Urania - deusa da Astronomia
The age of Aquarius
Martha
Pires Ferreira / 1972 , Rio de Janeiro / Brasil
Even though astrology is not taken
seriously by the academics of our time it is as old as men. The study of the
stars was probably born from a passionate attempt to discover the secret of
life and death. Astrology, which is known to all civilizations and cultures,
remains until today as a science and an art of an experimental character and
observation, studying the relationships between the man and the planets of the
solar system – the behavior of the human being in the space of cosmic forces.
Astrology’s purpose is to
determine the celestial influences that rule the destiny of beings and things.
It is the art of universal correspondence applied to all types of individuals.
“Astra inclinam, non necessitant”
(stars predispose,
but they do not impose )
Suddenly, many
people want to know what is the so talked about Age of Aquarius. It really
seems like eyes light up more when one talks about subjects like the coming
future world, the dawn of the year 2000. A hope, an anxiety for beauty,
happiness, a paradisic delight!?
I am not going to
give astronomical data to explain that the vernal axis, by a process of
retrocessing, is leaving the sign of Pisces, where we have spent twenty
centuries, and is approaching now the sign of Aquarius. After the year 2000,
aproximately around the year 2014 (?!), we can say that this axis will have passed
the constellation of Aquarius, thus giving the origins of a New Age the History
of Humanity.
As we cannot state
with certainty anything pertaining future happenings, we can still believe that
this age will be of great mental clearing up for all humanity. The Age of
Aquarius is the wakening of intuition – immediate comprehension. Humanity will
then have greater spiritual and scientific expansion. It is a period of
freeing, of independence, of self-expansion, of telepathy, of paranormalness,
of pre-cognition. Man is in search of knowledge and – by a kind of mediumship –
knows what all the others think, what they are and wish. He is like the other,
he is part of the other. It is what we call popularly the “tuned in man” in the
larger sense of the expression. The development of perception will make him as
penetrating as the X-ray. It is the being expanding in all levels, in all
directions, directions that will permit knowledge which up to now is enigmatic
for humanity. It announces truly a superior state of human evolution – a state
of individual enlightenment – enlightenment of conscious lucidity.
The Age of Aquarius
constitutes a new plan of development in the History of men. A total change of
level – man acting in another psychic level. It is creativity in all its
potentials, strength and vigor, completely transcending the present reality.
( with intervaly / period) (.....)
This period of
upheaval which comes before the Age of Aquarius – which we are already going
through – can be seen as an apocalyptic phenomenon. The general psychic state
of humanity is becoming more and more dangerous. It is the crumbling down of
old ways of thinking: paradoxes, incongruities, nonsense – the unforeseeable! A
reality which is very full of doubt and absurd.
Everywhere there
are false prophets of truth and of knowledge – false lambs, false magicians, false
clairvoyants, false wise men, and false enlightened. Many of these men as
dogmatic “saviors of humanity” dictate principles and rules for the mind and
for the soul, confusing still the general restlessness of the world. The pains
will increase and humanity shall moan , tremble
and get excited. Completely ignoring what is left, we will only know
that we feel pain and urgently need something to alleviate this and tranquilize
us.
Those who have
their individual torch alight, those who remain in a state of focused attention
have nothing to worry about. The careful observer of current phenomenology has only one exit : to confront the present
moment , to confront himself and the darkness of his time , without creating
rules or principles that will soon fade. The lucid man does not lose his goal –
he works with lots of energy for a world which is humane and full of happiness-
he suffers and does not fear the metamorphosis. He accepts the weight of the
world on his fragile shoulders and does not get desperate. He trusts the
principle of coordination of energies, in the renovating forces that emerge
from the very center of the psyche. He works in silence and in love.
The Age of
Aquarius, a utopia or a reality? If we ask geologists, sociologists and
astronomers, they will have interesting data in relation to specific incidents.
It really appears that everything is transforming. However, nothing can be
stated, only time will tell.
For some scholars,
the 2000 years that will follow can also be seen as the Age of Cosmic Space
Conquest, and man has given sufficient proof that this is possible. But the age
of Aquarius is above all the Age of the
Discovery of the Interior Man- the AGE OF COSMIC MAN. The experimental
study in school and universities.
In a profound interest
to know his intimate nature and his intimate nature and his electromagnetic
essence, man discovers that his soul is the divine being manifested in matter.
-- The
first publication of this article was in 1972 in the Brazilian version of the Rolling
Stone magazine.
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