As winter has us in its grip, and although it’s certainly not been cold, its been dark and stormy, it’s sometimes difficult to stay upbeat and positive. I often feel I have a limitless supply of optimism and for that I am thankful. It comes from an inner source that has taken a lifetime to tap into and grows deeper the further I travel. I’m not sure how I’d manage without it.
At this time of year it is most needed, and when the sun seems like a cold disc, sitting overhead, disinterested and uncaring for days at a time it can be a struggle to keep the mind and body in good health.
The archetype we are looking at now is Aquarius, the water carrier, but an air sign. I call it the think tank, when we are most in our heads, and can have a tendency to be aloof.
Last month, in Capricorn, if we followed the path well, we might have reached the top of a mountain and potentially, saved our soul. We are now coming down the mountain, like Moses from the Mount with the tablets of stone. We have solved our own problems and now with the answers inscribed in our soul we can see the populace below and see how, if we can solve our own problems then we can solve the problems, that reflect our own, within the community. This problem-solving nature of Aquarius is all about the shining individual working within the community. The individual is represented by its opposition, Leo, that when it is in its positive energy, is filled with inner strength and contentment. When these two archetypes work together, creating a society that meets the needs of both the individual and the community as a whole, it is easy to see that if a solution only meets the needs of one or the other then it is not a solution.
This is the founding principle of my project I have called PIPPA - People in Positive Politics Association. We have a created a two-party political system based on a dualistic approach, a society that is steeped in conflict and an ‘us and them’ view of our world. Our parliament is divided into two sides sitting opposing each other at a distance, two swords lengths apart, that debate, which comes from the word ‘to do battle’. It is from this basis that we solve problems within our community and sadly, I don’t believe we will see the changes we want in our society until we see changes in our governance.
Becoming the shining Leo energy, the powerful individual who takes responsibility for their own lives and their part within the community, is, I believe the way to grow grass roots independent political change.
Aquarius is ruled by Uranus, the revolutionary planet, that sent shock waves of change into our world when it was discovered. It was the time of revolutions, French and American, and it was at this time that we discovered electricity. This science based mindset discovered the telescope that enabled us to see the outer lying planets. We then continued our search into finding the answers by dividing, separating and compartmentalising our world.
The beautiful paradox seems to be that when we got as small as we thought we could go, with scientists believing they now had a hold on the complete nuts and bolts of universal mechanisms, we slipped through the net of the microscopic out the other side into the vastness of the quantum world. Our search into collating the tiny and infinitely small opened the door onto the truth of our universe; its total connection and indivisibility.
This knowledge proved also that we cannot be aloof observers, as the shadow side of Aquarius would like to be, and that we can only live as participants with every one of our actions having an affect on our world. I feel it’s time to awaken to this clear truth and behave accordingly.
There is much to do. Many ways of being that do damage to ourselves and our world, as the two cannot be separated, are so ingrained in our lifestyle we still have no idea that change is needed. We need to keep digging and clearing out what no longer serves us. I sense that once we have solved enough of the problems we have created by living on this land in such an uncaring manner, we will reach a tipping point. Then the problems will naturally cease to exist as our hearts will find these ways of living untenable.
This might seem a massive task, and yes it is, but if we start with our hearts in the right place, one difficult first step will lead to another and the work will start feeling like less of a burden and more of a joy. Let’s get to work together.
photo Mark Brookes
photo Mark Brookes
