The Changing Millennium
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
There are many changes afoot in the world today. I heard some people talking about the new generation the other day, and about how their language is completely changing. “They don’t seem to talk in sentences anymore,” said one person, “it’s all ‘like’ and ’so’, and leaving things off half way through a sentence that the other person has to finish.”
“I don’t know what’s becoming of the education system these days. Don’t they learn anything at all?”
Well, it started me reflecting on the changes facing the world, and the spiritual dimension behind them, that is hidden from the ordinary person’s view. Not because of any great secrecy, but just because most people don’t recognise that it’s there.
Astrologically, and numerologically, we have entered a new millennium, typified by new spiritual currents and a new orientation to life. I am a bit more comfortable talking about the numerological significance, so I will talk about that. We have gone from a “1” millennium, to a “2” millennium. Whereas the “1” signifies the focus on beginnings, and by extension progress, and is a masculine energy, “2” signifies a focus on relationship, and by extension stability, and is a feminine energy.
How will this change of spiritual focus play out? Well, that depends on us, individually and collectively. We may already observe the great changes in the way society is organized, as patriarchal structures have made way for more equality between the sexes.
Now we are beginning to also observe fundamental shifts in the values of the younger generations. Old style patriarchal values of hard work, single minded-ness, determination, focus, hierarchy, intellect and linear career progression, which have underpinned our education system, our scientific endeavour, and our business culture, are making way for new style matriarchal values of relationship building, multi-facetted attention, allowing things to take their own course, work-life balance, non-hierarchical organisation, and a more intuitive approach to life.
This, very naturally, is reflected in the way people speak! The new generation’s use of language is sometimes as much an expression of relationship and intuition as it is a logical conveyor of information with well defined intellectual content. Those who don’t get intuition and relationship, and see language as by necessity conveying logically structured information, don’t get the way the new generation speaks.
Of course there is still logical structure and information content – it’s just that this can sometimes take the back seat. Especially when the person you are talking to gets what you are saying, and you know they’ve got it, there’s no need to labour the point by completing the sentence. However, people who don’t get it, because they are not tuned in to the conversation, and don’t have a habit of using their intuitive faculty in communication, will just hear an incomplete sentence that appears devoid of meaning.
The times are changing, and with the changing times, communication styles are evolving. It’s not regression, or a failure of the education system, but vocal expression of the value of relationship and intuition and empathy.
This is a very encouraging sign to Pagans, of course, whose work with the feminine archetypes enlivens and encourages these collective developments. And of course with the challenges of peak oil and climate change upon us, both of them a direct result of the “drive to progress” of the masculine “1”, it is very timely to be tuning into the “2” energy, of relationships and intuition, which will be needed for our survival.
Blessed Be,
Robyn