The Dusking of the Age of Aquarius

Quentin Tarintino’s movie “From Dusk to Dawn” provides the opposite of Aquarius. Things go okay early in the day, dawn, as well as one expects when escaped convicts run through law enforcement, that is, up to dusk.

Give or take hundreds of years from where we sit now, or perhaps even back then, depending on the calculation, here’s what occurs: an astrologist proclaims the coming end of the era of Pisces and the epoch of Aquarius. That’s where the song “The Age of Aquarius” claims its foundation and honesty. You know the lyrics, sing it:

It is the dawning of the Age of the Aquarius

(Okay, skip some of the song here)

Harmony and understanding

Sympathy and trust abounding

First, Pisces began in 1 CE, which is considered the same or near to 1 AD. Lasting, according to astrological calculations, until (choose one) 2150 or 2600. As a reminder, now is 2023. The period highlights faith, belief, sacrifice, and religion. We’re beating those to smithereens—and will Aquarius harmony, understanding, sympathy, and trust win out? I’m optimistic, but I must say it’s unlikely.

Second, if Aquarius rests on the horizon or already controls us, consider its call to personkind:

Love (We are pulverizing Shakespeare’s stories in real life, i.e., A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its Donkey Man)

Light (How did the Eagles sing it in Already Gone? “. . . . When you look up in the sky, you can see the stars and still not see the light . . . .”)

And Humanity. (Well, we’re trying to kill as many as possible, it appears, in all situations.)

What do we do for ourselves in this type of world? Thank you, Eagles, who gave us the answer once again, buried in their stories of anguish and splinters:

So often times it happens

That we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key

So, how does one work around all of this? Use some Shakespearean techniques; don’t necessarily write poetry, but “capture the essence of romance with lyrical eloquence.” In other words, enjoy your life no matter the hardships. Hardships hurt, but the best might come from the future yet ahead. You have the key. Don’t depend on everyone else to turn it. Unlock, go forward.

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Read about the greats in our history and how they handled enormous stresses that would cripple most of us. Find authors like Walter Isaacson who writes about successful people and their challenges from near the beginning to now.

Now, go and open that lock with your key. Make it Dawn in Aquarius.

(“Already Gone” 1974 On the Border album
Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Writers: Jack Tempchin, Robert Arnold Strandlund
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind)