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Originally written May 2000 | pp. 1 2
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If we use the markers
of the Age of Pisces and Age of Aquarius as arbitrary frames for epochs
of time, we are able to see a transition of consciousness which is metaphorically
captured in the symbols of Aquarius and Pisces. One thing that becomes evident
is that the Piscine Age was one in which groups of people poured their heart,
soul, energy, and faith into stories and narratives.
Although great things
were accomplished with such unyielding faith in the power of story, certainly
the disadvantage of such zealous emotional attachment to story was that
it divided people, often resulting in untold human tragedy and crimes committed
against nature. The alleged Aquarian Age is supposed to rectify all this
; it is to be an epoch of harmony, peace, and understanding. People are
to value and respect difference—as opposed to the Piscine strategy of marginalizing
and destroying difference if it conflicts with a certain story.
How, then, will this
rectification occur? It seems that the only real answer is that there will
be a fundamental change in consciousness. The specifics of this turn in
consciousness are captured beautifully when contrasting the symbols of Pisces
and Aquarius.
The fact that there
are two fish in the symbol of Pisces is important as it identifies the main
problem of the Piscine age: dichotomization
and polarization. Fish against fish, or more appropriately, belief system
versus belief system, and race versus race. We see these fundamental dualisms
as the core process of the past 2,000 years. In Christianity, transcendent
spirituality was pitted against cultures which upheld nature-based, immanent
spiritualities.
Equally important, the
Christ symbol within Christianity was split into a Christ/Anti-Christ dualism
which, from a psychological point of view, represented an artificial and harmful
split between good and evil—opposites which the psyche tries to resolve into
a functioning whole. We see this trend of creating polarities continue as
Christianity gave way to a myopic focus on salvation through a materialism
and scientism which destroyed transcendence and spirituality altogether.
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