Let’s begin with some macro considerations.

• What is an Age?
• Conflations of information that should not have been conflated, yet now are infused into the lore about the coming Age
• Then, we can proceed with thoughts about the energetics that are possible and potential fruits of those energetics.

What is an Age? 

An age is an epoch of time that is qualified particularly, yet that quality is broad, far reaching, and ever-unfolding. The idea of an “age” is quite ancient and has pan-human examples. These include: Sumerian, Egyptian, Indigenous Peoples, Toltec, Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Indic, Tibetan, and Chinese. I don’t know the teachings of the People of Africa but would not be surprised if various Peoples have their Teachings and lore on this subject.

For the ancients, an Age was set by astronomy, and specifically by the precession of the sun through the constellations of the zodiac. I cannot offer you an explanation of precession, but can report that the Ages move “backward” through the constellations. For example, the Age of Pisces is coming to completion and the Age of Aquarius is dawning.

An zodiacal Age lasts around 2500 years, give or take a few hundred years. This is due to the variety of elongation of the zodiacal constellations along the ecliptic. Some are short or small, like Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. Some are middle length, like Aquarius. Some are long, like Taurus and Virgo.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14. One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy.

An Age can not have a precise beginning date or year or a precise completion date. This is because of the scale of constellational Life that is the referent. A constellation seen from Earth is an optical illusion; that is to say that how the ancients saw the heavens with dots or fuzzy points, blinking or conjoined pairs, was combined with intuitive resonance by the adepts of the time. In addition to this precious intuitive knowledge, we now know that the points visually arranged into a constellation viewed from Earth is a collection of items visible from our corner of the universe. One constellational image might contain a star tens of light-years from here, another a thousand, plus a galaxy or two seen as fuzzy points from Earth. So, the scale is tremendous; thus a precise date for the beginning or ending of an Age is a bit silly. Having said that, the Mayans predicted a very precise date (the winter Solstice of 2012) for the end of a macrocosmic cycle and the initiation of a new one.

Through one’s life one observes cycles overlapping displayed as events and having certain energetic qualities. The Ages work like this also. We are living such an overlap or two-ness of the outgoing energies and modes of expression together with the hints of incoming energies and modes. That which is of the old is obvious, also its lack of sustainability; a newness or innovative energetic is also palpable. The current challenge for innovation or refreshed forms of collaboration, governance, or refreshed economic models is calcified methodology. Such methods are generally predicated upon top-down, hierarchical and separating structures (i.e. chauvinistic) and/or predator-prey/ might makes right. The new wants to be new, to step out of the mold of the old; and that will happen. Time is the march of evolution; evolution is the unfolding of change. Change is the only constant in manifest existence. Trust in it. Flow with it.

Another way to understand Ages is through the ancient Indic model, which was subsequently taken up by the ancient Greeks. India’s cosmological model, like the Mayan and Ancient Egyptian, is truly macrocosmic. The scale of time is in billions of kalpas (eons), and each kalpa is a blink of Vishnu’s or Indra’s third eye. Existence is dreamed, thus dreamed into existence, and we humans are both complicit dreamers creating personal self-made realities while also explicitly living out the dreams or nightmares of others. In every Age, the function of humanity is to awaken from the collective dream bubbles in which we unknowlingly are participating and in which we are unquestioning followers of consensus. Here is a short video of this model. The man speaks quickly.

Using the Greek adaptive terms for the yugas or ages, we have the Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages. The Golden is many times longer in time than the one following, which is longer than the one behind it. This is on the descending arc. We have been in the Iron Age, or Kali Yuga wherein the emphasis is on matter, seeking control over, and divisiveness. Kali is the goddess of destruction and subsequent rebirth.

All of the above should now be combined in one’s mind regarding an Age. The four Indic are the macro canvas upon which the zodiacal (precessional) is painted. Thus, for example, if the Age of Pisces had transpired during a Golden Age, human and world experience would have been beatific beyond imagination. Instead, the Piscean Age and the Age of Aries before it were during the Kali Yuga, the most challenging of Ages/Yugas. The incoming Age of Aquarius coincides with the upswing out of the Kali Yuga, but there is overlap of the Yugas similar to the zodiacal age referent.

Let us now turn to ideas that have been conflated, and -may I suggest- wrongly so. The subjects are:

• “the end of times” from the Bible,
• the “coming One”
  • which in the New Testament is Jesus;
  • the “coming One,” Lord Maitreya, the next buddha as foretold by the historical buddha, Shakyamuni;
  • and the idea of an “avatar of Peace or of Synthesis as given, first, in the Theosophical literature and, then, in the teachings by Master DK.
• My point is that these referents are distinct in their given contexts (scriptures or teachings). Each is referring to specific agents “coming” for specific activities of Universal Compassion-Wisdom requiring specific criteria in collective human consciousness to be invoked and resonant to that collective consciousness.
• The scriptural texts (Bible and Sutras) include much allegory, thus literal interpretation is to one’s peril. Great teachings are always about consciousness and its expansion, and nothing less.

We’ll explore the Age of Aquarius in pt 2.