Coming Age of Aquarius

[Eric the Green]

(10-23-2020, 05:25 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: Was the moon in the seventh house with Jupiter aligning with Mars when that classic song was all over the airwaves in the late 1960s, which then was said to (be) the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?

No, that was written because "Mars" rhymes with "stars". Frank Sinatra had sung such a rhyme earlier. I think I explained above what the astronomical cycle is from which the idea comes. For me, it was a different planetary alignment that resonated and connected to this time.

How I experienced the astrological connection to the 1966-1969 era was that, in the Summer of 1966, I felt the vibrations happening all across the nation, as John Phillips wrote in the song "If you come to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your air" and as Thunderclap Newman sang in "Something in the Air" and Bob Dylan prophecized in "Blowing in the Wind." I witnessed the counter-culture appear, and experienced a personal connection with love, based on my natural curiosity. Social and political movements exploded around us. My own world view changed in the following 9 months. 

I discovered soon afterward that many people of all ages that I knew had also had spiritual experiences in the early Summer of 1966. One and a half to two years later I studied astrology for the first time, learning about the meaning of the planets, and thought that a conjunction of outer invisible planets which are connected in their meanings to the transcendent must be happening. I looked it up, and saw that Uranus and Pluto were aligning (from about 1962 to 1970), and then when I looked closer, I found that, sure enough, the exact conjunction and thus its peak of energy occurred in the very week that I thought it did, when I was feeling it the most strongly just after Summer Solstice 1966. It was a turning point for humanity and the Earth. And then later I further discovered that all the planets had formed almost exactly into a peace symbol formation in the sky in November 1966. This was the era that people experienced as the "dawning of the Age of Aquarius." We here call it the height of the second turning of the current saeculum, the Awakening, the summer solstice of the generation cycle.

The song Aquarius from Hair, performed by The Fifth Dimension in 1969, was a great musical expression of this awakening. Interestingly, music was one of the most-important openings for people to this Awakening. For me, two songs that came out at this time in early Summer 1966 helped open up my awareness to it. Ironically the first one is called "5D Fifth Dimension" by The Byrds, and features a Bach organist. I fully understood the lyrics as my perception deepened in the following months and years. The second was a powerful, exultant love song in a fabulous orchestral and choral arrangement that sent me into bliss at this time, by Petula Clark and Tony Hatch, called "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love." Can these songs send you there too? Of course many more followed, most notably the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows." I have posted these songs here before-- essential aural documents of the Awakening and "dawning of the Age of Aquarius"




https://youtu.be/l42vmO1LiK0




https://youtu.be/zhjJPf-sc_Q

This cute, brilliant millennial British musical guy really puts it all together about the song and Petula's long career. Very well done; featuring a live performance of the song at the start. Petula's connection to Julie Andrews and Maria von Trapp is especially notable.
https://youtu.be/GoA645dprFY