As Above, So Below

PREDICTIONS FOR THE COMING TIME

First, some background:

           In the mid-1960s, Pluto and Uranus came conjunct in the sky, something that only happens every 100-plus years, and it's always about revolution.  (The time before was 1848 and there was revolution around the world, including for the women at Seneca Falls.)  While I grieved for the end of the '60s (I got to experience the Summer of Love in San Francisco), and as I learned more astrology, I saw that the big conjunction of Uranus and Pluto that marked the revolution of the ‘60s would form a square by 2012.  This first square in a cycle is called “crisis in the world.”  This made me hope that the ‘60s would indeed come back. 

The Mayan calendar

            Back in the late-‘80s when I read about the Mayan long-count calendar ending in 2012, it seemed like supporting evidence for the return of the ‘60s – the Mayans were great astronomers and astrologers.  According to Jose Arguelles, who helped bring us the Harmonic Convergence and Earth Day, the end of that long-count calendar marks the end of the dark ages of the indigenous people.  That calendar had predicted the very day that Cortez landed, the day that  the dark ages of the indigenous people began.  As those dark ages end, the dark ages of the oppressors begin.  Over the past few years it’s been amazing to watch the South American countries elect indigenous presidents or leaders sympathetic to the indigenous people.

            So when I read about the Mayan calendar ending, my response was, Well, better align with indigenous values, which meant to me to continue being a hippie, live a simple life, have a garden, love the river, etc.  What I didn’t know back in the ‘80s was how dire the situation would become.  I didn’t know we would enter the Age of Extinctions, that we would leave the Garden of Eden all over again.

Age of Aquarius

           In the background of all this – including aligning with the Galactic Center at the winter solstice in the years around 2012 and certain Hopi predictions – we are slowly but surely entering the Age of Aquarius.  There’s much debate about when we officially enter – the last year I read was 2060 – but because Aquarius is about group mind and we have the internet now, we’re obviously moving into the Age of Aquarius. 

            We’re leaving the degraded end of the Age of Pisces, the age of faith.  An age lasts between 2000 and 2500 years.  Twenty-five hundred years ago the Buddha taught compassion.  Two thousand years ago Jesus taught compassion.  Now we’re witnessing the dying of an age, when major religions are associated with extremism and intolerance.  (I recently read a survey that found that church-going Christians were more likely to approve of torture than non-church-goers.)  I will be so glad to move into the cool-headedness and group support of Aquarius.

This coming time

            In the meantime, now (2010) through 2015 for the world and 2022 for the United States, we are entering a period of great reorganization, as great as when the New World colonies broke with England in 1776 and established a new form of governance.  Pluto has just moved into Capricorn for the first time in 248 years.  Capricorn rules government, social structures.  The chart of the U.S. has Pluto in Capricorn.  Just as the forming of this country required a death/rebirth, so we are entering such a period now.  Only now we’re closer to being King George than the colonies.  I believe (and hope and pray) that this country is going to reinvent itself, that it is going to move beyond predatory economics, the arms trade, the resource-grabbing that now marks capitalism.  But first – the deconstruction.  Global warming and the end of oil may greatly assist in this deconstruction.

            It may be that the election of Barak Obama will soften the process.  Predictions about this Coming Time before he was elected included Dust-Bowl poverty and the demonstrations we saw in the ‘60s along with greater police-state repression.  We just had a small taste of this repression at the Republican Convention in gentle St. Paul, where protesters were charged with terrorism under the Homeland Security Act.  If I remember right, they used to be charged with malicious mischief.  If we lose the right to protest, we lose the very means that established this country and ensures democracy.

            I think we are moving toward a return to village life.  Real products will be produced close to home.  Food will be locally grown, especially as California grapples with its diminishing water supply.  End of oil means an end to fertilizer and the other toxins conventional farming uses.  I once read a hunter who wanted to preserve animal habitat call western Minnesota a “black desert.”  That ancient, beautiful prairie is now lifeless, completely dependent on petroleum products.  Many of the wells out there are poisoned.  The Chippewa River in western Minnesota is a river of farming sludge.

            It’s absolutely necessary for our survival that the indigenous ways return, that the dark ages of the oppressors begin.  It is, I realized one day in the midst of my anxiety, our only chance to be happy.  If you want to see how unhappy we are, go be among recent immigrants - here in Minneapolis go to the Cub on Lake Street, and you’ll see by comparison how grim we Euro-Americans are.

            I think this is an excellent time to become a hippie.  Align your life with indigenous values – live simply upon the earth.  Enjoy small, real pleasures.  Learn to cook if you don’t cook now. Hang your clothes on a line.  Make a game of giving up the gluttony of this culture.  Make space for your spiritual life.  Watch the Moon in her circling.  Greet the New Age humbly and even deliciously.

            Here’s some advice from Walt Whitman from the Preface to Leaves of Grass:

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