Pisces-Virgo: Completing The Age Of Spiritual Redemption

We are coming to the end of the Piscean Age, that began around 1 AD. Each Age lasts around 2,160 years, so while we are indeed on the ‘cusp’ of the coming Aquarian Age, we have about 150 years of Piscean influence yet to contend with. Since we are at the climax, it makes sense to reflect on our track record over the past 2,000 years and see what this Piscean Age has been about. In particular in terms of our collective spiritual growth, and what we can still redeem from it.

Pisces is the sign of ‘poets and dreamers’. It’s strong connection with the realm of imagination means it is also associated with suffering, delusion and self-sacrifice, mystery, secrets, illusion, self-delusion and escapism. Alice Bailey, in “Esoteric Astrology”, also refers to this time as an Age of Glamor. We are so easily fooled by glamor: anything glamorous, dazzles and enthralls us. As a society we are willing to pay anything for a dream, and neglect what is real. The Movie Industry captures the mood of our time and this is illustrated by how much we are willing to pay celebrities to look good, while we are content that practical workers who contribute something real and tangible in the world, including Teachers, Nurses and health workers, can barely pay their mortgages.

This is the Piscean Age in a nutshell: trying to make a dream real, while ignoring the underlying practical reality. It is an Age of Denial and Fantasy. We are so hooked on glamor that we have completely lost sight of the underlying reality, which is why we don't experience the degree of spiritual connectedness that our ancient ancestors did. Being held in a hypnotic trance by glamor, actually prevents us from connecting with what is real.

“You live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality, but you do not know this. When you understand this, you will see that you are nothing, and being nothing you are everything. That is all.”
– Kalu Rinpoche

As we collectively journey through this cusp of Ages from Pisces to Aquarius, it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to tell fact from fantasy and this gets us into big trouble! This is where we need the discernment of Pisces' opposite sign: Virgo*. Just as the qualities of Aquarius’ opposite sign Leo, will awaken us to the higher potential of the Aquarian Age, so it will be through embracing Virgoan energy and qualities that we will collectively awaken and break free from the powerful grip of Piscean daydreaming and ‘get real’ to the higher Piscean potential of our spiritual reality.

The discernment of Virgo leads us away from a lower Piscean consciousness of imaginary (fantasized) Spiritual ideals, and brings us closer to a real awareness of Spiritual truth. It is not through denying reality that we will come to recognize the truth of our Being, but through accepting and analyzing our reality, in a very deep Virgoan way.

While Pisces is dazzled by image, Virgo challenges us to go deeper and find substance. We come to know for ourselves, in spiritual terms, what is real and what isn’t. Once illusion and delusions have dissolved, the higher Piscean consciousness knows itself to be ‘at one’ with all that is, as a result of very real, substantial direct experience.

As we close out this Piscean Age we are living with the consequences of clinging to fantasized ideals, while failing to look deeper into the truth of our being: our spiritual reality. A look back over the last 2,000 years of war, strife, terror, violence and torture, and we can easily see why this Piscean Age is one of suffering. This daydream is really a nightmare that we need to wake up from.

"the 20th century witnessed the greatest suffering,
with the greatest number of lives lost at the hands of other humans,
in the entire history of the species"
- Gregg Braden, Fractal Time, p124

This fact reveals the depth of our collective delusion: we think of ourselves as the most advanced of all societies, and yet this is the harsh reality of our legacy. This seems so removed from enlightenment that one may be forgiven for having doubts if we are even spiritually evolving at all. Individuals with a strong Pisces influence are all too aware of the suffering in the world, and may turn to all manner of escapism, food, alcohol, drugs, movies, games – you name it, we’ll try anything to avoid having to face reality. On one level it is actually understandable, the degree of suffering in this world is overwhelming: yet it is all the result of an obsession with, and inability to free ourselves from, the power of our own imagination.

The key to the ‘mind’s true liberation’ (the promise of the coming Aquarian Age) lies in understanding the deeper mysteries of Pisces, including what suffering and self-sacrifice are really about, from a spiritual perspective. But how? This is where the discernment, deep analysis and healing energy of Virgo is needed.

We are evolving in consciousness and we are actually just a quantum leap away from having the consciousness to comprehend the higher vibration, the true spiritual aspect, of Pisces. The 12 zodiac signs are actually 12 Divine intelligences, or ‘intelligent energies’. Their influence upon us depends also upon our degree of openness and consciousness.

At it’s purest expression Piscean energy opens us up to a real experience of our own Divinity: one-ness with all that is through an individual experience of the Divine. At it’s lowest interpretation, filtered through a ‘foggy, confused’ human mind, it stimulates imagination, paranoia, and leads us into fearful imaginary realms with the painful repercussions of illusory thinking. Make no mistake, I am not suggesting that we are imagining our pain. Sadly, our pain and suffering are very, very real.

The important spiritual lesson of Pisces, is that our suffering is real, even though the cause may be an illusion (a mistake, or a lie).

For example: you walk into a room and see a poisonous snake in your bed. You experience the very real physiological effects of terror. You are shaking, your mouth is dry, meanwhile your hands are dripping with sweat, and your heart is racing so fast you might just have a heart attack or a stroke. All of this is very, very real. The suffering is real. Then you put the light on, and realize there never was a snake, it was a cord that had fallen off the curtains. Of course you feel relief now, but at the time your suffering was very real. So real it could have killed you, and yet it was all based on an illusion and not on an accurate perception of reality.

The Piscean Age has been one of suffering through fear and terror. Real fear and real terror based on illusion. The spiritual message of Pisces is that when we fail to perceive our reality correctly, fear and terror result. The solution is to return to wholeness, using the discernment of Virgo to perceive the whole of our reality, as it actually is. On a deeper spiritual level Virgo knows that all matter is spirit in physical form. As we continue living through the cusp of Ages we'd be wise to remember it.

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*The opposite pole of any sign is a spiritual ‘gateway’ in the sense that it opens us up to the higher spiritual potential of our own sign. By embracing the energy and character of the opposite sign we energetically create an evolutionary loop (like the ‘figure of eight’ infinity symbol) that enables a quantum leap to a higher Soul vibration. I will explain this process more in a future Blog, and what it means for our individual spiritual path. Here we are not speaking about individuals with these qualities, or signs, but our collective spiritual evolution. It is our global society that has been lulled into a Piscean-like trance with the ‘cultural traditions’ of each country forming part of it’s own ‘glamor’, as it contributes to our collective illusion of separation. Neither does it mean that all Virgo individuals are enlightened: there is a distinction between the Soul-vibration of a sign, and it’s personality expression.