10-29-2020, 03:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2020, 04:04 PM by Eric the Green.)
I don't think the Piscean Age, which is not all that tied down to the meaning of the sign, can be called unifying, when it has been characterized by the greatest wars in history, and leading toward the divisions between alliances in the late 19th and 20th century. Nor do I think the intense stratification of society represents unity. The legend, at any rate, of Aquarius, is that it's the sign of friendship and brother/sisterhood and humanitarian causes. It is preeminently the sign of the group. Pisces has a negative charge, being a yin sign, and tend to distort or impede the full expression if its basic ruling planet Jupiter, whereas Aquarius is a yang sign with a positive charge, which brings out a fuller and lighter expression of the ruling planet, in this case Saturn. So, although with caveats considering the distortion which humanity gives to every sign, and individual Aquarians I know who are scarcely what they claim to be, I lean toward a more positive interpretation of Aquarius, and think it's the more unifying sign. But ideally, Pisces under Neptune is also a very unifying sign, but I don't think the Neptune influence or archetype came into consciousness until it was discovered in the years leading up to 1846.
What these signs actually mean historically is colored by the spiral dynamic of the evolution of human society. Being in an evolving state implies progress, and in a basic sense, unity is a more evolved condition. So Pisces represented a time when organized religion under Jupiter was dominant, but it was a less-evolved form of religion than the new age consciousness coming into being as we shift into Aquarius. But I consider the planetary dynamic a much-more accurate view of how history and human evolution is proceeding than the 2140-year ages which are based on a rather dubious concept of the meaning of constellations, and which extend a general meaning over too long a period. Also, the spiral dynamic features acceleration, which the other schemes do not. With more population has come faster change, invention and progress.
I agree the unity which believers in the Age of Aquarius have expected will not be fully realized until after 2165, and even then conflicts will happen too. But what is happening is increased awareness of the possibility of unity, and some halting and uneven progress toward it. Much further to go, and again I think it is ideology and doctrines more than karma that get in the way. But in some cultures, that "karma" is actually old resentments that do not get healed or forgiven, especially in the Middle East.
I would say the Patriarchy came in with the Age of Mars which was well established 2000 years before the date you mention. The tribes that came into the civilized world brought male gods and a male-dominated warrior society which dominated the Bronze Age, and continued its sway through the classical age after the great Axis Awakening of 600-400 BC. The following Age of Jupiter, which jives with the Piscean Age, was still patriarchal, but the rulers were priests and caesaro-papists instead of emperors. Then they became the secular kings, and finally the republicans and the socialists. Only recently since the green meme came in in the sixties did the mother and mother earth make a comeback from the first-agricultural and more-female and fertility-worshiping neolithic Age of Venus. But I suppose modern times since the great Revolution circa 1789 could be called the Age of the Child, although still partriarchal for a while.
So far, I think post-revolution Russia and the Americas have been very lack lustre and bereft of the kind of innovation and creation that has come out of Europe. But since the world wars exhausted it and removed its world dominance, it has become more flat and stale too. It is a tourist destination now; people come there to see the past. Socially and politically it became much more-advanced than other societies since the sixties, and that is attractive to tourists too, although it is subject to recent reverse trends. But overall, we are just not in a very inspired age. I think the reason is too much physicalism and materialism. Inspiration needs a divine connection. It seems less plausible now in a world where we think we can fix everything with technology, and understand everything with science. But that view cuts us off from the creative.
What these signs actually mean historically is colored by the spiral dynamic of the evolution of human society. Being in an evolving state implies progress, and in a basic sense, unity is a more evolved condition. So Pisces represented a time when organized religion under Jupiter was dominant, but it was a less-evolved form of religion than the new age consciousness coming into being as we shift into Aquarius. But I consider the planetary dynamic a much-more accurate view of how history and human evolution is proceeding than the 2140-year ages which are based on a rather dubious concept of the meaning of constellations, and which extend a general meaning over too long a period. Also, the spiral dynamic features acceleration, which the other schemes do not. With more population has come faster change, invention and progress.
I agree the unity which believers in the Age of Aquarius have expected will not be fully realized until after 2165, and even then conflicts will happen too. But what is happening is increased awareness of the possibility of unity, and some halting and uneven progress toward it. Much further to go, and again I think it is ideology and doctrines more than karma that get in the way. But in some cultures, that "karma" is actually old resentments that do not get healed or forgiven, especially in the Middle East.
I would say the Patriarchy came in with the Age of Mars which was well established 2000 years before the date you mention. The tribes that came into the civilized world brought male gods and a male-dominated warrior society which dominated the Bronze Age, and continued its sway through the classical age after the great Axis Awakening of 600-400 BC. The following Age of Jupiter, which jives with the Piscean Age, was still patriarchal, but the rulers were priests and caesaro-papists instead of emperors. Then they became the secular kings, and finally the republicans and the socialists. Only recently since the green meme came in in the sixties did the mother and mother earth make a comeback from the first-agricultural and more-female and fertility-worshiping neolithic Age of Venus. But I suppose modern times since the great Revolution circa 1789 could be called the Age of the Child, although still partriarchal for a while.
So far, I think post-revolution Russia and the Americas have been very lack lustre and bereft of the kind of innovation and creation that has come out of Europe. But since the world wars exhausted it and removed its world dominance, it has become more flat and stale too. It is a tourist destination now; people come there to see the past. Socially and politically it became much more-advanced than other societies since the sixties, and that is attractive to tourists too, although it is subject to recent reverse trends. But overall, we are just not in a very inspired age. I think the reason is too much physicalism and materialism. Inspiration needs a divine connection. It seems less plausible now in a world where we think we can fix everything with technology, and understand everything with science. But that view cuts us off from the creative.