The New Demigods of the Aquarian Age

By Ty Bell

An astrologer’s take the Age of Aquarius, and the socio-political implications of what’s playing out in the shift.

During the Age of Pisces, the collective consciousness was aimed toward Self-Transcendence. After the Aries Age of determination and conquest, we came to understand that a new kind of achievement was possible, and more glorious: that of the complete dissolution of the self, the merging into cosmic consciousness. Quite the opposite of the achievement-mentality (turning the revelations of the previous age on their head), this new ‘achievement’ required ego-dissolution. We had teachers like Jesus, Krishna and others that embodied this beautifully, what in yogic terms we call Bhaki Yoga. The surrender of the self, opening to heart to the frequency of unconditional love, allowing the experience of merging with the Infinite. In this practice, there is a recognition that the conscious mind lives in an illusion of selfhood. In order to experience the next level of evolution, it needs to surrender and allow ‘salvation’ from from this state of the separate self.

This evolution in consciousness was then inverted by the Cult of Control that asserted itself its keepers. They became the demigods of the Piscean Age. Religions perverted selflessness into shame that enslaved people into misery and hatred. They used the zeitgeist of Self-Dissolution (spiritually ‘correct’ and a guiding light during this age when applied with the proper understanding) to impose conquest and enslavement of free people. Bound first by the sword, then by fear and shame, people were ironically and tragically deprived of the Self-Transcendence that was freely available in this age. They were manipulated into believing that only the elite priestly caste had direct contact with the Infinite in this lifetime, and to experience it (after death), they had to follow strict rules and adopt literal interpretations of their myths, shaming and punishing others that encoded the revelation in different stories.

The revelation endured, in the hearts of mystics in every religious tradition. They passed their knowledge down, often in secret so as to keep hidden from the Cult of Control who they knew would pervert its essence. They understood what the revelation of the Age was pointing to. There were also those who rejected the religious symbols entirely: artists, rebels, misfits and social deviants that gave the middle finger to the symbols of their culture that were supposed to represent Self-Transcendence, and they experienced it for themselves, in a kind of ‘joke is on you!’ fashion toward the inverted symbols that had been used to deprive them of it! Sometimes through art, sometimes through sexual freedom, sometimes through drugs and other socially deviant acts, people broke through and found that the true essence of the revelation – Self-Transcendence, and the unconditional love and bliss that come with it. These social deviants demonstrated that when symbols become overly oppressive and invert the meanings they encode, their essence can be more freely realized by subverting them. And sometimes, this is the moral and necessary thing to do, when they’ve become too oppressive. Even when symbols contain the essence of a revelation that’s true in the meta sense, if they invert its meaning and keep us from being able to freely access the revelation they encode we are better off openly rejecting them. To openly reject the Piscean Age symbols was to be called a heretic, and was synonymous, in the people’s minds, with rejecting the more deeply encoded revelation itself.

These are patterns to remember as we enter into the Age of Aquarius.

The new Aquarian Age revelation is twofold: First, that freedom is the essence of our being, and second, we are One human family. The evolutionary urges of the collective are now to experience freedom from the bondage of the Piscean-age enslavement, and to embrace our interconnectedness. The revelation asks us to accept the truth of Oneness – I am you, and you are me. This new revelation pierces through every form of separation – race, culture, gender, class – and says ‘no, these old paradigm hierarchies are based on a lie. The new revelation is that we are all equal in our worthiness. We’re here together as separate beings but we are really just nodes of One being, and we must exist in cooperation. Cooperation is the nature of life, and separation is the destruction of life. This revelation is breaking down the the very concept of the individual self. It understands that we rise, and are made whole again, through cooperation, and the recognition of our brotherhood and sisterhood with all of humanity.

The Age of Aquarius is also bringing rapid acceleration in technology. The beauty illuminated here is free ingenuity and cooperation. In spite of the oppressive structures of the past, these human qualities have broken through, and have given us huge upgrades in our tools and technologies that if used in the spirit of the good, which is to say, embodying true essence of the Aquarian revelation, They could help us re-conceptualize and redesign a world oriented toward freedom, voluntary cooperation, and collective conscious evolution.

If we take a history lesson from the Piscean Age, now, which Cult of Control is to be more feared? Which Cult of Control is more likely to manipulate the people in the coming Age of Aquarius? The Pisces-Age Theocrats of today are like the so-called ‘pagan’ warlords in the time (Aries-Age controllers) that Jesus walked the Earth. Indeed, their power is still expressly manifest in the world, and they are undoubtably fighting to hold onto it. But it’s slipping away. What gives the Cult of Control power is monopoly on the zeitgeist of the Age. People are led into a false duality where they either accept the new revelation- and accept their control – or they reject the revelation – and are cast as heretics. It’s a brilliant manipulation because there’s something about the revelation they claim is true in an archetypal sense, and people intuitively grasp this. Or, they intuitively grasp there’s a manipulation at play, so the reject the new symbols and the deeper revelation they encode. Thus, predictable division and chaos ensues.

If a Cult of Control is going to be successful at maintaining power in the Age of Aquarius, it will do so by manipulating and inverting the new revelations – equality, universal brother/sisterhood, transcending prejudice, growing beyond selfishness, and increasing our cooperation with others. These are the symbols we would look for in the Cult of Control that is most likely to reign in the coming age, and what zeitgeist in the collective field is most potentially damaging. Not because it’s wrong – I know, this seems like a mind-fuck, and that’s by design – but because what’s right (i.e. the Aquarian revelation) is being inverted, just like it was by the Cult of Control in the previous age. When I say ‘by design’ I encourage you to think outside of the framework of sociopathic super-villains, and in the framework of the core assumptions at play in the system. Sociopathic evil is not required to intentionally setup such a manipulation, because it’s bound into the very story of Control itself. It’s inevitable in this story that power will be centralized, and the fixation on control will invert the revelations of any new enlightenment.

This is not to say that the Piscean-Age tyrants of old present no threats. As the Aquarian-age converts will attest (those who ‘get’ the revelation), not accepting the new revelation means you’re not getting the memo! And archeypally, speaking, they are right! So they feel self-righteous, just like the Piscean age converts of old, once they ‘got’ the revelation and experienced that Bhakti for the first time. Everyone who rejects the revelation appears to be stuck in the old paradigm consciousness that hasn’t evolved yet to see it. Some intuit they’ve already lost the battle though, and this is just their final hurrah to assert power before it slips away from them into the hands of the new controllers.

The so-called right-wing fear of this new Technocratic Elite might be seen as an intuition in the collective psyche for what’s coming, if we stay on the path of control, or giving our power to an elite class of controllers. Most of its opponents are beating the drum for old paradigm nationalism and/or religious supremacy since it’s all they know, but instead of dismissing them as apologists for the old paradigm, we might first want to receive the insight they are trying to communicate. The Mythic creature that is Bill Gates, for example (something I will write more about in the future) lines up perfectly with the Demigod archetype for the Age of Aquarius. On a mythic level with the turning of the ages, this archetype has emerged, and I think it’s trying to tell us something.

Just as the Piscean age controllers came with their symbols and forced people into conversion, the same social pressures are occurring now with the converts of the new revelation. Devotees of the new zeitgeist (which is the new, enlightened revelation, inverted by the controllers) have difficulty recognizing that what they are doing is a repeat of what occurred in the last Age. The new religion of Progressive Scientific Rationalism presents itself as immune to these criticisms because the new framing is that we aren’t imposing religion on people, we are now just asserting what is morally right (i.e. scientific progressive rationalism). They fail to see the irony, because framed in another light, we could observe that what’s happening is a new group of awakened converts have received the revelation of the new age. That revelation contains something true in its essence that aligns with the consciousness evolution of the collective, so everyone that doesn’t get it yet is seen as a heretic, or an enemy. If unchecked and unexamined, what’s to say that we will not see a familiar pattern play out in the coming Age?

This is how what we call ‘religions’ are born. This formula:

A True Revelation comes to the collective consciousness via our evolution, often marked by the turning of the Ages. A new insight pierces through that resonates with natural law

Then, a Cult of Control emerges monopolizes these revelations, and inverts them.

Finally, the masses who get the revelation come to believe that all who aren’t following the Cult of Control that claims to be the revelation’s keepers do not accept the revelation itself. They convince the people that these non-believers are worthy of shame, shunning, and even persecution. Separation continues and the essence of the revelation is obscured.

We are witnessing the birth of what could be a new religion, and with it, a new pantheon of demigods.

The old stories have broken down. The Age of Aquarius is fully upon us.

And with the influence of AI in the picture, we are heading into some unprecedented territory.

Never before in known history have any elite group of controllers had the power to monitor, track and control every aspect of our lives. This is not to say they will succeed. But the clue to watch for, if we follow the mythic trajectory, is new measures of control being imposed under the banners of the new Aquarian revelations. These are the symbols that will most likely be used to manipulate the people, and be inverted so their very nature is not realized, as long as we keep giving power to the Cult of Control.

There is a new way, and a better way, to integrate the Aquarian revelations. Like the mystics of old, in the Piscean Age, we can awaken to the new revelations (universality, compassion , and voluntary cooperation) without allowing the symbols to be inverted. To do this we may need to be willing to go against the grain.