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Soul Astrology by Margaret Koolman
May 5, 2005
Soul Astrology by Margaret Koolman
From the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius
Q ‘Would you please say something about what it means to go
from the Pisces Age to the Aquarian Age?’
Q ‘There is a lot of talk and fear about 2012, many people
believe this time will signify the end of the Earth. What
are your comments about this from an astrological/spiritual
perspective?’
A There is no way I feel qualified to ‘answer’ this
question, not being God! But I can comment, giving you my
take on it.
My short comment is that I feel sure that the world will
continue from day to day, as ever was. I don’t think the
world will end. Rather, I think that in 2012 we will all
complete the shift from Pisces to Aquarius. The planets
will continue in their orbits. They will continue relating
to each other and to the Earth, moving from sign to sign
just as they have been doing. So let’s look at the
astrology.
My much longer comments follow:
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What are the ‘Ages’? - a bit of Astronomy first:
The Sun’s position in the starry sky at the Equinox, in
March every year, is called 0 degrees Aries in the Tropical
Zodiac (the Zodiac we use in the West). The rest of the
Tropical Zodiac is measured from that 0 degrees Aries,
dividing the circle of the sky into twelve signs of 30
degrees each. An equinox occurs when the sun rises
directly East, so that it spends exactly 12 hours of that
day above the horizon no matter where you are on Earth.
Following the March equinox, the sun rises a little further
north every day, until the time of the solstice in June.
The Sun’s position on the solstice day is said to be 0
degrees Cancer, which is why the circle around the Earth,
directly under the sun on that day, is called ‘the Tropic
of Cancer’, and is also why this is called the Tropical
Zodiac. The Tropic of Capricorn in the South is fixed
similarly, in December.
The point about all this is that, the Earth wobbles a bit
in its daily spinning, so that ‘0 degrees Aries’ is
constantly moving slowly backwards across the actual
constellations. For roughly the last 2,000 years, 0 Aries
has been moving backwards across the constellation of
Pisces, and is now shifting to the constellation of
Aquarius. That 2,000+ years is called ‘the Age of Pisces.’
The size of constellations is a subject for debate, so the
timing of this shift, from one ‘great Age’ to the next,
tends to be a bit blurred. I like to think that the Age of
Aquarius has been gradually revealing itself for at least
the last 50 years, while the Age of Pisces is gradually
releasing its hold.
I think, the ‘does-the-world-end-in-2012’ discussion is
part of that shift of ‘Ages’ from Pisces to Aquarius. I’ll
explain what I mean below, but first I’ll explore a bit
what the change from Pisces to Aquarius might be about.
The Age of Pisces – religion or spirituality:
We would expect that the Age of Pisces would dissolve
barriers. Before that, in the Age of Aries, we are told of
a ‘jealous god’ saying ‘vengeance is mine!’ ‘An eye for an
eye, and a tooth for a tooth’ was accepted social justice.
Then, Jesus was born around the beginning of the Age of
Pisces, introducing us to the Piscean experience of loving
oneness. He taught that we are all sons and daughters of
God, that we should love our enemies, and forgive one
another any sins we perceive being committed against us.
He suggested to us that we are all equally deserving, and
that all gods are really different perspectives of the one
God.
Through the Age of Aries, it was enough to have your own
religion, as long as you made it the dominant one, or had
space for yourself that was entirely yours so you could
ignore the others. Over these two thousand Pisces years,
different religions and political groups have tried to
create oneness by absorbing each other. Ruling them
Aries-style wasn’t enough. Each group aimed to convert
others to their own beliefs, through violence if necessary
– hence so many religious wars. The barriers were
dissolving, but the loving was only at the level of an
ideal. Since then we have been regularly invading each
other’s psychic, emotional and spiritual territory.
Into the Age of Aquarius: the individual in community
When circumstances are changing, it is important to be
aware that past methods may not work any more. In order to
have a positive growthful effect, our methods need to be
appropriate to all conditions, including changing social
priorities and expanding awareness. The distant planets,
slowly changing sign, reflect our need to constantly adapt
to changes, but the change in great Ages underpins
everything else in our time.
During the Pisces Age, we were learning that ‘we are all
one, all members of humanity.’ Now we are learning that we
are all individual, an Aquarian awareness. Back in the
Aries Age, ‘I’ would also have been an individual, but
would not have seen others as equally individual. For
Aries, ‘I’ am the individual, and everybody else is ‘not
me’. For Aquarius, ‘I’ am an individual, but then so are
you, and so is he, and she. The negative side of being
Aquarian individuals is that we can become very separate
from each other, which leads to loneliness inside, defended
by a cold barrier. The positive side of being Aquarian
individuals is that we work together for the good of all,
each in our own individual way contributing our own
personal skills. Aquarius is about the community of
individuals, bringing fairness and justice to every one.
The Age of Aquarius is about individualisation. We will
be finding our own inner link with spirit, rather than
needing an intermediary, moving away from the power of
religions. Each one of us will wake to our personal
responsibility in our daily experience, moving away from
the power of old-fashioned government. More and more, we
are looking at individual, as well as group, experience.
Increasingly we are focusing on each person’s individual
experience of a disaster, understanding its impact through
empathy. One soldier’s fear and pain is now as important a
focus as an army’s success or failure. Perhaps in
communities split by religion, more people will wake to a
sense of the importance of their individual personal life,
rather than identifying with their ancestral history or
religious dogma.
Natal astrology is a wonderful tool for promoting this
growth, showing, as it does, the personal characteristics,
ideals and direction of an individual. External pressures
can be seen in a natal chart, particularly by the
arrangement of the outer planets, but those same planets
will also reveal the person’s own ways of using experience
to grow.
Through the shift from Pisces to Aquarius, the individual
members of clans, families, and nations, will be waking to
their own autonomy. We need to dissolve the barriers that
divide groups, without encroaching on each other’s space.
We need to see that the boundaries between nations are no
more than lines we have drawn on the ground. They do not
have to be barriers to understanding, or massive gulfs
between ‘my right’ and ‘your wrong’, between acceptable and
unacceptable. We have been confusing national
characteristics with religion and politics and the history
of groups. During the Aquarian Age, we will be discovering
that basic group characteristics are the result of
geographical location, the home territory. Whether you
come from a people living in desert, or a temperate
country, an island, or a vast continent, the climate and
the state of the land will be seen as largely shaping your
character. These ‘shapes’ may be recognised as the
Aquarian ‘national characteristics.’
Uranus during this change of Ages:
The ruler of Aquarius is Uranus, and between 1995 and 2003
it was moving through its own sign, giving us clues about
the finer Aquarian characteristics. During Uranus’
movement through the last degrees of Aquarius, a noticeable
quality was the peacefulness of the marches and
demonstrations against the attack on Iraq. That huge and
intelligent opposition was of many, many different
individuals moving together to make a vast statement. It
even had the power to hold back the action. The war on
Iraq began a few days after Uranus moved into Pisces, and
we began to demonstrate the kind of behaviour that needs to
be left behind; immediately the war began, many of its
opponents felt an emotional need to support the soldiers,
and did so by supporting their own side against the other.
There may have been many reasons for the attack. Two of
them are Piscean: one being emotionally-based fear (of
terrorism, or dwindling oil reserves), and the other, the
missionary zeal to convert (to democracy, or western
beliefs). Since then this attack has ignored the agreed
boundaries that allow the autonomy of any nation, and the
peaceful and intelligent discussion of informed
individuals, both of which are positive Aquarius. The aim
may have been in part to impose Aquarian ideals where there
was apparent despotism. But the idea that it is ‘right’ to
impose anything on others within their own borders
represents the Pisces confusion between caring and
interference, or the Aquarian version of despotism, moving
people about like chess pieces for a purpose that serves
only a few. I am not judging the action as right or wrong
within the situation, just questioning the righteous
attitude of the attackers. From an astrological
perspective, that kind of attack is out-of-date Piscean, or
negative Aquarian. Through the Aquarian Age, it will
become absolutely clear that forcing any change on others
won’t work because it is no longer appropriate to the
growing social awareness.
Neptune during this change of Ages:
Neptune is transiting Aquarius from 1998 to 2012. During
that time, this ruler of the sea of human emotion is adding
the Piscean ideal of love to social settings, helping us
understand that we can still work together towards a world
community even though we may not necessarily work in the
same way as each other.
In 2003, with Uranus’ move into Neptune’s sign of Pisces,
the emotionally reactive state of the world began being
revealed. This is what we need to understand and master as
we move into Aquarius. At the moment our experience of
the psychic, emotional and spiritual worlds is all over the
place. Our nervous systems are so sensitive these days
that many of us are feeling every emotional wave, and the
waves are coming from all over the Earth. At any time, any
one of us might start feeling the emotions of loss or fear,
of sadness or excitement. These emotions are quite
possibly just wafting around the world from a war, a
disaster or a celebration happening somewhere else. We
need to become aware that we may be absorbing from the
general emotional field. Otherwise, we tend to blame the
people or events around us for how we feel, or simply feel
we are going mad.
We are used to experiencing the dust of a distant volcano
in our skies, the migration of birds from distant lands
into our fields. We know that the physical atmosphere of
earth constantly swirls around us in the form of weather
systems. There is also a psychic counterpart of all this,
and we are now emotionally sensitive enough to be aware of
experiencing it. The technological connections that are so
easy to make, so difficult to avoid, are similarly
represented on the psychic, emotional and mental levels.
What happens on one level, happens on all, and the slowest
vibration of these is the physical. So when something
happens on the physical level, you can bet it’s happening
on the other levels already. The introduction of broadband
to our internet connections is a wonderful reflection of
psychic openness. You have to remember to deliberately
separate yourself from the world-wide-web!
While Uranus is going through Pisces, disturbing this
emotional/psychic field, Neptune is holding a steady
Aquarian guiding light. The principle guiding us through
all this is that even though our characters are different,
and our circumstances are different, we are linked. We
have humanity as our basic ground of being. Compassion for
ourselves and others as we acknowledge and accept what we
feel, helps us to regain our balance faster.
Approaching 2012
Pluto into Capricorn in 2008:
Whatever sign Pluto travels through points to those
qualities and ideals of life that are due for an overhaul.
Throughout his 13 years in Sagittarius, the focus is on
expanding our vision, and encouraging open philosophical
discussion. He is bringing to our awareness where we state
ideas as logical truth, yet bypass any intellectual enquiry
that might shake them. He doesn’t come as a great teacher,
hovering over us all, explaining with a patient voice.
Rather, we see the problems through ourselves. We find
ourselves becoming what we call ‘fundamentalist,’ or
fighting against fundamentalism. Either way we become very
judgemental, and feel morally justified (an emotional
position). When we finally go too far, we recognise the
problem and change, or get stuck and risk destruction.
Once all this is exposed, Pluto will be moving into the
next sign, Capricorn. In Capricorn, he will be showing us
what we resist recognising when we promote business at the
expense of humanitarian ideals, and Earth’s limited
resources. Again it will be our own behaviour that
demonstrates the areas needing change.
Uranus into Aries in 2010:
Uranus moving into Aries will bring bursts of energy
enabling us to go for the necessary changes that Pluto has
provoked. We will feel motivated to drive forwards into
newness, new ideas, new energy, new movement. A while ago,
I was discussing with my son, Howard, what we might expect
to see at that time, and he suggested that the Aries’
spirit would be pioneering Uranus-inspired inventions and
radical ideas, amongst other things, a new range of
vehicles and robots using artificial intelligence. He
pointed out that available inventions, relevant to Uranus’
sign, are in the imaging and experimental phase when Uranus
is in the previous sign. For instance, when Uranus was in
Capricorn, the world-wide-web was in the experimental
phase. When Uranus went into Aquarius, the sign covering
electrical inventions, this electrical invention to link
the world, was generally available.
So while Uranus is in Pisces, the decision-making robotic
elements are being developed, and will be out there and
available when we get the Aries courage to risk using them.
Really exciting inventions are even more likely with Pluto
revealing, through Capricorn, yet another layer of
possibility in material production. At present we are held
back by the insistence on using fossil fuels to power
production, but Uranus in Aries shows the inventors driving
ahead, regardless of traditional ways.
With Uranus in Aries, people are more likely to act for
themselves. In terms of aggression, we are more likely to
be dealing with our own anger, and that of our neighbours,
than national aggression. Soldiers may now be realising
that the army is not necessarily a great career, with its
high likelihood of death by painful means. But when Uranus
moves into Aries, men may choose more forcefully to resist
being grouped and moved about like Piscean flocks. Perhaps
as individuals, we might even break through governmental
conditioning, and realise that there is really no need to
FEAR as much as we are being told.
Neptune into Pisces in 2011/12:
Only after Uranus has established the forward push into
the future, will Neptune move into Pisces, as though, with
this strong movement into the Aquarian Age, we are safe
from falling back into Pisces’ old misconceptions. It
will be the first time since 1859 that Neptune will have
been in its own sign, and it will be there until 2025.
While still in Aquarius, Neptune is continuing to dissolve
the barriers between people who are caught within social
and national group structures. We are seeing those in a
group we may have shunned, as people with the same basic
motivations as ourselves. We are increasingly aware of
world community, where individuals from different groups
enjoy participating in social activities together. The
idea behind the Olympics is Aquarian, although it has taken
on a Piscean nationalistic fervour. The United Nations was
clearly an attempt towards the Aquarian ideal.
Neptune’s move into Pisces shifts the focus from social
structures to the arts, the emotions, and the spirit.
Neptune in Pisces is an ocean of opportunity to connect
with the spirit in a personal way. ‘Humanity’ will be
growing more aware of itself as a whole, just one of the
life waves on Earth. The natural abilities of intuition
and telepathy are likely to increase so markedly during
those years that scepticism will be dissolving in the face
of personal experience. Uranus’ time in Pisces is
reflecting our growing sensitivity to each other. From
2012, as Neptune travels through Pisces, feeling connected
through common human emotions is likely to become the norm.
Uranus square Pluto:
A connection between any other planet and Pluto indicates
that something we need to know will be revealed. My
feeling is that the tension of this impending revelation is
building up now, and individuals, groups, committees,
nations, are all feeling the pressure. It’s like knowing
you are going to have to make adjustments, but not quite
knowing where to start, and feeling time running out.
Perhaps our tension is a reflection of the state of the
Earth, where the tectonic plates are pushing to move in
relation to each other, and being temporarily stuck. From
early 2012 until the end of 2014, Uranus will appear to be
exactly 90 degrees from Pluto several times, and these
could be the moments of greatest change. In our own lives,
we know that change happens more easily when we relax, and
let go our attempts at control. Building restraining walls
against sea encroachment actually encourages erosion at
either end, it doesn’t really hold the sea back at all.
There are already warnings of the need to be prepared to
‘go with the flow’ when required, and particularly from
2008 onwards there will be more. The teams of intelligent
people learning how to predict the whereabouts of the next
earthquake, are aiming to give those in danger more
warning. They are not trying to stop earthquakes!
Chiron goes into Pisces with Neptune in 2011:
Once the adjustments have been made, the Earth will be, as
it were, more comfortable. I think we will breathe a great
communal sigh, and feel safe at last. Whatever is revealed
during the early 2010’s will be what we really need to
know, if we are to continue improving our inter-relatedness
with the Earth and the cosmos. Chiron heals with the
truth. Chiron with Neptune moving into Pisces is likely to
reveal the ancient rift we have felt between our struggling
personality and the loving spirit, in order to heal it.
Trusting that ‘it’s all spirit really’ we don’t need to
focus on worrying about physical changes. What will always
pull us through is the hand we reach out to help another,
when changes actually happen. Life is growth, and growth
is change. Spirit is only in the present, and fear would
keep us in the past, fixed and spirit-less (dead).
Conclusions
Everything I have said here is by way of comment rather
than answer. There will continue to be events both
human-caused and earth-caused, and the movement of planets
will reflect those events inexorably. It is my belief that
we cannot predict the events of 2012 exactly. It is my
opinion that, without exact prior knowledge, but having
some idea of the energy of the times, we can choose our
emotional and mental focus to make the most of that energy,
so that the events bring growth and learning in positive
ways.
Whatever else may be happening, Chiron will be going into
Pisces right beside Neptune, suggesting that in the wake of
all events will be our spiritual healing. The key to that
time will be to trust in the wholeness of the great
pattern. As we continue to move firmly into the Aquarian
Age, Neptune through Pisces will bring again Piscean
ideals, the love of spirit, and the trust that in spirit we
are one. Anyone resisting this understanding may well find
themselves confused by the events surrounding them.
Emotionally we are connected; in thought we are very
different. And while we are in-bodied, we all must deal
with the human condition. And we, who are dealing with it,
are One.
There will continue to be adjustments and shifts in the
earth and its atmosphere, in politics and world social
behaviour, in personal relationships and families. So, no,
in my mind, it won’t be the end of the world. I think it
will be our initiation into, and celebration of, the Age of
Aquarius!
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I would like to leave you with a quote from Thich Nhat
Hanh, a wonderful spiritual teacher from Vietnam, now
living in France.
‘It is not correct to believe that the world's situation is
in the hands of the government and that if the president
would only have the correct policies, there would be peace.
Our daily lives have the most to do with the situation of
the world. If we can change our daily lives we can change
our governments and we can change the world. Our presidents
and our governments are us. They reflect our lifestyle and
our way of thinking.’
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Well, I understand all this better than I did when I
started trying to write it. I hope it makes sense to you.
And thanks for the questions!
With love,
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