OKAY, SO THE DRUG-INFESTED communes of the 60’s morphed into ritzy retreat centers and, worse, the spic and span neurosis of Corporate Kumbaya. Now what? Not so fast. If we truly want higher octave Aquarian community we first need to face and feel the lower octave version. That way, there’s less chance of backsliding.
Internet Eyes
Intuitively, everyone knows what “now” is: a doorway into heartbreak. That’s why we turned remoteness into a religion. At the altar of the Aquarian internet, we bow to the god of impossible-to-digest, global trauma that elevates emotional dissociation into a holy sacrament. We “care” enough to continue reading or watching regardless of how much our nervous system protests, and pray for the strength to maintain our “internet eyes” in the presence of the well-dressed orphans wandering the streets of our fledgling technocracy. What is this new world religion turning us into? Simple: psychopaths judging psychopaths.
Who has the wherewithal to walk out of this throat-grabbing, CGI flick? No one. Except, maybe, the meditators: those committed to becoming aware of how they’re not feeling their own experience. Those who value embodied congruency over global commentary, living brokenness over tepid sophistication, catalytic confession over world-saving solutions.
Pisces: Superhero for Aquarius
How shall we live in an age when Aquarian freedom is defined as a choice between sugar and screen? When more and more personal issues are met with a Big Pharma fix and visionary humanitarian teams devolve into cult-like fortresses of success? Poet, David Whyte said it well. Take off your internet eyes and “Be weathered by what comes to you.”
Face it: every person, place, and thing, honestly met, simultaneously gifts and wounds us. This is the core teaching of Buddhism and astrology. The wheel of the zodiac is designed to traumatically jolt us between archetypal opposites until we finally take refuge in the tender witness.
That’s why Pisces was placed, like a super hero, immediately following Aquarius. Pisces makes community work because it understands that this incomprehensible wound/gift tension was designed to dissolve “the knower” and without these ego-dissolved meetings in timeless presence all communities devolve into compressed fields of egos. Why band together? Because we all need spacious, unhurried soul-mirrors in order to wake up as the tender witness of our automated, archetypal me-stories.
In this sense, all Aquarian communities — regardless of what they claim to believe or disbelieve– are spiritual communities, because it is the soul’s desperate need for mirroring that enables groups to put up with each other’s smelly egos. Monks go crazy without sangha, just as corporations lose their edge without humbling feedback from the community of patrons that elevated them.
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