Understanding the Ages, Eras, and the Root of Religion
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Aaron Eschenburg is an Ayahuascero and Astrotheologer. He is the Founder and creator of Ancestral Herbs, a natural plant medicine company, and MiTranscendance Entheo Religious Society.
What if religion and mythology are deeply connected to the movements of the cosmos? By exploring Earth’s astronomical cycles and the progression of zodiac ages, this article invites readers to reconsider the origins of spiritual traditions and the stories that have shaped human belief for thousands of years.
Earth's motion can be calculated by three different movements and speeds.
Rotation on its center axis is a Day/Night which repeats every 24 hours.
Revolution around the Sun is a year consisting of 365/366 days.
Wobble on its center axis is called the precession, or the Precession of the Equinox, known as a "great year" by our ancestors, consisting of a 25,920-year cycle
Earth’s 24-hour rotation is split into 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night. Observably, as the Earth spins, we see the Sun in each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac for two hours each day. We calculate this in modern times with a watch or a clock, observed hourly as the Earth spins.
Earth’s 365/366-day revolution is split into 12 equal parts, spending approximately 30 days in each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac. We calculate this in modern times with a calendar, observed daily/monthly as the Sun rises in a new "Sign of the Zodiac" each month as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Earth’s 25,920-year wobble is split into 12 equal parts, spending 2,160 years in each sign of the Zodiac. We calculate and refer to this as an " Age" or an "Era," observed annually as the Sun rises over the equator on the spring/vernal equinox.
To calculate the Wobble, if we were looking at a clock, it’s as if each hour took 2,160 years instead of 60 minutes, from 10 o'clock to 11 o'clock is 2,160 years. Moving one degree in the Zodiac is equivalent to two minutes on a clock, Earth’s rotation. Moving one degree in the Zodiac is equivalent to one day in the calendar, Earth’s revolution, while moving one degree in the Zodiac to Earth’s wobble is equivalent to 72 years. Two minutes, 24 hours, 72 years, all one degree mathematical, calculable, observable, natural movements created by the earth and our relationship with the Sun and cosmos. An hour, a month, an age.
The end and the beginning of religion
The end of the Mayan calendar aligned with the Winter Solstice, December 21st, 2012. This wasn't the end of the world, or the end of time, but the end of an Age/Era, and the beginning of a new one. The end of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. The end of 10 o’clock and the beginning of the 2,160 years of 11 o’clock.
Before Pisces was Aries, before Aries was Taurus, Gemini, and so on. Aquarius is the current Age of Spirituality, which is knowledge, community, technology, and non-dogmatic religious practices. Pisces, the “Two Fish”, was the Age of Christianity with the “Icthus” or “Jesus fish” that represented the Age of Pisces. Aries, the “Ram”, Judaism’s Father Abraham translates to Abba Ram = Father Ram, along with the Shofar horn and pendant representing the Age of Aries, the Ram. Taurus the Bull is represented by the bull God Baal, and the Bull of Heaven. Gemini, the “Twins”, had many sets of twins in their mythology: Utu & Innana, Lahmu & Lahamu, Anshar & Kinshar, Anu & Kishar. Each represents contrast and dualistic elements of nature.
This is the great revelation
Christians often talk about the “Revelation” or “End Times.” This is simply an implication of the end of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius. Revelation also means Awakening. This knowledge is part of our awakening. The great understanding.
The creation of the Sphinx in Egypt 12,000 years ago during the Age of Leo, faces East toward the constellation Leo and is one of the oldest astro-archeological artifacts of humanity that we know.
We have water damage on the Sphinx from approximately 10,000 years ago during the Age of Cancer, a water sign, which we historically know nothing about, with the exception of stories of a great flood.
The Age of Gemini gifts humanity with knowledge, written language from many lands, and mathematics. The traits associated with Gemini are information, communication, language, and sharing.
After Gemini is Taurus, which is associated with land, agriculture, structures, homes, personal possessions, and monoliths. People of this time created large structures all over the world, worshiped the land that grew their food, and came together during celestial events like full moons, new moons, eclipses, solstices, and equinoxes to celebrate. They believed in many Gods that we understand to be contrasting forces. The God of lightening, fertility, the sun, the sea, wind, agriculture, rain, love, war. For every contrasting force or energy outside of human control was its own God/energy/entity. The people of this time would make blood sacrifices to their Gods, including human and child sacrifices.
When the Biblical character Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the stone tablets that represented the laws to the new Age of Aries, everyone was dancing around a Golden Bull, which represented the old Age of Taurus, so he made them destroy it. Out with the old, in with the new.
Aries is the Head in the Zodiac and is about the relationship with self. Self-assertiveness, taking the initiative, the spark of the match that lights the fire. Father Abraham is a Hebrew translation from Father Ram, Abba Ram, and wears a ram’s horn pendant known as a Shofar. Abrahamic Faiths understand and follow this knowledge of the “Ages”. In the dawn of Judaism, people of the land still believed in multiple Gods known as “El's”, El = “God of”. Early Judaism still practiced blood sacrifice. If one had sinned, they were to create a blood sacrifice to the Gods to repent and alleviate themselves of their sinful nature. Instead of waiting for group or celestial events, worshiping the land like the previous Age of Taurus, this Age of Aries created a direct relationship to their Gods that they can connect with at any time through their prayers, spoken out loud or in their minds.
After Aries comes Pisces, the Two Fish, which is associated with Belief, Faith, Compassion, Forgiveness, and Unity of all things. Christians often wear a fish symbol pendant or bumper sticker called an “Icthus”, which is a direct representation of the Age of Pisces. The people of this time supported a monotheistic concept of God, one God or creator of all life and energy.
Instead of creating blood sacrifices to alleviate themselves from sin, they created a Solar Messiah called Jesus. Jesus is an anthropomorphic, personified allegory for the Sun that lights the world, whose reflection walks on water. When one believes this story that God sacrificed its only Son, they no longer have to offer a blood sacrifice to wash themselves of sin, because the creator itself made the sacrifice.
The death and rebirth of the Sun, our savior
The Sun is born from the Virgin Mother Earth. As the Sun was moving through the “Age of Pisces”, the shadow of the Earth was in Virgo. We lost touch with our relationship to earth while we turned our focus to “belief” and “faith,” which can be attributed to Pisces. Believing what someone else told us and repeating it as the truth or the gospel. Most of us get our food from grocery stores instead of farms, and the majority of the population has never hunted, killed, gutted an animal, or cared for its carcass to prepare clean meat. We have become very disconnected from the source that gives us life while we praise people, God(s), angels, deities, and things that we have never seen, only because someone told us to believe.
The purpose of this story has multiple reasons, most importantly, to remember the changing seasons. Each generation has its own words for the characters, but it’s the same theatrical play, the same scenario. Hercules and his 12 Legions, Joseph and his 12 brothers, Jesus and his 12 disciples, the Sun and the 12 signs of the Zodiac. Anthropomorphizing the constellations, Sun, Moon, Earth, and Planets, to make it an easier story to remember.
Meaning we are giving “things” human characteristics and traits because it’s easier for our brains to remember. Over time, we lost touch with the origins of the story and simply believed what the person of authority was telling us, be it our parents, our families, friends, religious, or political leaders, they simply told us what was told to them. It wasn’t malice, it was just lost over time. Jesus and Mary, the woman of the night, are simply the Sun and the Moon. The “telephone game” gone terribly wrong over thousands of years.
In the Ages of Taurus and Aries, it was common practice to offer a blood sacrifice to whichever God was believed in, for whatever reason they felt necessary. It wasn’t just YHWY, but Bacchus, Dionysus, Juno, Jupiter, Minerva, Mars, Mercury, and some 12,000 Gods that existed. Battles over whose God was stronger and more powerful broke out into fights and divided people. An offering to the God of the sea for safe travels, an offering for the God of rain, an offering to the Goddess of grain, the Goddess of fertility, an offering to God to wash away the mortal sin. The blood sacrifice could be a human or a hoofed animal like a ram, lamb, or goat.
As our species has evolved, we have developed the conscious awareness to understand that this barbaric way of living was not progressive and conducive to our growth as a society. It was unsustainable as more offerings were being made to account for the prayers, rituals, and sins of man.
We needed a solution to unite our people, and create a solution to ritual sacrificial offerings that were decreasing our population, and the animals we hunt, farm, and breed for resources.
In the new age of Pisces, Jesus the Sun shares an accumulative story of the many deities, Gods, Goddesses, and Sun Gods that existed before him.
The virgin birth, baby in the manger story, the baptism, raising people from the dead, turning water into wine, the betrayal, crucifixion, and resurrection, copied from Horus, Attis of Phrygia, Zarathustra/Zoroaster, Glycon, Heracles, Dionysus, Romulus, Odysseus, Krishna, and Buddha, who all came before.
Jesus is the Sun, personified as a human Son of God who was sacrificed to alleviate us from our sins, so we no longer have to create a blood sacrifice. No more did we need to slit the neck of a lamb, ram, goat, or human body to free ourselves from our sins to get us closer to God. God already made the ultimate sacrifice for us humans by offering his one and only Son to die so we can live. Every year, the Sun dies for three days on the solstice and rises north on December 25th.
The only partial truth to this story is that the Sun of God really does give its light and life for us. We do not know how long our star will shine. Is it eternal? Science shows us that stars have a beginning and an end to their lives. How is a star born? A large cloud of dust and gas called a nebula collapses under its own gravity. The gas and dust clump together and begin to heat up enough to initiate nuclear fusion at its core. It’s an immaculate birth, no question. The divine mother and father of the cosmos give birth to the divine Sun. How is a star reborn? Geocentrically, the Sun is reborn every yearly cycle after the Earth completes one full revolution.
The reality is we exist, and we don’t have a single clue as to why we exist, who we exist to, or when we exist. We believe what others have told us about creation stories, but we have no clue who we are, where we came from, or why we are here. There might not be an ultimate reason for human life other than the simple answer. To experience. To be. To feel. To love. For the creator to exist through your eyes and explore this thing called life.
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Aaron Eschenburg, Ayahuascero, Astrotheologer
Aaron Eschenburg is an Ayahuasca Shaman and creator of the natural plant medicine company Ancestral Herbs. Being hit by a drunk driver at 21 spiraled him into a journey of exploring alternative medicines to get away from the side effects of pharmaceuticals. Astrotheology and plant medicines then came into his life at the same time, creating a better understanding of humanity's relationship with our living planet solar system and the universe. He now dedicates his life to helping others explore the options of natural healing, entheogenic practices, and embracing the Aquarian Age.
