When I put my thoughts together, I get a picture others don’t get. Numerologists say I’m here to use and develop my mind. Astrologer Jeanne Avery says as an Aquarius rising I walk to the beat of a different drummer. She says I may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries; that I may be the forerunner for setting style and discovering new methods for showing the rest of humanity the way. She says that I know where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit. It’s a natural for me. It’s my karmic mission.
Long before civilization, man imagined monsters, witches, sorcerers, demons, and such as that. Shamans, certain of us with magical powers, fought evil forces. Then, in the valley formed by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, by 3000 BC an astonishingly different panorama developed. Cities sprawled on the banks of the rivers, behind which stretched fields of golden grain. Magnificent palaces and temples rose. Hundreds of artisans produced all manner of goods. Processions of worshipers moved through streets to temples. Descendants of the Stone Age, with their fertile minds, Babylonians transformed what was once a wasteland into a thriving civilization. They established government, religion, the written word, and mathematics. With mathematics, they produced great engineering feats. Also, with mathematics they mapped the heavens. They created the astrological zodiac and twelve ages. They must have known about the earth’s wobble and the northern axis pointing to each of twelve star constellations over a period of about 26,000 years.
This unique advancement of mankind between the Tigris and Euphrates began in 9000 BC. We are the product of 14,000 years of civilized advances. I’m reminded of the stray cat hanging around. He so wants to be part of us. He rubs up against us and rolls on the ground. He looks at us with longing eyes and meows. For thousands of years, cats have been domesticated. It is in their nature to want to be part of us.
We read in the Bible in Genesis 1:26, “And God said, Let us make man in our image.” In Genesis 3, Eve is tempted to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The serpent in the tree tells her to eat and possess the knowledge of good and evil, the same as the gods. We know good and evil. In Exodus 3, When Moses said to God, “when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?” God said to tell them “I AM THAT I AM.”
Let us make man in our image; we know good and evil, same as the gods; I AM THAT I AM, Babylonian priests decided that the sign of Aquarius meant brotherhood. Jesus, who was born at the beginning of the Age of Pisces, said we are our brother’s keeper. We are entering the Age of Aquarius, leaving the Age of Pisces. Babylonian priests gave Pisces the sign of two attached fish swimming in opposite directions, meaning indecisiveness. This reads out to say that after a couple of thousands years of indecisiveness, not knowing who we are and what we are about, about to find out that we are our brother’s keeper.
Along with the Babylonian examination of the heavens mathematically, for additional proof, we’ve got a new way of looking at ourselves, by taking apart the microcosmic world mathematically and making a determination of who we are and what we are about. Quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker, in the Physics of Consiciousness: “We find that what we had thought was an independent and objective physical world is in fact contingent on the observer.” With the advent of quantum theory, the cutting edge of science has discovered that we exist as more than matter. “The observer emerges as a co-equal in the foundry of creation. . . The tests of Bell’s theorem have shown us that objective reality as it has been conceived is not the true fabric of reality.”
From my library, now comes Richard Tarnas and Cosmos and Psyche. Tarnas, a distinguished philosopher and cultural historian, demonstrates in this book the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history and biography. Turning to “Word Wars, Cold War, and September 11,” he examines the unfavorable alignment of Pluto with Saturn that commenced in the month and year that Barrack Obama was elected President of the United States, calling this unfavorable alignment indicative of the “destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence, decadence, naiveté, denial, and inflation.” This unfavorable alignment lasts until the Mayan calendar predicts the end of this world.
My astrological chart shows my ruling planet, Uranus, had transited from the time of my birth to a position opposing itself in my forties, meaning change was coming. Prior to the change, I’d studied the Constitution and imagined voices from the past speaking to me, giving me a bigger than life challenge. I acted and my life changed for the better.
As an observer, I interact with matter. Consciousness, says Walker, is the substance of a newfound reality. The laws of physics leave open a range of happenings, says Walker. Behind this selection is the will. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” as intelligent beings and lords of our own thoughts, capable of dealing with any situation, and with the transforming and regenerative agency to make of ourselves what we will, says James Allen in As a Man Thinketh, with this trinity of man, mind, and God, we are now at the threshold of the Age of Aquarius, an age of brotherhood, “the water-bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy,” we read in Astrologer’s Handbook, welcome to the Age of Aquarius.
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