The Dark Side of the Aquarian Age

As I understand it - each age has opportunities and ideals to aim for but also warnings and pitfalls to avoid. What do you think these dangers are for the aquarian age and how do you think we can act to avoid them?

What do you consider the light side of the Aquarian age to be?

Technology! (Uranus/Aquarius). Our greatest creation, of which we are so hopelessly dependent upon. I'm sure you're well acquainted with the saying "there are always two side to a coin". Whilst it does have its uses, it also has created many more problems for society. E.g. mobile phones - we all use them from the moment we wake up until we hit the sack later on that night. Yet the camera facility has caused the anti-social youth these days to play vile games such happy slapping to which many innocent (especially the elderly) have fallen victim to.

Right-IMPROPER USE of (advanced, "materialist") technology, would be perhaps the dark side; also innovation for its own sake (newness for its own sake, "new is better"), without consideration of the ramifications of such innovation ("newness"), could be mentioned; a reading of the negative/imbalanced qualities/tendencies of the sign of Aquarius, will give a good idea of the potential dark side of the Aquarian Age...

McGarr said:

What do you think these dangers are for the aquarian age and how do you think we can act to avoid them?

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I think the dark side of the aquarian age is to be, the firm (fixed) conviction that, what is good of the group is better. period - and i think we can all imagine where that might lead....

Humans passing the torch to new life forms we created with technology. Although this might not be considered bad if you can remove yourself from the human condition and admire evolution from a universal point of view. This is especially true if it turns out we do destroy the global ecosystem that created us and continues to sustain. The life we create might be able to thrive in the new world (and beyond).

I think the mass murders of the 20th century are the dawning of the Aquarian Age - new technology finding efficient ways to kill, acting for "the good of the people" and using government as a means to an end (both Saturn qualities), the detached, impersonal manner of mass murder and genocide - these all appear to the dark side of Aquarian nature. With Pluto now in Capricorn we can probably expect more of the same as the old order gives way and the new comes in, via government or authoritarianism.

The thing that makes the Age of Aquarius unique is that our age's dark side has the potential to end all life as we know it. For the first time in human history, thanks to nuclear technology, we could destroy the world if we get things wrong this time around. So that's pretty bad, right?

That your just another "statistic", because there are more human beings on the face of the earth than ever before.. Its what I call "de-personalisation" in order to live in the system and ultimately survive.

In the past, hundreds of years back, nearly everyone grew up in small towns and villages, lived there whole lives there and actually knew each other personally.
Today that is just not possible, mainly because of the vast numbers of human beings now and that is largely in part due to advances (one of the Aquarian themes and characteristics) in health and medicine. The flip side to this is that we will, in a way be forced to act more like the opposite of Aquarius and assert our egos more like as in the Leo archetype. If you don't, then you won't get noticed in terms of stuff like career advancement, finding new partners etc.. look around on the internet at all the forums that discuss anything and everything, you can see folks developing there own styles of self expression and just creating a lifestyle that is unique. quite Leo like all this is in a way. But only due to the Aquarian age developing. Its an axis of existence we're we are mainly in the Aquarian age but need Leo expression to personalise ourselves..

That dual polarity of archetypes is played out in every age period of human evolution. Brief example is the (now gradual coming out of) Piscean age and its neccessity to develop Virgo traits in order to "carry out" the themes and characteristics of that symbolism. In other words, to be a humble worker and redeem yourself in a Christian framework.

I was linked to an article that said a research lab had developed an "artificial" extra base pair for DNA, because more bases means more codons which means more possibilities for amino acids and building proteins and using DNA as data storage with more possible combinations of bases.

Which of course is bull, because there are more possibilities for protein development than we know what to with as it is, and DNA is a terrible long-term storage molecule on it's own. The research facility that developed this also is in the business of patenting their products, and it's become painfully obvious to me (being privy to many of these industries) that the real point of it all is to find a way to patent life forms, and what better way that to make their DNA "unnatural"?

And the conversations I get into from the younger generation... about how this is so awesome and cool because more types of animo acids = better, no matter what. This love affair with technology and science that has become so baseless, devoid of real inquiry, almost religious in nature, making change for the sake of change with no problem or question to answer.

This is one of the dark sides of Aquarian age, to me.

But another side of the coin... a revolution in genetics is going on. We are no longer seeing genes as isolated entities... but a suite of interactions, not just within a single organism, but all the organisms together. And not just in one time, but over all time. And techniques and principles are being developed to address this new perspective, requiring new and better technology to process as the reductionist ideal of one gene = one protein, and observance of cell boundaries falls away. The technology is developing to address a shift in our idea of life, not the other way around. We our guided by our principles, by a new awareness.

This shows a bright side of the Aquarian age.

The dark side would involve the rise and presence of totalitarian regimes to eventually put an end to our freedoms and liberties. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the world witnessed dangerous ideologies to murdered millions and oppressed many nation-states (i.e. Fascism, Nazism, racism, anti-Semitism, militarism; and communism in forms of Leninism-Marxism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Titoism and Stalinism including the Kim family dynasty in North Korea). Extreme forms of socialism and ethnic nationalism can be potentially lethal and are threats to democracy, but there are forms of religious fundamentalism (be it Christian, Islamic, etc.) and beliefs of some anarchism (including Libertarianism) would be controlling and against the ideas of sociocultural or democratic tolerance and logical legal regulation.

For me, the downside of the Aquarian Age is that it's coming on so slowly. For me, it's going to be good; I just have to remain patient and keep the faith. An Age is an individualistic matter, good for some, bad for others, depending on their charts. The Age (any Age) must gain enough adherents with enough conviction to become World-altering. What we're seeing now and in the near future is a reaction against the change-over to Uranian Age-Rulership, not the true nature of the Aquarian Age itself. Continuation of the power structure of the current Age at any price is the destructive, anti-peace and freedom obsession that's threatening the entire planet. So, it's really not the Dark Side of the Aquarian Age, it's the dangerous changeover to the next Age that we're experiencing. All very natural and to be expected. The wind is shifting and the tide is turning, just too slowly to suit me, and many others as well.