nature's zodiac

When Pluto went into Aquarius last spring, I felt a decided shift into the digital age. For one thing, it was the first time I ever used AI to create something. I ‘made’ a painting of a couple of robots walking down a pretty street. This image served my post that was entitled “I Love Springtime in a Paradigm Shift”

 It felt like a gag to instruct my computer to create a robot painting of a robot; like a mirror in a diner that reflects someone into an infinite conundrum. 

But now ten months later, Pluto shifts back into Aquarius conjunct the bright winter sun. These days I often consult chat gpt. I like to ask basic questions that help me get closer to the physics of nature. I’ll ask a question like, what are some differences between navigating and innovating. I like the computer because it never rolls its eyes at me. It just answers, and answers interestingly for the most part.

Out of its speedily spat-out paragraphs I will often get sight of a strong couple of words that advance with the potent vibe of a buddhist koan. From nowhere a new direction comes into view; one that I had never considered.

There is a paradoxical freedom and alienation to the digital age. The freedom lies in an unlimited potential to ramify our thinking into emergent possibilities from which tendrils of new things swirl into various future visions.

Yet the alienation is there too. I often feel waves of nostalgia when I see payphones in movies before the turn of the century. I look at the characters on screen as if they are a different species. Do their eyes look different? 

Aquarius’ wavy lines represent the two psychic streams at play. There is the stream of the past. It conditions us to behave in certain ways. We can create ourselves to be proficient robots, skilled at certain things, but we can also be lazy robots, created entirely from past habits. 

But then there is the second stream. This is the future. The romantic offer of the Aquarian Age is to marry ourselves to the future, our own future. This is a matter of vision, energy, and intending. We have climbed out of the matrix of matter and into the realm of frequency, for the sake of creating better matter.

Aquarius is the water bearer because the new age is an age of recognition. To be a water bearer is to be aware of how feelings can either sink us or empower us to steer.  Vast, existential and Aquarian concepts turn magical when we remember to make it personal. In this way one goes from the question, “what is the meaning of life” to “what is the meaning of my life.”

Have a wonderful new day, new season and new age.

My son and I will be attending a magic show this afternoon, which I think could not be more apt!