a symbol of the age

A symbol of the age just past (Pisces) is the fish. I am thinking particularly of the simple form seem on the backs of some cars: two curved lines whose points touch at one end and are openly apart at the other. A symbol of closed openness.

A symbol of the age we are now in (Aquarius) is the fish symbol with greater dimensionality. One curved line of the fish spirals down, the other spirals upward. A double helix.

Since we are the symbols we employ, in the age we now embody our consciousness spirals down into the depths of the unconscious (“deep calls to deep”) while simultaneously spiraling upward into the supernal heights of the supraconscious. This simultaneous deepening and opening of energies has no closure at either “end.” There is no end. In either “direction.”

Each of us is this simultaneous sinking into the depths while rising to the heights. This sinking is not a drowning. It is the sinking referred to by Tai Chi master Wu Yu-hsiang (1812 – 1880): “To release energy, sink, relax completely, and aim in one direction!” One sinks down and opens up!

As energy beings, we sink into (this requires deep trust) the unconscious, our depths of unawareness, while simultaneously opening to the infinities of the heavens. The infinity within is joined with the infinity without. Inner infinity and outer infinity become as one (which they always have been except for the static of our noisy distractions). “As above, so below.” “As within, so without.”

A working symbol of the energies we now are is this double helix. We are an onrush of inwardly spiraling energies accompanied by a simultaneous outward spiraling. In more poetic terms, we are “rooting and grounding in love” (Ephesians 3: 17). Rooting and grounding in the depths of our being while opening completely in love.