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Mar 10·edited Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

I was reading this post about Pluto in Aquarius (https://www.forrestastrology.com/blogs/astrology/pluto-in-aquarius-my-deepest-understanding-of-it)

and this idea really struck me:

"What if everybody is wrong, you included? Let’s remember that if humanity gets this passage right, it will shock us. The answers that are trying to emerge do not exist yet. Nobody has them. Pluto in Aquarius is about creating them. Get ready to be surprised, in other words. Get ready to realize the Earth is round when all along you’ve been thinking it was obviously flat as a pancake."

This feels very resonant to me with a lot of what Charles says. I feel it is true that we are blindly groping towards answers that nobody actually has. We are finding/creating/allowing this new story to come into being, and our effort towards that end is important.

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Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Yes we will create an oasis of sanity on this beautiful earth ✨🌎✨ It is happening now inside of our illumined hearts, minds, and souls. It’s only a matter of time before it out-pictures into the physical dimension in a big way. Thank you for this awesome meta narrative weaving work you do. So inspiring! 🙏🏻💗

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Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Throughout our history there have seen momentary "bumps" or rises in the level of conscious awareness. We saw this in the sixties, but the timing and overall environment was not conducive to its forward progression. However, we are moving into a time where there is much more fertile ground for mass consciousness to grow at an alarming pace. This does not mean that we are moving into a utopia, but instead we are going to use our innate creativity and power to start building a new world from the ground up. There are no road maps for this; it is a creative process. The chaos that we see is necessary to dissolve the old structures that no longer serve us and it propels us forward. It is humanity's time to shine.

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Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

The New Age is only coming in by our own focused effort day by day: each person has to usher in the New Age in themselves in their own heart in their own relationships and actions. There is a collective opportunity here because many many people in our world are ready to ACT RIGHT to learn how to live properly, carefully and thoughtfully. Individually we each have make great EFFORT in order for our journey here to be successful. Taking proper care of our earth, growing biodynamic foods, standing up for health freedom and nature based medicine and education and spiritual practice is the way forward. We have to stop supporting what is unwholesome and only support what is wholesome and sharing the success of this in our own lives with others to spread the seeds as real spiritual inspiration. I am a mother of 5 children ( all unvaccinated) and 6 grandchildren all unvaccinated also. Early in my 20's I began to learn about Living foods, inspired by Ann Wigmore and the Hippocrates Institute and in 1991 was deeply inspired after attending my first Vipassana mediation course and have now practiced seriously for 33 years. Rudolph Steiner and Biodynamic Farming is an amazing gift to our civilization and now we are really going to have to proliferate this knowledge and practice to counter act this war on LIFE that is going on now...YIKES! May we all move forward with love in our hearts. Even green plants can begin to grow in toxic ground...we can transform our minds, our earth...(:

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Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Many people thought that at 2012 the shift from the age of Pices to the age of Aquarius would be instantaneous. But that is not the way cycles work. The Picean energy was diminishing as the Aquarian energy was expanding. At 2012 there was still Picean energy in the world, albeit, becoming less and less dominant. At the same time, the Aquarian energy was increasing, and for a while they balanced each other. This is 12 years after 2012, and the Aquarian energy is now just becoming the dominant energy and increasing in intensity. Only now are we truly entering into the Age of Aquarius!

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Mar 10·edited Mar 10

In 4000 BC we were in Taurus (worship the bull), 2000 BC Aries (sacrifice the lamb), 0 CE Pisces (fishers of men) and now in 2000 CE Aquarius (where water finds its level). I use 2000 years for each age with 13 zodiacs (including Ophiuchus) giving us 26,000 years for a full precession of the equinoxes.

Perhaps each age needs to start with a dawn where everyone is ultimately forced to come onboard, either through final collapse of the old age or simply that everyone prefers the new age. From the way it's going I would suspect the former is more likely.

Anyway, you and your readers might like this insanely detailed lineage of characters that have shaped our last age of Pisces. Might give some insights into how we are where we are right now.... To use a coggle diagram you can left click and drag it around and right-click to use magnify glass to zoom in and out. You can also use the browser Find / Search function to search for certain words e.g. Elon Musk, King Charles, Templar, Freemason etc.

https://coggle.it/diagram/ZXeWv7GKqtj1MmOZ/t/lineage

For those that know their Parzifal (Wolfram von Eschenbach version) this also explains where the grail went after the Templars of Aragon i.e. to Thuringia, from where we see the emergence of Rosicrucianism and ultimately the German Reformation. From Frederick II, HRE in Sicily we also see the emergence of the Renaissance in Italy, and from a couple of Scottish lines (notably the protectors of the Tironensian traditions and Michael Scot, the wizard) we see Arbroath, the Scottish Enlightenment, witches and Freemasonry. We also see the influence of the Jacobites / Jacobin (who kept the Templar freedoms and tradition alive) in the French Revolution, and later the US Declaration of Independence.

The problem is now that the grail is lost and no-one is fighting for freedom anymore. For we have all willingly given in to the capitalist Deus ex Machina and the "blob" of political puppet controllers, who use our desire to consume, accumulate wealth and power, against us. For "eating the apple" only achieves emptiness and destroys our capacity to "tend the garden" and care for each other. We only have ourselves to blame that we have not entered the new age yet. For we do not (yet) value our Earth enough and we have not understood Ubuntu, let alone practise it. When we are ready, the grail will appear. Although I'm pretty damn sure it's at Torwood Broch, which also happens to be the dead centre of the Falkirk Triangle in Scotland, the planet's #1 site for UFO sightings.

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Mar 10Liked by Charles Eisenstein

Thank you Charles. We found this to be both direct and subtle, courageous and curious.

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The emergence of a 'New Age' doesn't happen through one decade of tie-dye--it's a deep process of transformation of consicousness that is taking place now and is accelerating. It's right on schedule, and all the seemingly 'negative' events in our political, social, and environmental life is central to the process. The light cannot emerge until the shadow and darkness is explored. We're constructing a new world; but that requires destruction as well.

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Mar 10·edited Mar 10

Funny thing about the future - it can be hard to know what it is because it hasn’t happened yet! I am caught between two opinions about it. Either Jesus is coming back in the next 50 years or so or we will be sliding into the future predicted by John Michael Greer in his books, The Retro Future, The Ecotechnic Future, and The Long Descent. Unfortunately it looks like to me we have passed the point to have a soft landing into what Greer is describing.

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Age of Aquarius is already here, it’s just some people are ignorant of it

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As Firesign Theater had it, _Everything You Know Is Wrong_.

And that's not necessarily a Bad Thing at all.

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The New Age and the world it represents has always been here, it never left. It is the humans who walked out of it and stepped into the world of wars and missery. The New Age suggests that that something new is coming, so as obiendent humans do, they wait, and wait, and wait. And when it doesnt come, they complain, point fingers, blame others, start protest groups, follow leaders, and execatly that keeps them away from the world that has always been there to enter......

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This is a wonderful idea., I look forward to joining. Thank you for providing the opportunity to connect with like-minded people.

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A few decades ago, in the midst of a meditation this came to me: life on earth is the dark part of the life cycle and that will never change. The good news is that it's also the sleep part of the life cycle and everything around us is essentially a nightmare we all will eventually wake from. In the midst of this dark/sleep half of the life cycle, I can choose to wake up and realize this too shall pass and will do so much more quickly if I don't resist, judge or try to change it. Instead, just keep in mind it's a temporary bad dream that doesn't invalidate and can't overcome the dominant, awakened reality. I became a lot more settled when I realized and accepted this perspective.

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I remember the run up to Dec 21, 2012. Then the day after when millions of people realized it was a bust and there were only three days left for Christmas shopping.

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I think the 60's jumped the gun on the Aquarian age which I understand has just barely begun now and of course the changes are disruptive. We have a for-profit system instead of a for-care system which distorted the New Age "It's just the darkness before the light." We are leaving the Plutonian Age of power over into the Aquarian age of connection and creation but we still don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater as there are things we have learned (money) that have been denied us. It is an apocalypse, the "lifting the veil" on the crimes of the elite ending their world to make room for the new Aquarian Age and getting back to the Garden.

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