The Aquarian Age: Two Views

Aquarius, the D’li / Water Bucket, and Capricorn, the G’di / Mountain Goat. Both ruled by Saturn / Shabbtai in Classical Astrology

In classical astrology, Saturn rules both Capricorn and Aquarius.

In modern astrology, the planet Uranus is the ruler of Aquarius.

PLUTO has now moved into Aquarius, where he will be for the next 20 years.

The Bnai Yissachar tells us that as the bucket is the servant of the water, so Israel is the servant of the Torah.

We are not slaves of the Torah any more than the bucket is a slave to water! The bucket and Israel are both kelim – vessels. Vessels are made to hold, to carry, and to serve. The D’li of Chodesh Shevat is pouring water (a symbol of Torah) and Israel must serve Torah in the same way.

Can I supersize that Torah for you?

Can I top off that Torah for you?

In a Jewish astrological perspective of the times, we must understand and be wise.

There are two views of the Age of Aquarius – the age of “harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding, golden living dreams & visions, mystic crystal revelations and the mind’s true liberation” etc., as was sung in popular music by the 5th Dimension – the song “Age of Aquarius” from the Broadway musical “Hair”.

The “Age of Aquarius” is imagined to be an era of universal brotherhood, global humanitarianism, and equality among all peoples – in other words, an idealistic utopia based on knowledge, science, reason, and fact, in contrast to the receding “Age of Pisces” which was the age of the Abrahamic monotheistic religions – Judaism, and her daughters Christianity and Islam.

As we are now in the transition phase between ages, we must look at the shadow side of the Age of Aquarius: In this utopian-like era, knowledge and information is king. The rule of reason, not “irrational” emotion or those qualities emotion cultivates such as empathy and compassion, dominates the zeitgeist, whatever the costs.

The dark side of the Aquarian Age is science’s intolerance of doubt, of faith, or of belief. Science defines what is “fact” and leaves no room for subtleties, nuance, or choice. Science’s claims of truth are rigid, and the Age of Aquarius, Aquarius being a “Fixed” sign (and Fixed Signs aren’t famous for being flexible) may even feature social and military coercion of the individual in service to collective ideals.

Robert Zoller a proponent of medieval astrology and the only astrologer to predict the 9/11 attack in 2001, has bleak predictions for the Age of Aquarius He suggests:

"that the Pisces world where religion is the opiate of the masses will be replaced in the Aquarian Age by a world ruled by secretive power-hungry elites seeking absolute power over others. Families will dissolve completely, or family ties will be hidden.”

 Zoller also believes that knowledge in the Aquarian Age will only be valued for its ability to win wars; scientists may even be able to precipitate earthquakes for military means, and the danger in the Aquarian Age is that knowledge and science will be abused, not industry and trade.

Zoller sees the Aquarian Age as a Dark Age wherein religion will be seen as offensive.

Neil Spencer provides another sobering overview of the Age of Aquarius stating that:

“The rise of scientific rationalism combined with the fall of religious influence is possibly an indication of the Age of Aquarius. The growth in demands of human rights since the 1780s, though remaining unfulfilled, is another indication of Aquarius.”

 Spencer points to the exponential growth of technology, especially of computers and the Internet, plus the growth in flight and space travel as examples of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.

Possible negative examples of Aquarius include dumbed-down media and consumerism and rapacious international corporations

Zoller suggests that “In the Age of Aquarius, religion will be humanistic love of fairness and justice. While feeding the people with Libran platitudes, the Scorpionic rulers will work tirelessly toward the realization of their goal – absolute power over others, as Leo is seen in position on the 7th house.”

 “As the Aquarian dream of humanistic science and universal brotherhood is a vision of the world to come in Pisces, and realized in Aquarius, so too, the Aquarian avant-garde will look forward to an Aquarian Golden Age on the one hand, while the Aquarian technocrats will look for a world corporation to fossilize society into a rigid caste system run technologically.”

The key problem is that the proponents of an Aquarian Golden Age are blinded by unfounded optimism. Ironically perhaps, if they were more realistic, they would see that the agenda of the Aquarian technocrats must be curbed, not just for a better world, but for our survival as a species.

The Aquarian technocrats require powerful militaries and endless wars which are justified as necessary for the security of the nation. For “our own good” we give up freedom and human rights.

Neither will their domestic critics be spared. This is all out fascism, largely concealed by the velvet glove. Wars are no longer fought for the nation state in the West, They are fought mostly to further the interests of corporations and to make the very wealthy even wealthier.

A common position expressed by many astrologers sees the Age of Aquarius as that time when humanity takes control of the Earth and its own destiny as its rightful heritage, with the destiny of humanity being the revelation of truth and the expansion of consciousness, and that some people will experience mental enlightenment in advance of others and therefore be recognized as the new leaders in the world.

Traditionally, Aquarius is associated with electricity, computers, flight, democracy, freedom, humanitarianism, idealism, modernization, astrology, nervous disorders, rebellion, nonconformity, philanthropy, veracity, perseverance, humanity, reason, and science.

The higher octave of Aquarius is Science which is liberating for Humanity-which gives us freedom to develop our true individuality and talents rather than having to just toil for survival.

The Lower octave of Aquarius is science used destructively(atomic bomb, pollution, etc) and even worse-totally mechanical thinking-humans are just machines, everything is a natural coincidence, mind disconnected from heart, etc. Also totalitarian dictatorships-(fascism, communism, corporationalism, etc)

Let’s hope that the further we progress into the Age of Aquarius the more its higher manifestation will come into being--discovering inexhaustible sources of free energy, working with Nature and not against it, technology proving the spiritual nature of Reality and the higher dimension and technology helping raise the vibration of human consciousness, and of course brotherhood, freedom, justice and equality.