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February 2008 Astro Perspective

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What is going on these days? So much upheaval, so much change, transition and uncertainty. Everywhere you look, people are barely keeping their heads above water. The old ways don’t seem to work anymore, and everyone is searching for a direction in the new paradigm. Things are chaotic and, at times, overwhelming.

Welcome to the beginning of the Aquarian Age!

Did you know that the Age of Aquarius is more than just a cheesy song from the ‘60s? What those folks were talking about was actually this period of time. We’re now at the tail end of one era (Piscean) and at the beginning of another (Aquarian). For the next six years or so, we will be completing the old and making progress with the new, simultaneously. That’s a tall order!

So what does this mean in practical terms? In basic terms, it is a shift in consciousness and in our way of life from Piscean ideals to Aquarian. At the tail end of any natural cycle, we reach a point of stagnation. Ways of being and doing things that worked in the past suddenly no longer work. We can’t continue to progress using the old ways, and this is nature’s way of telling us that it’s time to grow and move on. We don’t just jump into the new ways head first, of course. We complete the old cycle and learn its lessons before moving on, and that is the process in which we find ourselves today.

These are some of the shifts in consciousness we can expect during the next six years:

PISCEAN AGE	AQUARIAN AGE
The idea that we need some force or person outside ourselves to guide us. Looking for answers and validation externally. Looking for a saviour.	Connecting to the divine guidance within us all. Finding answers from within, and staying true to ourselves and our guiding force. Understanding that we already have the answers to every problem we face in life; we just have to access them.
The idea that we are personally responsible for moulding the paths of others, especially children.	The idea that every human being comes to Earth for his or her own reasons - with things to learn and things to teach. The life path is unique to each individual and cannot be completely changed or moulded by another.
Looking to an institutionalized model of living as the righteous path. Following others.	Stepping out on our own personal paths. Enjoying and respecting our individuality and uniqueness. Understanding that living 100% as ourselves is the divine plan for us.
Feeling responsible for the well-being of others.	Understanding that everyone is responsible only for his or her own health and happiness. Each individual must maintain his or her own state of well-being.
Sacrificing yourself and your energy to help another person.	Giving only what we can comfortably give without depleting our own reserves or our resources. No self-sacrifice.
Immersing yourself in another person’s problems and energy - “feeling their pain.”	Detached humanitarianism - taking a more emotionally detached stance to helping others to protect our own energy and balance. Staying in our own energetic space and helping from there, if possible. Never allowing people or situations to drain our energy (energy vampires).
Overriding compassion for ourselves or others. Explaining away or making excuses for negative behaviour. Enabling ourselves or others to remain in dead-end cycles.	Taking responsibility for our own lives, choices and behaviours. Taking charge of our own movement into new ways of doing things. Ensuring that others take responsibility for themselves in the same ways when interacting with us.
Victim mentality - believing that people are victimized unjustly by other people and circumstances.	Understanding that there is a higher reason for even seemingly negative experiences. People choosing to learn and teach through victimhood can break those cycles when they and society are ready, but only then. At that point, assistance should be given with the intention of helping to break those cycles.
Looking to religion and God to solve problems. Relying on hope and faith.	Using science and technology to solve our problems directly. “God helps those who help themselves.”
Following standard educational programs even when they do not seem right.	Taking charge of educating ourselves. Choosing the education we need to progress as individuals.
Teacher/student relationships. Looking to another as higher or more wise than ourselves.	Learning skills from others as equals and friends. Developing the same level of mastery in ourselves that we see in others.
Spiritual wisdom and truth as esoteric and difficult to access.	Spreading spiritual information, and other information, to all who seek it. Allowing for universality.

Trusting ourselves and becoming our own authorities will be a major theme of this new age.