World in Transition – Part 1
I now provide you with part one of our series, “World in Transition” which explores and explains the cuspal period – or Cusp of Confusion – between the Age of Pisces and the Age of Aquarius through which we are now living.
Over the coming months we will look at this Cusp of Confusion by looking at the essential qualities of each of the two Signs, Pisces & Aquarius, and how the morphing of one into the other plays out.
1. Imagination & Knowledge
We will start off with a basic or root keyword for Pisces: IMAGINATION, while for Aquarius it would be KNOWLEDGE.
So, one might say that our current zeitgeist is confusing because we are strung between these qualities in ways that are incongruous or just seemingly incompatible.
Something that is currently an expression of this transition from Imagination to Knowledge is our obsession with everything being knowable, and that anything which is not is suspect, even if just means giving something a label.
A seemingly superficial example of this is the great and increasing number of quiz shows on tv, radio, online, etc. Knowing stuff will win you money and acclaim, which equates to not knowing stuff will not. So imagination gets seamlessly relegated, its worth invisibly diminished, which makes millions of imaginative people feel worthless.
One’s IQ has become the benchmark of human intelligence. Is it? IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient, when really it could be more accurately described as Intellectual Quotient. There is a difference between intelligence and intellect; the former includes the watery Piscean quality of feeling, Emotional Intelligence, whereas the latter is ‘dry’ and does not. Note: Aquarius is the Water Bearer, not a water Sign but an air (mentality) Sign.
This in turn creates a distorted and limited job market.
Impact on Mental Health
There is also the downplaying of imagination (‘it’s just your imagination’) in that it has nothing to prove it, ‘proof’ being an essential of scientific knowledge.
And when imagination is so downgraded it becomes rogue like an ignored or undervalued child.
In turn, this can give rise to problems regarding mental health, which ironically, and evidently, is the province of Aquarius. But again, we think that if we give it a label it’ll be on its way to being sorted.
Imagination when not used amounts to it ‘getting the better of you’ in the sense of one becoming over-sensitive, and subsequently neurotic or even psychotic. The difference between the two being, as one wit put it: a neurotic builds castles in the air – the psychotic moves in.
Also, what is needed here is some good old-fashioned Piscean compassion. As someone once described this situation with regard to modern medicine: “high-tech but low touch.”
This lop-sidedness between mentality (Aquarius) and feeling (Pisces) can be laid at the door of Left Brain / Right Brain imbalance. More significantly, the emergence of the condition ADHD points to the influence of the planetary ruler of Aquarius, Uranus. Uranus, like the Sign it rules, doesn’t ‘do’ emotions very well (or at all), which is the case with those ‘suffering’ from ADHD or any so-called complaint on the neurodivergent spectrum.
This emotional overwhelm could be seen as Piscean (emotional) energy colliding with Aquarian (mental) energy. Or more precisely, Uranus is wanting out of being emotionally conditioned and so reacts strongly and impatiently to what it sees as having to conform. One could say that there is an evolutionary pulling away from anything that smacks of the old way of behaving and thinking.
As such it could take many years (as the Transition proceeds) before Uranian/Aquarian energy is not classed as abnormal and consequently resisted. In other words, when it is resisted less it’ll be less ‘hyperactive’ (the H in ADHD), something which has only just begun with the idea of neurodiversity, that these mental states are not disorders, but just different and potentially more advanced brain functions.
Impact on Education
This also points to the need for a greater emphasis on Imagination in the Arts, which would and should counterbalance the over-emphasis on the Sciences which has been the prevalent trend in education in recent decades.
Impact on Politics
Politics is another Aquarian subject and we are certainly more obsessed with it than ever. But the great irony here is that because we are entering an uncertain future, owing in part to the Cusp of Confusion itself, very few if any politicians appear to know what they’re doing. They can’t really be expected to! After all we are headed into the Unknown. We need visionaries (Pisces) as much, if not more than, politicians (Aquarius).
During the tail-end of the Piscean Age Karl Marx said that “Religion is the opium of the people” (as an escape from reality). Now, as we transition from Pisces to Aquarius it is more a case of politics being the opium of the people. Marx went on to say “It (religion) is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of our soulless conditions.” In this sentence try substituting the word “religion” with “politics”.
This segues nicely to Part 2 of this series which looks at a profoundly important area of human existence: Spirituality (Pisces) & Secularism (Aquarius).
Lyn