I Hate The New Age
...well I don't exactly hate it, just a bit uncomfortable, but it makes a good blog title, don't you think? If you haven't already read my previous articles about astrology you might enjoy reading them first, starting with this one. So whether you take astrology seriously or not, you probably know that according to astrologers, we are at the end of the Age of Pisces and at the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. And as explained in those previous articles, a series of Outer Planet conjunctions (as seen from Earth), oppositions and squares have been correlated with huge cultural changes during the past 100 years or so.
What I want to do in this article is try to explain why so many of us feel so ill at ease in the new digital, computerized and internet world, with its political correctness and freedom issues. To do this I'm going to refer to the diagram above, which is taken from the book The Outer Planets and Their Cycles by famed astrologer Liz Greene. I could have generated a similar diagram with an astrology computer program but wanted to honour Greene with first bringing it to astrologers' attention and hope she doesn't mind that I photographed the diagram in her book. In case you haven't heard of Greene, she was one of the first "psychological" astrologers in the 1970s,80s, 90s and this century, revolutionizing the art of astrology and transforming it from the its old reputation as superstitious, fatalistic fortune telling, into a much more rational, holistic tool for exploring the mind and soul, and our relationship to the greater consciousness. Having done that, Liz Greene also went on to successfully predict the overthrow of the old USSR in 1992 - using the country's horoscope - several years before it happened - which woke some people up to astrology's potential as a tool for insight.
If we look at Greene's diagram we can see that for the past 2000 years, the so called "Mutable" signs - Pisces, Gemini, Virgo and Sagittarius, have been occupying the so called "Cardinal" houses - the Ist, 4th, 7th and 10th houses of the world horoscope, and the four angles (note this word's similarity to word "angels"). The 1st house is our collective identity, and most people have identified with some sort of spiritual belief system - one of the 3 Abrahamic religions, or an offshoot of them which still has faith in the unseen Deity at its core. The 7th house is where we project our identity onto others, or they do so to us. Virgo here meant that purity, chastity and the idea of a Virgin Birth were just as important to the spirit of the age as belief in a God and savior we cannot see. These two signs are the bread and fishes which Jesus distributed to the multitudes.
The 4th house is our inner core, our family, our soul and what we pass on to future generations. Gemini is here. We have passed on spiritual knowledge through writing and communication (the sign Gemini)- most noticeably through the scriptures - the Bible, Talmud, Koran. Gemini is also the sign of mental discrimination, and the sign of opposites. The ideas of good and evil are the root of most scripture. And on the 10th house we have Sagittarius, the actual sign of codified religion and moral law. This is the sign of the Higher Mind, travel and expansion, and also our higher self. Another astrologer, Maria Kay Simms has written a book about all this called Twelve Wings Of The Eagle, which explains how the world consciousness horoscope turns every 26000 years or so, due to Precession of the Equinoxes.
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What are we supposed to do if we were born in these changing times - when the cusp of the 1st house is changing from Pisces to Aquarius? If you look at the diagram above and turn your computer screen anticlockwise, you can pretend that the line which says "12th house" underneath it, and "6th house" above it is on the horizontal, where the Ist-7th house line is before turning the diagram. Now look at the signs which come to occupy the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th houses. Aquarius is of course in House 1, and opposite that is Leo. How to modern people project themselves to others and the public at large? Mostly through their ego - which is the dark side of Leo. The positive side of Leo is creativity and the internet (Aquarius) does make sure that we are entertained.
Where the Age of Pisces was all about humility and sacrifice, Aquarius is having none of that. The sign is all about individuality and freedom, and its opposite sign wants to shine like its ruler, the Sun. Now look at the 4th house sign of Taurus. This is the sign of material resources, land, possessions and money. Karl Marx sensed this coming Zeitgeist when he wrote his communist manifesto, because he saw the economic inequality among people. But Taurus is also the sign of intuition and music. At the root of humanity's awakening will the ability to connect to Source through one's inner hearing (not a priest, rabbi or Imam) and through sound and colour vibrations.
But this is where the New Age gets quite uncomfortable for some people. Look at the sign on the 10th house - the world's "destiny", dharma, reputation and highest achievement. That sign is Scorpio - sign of sex, death, regeneration, other people's money, politics and taxes! If you want an example of what Aquarius and Scorpio look like when combined, look no further than America. The country, based astrologically on its birthday of July 4 1776 has its Moon in Aquarius and a possible Scorpio ascendant. I say possible, because we don't know the exact time of day that the Declaration Of Independence was signed - but from the artistic depiction on the dollar bill, it was 1.50pm, which would give a Scorpio rising sign. And even if this artistic depiction is fantasy, there is so much additional occult symbolism in Washington, placed there by the Freemasons who were the founding fathers, all pointing to the number 13 and Scorpio, that the message of these founders is not difficult to miss. America is a place of rebirth and transformation - that's the good side. But the dark side of Scorpio is not so ideal. It is control, secrecy, power and death - in the form of gun-related homicide or suicide, and abortion (please scroll down). Who has the most guns and who has the biggest nuclear deterrents? And forget trying to keep your personal life private on the internet. Google bots will read your emails and subtly spill the contents before you in targeted advertising.
Somehow, death has become mixed up with freedom, and it's because (in my opinion) we don't really understand what Aquarius is really about. We've confused individual freedoms with social justice. Abortion has become a last resort form of birth control in the West because there is so much peer pressure on young people to have sex and be free, but not to face the consequences of sex, which in healthy adults is procreation of another human being. And the US gun culture has now indirectly caused the deaths of thousands of American citizens, including school children. I'm going to look at the US horoscope in another article, including the story of how the country's Freemason fathers founded the country on a day when Mars was square Neptune, not knowing that Neptune existed before 1846 when it was discovered in the real world. And then there's that comma in the Second Amendment. But that's for another time.
And if that Scorpio midheaven wasn't enough to frighten you into not wanting to bring children into this violent, toxic world, look at the sign which now occupies the World Horoscope's 12th house. The 12th house in astrology is the subconscious mind, and believe it or not the world has one. It is the part of us which we cannot see. That is sometimes a good thing, because there are some things which work better if we don't interfere with them too much. During the Age Of Pisces, the sign on the 12th house was of course Aquarius, which meant that although the New Age wasn't conscious yet, it was bubbling beneath the surface. Jesus even spoke about it in the Gospels when He mentions the man carrying a jug of water.
But because our self-conscious mind is not aware here, this house can also be the place of self-undoing. So with the sign Capricorn on the New Age world horoscope, we might experience the more negative side of Saturn-ruled Capricorn in the world, which is bondage to the illusion of separateness, or materialism. The esoteric correlation of Capricorn is to the tarot key known as The Devil. Perhaps this is why the New Age seems cold and Godless to many people.
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