The New Earth: Shedding the Remnants of the Piscean Age

For those of you less astrologically-inclined (and I often include myself in that camp), we on planet Earth have been exiting the Piscean age in astrology and entering the Aquarian age.

So, what does that mean exactly?

Over the past year or two, a recurring theme has been insistently presenting itself to me, often accompanied by signs from Spirit. The theme has been: “the old ways no longer serve.”

When I say the “old ways,” I mean the old beliefs in various spiritual communities that you must have some certain certification or ordination from outside of yourself to be deemed worthy of having a voice in certain arenas. That you must study under a particular guru. That you must follow a strict protocol for your physical body, through diet or asana.

The old way was about learning a set of rules and quoting the expert in the subject.

What is the new way? The new way is all about direct, divine revelation. Direct revelation is receiving information directly from the universe/God/Spirit without an intermediary. It’s about inhabiting our bodies fully and interpreting the signals from our higher self.

So, let’s chat about the Piscean Age. During the Piscean Age, we saw the rise of widespread organized religion. We also saw the pervasive belief amongst most world religions (e.g., Judaism, Christianity, Islam) that in order to understand God/Spirit, once must do so within the paradigm of a particular religious institution with its attendant rules. In this timeframe, church leaders were the intermediary with God, and the way by which the common man interfaced with God. In some religious subsets, the separation between the individual and God was so extreme that even the religious adherents could not be permitted to read the word of God without interpretation (i.e., for many years in Catholicism the masses were in Latin, preventing the common person from even understanding the sermon).

We also saw an adherence to strict “rules” in many spiritual traditions that defined how one could attain enlightenment. I think of the yogic traditions and Buddhist traditions here as a prime example. In these traditions, one was told to adhere to certain dietary restrictions, to put the body into certain postures, such as keeping the spine straight and employing certain mudras. The paths in these traditions were often the path of the reclusive seeker, one who meditates in seclusion to achieve enlightenment. Those choosing another path (that of the “householder”) were often viewed as taking a lesser path toward spiritual enlightenment.

The Piscean Age is epitomized for me by thousands of young westerners leaving America in the 1970’s and going to India in search of a guru. Everyone was seeking outside themselves for a spiritual master. A true enlightened being to tell them what to do to achieve enlightenment. It was a very hierarchical system. Someone else knows better.

We saw these hierarchical structures playing out beyond religion as well, from capitalistic governments to the games played in schoolyards. The Piscean Age was about externalization – a search for meaning outside of the self. And it was about hierarchy – someone at the top, and tiers of others beneath depending on their relative importance within the structure.

The Aquarian Age turns that old paradigm on its head.

If the Piscean Age was the age of hierarchy, the Aquarian Age is the age sisterhood and brotherhood.

Ah, can you feel that breath of fresh air? It is why you hear so much in popular media now about the collective, about how we are all connected.

If rules and strict practices defined the Piscean Age, the Aquarian Age is all about realizing our own divine natures. It’s an age of brotherhood and sisterhood rather than the hierarchy of guru and disciple. We will trust our own wisdom, and we will learn collaboratively with others, not giving our own power away in the process.

Why is this important?

For me, our entrance into the Aquarian Age signals a time to shed old ways that no longer serve. And this particular time is ripe. Spirit has been clear with me on this. The dismantling of the old systems is underway.

And there is  nowhere better to examine the unhelpful relics of the Piscean Age than in our own spiritual communities. In the past, there was often a tendency (even for myself) to feel that certain credentials or training were needed, that a spiritual teacher knew better than me, or that another person could help guide me to my highest and best spiritual life. Now as the Aquarian Age begins to anchor in more fully, I find myself almost bristling at this old paradigm. While learning (and learning from others) is part of continual growth and expansion (a good thing!), I now put that in perspective – knowing that all of my learning will be mediated by my own judgment, by my own direct experience with Spirit.

It is about no longer giving our power away. Not assuming that someone else is wiser, more knowledgeable, more qualified to guide our spiritual path. But standing in our sovereignty.

Now is the time of the sovereign seeker.

The sovereign seeker knows she is the divine, and that the divine also abides in all others. She learns from the divine directly, she dances with the universe and interprets is many signs. She enjoys its synchronicities and she enjoys collaborative experiences with others on the spiritual path. She no longer believes that her spiritual teachers are wise beings far above her, but she sees her teachers as friends on the spiritual path. She trusts her body’s signals, her gut feelings, and she knows that she wears a crown of sovereign power. She can trust herself and her connection with the divine. She trusts her own wisdom, her own path. She seeks the collective good, and she wishes to work collaboratively with her spiritual brothers and sisters. She sees the divine in them as they see the divine in her.

What do you think? How do you see the old paradigms shifting?