AN ASTROLOGICAL VIEW ON CREATION SPIRITUALITY

Have you ever considered the possibility that there might be a correspondence between the spiritual pathways of Creation Spirituality and the fixed signs of the zodiac? In my opinion the Via Positiva corresponds with the sign of Taurus, the Via Negativa with Scorpio, the Via Creativa with Leo, and the Via Transformativa with Aquarius. I also see a correspondence between the spiritual pathways of Creation Spirituality and the Mysteries of the Rosary. The Joyfull Mysteries might correspond to the Via Positiva, the Sorrowfull Mysteries to the Via Negativa, the Mysteries of the Light to the Via Creativa, and the Glorious Mysteries to the Via Transformativa. The fact that we are about to enter the Age of Aquarius (2160 AD), does not necessarily mean that Christianity is coming to an end, but that it will be more universal and mystical, amongst the other world religions. That is, the cultural expression of Christianity will be transformed into someting more universal, and Christhood will be less Piscean, and more Aquarian in nature. In other words, when the Vernal Point changes from the Sidereal Sign of Pisces to the Sidereal Sign of Aquarius, the world as a whole might enter the Via Transformativa, the way of Compassion as Meister Eckhart would say. The Judeo-Christian emphasis on compassion started when the Vernal Point entered the sidereal sign of Pisces. The Sidereal Zodiac refers to the inner space of the soul, called 'The Interior Castle' by the Carmelite mystic Teresa of Avila. The innermost centre of the soul is what Meister Eckhart calls the 'Godhead'. The more people turn to the source and ground of their existence, the more 'without image' both God and man will become. In the depths of the soul, God, man and creation are one. The Vernal Point might be considered as an image of the Incarnated Word of God in the Divine Person of Jesus Christ, in particular as the image of the Resurrecting (Cosmic) Christ through the ages. In other words, the coming Age of Aquarius is nothing but a reference to the vision of God's Kingdom on Earth, in which mankind lives in communion with God's Spirit, and people live in communion with each other. A vision of justice and peace that springs from a source of Living Water.

I am Frans Pernot from the Netherlands, I wrote my masters thesis in psychology about correspondences between psychological personality theories and the astrological model of personality. In the past 24 years I went through a major conversion process. The complex ego construction of my horoscope was annihilated in what might be called a Dark Night of the Soul during a severe psychological crisis. For me, the zodiac, a language of images generated by the human soul, has been transformed to the prayers and meditations of the Rosary, being an expression of the Word of God. Of crucial importance was a life changing religious experience while I was praying the third Glorious Mystery of the Rosary, the Descent of the Holy Spirit over the apostles, on the sunday of Pentecost 1996, the Day after my mother deceased.