Entering Aquarius

So long as there is power there will be power cycles. William Strauss and Neil Howe’s excellent book on generations, The Fourth Turning, well outlines post-war power cycles. The second post-war generation is inevitably marked by spiritual renewal, much as the Sixties bought the first generation past the big war to new spiritual origins. Henry James’s The Bostonians reveals a similar culture in the Boston region late in the century and his brother William James’s book, The Varieties of Religious Experiences, became the text book of modern psychology. On the continent came the rush of Orientalism; Yeats, Khrishnamurti, Madame Blavatsky at the same time.

The Strauss/Howe view is based on the archetypes; one generation opposes the last and takes its values from the one before. This was observed by Roman historians and Taoists as well. The post-war cycle ends in the 60th year, the end of the third post-war generation. And after 20 years of war and wanderings, a new cycle begins. Likewise the “spiritual renewal” period occurs every 60 years. As the antithesis of war and chaos in the second post-war generation.

And when this begins people naturally come to look at things they have avoided or keep subliminally at other times, like astrology. When they do they look to beginnings. This constant 60-year cycle forms a “natural history” which transcends all cultural changes like war and revolution and returns the culture to the exact same point of origin every time. It has the effect of immortalizing the beginnings of the astrological cycles. People have always looked to the beginning of the Platonic Month; the thre Magi and the birth of the Christ for 2000 years. I happened to notice yesterday a picture of the Christ as Anima Mundi in Tarot cards surrounded by the four elements. For two thousand years astrologers looked to the beginning moment of Pisces; year 1 Pisces, or zero. There were the three magi and the birth of the Christ. Likewise, through history ahead and its "spirit" cycles, year 0 or year 1 Aquarius will be fettered out. That will be year 2000 and 2001.

It is possible to see now what will be seen as “awakening” Aquarius as the birth of Christ awakened the Age of Pisces. This will be prominent in the popular and naïve culture (culture not designed by academics, institutions’ or professionals; culture that is unselfconscious). We start with The Matrix and go on to the Tolkien Trilogy which was showing in movies (air and electricity = Aquarius). Harry Potter can be seen as the Aquarian; he is the earth shaman who precedes Calvin, the pre-Newtonian determinist. Harry is child of the Earth Mother direct - he even had a lightning bolt indicating him to be so betweenhis eyes on his forehead. And he comes with a "generational shadow" - Captain Jack Sparrow; earth and water, the yin elements of the zodiac. (In the recent Lost series Ben (identified as the Piscean Christ in the second season) actually goes to the North Pole where the earth is aligned to the North Star and turns the turnstile; changing the age from Pisces to Aquarius (John Locke is acknowledged by Richard Alpert [which was the name of Ram Dass, Timothy Leary’s colleague at Harvard] a Taoist immortal as the Aquarian leader). Lost and the Survivor TV shows are “returning to earth” myths like the crop circle - virtually flying saucers on the ground - indicators imply.

I believe this transition ends/begins with Twilight; it is the first vampire movies – vampire movies are “silence of God” or “empty crypt” myths – in which the Undead – people from the Unconscious – are the “Shining Ones” – this is a “return of the gods" instead of absence of God. The writer, Stephenie Meyer of Arizona, says the book came to her entirely in a dream.

The next “spiritual” cycle like the Sixties or the Khrisnamurti/Yeats/Blavatsky period will be about 2025. We are now with the economic crash at the end of the post-war cycle. Nothing can retrieve it. Things will continue to break. The “pilgrim” generation which renews the world – as explained by Strauss and Howe – is only about 13 years old right now – this is the audience of 25 million for Twilight. (Note: the “Greatest Generation” which ended German fascism and rebuilt the world under Eisenhower was only 9 years old at the beginning of the Great Depression in 1929.)

In this light the year 2012 should be interesting. I noticed on a CNN briefing yesterday that the Aztecs prophecy was actually given contemporary credibility by a scientific discovery. In the 1950s scientists discovered that that the Sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way in 2012 (if I have this right). The scientists in the article used this to declare that the Incas “knew nothing about this” and thus could not have made a prediction through their technology and systems of thinking. But obviously it is a synchronicity.

In any case, when the origins of the Age or Aquarius are recalled it will constantly recall the events and culture of the years 2000 and 2001 over the millennia, just as the birth of the Christ is still recalled and immortalized today even at the aftermath of the Age of Pisces.




Incidently, several of what can be considered "Aquarian" culture "move" the source; Dali, in The Temptation of St. Anthony" moves it from Rome (Vatican) to a desert which appears to be Texas and a Buddhist monk in "The Second Coming of Christ." Jung, sees "another Swiss" (Self) in Liverpool - a here the British (Anglo) empire flips from Extroverted to Introverted as it did in Rome - the external empire merely in time the casing for the spirit empire to follow (Toynbee suggests this as well; in history, he says, yang turns to yin over time). Ben in Lost switches the "island" to someplace else. In Twilight, Seattle is the home of new awakenings and where the gods hatch. I get most of this from my young daughter but from what I understand, all vampires are simple those who exist in the Unconscious or who have an actual inner life. They may be seen as Templars. In this Twilight venue the last cycle are the Voterie, Roman Italians in a clear reference to old school Roman Catholics. The vampires go to Italy for retreat. But everyone does, no? Is like a magnet.

Broken right leg in Twilight and Lost - note to Kristin

The leg is the astrological body sign for Aquarius. At the end of the Twilight movie Bella breaks her right leg and it is broken at the "marriage of opposites" dance in the gazebo. Right leg broke; right side of body is left brain control - Bella yields to right brain: Bella restores the right brain; she is the Earth Mother. Likewise, as John Locke "turns the stile" to put the world back on its axis in Lost and shift the paradigm form the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius, he breaks his right leg. John Locke is the Aquarian. In recent episodes it has been revealed that this series is about the last days of the Christ; the Christ - Ben - gone mad at the end of his realm as suggested in Revelations. Ben is identified as the Christ in season 2 by the Christ wound and by the Dostoyevsky book Brothers K - chapter of The Grand Inquisitor. IN recent episodes they are in a Catholic church in England beneath a picture of Thomas putting his finger in the Christ's wound, the Carravaggio painting, just as Ben had played that role earlier in Season 2: He refers to Locke as a "proxi" suggesting the Christ and Locke is told that he will be the "sacrifice." Note to Kristin: Interesting note I happened to find on line elsewhere by Gregory Sova making the point that people who have near death experiences later have REM dream interfering into awake time. Thought of your comments re Mircea Idiade in his book Shamanism. Idiade makes the point that male shamans become shamans after a near death experience. I've long thought about that as I had a major lung operation - had the top of my right lung removed (was tough - had to cut down to one pack a day after that) - 30 years ago. My dreams changed, my life changed, everything changed. It got better.

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UFOs and the Mother

Wonder if UFOs are a manifestation of the Mother rather than Father; moon rather than sun, or Andromeder; our Mother in the Sky, who dangles the two fish of pisces by a string, coming back to us - circle is sign of psyche and psyche is feminine. They seem more like little moons - always in dark and shadow with just a few blinking lights - rather than suns & they awakened in the culture as we rose to the moon before and after 1969; a journey to Mother. I had a dream years ago about two moons, then one came to earth and it was actually a round iron bathosphere with someone talking in it. It was one of those months when there were two full moons within the same month and my "spirit friend" - a woman in NC - happened to have a female baby between those moons.

UFO's

Re: Broken Right Leg

Robot Self/ new direction

Thank you Michael and Gregory. Thought I would pass along this picture - so telling of the times post-war. It is from the movie "Devil Girl from Mars" - 1954. You can see that Anima (the Devil Girl) is leading the crowd to the Self. Self looks like a kind of robot, which is a kind of homunculous. Self looks like a city mail box.



Compare to say the octapus; a living BaGua - a living Self figure from the earth's Unconscious.



Incidentlly, FYI, here is an essay in the very mainstream press - CNN - which says that some 20 states have in the past two weeks proposed state sovereignty resolutions in their states. These are based on Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions which he wrote during the unconstitutional Alien and Sedition Acts; Jefferson claimed that if the government passed unconstitutional laws the federal contract was null and void. I used the Kentucky Resolutions at the beginning of the war on Iraq to claim that my state - New Hampshire - and others up here need not participate without the consent of our governor. No one but George Kennan was interested and he endorsed our initiative. However, I was adopted up here by the "free staters' - followers of Ron Paul - and I wrote a variety of articles for one of their periodicals about the Jefferson perspective (agrarian; regional culture) vs. the Hamilton (corporate; one world goverment). My interest was of course psychological - I've no interest in politics except when it messes with my life and my family which it does. Switzerland's canton-based republic was our model for a better life but it was always cultural. Anyway, my local reps - Free Staters - proposed this same idea as a general theme two weeks ago. Now 28 states have adopted the idea.

Stimulaous Raises States Soveriegnty Issues - CNN

Noticed that they - my free stater friends - use the phrase "they drank the Obama Kool Aid" - which is a little edgy when you consider that Obama actually has a guy named Jim Jones (General James L. Jones, National Security Advisor) in his Cabinet. Alors. Jim Jones, for you young 'uns, was the leader of the People's Temple, a Christian doomsday cult. Over 800 members died in a mass suicide by drinking kool aid laced with poison. IN 1978.



Notice the crowds in both the Devil Girl picture and the Jim Jones picture above. Same crowds.

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About to flip . . .

Gregory, Michael, y'all . . .

As per the above discussion, the American culture is about to flip. I'd say by August 8.

Aug 8

What's brewing?

08 08 (08)

8 and opposites

Jan - Eight and opposites you mention. When I look for opposites or dual nature there is Shadow but the inner life of the Shadow I look for relating to the person. I am not contradicting you but pointing out that in our time of full power manifestation and earth mother in remission. So when we look to yin yang, the dual nature the Yin we see lives is the Shadow of the Yang which is not the same thing. That is, my anima is not the same as a real woman just as her animus is not the same as a real man, so there are four things. So it would be a man like myself imaging a yin and institutionalizing it as the Feminine in the culture. When there is in fact no Feminine or True Yin present at all or the only yin present is that which conforms to my dominant taste and desires and of course in this, I don't have a clue, only appetite and desire for clones. I think it is inherent in the short hand Hegelian thinking we do: thesis and anti-thesis we picture as yin and yang, but two men swordfighting is not yin and ynag it it Yang + and Yang -. Yin is off in the cosmos somewhere completely excluded. It is original yin - Psyche - we experience possibly with UFOs. When I lived in Tobaccoville, North Carolina, all the people -deeply religious fundamentalist Christians - believed in UFOs and had the experience.

I would like to hear about your Michigan enlightenment experience. I felt it was the "center of the world" (East, West, South and the Great White North) when I was there. Perhaps the life force of the Lakes, the water star of rich spiritual power, Manitou, Native America's creator spirit. We were at Ann Arbor for three years - my wife is a librarian. Experience: We bought an old house there and I restored it - it had 80 to 150 bats in the attic we discovered. I went to an Indian art store one day and as I walked in the Indian, who I had never seen before called over and said, "Come here, I have something for you." It was a bat carved out of a deer bone. I know how to chase bats away with out hurting them now. I fell off the roof painting the house and couldn't walk for six weeks so I wrote this manuscript, The Titan and The Egg - Entering Aquarius, with all the Beatles and Dali stuff. Clarice, the Canadian woman who was here at the beginning with Remo and Roger had clairvoyant dreams about that period. She found my name in her dream journal and had identified two body injuries I'd sustained years before. That is Original Yin.


Dual Nature also can be seen and related to this as one here in our time and one form the Unconscious. Like the Twins, Jesus/John, Beatles/Rolling Stones, Christian/Islam, U.S./U.S.S.R. Same karma, light and dark . . . but I just see these as impressions.

8 is fascinating as the Ba Gua. I talk here all the time about the TV show Lost, which is an Aquarian "returning to earth" myth in which the dominants change from Judeo/Christian to something else - hippie Buddhism. The Bagua is the eight-sided figure. As mentioned, the Christian Quaternity can be seen as three males - Father, Son, Spirit (fire boy, Trickster, half kin of Psyche) and one woman force - Mary/Psyche. There is as well a Female Quaternity; the Three Sisters and their Star Child (Robert Graves, The White Goddess)- a boy, Sun King/Deathless Child, born every year on Winter solstice. Together they form an eight. And the one opposite sex one in the set in the window or time passage to the "other side" So Leibnitz refered to this oracle when he discovered calculus, comparing it to the I Ching, the eights, symbolized by the Ba gua.

Here is the Dharma Initiative logo from Lost - eight 8s or 64 - the gods hide in low place.

SOLIFICATIO -- CROP-CONSCIOUSNESS -- QUANTUM LEAP 8/9

Note . ..

white buffalo

WHITE BUFFALO, NAPOLEON

The Titan and the Egg -- Entering Aquarius

Re: 08 08 (08)

The number 8, and the letter S, are (were) often used in Christian symbolicism for "resurrection".
On an other hand, 888 is the gematria of Jesus' name in Greek, IHSOUS = 888. Gnostics already commented this, seing a correspondance in the Greek alphabet of 24 letters (8+8+, opposing 888 to the Antechrist's number, 666.
Plenty of rather silly things on the web about Jesus=888.

888 -- ALCHEMY OF TRANSFORMATION -- AZOTH

Thanks, Remi, that's just the information I was looking for.

I feel like posting this image of the alchemy of transformation here. Don't know how it connects to this thread yet. I might move it to a different thread later ...

AZOTH

Jan