Jesus and The Precession of the Ages "The Great Year and the Turning of the Ages" The timing of Jesus’ birth was not accidental. He was born right at the meeting point between the Age of Aries and the Age of Pisces. For those unfamiliar with astrology, let us take a moment to review what these signs mean. The twelve astrological Ages of the world are part of the great 25,920-year Precession of the Equinox in the science of astronomy. This is the circular rotation that our northern magnetic field creates as it slowly rotates towards and away from the center of our galaxy. This process takes almost 26,000 years and this Precession is called the Great Astronomical Year. During the time of greatest awareness, our planet’s magnetic orientation points towards the bright star Vega, considered the Harp Star in the constellation Lyra. The ancient people of Britain called it King Arthur’s harp, but long before that it had been known as the Harp of Thoth or Hermes, the God of wisdom, who passed it on to his nephew Apollo or Horus (Truth), who in turn gave it to his son, Orpheus, whose playing was so beautiful that Pluto, the Lord of the underworld, wept tears of iron when he heard it. For the Sumerians, the constellation Lyra represented a vulture, the ancient symbol for Mut, the Egyptian goddess of transformation. The Age of Darkness When our northern magnetic pole is pointed towards the star of Polaris, our planet falls into its greatest spiritual darkness since it is pointed away from the center of our galaxy. To the naked eye all the other stars appear to circle around it, and thus we call it the North star. In truth, Polaris appears to be motionless at the center of the entire swirl of circumpolar stars, a still point in a turning world. Polaris lies in the tip of the tail of Ursa Minor, the little bear, and in the Greek culture it was called the Star of Arcady, named after Arcas, the son of Callisto, who was thrown into heaven by Jupiter just as he was about to ignorantly slay his mother. This story may also be a metaphor for the suppression of the Divine Feminine that has occurred in the past few millennia as Polaris came into prominence in our sky. It will be completely at alignment with the Northern magnetic field in the year 2100, so we are hardly done with its influence.
In earlier Ages our north celestial equator pointed towards Thuban, the third star from the end of Draco the Dragon. Thuban was known to the ancients as Tir-An-na, meaning “the Life of Heaven,” and Dayan Esiru, “the Prospering Judge,” or “the Crown of Heaven.” These were clearly in a better Age. Thuban’s reign would have ended about 5000 years ago, about the time that we begin to count our known human history. This is the time given by the Vedic seers as the beginning of the Age of Darkness, the Kali Yuga. In a little more that 5000 years from now, Alderamin, the brightest star in the constellation Cepheus will be our Pole Star, and this star is associated with “the Right Arm of the King.” Let us only hope that this King is a good one. The Great Wheel of Time So why does any of this matter? Because the legends and myths associated with these stars are clues to our levels of consciousness during their reigns. During the Ages when our north magnetic pole is pointed towards Vega, we remember our divine origins and live in harmony with one another. The Rishis of India tell us that our brain capacity is heightened, allowing us to awaken to our true identities. During the Ages when the northern magnetic pole is pointing away from the center of the galaxy we fall asleep, becoming increasingly competitive, materialistic and dense. The ancients named this age the Kali Yuga, when human beings fall beneath the spell of the world of illusion. This is the Age we are living in now. A good analogy is the antenna on a television set or a cell phone. In the Ages when the “antennae” of the Earth, or its magnetic pole, is pointed towards the center of the galaxy, we get great reception on the line. But gradually this alignment shifts and we begin to lose our clarity. The reception and remembrance of who we are becomes fuzzier, and eventually there is so much static on the line that we can’t even think straight. The Four Ages In fact this grand Precession has been divided into four enormously long ages that go for million of years. Yet there are smaller cycles within that larger context, and during the 25, 920 year Great Year, those ages repeat twice, moving our Earth and all living creatures living on her through gradual cycles of forgetfulness and enlightenment. These four Yugas are called the Golden Age (or Satya yuga), the Silver Age (Treta yuga), the Bronze Age (Dwarpara yuga), and finally the Iron Age (or Kali yuga). As you might guess, they have nothing at all to do with metals; they are entirely about consciousness. Today we are living in the Kali Yuga, the shortest and densest of all the cycles, and this is why many of us have forgotten our own celestial origins. Vedic astrologers tell us that the Kali Yuga began about 5000 years ago, and it was a gradual shift into the “dark ages.” The Egyptian culture, having flourished for thousands of years before our recorded history, was well aware that we would fall into this time of darkness, and did their best to prepare for it through setting long lasting clues in stone pyramids and temples located on specific planetary nodal points. Modern researchers like John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, and John Major Jenkins have been among the recent pioneers who are beginning to decode these planetary grid maps. Some of their work was built on the early discoveries of visionaries like English researcher Jon Mitchell and Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz. Other brilliant researchers like Paul Broadhurst, Hamish Miller, Adrian Gilbert, David Wood, Henry Lincoln and C. E. Street (just to name a few) have continued this work with their own amazing research. The Wisdom of the Ages The Rishis tell us that during the Golden Age mankind awakens. At that time we are 3/4ths Spirit and only one quarter matter. In the Silver Age the balance gradually shifts and we become 2/3rds Spirit and one third matter. During the Bronze Age we descend even further in our consciousness, becoming only one half Spirit and one half matter, and finally during the darkest Age of humankind we become only one quarter Spirit and 3/4ths matter. At this time we identify almost completely with the material world. We even wonder whether we have souls. We ask if there is a God. We fall completely out of harmony with the Universe, and we become disconnected from our own Eternal natures. This is the Age we have been living in for some five thousand years, and seem only now to be awakening from. Jesus, Christed being that he was, courageously came to Earth at the time of our darkness hour, almost a recipe for a suicide mission. He left his teachings entrusted to the men and women of that time, and as we will see shortly, most of them did not comprehend the depth or the breadth of his message. Life, Death and Awakening
Certainly during any point in the Precession of the Ages, a Soul may achieve enlightenment, but most do not. This is why the masters and sages are so precious to us. They are truly the pearls of great price. Rarely do we graduate permanently from this dimension into the Higher Worlds until the end of a cycle, or roughly every 26,000 years. There is much evidence
to suggest that this is where we are today, for it is then that Souls who have awakened may leave this planet and move on to the next octave of their evolution. Some believe that we are at just such a doorway now, and that the coming of Jesus 2000 years ago, and the message that he brought, was part of the necessary preparation for us to achieve enlightenment now. Unfortunately as we will see, the true meaning of his message was high jacked and it is only now that we are beginning to have get a glimpse into the deeper levels of his wisdom. We will return to this theme later when we talk about Mary Magdalene and the power of the Hierogamos, the sacred marriage of opposites. Certainly we can see that Jesus arrived just at the cusp of the Age of Pisces to prepare others for this spiritual awakening. The Dance of Yin and Yang
This symbol was in fact used by the early Christians who were trained in these Mysteries, and it has
Thus the coming of the Age of Pisces was intended as an age of “going within” to find our direct connection with Spirit and this is exactly what Christ suggested. “If you have but the faith of a The Vesica Pisces
The Vesica Pises is also one of the members of the Council of Nine - a Being that calls herself Domalar. She is the Portal, the door, the place where Spirit or Life Itself moves from the unmanifest potential of all possibility, into the worlds of form. This is the place of ultimate decision, where we choose which way we shall go. Thus the sacred shape of the Vesica Pisces is repeated in the female yoni, one of the most powerful symbols in all of Hinduism. It is also the shape of eggs, the incubator for life. It is the shape of most seeds from which new plants, trees, and fruits arise. It is the shape of almonds and cowrie shells, both sacred to the Goddess. To truly comprehend the respect in which cowrie shells were held, we must remember that they were once used as money in both China and Africa. At the human and animal level, this same shape is reflected in all the major orifices of the body, from the eyes to the mouth, the yoni to the Third Eye, and of course from the portal where the seed of life emerges in a man’s penis. In Christian theology, it is the shape of the mandorla, the sign of the Holy Spirit of Sophia, the Goddess of Wisdom. Inherent within it is the Logos or the template for everything in Creation. But this is a subject we shall come to later. The Age of Pisces Let us return now to our conversation about the change of the Ages, specifically the shift from Aries and Pisces. This is the time when the polarity of yin and yang are intended to reverse, and of course since Aries was extremely male-dominated, when Pisces appeared on the mid-heaven of the Vernal Equinox two thousand years ago, it was a signal that
Jesus originally came to re-empower the feminine. Unlike the patriarchy of his day he taught women as well as men, and Gnostic teachings show that he supported egalitarian relationships which were practiced in the early days of Christianity. Jesus also taught about love, an essentially feminine message. He asked us to go within, another profoundly feminine statement, and in the context of the brutal, male-dominated world of the Roman Empire, Jesus was a true revolutionary. He went beyond the confines of the Roman and Jewish patriarchical systems around him, teaching a new covenant of forgiveness that superseded the old way of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” This patriarchical way was also the theology of the Jewish faith, which was intended to exact obedience through punishment. While this may have encouraged the Jewish tribes (and others) to make moral choices for fear of Jehovah’s retribution, it also produced a nation of competitive, argumentative people who often practiced the letter of the Law rather than the Spirit of it. Jesus’ teachings transcended all of this. He taught us to enter the heart where peace resides, instructing each of us to merely “do under to others,” as we would wish to be done to ourselves. While his doctrines were profoundly healthy, this attitude of unconditional love and equality would challenge the patriarchical/hierarchical systems not only in his own country, but in other parts of the world as well. To understand this better, we must now take a look at how Jesus spent his “missing years.” http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/lyra.html http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/Polaris.html John Anthony West is an independent Egyptologist who wrote Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt in 1993. Graham Hancock is a British journalist whosebooks include The Sign and the Seal , Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, and Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith which he co-author Robert Bauval. Robert Bauval is an engineer who was born in Egypt, but now lives in England. He has authored or co-authored six books including: The Orion Mystery, Keeper Of Genesis, The Mars Mystery, Secret Chamber,Talisman and The Egypt Code. John Major Jenkins writes about the Cosmogenesis of the Mayan culture, which includes a known of architecture and astronomy. Jon F. Michell was on of the first. He published The New View Over Atlantis as early as 1969, followed by The Temple at Jerusalem: A Revelation, and other books. Schwaller de Lubicz was the forerunner of all of these. He authored six books which includes: Symbol and the Symbolic: Ancient Egypt, Science, and the Evolution of Consciousness, Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy, A Study of Numbers: A Guide to the Constant Creation of the Univers e, The Egyptian Miracle: An Introduction to the Wisdom of the Temple, The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man, and Esoterism and Symbo l. The Gospel of Thomas, Presented by Hugh McGregor Ross, ( London: Watkins Publishing), 1987, pg. 11. http://www.ifama.com/page7.html Margaret Starbird, Mary Magdalene, Bride in Exile, (Bear and Company), 2005, pg. 135. Margaret Starbird, Mary Magdalene: Bride In Exile, (Bear and Company), 2005.
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And the Chinese have a story about the bright star Vega, which they called Chih Nu, the daughter of the Sun God (as in the Great Central Sun of everything). Like the Spiderwoman of the Native American traditions, she weaves the tapestries of destiny. One day she fell in love with a Shepherd King (the star Altair), who drove his flock along the banks of the Milky Way, and her father was very pleased. 
Known to navigators as “the Pathway,” “the Pointer,” and the “Navel of the World,” Polaris has had a mixed history in the last four thousand years. To seamen it was “the Ship Star” and to astronomers the “Hub of the Cosmos.” But esoteric astrologers have always regarded it as a star of mixed providence which was destined to lead to many troubles; perhaps this stems from their knowledge that human beings fall into ignorance during its reign. Jewish Cabalists associated it with the Hebrew letter Tau; some said it held the energy of “do or die,” a spirit for conquering the world, something that the patriarchy has certainly played out in spades. In the Tarot it was represented by “The World,” and it symbolized the conquering of the little self, own Egoic natures. One could say that during its reign one either succumbs to the lower nature or becomes enlightened and finally escapes the Wheel of reincarnation.
This great Precessional Cycle is repeated again and again within an even larger cycle numbering in the millions of years. This celestial clock is truly a “wheel within a wheel” and part of a much larger circle that we will speak of in another book. It has been called by the Sages the Great Wheel of Awagawan or the Wheel of Life, Death and Rebirth, giving each of us the chance to experience everything we wish of life. The Hindu mystics have long seen the goddess Kali as turning this Wheel, as she simultaneously gives birth to a man, while holding his severed head in her hands. This rather frightening image of destruction is but a metaphor for these cycles of learning and ultimate purification. We can even see that she wears upon her body the skulls of the men she has taken, which represents the egos that have perished as they passed through the worlds of form; a symbolic form of “shaking us down to our skeletons” so that we might be reborn as truly enlightened beings.
Let us look for a moment at the energies of both Aries and Pisces and see how this has evolved. The Age of Aries represents the Aggressor, the conquering god of war. It is, appropriately enough, an initiating Fire sign. Pisces on the other hand is ruled by Neptune, the sign of water or the feeler, the dreamer who envisions an ideal world. The sign of Pisces has always been considered the sign of the fish that is able to swim in the great Cosmic Waters. It is a feminine Age, symbolized by the half-moon scoop of the symbol itself. 
a number of important meanings. First we see that the symbol itself is made up of two half moons, reminiscent of the yin-yang symbol of Taoism, indicating a bringing of balance between the masculine and feminine forces, and this was part of the “secret teachings” that were tampered with by the early Orthodox fathers. As we will see shortly, Jesus came to teach the Way of balance, and 
much like Lao Tsu who brought knowledge of the Tao over 2500 years ago, both masters used symbols that represented the balance of male and female as the path of enlightenment. As more and more Gnostic Gospels have surfaced scholars have come to realize that Jesus was an advocate for the feminine principle, so the use of the vesica pises underscores this tradition.
Furthermore the bottom “scoop” of the fish reminds us specifically of the sickle moon or the chalice, always a symbol of the Goddess. This was a hermetic symbol from the earliest centuries of human history, being seen in the horns of Isis/Hathor in Egypt and the birthing knife of Ninharsag in Sumeria. It is also evident in one of the earliest archaeological discoveries of civilization - the goddess of Laussel, as subject we shall come to later. Christian history reveals that because of the politically dangerous and patriarchal climate in which the earliest Christians lived, early Christian pilgrims would draw the bottom scoop in the sand upon meeting their secret contacts. If the other person was truly a Christian they would complete the mystical symbol by drawing the upper half.
mustard seed…” The Gospel of Thomas tells us that Jesus taught, “If those who guide your Being say to you; ‘Behold the Kingdom is in the heavens’, then the birds of the sky will precede you; if they say to you: ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. But the kingdom is in your centre and is about you. When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will be aware that you are the sons of the Living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are the poverty.”
One of the early esoteric symbols behind Jesus’ teachings was the fish, the shape of the Vesica Pisces, one of the most powerful symbols in all mystical theology. This shape is actually made by the overlapping of two perfect circles, thus creating the shape of a seed, the place from which all life springs. It is the midpoint and merge of the Divine Mother and Father of Creation, Beings that we shall be meeting shortly. When turned sideways, the Vesica Pisces becomes the Eye of God, symbolizing the All-knowing Creator who contains all polarities within Itself. It is the shape of our Third Eye, which when fully awakened allows the Initiate to truly “see” the celestial realms for herself. As we have seen, this Eye is often open in young children who are sensitive to auric fields and spiritual beings. This gives an entirely new meaning to Christ’s words, “Except as ye become as little children, you will not see the Kingdom of Heaven.”
This shape has appeared in numerous ways throughout the 
centuries. Known as the Eye of Horus in ancient Egypt, it became the “all seeing” Eye of Providence above the pyramid on the back of the Seal of the United States. Being enclosed within a triangle to represent the Trine nature of God, it has long been a sacred symbol in mystical Christianity, and it is one of the original symbols of the Masonic Order. Its meaning is obvious - God is an All Knowing-All Seeing Being, yet there are other mysteries that it contains, for it is the portal of Creation itself between Atum or God, and the worlds of manifestation. 
The Divine Feminine should once again emerge. But of all the shifts between astronomical Ages, this one is perhaps the hardest. Aries is the warrior god who is all about the self. Pisces is the collective, with little or no ego, often falling into the role of the victim. Historically this is supposed to be a time for the male to give way to the feminine current, but as we can observe in history, this never took place. The powerful Roman Empire refused to give up control, and instead adopted the Christian religion at around 314 C. E. Then with all the brutality of the Aries warrior, the “religion of the State” turned from practicing forgiveness and love, and became the persecutor of all other creeds. Thus for the past two thousand years, we have had both a male dominant and a male sub-dominant current running our planet. This, in itself, explains a lot.