The Age of Aquarius is Upon Us

For over a decade, I’ve dreamed about a garden-variety Aquarius statue gracing my backyard here in Los Angeles. Maybe it was just nostalgia for my first house, an old Victorian in Baltimore from decades ago. We had to do a lot of work on that fixer-upper to make it habitable, but it came with an Aquarius statue in the backyard.

The significance of Aquarius was not apparent to me at first. But then over time, my work and interests pulled me towards people, teachings, books, and esoteric philosophies, many of them suggesting that the Age of Aquarius was not just a dream, but might be imminent, a change in our inner and outer manifestation, a shift at the very core of our being.

In my present life, the garden stores in Los Angeles I visit periodically never had the right Aquarius statue. Alternatively, the statues I liked were exorbitantly overpriced. I never stopped looking, but over time I just assumed it was a fantasy, a dead end just like dreams of a better world or the New Age itself as we as a people seem to drift deeper into division and disunity. But the other day as I was buying some herbs and pollinators for spring planting, a beautiful water bearer Aquarius statue pulled my attention right over to it, as I stepped into the store. It had a ’50% off’ price tag draped around its neck. Without any hesitation, I knew it was mine. I looked so happy at the checkout counter the staff person high-fived me. Then the store clerk strapped it into the front seat of my car.

Euphoric when I got home, my husband dragged it up the driveway. Somehow, we got it over to the backyard corner that beckoned, Now my garden, for some mysterious reason, looks complete. It has brought me back to knowing that we are moving towards a New Age after all. It’s Aquarius, the archetype of enlightenment, coming back to remind me that no matter how dark things get in the external world, that is a temporary state, a transition to a world being rebirthed that values love, compassion, service, truth, and wisdom. A world we imagine will be more perfect because the earth’s energy is constantly shifting, influenced by the energy it generates itself, cosmic rays, and the presence of larger and larger groups of people who have attained higher states of consciousness, better acceptance of themselves and others, a higher calling pushing them to be of service not only to themselves but to others. We’re moving to utopia not dystopia, despite outward appearances.

Back in the 1970s and early 80’s in Baltimore I was privileged to see and hear many erudite speakers who claimed that about every 2500 years, underlying planetary influences change the fabric of life as we know it. In Revelation: Birth of a New Age 1 David Spengler writes that the dissemination of mystical teachings of the Christ and the Buddha and legions of other master teachers, plus human development more generally, has enabled a significantly higher conscious awareness among large numbers of people. Hence, the earth itself changes its vibration from both within, and greater cosmic forces of the universe shift over the millennia.
According to Spengler, enough humans are beginning to gravitate away from materialism toward the light to welcome this New Age which will ideally foster compassion, understanding, personal freedom, and creative expression.

But many have warned that the transition from one Age to another might get bumpy. Fast forward to the present day. Lights are flashing. Maybe this is it. The Aquarian Age is just about here, if not already started. All around we see evidence that the autocratic and patriarchal tendencies of the Piscean Age are intensifying, probably experiencing their last, residual gasps. Money, power, and prestige, considered desirable attributes over the last few millennia, aren’t working to motivate people at the same rate as before, and aren’t making most people happy, especially if only some win and everyone else loses.

For as Alice Bailey notes in The Externalization of the Hierarchy 2, “this is a transition period between the passing out of the Piscean Age with its emphasis on authority and belief and the coming in of the Aquarian Age, with its emphasis on individual understanding and direct knowledge.” She also claims in numerous writings that The New Age also allows for the expression and experience of a collective consciousness. We are one mind when we need to be. Refashioning the world order into some previous imaginary Piscean version of itself flies directly in the face of a New Age of abundance, freedom, hope, and enlightenment.

There are growing conflicts externally, but many people are starting to resist, acting collectively, using
nonviolent methods in cities and towns across America and across the world, protesting divisiveness and hate, countering forces trying to strip away freedom and downgrade knowledge and learning.