The age of Aquarius is said to be an age of plurality, collectivism and liberty through technology and new ideas, a theme that is certainly apparent through the Internet and social networking.
However each age has a hidden counterpart, an additional component that arises from the polarity of each sign. In the age of Pisces we also saw an occulted or hidden age of Virgo. As the archetype of the sacrificed God came to power and dominated the consciousness field of humanity, another more subtle age also reigned, the Age of Virgo or the Virgin. Suppressed by the church, the sacred feminine in the form of the black Madonna and concubine to Jesus Christ flourished in secret.
Each age has a counterpart. The age of Aquarius is also the Age of Leo and the age of the SUN. Co-current with the group consciousness of the internet and discoveries of new physics that we are all interconnected, is the self-centered and proud Leonic current apparent in "MYspace" and the multiplicity of spotlights that is the internet and social networking. "in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minuets" Andy Warhol, in his prescience, claimed. Fame. and everybody gets some.
Sphynx Moon
The degrees between Leo and Virgo are said to be the degree of the Sphynx as they occupy the point between the Lion and the Virgin, two component parts in the Sphynx of Giza which is the body of a Lion and the head of a Human.
The mythic archetype of the Sphyx is an archetype of Elemental wholeness, more than just Beast (fire) and Man (air). A sphynx was said to be part Lion, part eagle, part bull and part human. It is a composite of the cherubs of apocalyptic visions in the bible which are also the animals of the fixed signs of the zodiac, each of the fixed signs are where the sun rests in it's seasonal peak. Taurus the Bull is the height of spring. Leo the lion of summer, Scorpio the eagle of Fall and Aquarius the Human of winter. Each element is not simply the gross (or essential) substance of materiality but also the emotional components of the human condition.
Earth - sensiousness and the ability to maintain form
Water - Emotionality and the ability to reflect
FIre - Energy also called "intuition" by Jung
Air - Mentation and the ability to ideate
all four together allow us to imagine which is essentiall the creative act and the power of a God. The composite of these are Akasha or spirit, the 5th element. However the 4 do not make the 5th, rather the 5th like a prism, makes the 4.
The elements also have their shadows
Earth - avarice and stubborness
Water - sadness
Fire - anger
Air - caprice
when the elemental parts of the self are brought to balance the 5th elemental creature is the Sphynx, keeper of the myteries of the universe.
Use this time to contemplate your own elemental fullness and cultivate awareness of what you need to nurture and what you need to reduce to come to a place of equanimity and stillness, and to be like the sphynx herself, resting in the fullness of her secret.
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