03-28-2020, 08:13 PM
(03-28-2020, 05:30 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: Might be happening now as a result of germ warfare as opposed to military warfare.
That is not the corona virus, of course. It and other recent such plagues came about as a result of our encroachment on animals because of our tendency to conquer their living space and abuse them. Overpopulation and rampant greed created this corona crisis. It is one aspect of our overall environmental crisis, which is the primary crisis with which this 4T must deal and make progress on if civilization is to survive.
Legislative advances came early in the previous 4T, in 1933-35, but has not occurred in this one, yet. The planetary position of Saturn, a 30-year cycle, has often indicated such periods, when it reaches Aquarius and Pisces. This happened in the progressive era in the 1900s, the New Deal of the 1930s, and the civil rights and great society era of the 1960s. Two Awakenings, and one Crisis period. The Revolution in France moves to the same cycle, among others, as Saturn moved into Aquarius arousing some demands for reform from aristocrats, but which was flooded with the ideas and trends of the time and under Saturn in Pisces swelled into the resolution to create a new constitution, the storming of the Bastille, the fall of feudalism and the declaration of the rights of man and citizen. This was a fourth turning. The uprisings of 1848 as another 4th turning beckoned or began (depending on your reckoning) came during another transit of Saturn in Pisces.
Saturn is now testing the fresh airs and waters of Aquarius as of this week as our legislature passed unprecedented stimulus and recovery because of the corona crisis, in the middle of a 4T. Although the early 4T has continued the fruitless stalemate of Reaganomics America, only now (rather than early on as in the last 4T) are the planets indicating that legislative advances are beginning and will expand in the next half-decade.
Values shift mostly in social moments, which are usually 2T Awakenings and 4T Crises. I know from my own experience just how strongly a values shift can be as a result of a typical prophet generation's spiritual awakening. It has not often taken great wars and their accompanied disasters for such changes to happen in history, as my new thread relates, and I hardly think that the horrors of 1944 and 1864 changed values.
What they did do was cause important changes to bring into our institutions the ideals of the Awakening that had not yet been sufficiently instituted by those Awakenings. They moved the needle of history forward through heroic efforts. The movement against slavery was a big part of the romantic movement and the Awakening in the 1830s, but it took the civil war and the overwhelming defeat of the South before slavery could be abolished. The ideals of peace, self-determination and world responsibility that has arisen during the turn of the century Awakening and voiced at The Hague in 1907, and championed by Woodrow Wilson and by the founding of the League of Nations, were not sufficiently established by this awakening era and third turning to prevent the world wars. The early 1940s Holocaust however brought about the defeat of the old imperialism and the 19th century nationalist racism embodied in the Nazis, and thus enabled the United Nations to be founded and allowed humanity to rise above racism to an extent in the following 1T and 2T Awakening.
If the crisis of today and through the next decade has any significance, it will be because it brings into institutions the legacy of the inspiring awakenings of the sixties and the new consciousness and social movements that began then, and which have continued off and on in some after-glows in the years since then.