Happy Birthday Aquarius
Aquarius – The Waterman
Aquarius, the Waterman, is symbolized by The Man who bears a water pitcher out of which there flows the water that revitalizes the Earth, dried up for want of the spirit of truth and the wisdom of love. As an object of meditation, this symbol is immensely rich, especially in this day of dearth of the Spirit, on the threshold of the Aquarian Age. In this sign of the Son of Man, the matured man comes more than man – a man Christed with the help of the Angel in man.
Awakened responses to this Angel-Man sign deals with the individual, yet in the sense of the Christ-universal; hence it fosters friendship and brotherhood. The Waterman is bound up with the human and the humane; it embraces all humanity, and its characteristic features is its love of human beings, a feeling of cosmic kinship with all mankind.
As a man’s physical form is the mould that some time must receive the higher birth, the spiritual birth of Christ, so Aquarius is the matrix sign that receives, synthesizes, and balances the forces of all the other zodiacal signs. The centering powers of the Zodiac are the four fixed signs, each fixed sign having two companion-signs, as it were, one on each side. Taurus, the Bull, is the fixed, centering force between Aries and Gemini; Leo, the Lion, between Cancer and Virgo; Scorpio, the Eagle, between Libra and Sagittarius; Aquarius, the Man, between Capricorn and Pisces.
The eagle, representative of the bird creation, bears in its whole body specialized forces that correlate with the human head. The lion is largely a rhythmic system. The bull is predominately a digestive organism. Man combines and harmonises these three elements of the eagle, the lion, and the bull- head system, rhythmic system, and metabolic-limb system- in a balanced manner. Thus, Aquarius, the Man, is the sign of signs, the synthesis of all of the twelve signs of the Zodiac. It is understandable, therefore, that Aquarius should rule the science of the stars.
In Aquarius, the highly evolved individual matures into a spiritualised being, the ‘perfect man’ of Christ, described by St. Paul in Ephesians 4:13 ‘Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ’. This describes the balanced Aquarian, one who has come of soul age by making independent, though coordinated, the soul forces of thinking, feeling and willing, correlated, respectively, with the head and nerve-system, the rhythmic system, and the metabolic-limb system.
Today, most Aquarians are as yet far from being perfect men. No man takes the lofty love and light of Aquarius, nor becomes a member of that brotherhood of initiates fitted to take the love of heaven and earth and to transmute the hate received from the reactionary and retarded people, nor becomes worthy to serve as a leader and spokesman for mankind, unless he has met, and is moved by, his higher self, the Christ-Angel within, called by St. Paul ‘the Lord from heaven’.
Highly evolved souls, responding to the mighty mood of Aquarius, become conscious of the Spirit in the Earth, the Cosmic Christ, as well as conscious of the guiding eternal being, the spiritual self within. These awakened ones become conscious cooperators with the Christ in the evolution of the cosmos. The Aquarian Age, the age of altruism and brotherhood- when the Sun by precession of the equinox will be in Aquarius for 2160 years- will not properly prevail until the Sixth Post-Atlantean Civilization, which will follow our present one. For brotherhood to blossom then, preparation must be made now. The preparers are those awakened ones who respond to the spiritual call of this Angel-Man sign, as did John the Baptist, the preparer for the Christ.
In John the Baptist there lived an Angel who had to go before to announce the approach of the Christ-Ego that would live in Jesus of Nazareth as the Lord from heaven. John the Baptist who baptized Jesus in the Jordan, was able to be the bearer of this Angel because he had taken his initiation in the sign Aquarius, the sign of the Angel. In virtue of John’s baptism with water, there was brought about a loosening of the etheric body from the physical body during the immersion. At that moment, the baptized were made incisively aware of the significance of the impending Mystery of Golgotha, the great world-historic Event and Deed of Christ.
Through baptism with water, John the Baptist, the Waterman, brought to birth in the baptized the needed light of self-knowledge. This true knowledge flows from the fount of the cosmic Christ-ethers by way of the Uranian sign of the Son of Man, Aquarius, for it is in this sign that the individual, soul-matured and Christ-conscious, can say ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth’. The purpose of Aquarius is fittingly pictured by the symbol of the man pouring water out of an urn upon the earth. This is no ordinary water, but the new Christ-etheric, vivifying, spiritual force. Thus Aquarius might be designated ‘the Etheric Man’.
Intense sensitivity is a pronounced trait of Aquarius, a sensitivity that is mental, psychic, and spiritual. Aquarians have a marked psychic power and an intuitive mind, the effect of the Christ-etheric element, making them as powerful and intense as the natives of Scorpio, yet with a quality and impression different from that of Scorpio for in Aquarius there is an airy-etheric-mental something which ever eludes or transcends the understanding of even those souls with fine insight into human character. It is likely to hurt or incommode those lacking in true self-knowledge or wisdom. In this fixed air sign, Aquarius, thought power is fixed or concentrated until thinking becomes incandescent or alive in an etheric sense. The word ‘man’ is derived from the Sanskrit manu, which means ‘to think’. Through making thinking firm and alive in Aquarius, life at last becomes life in the sense of the Christ-Spirit, the higher Ego, the true I.
No man can become free until he knows the truth, and this freedom may be gained in this sign of the Son of Man, because man may raise himself as a qualified Christ-soul up to the light of the realm where truth abides. In the Gospel of St. John 16: 12-14, Christ says;
‘I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that he shall speak, and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and show it unto you’.
Indications of the Aquarian spiritual water are to be found in the Gospels and throughout the rest of the New Testament in statements pointing to the New Age, telling of a humanity reborn and made free through knowledge of the truth.
The forces of the future flow from Aquarius, revealing ‘things to come’ in the true, Uranian, innovating, originating manner, and ‘turning the world upside down’.
The hieroglyphic symbol of Aquarius, consisting of two wave-like lines, reveals much more than can mere words to those in whom the mood of meditation is innate. Here the intellect is helpless, but meditation is fruitful. In the cyclic evolution of the Ego through all the signs of the Zodiac in successive earthly lives, Aquarius is the sign where the circle is left behind for the spiraling ascent in mental, psychic and spiritual progress. In this sign is the needed fixed-air quality and the dual forces of polarity, symbolically expressed by the two wavy lines, indicating the cosmic ethers in constant movement, equalizing and harmonizing the lower earthly Ego and the higher I.
In every sign of the Zodiac there are souls that respond to the negative influences, which are the reverse of the awakened response. In Aquarius are many who have not yet been ‘made a quickening spirit’. Among them are swollen egotists, hidebound and pridebound. The higher birth does not take place until the man reverses and raises his rhythm, correcting ill destiny and bringing the lower Ego into a growing power of fine self-control through self-knowledge.
All too often, Aquarians display a static quality, an element of inertia, indicating that the soul’s awakening has not yet taken place; their promises remain unfulfilled. Because of their laziness, their splendid faculties go to seed. Although the majority of individuals still seek their own interests, the influence of this humanitarian sign is nevertheless making itself felt. Acts of altruism, group awareness, and free activity are evident everywhere.
It should be noted that periodic states of silence, seemingly strange, are characteristic of Aquarians. In fact one of the marked traits of this sign is the need and will to be quite and concentrated, to be utterly alone at times. ‘Reticence becomes meditative power’ is therapeutic for Aquarians. In their silence is their strength.
He who would seek an understanding of Aquarius to grasp its esoteric significance must meditate much and often upon this fifteenth chapter of St. John’s Gospel. It shows what hatred the awakened or Christed Aquarian must take from the world and then transmute, to help the world in its evolution. The Lord says, ‘If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you … But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law. They hated me without a cause’. St. John 15: 18,19,25.
The Christ-born and etheric-conscious Aquarian experiences all humanity in himself. He knows nothing of aliens or foreigners; he actually experiences the truth expressed in the motto of the Great Seal of the United States, ‘E pluribus unum’ – Out of many, one; or, many in one. Which portrays the gift of God into which humanity will come as ever more men open themselves to receive the Christ-Spirit.
Since the United States of America – with the Moon in Aquarius and Uranus ascending – is an Aquarian-Uranian country, whose inhabitants are from all races and nations, we find here the early evidences of this spirit.
To Aquarians, no one is a stranger or an alien, not even the person who lacks love entirely, or loves himself solely. They know that all humans beings are related, despite marked differences in their evolutionary status. The advanced Aquarians seeks to have human beings become not only citizens of the world but citizens of the cosmic. Aquarius is the opposite of the royal and kingly sign Leo, in that it fosters democracy. In Aquarius, we may attain to genuine democracy and, at the same time, to the dignity of man; this will be the more apparent the more men will take in and work with the wisdom of love and the spirit of truth.
The Aquarian, aware of and responsive to the Christ-etheric world, can never change his conviction of truth or move from his fixed purpose. The faith of Aquarius is rooted and grounded in knowledge; the spirit-lighted reason must be able to solve the riddle of life and death in such a way as to satisfy both the mind and the innate religious sense. Aquarius dislikes indecision and disloyalty. The Aquarian has convictions of truth by which he abides with rocklike firmness and according to which he acts, regardless of the world’s disapproval. As a Christ-etheric sensitive, he knows that the suggestions he receives are from a realm more rarefied than that of the earth. He obeys such touches with truth, and when his soul is well matured and expresses wisdom, such a Water-bearer can pour from his pitcher into human hearts, the veritable water of Christ-life.
This creative, cosmic sign is ruled by the awakener, Uranus, which means ‘heaven’. It orbits beyond Saturn, which is the outermost planet arising within our solar system. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto had a different origin; hence they are referred to as transcendental planets. The axis of Uranus is almost at right angels with the axis of the Earth. It is not surprising, therefore, that Uranus tends to upset convention and to break up everything rigid and standardized. It makes non-conformists and reformers. It brings completely new orientation. To those who can respond, the orientation is cosmic in scope. The influence of Uranus is lightning-like, always acting with surprising suddenness and speed, and producing unexpected events.
Sometimes Saturn is assigned as co-ruler of Aquarius. The importance of Saturn and Uranus depends on one’s stage in evolution. Weak souls that have not learned the lessons of the other signs – especially those of Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn – may still need the pedagogy of Saturn and make little response to Uranus. At present, undisciplined Ego’s react unfavourably, unpredictably, and erratically to its influence.
The truly mature and evolved Aquarians possesses all the practical and persevering qualities of the preceding Saturnine sign, Capricorn, yet with the added Uranian power of instant intuition, lofty ideals, and a natural ability and ease in reading character. They are refined, artistic, intelligent, faithful, and humane. Inwardly tranquil, very quite, but extremely intense, strong, forceful, incandescent souls, they impress one with their innate, etheric, psychic power and marked mentality, combined with a disposition delightfully open and naïve. The joyousness of this angelic sign sometimes gives an air of apparent frivolity and this tends to mislead others as to the true worth of Aquarians.
Hypersensitive and high-strung, they act with swift speed. Although they are able to resist fatigue, they are apt to injure their health if they apply themselves incessantly to some particular prolonged work. Exposure, likewise, may be a cause for ill health, for Aquarius rules the sense of warmth, making Aquarians particularly sensitive to atmospheric changes and fluctuations in temperature. There is a tendency to poor circulation and cold feet. The ankles are the gift of Aquarius to the marvelous physical body of man.
To attain to height and worth in Aquarius, we must look upon Christ as the living water; St. John 4-
‘Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life’.
It is God’s plan for every man to become a master. It is fitting that Aquarius should be the symbol for the Gospel of St. Matthew, which portrays Christ Jesus primarily as the Man. St. John gives us the soaring Scorpio-Eagle thoughts of the Christ. St. Mark presents the Leo-Lion Sun Power of the Son of God. St. Luke pictures divine compassion and love, symbolized by the sacrifice of the Taurus Bull. The three elements of thinking, feeling and willing are balanced in Man-Aquarius. St. Matthew traces the geneology of Jesus through three times fourteen generations, showing how, through ages of time, a very special body with prepared within the Hebrew race, which thereby performed a mission for the whole of mankind. In the unique Man, Jesus of Nazareth, there incarnated Christ at the Baptism by John the Baptist.
It is significant that St. Matthew is the only gospel writer who relates that Christ Jesus, at the moment of betrayal addressed Judas, his betrayer, as ‘Friend’ (St. Matthew 26:50) Throughout his Gospel St. Matthew describes Christ Jesus as the Son of God in the human form of Man. This very highest ideal-man become God-man-become a reality in Christ Jesus. Our remoteness from this divine goal, which is our human destiny, fills us with humility; but the ideal-reality in Christ Jesus gives us hope that we may ultimately attain this highest measure of Man.
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