This was written early February 2009 by Mark Borax, author of 2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future.
In the final moments of last year Pluto entered Capricorn, where it will remain until 2025. 2009 is the first of sixteen years designated to rebuild our world. When we spoke of these things at the dawn of the Harmonic Convergence in 1987, we saw that our civilization had gotten so off track that some huge crisis was necessary to draw the world's attention to how far off we were. (This is the whole premise of my book, 2012: Crossing the Bridge to the Future.)
In order to get back on track, mass consciousness had to first be jerked out of its Trance of Normalcy, the thickly drugged state that passes for ordinary everyday reality. The real news of the moment is that normalcy no longer is. The trance is thinning. It's finally getting through the thick head of mankind that we're here for something more than to hide our heads in the sand. The Ostrich Era is over. Is there anyone out there any longer who can doubt that the crisis, and its accompanying partner, awakening, has come?
From the days of 9/11, and the Bush administration's insane power-grabbing response to tragedy, to the collapse of our finance system, the need for Change Change Change has rippled through our country, and, indeed, the whole world. Obama had been banging the gong of truth and financial change, while Bush was stuck hiding in the mud. Yet, in true nonpartisan fashion, penetrating every cross-section of demographics, the wake-up call we predicted 22 years ago has come. The need for change is no longer imminent but here. That in itself is a huge breakthrough compared to where we used to be. Of course, the need for change strikes different people in different ways. And so, the question becomes no longer What, or When, or even If, but How. How are we going to midwife this New Earth rising from the dust and ashes of the old? How are we going to change the world in the next 16 years?
First off, I see little signs of doom and gloom. Yes, it's hard to weather the loss of formerly secure systems. But the American system only ever worked best for the elite few at the top of the pyramid. Everyone else, all over the world, had to pay for something that has now come back to haunt us-the reckless irresponsibility of our leaders. In this Plutonian change I see a new world rising from the molting skin of the old.
I do not foresee the ruination of society, the end of civilization, the collapse of world culture and a return to biblical days wandering in the desert. I do not envision a preindustrial tribal stomp.
What I do see, and feel, more and more each day as my Soul Level Astrology work connects me with many people all over the world, is a resurgence of hope, wonder, magic, and vision. Our current crisis did not spring up overnight, and it's far more than a financial crisis. It's a crisis of meaning, and every crisis provides an equal opportunity. What better time to get in touch with what's real, just as everything unreal fades away.
Imagine a life packed with meaning and value. Imagine a world where creativity triumphs over mediocrity. A place where children are inspired rather than sickened by the truth of their parents' lives. Imagine a blue-green jewel of a planet, whose citizens celebrate the sheer miracle of how we spin through space. A world where simple truths of the heart is what life's about, and we don't have to feel embarrassed and ashamed to answer those prickly questions of our children: Papa-why is there War, and where can I find clean air? Imagine a world where we finally outgrow the insane idea that some group of people is less than us, and deserves to be feared, hated, and persecuted to make us "safe."
We are on the verge of creating that world now. Like every birth, it requires the vigilant support of each of us to assist its full emergence from the hidden realms within. Wherever you are stuck in the old you now have a chance to choose life rather than death, love over fear, transformation over stubbornly clinging to something that didn't work right in the first place.
The Karmic Wheel is turning. Planet Earth is deeply enmeshed in one of her occasional death-and-rebirth spasms. Much is passing. Death always precedes new life. Capricorn is the sign of highest vision. Strike the highest vision you can find about what world you wish to create. Know that all your efforts in that direction will receive a huge boost from Galactic Central at this time. These are no ordinary times. As Capricorn Charles Dickens once said of an earlier time of revolution: These are the best and worst of times. It's up to us which end of the axis to draw from: the stale stories of the six o' clock news, or the radical possibility that Love can actually happen down here, take root, and stick.
