There has been an evolutionary process through the past two ages and into the current emerging age in our approach to the higher self, which some may refer to as God.

During the age of Aries, the theme of which was conquest, the higher self seems to have taken a much more proactive approach. Reading the Old Testament, one reads of a God that regularly intervened in human affairs both at the individual and at societal levels. Yahweh would come upon, or in the sense I mean here, come through a person seemingly unbidden and what you had in effect was the conquest of the lower self by the higher self. This was in keeping with the nature of the age. Aries is a cardinal fire sign ruled by Mars. It should surprise no one that life was harsh, disagreements were settled by violence, and it was deemed that the spirit of the Lord was strong in those who could kick the most butt. If this sounds crazy, go back and read the Old Testament—Joshua, and Judges in particular. You will find throughout the Old Testament, largely the age of Aries, that in those days God did not take a lot of crap. Ask Lot’s wife. Talk to Noah among many, many others.

During the age of Pisces, the theme of which was surrender, we were taught by the various religions to surrender the lower self to the higher self. God has been seen to intervene much less overtly, and one was led to voluntarily submit to the will of the higher self, the voice of God within. This surrender has been one of the central tenets of the religions of the past two thousand years. Pisces is a mutable water sign, ruled by Jupiter through most of the age, but by Neptune since its discovery in the 1860s. Pisces has been a difficult age. Mutable water is a rather formless energy, and life on earth in all of its physicality has been viewed dimly at best. The focus was on the after-life, and the physical life was seen as a means to that end, when it wasn’t despised and thought debased  and only to be transcended. The relationship between the person, the personality, and the higher self was one of supplication and seeking favor, with a happy ending only when death finally ended the travail of life.

At the present, as we move further through the age change into Aquarius, the theme of which is self responsibility, a new paradigm is emerging and our relationship to our higher self, or God if you will, is undergoing another huge transformation. Aquarius is a fixed air sign. Simply put, this translates to thought made manifest. Aquarius is a human sign and the changes over the past 250 years since Aquarius first started to roll in have been staggering. In today’s world, you decide what religion or philosophy suits you, and it is no longer an accident of birth. We have the entire world’s spiritual teachings spread before us, to sift through and choose among. The similarities have become more important than the differences and as one rises in consciousness, the realization comes that we are our higher selves. Our connection to God is who we really are. There is no longer anything to achieve other than to remove the veils, to clean the lenses, to expunge our fears, predjudices, hatreds and other illusions of separation and aloneness. We have only to awaken to that which we already are. Know you not that you are Gods?