A lot of my clients have been asking me about The Age of Aquarius and what it all means, and so I’ve included an excerpt from my book, Grant Me a Higher Love, to help clarify what this new age has to offer all of us.
Every two thousand years or so, we enter a new astrological age which affects human evolution. The shifting from one age to another occurs slowly, so it can be difficult to pinpoint when one age ends and another actually begins.
I believe that the two ages actually overlap and exist at the same time, with some people marching backwards in an effort to keep the old age alive, while others race forward to embrace the new one.
We’re currently moving away from the Age of Pisces, which started around the time of the birth of Christ. The Age of Pisces is and was an age characterized by blind faith, fears, superstitions, false beliefs, Errors in Thinking, and dogma. Much dualistic thinking characterizes the Piscean age, as people violently proclaim their nations, religions, and beliefs as the chosen ones, thus perpetuating the idea of separateness and war.
The Age of Pisces represents an age of illusion, in which the self-willed individual tries to play God in a vain effort to control everything. The Piscean age is characterized by the mass delusion that the secular world with all its superficiality reigns supreme.
Even though the advent of Jesus coincided with the Age of Pisces, Jesus, with his emphasis on love and brotherhood, was actually foreshadowing the New Age to come. His earthly mission was to reveal all the Errors in Thinking espoused during this Dark Age of spirituality, laying the groundwork for the major shift in human consciousness that the Age of Aquarius would bring forth. Because the evolutionary process in human beings is slow — so slow, in fact, that it takes thousands of years for the entire human race to embrace any major shift in consciousness — the love, forgiveness, and universal brotherhood that Jesus spoke of so long ago is finally taking root and growing more widespread now that we’ve entered the spiritual Renaissance known as the Age of Aquarius.
There’s no denying that this New Age is upon us. The evidence of this can be seen everywhere as the mystical and metaphysical make their way into the mainstream. It’s commonplace to find Yoga studios in strip malls, and New Age stores featuring Tarot cards, crystals, and candles are popping up in the most unlikely places. You only have to turn on the television to see mediums and psychics appearing regularly on talk shows, and movies and television series featuring metaphysical themes. Twenty years ago most people wouldn’t have dreamed of talking openly about angels and spirit guides, or how they believed that people could commune with those who had crossed over, but these days this is common, everyday conversation. Bestsellers like James Redfield’s The Celestine Prophecy and Gary Zukav’s The Seat of the Soul are more evidence of this new shift in consciousness. The popularity of The Oprah Winfrey Show, with its positive spiritual slant, once again reflects the Age of Aquarius effect.
This New Age calls for us to follow the dictates of our hearts, souls, and higher consciousness. It’s a time of “Thy will be done,” as opposed to “My will be done.”
The Age of Aquarius is an age in which the invisible, spiritual, and ethereal world will take center stage. It will be a time in which the human race will learn what the universe has been striving to teach — that only love is real and only love matters.
Alone and collectively, people will slowly come to see that we’re all connected and emanate from the selfsame God source. This higher consciousness thinking, this sense of oneness, will create a new world based on love and peace. (Read more about Cosmic Consciousness in STEP 9.)
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Age of Aquarius is the huge number of everyday people, going about ordinary lives, who will achieve Enlightenment on both the personal level and a universal one. (Read more about Enlightenment in STEP 6 and about Cosmic Consciousness in STEP 9.) This is the first time in the history of humankind when God expects us to be monks in everyday life. We’re no longer asked or expected to go off to live on a mountaintop and pray, or go live as an ascetic in a monastery, or to renounce our current way of life as was the practice in the Age of Pisces, if we were to seek a spiritual life. Rather, we’re asked to be a great beacon of light as we go through our daily life, doing whatever it is we do, wherever we choose to do it.
More and more people, whether they’ve achieved Enlightenment or not, will begin to receive messages from divine sources, and their powers of telepathy will grow stronger and stronger.
During this New Age, there will be more Soul Mate couplings, and the reuniting of Twin Souls and Mirror Souls will occur in greater and greater numbers as well. (Read more about these relationships in STEPS 5, 6, and 7.)
The Age of Aquarius will be a time of individual spirituality, with much less emphasis on organized religion and the antiquated notion that we need an intermediary in the form of a rabbi, priest, or guru to speak to God for us. The emphasis will be on each of us having an intimate, one-on-one relationship with God. (Read more about your intimate relationship with God in STEP 10.)
This age will further be characterized by greater and greater numbers of people recognizing that they’re spiritual beings housed in a physical body. More and more human beings will finally learn how to balance the needs of the flesh with those of the spirit.
From this description of the Age of Aquarius, you can see that your study of love is divinely timed. God has chosen you to be one of the people ushering in this amazing New Age. Feel confident, knowing that you’re being called to assist others to take a giant leap of consciousness as well.
The hippie era, back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, gave us the first taste of this New Age. The musical Hair sang out the proclamation, “This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.” The slogan that was popularized during the Viet Nam war, “Make love, not war,” humbly bespeaks the sentiments of this New Age. People who love unconditionally don’t make war! Never underestimate your quest for a higher love — not only is it important to you, it’s important for the salvation of the entire human race!
What all this talk about this New Age is trying to tell you is that you’re living in the New Age of Love, and you’re not alone in your quest for a higher love. There’s a Soul Mate looking for you right now. Have faith that your right actions are readying the universe to bring this person to you.
To sum up the difference between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius, think of the former as the Dark Age of Fear, and the latter as the Light Age of Love.
Cindi,
You will probably answer my question in greater detail through your upcoming book “Grant me a Higher Love”, but could you please provide a clear, consise definition for What is Love? and What is Fear? and how can we tell the difference. I think it is important that people separate the truth from the lies about what these two monumental words actually stand for, ultimately. Thank you for all your insight and wisdom. I can’t wait to read your inspired book.
Namaste