david starling
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I'd say you're a very demanding tutor.
There is reports of an earthquake in Jamaica and a tsunami warning. I hope our resident Tom Riddle is ok.
With a little more context we can discuss it. It seems that people in traditional societies have been using Ages to explain the peculiarity of existing perched at a point in history, for a very long time. Whether that was always tied to astrological Ages is hard to say. It would be good to ascertain when astrology became divorced from theology, cosmology, and political science more generally. It can't have been that very long ago. You are talking about the Theosophists?
I am politely unsure of this take. You have a jungian in the family, I know. But Jung was quite spiritual, not exactly what we call secular today. And the deep yet accessible spirituality he wrote about has been practiced by millions of people outside Europe for a long time. He was unabashed in borrowing “oriental” concepts, not that there is anything wrong with cross-pollination, but I don’t know how one can date the earth with a merely Eurocentric center of gravity in thought forms.
I take "secular" to mean "other than religious", rather than "non-spiritual". Jung believed the Aquarian Age will end religion as we know it, whereas the Theosophers tied it to a blend of Christianity and Hinduism.
I would trade faster internet for seeing large wheeling flocks of birds cover the skies again. No question.
I don’t know. Religion, religare, is the yoke, like yoga. What’s getting yoked will certainly change. You can see lots of earth-centered local practices dying out through the flattening effect of globalization, weakening the yoke between social organization and local ecology and economy. It’s not only institutionalized monotheism with its authoritarian power structure that stands to be changed if the yoke itself dissolves. We are yoked by story, too. If the old libraries burn there needs to be something better than mere sci-fi to take its place.
I think it's fair to say that the Precessional-age concept has been effectively ignored by Biblical Christians, standard Hinduism (which prefers the Yugas), AND, by most all modern-day siderealists, who view it as almost a non-factor in their astrology. It's the tropicalists who are expecting great changes ahead due to an Age of Aquarius, and not necessarily according to any particular religious beliefs.
The 2000 years concept of ages has been noted by Jews and Christians long before the age of Aquarius just without the constellation as signs (Genesis 1 - other ignored signs are the Lion for Judah, or the Virgin for Mary the mother of Jesus) - https://www.astrologyweekly.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1017085&postcount=8807
But not astrologically calculated for some reason.
I would trade faster internet for seeing large wheeling flocks of birds cover the skies again. No question.
Do you believe in ecosystems? Just curious.
The birds KNOW what we can only guess at.