The Age of Aquarius: This is the Dawning
An Illuminating Discussion with Carol Ferris
Thursday, October 8th
6-7:30pm PDT
Event will be hosted online.
Access link is shared with registrants 24hrs before event & a recording is shared within 24hrs following.
Image from the Library of Congress
You can hear the song from 1969, right?
When the Moon is in the Seventh House / And Jupiter aligns with Mars / Then peace will guide the planets, / and love will steer the stars. / This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius / Harmony and understanding / Sympathy and trust abounding / No more falsehoods or derisions / Golden living dreams of visions / Mystic crystal revelation / And the mind's true liberation.
Yes, please!
It’s been 50 years since that song but the hope for the dawning of the Age of Aquarius is returning again these days. The planets Jupiter and Saturn line up in the same longitudinal degree of the same zodiac sign every 20 years, known as a conjunction. But when they meet up in the zodiac sign Aquarius this December 20, 2020, they will form up a Great Conjunction: this only happens every 200 years. It is a shift in element — from earth signs to air signs — and initiates a new astrological phase, moving towards light from dark.
Cosmologists ancient and modern—including astrologers—reflect on time and nature. The Zodiac, a 360º measurement wheel, locates our solar system in relation to the vast galaxy through which it moves. The entire solar system rotates “backwards” along the zodiac, spending approximately 2,000 years per 30º division of the wheel.
Each zodiac sign, like Aquarius, is a symbol of earthly experience of the rhythms of light and dark, invoking eruption, stability, growth, maturity, and death in natural sequence.
In recorded history, we can trace the Great Ages of Gemini, Taurus, Aries and the last 2,000 years of Pisces. Each age can be understood as a long, decisive arc of development. Our next stage of development is the Age of Aquarius.
The Age of Aquarius, arriving after its announcement so many years ago, looks to the symbolism of that sign: shifting from matter to spirit; from egotistic materialism and hope for personal redemption to shared feelings and aspirations; from the long ago matriarchal/patriarchal tensions to an age of equality and androgyny. And it can’t come soon enough!
Join Carol Ferris in conversation with Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, as they explore with hope, curiosity, and scholarship, the coming Age of Aquarius and what may be unfolding and transforming in our world today.
About Carol Ferris
Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private tutor of astrology with four decades of experience. She completed her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine reflects her ongoing interest in the nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understanding how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.
*Lyrics from the musical “Hair”
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