WHAT IS “NEW AGE?”
WHAT IS “NEW AGE?”
Nancy B. Detweiler, M.Ed., M.Div.
As a child, I threw stones into a lake to watch the rippling water expand into ever larger circles. Although puzzled, I accepted this sequence of events as a fact of life. Regardless of how many times I tossed in a stone, the water never failed to surge forth in circles that steadily increased in size.
Although we seldom stop to think about it, time as we measure it does the same thing—it expands into ever increasing cycles of time. We accept as a fact of life that our lives include a multiplicity of segments of time: seconds … minutes … hours … days … weeks … months … years … decades … generations … and even centuries.
What we have not yet experienced is a cycle of time greater than a century. That is what makes 2012 such a unique time in human history. We are experiencing the end of much larger cycles of time: a 2000 years cycle known as a Zodiac Age … a 5000 years cycle known as a World Age … a 26,000 years cycle known as the Precession of the Equinoxes (The number of years is rounded off for each cycle). Time lines are merging into one as we pass from the old world into a new Earth.
Just as we cannot stop the passage of a year or a decade, we lack the ability to stop a new 2000 years cycle from emerging. Whether we like it or not, we are leaving the Piscean Age and entering the New Aquarian Age.
The turmoil raging throughout our world signifies the awakening of people to the truth that life was created to be much more fulfilling than we have thus far known. Humanity is awakening to the awareness that We Are One Family of God. We desire to cease fighting one another … to eradicate hunger … to abolish poverty.
The end of the Piscean Age marks the end of life as we have experienced it. As we move into the New Aquarian Age, we can already see signs of a much more loving world emerging. If we stop and think about it, all of us can perceive ways in which our world is making very positive changes. In the coming weeks and months, many more revelations of good will be unveiled.
We have learned to accept the changes that come with a new century. Now we are faced with the necessity to be open to a vast transformation of our world as the New Aquarian Age emerges. The fact that we are also experiencing a New World Age and a New Precession of the Equinoxes magnifies this forthcoming transformation.
An excellent article on the Precession of the Equinoxes may be found at: http://www.shiftoftheage.com/2009/11/02/precession-of-the-equinox-from-darkness-into-light-2/
