A few weeks ago I heard the song age of Aquarius from the 1970s
playing. It made me laugh at the catchy tune and the lyrics that I
remember from when I was growing up.
It also made me laugh to think about how hopeful the hippies were when
they sing that song. So excited about the dawning of a new age and
how great it was going to be! It was enough to get me to go on look
up some information about the age of Aquarius. I went to Wikipedia,
the Internet-based encyclopedia that lots of people laugh and joke
about but they still use it. The entry about the age of Aquarius is a
fun read. It talks about astrological signs which I put no stock and
even though my grandmother religiously read her horoscope every day.
It talks about how and age in astrological terms is 2160 years. And
it talks about how the different ages are defined by where the vernal
equinox falls in the zodiac symbols made by the stars in the sky.
That made me laugh even more because that meant the hippies were all
singing about our planet tilting a little bit further from one side to
another and I knew age was dawning.
When you read deeper into the Wikipedia article talks about how
believers in medieval astrology.
The funniest thing about the Wikipedia entry on the Age of Aquarius is
about the middle of it and says that the Aquarian age will be a rule
world ruled by secretive power-hungry elites seeking absolute power
over others and that knowledge of the Aquarian age will only be valued
for its ability to win wars, that science will be abused, and that the
Aquarian age will be a dark age in which religion is considered
offensive. Reading that made me think about how so many today fit
right into that picture!
Anyways, the whole astrology thing is kind of silly to me. My
grandmother believed in it and would read that thing every day. I
read it when I was growing up but once I got into my teens I thought
it was kind of stupid to live few words in the newspaper tell me how I
was supposed to live my life. And how I was supposed to feel. I much
prefer putting my faith into Jesus Christ and following him and his
teachings in the Bible over the random writings of somebody in a dark
room publishing in a newspaper or whatever.
But that's a different discussion!
Wikipedia entry about Age of Aquarius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Aquarius
