I keep thinking about religion and the zodiac. I’m interested in why religion would try to taint the zodiac. Of course, there’s the world-domination through discreditation angle, but I wonder about the other motivators. I wonder how the zodiac played into gender roles, because one commonality of all the Abrahamic religions is rampant, divinely-endorsed misogyny. I wonder how/if astrology enforced the superiority of the feminine and why it was a threat to the damaging patriarchal Abrahamic religions.
When I look through The Ages, I see that we are currently in the Age of Pisces, going into the Age of Aquarius. Aquarians are notorious for friendliness, independence, being progressive and analytical, and being pretty firm in their ideas. The Age of Aquarius will be a perfect slot of time for the influence of the Abrahamic religions to wane, which is probably why we see them advertising everywhere and why they’re constantly being talked about. We could speculate that the Age of Aquarius will be a glory period for secularism and spiritual freedom. It’s highly likely that most people will eventually shun organized religion unless it has a Buddhist and/or pagan flavor to it. And, unless Buddhism progresses, it may get the boot, as well.
The Age of Pisces represents a strong Christian flavor, of course. The Age of Aries was represented by Judaism. The Age of Taurus (which I contend starts the cycle) was represented by various pagan belief systems, notably of the Ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Mesopatamian peoples and Native American peoples. I’ve been looking into the Asian cultures, but I’m not sure I’ve gone far enough back in time to feel comfortable shoving them in this time-frame as a group of far-reaching import.
Thinking about the Ages and religious tendencies excites me. I’m no historian (actually history only excites me as it relates to misogyny and religion, which brings us to astrology), but I’m sure we’ve already lived through one Age of Gemini. That would have been the perfect time for things like tantric sex and kundalini yoga to have evolved.
I’ll post more on this as it comes. I have a lot of research to do!
on Apr 27th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Check out AstroTheology. He’s got quite a few free chapters online. http://astro-theology.net/astrotheology1.html