The Age of Aquarius, Truth, Resilience, and Words

Someone recently paid me the compliment that they see me as “very grounded and in a good relationship with reality”.

This person is fully qualified to make such a declaration. So it felt nice to hear (despite the fact that my old self-deprecating pattern came out to block me from taking the compliment in) 

I said in response “it’s funny, I was just recounting in a Podcast Episode, the journey it took to get here, because it wasn’t always this way.”

I used to live in a state of perpetual victimhood, and self deception. It went on this way for so many years. 

My victim narrative, and ability to cling to delusion was “my power” or my “winning formula”. I could get all of my needs met, by pleading the victim. 

I didn’t know another way….

Until I did. Until events precipitated that I get radically honest with myself.

Self honesty, has been the single biggest contributing factor to my psychological and spiritual maturity. 

And my capacity to meet the isness of life has become my new super power.

I’m not saying this with anything but humility, and actual gratitude for all of the pain that landed me here. 

I say it because I know there are others languishing in a similar pain. I see it every day. 

People terrified to face the truth about themselves, their lives, and their circumstances. On one hand, this is a normal part of development, and the way we move through loss and disappointment.

On the other hand, our culture encourages it. It encourages self deception. It encourages niceness over truth. It encourages affirmation over honesty. Positivity over reality.

I spent years turning myself inside out with deception, trying to avoid the pain of what was true, all the while making myself sicker and sicker, while my family stood by, culturally conditioned to enable me, because to be honest felt “mean”.

In this episode, I muse about how this is a function of the “turning of the age.”

And how being in the threshold between the age of Pisces (compassion, unconditional love, fantasy, addiction) and Aquarius (idealism, humanitarian causes, hope, fixed ideologies and disembodiment) could be manifesting on the shadow plane. 

And how embodiment, and a strong connection to truth and reality, builds resilience.  

This epsiode isn't for the faint of heart. It is for those who want to move powerfully into the New Age, in a grounded way. 

Themes in the Episode:

The way projected ideals, can affect society. And what grows in the gap between projected ideals, and what is real. 

How very intellectual mental outlook divorces us from the wisdom of the body and being fully grounded in reality.

As a fixed sign, Aquarius is almost militant in it's approach to implementation.

I speak about about my upbringing, and some of the disempowering dynamics that sprung up as a result. 

The importance of honesty and resliance.

The outcome of living with a rescuer archetype.

And what we might do instead. 

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