Forever Blowing Bubbles

The Bubble Man in Central Park, New York City

Once you discover this post is in fact about the Age of Aquarius, you have my full permission to roll your eyes and say “There she goes again!”

But do give me this.  After almost three weeks in America this past October during the government shutdown, hearing Obamacare this, Obamacare that, and what has this world come to with America spying on her allies, I was ready to get the hell out of Dodge.

The day we flew back to the Netherlands, we ate lunch with dear friends who are fit to be tied about personal and worldwide privacy and security invasions, and, quite honestly, are wanting to flee the country.  As though it happens only in America!

As I sat there listening to their obvious consternations, feeling helpless, I had one of those brain farts.

“We are living in the Age of Aquarius!” I began….

[hold that thought]

Astrological ages last approximately 2,000+ years each while the vernal equinox precesses clockwise through the twelve zodiac constellations.  Thus far we have tracked 6 astrological ages by major changes in the development of Earth's inhabitants…culturally, socially, politically…all the way back to BC 10,000.

The previous age was the Age of Pisces (the fish), from ca. BC 6 to AD 1994.  Pisces is about universal love, compassion, self-sacrifice, altruism, creativity, intuition and deep spirituality…as well as  deception and illusion.  It was the age of Monotheism, Spirituality, and the Fish...the age of Christianity and the effect of the Jesus-fish (Ichthys) on the entire world, for good and bad.

All astrological ages have a cycle of discovery, trial and error, progression, growth and resolution related to the traits of their individual zodiac signs.  Starting with the crucifixion of Jesus to everything that followed, including untold wars, revolutions and reformations, burnings at the stake, heresies, and sectarian hatreds, all in the name of Christ…you get the picture of why Universal Love had to climax the end of the Piscean Age.

Thus the logical segue to the Age of Aquarius:  universality, friendship, emotional detachment, individualism, invention, philanthropy, humanism, vision, enlightenment, intellect, originality, technology, change, freedom, science, quantum physics, String Theory, space.

And so?????

It means we've begun a new age of figuring out what we can and cannot do in a world small enough to fit in the palm of our hand!

It means we're ascertaining what controls and regulations are necessary every time we invent something new, especially related to the world-wide-web.

It means we have to befriend our enemies in order to coexist in one world!

It means we will probably find life on other planets.

And on the heels of our earth's worst "natural disaster" ever, killing over 3,600 people thus far, it means we're figuring out climate change on this planet, for its survival.

I don't mean to sound simplistic.  But instead of despairing, a bit of pragmatism helps me midst the craziness.  We need those right now (like my Atlanta friends) who hate the misuse of power.  Inequality.  Slavery and sex trafficking.  Invasion of privacy....

THIS is the time to "fix" it.  THIS is the age when it will happen.

Are we ready for this social awakening en masse?  Can we embrace the individual choice to make it happen?  One step, one person at a time.  Each doing our part.  Not pannicking.  Not despairing.  Believing all things.  Allowing Love to win, which surely was the lesson meant for the last age?

Of course, we can also blow bubbles between our spurts of human and technological awareness, right?  Why not!