19/03/2026
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REVOLUTION [current Pluto transit through Aquarius]
As Joseph Campbell reminds us, the beginnings of new eras are always brutal upheavals. That's neither good nor bad - it's simply how the body and psyche (individually and collectively) work when they need to forcibly remove something stubbornly entrenched and damaging - as we do when weāre violently vomiting. Through Revolution, Nature, via the necessary brutality of natural selection, ruthlessly weeds out whatever has become harmful, or obsolete.
As Jung prophesied, the emerging Aquarian age will be permeated by the āfeminine principleā, Eros, or lunar consciousness as a non-hierarchical, seamless web of relationships grounded in ācomm-unityā, empathy and harmony with Nature. Itās a mythic Net of Indra, in which all gems are equally valuable and reflect the beauty of all the others. It is this collective shift into Aquarius that is energising the current revolutionary movement throughout the World Soul.
'Revolution' is one of the 64 Hexagrams and archetypal energies featured in the ancient Chinese I Ching, a 5000 year old, eternally relevant, deeply devotional text which Jung respected and completely trusted, and which he regarded as that which 'lovers of wisdom' are drawn to as 'the right book' for them.
The revolutionary feminine per se, always mirroring Natureās ways, doesnāt rely on guns, or ph***ic bombs and rockets produced by the masculine competitive ego. She doesnāt take sides, but instead fights to preserve the balance and interwoven community of all life - and to protect those she loves. She doesnāt fight for causes, ideologies, political gain, nor as an excuse to vent egoic aggression, but for natural justice rooted in blood, earth, bone, fierce love, and the depths of struggling soul. Sheās the mother bear defending her cubs, the destructive bushfire germinating new seeds, Goddess Kali adorned with skulls and bestowing liberating, transcendental knowledge deeply rooted in mud, tears and Cosmic detachment.
The weapons of the feminine are personal, emotional, raging and ruthless when divine wrath is called for. At such times sheās the strangling, ecstatic vine winding around the decaying stone monument and crushing it to dust. Sheās the frenzied dance of the Maenads, crushing grapes into the wine of wild abandonment to freedom. Sheās divine madness unleashed to safeguard lifeās sacred laws. This is the revolutionary facet of Eros now at work to collapse the fading, patriarchal power-based pyramid that has dominated our world throughout the dying Piscean era.
We see this kind of feminine divine wrath bursting forth at the end of the movie āAvatarā - a key myth about the āfeminine principleā for our time - when the planet Pandora as Goddess unleashes hordes of wild creatures, who help to bring down the invading giant engines and weapons of an army that, through hatred of the feminine fed by the toxic (as opposed to heroic) masculine, is fighting to destroy and subdue her and her children for monetary gain.
Those, then, who have a shallow, simplistic view of Revolution as organised violence based on mere political rebellion, or angry attempts to overthrow governments, fail to understand this deeper archetypal significance of Revolution, which the I Ching equates to āmoltingā - an animalās shedding of fur to make way for new growth. When Revolution is called for, itās because dire circumstances offer no other way out. Those involved then need to be free of selfish aims and instead unite to relieve the suffering of the oppressed. As the Hexagram cautions, revolutions āshould be undertaken only under stress of direst necessityā and āwhen the time is ripe.ā That time is now.
None of us can stop the flow of the current underlying Tao throughout the World Soul. We have two choices: go with that flow and help to midwife the needed shift of consciousness into Eros, or resist it in the naive, idealistic name of āpeace at all costsā and be swept along by it anyway.
Ā© Maureen B. Roberts, PhD
Artwork by Carlos Quevedo
