2026 is here.
Is your algorithm full of content telling you about 2026? How BIG of a year it will be, how much change lurks around the corner???
Are you feeling it?
Fire Horse coming soon
A #1 year in numerology.
Outer planets all in NEW, yang signs.
I don't wish to add to the noise at the moment. It feels proper to be still, to tidy the home and clear out anything old and stagnant.
I leave you instead with a few paragraphs about Aquarius energy, service, and power shared from a wonderful book I'm enjoying this winter.
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From Gifts of the Spirit, in The Illumined Road, by Dane Rudhyar:
"Aquarius - the symbolical Man of the zodiac - is carrying upon his strong shoulders an urn filled with waters .Yet these waters may mean life or death for him who is loaded with the gift; for unless man has received within his own soul the baptism that forever makes it impossible for him to drink of the waters and let the earth thirst, may God have mercy upon him! Many are tempted and very few choose the Cross. Many know techniques and management, but few have answered to their God the crucial challenge: What for?
As the hand is the servant of the brain, so should the manager be the servant of the spiritual purpose of the new humanity. All the idealism and the goodness of men - indeed all their traditional morality and religious observances - can be nothing when confronted with a crisis of power. What is needed is a spiritual purpose. What is needed is that individuals become conscious of the evolutionary goal next ahead for humanity - call this goal "God's Plan," if you will. What is need is a total identification of the human imagination and will with this goal, and the faith that makes such an identification work.
Work and management - these are the immediate Aquarian requirements. Power is here, upon us - tremendous, awesome. It must be used. Its use must be managed; and the men of the New Age will know how to do the managing. But to what end? If we are open to the voice of the creative spirit within us, there can be but one answer: service.
The Aquarian man in us all must reach that noble station of human development and become "the Servant." Humanity is the Great Orphan. It must be fed with power. Power must be given purpose. And there can be only one true purpose: peace.
Purpose, power and peace. He who lacks either will prove himself in centuries to come less than man. What we should incorporate all three in our personal and communal lives is demanded of all of us who can claim the right of survival in these tragic and wonderful decades of death and rebirth. This is the new Incarnation."
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Rudhyar wrote this above passage in the years following the nuclear bombings in Japan. Human access to nuclear power inspired him to reflect upon the role of power in the evolution of human consciousness. He is also considering the importance of the Aquarian archetype as we shift from the age of Pisces to the age of Aquarius (a contested topic in astrology).
I find his words well-suited to our times where artificial intelligence, rapid dissemination of information via social media, rapid accumulation of wealth via cryptocurrency and banking schemes, and propaganda-driven political games and continued imperialism are contributing to a general sense of hopelessness and disillusionment.
He does not fear or shy away from speaking to the importance and value of power. He encourages us to embrace power correctly, and to use it to nourish the earth and its inhabitants, in true Aquarian fashion.
I can't think of a better message for this passage of Pluto through Aquarius.