The First “Earth Rise” for Human­i­ty — Apol­lo 8 mis­sion — Our Beau­ti­ful, Blue Home

 

Whence – Where – Whither

Part 3 – Whither

So, let us now cast our gaze for­ward to the years that lie ahead. As I have already not­ed, there are sev­er­al plan­e­tary influ­ences that are remain­ing in place now, some for quite a few years, yet their influ­ence will be con­stant­ly influ­enced and mod­u­lat­ed by align­ments and tran­si­tions of oth­er plan­ets too. The Uni­verse is formed by these undu­lat­ing rhythms of Con­stan­cy amidst con­stant Change; for the under­ly­ing essence of Spir­it is formed by these Eter­nal Truths. which play out in these worlds of Being as the pro­found­ly mov­ing res­o­nances of the cos­mos, the eter­nal Songs of Spir­it.

As I men­tioned in last year’s look ahead, we have now, (after Uranus moves into Tau­rus to stay for sev­en years on March 6^th), Sat­urn, Uranus and Plu­to all mov­ing through Earth Signs. It is per­haps a fit­ting and final chap­ter in this “Age of Earth” that we have been mov­ing through since the 1840’s, as indi­cat­ed by one of the sig­na­ture cycles in Astrol­o­gy, the con­junc­tions of Jupiter and Sat­urn every 20 years occur­ring in one ele­ment after another.

Astrologers have always paid very close atten­tion to this series of align­ments, each one defin­ing a peri­od char­ac­ter­ized by a def­i­nite spir­i­tu­al-cul­tur­al res­o­nance, the “tone of the time”. I have named the last 3 ele­men­tal pas­sages, and the upcom­ing 4^th as:

Water             1425–1663 (The Age of Faith) pre­vi­ous was 571–809

Fire                 1663–1842 (The Age of Explo­rations) pre­vi­ous was 809‑1047

Earth              1842–2020 (The Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1047–1226

Air                  2020–2219 (The Age of Ide­al­iza­tion) pre­vi­ous was 1226–1425

 

This is known as the “Great Muta­tion Cycle”, the series of Jupiter/Saturn con­junc­tions tak­ing place in the Four Ele­ments one after the oth­er, (Water, Fire, Earth, and Air). The com­plete series is formed by 40 con­junc­tions around the zodi­ac, which is divid­ed into rough­ly 4 peri­ods of about 180 to 230 years each, or an entire series last­ing about 800 years.

What this means is that we are on the cusp of some very impor­tant shifts as we move from this Age of Man­i­fes­ta­tion (or Mate­ri­al­iza­tion) into an Age of Ide­al­iza­tion (or what I call Ethe­re­al­iza­tion). Per­haps, our pas­sage will mir­ror that of the 1200’s to 1400’s, and that this New Age will equal­ly bring forth a “lit­tle Renais­sance”, (or some­thing even more profound)?

It will begin as 2020 ends, as Sat­urn moves into Aquar­ius and Jupiter joins it on the very day of the Win­ter Sol­stice of Decem­ber 21, 2020. Then in the year 2024, Plu­to will leave Capri­corn and like­wise enter Aquar­ius. And yes, there are some who believe that these shifts, along with oth­er indi­ca­tors, point to the true begin­ning of what many have called the Age of Aquar­ius.

This much longer cycle of Astro­log­i­cal Ages, (which is also known as the Pre­ces­sion of the Equinox­es) is formed by the Earth’s posi­tion as indi­cat­ed by the North Pole being aligned to a series of Polar stars over the course of about 26,000 years, (or about 2,100 years per sign). As these align­ments unfold, the first day of Spring rotates back­wards through the Zodi­ac, (from Aries to Pisces to Aquar­ius…). It forms the dif­fer­ence between what Astrologers know as the Trop­i­cal Zodi­ac (mov­ing) and the Side­re­al Zodi­ac (fixed) which were aligned at 0 Aries around 254 BCE.

We are said to be at end of Pisces and the begin­ning of Aquar­ius, though the tran­si­tion between one to the oth­er is not def­i­nite, and there are var­i­ous dates for when the Aquar­i­an Age will begin (or has already begun). There are seri­ous (but also wild and rather sil­ly) the­o­ries about what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. I hold that we can more clear­ly under­stand what may be com­ing, by look­ing to the most sig­nif­i­cant theme of the past 2,000 years, or what was the root issue that formed this Age of Pisces. It is from this that we may be able to dis­cern what may lie ahead for us all.

Though vol­umes have (and will) be writ­ten about the 20 Cen­turies we have just come through, the most salient fea­ture to me comes from the cen­ter that forms the Sign of Pisces. I like to say that Pisces, being the last sign, (and from a strict­ly “human” per­spec­tive of course), is the sum­ma­tion and com­ple­tion of the jour­ney in spir­it that we humans are all engaged upon.

What dri­ves our sto­ry as human is not our won­der­ful “oppos­able thumb”, (though cer­tain­ly it has spurred the devel­op­ment of our tool-mak­ing nature and the growth of our self-con­scious­ness). Or, some would point to that fea­ture as the key to form­ing our capac­i­ty to make tools, and it was this which led to our defin­ing fea­ture, to our “self-aware­ness”, which then forms the key to what makes us human, and we are cer­tain­ly clos­er to the “truth” with this it seems.

But I am fond of say­ing, that in the end it all comes down to this, and look­ing to this last sign of Pisces, (and we all have Pisces some­where in our chart and nature), what tru­ly makes us human is our Capac­i­ty to Dream, to look at the world and one anoth­er with won­der. We are endowed with Imag­i­na­tion, and so our great­est gift is formed and held by the very heart of Spir­it, we are Cre­ators.

We dream, we imag­ine and so we create…and then we dream again. We encounter the world “as it is”, and we dream of a bet­ter one. We have and find our way through this Liv­ing Faith as Cre­ators, and we under­stand, because we know, that we can form a bet­ter life, and a bet­ter world for us and for those who follow.

We are not so much “human beings” as much as we are “human becoming’s”. It is pre­cise­ly from this essen­tial qual­i­ty of Spir­it, of being “Cre­ators”, that we have brought about remark­able changes in our very nature, and in the world around us. But now our “Ring of Pow­er”, (our Imag­i­na­tion and Intel­li­gence, our Curios­i­ty and Cre­ativ­i­ty), threat­ens to under­mine our very exis­tence, as well as fun­da­men­tal­ly change the com­plex hier­ar­chy of fel­low Life-Forms on our Earth.

Yes, into our “Cre­ations” we have poured our hopes and dreams and revealed the awe­some gift of our Imag­i­na­tion and Dreams. But we are also imper­fect, and we have nei­ther the req­ui­site wis­dom nor humil­i­ty, as yet, to use our pow­er with true under­stand­ing and com­pas­sion. So, the trag­ic result has been that we inevitably wove into our cre­ations the anx­i­eties, doubts and fears that have shad­owed our jour­ney of awakening.

Yes, we had dreams and visions, and we had inven­tive­ness, curios­i­ty and crit­i­cal think­ing and we acquired more and more knowl­edge. But both the Dream and this Knowl­edge were imper­fect and woe­ful­ly inad­e­quate. We lit­er­al­ly opened “Pandora’s Box”, and set so many things in motion that we now threat­en to over­whelm our­selves and the life­forms that share this world with us.

When we exam­ine the his­to­ry of life on Earth, sci­en­tists have deter­mined that sev­er­al Great Extinc­tion events have occurred. Today many observers are not­ing that what they are call­ing the “Sixth Great Extinc­tion” is tak­ing place all around us now…and the rea­son for this tragedy is quite sim­ply us.

For the human part in this Sto­ry of Life we have come through sev­er­al key turn­ing points: What is known as the Cog­ni­tive Rev­o­lu­tion 70,000 years ago, and then the Agri­cul­tur­al Rev­o­lu­tion 12,000 years ago, and most cer­tain­ly since what we know as the Sci­en­tif­ic Rev­o­lu­tion 500 years ago.But nev­er have our future prospects (and the world’s) been so shad­owed by the fear of what may be unfold­ing now and by what lies ahead.

I have hope, that we will find a way to use our amaz­ing gifts, to Dream and Rea­son, to be guid­ed by our Spir­i­tu­al Intu­ition, Com­pas­sion and Wis­dom, and that this will lead to a New Age in the years ahead. Per­haps this is what this Age of Aquar­ius will bring. That it will be wit­ness to the next great step in Human Awak­en­ing, and we will come to a Greater Under­stand­ing through the core expe­ri­ence of Aquarius.

The prin­ci­ple of Aquar­ius is Fel­low­ship, it is Broth­er­hood and Sis­ter­hood, it is Com­pan­ion­ship and Com­mu­ni­ty and the Spir­i­tu­al Truth that we are all made of and by one anoth­er. We can­not be, Life can­not be, with­out blend­ing, mix­ing, com­bin­ing, and then shar­ing and grow­ing togeth­er. Life, Con­scious­ness and Spir­it are forged and formed by Inter­re­la­tion­ship, Diver­si­ty, Com­plex­i­ty and our essen­tial Inter­de­pen­dence with one anoth­er and all Life-Forms. Every Par­ti­cle of Cre­ation is a Spark of the Divine, formed in its core by its own Quin­tes­sence. Every tree and every leaf on every tree, every being and each cell form­ing that being, every­thing is formed by “ones” formed into a greater One. All of life is part of some­thing greater, yet it is pre­cious­ly and won­drous­ly its own unique instance of that Greater Whole.

Aquar­ius is all about the One and the Many, and we are each a pre­cious part, a unique one of a “Kind”, but formed and held and made pos­si­ble by that Kind, by that whole, and then the next greater whole, which ulti­mate­ly forms the whole of this entire Cre­ation or the ONE.

Let us make this pledge to one anoth­er, in the spir­it of Human­i­ty, with Love for one anoth­er and for all of Spirit-Life-Consciousness:

May we lis­ten to our High­er Self and find in our hearts the Wis­dom and Love to approach this Sto­ry of Life on Earth as our respon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect. May we turn our Dreams and Intel­li­gence to pur­pose­ful preser­va­tion of Life in all its mag­nif­i­cent Diver­si­ty. May we become ever more Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this beau­ti­ful blue Ark of Life. May we take care, and think of our chil­dren, and our children’s chil­dren, and all who will come after us. May we rise and shine as the Stars in the heaven’s above and be tru­ly Con­scious Co-Cre­ators of this Creation.

Let us hope, when we are all long gone from this world, that our descen­dants will look back upon us and say that we rose to our chal­lenge, that we faced our fears and found our faith. That we made com­mon cause among our­selves and with all who would fol­low us. We lis­tened to the Winds of the Spir­it, and we passed the torch of Light, Love and Will for the gen­er­a­tions to come.

May it be so.

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