Rather they were so impressed or awed by the things in life or nature remarkable either for joy or fear that they said “this is a god” or “that is a god.”

Sun: the central principle of vital creative energy, the will to exist; the impulse and capacity to be, to manifest, to be active, to be central, to radiate, to “shine”; to rise above, achieve, illuminate, and integrate;

Our future may well depend upon the precise extent of our willingness to expand our ways of knowing.

the Uranus-Neptune cycle appears to be correlated with the collective activation of a more spiritual Prometheus. The image of Jesus Christ that emerges from this period bears many of the distinctive Promethean motifs, though in an emphatically spiritual context and mode of manifestation—the divine rebel against the old order, the eternal liberator

the human self too is inevitably disenchanted. Ultimately it becomes, like everything else, a mere object of material forces and efficient causes: a sociobiological pawn, a selfish gene, a meme machine,

Uranus and Neptune were again in alignment from 617 to 630, the exact period of the founding of Islam by Muhammad. Uranus

in this light, the various phenomena reflected a collective empowerment (Pluto) of the Promethean impulse (Uranus), a dynamic evolutionary drive pressing both individuals and societies towards radical change, freedom, and innovation on many levels simultaneously.

The entire world needed to be revisioned. In

recognition of synchronicities requires subtle judgments made in circumstances usually pervaded by ambiguity and open to multiple interpretations.