually it'll be one of peace and higher consciousness. But our grasp, today, of just what that will be like is similar to people of the 1700s imagining our present technology. I do believe there's an awful lot of primarily wonderful things coming, though much of it beyond our lifetime, which simply no one today would be able to predict or even talk about ... it'll eventually be such a new host of paradigms and memes that we live in and live by that we can hardly grasp it today. Just my view.