Date: June 12th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: cock of michael obama
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Jung never wrote a systematic treatise on the Age of Aquarius, but he did engage with it symbolically and mythologically — especially in later works like Aion (1951) and his Red Book (composed ~1914–1930, published posthumously in 2009). Here's how he understood and approached it:
1. The Age of Aquarius as a Symbolic Transition
In Aion, Jung interprets history as unfolding through astrological ages, where each ~2,000-year period is shaped by the dominant symbolic energies of its corresponding zodiacal sign:
The Age of Taurus (Bull-worship, goddess religions),
The Age of Aries (heroic-warrior cultures, Yahweh, Mosaic monotheism),
The Age of Pisces (Christianity and its opposites),
Followed by the Age of Aquarius (projected to begin around 2000 AD, though astrologers disagree on exact timing).
He argued that the Age of Pisces is marked by a duality (the twin fish swimming in opposite directions), representing the psychological tension between opposites — conscious/unconscious, light/dark, good/evil — embodied in the Christ/Antichrist archetype.
Aquarius, then, would represent the resolution or culmination of that psychic tension — not its erasure, but its confrontation.
2. The Symbol of Aquarius
Jung didn’t write a detailed breakdown of Aquarius as a zodiacal symbol, but what can be inferred from his writings:
Aquarius is the water-bearer, but paradoxically it is an air sign. The image is of a man pouring out water — a symbol of life, cleansing, or revelation.
Jung might have seen this as a release of unconscious contents — a collective confrontation with the psychic shadow that Christianity repressed: instinct, femininity, matter, and evil.
The water-bearer pours out rather than contains — possibly a symbol of dissolution of boundaries, the unleashing of chaos or gnosis, or the collective individuation of humanity.
His emphasis in Aion was not utopian — the Age of Aquarius was unlikely to be an enlightened paradise. Rather, it would be the age in which the unconscious content repressed during the Piscean age returns, possibly in terrifying form.
“We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos—the right time—for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods,’ of the fundamental principles and symbols.” (Aion)
3. Gnosticism, the Shadow, and the Return of the God Within
In the Red Book and elsewhere, Jung suggested that the next religious age would be marked not by an externalized God (Christ, church, dogma), but by an internalized God — the Self — revealed through individuation.
This Age of Aquarius would thus be characterized by a rediscovery of gnosis and the rebirth of ancient inner wisdom.
The shadow of the Christian age — the repressed opposites — would rise into view, both individually and culturally.
The Antichrist would not merely be a political figure, but a psychological phenomenon: the over-identification with rationalism, technology, scientism — the inflation of the human ego in opposition to God.
He warned that failure to integrate this shadow would lead to catastrophe. Hence, he believed this new age required psychological maturity and symbolic literacy — tools he thought depth psychology could provide.
4. Ambiguity and Caution
Jung viewed these astrological transitions not as deterministic prophecy, but as symbolic frameworks expressing psychic undercurrents.
He was cautious about literalizing the Age of Aquarius, even while engaging it:
“I am not a prophet, I can only point to things that are happening.”
— Jung to Miguel Serrano (C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships)
Jung’s framework suggests the Aquarian age will require:
Radical inner transformation,
Confrontation with evil and unconscious content,
Breakdown of old religious and societal structures,
Emergence of new forms of spiritual understanding rooted in the Self.
In Summary
Jung saw the Age of Aquarius as the incoming epoch after the Age of Pisces, bringing upheaval, psychological confrontation, and potential spiritual renewal.
The symbol of Aquarius — the water-bearer — represents a pouring out of unconscious contents, gnosis, or chaos.
He viewed it not optimistically or apocalyptically, but as a dangerous opportunity: a kairotic time when individuation must be scaled up to the level of collective humanity, or else psychic inflation and mass psychosis would prevail.
The new God-image would not be external or institutional, but internal, paradoxical, and nondual."
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5736939&forum_id=2#49010520)