AquarianRising
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Just got through watching a few minutes of a video about the nearing Age and I was again made aware of just how far off-center peoples' understanding of the symbology is. They keep defining it in a very Piscean way, talking about "blending the physical world with the spiritual world" and all this other escapist cr@p that presumes the existence of another world to escape to.
Aquarius in the "Water Bearer". Most people know that, but it seems like some astrologers just can't be bothered to consider what that means. We acknowledge that Aquarius represents technology and innovation, even science. We even know enough to explain that the air element, of which Aquarius is one of three in the zodiac, is intellectual and detached. Yet when we talk about Aquarius, many astrologers talk as though Aquarius were just as sappy and emotional a sign as Pisces. It's really bizarre to someone like myself who actually understands just how neurotic and harmful these past two thousand years have been.
The Piscean Age brought us out of the Arian warrior mentality, sure, but it hardly eliminated violence or hatred, it just painted it in pretty, idealistic colors and pretended it had the moral high ground to do harm to others, which is typical of the Pisces archetype, even if those with Pisces strong in their charts resent the exposition. Pisces doesn't like conflict, so it attempts to inspire others to do it's violence for it while it pretends everything's great and the sky smells of honeydews and poetry. The archetype lacks resolve or personal accountability, and I, for one, am happy to let the door hit it in the butt on the way out.
Looking closer at Aquarius, though, and its bearing of waters, we see that water represents spirituality and emotion, but that rather than being in the water, Aquarius flies above it, scooping it up into conveyances. In doing so, Aquarius is able to make use of these qualities without being submerged in their depths. In other words, they keep an emotional distance while still understanding the value and purpose of emotion and sentimentality. (At this point, it should be fairly evident that I hold a deep respect for these things, as well, I just cannot appreciate or accept how they've been irresponsibly manifested in this present Age.)
Aquarius is a humanitarian archetype. And also very idealistic. But in the Age soon to come, humanity will have presumably gotten it's shh!t together enough to understand how these things can become degrading and destructive, not only to ourselves but our peers, when we allow our idealism and emotionality to become the fabric of our world-views. It will herald a period of informing our thoughts with idealism while still having enough objectivity to separate the generally positive ideas from the generally harmful. Among these positive-seeming but ultimately harmful ideas being the concept of collectivism. We're not a hive mind. We're not "one people". We're individuals who each have our own separate motives and psychological makeup. Treating humans like one big amalgamated blob of biological mass or singular entities within a unified spiritual whole denies us our autonomy and robs us of our ability to think for ourselves and generate ideas that might actually go somewhere. Collectivism doesn't work. The laste hundred years alone prove that fact sufficiently.
Aquarius in the "Water Bearer". Most people know that, but it seems like some astrologers just can't be bothered to consider what that means. We acknowledge that Aquarius represents technology and innovation, even science. We even know enough to explain that the air element, of which Aquarius is one of three in the zodiac, is intellectual and detached. Yet when we talk about Aquarius, many astrologers talk as though Aquarius were just as sappy and emotional a sign as Pisces. It's really bizarre to someone like myself who actually understands just how neurotic and harmful these past two thousand years have been.
The Piscean Age brought us out of the Arian warrior mentality, sure, but it hardly eliminated violence or hatred, it just painted it in pretty, idealistic colors and pretended it had the moral high ground to do harm to others, which is typical of the Pisces archetype, even if those with Pisces strong in their charts resent the exposition. Pisces doesn't like conflict, so it attempts to inspire others to do it's violence for it while it pretends everything's great and the sky smells of honeydews and poetry. The archetype lacks resolve or personal accountability, and I, for one, am happy to let the door hit it in the butt on the way out.
Looking closer at Aquarius, though, and its bearing of waters, we see that water represents spirituality and emotion, but that rather than being in the water, Aquarius flies above it, scooping it up into conveyances. In doing so, Aquarius is able to make use of these qualities without being submerged in their depths. In other words, they keep an emotional distance while still understanding the value and purpose of emotion and sentimentality. (At this point, it should be fairly evident that I hold a deep respect for these things, as well, I just cannot appreciate or accept how they've been irresponsibly manifested in this present Age.)
Aquarius is a humanitarian archetype. And also very idealistic. But in the Age soon to come, humanity will have presumably gotten it's shh!t together enough to understand how these things can become degrading and destructive, not only to ourselves but our peers, when we allow our idealism and emotionality to become the fabric of our world-views. It will herald a period of informing our thoughts with idealism while still having enough objectivity to separate the generally positive ideas from the generally harmful. Among these positive-seeming but ultimately harmful ideas being the concept of collectivism. We're not a hive mind. We're not "one people". We're individuals who each have our own separate motives and psychological makeup. Treating humans like one big amalgamated blob of biological mass or singular entities within a unified spiritual whole denies us our autonomy and robs us of our ability to think for ourselves and generate ideas that might actually go somewhere. Collectivism doesn't work. The laste hundred years alone prove that fact sufficiently.